COMMENTARY | The South Carolina primary is less than a day away, with polls opening on Saturday. The remaining Republican Party hopefuls are pushing hard to win the state and controversy abounds. Amid bizarre and unusual revelations about the candidates right-wing voters continue to cheer enthusiastically for their favorites. It makes me wonder, "Are they blind, dumb, nuts, or D-all of the above?"
Newt Gingrich dumped his first wife for being too ugly, says the LA Times, while claiming his support of "family values." He cheated on his second wife and then dumped her when she refused to have an open marriage, eventually marrying his mistress, according to the New York Times. Gingrich is surging in the polls according to the Christian Science Monitor. When did "wanting to sleep with anything that walks and ditching your wives when they get sick" become a right-wing, Christian "family value?
Rick Santorum may have won the Iowa caucuses after all, according to the Associated Press. Santorum carries a rebranding of his name to mean something repugnant (definitely not a work-safe link). In a 2003 AP interview Santorum bashed gay marriage, which is no surprise for him. He lost his composure and called it a gateway to "man on dog" action. Does America really need a president fascinated with that kind of phrasing and activity?
Ron Paul, and it's important to remember he is a medical doctor, may be the least offensive of the bunch. He's lost touch with reality, though. CBS reports Paul does not believe in evolution. He's a doctor, supposedly well versed in the science of biology. He's probably studied generational mutation of bacteria and other single-cell life, actually seeing evolution in progress in ways non-medical people rarely will, but he claims not to believe in it. Is irrationality a virtue cherished by conservatives?
Mitt Romney embraces a religion with a holy book that proclaims in 2 Nephi 5:21-23 that black skin is a curve from God and a punishment for sin, and warns against interracial marriage. He's a plutocrat multimillionaire paying a tax rate so low average Americans will never match it, according to ABC. Why elect a man who will never relate to the economic problems of the citizenry?
If this is the best the Republican Party has to offer America, I'll gladly enjoy another four years with Barack Obama in the White House.
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