“If they get to nominate Hillary Clinton, why don’t we get to nominate Dick Cheney?” — Bill Kristol

[Bucky]

25. Kasich is an interesting choice. Essentially there are two wings of the Republican party

Those pandering to the insane and the insane. Kasich kind of straddles that line. I think I'd actually trust him in a crisis, but then again I suspect that any Republican president will ensure a full bounty of crises for a decade... kind of like the harvest of Islamic fundamentalists that Bush-Cheney planted in 2003.

Since 1980 Republicans have been nominating pretend loonies hoping they were loonies (like Bob Dole) or nominating loonies hoping they were secretly responsible adults (like Bush Jr with his "bipartisanship" bait-and-switch). McCain is interesting cause he pretended so hard for so long that eventually he became the lunatic all the moderates had convinced themselves he could corral. He's kind of like that shrink from Watchmen, spending so much time trying to ingratiate himself with the extremists that he eventually lost his equilibrium.

Half of my country has been swallowed by crazy. Half of what's left is asleep. God help us.