By the addition of a new candidate who actually believes in God. Yes, everyone, Alan Keyes has entered the race.
Dear jebus, why is the race for the election of the president of the most militarily powerful country on earth such a ludicrous joke? Shouldn’t this be an office for serious people with serious plans and serious expertise, and shouldn’t certifiable lunatics like Keyes be given the cold shoulder? (Oh, right: they can’t do that, because if sanity were a prerequisite, the entire Republican slate would evaporate.)
The answer to your first question probably has something to do with the people who choose who gets to be president.
“The answer to your first question probably has something to do with the people who choose who gets to be president.”
Nah, we’re just not framing things right.
R. Josiah Magnuson should be endorsing Alan Keyes rather than Ron Paul. Will he switch his allegiance to this new messiah?
Alan Keyes. Great another family values candidate.
How’s it going with the fam, Alan?
If it’s a joke, it’s not funny.
Especially to the relatives of one million dead Iraqis, and four thousand plus American servicemen and women.
It’ll make the stage more interesting. It won’t be all rich white men running on the republican ticket.
I doubt they’ll even let him on the stage.
He’s the black republican they pull out of the cloest whenever they want to run against a popular black candidate.
Anti-war presidential candidates Barack Obama and Ron Paul are the top recipients of military money.
Thank God Keyes is running. Who else will lead a righteous and godly crusade against Mexicans, Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, and Nicholas Rescher’s theory of epistemology at the same time?
At last, the Free World will be safe for creationists, relativity deniers, and foundationalists. God be praised!
Keys is such a friendly fellow that Sacha Baron Cohen decided to give him an easy time in the Borat movie. The repubs have no good candidates, but neither do the Dems. If only Hillary would apologize for her war vote and say she should have known W would just screw things up she’d have a chance. Who’s she going to alienate. The 22% who still like Bush and wouldn’t vote for her anyway. I’m still waiting for Wes Clark to run.
“If it’s a joke, it’s not funny.
Especially to the relatives of one million dead Iraqis, and four thousand plus American servicemen and women.”
hey, didn’t you read the comments in the other thread? It’s not our fault that the war we started is killing people!
According to The Observer, the GOP might have two saviours. Newt Gingrich is thinking about standing as well.
Bob
FUCK ME, Sagan help us.
Does this Suprise Anyone?
Base treachery! Now the troops are refusing to support the troops!
Is homosexuality so generally inheritable?
Because… as I’m not the first to point out, if the good man says it’s hedonism, he implies it would be fun for him.
Is homosexuality so generally inheritable?
Because… as I’m not the first to point out, if the good man says it’s hedonism, he implies it would be fun for him.
I wonder if Michael Moore is going to endorse him as he did in 2000.
This is baffling. What are you USAns supposed to elect next year? A President or a Pope?
This is baffling. What are you USAns supposed to elect next year? A President or a Pope?
We’re in a populist stage right now. At the beginning of the Republic, people voted less with their logic and more with their emotions, somewhat appropriate for the passions of the time, and that’s how we ended up with Andrew Jackson and other such “Indian Fighter” presidents. For much of the period after the civil war, we elected presidents with serious attitudes and clear ideas about what the U.S. should be, Grant being the notable exception. But, starting with Reagan, U.S. citizens started electing presidents because they “felt” good about them, not because they had a coherent policy or even exhibited intelligence of any kind. Hell; Shrub ran on being a drinking buddy. WTF? Of course, this is more a broad summary analysis of voting habits than a well researched thesis.
I think we’re trending back towards serious candidates though; maybe in 2 or 3 election cycles.
David Marjanović: Well, I know I didn’t consciously select to be gay, so it’s at least partially genetic (the fact that several animals have instances of homosexuality pretty much confirms this).
don’t confuse genetic with biological. There are probably very complicated processes involved, which also interact with the social aspects of life (such as developing identies around sexuality which are historically new).
I’ve been harboring a growing suspicion that the Republican Party’s 30-year fling with the reality-challenged religious right is about to do greivous damage to both. Religious nutters either don’t care, or simply can’t grasp that most of this country does not want their worldviews imposed on us all. Most people support federal funds for stem cells research. Most people objected strongly to Congress showboating over Terri Schiavo’s tragic situation. Most people are smart enough to realize that their children need more than abstinence education to help them make informed decisions about sex. Most Americans think creationism is a joke…..(OK, that one is unfortunately wishful thinking on my part).
The point is, no matter how much one might blather on about faith being an important quality for a presidential candidate, to a person almost all of us really don’t want a theocracy. The more power these people accrue, the less sway they hold, or as Princess Leia so memorably put it, “The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers”. So, by all means, put people like Keyes on stage. The sooner the Republican party realizes its disastrous affair with bible-thumpers was a mistake, the sooner it’ll end.
You fail. You fail biology, human sexuality, and the Internet.
Surely Brownback is enough?
Were Abraham Lincoln alive today, he would almost certainly switch parties. The GOP has almost completely vaporized its respectability in the last few years—nah, the last few decades. Back in Lincoln’s time, it stood for liberty and fairness, but due to its recent hijacking by social Darwinists, imperialists, religious fanatics, racists, and even (ironically) neo-Confederates, what passes for the Republican Party these days seems a polar opposite of its former self.
If that wasn’t enough self-desecration, the Republicans happened to be the party to which Dubya belongs. Thanks to his [sarcasm]wise leadership[/sarcasm], the GOP has almost already lost the 2008 race. They have only themselves to blame.
Hey, Dustin– how did Rescher’s epistemology get on the list of Keyes’ concerns there? I’m writing about it right now (for a volume in Rescher’s honour)… is there something I should read by Keyes (for comic relief, if nothing else)?
Oh, there is evidence that male homosexuality is at least partially heritable. There’s a study that found increased incidence of male homosexuality to correspond to increased fertility of women in the same family. Not to mention anecdotal evidence like Louis XIII and his undoubted son, the brother of Louis XIV.
I asked because it appears that not only Maya Keyes is homosexual, but her father is, too. It would surprise me if that were connected, but I find the case interesting. That and the, as far as I know, total lack of research on female homosexuality. That’s all.
Oh, there is evidence that male homosexuality is at least partially heritable. There’s a study that found increased incidence of male homosexuality to correspond to increased fertility of women in the same family. Not to mention anecdotal evidence like Louis XIII and his undoubted son, the brother of Louis XIV.
I asked because it appears that not only Maya Keyes is homosexual, but her father is, too. It would surprise me if that were connected, but I find the case interesting. That and the, as far as I know, total lack of research on female homosexuality. That’s all.