I Missed His "The West Wing" Show, But I Never Realized Aaron Sorkin Is A Complete Clown

I'd Rather Lose With Biden Than Lose Worse With Romney

Writing about an episode from the West Wing series, Aaron Sorkin, it’s creator, noted that “if, as a result of Bartlet revealing his illness, polling showed him losing to his likely opponent [and] if that opponent, rather than being simply unexceptional, had been a dump truck of ignorance and bad intentions [and] had been a dangerous imbecile with an observable psychiatric disorder who related to his supporters on a fourth-grade level and treated the law as something for suckers and poor people and was a hero to white supremacists, we’d have had Bartlet drop out of the race and endorse whoever had the best chance of beating the guy.” 

That sounds rational… for about 5-6 seconds. Sorkin thinks the Democrats should dump Biden and nominate Romney. “Does Romney support abortion rights? No. Does he want to aggressively raise the minimum wage, bolster public education, strengthen unions, expand transgender rights and enact progressive tax reform? Probably not. But is he a cartoon thug who did nothing but watch TV while the mob he assembled beat and used Tasers on police officers? No. The choice is between Donald Trump and not-Trump, and the not-Trump candidate needs only one qualification: to win enough votes from a cross section of Americans to close off the former president’s Electoral College path back to power.” Would you vote for Romney? Clearly Sorkin, a very wealthy white male, would.

Once Robert Farley concluded this wasn’t a joke, he wrote that “As frivolous and absurd as this is, I do think it’s symptomatic of the degeneration of politics into entertainment. Aaron Sorkin thinks about politics as a form of dramatic entertainment, which is fine for somebody who is in the business of creating dramatic entertainment, but not fine for somebody who is in the business of politics. Nominating Mitt Romney would, if we take this idea seriously for the nanosecond that it doesn’t warrant, would destroy Democratic voter turnout and hand the Republicans massive majorities in both houses of Congress. It’s an incredibly irresponsible and stupid idea, and it’s extremely irresponsible for the Newspaper of Record’s editorial page, which is on the record as seeing Donald Trump’s re-election as an existential threat, to broadcast it to the world. And treating it as oh come on it’s just kidding on the square don’t be so serious is even worse. I do think it’s worth noting the casual sexism here. Liz Cheney is a hardcore lifelong Republican who is both a prominent figure in national politics and has anti-Trump credentials that are approximately 10,000 times more impressive and authentic than Mitt I Tried Hard to Be Trump’s Secretary of State Romney. What could possibly explain the fact that Sorkin seems to have overlooked this when half baking his idea?”