Letters to the Editor
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Ron Paul
It's disingenuous of Scherer to not distinguish Ron Paul of Texas from the rest of the Republican chaffe on that stage, especially since in your photo, Paul is front and center, sandwiched between Mad Dog McCain and Hot Head Giulliani.
Ron Paul in no way fits the "macho-daddy" profile. Nor can he be described dismissively as a "single-issue gadfly" or "well-bred also-ran."
Ron Paul is one of the very few champions of civil liberties and constitutional rights we have in congress. He's anti-war, and has opposed the Iraq debacle from the very start. He's against intervention in Iran. He despises the Bush administration. In fact, the only thing he really has in common with the others is the "Republican" tag.
As a life-long Democrat and sometime-Independent, I'm seriously considering voting for Ron Paul as a write-in, rather than the Democratic nominee.
Hilary: never. Obama: maybe.
We need a cross-party ticket: Paul/Kucinich '08
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Ten Little Losers
...they really think Al Qaeda isn't laughing at them as they whine about the Democrats while they refuse to call for a draft or volunteers for the war?
McCain is willing to say he will follow bin Laden to the 'gates of hell,' but somehow he isn't willing to call for a draft, or for sacrifice, or for a reversal of the tax breaks for the wealthy.
What do these punks think war is, anyhow? As far as I can tell, they think war is when everybody claps their hands to make Tinkerbell come back. But war isn't Tinkerbell.
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Propspect for U.S. dim if a GOP candidate wins
As I listened to the potential GOP candidates last night, I thought our prospects in the United States are DIM if any of these candidates win in 2008.
They invoked Reagan's name so many times, I was surprised they had not stuffed Reagan and propped him behind a podium.
So far I have not seen any news coverage that informed the public that every candidate said it was okay to overturn Roe v. Wade. Some even stated they would be delighted to see it go. Giuliani of course was speaking out of both sides of his mouth on the choice issue. First he says he wants to see Roe go, and leave it up to the states to decide. Then he later he says he thinks abortion decisions should be made by the woman in their own conscience, it is her choice. However a woman won't have many choices if ROE goes. Before ROE it was up to the states. In some states it was legal, some not. Women DIED from illegal abortions before Roe. Ronald Reagan legalized abortion in CA in 1968, then said he was pro-life when running for President. Hypocrisy rules!
The other absurd comment on Choice came from Mitt Romney, once
pro-choice. He said yes, he was once pro-choice, because even though he was personally opposed to abortion, he once supported ROE. However since Cloning, (stem cell research), I decided Roe v Wade must go. HUH? What the h--- does stem cell research have to do with abortion. NOTHING. Oh that’s right the antis believe that an embryo in a petri dish is a BABY.
Young women you need to get off your butts and defend your reproductive rights.
Then there was much chatter about how important FAITH was in their decisions and how American are full of FAITH..(meaning relgious faith). Implying that those without faith are un American.
When speaking about the Iraq war thay put on thier BUSH masks...the same LIES as the administration.
Nothing on the environment because most of the Republican candidates take the "flat earth" approach to science. All in all republican candidates have nothing new to say, no great ideas offered. Only the same old same old...cut taxes., cut spending, IRAN is evil... yada yada yada!!!
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Mr. McCain, your room is ready...
These so-called debates are an insult to the intelligence of any real thinking person. There is no debating going on. There is no real free-thinking going on. There is nothing but prepared answers to tailored questions all engineered to produce generic sound bytes that play well on TV and "sound" Republican enough to make their supporters happy.
It's a joke, and the Democratic "debates" are not much better.
While I agree it's a little frightening to think about having a President that refuses to acknowledge science...oh wait we already HAVE that, I think the low point of the night would have to be the near seizure McCain had in talking about how after 6 years of no one even caring anymore, he'd get all lathery about going after Bin Laden. The ironic point of the night was at the end of that maniacal statement where he vowed to pursue Bin Laden to the very gates of Hell. Since a lot of the serving Republicans are already in line for V.I.P. Suites at that place I'm sure running into Bin Laden there isn't really all that fantastical is it? I'd call it inevitable.
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Mounting Reagan
" 'I believe that every human life at every phase is unique, is beautiful, is a child of a loving God, period,' he said. And there was no doubt that he truly meant it."
Really? So he supports policies of governmental support for free, equal, high-quality education and health care? International trade that is not "free" but fair? Progressive taxation? Minimum wages indexed for inflation, and support for collective bargaining in employment? A legal and regulatory environment that aggressively supports human rights, employee rights, consumer rights, civil rights... for everyone? Defense protocols that work effectively and efficiently, and don't make enemies of people and nations that would be friends? I must have missed that part...
"But that alone was not enough to mount the Reagan pedestal."
Well of course not -- when did Ronald Ray-gun ever believe anything remotely like "every human life is a child of a loving God?" (Unless, perhaps, in the sense of: "...so God will take care of them and we don't have to.")
The country is in the fix we're in because too many people can't distinguish rhetoric from reality. Let's not add to that.