The Candidates: cheap entertainment

The Cain Train is derailing again as yet another woman steps forward to proclaim having had a 13 year affair with married-man Herman Cain.  This news can’t go over too well with the base.  However, most are keeping a stiff upper lip. 

Most people can get by with an indiscretion or two if and only if they haven’t bashed others over their marriage behavior.  Cain has been a basher so he will have a harder time overcoming the long string of women who have voiced some form of impropriety. 

Poor Rick Perry misspoke and said the voting age was 21.  Give the guy a break.  He misspoke.  Picking at Perry over misstating the voting age is petty.  His gaffe was small potatoes and very forgiveable.  Perhaps the voting age should be 21. 

Meanwhile, Newt equivocates and says he wasn’t a lobbyist because he didn’t need the money.  He charged $60,000 a speech. Does this offend anyone?  Mr. Sell a Speech.  Make no mistake.  Newt is an insider.  Newt makes more per half hour than a truck driver in South Carolina makes in a year.  Twice as much as a matter of fact.  He makes  $20,000more  in that half hour than a registered nurse or elementary teacher makes in a year.   There is just something wrong with his arrogance.

 

Palin and Gingrich Begin the Ben Bashing

Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich have both turned their sites onto to Federal Reserve and its leader, Ben Bernanke.  Both Palin and Gingrich have started taking their shots via Twitter.  The 2012 Wannabes are expected to follow suit.   Attacks on The Fed, before September 2008, were pretty much confined to the gold bugs, conspiracy theorists, and the financial press.

Post election 2010 much has changed.  According to the Huffington Post:

The tea party itself — judging from its 10-point “Contract From America,” at least — did not make the Fed a top concern; they were focused on spending issues.

But the tea party tide also swept in numerous libertarian hard-money types and fellow travelers, a cadre soon to grow. They hate the very idea of the Fed, not to mention Bernanke’s activism in running the place.

Hopefully Benanke will put on earplugs and blinders and do what he has to do.  The Fed is an independent agency.  Bernanke  is appointed.   He will not run for election or re-election.  And meanwhile,  Sarah Palin, the eternally ill-informed candidate who should not have run,  continues to be mean as a snake.  Maybe she will put a sock in it.  I can’t imagine anyone whose advice I would be less likely to take.   Palin witch hunts just about everything.  She Ben Bashes but offers nothing positive.