Regional Whack: Tundra Twinkies and the Rise of the West

No region of the country brings the crazy to US politics like my own Dixieland. Once upon a time, when you heard some pol say something facepalm-worthy, chances were it was delivered in a drawl. But I’ve gotta admit, we may have lost that distinction, perhaps forever.

Twin Tundra Twinkies

Well, Palin and Bachmann: These two toss the crazy like a pair of glue-sniffing wombats in a Jack T. Chick tract factory dumpster. 

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Whether calling for a revolution or exhorting followers to slit their wrists to oppose the slavery of health care reform, these latter day Aimee Semple McPhersons deliver truckloads of frozen insanity on a near-daily basis.

Wacky West

For those of us who never bought into the “McCain as a man of honor” shtick in the first place, McCain’s reversal on immigration reform as he faces an unhinged wingnut challenger during the GOP primary hardly comes as a surprise.

But the hacks who formerly drooled over McCain’s maverickiness must feel like they got knocked upside the head with 18 Peterbilt truck tires on the backswing when they hear him accuse carloads of illegal aliens of deliberately causing accidents on Arizona freeways.

When GWB emptied Rove’s bag of dirty tricks on McCain’s head in 2000 and was rewarded with the presidency, McCain faced a choice: He could denounce the tactic of pandering to the party’s most bigoted, xenophobic, extremist elements, or he could embrace it. He chose poorly.

Oh, and the Arizona House has gone birther. And Sue Lowden, who has a pretty good shot at unseating Harry Reid in Nevada, thinks we can solve the health care mess with chickens:

“I’m telling you that this works. You know, before we all started having health care, in the olden days, our grandparents, they would bring a chicken to the doctor.”

Chicken Sue for the Soul. Now that’s some pharmaceutical-grade crazy.

Posted by Betty Cracker on 04/21/10 at 06:37 AM • Permalink

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