Making sense of it all.

Each time I listen to or hear about another Republican debate, I scratch my head and wonder. I keep asking myself will sensibility ever return to the campaign and voting process in America.  Will truly qualified candidates ever come back to the table and enter the debate?  Well, the prospect looks dim.  Hope is fading fast.

Of course, this time the whole process has been tossed on it’s ear.  Shifting the debate and focus on Rick Perry’s entrance into the Republican scrimmage.  Shifting far right ideology further to the right and drawing all the other candidates along with him.  Sort of like a Texas tornado gathering debris and tossing it over the landscape.  Mostly moving more towards civil war and creating a confederacy.

Nonetheless, I am most concerned because I use to be a Republican.  But in later years since Ronald Reagan, my party abandoned me.  Leaving me in the middle.  Consequently leaving me in the hands of Independent mongers.  People of extreme logic and rationality. 

So I roam through the wilderness searching for who or what to identify with.  Certainly not the right.  And, certainly not the left.  Thus leaving me to decide for myself and Making my own decisions.  Forcing me to study the real issues independently and away from partisan spin and hyperbole.  Well you know ladies and gentlemen, it seems to be working out okay this way.  You should try it.

We need strong heavy lifters

Hurricanes, fires, floods, Tornados, earthquakes, and more.  How can we deal with the enormity and depth of these horrific events?  Often times it’s more than the Red Cross, Salvation Army, and other national organizations can possibly handle.  Some of these disasters exceed normal comprehension.  How to we all grasp and react to these bigger than life disasters without larger and resourceful assistance?

So the question is, who is going to do most of the heavy lifting?  Who did the heavy lifting after hurricane Katrina?  Who did most of the heavy lifting after the floods down the Mississippi over the past few years?  Who did the heavy lifting after the Joplin Tornado, Who did the heavy lifting after the fires in California and Colorado?  Who was there with FEMA, the Coast Guard, the National Guard, the National Border Patrol, the Corps of Engineers, the Small Business Administration, the National Weather Service, National Flood Insurance, etc. etc.  Who was that?

The answer is, The United States of America.  Otherwise known as you and I.  The taxpayers of America.  The Federal Government.  Yes the same Federal Government that Grover Norquist, Rick Perry, and Michele Bachmann want to drown in a bathtub.  All obviously anti-Americans.  Certainly the opposite of American patriotism.  For sure no friend to our America.

Are these the people you want to run America.  Are these the people you want to run your future?  Do you trust people who in the past wanted to pull out from the United States?  Do you want a president who wants to take away your Social Security and Medicare?  Do you want a president who wishes to return America to a narrow bigoted Confederacy?  Most of all do you want someone who doesn’t know Elvis’s birthday from the date of his death?  No.  No.  And No for sure!  None of the afore mentioned people is fit to run the United States of America.  God save America.

Rick Perry and his running mate Robert E Lee

The late Molly Ivans once wrote, any governor from Texas shouldn’t ever be president.  Just as a rule of thumb.  It just works out best that way. 

Our recent republican presidential entry, Governor Rick Perry, is not any exception.  Gov. Perry just last year wanted Texas to succeed from the Union.  Is this good government?  Is this patriotism?  I guess he just didn’t like America’s politics.  He would rather go it alone and withdraw from the United States.  I suppose forfeiting all federal grants, federal monies,  and federal facilities.  Facilities like Fort Hood, services like border patrols, entitlements like Social Security payments, grants for Interstate highway funds, and R and D facility like NASA HQ and any other federally sponsored entity.

I can only conjecture if he did become President, his first item of business would be to release the other confederate states from the Union as well.  Then reestablishing the Confederate dollar.  And finally restoring slavery.  My goodness what a horrible man.  Returning America back to the 1860s.

Goodness gracious!  Is this the guy we want running the United States?  The United States wouldn’t be united anymore.  And I can only guess, returning the north and south to Civil War.  Do we want a guy like this in the Whitehouse?  No no no.  Not on a bet.