The Conservative Fool Of The Day is...Lesil McGuire!

Another recipient of the Gary Nodler Award, perhaps? Like Nodler, Alaska State Sen. Lesil McGuire is another Republican politician who doesn't know how to act right when they go out in this big, nasty world.

McGuire is a conservative who is the wife of former State Rep. Tom Anderson, who is in federal prison on corruption charges. McGuire was first elected to the Alaska Senate in 2006 after 3 terms in the state House.

Early this month, McGuire, 37, started a ruckus on an Alaska Airlines flight like a big baby. The powerful legislator had to be questioned by police when the flight landed.

During the flight, an apparently drunk McGuire kept using her pager to send text messages, even though there's an Allowed Cloud against it. The Tom Ridges of the world get so mad when people listen to radios on flights (because they want people to pay to listen to the airline's music system instead), even though radio receivers don't transmit. But when some GOP big shot uses a pager, which transmits and may interfere with the flight controls, the GOP calls it "art."

McGuire was asked repeatedly to shut her pager off. She refused, which forced the pilot to stop the plane while it was taxiing.

When flight attendants refused to serve McGuire alcohol, she became angry and deliberately poured a glass of water on the floor. She used profanity, insulted the pilots, and delayed the flight more by getting out of her seat.

There were numerous witnesses to McGuire's batshit, belligerent behavior. One attendant said McGuire was the rudest passenger she had ever met.

Everyone knows damn well that if you or I had done anything even close to this, we'd be rotting in jail now. But not Lesil McGuire. She's a Republican lawmaker, so she's special and privileged and all.

But McGuire says she was targeted because of a big, mean conspiracy against her.

Why are so many GOP politicians such spoiled crybabies?

(Source: http://www.adn.com/politics/story/528486.html)