I'm Lincoln Chafee, and I want to be President.
I have a serious question. Why do these people
DO shit like this? When Lincoln Chafee announced for the Presidency, I don't think even Linc thought that there was a path, he was a "middle of the road" protest candidate, somewhere in the mushy middle between Hillary and Bernie. But when is enough enough? Monmouth University has included Lincoln Chafees name in several consecutive national polls, and he has polled 0. No, not 0%, in all of those polls, not
one person polled chose him as their guy! When even a late night talk show host feels like he has to take you under his wing, and to give you enough coverage to at least get you to 1% so that you don't feel so bad about yourself, what does that really say?
But it isn't just him. Look at Bobby Jindal. He has the personal charisma of library paste, and the personality of your uncle who sends you all of those e-mails in ALL CAPS. He gave a statement the other day that was truly pathetic. It's not like he was in the United Center, he was in a room that held at best a couple of hundred people, and he had 50 or less people to listen to him take whacks at the Donald. Jim Gilmore isn't even campaigning, no speeches, no rallies, all he does is beg his way from talk show to talk show to remind people of why they never gave a shit about him in the first place. Same thing with Mike Huckabee, motoring around wearing his baggy pants carnival barker suit, preaching to the choir. But when a conservative evangelical preacher is losing the evangelical vote to the Killer 'Do, what's left? Now, go ahead and toss in Rick Santorum and Scott Walker, both of whom are so dumpster diving that they couldn't get the Chinese to take free missiles from them!
I'm sorry folks, but I just don't get it. Don't these people have any personal pride? Isn't there some kind of a shame button kicks in at some point or another and when you look into the mirror to shave in the morning you don't just see a sad, pathetic loser staring back out at you through the shaving cream?
I guess that's why I never got into politics. I've never been much of a fan of self humiliation.
Thanks as always for reading!