Hear that moanin’? It’s right-wing intellectuals, a-wishin’ and a-hopin’ that someone other than Rick Perry and Mitt Romney would run for president.*
“I would hope that whoever the Republican candidate is, he or she will not tell us that creationism or intelligent design is the equivalent of evolution — just another theory about the origins of the biological man,” recently whined neo-con big-mouth Charles Krauthammer to Politico. “To put intelligent design on that level is like offering grade-school children a choice between astronomy and astrology.”
If Rick Perry knew the difference between astronomy and astrology, he’d be pissed. Lucky for Charles he doesn’t!
Afterwords
I remain baffled by the neo-con contempt for Mitt Romney. The rap against the guy used to be he couldn’t win, either the Republican nomination or the presidency, but now it looks like he can. Since all the neo-cons really care about is “exceptionalism”—which can be briefly defined as the right and duty of the U.S. to stomp the shit out of anyone who hassles Israel—how can neo-cons get worked up over the fact that Romney is, basically, a Massachusetts Republican? Is Romney going to be less exceptionalistic than Paul Ryan, who as a congressman has been nothing more or less than a Republican spear-carrier? The odds are about a thousand to one that just about any Republican president will follow a relatively tame foreign policy, both because foreign wars are expensive and because Democrats won’t accuse him of being a fairy unless he kills a couple of dozen innocent people every week.
And another thing: Why does a “genuine” conservative—the earnestly, not to say tediously, Catholic Ross Douthat—have the hots for Shariah-lovin’, global warmin’ acknowledgin’ Chris Christie? The Left depresses, the Right amuses. At least that’s something.
*And “someone other than Rick Perry and Mitt Romney” don’t mean you, Sarah. Yeah, we loved you once, but now we’re discarding you like a squeezed-out lemon. Sorry, bitch! Welcome to DC!
