My Wife's Theory

[mburbank]

My wife summed up something I've been trying to formulate for a while better than I could, so I wanted to share it with you. It has to do with the team sport nature of voters. It's seemed to both of us that W. has veered violently away from some pretty bedrock republican principals (not toward Deomcratic ones mind you, just away from republican into pure aquisition of power) and we wondered why more people don't seem to notice.

Here's my wife's formulation.

"People would vote for a dog with a talking parrot shoved up it's ass if it said the right things, regardless of what it did."

She then went on to say:

"Wwwraaawk! Universal Healthcare is bad! Universal Healthcare is bad! Wwraaawk! No gay Marriage! No gay Marriage! "

Is it too late to get a dog with a talking parrot shoved up it's ass on the ballot?

[KevinTheOmnivore]

While he's saying universal healthcare is bad, he's still spending millions of dollars on it. I actually think George Will hit the nail on the head in some ways in his recent column (note: not his shit about evil liberals and freedom loving conservatives, rather, his point about what people expect of their elected officials in America):

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64856-2004Jan30.html

[El Blanco]

A woman theorizing about politics? That is adorable. I hope you gave a heartfelt chuckle at the thought as you booted her back into the kitchen.

[AChimp]

I wonder how many people would vote for a talking chimp. I mean, a real chimp, not just somebody who looks like one.

[mburbank]

See, for me it's the idea of an animal talking by dint of having a parrot up it's ass.

[Jeanette X]

As long as we are nomininating animals:
http://www.hamsterforpresident.com/potusforpresident.jpg

www.hamsterforpresident.com

"If you want a good president,
VOTE FOR POTUS!
If you want a cute president,
VOTE FOR POTUS!
If you want a cuddly president,
VOTE FOR POTUS!
. . . but . . .
if you want a strict, bossy,
hamster-hating (we know
you won't vote for
this guy!) and
dictator-like president
(we mean this in a bad way),
VOTE FOR BUSH."

[mburbank]

But Parrots actually talk!