Groucho Marx was right
Listened to Laura Ingraham this morning while I was running a couple of errands, mainly because the Diane Rehm show had something to do with birdwatching, which I couldn't possibly care less about.
First, I'll say this: Ingraham is inarguably the only conservative talk radio host that I can listen to without wanting to get physically ill or irrationally violent. I don't usually agree with what she says, but she's not as dogmatic as Rush Limbaugh, vile and loathsome as Howie Carr or just plain stupid as Sean Hannity.
Anyway, she made a point today about how a recent Gallup poll shows moderate Republicans leaning more towards McCain than was thought previously; some say the Dems are pinning their hopes on winning this November by attracting those folks, particularly in swing states, to Obama instead of McCain.
Ingraham posits that the new momentum towards McCain is the result of McCain and the Republicans appealing to core values that still play big in the Midwest, and one of the things she identified was reform of our horrible public school systems.
Pardon me, but haven't our public school systems suffered even more under the past eight years of Republican administration with boondoggles like "No Child Left Behind?" Not to mention Congress' complete inability to deliver billions in funding they've promised to schools. The Dems can share some of the blame there.
The longer I live, the more wisdom I see in Groucho Marx's comment as applied to politics: "I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member."