horse of george

It would almost be disappointing for me if Cain's campaign is sidetracked by a sex scandal since there are more, much more substantive reasons to repudiate the man's highly questionable run for the highest office in the land that are now just going to be ignored or lost in the noise, to wit: he doesn't seem particularly bright; he either doesn't understand his own policy prescriptions or entirely lacks the ability to explain them in a way that would lead one to believe he understands them or even allow one to just simply give him the benefit of some doubt that he understands them - it's as if he hired someone to come up with some ideas for him and then hired someone else to write out 'talking points' on those ideas and then he memorized, sort of, the talking points; his popularity seems to completely be held together by two largely superficial attributes, ie people apparently like him personally [and he does come across as an affable gladhander] and as a former motivational speaker and talk show host he knows how to shovel appropriate rhetorical  fodder to the gathered cattle; he has no governing experience, which of course his 'fans' see as a shining virtue but then that's because they're idiots [not that I have great love for politicians but just as you'd never hire someone without business experience to run your business, never let someone who'd never worked on a farm run your farm, never let your blind neighbor cut your hair or let his ten year old son borrow your car for the weekend, so to only the willfully stupid would waste time imagining that governing a super power does not require at least some applicable experience in the field of, ya know, governing - sure, there can always be exceptions - Ike for one I guess - but then Ike had been Allied Supreme Commander during WWII, the fate of the free world had rested on his shoulders - wee bit different from being CEO of a crappy chain of pizza stores]; and worst of all, as far as I'm concerned, not just his alarming paucity of knowledge concerning foreign policy but possibly even more disturbing the inference one draws from that sorry lacking, ie that either he has no interest in foreign policy, none at all, or is intellectually lazy - and given that the IAEA will be releasing a report tomorrow that may set in motion a chain of events that will result in the next occupant of the White House having to order a strike on Iran's nuclear facilities and thereby unleashing God only knows what dire consequences - that republicans would even be playing with the idea of nominating a guy like Cain is just... I dunno... shocking? Am I shocked? I know that if I were trapped for five minutes in a room with the extremes of either party that it'd be a struggle to keep from vomiting - so maybe not shocked - still...