©2000-2012 Roedy Green, Canadian Mind Products| Introduction | Michele Bachmann |
| Barack Obama | Rick Santorum |
| Mitt Romney | Jon Huntsman |
| Newt Gingrich | Sarah Palin |
| Ron Paul | Herman Cain |
| Rick Perry |
There are a number of candidates running for president of the USA in 2012. I am not happy with any of them, though I don’t disapprove of them all equally.
He is not bloody minded enough. He is dealing with fiends, yet treats them as equals. He is a constitutional scholar and tries to run the presidency by the book. He needs to bully a little, like Lyndon Johnson, with favours and threats to get critical legislation passed. He does not appreciate his oratory power to do an end run around his enemies and go direct to the people for the leverage he needs. He has been unwilling to get the dirt on Supreme Court Justice John Roberts to impeach him. He has done nothing on global warming and just a token on alternative energy.
He dithered so long about don’t ask don’t tell. He campaigned as pro-gay then blocked gay marriage. He dithered about ending the Afghan and Iraq wars. He campaigned as a peace candidate then turned around and ramped up the Afghan war. However, he did wind down the Iraq war. He campaigned as a populist then underhandedly gave hundreds of billions to his wall street backers. His universal medical care plan was so watered down as a sop to Republicans that it missed most of the benefits and made it an easier target. He has not stopped Republicans from disenfranchising Democratic voters. He barely even condemned it. He has not even put a stop to crooked voting machines, which lose him the election. He is not someone you can trust. He is all big talk and little action, but at least he is not overtly hostile to the people the way his Republican competitors are.
His big problem was overselling himself. People expect him to fend off the entire Republican party single handed. The entire country needs to go to his aid if these major problems are to be licked. Most are doing nothing to help or are doing the best to interfere with progress.
Obama has had as incredible string of good fortune.
The question is not whether Obama is worthy to be president, but rather is America worthy to have Obama as president. I think not, but they may luck out and get him for a second term anyway.
There are serious problems, but Mitt Romney is ten times worse.
It is hard to take any of the Republican candidates seriously. They are all about as plausible candidates as the Three Stooges. However, Republicans like their candidates on the crazy side.
Romney has over $200 million accumulated wealth, yet he finagled the system to pay only 13.9% in taxes on income of $21.7 million for 2010. He has already royally ripped the people off and he is not even in office yet.
Romney has sold his soul to the corporations. He seems mild mannered, but then so did George W. Bush who later went on to start two illegal wars and build torture dungeons all over the world. He is allied with rapacious interests that are diametrically opposed to the interests of the average American.
He has an invisible friend whom he alleges gives him infallible advice.
He accepts all manner of money secretly from corporations. He is their spokesman. I am far more interested in the government looking out for individuals, so I consider him irrelevant other than that he might bombard idiots in the USA with sufficient commercials to convince them he has their interests at heart. He apparently has amnesia, since every time he is asked the same question, he gives a completely different answer.
Romney presents himself as a stable, calm conventional businessman, but his LDS (Later Day Saints) religion makes him just a crazy as his competition. He believes that drinking coffee is wicked simply because it is pleasurable. He believes in ghosts, including ghosts of people have not been born yet. He believes Jesus traveled to North America prior to Columbus. He believes God is an animal with a body of flesh and bone. His religion did not accept black people until 1978. He chose to support that church even in the bad old days. He is a polytheist who believes there are multiple universes each with a god.
When people take advise from disembodied voices, especially when they imagine the voice is a god, and doubly especially when they imagine the voice is infallible, I don’t think this sort of person should be entrusted with public office or the care of a child. (Remember Abraham and Isaac).
Romney touts his experience in industry. Industries are organised as dictatorships. The CEO (Chief Executive Officer) barks and everyone jumps. Politics requires a totally different skillset. You have to persuade, compromise, jawbone and arm-twist to get anything done. If you behave like a CEO, people will just laugh at you. Further, corporations already have too much influence in Washington. The last thing the country needs is someone who sees himself as their anointed representative.
Romney brags that he has testicles as large as Rick Perry’s because he does not want Iran to have nuclear weapons. That puts him in the 99.9% majority of Americans, Canadians and Europeans. That is irrelevant. The question is what risks will he take attempting to wrest such weapons away from Iran. Is he willing to nuke Iran to get his way? Is he willing to rescind Bush’s axis-of-evil promise to annihilate Iran — the main reason Iran needs nukes?
Romney derides Obama for not ending the recession sooner, even when the Republicans did their best to block Obama’s every effort, purely for political reasons. They wanted to make him fail even though it made the entire country fail too. Romney wants everyone to believe he would have done better, but the only strategy he will admit to would be to have done nothing, which is what Bush did, and which created the mess in the first place. He has such an ego and no ideas and no accomplishments to back it up.
Romney has flip flopped so much, nobody knows just what he would do as president. It looks as though he has no idea. He just wants to be president, go to banquets, have Hail to the Chief played when he enters a room, have photo ops and make his mother proud.
Romney is a major phony. He pretends to be an mild-mannered, ethical candidate, but in secret has Karl Rove spending laundered PAC (Pre-Authorised Chequing) money to, one-by-one, annihilate each of his components. The only reason Rick Santorum did so well was that Rove had not yet got around to his dirty tricks on him. Romney pretends he is an expert on job creation but his experience is just the opposite. When he managed Warner, he let destroyed 5 in 6 of the jobs. Romney’s claim that he would have been better at creating jobs than Obama is beyond ludicrous.
Romney beat Santorum by 8 votes. B.S.! Statistical ties like that are statistically highly improbable. Yet they seem to happen rather frequently whenever Karl Rove is hiding in the wings. It would be naïve to crack it up to co-incidence. Rove has been ballot stuffing again. They happen because ballot stuffers want to stuff the minimum number of ballots and still win. If they over do it, the results are too out of sync with polls and people get suspicious.
Romney’s message makes so sense. He claims had he been running things he would have done nothing and allowed business to pull itself out of the recession. How could that possibly have been more effective that what Obama did? Obama actually hired people.
Romney is so politically clueless, it as almost as if he has mild Asperger’s syndrome. He said that “corporations are people too” which technically is correct, but it sounds to the average citizen as addled. Then he said he liked firing people, just what people like to hear from a guy promising abundant jobs.
I would have thought that by now Americans would have caught on, that if you want freedom of religion, you have to give others freedom of religion. If you don’t want others imposing their religion on you, you can’t forcefully impose your religion on them. Mitt Romney is thoroughly confused on this point. He claims Obama is interfering with his religious freedom by offering contraception and abortion services to the public, even though he and his spouse are free to do whatever they want. It is not as though Obama is making contraception or abortion mandatory. What Romney means is Obama is interfering with his attempts to impose his Mormon religion on others. If Mitt gets his way, and makes contraception and abortion illegal, he will be imposing his whacko Mormon beliefs about soul-spirit possession of blastulas and their sacredness on rational people, who reject it as utter nonsense with not a shred of evidence to support it.
Mitt Romney wants to have a war with Iran. What on earth for? He needs to placate his backers who make billions from selling war materials. They are feeling restless with the winding down of the Iraq and Afghan wars. Mitt hopes to partly finance his war with the oil and uranium spoils from Iran. He knows the American people are war weary so he announced these plans in doubletalk, hoping the hawks will notice and the doves will not. He says that under his presidency, America will follow Israel’s lead without question.
If God had wanted us to fly, he would gave given us tickets.
~ Mel Brooks (born: 1926-06-28 age: 85)
He has been caught lying about his residency when he ran for Governor of Massachusetts. But because he is rich, he was not prosecuted. He takes large amounts of money from questionable sources. Like Perry, he sees the presidency as primarily a way to make a lot of money under the table.
He is most likely to win the nomination since he is most likely to consistently represent the interests of corporate America. He is proud of the fact he represents the interest of big business and the wealthy.
Romney is on record supporting gay rights. However, in his trademark flip-flop fashion, he embraced the radical right wing Christian loonies. To help his new position sound more convincing, he has bound himself to them with ever tighter hoops of steel. Any day now he will announce his support for burning gays at the stake for heresy. Nobody believes his positions. They always change later. He is sort of a Rorschach ink blot that people of both sides can project their fantasies on. To win an election, a candidate must span the middle ground. Romney seems to be heading off the far right deep end. If he does win, I can only presume he will continue to fibrillate his positions.
He pronounces his name ging-rich because the family pronunciation ging-rik sounds too German. He is the front runner as of 2011-12-09. He embarrassed himself by spending vast sums of money buying diamonds for his barracuda-like trophy wife on credit at Tiffany’s. He has had three wives and various extramarital affairs, usually a no-no for Republicans. Ironically he was one of the chief bayers calling for Clinton’s blood to punish him for his infidelity. Newt converted to Catholicism, again normally a bar to Republican office. He had to pay $300,000 in fines for financial improprieties. This lead to his resignation in 1997. He is a good friend of major convicted felon Jack Abramoff. He is not only a philanderer, he is a bastard. He demanded a divorce from his first wife Jackie in her hospital room, where she was recovering from uterine cancer surgery. He refused to pay alimony and child support after their divorce. He is an attention whore will say any outrageous thing off the top of his head get to get headlines. Serious candidates don’t do that. I am pretty sure he will implode within a few months. He could be described as Rush Limbaugh lite. He is like a somewhat pudgy butterfly flitting from topic to topic without any depth. His speeches are just a disconnected pile of superficially clever-sounding tweets. He is pathologically conceited and makes no effort to hide it. He will trip soon with some unbelievably gauche comment about how much better he is than everyone else. And then there are his wives who have stories to strategically leak to torpedo him.
Newt is an unusually unprincipled politician. One of the things he does is dog whistle to the racists. He brings out the worst in people by making subtle racist references. Remember the scene in Ragtime when the racists could not stand it that the black hero was well dressed and owned a fine car. Newt plays on that same sentiment, talking indirectly about putting the uppity nigger Obama in his place. It is not about changing Obama’s policies, it is about punishing a black man for acquiring too much status.
Ron Paul has a plethora (look it up; I am using it accurately) of consistency. Consistency is a rare virtue in politicians. Ron Paul is crazy, but is a kindly delightful way. He missed his calling. He should have been a mathematician. Mathematicians explore imaginary worlds with simple rigid rules. They apply the rules to find out where they lead. Ron Paul yearns for a real world as simple as one of the mathematical ones, with a few simple rigid rules to explain everything. So he concocted a number of rules of thumb, e.g. government should be smaller, then presumed they applied without exception to the real world. Like a mathematician, he was consistent. No matter how goofy the conclusions this process produced, he publicly advocates them. He is deluded in thinking a handful of simplistic rules are all you need to manage life in the real universe.
Unlike his rivals, he does not appear to be motivated by greed, ego or cruelty. He is almost professorial. His son, Rand Paul, however, did not inherit his father kind heart, just his nuttiness and rigid thinking. He belongs in opposition to introduce novel ideas, not in power.
Ron Paul is the only Republican republican candidate who has not publicly vowed to violate his oath of office and the constitution by using the federal government to force Christianity on the entire population. He want to leave that up to the states.
Paul has a rather naïve view of freedom. He seems to think it is possible for everyone to do whatever they please and magically it will not impact on anyone else. That could approximately happen in the day when your nearest neighbour was 10 km (6.21 miles) away. But today, almost everything you do impacts on your neighbours. Driving your car pollutes the air and releases greenhouse gases. What you pour down your sink can foul up the sewage system requiring expensive repairs. What you put into the garbage can contaminate or quickly fill up the garbage dump. The music you play or motorcycle you rid can keep your neighbours awake. If you don’t take care of you health, others will be stuck with the medical bills. Like all American politicians he is happy to sacrifice the freedom of others for even the smallest economic benefit to Americans.
Some of his ideas I find appealing, and I am far from a typical Republican including: avoiding wars, repealing the Patriot Act, radically different approach to illegal drugs. Others are so crazy, he must know they could not possibly fly: e.g. cheating Americans out of their pension contributions, and handing the sheep to the Wall Street wolves where people gamble, often ending up with no pension at all.
