Nevada Governor Gibbons “Fool Of The Week”

It has been a week for idiocy in politics. Usually, it is easy to choose the “Fool of the Week,” but this week is filled with them.

There is Virginia Delegate Robert Marshall who claimed that God was seeking vengeance on women who have abortions with the curse of birth defects on later children.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Columbian President Alvaro Uribe engaged in a shouting match of obscenities and insults.

San Francisco Supervisor Chris Daly said the safety of inmates was more important than that of police and firefighters.

British politician Nigel Farage called the President of the European Council a “low-grade bank clerk” among other things.

Greek Deputy Prime Minister Theodoros Pangalos blamed that country’s woes on the Nazi’s looting it 55 years ago.

There is the South Dakota Legislature that voted to teach astrology as an explanation to global warming.

Arizona Congressman Trent Franks suggested that African-Americans were better of under slavery.

In the end, Foolocracy choose a political figure who once figured prominently in posts, but has been relatively absent the last year – Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons.

For his outright arrogance and serial lying, Gibbons is this week’s “Fool of the Week.”

Gibbons, in a drawn out divorce with his wife, has been accused of infidelity but claims that he has not had sex in 15 years – not just with his wife, but any woman. When a television reporter caught him and an often-linked woman returning from the same flight from Washington, D.C., Gibbons flat out denied that he went with her, or that she was even in the same airport. She ended up getting in his state-paid SUV for a ride back to her house. A few days later the Governor apologized for his “ambiguity” in answering the reporter’s questions. Ambiguity like the word “no” when answering if he traveled with someone.

That Foolocracy story is linked here.

The amazing thing is that Gibbons now leads in the polls for his primary nomination. Only in Nevada.