Stupid is as Stupid Does....

I always liked that line from Forrest Gump, but honestly I was not 100% sure I could put its meaning into different words. Kind of like the supreme court in discussing the definition of pornography, it is hard to define, but they know it when they see it. I think we know " stupid is as stupid does" when we see it and rep Todd Akin has put it on full display.

A declaration of a politician's statement as one the dumbest of all time is a big claim, a very steep mountain to climb. Joe Biden and his boss have given us some top ten material in recent months, but even their ridiculously moronic statements like the "private sector is doing fine, we gonna put y'all in chains, and you didn't build that" pale in comparison to the idiocy of Todd Akin stating that women's body can naturally fend off pregnancy in a legitimate rape. Wow! That sets a new bar for stupidity, which is a tall, tall order given the competition. I don't even want to get into what he means by legitimate rape, but let's just say this comment sets a new low in modern political discourse.

Where Akin doubles down on his stupidity, where he really becomes " stupid is as stupid does" incarnate, is his decision to stay in the race for the Missouri senate seat. Really? After that comment which has guaranteed a landslide win for his opponent, the inept and vulnerable Claire McCaskill. But no, Akin has declared that he is "not a quitter". Really? Not a quitter? How about an ego maniacal moron? Akin is going to stay in a race that he has zero chance to win so he can show us all he is not a quitter, just dumb. He will be a drag on the national ticket, although the chances that the democrats overplay this hand is high and getting higher, but not to worry, Todd Akin is no quitter.

I heard a recent interview with Akin where he went into his stump speech about why he is a better choice for Missouri and how his conservative value best represent the values of Missouri residents. Blah, blah, blah. It was pathetic, What's worse is that Akin is oblivious to the reality that no one cares about his stump speech any more. His stump speech, his values, his promises for conservative leadership, none of this matters. His opponent's record doesn't matter any more. All that matters in the outcome of this election is the incredibly stupid statement he made and how rep Akin cannot find the courage to exist the race.

Akin represents all that is bad with our politics. Politics is not about we the citizens. No, politics unfortunately is about the egos and the blind unbridled aspirations of the individual candidates. Politics is about the money the flows to support the inflated and self congratulating individuals who occupy our governments. 

If candidate Akin is too obtuse or too blind to see the massive writing on the wall, then he deserves to lose. In the end the citizens of Missouri lose because they will be stuck with Claire McCaskill for another six years....and we all lose because as Akin has shown, stupid is as stupid does, and we know this when we see it. Well done Todd. Good luck with that race of yours. You should expect Senator McCaskill to send you a big country ham and a nice bottle of wine for Christmas this year, just to say "thanks". The rest of the nation wishes you a lump of coal, for a myriad of reasons.