I have a small confession to make... I like Bill Clinton. I'm not saying that he isn't a liar... I think that's pretty much a settled question. Or maybe I should say that I think "that IS a settled question." Still, if I had to be stuck on a desert Island with either George Bush or Bill Clinton, I think I'd probably choose Bubba. He's certainly a flawed character, but his upbringing is closer to mine than George Bush's and I think we'd have more in common, even if we disagreed about some political issues.
In reality, Clinton was so lacking in political conviction that after about 3 weeks on a desert island with me he'd probably sound more like Bill Buckley than Al Gore. And that's how I prefer my Democrats. Wildly ambitions like everyone in government, but more interested in success than making a point.
Leftist ideologues are too preachy, condescending, and detached from reality to be any fun; which is probably why they do so poorly on talk radio. No one enjoys being talked down to, but even if you can get past that, they all end up sounding kind of crazy... like Nancy Pelosi. The more she opens her mouth the less seriously you can take her. Remember when she accused the CIA of lying to her even though there was plenty of documented evidence that it wasn't so? That went so badly that she had to run away to China to avoid the press. They gave her every pass they could on the issue and she still managed to look 'bat guano' crazy.
Charlie Rangel is another story. He's an old school Congressman. He seems to be thoroughly corrupt of course, as any 40 year congressmen typically does. But he's more like Bill Clinton than Nancy Pelosi. He comes from Harlem where people will steal or sell your mother if there is enough in it for them, while Pelosi is from San Francisco... the land of fruits and nuts. Rangel is almost certainly going down now, but he's doing it in a more traditional non-partisan way... in handcuffs. and in the meantime, bat guano Nancy Pelosi is going to get to stay. Go figure.
My favorite sign from the DC tea party was the one that showed a picture of Pelosi and underneath it said "Time To Put Nana In A Home". If we could get rid of the ideologues on the left I'd learn to live with a whole congress full of Charlie Rangels and Bill Clintons. They may be liars and cheats, but at least they can tell the difference between reality and delusion. There is a difference between not being able to tell the truth, and not being able to tell what the truth is. Give me the former any day.
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