Barley and Politics
November 13th, 2007Paris Hilton should fire her PR people. Unless she really does want to be perceived as an idiot and a skank. Her newest: an attempt to help drunk elephants out of alcoholism.
Sorry to say, Dear Reader, but I don’t have an opinion on drunken elephants. (And yes, I know that her publicist denies that she ever made any comments about binge-drinking elephants but that doesn’t matter in the name of humor.)
Awhile ago, I questioned whether or not Pat Robertson was truly relevant or indicative of the rest of the Republican Right; “does this endorsement mean that the Christian Right would prefer a pro-abortion candidate to a Mormon?” Today, I guess not. They’d prefer a former Senator and bad actor:
The National Right to Life Committee, a key anti-abortion group, endorsed Fred Thompson for president Tuesday, saying the former senator was the best candidate to beat Republican front-runner Rudy Giuliani. Thompson trails Giuliani, a former New York mayor who supports abortion rights, in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, according to most national polls. National Right to Life Executive Director David O’Steen suggested that Giuliani’s lead played a part in the committee’s decision to endorse Thompson.
“We look at the fact that while there are various polls, and some are up and down, the overwhelming consensus has been that he is best positioned to top pro-abortion candidate Rudy Giuliani for the Republican nomination,” O’Steen said, “and also, looking at polls against the likely Democrats, he is well-positioned, and we believe best positioned, to win the presidency of the United States for unborn children.”
This’ll be quite the campaign to watch, won’t it? If you’ve ever wanted to watch snails drag anchors behind them in hopes of winning whatever it is every snail wants to “win.” Can you think of anything? Besides sex?