| Difference Between Rick Perry and Roedy Green (the author of this website) | ||
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| Issue | Rick Perry | Roedy Green |
| running for US President | ||
| candidate for the antichrist | Oprah Winfrey | Rick Perry |
| Porn | Perry his money investing in the pornographic movie company Movie Gallery. This is a hypocritical (though not unexpected) given that he passes himself off as a rabid evangelical Christian. | Given that it is ok to depict even murder in movies I believe it should be legal to simulate any imaginable sexual act, so long as no illegal act is committed in the process. |
| gays | Fun to lynch ’em at barbecues. No marriage equality of course. Bring back don’t ask don’t tell or stronger. | Full equality and integration |
| prayer | Contrary to, prefers to pray in front of large TV audiences. Wants Christian prayer mandatory in schools and other gatherings. | Believes that saying “I’ll pray for you” is the polite way to say “I’m unwilling to do anything useful to help”. |
| environment | It is what you have to destroy to make money | The environment is more important than anything else. Without it to sustain us, we will have no economy and no people. |
| global warming | A giant conspiracy of all the world’s scientists masterminded by Al Gore to hurt the profits of Exxon-Mobil, because they are jealous of all the money it makes. This even includes scientists like Svante Arrhennius who discovered the effect of CO₂ on global warming back in the 1800s. His solution to the droughts currently plaguing Texas — public prayer for rain. | The greatest threat to life on earth, second only to global nuclear war. |
| oil companies | They have all the money. They are generous to me. I will do whatever they tell me to. | The age of oil is coming to a close for two reasons:
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| homeless, disabled, elderly, sick | What profit are they? They are lazy. Let’em die. | We don’t even execute war criminals any more, so why should be we letting people die who did nothing more wicked that losing at the musical chairs game of finding a home? This is not a lifeboat situation. There is no great difficulty ensuring everyone gets the minimum support to stay alive. |
| military | Even though the USA has the biggest military or earth, bigger that all other countries put together, he wants to increase spending, funding it by reducing programs to the poor, elderly, disabled and sick. | The military should be big enough simply to defend the USA, not to mount optional aggressive wars. Its job is not to bully the rest of the world into handing over their resources to the USA. |
| abortion | make abortion illegal | freedom of choice |
| Christianity | Christianity is the majority religion so evangelical Christianity should be taught in schools and the
government should shove it down the throats of everyone, especially sinners. He has an invisible friend whom
he alleges gives him infallible advice. He wants evolution to be banned from schools.
Either faith in Christ can cleanse all people of their sin, or none, but not some… The truth of Christ’s death, resurrection, and power over sin is absolute. |
Christianity is an obsolete, brutal, mean-spirited superstition. The constitution says that the government has no business favouring one religion over another. To me this means the state should stop giving a tax holiday to the favoured religions who get one now. |
| the rich | The rich are better than other people. We should pay homage to them by excusing them from taxes. The other reason is they give me huge amounts of money to say this. | The rich should pay enough taxes to stabilise the wealth gap. As the country gets wealthy, everyone should notice, not just the rich. The system now is far too heavily weighted in favour of the rich. |
| unions | Unions need to be squashed. They help the middle class take unfair advantage of their employers. | Unions are the only voice the middle class has to look out for their wages and working conditions, even when they are not unionised. Unless something were done to reign in the forces allied against the middle class, they are absolutely necessary. |
| lives | Perry chooses to live in a parched desert with water so polluted it is undrinkable. People die when air conditioning fails. If the rest of the world followed suit, he would feel right at home. | Roedy grew up in Victoria and Vancouver, BC Canada, a part of the world with the mildest climate, temperate rainforests and the cleanest water. He would like to see the rest of the world brought up to that same standard. |
| minimum wage | It’s unfair that ordinary folk should make more than the minimum wage, and the minimum wage is too high. | Jobs for adults should pay sufficiently to provide food and shelter. Jobs for teens can be lower. |
| loyalty | has already stated his goal is shattering the union by advocating Texas secession, and he is running for office in order to do it. | is a Canadian citizen. Has no particular loyalty to the USA |
| biggest concern | The emperor of Japan is having sex with the sun goddess. This causes terrible things to happen to the world economy. | Politicians like Rick Perry lying that nothing needs to be gone about global warming. |
| charm | based on the Al Capp Lil Abner character Tiny, perpetually 15½ yars old, big, dumb, handsome. Even though he has a BSc, he affects the accent of someone who dropped out of the second grade. | based on being Canadian |
| embarrassment | Perry started out as a Democrat and is now posing as right of the Tea Party. | Outsmarted by embezzlers who go away with his life savings. |
In summary, Rich Perry is just like George Bush without the intelligence or integrity. Thankfully, he dropped out of the race after coming last in New Hampshire.
She has an invisible friend whom she alleges gives her infallible advice. This woman is delusional, crazy, nuts, bonkers. She has no grasp of human culture. It is as she were raised by wolves. She claims her obviously gay husband changes the sexual orientation of others by scamming their money and saying a prayer over them. I don’t think I have even once caught her publicly saying anything true. Truth is meaningless to her. She just makes everything up as she goes, trusting FOX will censor out any correction. She has no administrative experience. She is too stupid to run a pet shop, much less a country.
