This could be America's future if the Teabaggers get their way.

Comic courtesy of The Week.

I don't know WHY, but it seems the most conservative wing of the Republican party are driven to put the most ignorant, ill prepared person possible into the White House. Essentially acting as if the Bush administration never happened.

As Paul Begala points out, in order to have a chance at the nomination you must pretend to be dumber than dirt:

This is a populist moment in America, and the GOP has traditionally been the party of elites. So how does a party sell economic elitism to a populist electorate? By wrapping it in populist anti-intellectualism. Let’s teach those Harvard pointy-heads a lesson: cut taxes for billionaires! I know it doesn’t track logically, but this isn’t about logic. It’s about emotion and scapegoating and finger-pointing. 

And so even the smart Republicans—and I do believe most of the candidates in the GOP presidential field are intelligent—have to at least play dumb. Mitt Romney, for example, has to pretend he doesn’t know what’s causing global warming. A few weeks ago he told an audience in Pittsburgh, “My view is that we don’t know what’s causing climate change on this planet.” Hard to believe, because as recently as June of this year he said, “I believe, based on what I read, that the world is getting warmer. And No. 2, I believe that humans contribute to that.” Romney’s new-and-not-improved position is a shameless pander to the know-nothings.

So apparently the fast track to the nomination is denying your intellect and educational background, or perhaps taking the shortcut of receiving a devastating blow to the head.

Or perhaps a third choice is to just be born Rick Perry.

And people wonder why I support this President.