Stupid voters enable broken government

[sinkingfeeling]

http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/27/opinion/granderson-broken-government-voters/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

Exhibit B would be Newt Gingrich, who cheated on two wives and is the only speaker of the House to have been disciplined for ethics violations. And yet somehow he is running for president of the United States as a religious conservative and managed to get 8% of the votes during last week's straw poll in Florida.

Are you freaking kidding me?

The fact that he is even on camera discussing the country's sense of morality during the GOP debates should be offensive to any thinking person regardless of party affiliation. And yet someone, right now, is thinking about sending his campaign a check.

But they are because of us. So can we genuinely complain about government without accepting a lot of the blame? I don't think so. After all, they didn't elect themselves. So if we want government to work, we have to be smarter about our choices. It's one thing to have a population with a variety of political sensibilities; it's another to be a country full of idiots. Too many times we vote and consequently govern like the latter.

[Odin2005]

1. K&R

[Initech]

2. The irony: Newt cheated on his wife w/cancer while voting for the "Defense Of Marriage Act"

Hypocrisy, thy name is Gingrich. :eyes:

[HappyMe]

3. Makes sense to me.

Not a single one of them gave an actual, concrete answer to any question. Blathering on about morals has no place in any political debate.

[HappyMe]

4. oops! glitch! nt