{"id":315,"date":"2012-01-11T10:28:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T17:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=315"},"modified":"2021-01-08T19:32:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T03:32:05","slug":"republican-primaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2012\/01\/11\/republican-primaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Primaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the strangeness that is this election season, it&#8217;s worth noting that after all the posturing and all the machinations Mit Romney still wins.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Unknown\" border=\"0\" height=\"250\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/-wNXP5WePv-8\/Tw3GpfoSCrI\/AAAAAAAABGs\/4Tf0mXLyGIw\/Unknown.jpeg?imgmax=800\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"Unknown.jpeg\" width=\"201\" \/><br \/>It&#8217;s also interesting to note that the rabidly anti-gay, profoundly conservative Christian Fundamentalists are sucking hind tit.<br \/>Romney, is as conservative as all the others. He&#8217;s made his beliefs very clear.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8230; Nudge, nudge, wink, wink.<\/p>\n<p>Romney won NH because he was closer to addressing the real concerns of Americans.<\/p>\n<p>This election year &nbsp;the American People are far less concerned about so called &#8220;Hot Button&#8221; 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&#8217;ve been fighting for a Decade!<br \/><b><u><br \/><\/u><\/b><br \/>The saddest part, or perhaps the most disturbing part is that the GOP is so utterly checked out of &#8220;Normal&#8221; Americans lives.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the Republican candidates know a whole lot about protecting the interests of the wealthy.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s amazing is that &nbsp;they are so disconnected from their base, that they actually think they can win based on platform of <strong>Bible thumping<\/strong>, and <strong>Fag bashing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">I&#8217;m a cynic&#8230; I have a darker theory about what this system has become.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The debates have sounded more like tent revivals than discussions of solutions to the problems our country faces.<\/p>\n<p>Several of the &#8220;So Called&#8221; candidates when asked any questions of substance have actually sounded like the <em>Revival Tent Preacher<\/em> who gets asked about the failure rate of his Miracles..<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Uh well, faith is powerful, and lack of faith is powerful&#8230; uhhh and Satan drives people to sin and sinners are punished. Uhh God is great.. uhhh&#8230; Next question&#8230;.&#8221; as two big thugs hustle the questioning infidel out of the tent.<\/p>\n<p>I think that Romney will be the Republican Nominee.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>After all, this whole process looks a lot more like &#8220;<strong><em>Survivor<\/em><\/strong>&#8221; than an actual process governed by the will of the people.<\/p>\n<p>In November the election will pit Obama v. Romney&#8230; and Romney will win.<\/p>\n<p>This will again be to convince the people that the Political system works and they have a choice&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Then in January 2013 Romney will take office and it will be business as usual.<\/p>\n<p>And we&#8217;ll still be deep in the shit just as we are today&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the strangeness that is this election season, it&#8217;s worth noting that after all the posturing and all the machinations Mit Romney still wins. It&#8217;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&#8217;s made his beliefs very clear. The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2012\/01\/11\/republican-primaries\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Republican Primaries&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gop-dem","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10315,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/10315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}