(July 31, 2015 at 11:27 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: You know, it occurred to me that rank-and-file Republicans ought to be outraged about this.
Huckbee either has shit-for-brains or he thinks the electorate does. I don't see a lot of middle ground here.
I agree that at least one of those must be true. But they are also not mutually exclusive; they can both be true.
(July 31, 2015 at 11:27 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: So it's ether that this is the sort of candidate that the GOP can muster, someone who is either fatally flawed is understanding of the rule of law or a crass demogogue with a penchant for grossly irresponsible rhetoric - or your candidate thinks you are an idiot.
Why wouldn't you be pissed about that?
If I were a Republican (which is virtually impossible for me to imagine), sure, but many actual Republicans are not. Because if he believes that many Republicans are idiots, he is right. Many of them are too stupid to see that his ideas are lunacy, because they are lunatics, too.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
