Who was the guy who said lesbianism was so rampant in his area’s school that the teachers had to send girls to the bathroom one at a time? Doesn’t sound like much of a problem to me…
But he was a CEO! He has leadership experience! He can be the CEO president, running America just like a well oiled company. We know conservatives are good at that, right? Wait, you say he drove all his companies into the ground? Why do you hate America?
I hear ya. I don’t like the image of gay guys having butt sex. I also don’t like the idea of fat people having normal straight sex, probably even moreso than the former. But I’m pretty sure there are more fat straight people than gay people and you don’t see me talking about how fattie sex is an abomination.
Bush is a fucking genius. He sees that some of his political opponents are on the committee, so he ships over a candidate that doesn’t have a chance in hell of winning but will make the committee look as if they are pro-gay and anti-Christian. If you don’t think the right wing spin machine already has articles pre-written about the “anti-family, pro-gay, anti-God Democrats” on the committee, you must have been born yesterday. They are damned if they pass him, and damned if they don’t.
While he might resemble C. Everett Coop physically, but it’s obvious that there’s no ideological resemblance. Which is a shame, because Coop let the science shape his opinions and not the other way around.
It from them, and them from it. People have been leaving government in droves for years, conservative and liberal, because their alternative was throwing away their principles, intelligence or their professional skills. Bush wants people who’ll be loyal and follow the party line no matter how stupid or crazy it is, and that’s not really compatable with “competent, smart, talented” anything.
Also, at this point as tomndebb points out, the more capable people may not want to have anything to do with the Bushites. Look at the wonders they did for Colin Powell’s reputation, or look at all the retired generals who turned down the “opportunity” to be war czar.
There’s also the argument that the Bush Admin is full of anti-government righties who want the the government to be discredited as a solution to problems, and WANT the government to fail, as badly and publicly as possibile. So they deliberately choose people who have no talent, training or concern for the job, hoping for disasters like Katrina where the government will be seen to fail.
I always thought they were congealed Evil, like that guy in Time Bandits except not as cool.
You do realize that (a) this is the accurate road name for US 322 east from Harrisburg to Hershey PA; (b) it is a highly congested area during rush hour (I forebear to make the obvious puns); (c) jayjay and supervenusfreak, whenever they need to take a run into Harrisburg, have to use the Hershey Highway.
