[lbo-talk] Top Republican says Palin unready

sawicky at verizon.net sawicky at verizon.net
Fri Sep 19 07:42:36 PDT 2008


I remember that passage, being struck by its insight.

That's why Hillary might have been a better candidate than Obama.

HLM himself was not much better, however, at weighing policy issues

than the voters he disparages.


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> "When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face
> men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is
> the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of
> comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking
> is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of
> what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either
> bark with the pack or be lost. [...] All the odds are on the man who
> is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can
> most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum.
> The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men." - HL Mencken
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