So is the GOP secretly on a campaign to get America comfortable with increasingly stupid Presidents?
Why would they do this? Because that enables puppetmasters that the American public might find unpalatable to be the real forces in Government.
If you think about it, who was the last intelligent Republican President?
That would be Richard Milhous Nixon, whom despite his many flaws was inarguably bright and well-educated.
Consider the cast since then:
Ronald Reagan -- main career, actor; brief Governor stint; evidently descending into senility even before beginning his first term
George HW Bush might seem like an exception, until you consider his foolhardy VP, Dan Quayle, remembering again the long-term GOP goal of dumbing down the public's expectation of the land's highest offices
Even during the Clinton years, the Republican "revolution" in the House was driven by pandering to wild-eyed, poorly educated slackjaws, the gun-loving militia "movement," religious nutters, and fixations primarily on non-policy matters such as the President's penis and real estate investments
George Dubya Bush -- perhaps the most ineffective, least intelligent, weak executive ever, with the country primarily run by Cheney and his shadowy cabal
It's hard to imagine topping Dubya, but the beady-eyed Palin, who blatantly speaks from a script every time she opens her mouth and has trouble even forming those scripted words, tops him.
And McCain, once a man possessed of great dignity, is now debasing himself by campaigning on non-issues such as whether Obama was referring to Miss Piggy with his "lipstick" comment.
If McCain wins, the odds are very high that Palin will ascend to the Presidency.
It's hard to imagine that true Conservatives -- I mean the types who are educated, and appreciate limited but effective government -- I'm not talking the frothing mouthed ideologues who have hijacked the GOP, who take the Bible literally, and are more concerned with stem cells than the economy -- can be very comfortable with that thought.