Rand Paul, Rubes, and Rednecks



From a conversation we had on facebook.

  •  JS-He had me fooled back when I was a religionist.


    • BF- Yes, well, thanks for playing, Rand. You've been a fun contestant, please enjoy your lovely parting gifts. Bu-Bye

  • Alex McDowell You may not know it, BF, but you summed up more than you know right there. The "parting gifts" are indeed "lovely". If you can get on the national stage and make news by running a campaign even full of insane ideas, and lose, you can translate that into one hell of a wad of cash. You can rile up a sizable chunk of the electorate, shape the conversation, and get stupid people to pay you enough that you never have to work again in your life. Maybe even land a cushy job on TV. Look at Huckabee and Palin.

  • Alex McDowell And all you have to do is get more of the rubes and rednecks in the Iowa straw poll to vote for you than expected. Not even WIN it, mind you. Just do better than expected. Once. In Iowa. Then exit the stage. Mull that insanity over for a minute.
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  •  BF-Yes, exactly. That's always the plan behind these blatantly obvious NOT-A-CHANCE-IN-HELL-CANDIDATES. They know they cannot actually take the Grand Prize, but along the way, there are a lot of other great prizes to be won. Plus, it sets you up for another 3-4 years, and helps people to focus on the not-so-crazy-but-still-bad candidate, thinking he/she is the best of the lot. And, yes...both Palin and Huckabee are perfect examples of how the game is played. Fuckers.


    • BF-The worst part about these "candidates" is how they manipulate the public and the national conversation, as you mentioned, into the basic conversation that will later become the entire premise of the "real" Presidential Race. They do so much damage and are paid to dumb down the populace, taking the real issues that should be debated, completely off the table. Personally, I find so much wrong in these people and the way the game is played, that I almost wish the entire system could be scrapped...but then I think about how easily everything is manipulated by power, money, and corruption, and I realize that there is no fool-proof situation, nor will we ever be able to have one, as long as money has as much say as it does, in our so-called free-elections.

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