Richard Nixon had more going for himself.

When will they ever get it? Are they clueless? Where is the sensibility and common sense. Gone? Long time passing? Long long ago?

Surely the Republican voters have more good judgment than has been displayed in the past few months of Republican state primaries and caucuses. It is so obvious to the rest of the world that these four Looney-Toon Republican candidates are not Presidential material. Not even janitorial material. They are junior high sniveling twits. Just squirrel bate. Dog kibble or cat litter.

There must be some hope somewhere. Surely a Lincoln or Eisenhower will come out of the woodwork. Hopefully soon. Even a Gerald Ford would be acceptable. Anybody. Anyone with a willingness to work with both political parties. Someone who assumes the blame now and then. Not always blaming others. You know. “The buck stops here.”

But who? Someone who is an all around good guy or gal. Yes, a gal. It just might be the right time for a Woman President. Perhaps Olympia Snow. Yeah, go for it!

When in the event of a disaster, don't call Ron Paul.

Ron Paul, current presidential candidate, said “victims of the recent Kentucky and Indiana tornados should fend for themselves.” Which means, according to Paul, there should not be any federal assistance or aid. So, this is Libertarianism. Right?

Then to add insult to injury, the esteemed satellite pastor Rt Rev Pat Robertson said, It’s the Indiana and Kentucky tornado victims fault for building homes in the path of the tornados.” Look it up yourself. I kid you not. These guys said this. Is this what Brotherly love suppose to be? I hope not.

Of course FEMA is the whipping boy as far as Ron Paul is concerned. Federal government should not be in the business of giving aid and handouts. Perhaps Robertson feels the same. Both at one time or another were Presidential Candidates. Paul still is. Oh please, forbid!

So, who is to come to the aid of disaster victims? David Letterman? A wealthy former resident of Indiana? Perhaps all the churches in Kentucky could help. Not likely. Some would. Most wouldn’t. Too big of a task. So, who is to do the heavy lifting? The only known entity is the federal government. Contrary to what Ron Paul thinks.

Yes, FEMA does provide financial aid and low interest loans but they also provide coordination of incoming donations as well provide emergency teams and equipment. No need to fumble around and hope something good happens. Emergency and rescue teams are already trained and ready to go. God bless FEMA and the Federal Government.

So what's the big deal about me building a nuclear waste dump?

Libertarian? What is it? Basically here is their doctrine taken from a Libertarian web site:
“A political philosophy maintaining that all persons are the absolute owners of their own lives, and should be free to do whatever they wish with their persons or property, provided they allow others the same liberty.”
Now, can you imagine 320-plus million Americans trying to follow this credo? Every last citizen doing his or her own thing? Doing whatever it is and hopefully without bothering the other self-determined individuals. Oh, really.

Oh sure, I want to build a nuclear waste dump here in our neighborhood to supplement my family’s income.
And, I want to set up a Skeet shooting range right next door to the Crystal Cathedral.
I’m going to build a huge hog farm directly on top of a major aquifer plus drill for natural gas using the easy fracking method.
Well then, I’m going to build a coal fired power plant and man it with all illegal workers and build it right next door to a preschool.

I’m going to start cooking and manufacturing Methamphetamine regardless of the hazards and sell it to all the high schoolers.

I’m going to build the world’s largest tire and rubber incinerator right here in Beverly Hills.


Are you following me on this? Do you see my point? Some definitions of Libertarian in clued the word anarchist. Anarchy and utter chaos would be the result. Especially without some central government. Otherwise we would all be at war with each other. Civil war. There must be, for the sake of civility, some central form of government.

The United States form of Democratic government is the best way to go. Sure there are problems with Democracy but it’s better than anarchy. Or, Libertarianism. God bless America.

Mom come get me! This can't be real.

What would it really be like to just ride in on a load of pumpkins? Then stop on Main Street America and hop off. Just arrived out of nowhere. Not knowing anything. Or anybody. Green and uninitiated. A freshman from the cornfields. Possibly ignorant of current events.

Then, to be confronted by TV, radio, and cable news. Broadcasting and bloviating the political events of the day. Haranguing rhetoric, shouting, fist banging, accusations, sound bites, red faced grimaces, narrowed eyes, and barking bla-bla-bla. Carrying on like you’ve never seen before. How scary that would be.

You look around taking in sights and sounds you’ve never witnessed before. Thinking you got off at the wrong bus stop. Possibly in a dangerous neighborhood. A neighborhood filled with troubled people. Possibly inhabitants not taking their prescribed ADD meds. Just a bunch of Hypertensive ridalin popping misfits. “Holy moly! When’s the next bus going back home?”

