She's back, again, again, again!

Yes, folks, unless you are living in a cave and bereft of news you know that Sarah Palindrone^TM is back in political news with hints of running for POTUS. Expectedly the news she made was for giving a totally disjointed, nonsensical word salad of a speech, where according to John Stewart the "nouns kept running away from the verbs". TPP coined the term Palindrone for exactly her type of speaking, something that sounds just a dumb backwards as forwards. Now perhaps you would like to think that Sarah doesn't really stand a chance; she is the dumbest of the lot by a lot, maybe with the exception of former Texas governor Perry, but at least he sticks with good-old-boy whiz bang jingoisms he can handle. The problem for this correspondent is wondering if there are really people out there that think our country would be better off if this woman became POTUS?  Really? Why? Is her speech some form of divine political glossolalia (speaking in tongues) that is to be revered? TPP still hasn't gotten over the frightening thought of having her as VP to a geriatric POTUS. So just when you think the bar cannot possibly set lower, along comes Sarah to challenge that notion. As H. L. Mencken said, "As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents more and more closely the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

How dumb is too dumb? We still don't know!

A very excited out-of-work sports caster called TPP on the phone last night.  “Now’s the time!”  And after reeling off the current set of anti-Obama sound bites asked me to sign a petition in support of Sarah Palindrone (someone who sounds just as dumb forward as backward) running for the Senate from Alaska.  Oh, yes, and a little donation to the effort would be nice too.  However the response that TPP wanted to leave was not an option.  

Now this raises quite an interesting question about politics that this recording could not answer.  How dumb is too dumb in ‘Mercan politics?  TPP figured that we’d bottomed out and people would come to their senses after electing Reagan.  This shows TPP's political acumen.  And then along comes W who made Ron sound and look like a Rhodes Scholar.  In the next election cycle, the afore mentioned Palindrone was given way more attention than anyone with so little to say and so little reason to say it and who will then say it anyways with so much dumbth should ever be given.  And she hasn’t improved.  Perhaps it was Gov. Perry of Taxes who so lowered the bar that Ms. Palindrone’s IQ rose in comparison because now some near breathless people want her in the Senate. 

"The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself." Ralph Waldo Emerson offered that observation in 1837, but his words echo with painful prescience in today's very different United States (from an old WashPo article).  What would Ralph think now about our virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism, ideology, and low expectations?  There are smart capable people in the USA, but almost none of them are electable in this era of you-can’t-be-too-dumb politics.