The Hill’s Bernie Quigley says we should be thrilled with our political choices: “Three of the Republican candidates for president, Mitt Romney, Rick Perry and Jon Huntsman, are of the highest caliber, on a level we have barely seen in the post-war period.”
But the people are too stupid to see this. In fact, he says, political decentralization — in other words, a push to take powers away from our would-be highest-caliber presidents — is gaining steam among the people:
There are now dozens of states’-rights and sovereignty movements across the continent. And the so-called “Occupy” movement resembles the Pirandello play in which the actors are in search of an author.
They could very well find them in authors like Thomas Woods, or at Judge Andrew Napolitano’s Freedom Watch or at the 10th Amendment Center, a Petri dish for brilliant new constitutional thinking. And if the grown-ups don’t get it right this time, they may find no other options.
Three men who adopt pretty much every predictable position under the sun, who supported arguably the most unjust war in U.S. history (which is saying something), and who have all made threats against countries that have not harmed the U.S., are supposed to satisfy us. You are not supposed to listen to people who deviate from the respectable Huntsman/Romney spectrum. Those are crazy people, by definition. They’re so crazy we don’t even need to bother refuting them.
This Saturday in Jacksonville, Florida, I’ll be talking about precisely this, so Quigley’s timing, at least, is good.
11:51 am on October 20, 2011
