He might well end up being a sunshine conservative. I have my reservations with him — but I am tiring of the gardicil issue and I really find it reprehensible that someone in favor of ethanol (Bachmann) is calling anyone out on crony capitalism. Ironic, aint it?
Bachmann’s position on ethanol doesn’t make it right for Perry to slip a favor to his chief of staff, so Merck can pocket a few million.
“Ironic, aint it?”
Yeah, it would seem that hypocrisy and presidential politics seem to go hand in hand. Even more galling is that neither candidate will just stand back and do the right thing. All they have to do is sayu something like this: “I made a mistake in doing X. My motivation for doing so was Y, if I had it to do over again, I would have done Z. But this is like any other job. You make mistakes. And I’ve made a few. The question is whether you learn from those mistakes and not repeat them. I learned Q from this mistake.”
The damning thing is that neither candidate seems to have the character to tell their political advisors to stick a sock in it while they step up and do the right thing.
We’re just not at a point in our history where we can afford another blown-dry politician with a good team of marketing advisors. Our next President needs to have some substance and character, not to mention some inner principles and courage. So far the top tier of announced candidates seems lacking.