Some people have asked why I have been so quiet on the blog front about the GOP nomination process we are being subjected to this year. The best answer I have is that I thought it was all a joke. These people want to be the leader of the free world? Seems to me that we would all be better off if the entire lot was removed from the public airwaves. I have never witnessed a political season so rife with idiots in my life. I have lived a long time.
Every election season brings out the most lunatic fringe of a party but they are usually weeded out of the process pretty early. This year the GOP has nothing but idiots. Even as a liberal I recognize that both parties have given us great leaders throughout history. This year the GOP is doing everything it can to prove to the citizens of this nation just how absurd the party has become.
Any reasonable, rational person can see that the GOP has split itself in two, They have the elite, rich, white man club. And the crazy, racist, not very educated, gun toting Tea Party. How these two segments of the party fell into bed together I will never understand. When W. was running for President in 2000 he was quoted as saying, and I have to paraphrase, that the "double wide" crowd really liked him. That is because he spoke their language, butchered English. When John McCain had a moment of stupidity and selected Sarah Palin as his running mate, she brought the crazies out of the woodwork. The Tea Party. Or as some of them would spell it The Tee Pardy.
I am not saying that all Tea Party members are stupid. I am saying that the ones on television are stupid. Anyone who would listen to Sarah Palin about anything except out dated hair styles is stupid. She is their beacon of dumb. When she told the good people of South Carolina to vote for Newt, they did. These are people who think Obama caused the financial crisis in our country, that Obama was born in Africa and insist that he is a Muslim. They don't believe in science, they want creationism taught in public schools. They dislike people of different races and ethnic backgrounds. The Tea Party is the bastard child of the John Birch society and the Klan.
After Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina the GOP list of hopefuls was weeded down to Romney, Gingrich, Paul and Santorum. This is the best of the GOP? I say the Democrats can rest easy and prepare to keep the White house and to retake the House.
Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has a few issues. He is filthy rich. Good for him. He stashes money in the Caymans and Switzerland to avoid paying even more than the 13% tax rate he pays. He thinks in excess of $300,000 isn't, "much money". He is pro and anti health care. He is pro and anti abortion. He is pro and anti gay rights. He is a cardboard cutout of what a president should look like according to some. You know, white and Brooks Brothersish. He is also completely out of touch with the average American. Although he has paid his taxes according to the tax codes as written, he should realize that the average America who carries a heavy tax burden does not understand the unfairness of it all. He doesn't see that. He thinks that people will be trickled on by dismantling companies and firing the workers. It's a corporate practice that feeds greed. Yes, he may have saved the bare bones of some companies but this country needs people working, not the market doing well. The market doing well only means that the rich are getting richer. The average worker is spending their money on taxes, housing, food, transportation and hoping against hope they are not wiped out financially in one layoff, one family illness or one tragedy. The average worker doesn't have significant money to invest. If they have money in the market it is likely company stock that is part of their compensation. They are not jumping on the latest IPO or buying up Dow Jones favorites when they are at a low. Mitt, wake up. Take a walk in the average Americans shoes. And do not put your dog on top of the car.
Presidential hopeful New Gingrich has the past of a loser. He is a mean, vindictive man with an ego even bigger than his head. He is the poster child of revisionist history. As speaker of the house Newt was frothing at the mouth from the beginning. His Contract for America was his manifesto of conservative values. Make the rich richer and let the rest of the population die out. His personal life is the picture of a troubled man. I have been married four times. However, I recognize that I should not be running for public office. I carry my baggage with a mixture of humor and shame. He carries his with lights blazing and sirens flashing. He is indignant that anyone would question him about wanting to have an open marriage. Sorry, Newt, your ilk set the standard for probing into some one's private life. I don't dislike Newt for his personal life. I dislike him because he is a pompous ass. He has all but said that black Americans and white Americans are not equal and shouldn't be. He wants disadvantaged children to be janitors in their schools. He seems to think that the public will swallow his tale of working for Freddie and Fannie as a historian. Why in the name of reason would they need any help from history? They needed an insider with enough power to keep lawmakers in line. The only thing that Newt is good at is science fiction. He wants to have a colony on the moon by the end of his second term. Right. Then, when the population is big enough it can become a state. Right. Newt Gingrich should face the facts. His own party didn't like him after a fashion. The left wants nothing more than to stomp him into bits. Newt says he is a good debater. No, he isn't. He is a brazen debater who tanked when he didn't have the faithful cheering his bluster. He isn't fit to run any office in government much less be the leader of America.
Presidential hopeful Rick Santorum is a good Catholic boy living in the 1950s. He is certainly not electable. He seems to think that God is happily handing out children through the act of rape. "Any child is a gift from God". Mr. Santorum, I can assure you that if your wife or daughter were raped and that act resulted in a child you would change your tune. No girl or woman wants to be reminded of the most horrible, violent moment of her life every day. Victims of incest do not want to have the children conceived from their abuse. Mr. Santorum also thinks that gay sex and heterosexual sex are not equal. He thinks that heterosexual couples should have sex to procreate and the missionary position is sufficient to serve that purpose. He is really a non issue in the race. Too many women in America vote and we really didn't like being second class citizens. We won't be taking that step backward.
Presidential hopeful Ron Paul is crazy. He wants a lawless nation with as little government as possible. Sounds good on the surface. However in practice little government doesn't work. It could if we were a nation of honest, upstanding citizens. But in truth we are not. We have seen it over and over again. People are greedy. People cheat and lie. People steal and commit murder. People will screw you over in any fashion they can devise. I agree that the war on drugs should be stopped. It is a failed, never ending war. Instead of fighting the cartels, put them out of business. Prohibition brought organized crime to our nation. Someone will always be willing to disobey the law to make money. Lots of money. We might as well make that money as a consumer nation. As for the rest of Ron Paul's platform, it reads like some sort of Charles Dickens novel. Let the poor die. Gee, Dr. Paul, first do no harm.
The GOP is on life support. They have allowed the lunatic fringe to become their base. They are now pro life, pro death penalty, pro rich, pro war, pro Christian, pro guns, anti health care, anti immigration and anti education. Mostly they are anti Obama. Sorry, GOP. Sorry that President Obama won't stoop to your level. Sorry that you have nothing except lies to make any point. Sorry that you are becoming cannibalistic to one another. Not sorry that Bin Laden is dead. Not sorry our soldiers are home from Iraq. Not sorry that the auto industry is doing well. Not sorry that some people now have badly needed health care. Not sorry that you will be losing in November.
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