This post on Tammy Bruce’s blog has been making its way around Twitter. Two Palins, two Allen Wests, one George W. Bush and the last one being President Obama.
One word: So?
What’s the point? Is the point of all this supposed to be Presidential qualifications? Because if that’s what Tammy Bruce is thinking, and she is trying to bias people against the incumbent, then she should insert another quarter and play again. Assume that your test subjects do not know who any of these people are. Ask them which one would they want to have by their side when going down a dark alley at night, and they’ll pick picture number three or four. Ask them who they would want to have with them if they were in the middle of nowhere and half-starving, and they lucked into the recently deceased carcass of a bear, and of course they’ll tell you number one or two.
However, the Presidency isn’t the same question. The President of the United States has the world’s largest stock pile of nuclear weapons at his or her disposal. Ask the same test subjects which one of these people should have control over thousands upon thousands of weapons, each one of which could incinerate a city by itself, and the top vote getter by far will be the wimpy dork in picture number six, and in second will be the average looking upper middle aged looking white man in picture number five. No way in hell most people would trust The Big Red Button to the man in pictures number three and four.
