Thursday, June 16, 2011

Craziest GOP campaign promise to date?

A long primary season begins in ToonTown.
I'm going to stick my neck out regarding the GOP primary candidates. In a field where you have pizza mogul Herman Cain complaining about President Obama growing up in Kenya and Michele Bachmann...uh...opening her mouth on just about anything, the suggestion that one among them has reached Peak Crazy is risky. But even given the tough Republican competition this election cycle for audacious ignorance and outrageous idiocy, Tim Pawlenty's tax cut proposal is going to be hard to beat. And the insanity aside, he's clearly got a lock in the key GOP category of cynical service to the economic elite: