Candidate Update

This truly is the silly season of politics. This is when the idiots run wild offering nonsense as "policy," pandering like mad, and spouting moronic statements which get the fringe all giddy. Here is an update on the candidates.

●Bernie Sanders: Sanders doesn't so much put his foot in his mouth as his entire ideology is idiocy. He keeps making all kinds of spending promises and he's now up to $1.8 trillion A YEAR in new spending... increasing the budget by 46%. That works out to $12,000 a year in new taxes for every taxpayer. I hope you didn't have plans for that money.

●Trump: You could write books on the stupidity that spews from Trump's mouth. He's doing it intentionally because it entertains his supporters. He's now whining that his latest poor showing at the debates was the result of CNN trying to help his opponents, just like Fox News did. Oh, and Carly Fiorina is a poo poo head! In any event, his latest "policy" pronouncement is that he's going to end "birthright citizenship," which is legally impossible, and he's going to deport all 11 million illegals within two years... which is physically impossible and will require a police state that makes Nazi Germany look like Canada. Oh wait, Obama's a Muslim! /wink wink Look, shiny!

●Ben Carson: Carson says that being Muslim is inconsistent with the Constitution and therefore we should never have a Muslim president. Of course, that's ridiculous. The Constitution forbids the Federal Government from picking a national religion. That means, the Feds can't tell you what you need to believe, nor can it punish you for believing whatever religion you want. In other words, there is no such thing as a religion being inconsistent with the Constitution so long as it obeys the law. As an aside, the same reasoning Carson uses against Muslims applies in spades to Christian fundamentalists like himself.

●Hillary Clinton: "I am a real person!" This is Hillary's latest attempt to prove that she's not a dried up, unlikable automaton. Usually, when you reach the point of needing to prove that, you're pretty much done. Between proving her personhood, dodging email questions that seem to be leading toward criminal charges, insulting rape victims (and spewing way out of date rhetoric), hosting empty receptions, getting into trouble with reporters, and generally imploding, Hillary hasn't really said much related to policy. She wants to spend some money on the things Bernie likes, like making student loans cheaper... or just more plentiful, but her main policy seems to be attacking Trump. She also made some confused noises about Syria which got the left upset that she's possibly a war monger.

●Carly Fiorina: Seems to be trying to sway social conservatives by attacking the GOP for not destroying Planned Parenthood after the videos... even though they've been obsessed with it.

●Bush 3: Bush continues to hide under a blanket. Last week he suggested tax cuts for corporations, which isn't something the increasingly populist public wants to hear, but no one was listening anyway.

●The Others: None of these guys even made the news.