The Teabaggers have certainly brewed up some interesting candidates for next month's elections, and have proven their ability to manipulate and infiltrate the GOP.
From candidates who consider Social Security a ponzi scheme and consider eliminating the federal reserve, to those who want to ban "evil" black football jerseys and mock autistic children. Who would've thought that the famous (infamous?) Republican quote uttered by Tricky Dick "I am not a crook" Nixon would be replaced with Christine "I am not a witch" O'Donnell? A candidate who wanted to be a Hare Krishna, but couldn't give up meatballs?
Or that Ronnie Reagan's callous attitude toward homosexuals during the early days of the AIDS epidemic would be topped -- thirty years later -- by an openly adulterous NY gubernatorial candidate who casually states that gays are dysfunctional in the same way he'd order a donut in a deli. Reagan's desire to see ketchup classified as a vegetable in school lunch programs seems normal in comparison to alleged collegiate kidnapper Rand Paul's hope to eliminat e the Department of Education altogether. Maybe he was just stoned. Again.
And no amount of military drag and flight-suit-n-codpiece donned by Dim Son during his eight-year misadventure could equal a supposedly serious Congressional contender who likes to dress up like a Nazi. No, seriously. A Nazi SS officer, specifically.
Do you ever wake up and wonder where the hell you are? How you fell down that rabbit hole?
Appropos for Halloween, this current crop of candidates are eerily similar to the characters on The Addams Family TV show: Some of them are creepy and kooky, some are spooky and ooky, but the truly terrifying aspect is that they are all imminently electable. That makes them dangerous.
So when you're laughing at the latest admitable hysterical political ad by Christine the Good Witch, or shaking you head at the outrageous homophobia of Carl Paladino, bear in mind that comical they may be, but they are far from harmless.
Remember the last time an amiable dunce/good ol' boy assumed political office . . . two wars, tens of thousand dead, trillions of debt later . . . be afraid, be very afraid.
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