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Republican Primaries

In the strangeness that is this election season, it’s worth noting that after all the posturing and all the machinations Mit Romney still wins.

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It’s also interesting to note that the rabidly anti-gay, profoundly conservative Christian Fundamentalists are sucking hind tit.
Romney, is as conservative as all the others. He’s made his beliefs very clear.

The fact that he is a Mormon, and that the Mormon Church has funded almost all of the attacks on gay marriage legislation should make it damn clear that he’s not going to be supportive of any same sex marriage legislation. But of all the candidates at least Romney has been talking more about the real issues of the country.

The Financial issues of course being near and dear to the Mormon church. Why? Because the Mormon church has significant financial holdings in, or, owns several of the largest banking/credit enterprises in America. Of Course Romney has no interest in that little detail… Nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

Romney won NH because he was closer to addressing the real concerns of Americans.

This election year  the American People are far less concerned about so called “Hot Button” moral issues than they are about keeping or FINDING new jobs,Not losing their homes in foreclosures, and figuring out how to pay for the 2 wars we’ve been fighting for a Decade!


The saddest part, or perhaps the most disturbing part is that the GOP is so utterly checked out of “Normal” Americans lives.

Most of the Republican candidates know a whole lot about protecting the interests of the wealthy.

What’s amazing is that  they are so disconnected from their base, that they actually think they can win based on platform of Bible thumping, and Fag bashing.

I’m a cynic… I have a darker theory about what this system has become.

The debates have sounded more like tent revivals than discussions of solutions to the problems our country faces.

Several of the “So Called” candidates when asked any questions of substance have actually sounded like the Revival Tent Preacher who gets asked about the failure rate of his Miracles..

“Uh well, faith is powerful, and lack of faith is powerful… uhhh and Satan drives people to sin and sinners are punished. Uhh God is great.. uhhh… Next question….” as two big thugs hustle the questioning infidel out of the tent.

I think that Romney will be the Republican Nominee.

I’ve come to believe all the rest of the so called Republican candidates are there just to create the illusion of choice, while providing great reality TV.

After all, this whole process looks a lot more like “Survivor” than an actual process governed by the will of the people.

In November the election will pit Obama v. Romney… and Romney will win.

This will again be to convince the people that the Political system works and they have a choice….

Then in January 2013 Romney will take office and it will be business as usual.

And we’ll still be deep in the shit just as we are today…

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Republican Nominees Am I missing it or are they pretty much all the same?

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Alright, I admit it…

I actually sat through one of the New Hampshire debates. Well most of it anyway, before I had to go throw up.

Now that Ms. Bachmann has left the race I find that I’m paying more attention the the so-called “real” candidates. I just couldn’t help myself before. I kept focusing on ol’ crazy eyes and thinking to myself this woman is already a member of Congress representing Minnesota.

How the hell did that happen?

Now that she’s out of the race I was watching the posturing by the remaining candidates and discovered that if I closed my eyes i honestly couldn’t tell the candidates apart. There were two exceptions to this I could identify Gingrich and Romney.

Perry, Santorum, Huntsman and Paul pretty much sounded alike. I’m speaking here of their answers and their voices…

They all sounded like the background chatter at a really bad party. You know, the kind of party where everyone is just drunk enough to make complete asses of themselves but not quite drunk enough to leave.

I will say this, Romney “sounds” Presidential . He’s got a resonant quality to his voice that is compelling and commanding. By comparison Gingrich, sounds a little whiney.

Romney also has the classic “Presidential Look”. Gingrich by comparison looks a bit like the kind of guy who should be in the back room of a meat packing plant with a fat cigar making deals about who is going to have control of a trash delivery route.

I think it’s going to come down to a Romney nomination.
If we assume that President Obama is out, then I’m betting as people choose among evils I think they’ll choose Romney.

The thing to remember is that The President really has far less impact on policy than we give him credit for.

