Sadly it seems that we are heading back to the days of the McCain campaign. He was supposedly going to take the high road and not use the nasty tactics being used by Obama. There are times when you need to fight fire with fire if you want to win.
Obama said if they bring a knife we’ll bring a gun. Now what person in a fight is going to bring boxing gloves to fight a man with a rifle? In war a person should not pull their punches. In politics the same is no less true.
I must admit I had to wonder during the McCain campaign if there wasn’t someone behind the scenes giving him the bad advice he seemed to be getting or it wasn’t some kind of plan with the idea that they knew they were going to lose so they would regroup for the 2010 elections.
All too often it seems republicans are cable of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
I still remember Romney speech when he resigned the campaign. It was the sort of speech he should have been giving all along. Even back then it was like the Republican Party had told him that he wasn’t going to be their pick and to back off.
Many of us would like to believe that our politics is a politics of the people, by the people and for the people, but a recent development in 2 different states is showing us otherwise. There are two different people running against Obama in 2 different states and in one of them it looks like the challenger might win, yet he was told they wouldn’t give him any delegates in the convention. What they are essentially saying when they do this is that the people don’t decide who the candidate is going to be, we do.
Many think the republicans really want to win, but I’m not so sure that’s the case. I think in too many cases their agenda is not much different from that of the Democrats. There are far too many progressives in the Republican Party. Sometimes it is hard to tell the difference.
Alan Keyes has made some great points of late regarding the lack of any substantial difference between Obama and Romney. They are both chameleons. Though the media, by that I mean Fox News since they are the only ones that even came close to fair coverage of the republican primaries, has tried to convince us that they’re not taking sides from the very beginning and throughout the primary they continued to call Romney the presumed frontrunner. Only when he had a clear lead were they willing to give a look at the others. I’m sure they loved dragging it out as long as they could. What I want to know is where the responsible writing was when Herman Cain dropped out and how all the accusations of sexual misconduct simply vanished. Those women didn’t both to pursue it any more, there were no settlements, and nothing more was said. Doesn’t think smell of a setup?
There was far more vicious mudslinging during the Republican Primary, but now Romney is going to be above it all? I really don’t get this at all. In too many ways this has the feel of another setup. Last time McCain didn’t take off the gloves till it was too late and obviously so and even then he had quite a comeback. It all seems very calculated to me.
I have not felt that Romney or any of the rest of the batch was any too good. Consider there are 300 million people in this nation I have to wonder if these are really the best we could find to represent us? How is it that we can’t find men of real character who will vote their consciences?
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