Candidate Rick Santorum faced reality yesterday and dropped out of the race for the Republican Party nomination. He did the math and, facing a defeat in his home state, he realized that dropping out was the best thing. So, now all the far right wing crazies have dropped out. Well, I guess Newt is still in, but he just loves the attention too much to do the reasonable thing.
As a liberal I had several things I expected from President Obama. Single payer universal health care, cap and trade, high speed trains, a dollar tax on each gallon of gas and total withdrawal from war were all on my extremist list of liberal wants. Pretty early in this first term for President Obama it became clear that not all of my wish list would come to be reality. It is just too extreme. I get that.
The Republican right wing Tea Party needs to get it, too. Compromise is not evil and the radical position that says compromise is evil is starting to lose its grip. That favorite son of the crazy right is faltering. He is losing advertisers and he is now losing affiliates. Rush L. has been spewing his form of sophomoric, parent testing form of hyperbole for a very long time. He also has been on a campaign to stop any compromise all along the way. Glenn B. is ....where is he....haven't heard. He to is gone because all that scary stuff that came from his mouth that just would not pass the fact checkers. Both of these shock jocks play so loose with the facts and always take the extreme view while saying that compromise is some kind of bad thing.
You can have a government that has no compromise because its been done before. Let's see, that would be those famous for no compromise. Look under Hitler, Stalin, Caesar, Henry VIII, Mao... All of these guys were ultimate failures for the people they were supposed to be serving.
Maybe this primary system really does work after all. The GOP will have a candidate that has demonstrated an ability to work out some compromises and craft laws in one of the most liberal states... ever. (Only state McGovern carried, and yes I voted for him, too). Romney got plenty of good laws passed in Massachusetts, and it could not have been easy.
By running Romney, the GOP is moving to the middle just like Obama did when we ended up with the It's not as satisfying as getting everything you want, but it's real. Remember: "You Can't Always Get What You Want....You Get What You Need."
Extremists like Santorum are usually too blinded by their own ego and too deafened by the screeching voices in their heads to realize that the vast majority dont share their views and would dream of giving them more power than Potato Salad Judge at the church picnic. Santorum lost his last election by nearly 20 points as an incumbent , yet the voices in his head and his huge ego (and according to him , God) told him to go out and take an epic beating on the national stage . I truly hope his ailing daughter recovers and I find it shameful & disgusting that he USED her as an excuse to drop out instead of simply citing the obvious .
Extremists like Santorum are usually too blinded by their own ego and too deafened by the screeching voices in their heads to realize that the vast majority dont share their views and would dream of giving them more power than Potato Salad Judge at the church picnic. Santorum lost his last election by nearly 20 points as an incumbent , yet the voices in his head and his huge ego (and according to him , God) told him to go out and take an epic beating on the national stage . I truly hope his ailing daughter recovers and I find it shameful & disgusting that he USED her as an excuse to drop out instead of simply citing the obvious .
Even being reasonably liberal myself, I had no desire for most of the things listed. We need higher taxes and nothing in return, to drive down the deficit. Sad but true; but nobody wants to face that reality.
Delusional egomaniacs like Santorum are rarely able to understand the clear writing in the wall . He lost an election as an incumbent in Pennsylvania by nearly 20 points! It's no surprise that the states he won rank among the lowest in education and literacy and while I hope his daughter recovers from her illness I find it disgusting that he used her as an excuse for his failure. Hopefully Newt will follow suit
Compromise is what got us here, not adhering to conservative principles put this country so far in debt, that most at this point don't see a way out. We can't tax our way to prosperity, the numbers prove that. With our level of spending, we could tax everybody that makes over $250,000 a year at 100% and still not fund the government for a year. So no, compromise isn't the answer - we need to cut spending. We need to cut it painfully, and get rid of a lot of programs. You want compromise? Let's agree to put them back as we can afford them and things turn around. But right now, we're on a sinking ship. And rather than plug the leak, some want to just throw stuff overboard thinking that less weight will keep the ship from sinking. It won't...it'll just prolong the inevitable. And Wes - Cap and tax, and raising the price of gasoline? How would this help anything? We're already seeing price increases and people having problems paying for things, and you want to raise prices some more?
And Grant...would that be "non-judgemental" disgust? I'm glad he bowed out too, but I'm not sure staying home to take care of the kids is "disgusting". I'm pretty sure he made a "personal choice" and aren't you going on and on all the time about that being a good thing? Why are you judging the man on his personal choices about his family? Or does that only apply when the issue involving one's children is more...lethal?
I'm judging the idiot because instead of being honest and realizing there was no way to win he played his sick kid as an excuse Since you missed it I'll quote it again for you "while I hope his daughter recovers from her illness I find it disgusting that he used her as an excuse for his failure. " Try mouthing the words as you read them ..
Karsten < I wholeheartedly disagre with your belief that more religion would be any sort of improvement in this country . Religion has become a disease in America, and those infected constantly seek to infect every part of our society including our supposedly secular government. I'd agree with Mr Leader that "entitlements" should be abolished ESPECIALLY those illegally and unconstitutionally handed to "religious" organizations .
But I will also say that I'm not really sure why churches get tax-free status. I could understand some tax breaks because of the work they do, but would think that should be itemized to show where those deductions would come from.
I believe in a "higher power" and I take no issue with others that do regardless of what they perceive that higher power to look like. I believe belief in that higher power to be between the believer and whatever invisible sky wizard or sentient complex carbohydrate one prefers. Certanly our leaders arent exempt from having these beliefs as well as a matter of personal faith . The issues arise when these beliefs are foisted upon all of us via government . IN simple terms I dont want religious chocolate in the government peanut butter
Why is my post from yesterday still "pending approval". It is not offensive or irrational. Thanks
And for the record, I really don't care. But if you're gonna get all frothy about when people post things you percive as "judgemental", well, far too much glass in your house to those them particular stones, chief...
Santorum had serious seperation issues. Differences of what "Church/State" seperation means vary widely, but i happen to think of the church and government as ice cream and chili. I like Ice cream and I like chili...just not mixed together. Yuck.
Mr. Santorum is a perfect example of my point. Here we had a fundamentalist who went around the country, stoking hate for minorities and social democratic principals.... using gays as a wedge issue and women as his piss pot. Religion is a charade and religious leaders are charlatans that lead the weak minded and the vulnerable to vote hate and discrimination into the state and federal laws of the land in a plea to religious freedom and moral correctness. Spare me your righteousness. This country was founded by enlightened men who ... were probably atheists ... but called themselves agnostic because they would have been burned at the stake for speaking their truth. Religion has no place in politics; America would do good to be rid of it completely. We can support each other without some sky king to look up to. Wake up.
And yes, you're probably right. They were really satan-loving atheists. They just interjected God into about every document they got their hands on because they were trying to fool the public. Why didn't I think of this? I also never said that I thought we should govern based on religion. I said we already do to an extent. And that religion, to an extent, is not a bad thing. But I personally believe that some laws that are obviously religious in nature are dumb. No alcohol on Sundays, prostitution laws, etc. To me, if you're not bothering anybody else, there probably shouldn't be a law against it. Victimless crimes shouldn't exist. But maybe that's a discussion for another post.....
"Victimless crimes shouldn't exist." Ummm, that might have started a long time ago. See Onan. And yes Jeff.. I am judging him, he's a wanna be p[olitician, it's our job as citizens to judge him , besides I'm not bound by some magic spell or ancient campfire story that would preclude me passing judgement on Frothboy and those moronic enough to believe that a guy like that is qualified to lead this country . ,