Letters to the Editor
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Thou shalt not...
"Jesus was too smart to ever run for public office. That's what Jesus would do." - Mike Huckabee (a former Pastor)
The question was not, "What WOULDN'T Jesus do?" And in our current political climate it's really not a joke.
Considering that this is a collection of eductaed adults running for our highest elected office who (while largely denying evolution) tout their faith and belief in him at any opportunity, how is a question that ought be at the core of who these guys are (or claim to be) treated as little more than a set up for the quotable zinger of the night?
By not pressing for a more serious answer to this question from the former Pastor, and all of these candidates, Anderson Cooper and this debate sham lets the electorate down, and lets the right treat faith as a gimmick, and the faithful as fools.
Another good question:
"Who would Jesus bullshit?"
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the 8 republican dwarfs
like watching a bad disney movie and the 7 dwarfs. is this what the rethuglicans hope to nominate in a presidential election?
there was dopey romney, probably the biggest switch hitter and flip flopper since a-rod. grumpy hunter who would arm the entire united states with uzi's just after he builds an 800 mile fence to keep all americans in so we could play paint ball with real bullets. sleepy thompson who came onto the stage with head bowed and shaking off the nappies from his beauty rest. thank god his wife was there for the cameras to go to because looking at this guy is like looking at the world's oldest man ever. sneezy ron paul gets more spacey as each debate goes on. happy huckabee because his numbers are polling real high but i can just see those 'value voters' painting his halo on the guys head from now on as he looks to be the 'god' candidate.
not one of the 3 remaining so called contenders deserves a dwarf name. mccain is 'the' clone of bush as relates to foreign policy concerning Iraq and any other country who happens to be muslim. he would have us war with iraq, afghan, syria, palestine all at once. his strong stand against torture shows his passion and too bad he can't muster up that type of emotion in any other area. he almost got close with immigration. tancredo? who is he and why is he still in this race?
and last but not least is our two bit three time married italian who stills thinks his grandstanding of 9/11 and speech making on that day entitles him to be godfather almighty of the US. i still want explanations on why kerik was named police chief after the big G was told kerik had ties to organized crime and why he was recommended to bush for homeland security head man. i also want to know if kerik is telling the truth that guiliani and his wanna bes actually kissed kerik, godfather style, when he was named chief corrections officer back in the good old days at gracie mansion as a show of loyalty to giuliani.
3 times married, pro abortion, pro gay, hated by the ny fire dept, a flip flop on baseball teams (no nyer ever, ever would root for the red sox EVER), now we have expenses to explain. i sincerely believe biden. all g is..is a noun, a verb, and 9/11.
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To All You Paulites....
I would like to see Ron Paul run as an independent - Libertarian, Conspiratarian, No-Taxagrarian whatever he wants to call himself. It seems likely that he won't be the Republican nominee, but it seems he's also touched a nerve among many voters.
If you're in favor of Paul being a candidate, why not start pressuring him to try an independent run? Call, write, email. Volunteer to help. Give money.
About that money - there's apparently been a huge rise in contributions to Ron Paul over the last month. Not enough to make him competitive among Republicans, obviously - but maybe enough for him to run on his own.
Frankly, he's a lot more popular than Nader ever was, and as far as we can tell, less whacko than his fellow Tejano, H. Ross Perot, who got - what? nearly 20% of the vote, in spite of dropping out of the race in July.
Paul might actually have a chance, given the general disappointment with all of the other Republican candidates, and the white-hot hatred of the Democratic front runner - by Democrats. Moreover, in spite of all of her reaching for the center-right, few Republicans would ever endanger their cojones by voting for a woman.
(And, if by chance Senator Obama gets the Democratic nomination, you'll see a "Southern Strategy" that would make Lee Atwater blush.)
If you like Ron Paul - get him to run as a third party candidate.
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Mitt's Their Man
Romney appears, from his barely intelligible, Dan Quayle-esque responses, to be as limited and Dauphin-like as the current occupant of the White House, Greg Stillson. Romney clearly has ambition: He wants to play President, too.
McCain is too twitchy, unpredictable, and his hunger for high office is a bit too apparent. Giuliani's slip is beginning to show. Thompson is a joke; so are Paul and Tancredo.
Huckabee seems the only articulate human in the GOP deck of Jokers, and he's an openly Christian Social Conservative. The GOP is still reaping the 'benefits' of a twenty-year infection by a corrupt Christian Right, and the nation isn't looking for a leader to drag the country down further to worship Robertson and Hagee's Jesus. Huckabee is just too definite, too much what he is, for the GOP Powers That Be.
The Wealthy Conservatives, professional pols and lobbying interests who run the GOP all like their Republican Presidential candidates to be essentially empty vessels, devoid of anything but that burning ambition to be somebody. It's why Republicans rarely have any stated platform beyond "Cut taxes!", or "9-11!", and, "Blame the Democrats!"
Romney's vapidity, his ability to miss even low-hanging fruit, his rapidly spinning positions on -- well, everything -- don't matter.
What's important is that, while not " jus' folks " like our Sainted War Leader, Mitt is certainly personable -- like your local pharmacist, or Volunteer Scoccer Coach at the Recreation Department. You might have a beer with him, or stop and shoot the breeze on the street, but it would take a while to convince your Significant Other to invite Mitt and the Wife over for cocktails. Still, he does wear a suit well, possesses boyish good looks and Sta-Press hair -- just like Saint Ronald, of the fabled "Good Times" in Conservative America.
Yes, Mitt would be as pliable and easily influenced as the current Sock Puppet. He's the GOP's 21st-Century answer to Warren Harding.
Unfortunately for the Republicans, the issues the United States faces are so grave and systemic that a hapless, glad-handing suit is the absolute last thing we need in terms of leadership.