Brian Schweitzer: southerners like Eric Cantor set off my gaydar

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Glad to finally see there's one politician who says what's on his mind. The rest are too busy saying things that sound important, or otherwise pandering to voters. Regardless of whether he runs or not, it seems he doesn't give a damn. I'd like to be a politician like him someday, if only I could be so blessed.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Glad to finally see there's one politician who says what's on his mind. The rest are too busy saying things that sound important, or otherwise pandering to voters. Regardless of whether he runs or not, it seems he doesn't give a damn. I'd like to be a politician like him someday, if only I could be so blessed.

I agree in principle, but I have become much more political than I used to be and thus worship at the altar of victory instead of philosophy now .

It pains me to think that if I ever were a public figure, I'd have to censor my thoughts on social media. I'd like to think I'd somehow be able to retain my freedom of speech while disregarding the public and acquiring victory. After all, if you follow a politician via social networking, they always post pointless links that no real person cares about, or feel good messages that no one wants to read. The voters need much more than that cold, inhuman interaction with our leaders. They should be able to check their phones and find out that Obama just ate an entire pizza by himself after a long day of "work", or that Romney's been trying to let out silent gas all day due to some badly timed consumption of spicy food the night before.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Glad to finally see there's one politician who says what's on his mind. The rest are too busy saying things that sound important, or otherwise pandering to voters. Regardless of whether he runs or not, it seems he doesn't give a damn. I'd like to be a politician like him someday, if only I could be so blessed.

I agree in principle, but I have become much more political than I used to be and thus worship at the altar of victory instead of philosophy now .

It pains me to think that if I ever were a public figure, I'd have to censor my thoughts on social media. I'd like to think I'd somehow be able to retain my freedom of speech while disregarding the public and acquiring victory. After all, if you follow a politician via social networking, they always post pointless links that no real person cares about, or feel good messages that no one wants to read. The voters need much more than that cold, inhuman interaction with our leaders. They should be able to check their phones and find out that Obama just ate an entire pizza by himself after a long day of "work", or that Romney's been trying to let out silent gas all day due to some badly timed consumption of spicy food the night before.

These problems can be solved by being elected twice and then going batsh*t in the lame duck term .

The problem is that Americans can't stand to look in the mirror and see how ugly it would be if one of them was elected. As such, we were first led by the elites and the landed aristocracy. As democracy grew, so did the machine of democracy. Even "men of the people" were either rich or had gained heroism in some way. Into the 20th Century, we developed a massive media machine solely for the projection of an image onto candidates. When they claimed to be "one of us", they were still these plastic, air-brushed masks of what one might like to think an American would resemble. There's a deep sickness in this country that we can't even stand to put a real member of the electorate into power.