Judgement Call

There are times in life when even the kindest among us get flustered and frustrated.

As one of our staff can attest to, several nights filled with lack of sleep and a baby who is teething can do that to a person on occasion. This time, though, the frustration has nothing to do with uncontrollable physical conditions like illness, arthritis, or infant issues.

Nebraska's Governor Dave Heineman is the one who brought the frustrating issue to light earlier this week when he gave an interview to the left-leaning Nebraska political blog, NebraskaWatchdog.org.

To say the governor displayed poor judgement in his comments to the bloggers at Nebraska Watchdog would be like saying that a controversial former half-term governor, who quit her job to be a talking head on TV after not even serving a full half term, is completely unqualified to be the President of the United States.

As you know, we prefer to deal in facts here at the Daily Felltoon - and the fact is, a majority of the American people simply don't agree with the governor of Nebraska.

Nate Silver and his team at FiveThirtyEight.com can prove that, as they did some statistical comparisons a week and a half ago, looking at the potential presidential field of candidates for 2012.

Nate's team found that, overwhelmingly, a certain former Vice-Presidential candidate had higher negative net favorability levels than any other potential candidate for either party. She was the only one with an unfavorable rating above 50% - meaning that over half of the people in America don't approve of her, regardless of their political affiliation.

We're not saying the governor of Nebraska may not have his own opinions of that highly divisive and generally disliked former beauty pageant contestant and former sports broadcaster that we refuse to name. Governor Heineman has the right to his opinion, like any other American, idiot or otherwise.

We just think that when a governor says he believes that someone is "absolutely" qualified to be President, who is quite obviously NOT qualified for that position, it calls into question his judgement on other issues.

At least right now, he isn't the only governor in America who appears to have questionable judgement.