Friday, March 2, 2012

Republican Primaries

Okay already, twenty, and counting, and they haven't completely destroyed each other, yet, so, let's keep going. We liked Caine, he's out, we liked the Texas governor, he's out, we liked the Sarah Palin clone, she's out, and so it goes. we are supposed to end up with the strongest candidate, but it seems like we are killing ourselves. The message and the direction of the discussions are wrong. It should not be what is wrong with each of these candidates, it ought to be a simple assault on this president. Each discussion should essentially ignore the other candidates on the podium, and focus on what is going wrong in this country, and why. Every question asked should be turned into an answer which addresses what has been done in the last three years to destroy America, and why, which ever candidate is asked how it will be changed. No more personal questions, no more answers to such nonsense. No more discussions that require some sort of rationalization of the candidates personal religious choices, or personal proclivities towards personal choices. These are all distractions from what we are all worried about. We have a president who did not build the keystone pipeline, who waited three months to react to the crisis in the gulf (oil spill),who is allowing Iran to achieve a nuclear capability, who has allowed a Arab Spring which will progress to an Arab Winter, who has essentially ignored the slaughter in Iran and Syria. Who is presiding over an inflation in the gas prices, unequalled. Who is happy with an economy which has shrunk and two million fewer jobs available to Americans, and has supported green companies which have been a way of him to launder money into his campaign war chest (they produced no green energy benefits, and they all have disintegrated). We have a medical health plan which essentially gives us less health for our dollar, and prevents doctors and patients from directly interacting, and essentially bankrupts every small business in the country. It is time for these candidates to start focusing on the problem, and each of their personal ideosyncracies are not the problem. Let the republicans chose the prettiest or the verbalest, or the smartest, but start focusing on our problem, the current president.