If Donald Trump indeed gets the Republican nomination for the presidency, I'm going to boldly propose he pick Maine's Gov. Paul LePage as his running mate. Let’s call this the Republican "what the hell, let's just embrace the batshit crazy" plan.
In a radio interview Tuesday on WVOM, LePage said legislative proposals to increase prison sentences for drug traffickers do not do enough.
LePage has been going on about drug traffickers non-stop as of late. I guess "D-Money" stood him up at the coffee shop for the last time.
“What we ought to do is bring the guillotine back,” he said, interrupting the hosts.
Huh. Don't think anyone expected him to pipe up with that. Of course, technically you can't bring it "back" when Maine never had the guillotine to begin—you know what? Never mind. He's on a roll.
“We could have public executions and we could even have which hole it falls in.”
All right, so the executions would be public ... and I'm not quite sure what we're supposed to make of the last part of it. Which hole it falls in?
Is LePage envisioning a combination of the guillotine and a miniature golf course? Or is it more billiards, or pachinko? Do onlookers win a prize if it lands in the right hole?
So then. This is the part where we all are supposed to remind ourselves that this man is the sitting governor of an American state. And his idea for how to govern is that we'll have guillotines and publicly cut off criminals' heads in public. You know, make a family day of it. Bring the kids. 'Murika, and so forth.