America’s Worst Politician

Newsweek Magazine ^ | 10/24/10 | George Will

[Nachum]

ORLANDO—There are hundreds of plausible nominees for the title of America’s Second-Smarmiest Politician, but surely the top spot is un-contested. Americans of all political persuasions can come together in affirming one proposition: Public life would be improved by scrubbing Rep. Alan Grayson from it. This act of civic hygiene probably will be performed Nov. 2 by voters of Florida’s Eighth Congressional District. Polls indicate that a majority of them plan to deny Grayson, 52, a second term by electing his resonantly named opponent, Daniel Webster.

[catnipman]

The interesting thing about Grayson is he’s merely saying in public the exact same things that progressives say in the privacy of their living rooms and places like HuffPo and DailyKos. It really makes me wonder if his world is so insular that he thinks this is the way everyone thinks and talks, and he’s merely parroting what he hears all the time, not realizing that most folks don’t think or talk that way.