Not a "Failure to Communicate"

I can't help but think some blogs are getting this story a bit wrong. There definitely is a story here, in that I do tend to believe that Rep. Broun is using taxpayer dollars to help him with his campaigning, and that certainly is a no-no. But even though it is a sincere joy to recount the catalog of craziness that is the public body of Paul Broun's commentary--his failure to communicate to the unconverted is only a perceived failure to the intellectual class of the Liberal Republic of Logickistan. You don't go around disavowing all of your education in front of a mess of disembodied deer heads merely because you are a believer in the crazy--it is because you are signifying belonging. He articulates an anti-science, pro-gun, pro-theocracy point of view very articulately. And by gum, it is working.

No, I don't like this any more than you.  But there are some men you actually can reach by talking the way he does, and those are the people he figures are voting for him. That's the way he wants it--and he gets it.

So there you go.