Then you might think, maybe this is where carnival Sideshows “Carny people” train. Yes, of course, this is Circus City. Sure that’s it. P T Barnum once lived here. That’s it. I’m lost and need to leave right away.

Get me out of here. These politicians people are nuts. They scare me. They almost look cannibal like. Mom come get me! Help!

It's more like an "Alter Call" by special interests

“You can have all this you see before you,” the devil told Jesus. “All I need is for you to bow down and worship me,” Satan commanded. Certainly an episode from the “Great Temptation” during Jesus’ 40-day fast in the wilderness.

An event where the devil wanted Jesus to compromise his principles and deny God. Unfortunately, a model followed by many of today’s political leaders. In modern terms it’s called selling out to special interests. Mostly followed by Republican politicians. And, to be fair, a few Democrats as well.

What I am getting at is what is the Republican leadership thinking? Who are these candidates they are presenting to us the American voters. All have moral and ethical questions about their past. Most of whom represent the antithesis of what Jesus taught. Selflessness, service to others, giving rather than receiving, giving to the poor, healing the sick, humility, patients, forgiveness, etc. Republican candidates who obviously have a large void in the Christian obligation department.

Either stop calling them Christian or they should start acting and talking like one. We need moral leadership as well as a caring for the American people. Stop the bloviating and create government that helps and serves the people. Not a government that serves big money and oil interests.

Surely there must be a person, man or woman, who has good moral standards and has American’s best interest in mind. A person the Republican Party would be proud to be presented as a good and ethical Presidential candidate. The remaining field of Republican candidates are just too extreme. Too sold out to special interests. Too much the opposite of Christianity. And, too bad. The Republicans will lose big time. How sad.

If you can't say something bad, then say something worse.

What the Republicans don’t want to hear at this moment is, the economy is getting better. Too much credit will be given to the socialist Obama. Nor do they want to read in the papers, many recipients of “Obamacare” are saying they like what they are experiencing with O-care. Or, many Americans think it’s it has been well past time to appoint a Consumer Protection Czar. Neither do the Republicans want to hear employment has gone up and unemployment has gone down. And there are other positive government benefits to attribute to President Obama as well. “Please Mr. and Ms. Media, don’t let anybody know about this.” Please!

So, what the Republican presidential candidates continue to say is, Obama is a dangerous socialist and can’t be trusted. He is a failure. He and his family have no family values.

So as Mit Romney hides his unfortunate business past, he continues to blather about the anti-American socialist Obama. However, the newspaper headlines don’t seem to support Romney’s concerns about Obama or the collective concerns of other Republican presidential candidates.

Even though Newt Gingrich has been married three times with two regrettable divorces, Newt continues to bloviate about the evil President Obama. Liberal, socialist, and darling of the free world. “How could he!”?

Never the less, the only way to hide Obama’s good deeds, is to “Smoke screen” the President’s resume. Say naughty things about him. Call him Big Government. Label him leftist and a Health care Santa Claus. My gosh, how bad can he be?

But, most unfortunate is the fact all the Republican candidates have been caught in lies, exaggerations, re-manufactured untruths, rumors, innuendos, slander, misrepresentations, and many other slight of hand spinning media magic. All of which is to discredit the current president.

How else can one make themselves look good. Characterize your opponent as a Boston Strangler. Misrepresenting of your political opponent often takes the spotlight off of you. See how that works? The Republicans invented it. And they even use this tactic against each other as well.

So Republicans, your misdeeds are on Facebook, Twitter, and on every blog around the world. You can’t hide from it. You can’t deny it. You are what you are. Bad mouthing blowhards.

Who are these people anyway?

It is still not known what the Republican Party stands for. They don’t like your social security. They want to get rid of your Medicare. Republicans are set against clean air and water. Selling oil and burning coal is more important than conserving America’s energy resources.

Nonetheless, there seems to be no proactive policies to make America better. No public transportation policies. No positive health care initiatives. No bold and forward looking education policies.

Just cut taxes for the rich and shrink government (whatever that means).

Who are these people? What do they want? It is most apparent they want to kill all social programs, kill consumer protection, shrink education, get rid of any programs that serves the nonworking and working poor. Then in turn fund only the military and protect oil, gas, and coal companies. Sucking oil out of the ground is more important than helping single moms and their dependents.

