2012 has already started well with the news that some of the scary bat-shit crazy presidential candidates have been forced to drop out of the race.
First Herman Cain stepped down, after giving stupid and ignorant answers (or simply yelling 9-9-9 - which rather aptly in the UK is the emergency services number like 911 in the States).
Now after Iowa, Michelle Bachmann found out the hard way that bat shit crazy wasn't enough to make it in politics. And I'm not just harping on because I'm a liberal, this woman was so crazy, so stupid, and such a fucking bigot, there is no place for her thinking she can run for president of the free world. I wouldn't trust her to run a gas station.
Also good news, Rick Perry, or George W. Bush II, got slammed, polling double what Bachmann managed; a measly 10% of the vote. While he pledges to continue the fight, it's only a matter of time before that dumbass is kicked out of the race.
We've still got a VERY scary field out there, Mitt Romney; the cult member who will say anything or adopt any policy to get elected, and another bigot in the shape of Rick Santorum.
Since he came within 8 votes of beating Romney, I thought I'd share some of his world views:
- Says he will annul all same sex marriages since gay marriage 'destabilizes' a society.
- Says he will repeal all funding for birth control, and even allow states to ban the sale of birth control.
- Says he will reinstate don't ask don't tell, and then made a bunch of homophobic statements about gay people in the military.
- Claimed that because obesity rates are high in America, we should do away with food stamps.
- Claimed that his child, who was born with a serious medical condition, would have died under socialized medicine. Odd then that our infant mortality figures are in the gutter given how great our system is.
- Back in August he said that poor people who 'whine' about affording health care should cut back on 'luxuries' like having a car or phone.
- He sided with insurance companies who believe in charging more or denying coverage to people with 'pre-existing conditions.'
It scares me that some radical asshole like this can actually have a real chance at running for President.
I guess it's going to be an interesting and scary year.
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