BK: It was O'Donnell who asked why monkeys weren't "still evolving" into humans. She said this on Maher's old show, "Politically Incorrect". She also said that evolution is a myth.

This demonstrates to me that, not only does she not know what she's talking about (that's bad enough but can be dealt with), but that she proceeds from those ignorant assumptions.

First and foremost, evolution doesn't say we "descended from monkeys". What it says is that chimps, apes and humans HAD A COMMON ANCESTER millions of years ago. In other words, one fork of evolution produced chimpanzees and another fork produced humans.

Secondly, evolution is not a "myth". At *worst* you could call it a theory that has not been disproven but is not iron-clad because there are holes in the fossil record but SO FAR, everything in the fossil record follows along with what evolution describes. In addition she's out of touch with how long evolution takes (thinking that we should be able to see monkeys evolving before our eyes).

Now, to go any further down that subject (evolution) is a debate for another thread.

More on-topic is how candidates like them win their primaries in the first place. It just seems to me that there were a lot more "loonies" in the major parties this year than in years past. I mean, you could always find loonies in the minor, 3rd party and fringe parties. But now?

- O'Donnell, well documented.
- New York had a guy sending bestiality pictures in emails and saying "well, that's the construction biz".
- Rand Paul, an eye doctor certified by a board that HE STARTED (not the board that's been around for 100 years)
- In South Carolina a guy who didn't campaign but won the Democratic primary even though he was under indictment for stalking, could barely form whole sentences and appeared to live in his father's basement.

No, Republicans didn't have a monopoly on crazy candidates.

I'm of the mind that the gauntlet that the press and everyone else puts people through has so thoroughly discouraged good people from running that THESE are the kinds of people we get.