I too believe in a meritocracy. DUmmies work hard all year refining and perfecting their DUmbness.
It's not easy sealing yourself off against all reality, ignoring facts, tirelessly campaigning for failed ideas, switching the channels on waiting room TVs and rearranging books at the local bookstore.
In addition, maintaining a state of high pissed-off-ness against the government, capitalism, Christians, conservatives, libertarians, the NRA, pro-lifers, NASCAR, corporations, The Richâ„¢, predator drones, Sarah Palin, all the Palin kids, Wal-Mart, the tortured pig industry, cops, relatives, Hummer drivers, people with flag pins, the Duggars, the Kochs, the Duggar-Koch-prison-industrial-military complex, Thomas Kincade paintings, pro-circumcisionists, race traitor non-Democrat minority members, smokers, fast food consumers, soldiers (except those at OWS encampments), Toby Keith, receipt checkers, schmucks who demand they pay their credit card bills, banks, bankers, bank tellers, bank shots, riverbanks, the Tea Party, tea parties, non-fair trade tea, Chick-fil-A, religious holidays, patriotic holidays, people who say "God bless you", people who say "Have a blessed day", people who pray at football games, people who are happy, Hugo bashers, Fidel bashers, Cubans who no longer live in Cuba, former Vice Presidents who won't die fast enough, the Minutemen, farmers who won't hire illegals, farmers who do hire illegals, Anthony Weiner's weiner, any TV network that doesn't have "Current" in their name, Remember The Troops bumper stickers, remembering the troops at all, the Bush tax cuts, employers who demand you work your way up, employers who demand you come in on time, employers who won't hire you if you have "**** The BFEE" tatooed in visible areas, homeschoolers, charter schools, parochial schools, the Chicago School, the school of hard knocks, vending machines in schools, people who worked their way out of poverty, people who thank veterans for their service, people who thank God for anything, dating web sites that don't allow Gays, Gays that vote Republican, people who insist on using public parks that rightfully belong to OWSies, corporal punishment, not punishing Corporals, men who hold the door for women, men who call women "sweetie", artificial sweeteners, high fructose corn syrup, Leave It To Beaver, insufficient Port-A-Potties, undercounting protesters, counting absentee military ballots, nuclear power, the oil industry, foreign cars, domestic cars, The Star Spangled Banner, Creationism, the idea that wealth can be created, children, people who love their children, people who buy Happy Meals for children, people who have more than 0.5 children, talk radio, houses with flags in the yard, houses with guns in them, houses with affluent people in them, charities, Bible verses on coffee cups, trophy cups, women with D cups, and guys who won't watch Brokeback Mountain and cry, just to name a few, is not easy.
So anyone who can accomplish all that, regardless of whether they have won before, should have a shot at the title.