What kind of people are these? Uncaring, self-serving, war and money mongers, psychopaths, narcissistic, and generally people of the military-industrial complex. Just as President Eisenhower warned us.

These are the people who are running congress and the Defense Department as we speak. Is this what we want to run the Whitehouse? People with no interest in your well-being? Wanting to reduce your role as citizen to that of consumer drone. Just buy and use what we tell you and shut up. This is what happened with the G W Bush administration and look what happened. Major recession and an increase in joblessness and homelessness.

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your Republican Party.

Have you ever heard a Pet Rock talk?

Now here’s something we can do. We can define the word mediocre. Let’s first start with Mit Romney. An average pedestrian and a bit out of touch individual. Well, maybe a lot out of touch. The only Republican Presidential candidate who often wears flip-flops. You can hear him coming down the street. Flippity-floppity flippity-floppity.

Then to add to our definition, I offer to you Newt Gingrich. Mediocre personified. Most bland and without creativity. Semi-Professorial but most dull. More like a black hole. Some call him a sleep inducer. I describe him more like a nuclear laxative.

Then there is Ron Paul to add to our mediocre definition. A one trick pony. He has nothing else to offer but reduce and take away. Mr. Minus. A Negatory active person. His only solution to anything is to shrink it and drown it in a bathtub. “I’ll make anything look smaller just by thinking about it.” Whoa Jack!

However, you can add the terms apathy, empathic, unresponsive, uncaring, disinterested, inattentive, and many other definitions to the above candidates. The list is endless. But I might say, mediocre is giving all the above political characters too much credit. A Pet Rock would be more like their true personalities.

Antipathy is their battle cry.

So answer this, if the Republican candidates want to get rid of Medicare, what would they replace it with? What will their health care program look like? How much would it cost? Will it get rid of the health insurance middlemen? Will our taxes go down?

Now, answer this one. If the Republicans get rid of collective bargaining for state and municipal workers does that mean they would hire more teachers, healthcare workers, police and firemen? Would this save enough money to hire all these public safety workers and educators? Will the classroom population in schools become smaller? Would there be more skilled and trained fire and policemen? Will the county hospitals have more nurses and health care aids?

And, if the Republicans de-fund and/or get rid of the EPA could air and water quality become better? Would drinking water taste better? Will the air become clearer? Will there be less coal-fired power plants? Fewer coalmines? No strange chemical in our drinking water?

Well, if you want the truth, the Republicans have no plan for health care. Republicans have no plans to hire more teachers and public safety workers. And they for sure have no plans to clean up the environment. It’s not on their agenda. Republicans have no social or environmental agenda.

If it were left up to the Republicans, schools, fire and police departments would all go private. Serving only the few who could afford it. Health care, and public safety would be on a subscription basis. Again, serving only the affluent few. Only the few and the very rich could live far out in the protected subburbs. Far away from the air and water pollution.

Is this who you want to run Washington DC? Politicians serving only the few?

This is almost as funny as Laugh-In.

I can’t help but laugh. Do you not see the humor in this wacky political season? Or should I say “Silly Season.” It’s just utterly crazy and almost bazaar. Off the wall. Politics gone berserk!

So far I see or hear nothing that would be considered serious politicizing. Just a bunch of nonsense. Babble and buffoonery. Political rhetoric taken from the Saturday Night Live playbook. All candidates absolutely “Not Ready For Primetime.” Politicians at the grade school assembly time level. You know, Charlie Brown goes to Washington.

How on Earth can anybody with good judgment believe anything from all these Republican Party Presidential candidates? They often speak of things they later regret and have to retract. Some have resumes with obvious moral improprieties. Some are “Fact” challenged. Others absolutely know nothing about the US Constitution and basic law. Then there are those who flip and flop and flip again. Candidates lacking true American values and are just in it for the sake of taking control. Never mind the basic wants and needs of America. “We’ll take back Washington and drown it in a bath tub.”

Is this all the Republican Party can offer? Are there not any rational, selfless, hardworking, and reasonably educated political candidates out there? Surely there are a few reasonable moral folks willing to take on the thankless job of running for President. Obviously the Republican leadership has not found one just yet. Well, keep on looking guys. Let us know when you have a serious candidate.

Iowa? Where is it?

Gale Collins had a very interesting and head scratching Op-Ed in the NY Times today. She ass the question what about Iowa and why should we care. And she is talking about the Iowa Republican caucuses.

