The 2008 election has earned its third downgrade from me. Now It’s "As The World Turns" as I study it.
I didn’t belief it was possible, but I was wrong--again. It was necessary to downgrade the 2008 Election for the third time in just a few months.
My downgrades are justifed by candidates and voters dumbing everything down to lower and lower levels day after day.
A few months back, I downgraded the 2008 Election from a rowdy "CircusMaximus" event to "2008 Election: The Theater Of The Absurd."
And just a few weeks ago, it was time for a second downgrade to "2008 Election: Now Just Trival Pursuit."
Today, I had to do it again—another downgrade to: "Election 2008: Just Another Soap Opera."
Don’t worry, "Days Of Our Lives" and "As The World Turns." Election 2008 is no competition for you. Election 2008 is even worse than "Ted Mack’s Original Amateur Hour," a ghastly radio program featuring untalented people from the late 1930’s, 1940’s and early 1950’s.
Today’s candidates seldom discuss anything of substance. The race is judged daily by soundbites, dissing, insults, leaks by staffers trashing other candidates and responses to changes in poll numbers.
This nonsense stems from a severe lack of leadership, no vision (without which"the people perish"), almost no knowledge or interest in the U.S. Constitution from incumbent "leaders" who, instead, seek campaign funds for themselves from contributors and lobbyists.
Global realities are filtered out, too. Once leader of the world in many dimensions, we’ve fallen to 24th for innovation and education. Our public schools are dreadful, dumbed down, dysfunctional and, in some cases, downright dangerous to your life.
China has lots of cash to invest ($1.3 trillion). We don’t. Instead, we have a $ 9.0 trillion budget deficit. Yes, I know the false liberal reply, "we owe to ourselves." If that were true, why don’t liberals pay it off? Actually, our budget deficit is owed to other nations.
The "New Deal" and "The Great Society" keep bleeding us dry, worsened by many voters looking for free lunches from Washington, D.C. nanny state.
Years ago, a research study was done to learn where people thought the Federal government got its money. 34% said that, in addition to taxes, the government had sources of money that we do not know about.
That was the liberal mindset working back then—and it still is at work now—always searching new ways to increase socialism and mooch from Uncle Sam.
But that’s OK. Ben Bernanke can create magic dollars out of thin air with a simple edict—roll the printing pressses, boys—a billion here, a billion there (hey, it’s just chump change)!
Let's "roll the presses" is the strategy chosen to solve the sub-prime debacle.What the Federal Reserve doesn’t print, foreign banks and financial sources can invest into large American lenders, eventually taking effective control. Isn’t global teamwork just great!
Well, you may ask, don’t we have two political parties with sagacious leaders able to provide us with qualified candidates wiser than Solomon? Don’t the political parties take care of such things? And aren’t the parties really OK, just rattled a bit from realigning?
If you believe those things, then you must believe that Santa makes toys at the North Pole instead of buying them inexpensively from his sources in China.
As for the political parties, the party will be over in Washington in 2008.
Predictable voting blocks are decreasing and becoming less loyal as well to both Democrats and Republicans.
Unions are going the way of the dinosaur. Blacks and Hispanics can’t be counted upon as eternal 100% Democrat voters, either.
I dare say that Oprah Winfrey has more credibility and influence with Blacks and women voters than the Democrat and Republican parties combined.
Social conservatives will decrease in number as the elder titans of the Christian Right go to be with the Lord, being replaced by younger ministers more interested in saving sinners than scorning them.
A good sign: Pat Robertson broke ranks with social conservatives and endorsed Rudy Giuliani, believing that terrorism and homeland security are more serious than any other issues and that Rudy is the best person to handle these things.
Fiscal conservatives (like me) consider the nation’s financial mess more important than giving litmus tests to candidates on abortion and homosexuality.
Although the 2008 Election and our nation’s direction appear bleak, America is still Ronald Reagan Country. As the Gipper often said, our best years are ahead of us. This is still true
To turn the USA around, we need a President with a clear, simple, and optimistic vision—much like President Reagan had. He or she must explain things very simply to voters and have the courage not to waffle when hearing the whining of liberal demagogues.
America is resilient, and we will survive two ineffective Presidents from The Boring House of Bush and one (but hopefully not two) from The Comical House of Clinton. We don’t need political royal families in the USA or candidates from Yale University’s secret Skull and Bones Society.
The rise of the Internet since the 2004 Presidential Election is unsettling to the political establishment, especially due to Ron Paul’s Boston Tea Party and the $18 million he raised in the fourth quarter of 2007.
My first 2008 Presidental choice at this time continues to be Ron Paul, followed by Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani. We need a real fiscal conservative in the White House, not a "compassionate conservative," a synonym for free-spending liberal.
