GOP Voters Could Benefit from Reality TV

Yes, if Jon Huntsman would just have a good old fashioned fist pumping time with The Situation and Vinny he could certainly firm up the tri states vote and maybe if Newt would be in an episode of Wife Swap...okay let's not go there.

For what seems like the past decade, the GOP's 2012 Presidential Candidates have been going from stump to promising only the most grandiose promises imaginable as long of course as it fits within the poll tested language that their campaigns have researched. The problem is that the average GOP primary voter doesn't seem to realize that there are 3, count them, 3 branches of government, all with their own degree of power.

So when Ron Paul and Rick Perry say they will shut down entire departments (Commerce, the EPA and ummm I can't remember the 3rd one) the next sentence out of their mouths really should be how they expect to do this without a 60 vote majority in the Senate (assuming the reasonable assumption that the GOP will also keep the House).

Of course when this type of poll tested rhetoric is regurgitated at rallys, it is met with raucous applause and merriment (when booze is served) because it has was developed by poll testing!

I don't blame the candidates though. As I watched just part of the Fox News Forum 2 with Mike Huckabee, it was obvious that candidates Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, having had many years in government, KNOW the realities of working in government as shown in their candid answers from pretty tough questions from the South Carolina audience. The reason that these and other candidates are so quick to fall back into their improbable talking points is because it is what the GOP primary voters WANT to hear. And WANTING to hear something is very different from NEEDING to hear something.

We already know American's love watching Reality TV, maybe the GOP can gin up some programming of their own.