The good thing about Bachmann is she is dragging the Republican party way into the loony right zone. Even if she is not the candidate, the elected candidate will be considerably wackier that had she not been in the race. Since the name of the game in politics into win the most votes, a party must straddle the middle. Her influence will make the Republicans repulsive to the middle.
After losing badly in Iowa, on 2012-01-04, Bachmann withdrew from the race with a speech that effectively said she would like to be the VP candidate. She would give Romney a bone for the far right and female balance. I think that might not be wise. Most of America would be horrified by the thought of a Bachmann presidency after an assassination, but that would also apply to Perry and Santorum.
Rick (Captain Ahab) Santorum is a candidate for US president obsessed with persecuting gays. Gays in return have honoured him in an unusual way. He claims that gay marriage is a privilege, not a right, but he fails to explain what he did so virtuous that made him worthy and gay people like me unworthy. When Piers Morgan asked him if he were a bigot, he answered indignantly that it was impossible for him to be a bigot, because he was just doing what the Catholic church asked him to do.
The Catholic church has done many bigoted things in its history including burning witches, torturing protestants to death, supporting slavery, blocking civil rights for blacks, murdering innocent Muslim children living in Jerusalem at the time of the Crusades and slaughtering Christians who had ever any contact with Muslims. To this day the Catholic Church indirectly encourages its followers to beat up and kill gay people by spreading lies about gays and quoting cherry picked anti-gay verses from the old testament. Just because a church advocates something does not exclude it from being bigotry. Just because the church harbours, aids and abets pedophiles does not make it right. Santorum was never big on logic. Santorum’s logic parallels the Nazi who excused himself on the grounds he was just following orders.
Santorum has a horror of polygamy (odd since most of the celebrities of the old testament he admires so much were polygamous). He believes if gays are permitted to marry, it will immediately follow that polygamy will become legal. Further people will marry pets and oddly napkins. He believes the law is all that holds back these unholy alliances. (He must have a very odd fantasy life.)
Polygamy, if ever legalised will keep the lawyers busy for decades. Think how complicated things get partners joining and dropping out of the union, yet the union persists, bringing/taking children with them. How do you divide property? How do you handle child custody? How do you make laws that apply to the huge variety of possible unions? I think the best way to handle it would be with custom contracts. That is not what marriage is for. It is a standard contract for unions to protect dependents.
Gay marriage is a legal piece of cake in comparison. You can use the exact same laws as now except where the laws treat men and women unequally. There you probably want to clean things up to be fairer for straights anyway.
I think Santorum has greatly overestimated the slipperiness of the slope to polygamy, both because of the legal difficulty and because there are so few people pushing for it.
However, if legal polygamy law could be done, I’d say fine. How other people arrange their unions is none of my business so long as the kids are protected. Official polygamous marriage vs informal polygamy would almost certainly increase the protection for the kids.
Santorum goes bananas at the thought of freedom of choice because his wife had an abortion doctor lover for five years.
Santorum said that President John F. Kennedy’s famous 1960 speech pledging to keep religion out of politics “makes [him] want to throw up.” He believes that as president he has the right to force his Catholic dogma down the throats of all citizens. Being elected would give him that right.
If Democrats were use to Republican dirty tricks, they would donate to Santorum, both to face the weakest candidate, and to tar the entire Republican party with Santorum’s rectal slime reputation.
Santorum, Perry and Bachmann competed as to who was the craziest right wing Christian fundamentalist. This makes no sense because the winner of that contest will automatically be rejected by the general public as too extreme. Winning that small contest will hurt chances to win the big contest! This suggests none of them are really running for president, but rather for FOX commentator or similar post, to help with reelection to the Senate, or just for the attention and ego boost. They are irrelevant vanity candidates.
Santorum does not understand that as a potential president, he speaks for the USA. He shot his mouth off accusing the USA of assassinating an Iranian scientist without evidence. Now the rest of the world takes that as tantamount to the USA confessing to the crime.
Santorum is a climate change denier. He contends concern over climate change is a giant conspiracy of slavery-loving scientists from 195 countries to fabricate data to destroy the freedom of Americans to pollute as they please. He has no evidence for this. It is just that he does not like his (or his supporters’) freedom to pollute threatened.
Republicans are stupid to promote Santorum as their candidate. Most of the country detest him. He would have no chance against almost any Democratic candidate. Republicans are so blind that they think they can ignore the most basic rule of politics — you must get the most votes. To do that, you must win the votes of the middle-of-the-roaders. If you don’t do that, you can only win if there is a third party candidate taking away part of your opponent’s vote. How are they planning to win? voter fraud?