She points out there are about, on a good clear and sunny day, a hundred thousand caucus participants. A population less than Boise, Idaho. Mostly white. Mostly affluent. Mostly overly religious. Mostly old. A segment of the social spectrum that is quickly becoming a minority. Insignificant. Irrelevant. Unyielding and stodgy.

Will the African-American community care? Will the Hispanic community care? Will L A, New York, Houston, or Chicago care? No, no, no, and no.

So why are there thousands of TV, cable, and print news media hounds floating about and all those satellite trucks parked hither and yon all over Iowa? Well, just watch the nightly news. It sells ads. It fills in all the blank spaces in the news. It’s reality TV and it’s cheap to produce. Most of all millions of Americans have nothing better to do but watch mindless broadcast and cable news. And is better than Desperate Housewives.

Fifty years ago Iowa was billed as the first voter’s poll. Back then when a more moderate voter attended the caucuses. Sometimes giving a reasonable cross section of Middle America thinking. Not so anymore. It has not followed the sociological and ethnic trends. Thus rendering it out of touch. Caught in a political time warp. Meaningless and almost silly. Iowa! Get a life!

A mad movie with madmen and woman

Did you ever see the blockbuster movie comedy “It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad World? Just a crazy wacky and most bazaar movie and first shown in the mid-1960s at exclusive showings. Starring Spencer Tracy, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Terry Thomas, Milton Berle, and many many other mad comedians. It kept me laughing until I cried and almost wet my pants.

A movie scenario it took several writers to write and eventually finished the plot. All about a gang of misfit comedians chasing after some hidden treasure. A movie filled with one liners, pratfalls, outrageous stunts, and incredible human misbehavior. Truly one of the best comedies ever filmed. You should download it from Netflix.

However, at this moment in time, there is a comedy of greater magnitude unfolding as we speak. A bazaar scenerio only Hollywood could ever write and cast but couldn’t. But, it’s most certainly not Hollywood and neither is it cast by Hollywood actors. The script is so far out and loopy, no Hollywood writer could ever come up with such a twisted plot. Insane, horrific, new invented language and a presentation filled with irony. A scenario that is more outrageous than any script Hollywood could ever dream of writing.

What is it and where can I see it? Well, it’s been unfolding as we speak almost on a weekly basis on network TV, cable, and on the Internet. It’s called the Republican Debates. Cast with the most mad Men and woman any casting service or director could ever come up with. You can’t write this kind of stuff and expect real people to believe it. You couldn’t find a more insane cast. This is by far the ultimate reality show. Millions and maybe billions of dollars couldn’t ever write and cast such a mad scenario and script.

No gathering of actors and writers has ever been assembled such as this. An event unequaled by anything Hollywood puts out. This is it! The Mad, Mad, Mad Republican Debates. Now showing on a TV or computer near you. Featuring Newt, Rick, Mit, Michele, Ron, John, and virtually a cast of thousands. All in living color and most unpredictable reality. And, to repeat, most Mad!

Just don't go in there. You'll waste your money.

The Carnival is still on the road and barkers and side show freaks are as bazaar as ever. Pitchmen are still at it and Shouting making all kinds of outrageous claims. “Lay your money down and come on in if you dare.” See them crawl on their bellies like a reptile. All they want is just a little bit of your money and you get the show of a lifetime. “Come on in take a chance. See the worlds greatest Freak Show. Hurry hurry hurry! Just step right inside the crowded tent.”

And whom do you get to see or hear? Rick, Herman, Mit, Newt, Ron, and the list is almost endless. However, this really isn’t a serious carnival but a feeble attempt by the ultra conservatives to field a presidential chorus line of clowns. However, the men and woman are as bazaar as any carnival sideshow. Bloviating, making outrageous statements, flailing and twisting about like genuine freaks at the circus.

And here is the rub. They are pretending to be serious presidential candidates. And to add humor to their stupidity, they think they have something good to offer the American voters. Oh really?

While these Looney Toons are babbling and debating with each other, the American voters are trying to figure out how to revive the national economy. Plus other Americans are yelling and shouting on Wall Street in order to bring some sensibility and equality to the financial mess. A giant mess which some of the candidates had made in the first place. Who are they kidding?

Is this the kind of lowbrow politics we want to send to Washington? Just more of the same old same from the previous administration. America deserves better. Just tell all of them, NO! Where are the JFKs? Where are the Eisenhower’s? Where are the Roosevelts and Trumans? I’ll even take a Nixon or Ford. Just get these sideshow freaks off stage. God forgive us and God bless America.