" Run, Forrest, Run....For Office....."

Today's words of insightful political perspective come from a character much beloved by many.

Forrest Gump.

Greenbow, Alabama's favorite son will favor us with a phrase momentarily.

Meanwhile....

New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie defended his decision to nominate a Muslim judge to the state Superior Court against conservative critics who warned that the new judge will implement Sharia law. The notoriously blunt-spoken Christie calling their fears "crap" and "crazy."

The appointee, Sohail Mohammed, is an American attorney who offered legal aid to New Jersey residents who were suspected after the 9/11 terrorist attacks but were later found innocent of any crimes.

Opponents of Mohammed's nomination have issued warnings, with no evidence, that Christie's nominee, if approved, would base his rulings on Islamic law. Christie was having none of it.

"Sharia law has nothing to do with this at all. It's crazy. It's crazy," Christie said at a press conference Wednesday. "The guy's an American citizen who has been an admitted lawyer to practice in the state of New Jersey, swearing an oath to uphold the laws of New Jersey, the constitution of the state of New Jersey, and the Constitution of the United States of America . . . .This Sharia law business is crap. It's just crazy. And I'm tired of dealing with the crazies."



First, you have to be impressed with any politician who calls himself a Republican and manages to find the center line of common sense in any given situation.

Second, no reasonably intelligent person (and, admittedly, there's a categorization that's going to cut a wide swath of elimination through the masses) can possibly believe that our judicial system could be infiltrated and/or upended to the extent that we would wake up one day to find ourselves finding "In Allah We Trust" being printed on crisp, new, albeit not so much worth a dollar, dollar bills.

This kind of ignorance and/or pandering to ignorance (the former usually exhibited by those who were raised in that kind of climate, the latter usually exhibited by those soliciting the votes of the former) is the kind of acid that viciously corrodes the struts and beams of the bridges that we try to build between our more reasonable differences and, while inevitably failing to prevent cooler heads to prevail, delays the process of getting us where we all deserve to be as human beings and citizens of the free world.

That's the verbose version of it.

Here are two more basic takes.

Chris Christie.

"....this Sharia law business is crap. It's just crazy..."

And Forrest Gump.

"...stupid is as stupid does..."

"...and that's all I(we)have to say about that..."

Honest to Allah.