Send in the Clueless By PAUL KRUGMAN

[MarkCharles]

"Mr. Romney’s strategy, in short, is to pretend that he shares the ignorance and misconceptions of the Republican base. He isn’t a stupid man — but he seems to play one on TV.

Unfortunately from his point of view, however, his acting skills leave something to be desired, and his insincerity shines through. So the base still hungers for someone who really, truly believes what every candidate for the party’s nomination must pretend to believe. Yet as I said, the only way to actually believe the modern G.O.P. catechism is to be completely clueless."


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"The Washington Post quotes an unnamed Republican adviser who compared what happened to Mr. Cain, when he suddenly found himself leading in the polls, to the proverbial tale of the dog who had better not catch that car he’s chasing. “Something great and awful happened, the dog caught the car. And of course, dogs don’t know how to drive cars. So he had no idea what to do with it.”

The same metaphor, it seems to me, might apply to the G.O.P. pursuit of the White House next year. If the dog actually catches the car — the actual job of running the U.S. government — it will have no idea what to do, because the realities of government in the 21st century bear no resemblance to the mythology all ambitious Republican politicians must pretend to believe. And what will happen then?"

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/05/opinion/send-in-the-clueless.html?src=un&feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjson8.nytimes.com%2Fpages%2Fopinion%2Findex.jsonp

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

1. K&R!!!!!

[patrice]

2. What will happen then? MORE WARS.

[izquierdista]

3. They haven't had a clue since 1980

Nixon was the last Republican who knew how to run the government. His apprentice, Dick Cheney, learned well, and used that learning to run the government for the benefit of Halliburton and the rest of the 1%.

[survivorista]

8. NIXON

You're fucking me right?

[defendandprotect]

4. As a pack, the GOP are the elite/corporate front line for destruction ....

therefore, imo, they always have a clue --

The same metaphor, it seems to me, might apply to the G.O.P. pursuit of the White House next year. If the dog actually catches the car — the actual job of running the U.S. government — it will have no idea what to do, because the realities of government in the 21st century bear no resemblance to the mythology all ambitious Republican politicians must pretend to believe. And what will happen then?"

The GOP was finished in 2008 -- Obama resurrected them from the ashes and threw away his

own mandate -- while turning torward a corporate agenda.

The GOP is at the bottom of the barrel and not worth discussing --

OWS is in the streets signaling that both parties are finished --

THAT's what we need to concentrate on as we push to move to the LEFT --

[Martin Eden]

5. B I G K&R n/t

[yodermon]

6. more like this character

[pghtytfan]

7. Will Romney's religion

hurt him in the primary?

[Douglas Carpenter]

9. knr