If the American people cannot do better than elect far-right "Tea Party" candidates, then we deserve to fail....It is time to go into foreclosure and liquidate.....Let's just hand it over to China...Maybe then all Americans can rally around one cause and restore decency in politics.....
I mean Sarah Palin, Christine O'Donnell, Sharron Angle, and half of the current House....Cory Gardner, Marsha Blackburn, that crazy old lady from North Carolina, and Paul Ryan....C'mon.....What kind of personalities and economic background do these people have....
The last, good Republican president was Dwight Eisenhower.....Then came John Birch and the Kochs...Then Nixon....Reagan was popular, but his economic theories were retarded..!!!! Bush 1 wasn't bad, at least he was fairly honorable....
I think at one time, back in the days of 60% tax rates (which people payed without marching in the streets and holding "Don't Tread on me Flags" and spitting on congressmen and interrupting town hall meetings), some tax relief was inevitable....And peoples' dads influenced todays adults and that's where it started.
Then came Karl Rove and Fox News, who basically "blew up" any wedge issues, admittedly to perfection. And it's been a snowball straight to hell ever since....
Bush 1, for his part, even raised taxes when things got too crazy..... But I just think it's getting harder and harder and harder for conservatives to justify their economic philosopies.....so they're getting more and more and more extreme about them....I mean, let's face it, if you're listening to Grover Norquist with more passion than you care about the Holy Bible....something is wrong....Norquist is wrong...Friedman was wrong, and he wasn't as extreme as Norquist....and they've both been proven wrong over the past 10 years....
I'm going to hang around, but I'm giving up politics...Politics, anymore, are for the angry, hateful, divisive, and just downright mean...and I don't want to be that way....I hope the Democrats can somehow take the House back in Nov. 2012, but that's a stretch...I think Romney/Perry would be the strongest conservative ticket....Perry would help Romney in the South, where they hate Mormons and are the nastiest about their politics...which is right down Perry's alley.....The conservatives almost took the US down in 2008...and we're weak and struggling...I think that they will finish the job in the next 9 years.....and it will be too late....fortunately, I am a fairly crafty and personable fellow and should be able to get along in a 3rd world economy....You want freedom, a 3rd world economy is as free as it gets....Lot's of starvation and aids and shit, though....