The Libs are Losing It

After a two month Mustachio sabbatical, it is time to check up on the progress of Enemies to the Cause around the world.

Catching my attention recently have been two examples of loony lefties run amok.

First, we have the newly-elected President of Bolivia, Evo Morales [pictured left]. I think it's safe to say that in landlocked backwards South American states, professional grooming and dress are not requirements to a politician's successful rise to the top. Apparently brains are not required either, as the depth of Morales' anti-U.S. rants are on an intellectual level that would be expected of a populist South American head of state. Most notably, his views on the coca industry seem to be positively correlated with the quality of his dress:

It's not right that exporting coca is legal for Coca-Cola but not for the rest of us!

Such thoughtful gems get a man elected in a landslide in Bolivia, where the indigenous population is fed up with the big bad U.S. taking away their favorite party drug.*

As Time Magazine puts it:

The Yankee baiting is part of Morales' stated intention to be the U.S.'s "worst nightmare." He flatters himself, given that Bolivia is, after Haiti, the western hemisphere's poorest nation.

The same idiocy reigns in one of the western hemisphere's richest nations as well. In Canada, Stephen Harper, a conservative running for Prime Minister, is being attacked by the Liberal Party in some of the most idiotic ads ever made. A quote from one:

Who paid for Stephen Harper's rise to the head of the party? We do know he's very popular with right-wingers in the U.S. They have money. Maybe they helped?

Slick innuendo coming from the ruling government of Canada, whose largest trading partner is noneother than that damn right wing U.S. They have money. Maybe they help you?

* I am not a rah rah fan of the "War on Drugs" the way it is currently conducted, but unless the Bolivians and other South American coca producers can retort with something beyond bashing American soda pop, I can't feel too bad for them.