Unintelligently Designed Republicans

It's getting worse and worse: Devo. The current election cycle is proof positive that evolution is culling the intelligence from the current republican primary process.  It would be, how can I put this gently...inhumane.. of any being with any creative ability whatsoever to intentionally create politicians that are as insulting to the American electorate as the cast of clowns currently in the media spotlight.  So, ID just can't be a player here (or anywhere else because..well, let's save that for another day). With over thirty people on the New Hampshire ballot as candidates for President..of the United States... (okay, some of them want to make it a legal requirement to brush your teeth..which, actually, might have some merit), it may behoove the good people of New Hampshire to take a serious look at some of the folks that were not invited to the debates.

But, let's take a snapshot of the players still standing.  (I just don't have the heart to pick on the ones that have bailed out..tempting as it might be.) As a given, let's just say that the one thing they have in common is pandering.  They have all changed their positions to match what they think the audience du jour wants to hear.  Okay; flip-flop, flip-flop, whatever it takes to put me on top.  One millionaire likes firing people and says he created about fifty times as many jobs as he actually has. (By the way, the President can't fire elected officials...which truly is a shame.) In an effort to dilute and erase his own egregious acts, another millionaire admits mistakes while not taking responsibility for his own hypocrisy, all the while using semantics to cover the millions he raked in doing exactly what he is now accusing his rivals of doing.  And then there's the guy who wants to turn the government upside down, clean the slate and alienate every ally the US has (left), while being eleven years past normal retirement age.  If he were there for two terms (I'll wait for the laughing to cease...).....he'd be 84 when he started writing his memoirs, assuming he could remember where he left his pen.  Then there's the genius (millionaire) who can't answer a question without asking a question (instead of inserting an answer) and thinks that clear moral certitude comes directly from a supreme being and ethics are right or wrong...because he (the candidate) said so.  Can't ya just see it?  "Kids, clean the dishes and Newt, launch the nukes... why? because I said so, that's why.."  And then there's the guy that wants to eliminate three government agencies, just as soon as gets around to remembering which ones they are, and now makes a joke about it.  This is the same guy that insists on vaccinations for all women but thinks that outlawing texting is too invasive in people's lives.

This country doesn't need any one of these guys.  We need, rather, the world needs a few really smart people to ramp up the debate.  There should be a brilliant opponent to the incumbent of every political race because it's the discussion that elevates the process and educates the people.  It makes the debaters better and smarter and willing to change positions because they...yes, with any luck at all, they evolve. After all, it's only natural.

The outcome in New Hampshire won't change the winner of the nomination.  It would be refreshing, however, if the candidates went to South Carolina with the idea that there are no easy answers. 9-9-9 ideas are insulting, shortsighted, unsophisticated and are merely naive concepts of the truly complex matrices that are integral to a country that is way too large for bumper sticker slogans.