Ok, it's now gone from 'are you kidding me?' to embarrassing farce - Herman Cain compares his lack of knowledge viz foreign policy etc to his lack of insight into how pizza dough is made when he became CEO of Godfather's Pizza. This is embarrassing, sad and pathetic - the Chinese politburo will read that quote aloud over tea this morning and be smiling from ear to ear. An absolute farcical embarrassment. Putin, taking a pause between the wrestling of bears and the hunting of Siberian tigers, will throw back a shot of vodka and laugh with mocking contempt.
The frightening thing though is that, browsing through some conservative websites this morning, I see that support for Cain is actually up - now, this has more to do with the accusations of sexual impropriety made against him in the past and the ideological pack mules of right wing populism being all up in arms about a left wing media witch hunt [even though it's much more likely a republican as fearful of a Cain candidacy as I am leaked the info - if you were a liberal and wanted to smear the man you'd wait til he was actually the nominee] - and certainly this story is interesting for me anyway [as opposed to the caterwauling ideologues] insomuch as one, Cain is obviously lying when he says he was unaware of a settlement being paid to the accusers, and two, the mishandling of the scandal [Politico, the publisher of the story, gave him two weeks to respond before going public and he had nothing] seems to smell of incompetence - but no, sorry, the ostensibly 'manufactured' sex scandal may feed the current right wing mania of putting everything into some emotionally driven ideological context so as to avoid I guess at all costs the application of logic ie, logic in the sense that if the guy you want as president compares the art and study of foreign policy to pizza dough there's probably a good chance he's not a good fit for the job - yes, I see why the trolls fixate on the sex scandal stuff cause a liberal conspiracy gives them a perfect pretext for rationalizing their native idiocy - but sorry, there's no possibility of talking your way around a pizza dough foreign policy - that analogy is the real news here and has me thinking it may be a good day to crawl back into bed with a bottle of scotch and throw on my new Deadwood blu-ray.
