The Circus Comes to Town

I used to think "the Situation" was an idiot, then I started following the Republican debates, the most recent of which took place last night in Arizona and was another shining example of the filth the Republican party is peddling.

You think that Americans would be sick of outdated economic ideology that has been tried and found wanting. The solutions being offered are actually the same prescriptions that led us down the toilet, but at least on the plane of economic theory, the candidates are able to bob and weave their way through a field with a measure of subjectivity. When it comes to objectivity and facts, the Republican field scrambles like there's an electric fire in the kitchen and they just tried to douse it with water. It's high comedy cloaking a "severe" lack of intellect and integrity.

How can Rick Santorum take the moral low road on an issue like contraception when he voted for bills that provided funding for contraception? How is it that Mitt Romney, job creator, was vehemently opposed to the bailouts that saved the auto industry? Can someone please give me an example of how Obama is "appeasing" Iran? And for god's sake fellas, if you're going to talk about repealing Obamacare can you at least cite one nonpartisan study, just one that shows that it will actually save money? I'll answer that one for you, no, you cannot, because all nonpartisan analyses of the law have concluded it will save the nation money.

I'm serious when I say that the best idea I've heard any of the Republican candidates offer is Newt Gingrich's moon base. There are about 100 reasons not to like Newt Gingrich, but at least on the moon base he's looking forward instead of backwards. It's the only fresh idea I've heard a Republican candidate offer during the whole process. Still, Gingrich, like the rest of the field is dismissible as the leader of the free world, or for that matter, as the leader of the local country club. I'm pretty sure the only place I'd follow any of the current Republican candidates is off a cliff which makes perfect sense since that is where they're trying to take the country anyhow.

There are reasons to be dissatisfied with Obama and the Democrats, there are Republican ideas that warrant more attention and respect than they are getting, and somewhere out in the intellectual and moral void that is the conservative there must be a few sane voices wondering what happened to their party. In fact I'd be willing to bet that there are quite a few of those people who are simply overwhelmed and drowned out by the idiots who have hijacked their party and stepped into the national media spotlight. I hope for America's sake that those people find the fortitude to take the Republican party back and start pushing for good Republican ideals. I'm looking at you Chris Christie, Mitch Daniels, and Mitt Romney circa 1994.

Until that happens or the nation sours on the far right's latest crop of loony toons, we'll be forced to endure more events like last night's farcical circus. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: America deserves better than the outdated and too often immoral ideas being peddled to us by the Republican party.