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No knowledge, no problem in GOP
Published: 09-19-11
The Republican Party has been unabashedly candid about its mission during this election season. Their goal, as several party leaders have freely admitted, is to unseat President Barack Obama by any means necessary.
Give them credit for being open about their desire, though. Few politicos have the testicular fortitude to say what they really think.
But stop with the credit right there.
The frontrunners for the party’s presidential nod currently are Texas Governor Rick Perry, Minnesota Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and the perplexingly popular Texas Congressman Ron Paul.
In a nutshell, Perry is George W. Bush on steroids, Bachmann could be classified as insane, Romney is a spineless puppet and Paul is doomed to play the role of Ralph Nader for the rest of his days.
But somehow, they have a more than legitimate chance of unseating Obama in the Oval Office, especially Perry.
GOP candidates have managed to garner support from the lunatic fringe throughout the country, an untapped resource for many politicians who don’t want to appear as unstable as the people they want to vote for them.
But now all bets are off. The GOP has embraced its inner craziness, and frankly, it’s carrying the party to the bank. Their Reagan-esque approach strikes a major chord with the section of people in the country who take more pleasure in living in the past than the present.
The days of even more intense and far-spread racial disparity are what many of these people consider the heyday of the country.
Bachmann has publicly spoken out against giving 11- and 12-year-old girls a vaccine to help prevent them from contracting the human papillomavirus later on in life. Perry called Social Security a “Ponzi scheme,” which causes one to question whether or not he actually knows what a Ponzi scheme is. When Paul said an uninsured patient on life support should be left to die, he was met with disturbing applause. Romney, who passed a law while he was governor that gave universal health care to everyone in Massachusetts, has shied away from his gubernatorial actions because they’re seen as too far to the left on the political spectrum.
These are the people who could potentially hold the country and the rest of the free world in the palm of their hands.
That’s the kind of thing nightmares are made of.
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You clearly have not yet figured out that the Democratic party plays people like you like puppets on a string. They trick you into thinking that the actions they take are going to be beneficial to everyone, that they are not “heartless” like the GOP. It doesn’t make sense to keep somebody unnaturally alive by keeping them on life support. When your time is up on this earth, then your time is up. Assuming you’re a Catholic, I’m surprised you don’t know this. Also, I’m assuming you’re for taxing the s*** out of the evil rich people too since everybody needs to pay their “fair share.” Let me tell you something. The only two things this accomplishes is that the politicians, including your beloved wreck of a president, Barack Obama, can keep their pockets full as well as pay more money into welfare and other things of that nature, completely stealing away the incentive to work hard and earn what you receive. This is a short-term, misinformed article, and I’d suggest you get it straight before this country continues on its downward spiral.
Why are some people in the states so stupid. Its amazing.
Michael,
Nothing to do with your time being up, he said an uninsured patient should be left to die. Im certain a lot of people on life support machines make a recovery given the support. That’s his point, which you miss entirely or possibly cant understand.
I suggest you come to Western Europe. Its not paradise but by god its a better, fairer place full of hard working individuals who know they must make a contribution to the society they live in.
But until religion disappears from your politics, you have no chance, no matter how well meaning things may be.