Falling Dominoes 0
The latest straw poll winner in the GOP is Herman Cain. From John Baur in my ex-local rag:
They’re blindfolded, so you never know where the pin gets stuck.
How else to explain Saturday’s surprise win of pizza king Herman Cain in Florida’s straw poll?
The event itself was meaningless was a meaningless fundraiser in which voting came with a fee and few persons participated, but it reminded me of Dick Polman’s column on teabag litmus tests last week:
“If you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they’ve been brought there by no fault of their own, I don’t think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because (otherwise) they will become a drag on our society.”
Two problems for Perry: (1) The tea-partying Floridians want to kick out the illegals, not educate them; as one straw-poller told Politico last night, “If they’re illegal, they need to get the hell out of America.” And (2), the kick-’em-out folks resented being told that they are heartless.
Litmus paper, in case you may have forgotten because of the adoption of that term by political reporters, is used for quick and dirty pH tests.
Litmus tests reveal that the Repubican base is acidly corrosive.
