On the television show This Is Show Business, a youthful Eddie Fisher complained that girls refused to date him because of his age, and he asked playwright George S. Kaufman for advice. Here is Kaufman’s reply:
Mr. Fisher, on Mount Wilson there is a telescope that can magnify the most distant stars up to twenty-four times the magnification of any previous telescope. This remarkable instrument was unsurpassed in the world of astronomy until the construction of the Mount Palomar telescope, an even more remarkable instrument of magnification. Owing to advances and improvements in optical technology, it is capable of magnifying the stars to four times the magnification and resolution of the Mount Wilson telescope.
Mr. Fisher, if you could somehow put the Mount Wilson telescope inside the Mount Palomar telescope, you still wouldn’t be able to detect my interest in your problem.
Remarkably, Mr. Kaufman’s statement precisely encapsulates SLL’s interest in a 2016 election featuring Hillary Clinton and any of the leading Republican candidates.
Assuming you meant “leading” instead of “any”, I have provided below a Fox poll of those Republican candidates who got at least 1%. Would you consider any of the “non-leading” candidates. Your choice to select the cut.
Thursday, May 14 . This is excerpted from RealClearPolitic
2016 Republican Presidential Nomination FOX News Bush 13, Walker 11, Rubio 9, Paul 7, Huckabee 10, Cruz 6, Carson 13, Christie 6, Perry 2, Santorum 2, Kasich 2, Fiorina 1, Jindal 1, Graham ( ??? don’t know what happened to Graham # -NMD)
It appears that nobody in the Republican party will challenge the position that the US can and should intervene anywhere in the world in which it is determined the US has an “interest.” I think this is an insane and ultimately, suicidal policy, so I can’t see myself getting behind any Republican candidate. I thought Rand Paul might stand against the tide, but it appears he has folded. If I vote at all, I’ll punch the chad for whomever is the Libertarian candidate.
Amen