The reality show facing GOP voters

[babylonsister]

:rofl: Check out who wrote this...at least he's finally being honest.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/66161.html

The reality show facing GOP voters

By JOE SCARBOROUGH | 10/17/11 4:11 PM EDT


All the world is a stage and in this year’s GOP presidential race, it is a reality show soundstage cluttered with clownish characters auditioning for the role of commander in chief.

A bemused audience of political spectators and cable chatterers has been entertained this year by a fallen speaker, a pizza mogul, a wild-eyed ideologue, a billionaire developer and a hockey mom from Alaska.

Two of those actors have starred in actual reality shows, but — here’s the hook — no one in this actors’ studio is qualified to be president.

This train wreck of a reality show started the season with a sputtering governor’s resignation. That was followed by a blizzard of book deals, reality shows and FOX News contracts that kept the chattering classes transfixed. Never mind the fact that few mainstream political commentators ever bothered to mention to their audience that Sarah Palin was ill-equipped to handle this show’s lead role.

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The fact that Citizen Cain takes great pride in his ignorance of global affairs is understandably unnerving to American voters in this unstable age. But on the small stage on which Mr. Cain now finds himself, the Godfather’s Pizza CEO fits with these vapid times as much as James Dean did with his in the 1950s classic, “Rebel Without a Cause.” Sadly, Cain and his fellow cast members are little more than rebels without a clue. That reality is a dismal curtain call for the Republican party and the country it hopes to run.

Compared with the GOP’s field of reality stars, George W. Bush looks like Brando, Paul Ryan is as attractive as Robert Redford, and Chris Christie is Brad Pitt. So much for an audition process that leaves the audience, once again, aching for more.

[lunatica]

1. I still don't like him

:thumbsdown:

[babylonsister]

2. That's a given, but

this brightened my day. He's finally facing reality. :hi:

[lunatica]

3. Or he's realizing which way the wind is blowing

And he's trying to jump on the wagon that's going in that direction. Maybe he foresees the day when his brand of spin no longer cuts it.
He's an opportunist.

But I could be wrong. :shrug:

[Tarheel_Dem]

4. Scarborough's a jerk, but on this narrow point we agree. (nt)

[Jim Lane]

5. I wonder if he sees himself being drafted at the last minute to save the party. (n/t)