You Ever Heard of Plato? Aristotle? Socrates? Morons.

[elfs]

Remember my "campaign speech" entry? Gack this from the most recent Republican debate:

YouTube Questioner: Hammered by competition with imports, our family-owned business struggles each year to find seasonal workers. What are you going to do to keep these guest workers coming to the U.S. to save our business?

COOPER: Congressman Tancredo?

TANCREDO: OK, the gist of the question, as I understand it, is, what I'm going to do stop guest workers from coming in here?

COOPER: No, no, to help. This small business needs guest workers.

TANCREDO: I'm sorry. I could not hear that. I'm sorry. Well, I'll tell you, I'm not going to aid any more immigration into this country, because in fact, immigration does take jobs.

Why, oh why, can't we have a better political class?

I think Duncan Hunter was right: "If one of the "base" interest groups the GOP candidates had to pander to were tribes of meth-addled howler monkeys, could they have looked any more demented than they did during that debate?"

Comments

[tagryn]

Immigration is Tancredo's one-trick pony. His candidacy has nothing to offer other than being a mouthpiece for Dobbsianism/Know-Nothingism. I put him in the category that we see every Presidential election cycle: Senators who run knowing they have no chance, but who hope to increase their personal visibility & power by campaigning. Ah, well. "In your guts, you know he's nuts."