Hail to the Chief

Last week Mitt Romney announced that he's not going to run for President.

I'm not either.

Many people believe that you have to be a little bit crazy to want to be President of the United States.

However, there are a number of people who have run who were actually insane!

I came upon an article by a writer named Adam Todd Brown who listed some of them:

JOHN HAGELIN,   1992 Natural Law Party nominee


Hagelin was actually a doctor. He claimed to have the problem of terrorism figured out.
He said the solution was... Transcendental meditation.
If elected, he would have a group of people get together in one room and Think real hard....
Voila, problem solved!

Brown's article went on to name JACK SHEPARD, a candidate for the Republican Nomination
in 2008.

Not many people knew he was running, since all of his political activities were conducted from Rome, Italy because he was also running from the law. 25 years ago he was accused of arson for burning down his house.

Brown writes that Shepard hoped to become President so that he could pardon himself.



LEE MERCER JR. was a 2008 Democratic Candidate.

According to  Brown, what surprised him most about Mercer's campaign was that 

 "...someone actually got Lee Mercer Jr. to take a long enough break from being absolutely out-of-his-gourd insane to stop and pose for a picture.   

This is what Mercer's official  biography said:
 

"Since my high school graduation in 1969, I developed myself to my own academic interest to be a Collegiate Professional."

"On August 22, 1992, The State of Texas installed an intelligence hotwire in me at the United States Army Military Intelligence Academy Camp Bullis San Antonio, Texas."

"As a part of my continuing eduaction, I am making my presidential campaign part of my ROTC Intelligence Academics to record the learnings, doings, and examples of the United States Government as a government consultant, community developer, and financial planner appointed by the United States Federal Congress to record my biography in the United States Government Presidential Election for 2008 from Electronic Surveillance to develop records on the United States Government Presidential Campaign because I am on an academic intelligence hotwire that can not be unhooked by anyone."

And, I think we all remember CYNTHIA McKINNEY who was the 2008 Green Party Nominee.

She was  actually a member of Congress until 2006 and is remembered for her efforts to pass a bill to release the government's secret records on Tupac Shakur. And who can forget her physical assaults on the Capitol Police for not recognizing her and making her show a  pass to enter the Capitol.

And then there's  LYNDON LAROUCHE who ran at least 8 times.  It was hard to follow what he believed...whether the The Holocaust didn't happen...or if it did, it wasn't so bad and besides, the Jewish-British cabal is at the heart of the world's problems,etc., etc....
He was Bat Guano crazy, but a surprising number of otherwise sane people fell under his spell.

I'll never forget the story I read about the woman, whose husband was a fanatic as far as "scrimping and saving" was concerned. In spite of having plenty of money, he was obsessed with spending as little as possible, using only enough electricity in the home to keep from freezing in the winter, never going out to eat, insisting on the family buying second hand clothes, etc.

When he finally passed away, she gave all the money he had accumulated..from his lifetime of penury to Lyndon LaRouche!

The fact that these loony tunes received any votes at all, and they all did, plus the realization that our current Congress already contains a number of members just as corrupt and wacko doodle as the wanna be's in this article, confirms my belief that the problem is not those unhinged space cadets, but the people who elected them.

By the way, when was the last time you heard the once common expression, "The Wisdom of the American People?"

-Ed