Right Wing Crack Addicts Trey Radel And Rob Ford Believe They're Above The Law

Right wing slobs Rob Ford and Trey Radel

Manmohan Singh has been Prime Minister of India for a decade. This morning, he announced he would not run again in order to make way for young blood. I understand the feeling and it was certainly the way I felt when I decided to leave Warner Bros. The only way for people to move up is for people at the top to move on. Singh is backing Rahul Gandhi (age 43, son of Rajiv Gandhi) for the job. There is fear in India that the far right has a chance of taking over with neo-fascist bigot Narendra Modi becoming the next Prime Minister. Modi is comparable to Ted Cruz, maybe worse.

You probably read already that delusional Republican Party crack addict Trey Radel, a former Hate Talk Radio host from Fort Myers, Florida, is running for Congress again. It was widely assumed he would have a strong primary challenge, and Florida Governor Rick Scott has asked him to resign, as has the Florida Republican Party. That he'll have a primary is no longer an assumption. With his phony-baloney "rehab" ending just in time for the congressional session starting up again Tuesday, he's already drawn one heavily financed challenger. The so-called Values are Vital PAC has two donors-- Ronald Firman, who ponied up $525,000, and Las Vegas lawyer Martin Burns, who contributed $485,000. They're backing ex-state Rep. Paige Kreegel, who Radel beat in the 2012 primary. Paige is a male. So is Connie Mack, the former congressman from the district who left the job to run a disastrous Senate race against Bill Nelson. Connie Mack will probably run again this year too, in which case he would be the heavy favorite.

Even more bizarre is sometimes snowbird and all-the-time crackhead Rob Ford, another far right kook, this one mayor of Toronto. He filed for reelection Thursday. There are no reports that he was in a drunken and/or coked-up stupor when he showed up at City Hall and filed. Calling himself "the best mayor this city has ever had," he also promised "Ford more years." Progressives are backing MP Olivia Chow. Bizarrely, polling shows Ford with stable approval numbers just north of 40%. (Chow's numbers, though, approach 60%.)

What’s represented in the chart below is the percentage of people who have heard of the individual candidate who would vote for him or her. If all candidates were equally known, this would add up to 100 per cent. However, since name recognition is unequal, and that’s what we’re correcting for, it makes the totals in the below charts are greater than 100.) On November 14 Ipsos released a poll in which they asked people who they would vote for if the election were held tomorrow, and also measured how familiar people were with each candidate. If we run the numbers, we wind up with this: