Re: If nominated, I shall not run, and if elected, I will not serve.....
Author: BOB2
Date: 04-28-2016 - 03:48
I try to assess the verifiable facts that I observe, from the myriad of BS we're often fed, and I try to make some sense of them by deduction and reasonable analysis, based upon actual knowledge or actual experience. That can rile up folks who are predisposed to believe whatever nonsense they've heard, been fed, or wish were true. So, in today's politics, that probably makes me clearly unqualified to run for office.
Now, if I just learned how to invoke and pander to folks insecurities and unreasoning fears with lies, learned to promote useless simplistic "focus group tested" solutions to our complex problems, learned how to properly spew bombastic emotional rhetoric to rubes, collected millions in campaign "bribes" (or had a personal fortune to spend), and had an enormous insecure ego which needed to be fed, then I might clearly be considered a "viable" candidate, by today's standards......