Republicans Rick Perry, Jeb Bush, and Scott Walker. (photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty, Kevork Djansezian/Getty, Darren Hauck/Getty)
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the hopes of appealing to Republican primary voters, candidates for the
2016 Presidential nomination are working around the clock to unlearn
everything that they have learned since the third grade, aides to the
candidates have confirmed.
With the Iowa caucuses less than a year away, the
hopefuls are busy scrubbing their brains of basic facts of math,
science, and geography in an attempt to resemble the semi-sentient
beings that Republican primary voters prize.
An aide to Jeb Bush acknowledged that, for the former Florida governor, “The unlearning curve has been daunting.”
“The biggest strike against Jeb is that he graduated
from college Phi Beta Kappa,” the aide said. “It’s going to take a lot
of work to get his brain back to its factory settings.”
At the campaign of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker,
the mood was considerably more upbeat, as aides indicated that Walker’s
ironclad façade of ignorance is being polished to a high sheen.
“The fact that Scott instinctively says that he
doesn’t know the answers to even the easiest questions gives him an
enormous leg up,” an aide said.
But while some G.O.P. candidates are pulling
all-nighters to rid themselves of knowledge acquired when they were
eight, the campaign of Rick Perry, the former governor of Texas, is
exuding a quiet confidence.
“I don’t want to sound too cocky about Rick,” said one Perry aide. “But what little he knows, he’s shown he can forget.”
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