Only in America: You Can Run for Elected Office Even If You’re Not as Smart as a Fifth Grader!

Posted by Main Ass on November 4, 2010 in Politics/Society |

Politics is the only field where demanding that someone applying for a job NOT have any experience is acceptable and encouraged. … Imagine a pilot on your next flight who has never flown a plane. What would your reaction be to this announcement? “Hello ladies and gentlemen! I am Bob. I’ve never flown a plane or even taken flying lessons. But, today I woke up and decided that I was going to helm this flight. Buckle up because I am about to take you on the ride of your life!”


So, the Republicans have taken the House. This is another chance for them to try to enact their Contract ON America. Republicans roused their base using the antics of the Tea Party, most of whose members have never held elected office. Much of their rhetoric centered on getting rid of “career politicians” and taking on the “Washington elite.”

Politics is the only field where demanding that someone applying for a job NOT have any experience is acceptable and encouraged. And, Washington seems to be the only destination for a career where being intelligent and thoughtful in your decision-making is a weakness. What other job can you think of where the consumers are ignorantly clamoring for someone with little or no experience? For someone who’s dumb as a box of hair? For someone who doesn’t know the lay of the land and the major players? For someone who used to be a WITCH? WTF?! Did Christine O’Donnell think she was applying for a job at Hogwarts?! Quick … get her cape and broom!

Imagine if this were the case in other areas of society. Imagine a pilot on your next flight who has never flown a plane. What would your reaction be to this announcement? “Hello ladies and gentlemen! I am Bob. I’ve never flown a plane or even taken flying lessons. But, today I woke up and decided that I was going to helm this flight. Buckle up because I am about to take you on the ride of your life!”

I can guarantee you that plane would take off with just Bob on it because everyone else would have bailed, including the same morons who demand their political representatives have no experience. They’d likely be the first ones sliding down the ramp off the plane or trying to squeeze through that port-hole called a window.

In this latest election, in states all over the country, Tea Party and Republican candidates trumpeted their lack of political experience as the very reason they should be elected. That would be like an attorney going to a client and trying to assure them with this nonsense: “I have never tried a case before and have no clue about civil procedure or any of that litigation stuff, and that is the very reason you should hire me. I don’t know sh&t about this but I’ll stun opposing counsel into a coma with my dizzying lack of knowledge!”

In Delaware, the Tea Party and Sarah Palin darling Christine O’Donnell did her best to defeat Chris Coons in the race for Senator. Her lack of knowledge of political basics was frightening! She didn’t even understand the Constitution of her very own country, asking during a debate “Where in the Constitution is the separation of church and state?”

Coons, that pesky, intelligent, career politician noted that it appeared in the 1st Amendment. “Let me clarify,” O’Donnell stated. “You’re telling me that separation of church and state is in 1st Amendment?” Really? Seriously? Yes, DUMBASS, it’s in the Constitution where it states “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.”

The Republicans were prepared to send this f&cktard to the Senate when she’s not even aware of the basic tenets of our Constitution yet she has “a graduate fellowship in constitutional government from the Claremont Institute.” Huh? And, even though she lost by 16 POINTS, this DUMBASS declared her Delaware Senate candidacy a success! Wow! Dumb and delusional … they have released another Palin virus on this nation. And, like her predecessor, this woman is emboldened to try to win public office or talk politics when she lacks a basic understanding of policy and how this country works.

In California, Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman, two people with no political experience tried to get elected as Senator and Governor, respectively. Both candidates ran on the Republican ticket, trumpeted their outsider status and have private sector experience that they wanted to bring to bear on the political machine.

To demonstrate that she should be the candidate to lead us down the path of fiscal responsibility, Meg Whitman spent over $140 million dollars of her own money to garner over 3 million votes and still lost to Jerry Brown, a political insider and career politician who spent a paltry $25 million. So this experienced CEO who was going to bring fiscal responsibility to Sacramento out-spent the so-called big spender by almost 6 times over! Way to lead by example! Way to demonstrate that old Republican fiscal conservatism. If we were spending $1000s of dollars on toilets back in the 1980s, imagine what we’d spend on them if this woman were running the state!

Whitman, who hasn’t voted in almost 30 years, wanted to hold the highest office in the state of California. Her plan was simply to run California like she ran Ebay because … state politics and private sector enterprise are so similar? Yeah … that’s it! Claiming that the office of governor is similar to being CEO of a company is akin to claiming that flying a plane Is just like driving a car. They both have wheels, they both need to be steered, they both transport people, they both require fuel and … and … that’s about it!

Whitman’s policy plans for California were as thin as toilet paper because she lacks a basic understanding of state politics in the state where she has spent her entire adult life. She could never explain to the electorate how exactly she was going to fire 40,000 state employees, balance the budget, increase jobs and decrease state spending, all while continuing to make those delightful Quaker Oats commercials!

The arrogance of these would-be politicians is frightening! The disdain with which they treat knowledge and experience shocks the conscience. But, don’t be fooled for one second. It’s only knowledge of politics that they disdain and discount as if it serves no use when you’re a POLITICIAN! I wonder if Meg Whitman or Carly Fiorina or Linda McMahon would hire a CFO with no financial or accounting experience? Would they be comfortable handing over the finances of their private sector enterprises to someone who didn’t know GAAP from the GAP? Probably not! That would be DUMB. And, in many cases, it’s just as dumb to hire a politician with scant political experience and one who doesn’t even know a basic principle of our Constitution!

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