America is a very big ship, and like the Titanic it doesn’t turn on a dime. The presidential influence over a four year span is pretty minimal. If you consider that we ended up where we are after two terms of a fiercly conservative President and essentially 8 years of fighting wars on two fronts (Everyone knows that’s a bad idea…) then it’s completely unrealistic to expect a President to change the countrys direction in a single term.

Yet that is exactly what people expected of President Obama, and here we are poised to have the same unrealistic expectations of a New President.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a fan of President Obama. But the reasons aren’t because he “Failed” to bring about Change or increase Hope. I have always been concerned that President Obama was inexperienced and that he’s way too much of an apologist.

As to his ability to govern, well that is directly related to how co-operative the congress is. I think we ALL know how that’s working out.

It’s a given that the current crop of Republican candidates are going to be conservative. If anything the Republican party is attempting to present an almost polar opposite choice to President Obama. This is typical thinking of the current Republican party. Most of the moderates have decided to shut up and sit this one out.

The GOP is all about an almost binary logic (On/Off, Right/Wrong, Belief in God/Atheist). They’re sadly missing the point that a large majority of America is actually pretty moderate.

I’m increasingly having a hard time forcing myself to believe that our system is still working…

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As we head into 2012…

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First there are the doomsday cults expecting the world to end 12/22/2012. If the Mayans got it right…

Personally I’m curious to see how these cults deal with the end… or the lack thereof.

I remember a young man, his wife, and their children who had quit work and spent their savings expecting the rapture some pastor had predicted. They had no fall back plan if in fact the pastor was wrong and I re-member wondering what on Earth they were going to do if they weren’t “Raptured”.

I guess we’ll find out what happens on 12/23/2012.

Then there is continuing unrest in the middle east. (Humm maybe the Mayans did get it right)

We’re coming up on a presidential election year. That means that we’re going to have to endure the mud slinging and stupidity of a bunch of politicians that really don’t deserve the nomination of their parties.

But again if the Mayans are right… well, whoever we elect wont take office because the world is going to end. Perhaps that’s a mercy.

As I’ve stated earlier, I’m not at all impressed with the Republican Candidates. I’m hoping that a decent shake-out will improve the pool but I’m not holding my breath. I’m confused as hell as to why these nut-jobs are campaigning so hard against gay anything.

Gay marriage is the least of their worries, if elected they’re going to inherit an almost completely dysfunctional government and as President, frankly they’ll have little they can do to fix it. The key isn’t so much the President… It’s the House and Senate, There’s where the real power lies.

A small lesson President Obama has learned the hard way, much to his dismay.

Forget about the President folks… Keep your eye on any senate or house elections that’s what will make or break us.

I had to laugh this morning at Newt Gingrich saying that as President he’d ignore Supreme Court decisions that he didn’t agree with. WTF???? That’s how you create a regime like Saddam Hussein’s.

Oh and Newt… FYI this uneducated backwoods HICK from one of those red states KNOWS that you can’t do what you’re suggesting without dismantling the constitution.

I suspect that the folks in this country would have a serious problem with a President that attacked constitutional protections or sought to simply toss the constitution out the window.

Of course my fellow citizens said nothing when the patriot act was passed and even less when President Obama extended it another four years. So I could be wrong… perhaps the American People are ready to be subjugated under the rule of a despot. Maybe Gingrich has a point.

I’d like to think that my fellow citizens would be marching in the streets if a President tried to disband the constitution. Hopefully I’ll be able to keep that fantasy in the upcoming election year.

I’ve been working on my New Years Resolutions.

Get Stronger

Get Healthier

Become a little more social

Have a LOT MORE SEX! (I can make this doomsday stuff work for me… “Hey Baby, the worlds gonna end soon so lets just fuck.“)

Oh and Get a JOB! Then use the money from the job to build a survival strategy and lay in supplies… Hey nothing wrong with a little planning 😉

Stay tuned, I may be adding to this list.