First he donates a million bucks to the NY Philharmonic. Now it's being reported that Alec Baldwin is toying with the idea of running for Mayor. Hope he does. The Dems need more firebrands - or at least one. Somebody who can verbally bitch-slap Chris Christie into submission. Maybe Rachel Maddow will run for something? She could handle the bellicose fat man from New Jersey. The Dems need these kinds of people. Badly. Ted Kennedy is dead and Anthony Weiner left in humiliation, despite his demonstrably excellent erectile functionalism in a sex-obsessed society. What's left is currently too professorial and badly in need of political EDD supplements. They're too amenable to all the disinformational excrement being produced by the right. It used to be called lying. Now it's called "spin," as the giant rhetorical dung-heap continues to grow.
The Dems need a few good counter-punchers.
It's one thing to "float like a butterfly," it's another to "sting like a bee." Baldwin, could probably do both. He could also dig in his heels and trade punches, which isn't a bad thing either. Not in the political arena. Also looking forward to Elizabeth Warren getting into the mix, if the good people of Massachusetts don't again take temporary leave of their senses and give the senate seat once held by Ted Kennedy back to former nude male model Scott Brown.
I'm reminded of the words of the late, great, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, "It never got weird enough for me." How true. In American politics, fact continues to challenge fiction.
Years ago, I was flying around South Dakota, on the campaign trail with George McGovern in an old DC-3. What a time that was! Remember McGovern? The candidate who in all likelihood really would have gotten us out of Vietnam had we only elected him in 72? I knew the Senator, back in the day, and he really was (and presumably still is) a nice, forthright, decent guy. Possibly because he had nothing left to feel afraid or insecure about, after surviving repeated bombing missions over Europe in World War II. Others of the "Greatest Generation" are (were) like that. McGovern, comes to mind now, because Dr. Thompson theorized that George McGovern, like Jimmy Carter, had a tragic flaw. They were, according to the good doctor, simply too honest for American politics. I'm wondering if Baldwin and Maddow and maybe Elizabeth Warren, might not have the same problem. Hope not. A little honesty can take us a long way. Without it, it's a long way back.
