horse of george

"... I was watching Ron Paul being interviewed on some news show, and he was talking his usual gibberish... I mean, my lord that man spouts an awful lot of nonsense... but Charles Krauthammer was one of the people prodding the esteemed candidate with questions and Charlie, with roguish devilry, accordingly asked Paul to try and make sense of his opinion expressed in last debate concerning how fences built to keep out illegals would eventually be turned against honest citizens for the purposes of imprisoning them, as it were, in the country apparently against their will... an outright bizarre statement so detached from reality as to suggest the onset of dementia in the speaker... and Krauthammer, obviously not a fan of Paul's inveterate nonsense, was enjoying watching the esteemed candidate flop about incoherently on the hook of this absurdity... I mean he was reduced to just spitting out chains of words regardless of any recognizable meaning being attached to them... and it occurred to me that here was this foppish curmudgeon, of entirely marginal significance who, even if favored with ideas that had any chance of being implemented was simply too old to ever be a serious candidate for president, and yet there he was being treated as a serious candidate for president by people who, at least certainly in Krauthammer's case, didn't consider him a serious candidate for president... and one realized that this race wasn't a dire battle between the best and brightest of our society for the right to contend against the evil Obama for the most important job in the world... it was rather a sideshow where the vain, the arrogant, the naive, the delusional, the pompously misguided and the self righteously preening were invited, through some dark twist of fate, to step forward on a stage and speak as if the void were not opening up beneath them..."