Tonight’s candidate debate among the GOP presidential aspirants gave us a taste of the fall campaign. The Republicans displayed a sense of foresight. It seems they know what Democrat will be nominated in Colorado, Hillary Rodman Clinton.
Whether they are right or wrong is immaterial what Republicans like most is the blood of HRC, it fills their coffers, and panders to the sexual fascists males, Stepford wives and alleluia criers. It brings to them the unification longed for by the Reverend Sun Yung Moon.
Students at Florida Atlantic University thrilled at the presence of MSNBC many of them took the opportunity to deep-six their most difficult course—Basket Weaving 101.
Inside on issues we heard Mike Huckabee tell us that as POTUS he would add four new lanes to I-95, the circumflex coronary artery of Florida’s suncoast. It’s interesting to hear class warfare come from a Republican. While Ron Paul gloomed and doomed our currency was tanking. And Rudy Giuliani approved of American banks begging their foreign counterparts for cash. His wisdom, "We must be very aggressive about the global economy."
While endorsing the President’s economic stimulus package each candidate would tweak it differently. The boldest moves both short and long-term are the tax proposals of Mayor Giuliani and the flat tax favored by Mick Huckabee.
McCain played the golden fleece of Proxmire days attacking pork barrel legislation –been there done that. Romney countered it was entitlements and not pork that spelled disaster for the federal government’s economic woes. Ron Paul’s gloom and doom—"America is on the verge of bankruptcy."
All the candidates supported our role in Iraq insisting if we exited al-Qaeda would transform the country into a terrorist bastion and become the superpower of the communities. In order to maintain troop strength there and fulfill other American commitments the candidates agreed we needed a substantial increase in military personnel.
Huckabee, courtesy of a question by Senator McCain, had the opportunity to discuss his 30-percent flat or value-added tax proposal. He said the tax would create a tax rate of 14-percent for the wealthy, 9-percent for the middle class and 5-percent for the poor.
On energy and the environment the candidates favor nuclear power.
The GOP are tied in a box. On the hand they can stay the course on the other they can repudiate the policies of George W. Bush. McCain’s we can’t throw out the baby with bath water approach regarding former-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s war policy doesn’t cut it.
The question, does the country want to hear the mantra of al-Qaeda? Change brought about by a bureaucracy entrenched for eight years or a seemingly fresh approach by the Democrats, including a withdrawal from Iraq and increased government spending?
Can the Republicans sell the message that Democrats want to bring us back to the old days of Europe?