Question: Why do Republicans ELECT CELEBRITIES while

[zbdent]

screaming about the "liberal" celebrities who aren't running for office?

[bowens43]

1. because they're freaking hypocrites

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. You got it

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[TwilightZone]

13. That pretty much sums it up.

n/t

[tk2kewl]

3. They have become masters of outrage

and it works for them. and corporate media facilitates them. produce shows that push the envelope of social acceptability and then vilify themselves on "news" programs blaming the "liberal elite". Then deregulate and allow their supporters to further consolidate media holdings to perpetuate the cycle.

...and joe six pack lets himself be bamboozled, dumbass.

[Cats Against Frist]

16. Yeah, I think that's the real reason

More than they're hypocrites -- they're POWER-MAD hypocrites who use appeals to the emotions of their reactionary supporters as arguments.

[ixion]

4. because IOKIYAR

It's okay if you're a republican.

Just like it's okay for rethugs to take drugs and have affairs. In that case, they're just being manly. But if anyone else does, they're criminals.

Case in point: "Oxy"-Rush Limbaugh.

[coloradodem2005]

8. Yeah.

Though Bernard Kerik and Jack Ryan were both Republicans that went down for their transgressions.

[Yupster]

9. and so did Newt and Livingston

two straight house speakers.

[coloradodem2005]

11. When was Livingston House speaker?

n/t

[MADem]

12. He was tapped for the job, then backed out

...when Larry Flynt was getting ready to go public with some major dirt on him. Hastert was the default.

[TwilightZone]

14. Livingston was an idiot.

He thought that he could take Clinton down with him. He was too stupid to understand that Clinton wasn't going anywhere.

The Republican leadership wouldn't have taken him down for having an affair. He just wanted to play martyr.

[bling bling]

5. I've always laughed about that too.

They claim to hate celebreties but as soon as they find one who's Republican they can't wait to make them their spokesperson or elect him to be their leader.

Talk about a bunch of freaks.

[fryguy]

6. the frothing at their mouths' impairs their ability to think

not to mention they believe whatever other people tell them - hence their insitence on the "liberal" media

[coloradodem2005]

7. Hypocrisy. Plain and simple.

n/t

[jackster]

10. because....

black is white, up is down, evil is good

in this new America!

[Davis_X_Machina]

15. Because they don't actually expect their celebs...

...to govern -- they are intended to be GOP spokesmodels. So, the consequences of electing a real chowderhead celebrity are, in theory, limited, because the government can't or shouldn't do anything.

Democrats, on the other hand, expect people elected to government to actually govern, so the consequences of electing a real chowderhead celebrity are, in theory, possibly dire.

And so, lest a Democratic chowderhead someday potentially elected, you got to tear them downbefore they get established in politics?

That's the best I can think of... It's hard to think their way.

[imenja]

17. because it works for them

They get mileage out of the whole Hollywood elite thing, that's why they do it. Consistency doesn't matter to them anywhere else. Why should it in this case?

[Sir Jeffrey]

18. Actors and celebrities are good on camera and can read a script..

for god's sakes in the first 1984 presidential debate Reagan was so far out of whack that his advisors had to put arrows on the floor to direct him to his podium.

[Senator Lamb]

19. they dont care at all

they frame the debate, they do whatever they want.