Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- In movies like “Mr. Smith Goes to
Washington” and “Dave,” a simple man upstages the career
politicians who run Washington.
From the start of this campaign season, Republicans have
been refashioning this pleasing myth and taking it to alarming
extremes, rallying around a series of dead-end kids whose
candidacies, they hope, will expose the stupidity of the grown-ups who sent the country into a tailspin. Exhibits A through E:
Sarah Palin, Donald Trump, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry and
Herman Cain.