Rick Santorum told women that should they be raped and made pregnant, they should consider it a precious gift from the rapist. All this right-wing Republican and right wing religious fundamentalist craziness about banning abortion and contraception, renewed persecution of gays, endorsing bullying of children (so long as you call them gay) and mandatory Christianity has put women voters off. Rush Limbaugh equated advocating access to contraception with prostitution and called one young advocate a “slut”. He did not apologise until many of his sponsors withdrew and his show was canceled in two cities. There has been a 18 point flip in the polls for women voters, so that if the election were held today, Democrats would win in a landslide.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
~ Napoléon Bonaparte (born: 1769-08-15 died: 1821-05-05 at age: 51)
Jon Huntsman is the relatively sane Republican candidate. As such, he is given little chance of winning the nomination. As candidates in general go, he is weird, but the competition is so insanely out to lunch, he looks relatively normal in comparison. Being the sanest of a group of loony toons is faint praise, and surely not sufficient merit to rate the presidency. One by one his rivals have taken the lead then publicly embarrassed themselves as completely unsuitable. He figures if he can just hang in there to the point where everyone starts thinking about who has a ghost of a chance of beating Obama, he may be the last man standing.
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In 2008 Palin lost the election for McCain. He was so elderly people worried she might be called on to become president, rather than just attend ribbon cutting ceremonies. They worried she was a drooling idiot. Now in 2012, they know it.
This man is a national joke. The campaign is long. The people are bored. They want a Gong Show. Cain is a contestant. His solution to the people’s problems? Higher taxes for workers and lower taxes for the rich. His solution to the deficit and debt? Lower revenues. The people applaud. They don’t seem to notice how idiotic that is. He brags about his association with two of the most corrupt men on the planet, the Koch brothers. His 999 campaign is an upside down 666 campaign. The Christian boobs lap it up. He claims he forgot that he settled two sexual harassment lawsuits out of court. Every time he opens his mouth, he puts in, not only both feet, but both legs. He has no political experience, just being a CEO (i.e. absolute dictator). Being president is about skilful persuasion. He is as subtle as a fluorescent pink tie. He will get the gong/hook soon to be replaced by another clownish entertainer.
Cain is absurdly optimistic. He perfectly well there were women he had sexually abused who would go for revenge once he stepped into the spotlight, but he went ahead anyway without dealing with the problem, just wishfully hoping they would leave him be. He has “suspended” his campaign.
It does not matter who the candidate is, the Republicans could win even with Ted Nugent or Bill Shatner. They win by electronically stuffing ballot boxes. Getting rid of electronic voting machines or putting in safeguards to make them a least a tiny bit difficult to fiddle should be the #1 Democratic priority. #2 should be fighting Republican laws to exclude Democratic voters.
Given that relatively moderate Mitch Romney has all but won the Republican nomination, the party has the problem of picking a V.P. candidate that will excite voters Romney cannot. Two possibilities touted are Marco Rubio, representing the lunatic right and possibly appealing to the Latinos based just on his handsome Latino appearance, and Allen West, who could perhaps be described as Sarah Palin in drag. West claims that gays choose to be gay the same way they choose a flavour of ice cream. I don’t know how he explains to himself why so many young people commit suicide when they are unable to change their sexual preference. Then I ask, what business have politicians like West telling people they must eat strawberry ice cream and that chocolate is forbidden. It is none of their business. West also believes that Muslims should not be permitted so serve in public office, only Christians. He personally tortured an Iraqi civilian in Iraq without authorisation. He also claimed that between 78 and 81 members of the Congress were card-carrying members of the Communist Party. He is black, so Republicans hope that might drain away some of the race-based support for Obama. He a bona fide fruitcake, and I thought Dan Quayle was the bottom of the barrel.
Polls say Obama will win. However a lot can happen between now and election day. The Republicans have shot themselves in the foot by parading a gong show of crazies seeking the nomination. Those clowns tarnished the whole party even further. The Republicans have also expressed their death wish by nominating such a weak candidate as Romney. He is the cause of the high unemployment figures. He can’t seriously be touted as the solution. There is tape of him supporting every unpopular position imaginable. He is a sitting duck for flip flop and attack ads.
On the other paw, the John Roberts Supreme court has invoked Aussie-rules politics:
The public has not yet developed sufficient skepticism. This means dirty tricks will likely dominate the contest in an unprecedented way.
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