If Paul Ryan can be an expert with no budget plans and John McCain can be a Ukraine and Syria expert when he is so obviously on the payroll of munitions manufacturers, whose to say the networks won't play along with this?
Never underestimate the political appeal of a dumb fat white guy with a bouffant hairdo in this country. George W Bush was a punchline from the moment the first feelers for his candidacy hit the airwaves in 1998 -- look how that worked for us.
For a large number of voters in this country, stupid and tongue-tied is an asset.
@8: I didn't say that it wasn't a blunder. Good grief. There are blunders more memorable, like Gerald Ford saying there "is Soviet domination of eastern Europe."
@11's right. Notice how many commercials feature fat dumb guys? It's because they're loveable. People want loveable. People have voted and will likely again vote for loveable. McCain wasn't loveable, nor was Romney; the Republicans won't make those mistakes again.
Nice turn of phrase. Might need to borrow it on occasion.
(if he really runs, can we please start calling him Oops Perry?)
For a large number of voters in this country, stupid and tongue-tied is an asset.
If not then what was all that hullabaloo about the fall of the Berlin wall during GHWB Presidency?