Another baby-faced pundit who probably assumes
his career will skyrocket bec he writes for Politico has produced a
fait accompli by his stunning revelation that Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) is,
perhaps, dumb.
The whispering campaign among us mere
Americans who live outside the Beltway - and thus do not get to liberal
soirees in Wash, DC - is the same as for any other
baby-faced snotnosed kid (oops! I mean senior political reporter) who
considers himself prophetic even though he hasn't lived long enough to know
jack : childlike, gosling and dumber than a bucket of rocks.
Yes, strip away the euphemisms about all his
years and years and years and years of experience as a seasoned reporter of
national politics (I mean, c'mon, check that bio - he's been on the
scene longer than Lady Gaga) and Jonathan Martin is confronted with an
inconvenient truth: He's not just dumber than dumb, he's a joke. In fact, if he
were triplets he'd be The Three Stooges. (And I'll bet he's too dumb to know who
they are - youth notwithstanding.)
People are living longer now and our memories
stretch back far enough in politics to notice the predictable pattern that any
serious presidential contender who is Republican, conservative, religious (or
worse - Christian) first and foremost is disparaged as "dumb."
From Reagan to Palin to Bush to Bachmann to
Quayle, the first order of business among the Jonathan Martins and the
"politicos" of his ilk is to plant a seed in the minds of the American people
that So-and-So has neither the brains nor the gravitas to be leader of the Free
World.
The fact that he thinks no one knows this
tactic of The Left is, well, dumb.
