Ron goes off on the socialist it girl. Such an easy target.
‘Bout a week ago I made a remark about AO-C’s intelligence, saying that she’s not stupid, just misinformed and ignorant. Reagan said it much better with his “it’s not that they don’t know stuff; it’s just that they know so much ain’t true.”
Not a direct quote, but essentially what he said, talking about liberals, of course. AO-C is very clearly quick-minded and intellectually resourceful, able to grasp a new concept and weave it into whatever tapestry of misguided logic she’s working on.
Her problem is that she tends to grab a fact at random and, like a two-year old learning language, generalize from the core of that isolated datum and apply her assumption to concepts and processes with no relationship at all to it.
From ignorance and inexperience she’s like a toddler who catches onto the rule for pluralizing nouns by adding an “s” and applies it to words where it doesn’t work. The child hears one dog become many just by the “s” sound at the end of the word.
So, generalizing that apparent and simple rule, one man becomes many by just adding “s” to make it “mans” until someone explains the fact that the word is an irregular noun with different rules.
The kid innocently puts what it thinks is a pluralizer on “sheep,” not aware of the fact that the word is both singular AND plural. Same with furniture, or people, or moose. It will also apply the idea of making “mouse” plural by turning it into “mice” and wonder what to do with “moose” . . . meese, as in “geese”? Then one day she’ll get it right.
Last week AO-C made a couple of those malaprop generalizations to laws and procedures. First was her riposte to Don Trump Jr.’s tweetyblurb about why some people don’t like socialism: “they’d rather walk their dogs than eat them.”
Of course the implication of his tweet was that socialism doesn’t work and people often run out of food in socialist regimes and are forced to eat whatever’s available, including pets.
Here’s how she handled that: “I have noticed that Junior here has a habit of posting nonsense about me whenever the Mueller investigation heats up. Please, keep it coming Jr – it’s definitely a ‘very, very large brain’ idea to troll a member of a body that will have subpoena power in a month.”
Dumb thing to say. While it’s true that the HOR as a legislative body has subpoena power, its individual members do not, and to make even vague threats like that runs counter to the House ethics rules. But . . . as a rookie, she doesn’t know that yet.
She also took liberties with the language of the Constitution by saying that if Republicans don’t pass the Equal Rights Amendment, she’ll run for president to “teach them a lesson.”
When challenged on the age restriction of 35 (she’s not even 30 yet), she misquoted the Constitution by saying that the age limitation applies only to men: “. . . the Constitution technically says he cannot run until he’s 35.”
Well, that’s not exactly what it says. Jefferson must have seen that one coming, because the actual passage is No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States thereby neatly sidestepping the issue of gender.
In that regard, she’s very much like The Donald, who tends to let his MAGAmouth overload his Twitter-bird ass, counterpunching by reflex without pausing to consider the consequences. And when he does, his hard-core voter base cheers him on for giving it back in spades to whoever attacked him.
AO-C accomplishes the same thing with her foxpaws, malaprops, and linguistic cacologisms. Her supporters realize that she’s stepped in somethin that don’t smell right, but they don’t care ‘cause it’s neat that she said it and the one she said it to had it comin anyhow.
I’m glad to see a fresh mind uncontaminated with the “that’s how we’ve always done it” for-the-good-of-the-party imperative. It’s long past time to flush out the geriatric crowd who refuses in its anosagnosia (inability to recognize one’s own shortcomings) to see that they’re all well past their “best if used by” date. She’ll learn a whole bunch in the next 40 days, count on it.
And of course it’s time for some new approaches to things, innovative solutions to problems that the Founders couldn’t have imagined, new brooms to sweep out the stale cobwebs and deadwood.
But of course rookie pitchers often serve up dingers and red-shirt quarterbacks throw interceptions, but those Nolan Ryans and Joe Montanas and Goose Gossages and Tom Bradys gotta start somewhere.
AO-C isn’t Fredo . . . not stupid, like everybody says . . . she’s just ignorant, and there’s a difference between not knowing something and not being able to comprehend it in the first place.
Ronnie Raygun, not always 100% accurate himself, got it right where Alexandria of the saucer eyes and beaver teeth is concerned – it’s just that she knows so much stuff that she just hasn’t completely processed yet. She ain’t an Ayn Rand, but she’s no Gracie Allen, either.