The Political Creature
This entry was posted on 1/24/2012 1:17 PM and is filed under Politics, Books.
In Mary Shelley's classic story, Frankenstein, the mad doctor doesn't get to pick and choose the pieces of cadavers that he puts together to form his creature; he takes what he can get, brings the thing to life and is so horrified by what he's done that he runs off, abandoning the creature to it's fate, which turns out to be tracking the doctor down and destroying his life and his family.
It's the quintessential horror story, centering around child abandonment and the responsibility of fathers.
I've thought for years that this story needs to be updated and told for modern ears.
A new twist on the story presented itself to me this morning, listening to Mark Steyn talk about the four remaining contenders for the GOP presidential nomination.
The field has been narrowed down to Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul.
I would love to be able to create a Conservative Creature made from Romney's business experience with Gingrich's ability to articulate conservatism, Santorum's pro life stand and Paul's ideas to cut the size and power of the federal government by abolishing three fourths of the cabinet agencies and getting spending under control.
But all four of the guys still standing also have aspects to them that I find extremely troubling.
Here's a horror story; what if you wound up with a candidate that had Romney's health care system, Santorum's extreme youth and inexperience, Paul's lunatic foreign policy and Gingrich's God complex?
You'd have Barack Hussein Obama.
Scared yet?
