SOME GOP NOMINEES & SURROGATES CAN BE HIGHLY ENTERTAINING

…Fox’s Bill O’Reilly… does it again!

Here’s a selection of those with very different ideas for fixing America’s problems.

Listening to some of the 17 potential nominees for the 2016 Republican nomination, or the comments from their surrogates, it makes you wonder if they ever listen to themselves talk…?

As an example, the now unpopular New Jersey Governor, Chris Christie, apparently still thinks he could be president.

 

In one of his town-hall meetings, he had one of his off-the-cuff, “light-bulb moments”.  As president, he fantasized, he would hire the founder of FedEx to track undocumented immigrants the way FedEx tracks packages.

Now think about that!  Packages or people...what’s the difference?  Unfortunately, Christie did not take the time to explain any details of just how his concept would work.  Apparently, we are supposed to assume that as each illegal crossed the border, they would automatically be stamped with a tracking bar-code.  (Boy would that make the Border Patrol’s and Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) jobs easy.)

It’s that sort of innovative thinking that has resulted in the state of New Jersey’s economy being in the toilet during Christie’s tenure as governor.

 

Then there’s the conservative surrogate and Fox pundit, Bill O’Reilly who really came up with a classic case of Foot-in-Mouth disease for the umpteenth time.

O’Reilly once again took a devastating national event and used it to blame secular progressives for all of America’s societal ills.

According to O’Reilly, the horrible murder on live TV of the reporter and cameraman in the Roanoke, Virginia area, it was not due to too many guns or mental health issues.  It was the lack of Jesus.

Yep, the man who shot and killed the two broadcasters, then later killed himself, it was all the fault of atheists.  

Per O’Reilly, “Can you point to one mass murderer who had a religion-based philosophy?” he belligerently asked his Fox guest.  When his therapist guest tried to answer that spiritual belief is not really a guarantor against mental illness, O’Reilly blurted out, “Stop talking when I’m talking.”

Just another classic O’Reilly on-the-air response.

“Every single murderer has been either atheistic or non-religious,” he spewed. “The secular society does not value life. Just look at their support for Planned Parenthood.”

Oh, Bill is good.  He was also able to insert the anti-Planned Parenthood connection.

So Bill, if your hypothesis is correct, what about that so called Christian organization, the KKK?

You can always count on O’Reilly to both entertain, and raise your blood pressure.

 

 

Then there are the words that came out of Dr. Ben Carson’s mouth that made absolutely no sense.

Now, historically, there should be no surprise that Dr. Carson gave a speech that made somewhere between little and no sense.

The good doctor talked about troublemakers (meaning Democrats) who keep saying Republicans are waging a “war on women”.

"They tell you that there’s a war on women," said Carson.  "There is no war on women. There may be a war on what’s inside of women, but there is no war on women in this country."

Huh? Just what the hell does that mean?  What part of a women’s insides is there a war on?  Is he saying that there is a war on women’s uteruses?  If that’s what he means, then how does one make laws about women’s uteruses that are separate from laws about women?

But then, babies do come from the insides of women. Is he saying there is a war on babies?

As usual, Carson managed not to make any sense on some other topics as well.  It’s that “free-range” mind of his.  

Dr. Carson talked about the good ol' days, when immigrants worked 10-12 hours a day and there was no minimum wage.  Apparently to him, that was a good thing.  Before that, he pointed out, “Other immigrants came here involuntarily in the bottom of slave ships.  They worked even longer and even harder for less.”

He said this as if that too was a good thing. You know, slavery was just another interesting part of America’s past.

“But they [the slaves] too had a dream that one day their great grandsons and great granddaughters might pursue freedom and prosperity in this land.”

He apparently doesn’t realize that people can hear him when he is talking?

Then he suggested that a good way to destroy this country would be to invite people here from other nations and give them free phones….?

What’s even more confusing: This guy may not be Donald Trump, but as with “The Donald”, his poll numbers continue to rise….?

I’m just hoping the good doctor ends up being another Herman Cain……………

 

Finally, we can’t ignore another GOP surrogate, the evangelist Pat Robertson who has figured out the culprit for last week's crazy stock market activity.

I was not aware that Pat Robertson was such an expert on international stock market volatility.  But unlike Donald Trump, he does not think it’s all China’s fault. No sirree, the blame for the stock market dive early last week is much more worldly.

According to Robertson, God in his infinite wisdom is messing with the stock market to punish wicked Americans for having legalized abortions.

“We will pay dearly as a nation for this thing going on.” By “this thing going on,” he meant the Obama administration’s support for Planned Parenthood and women’s healthcare. “And possibly, if we were to stop all this slaughter the judgment of God might be lifted from us. But it’s coming, ladies and gentlemen. We just had a little taste of it in terms of the financial system, but it’s going to be shaken to its core in the next few months, years, or however long it takes and it will hurt every one of us.”

His final advice seemed to be to pull your money out of the market and place it in the hands of God, who, by-the-way, can be reached by US mail “in-care of Pat Robertson”.

Funny thing…….

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