On the Road Again…

The persistence of the Republican candidates is incredible; their unwillingness to give up and allow Mitt Romney to be nominated as the Presidential Nominee of the party goes beyond reason. So, there are more expenditures to take place, more hateful commercials, more Robocalls, more of the same vile tactics which cost money, and we on the left are very happy about it, all of it is good news for the Democrats, the longer they drag this race among themselves, the less money they’ll have when the time comes to confront our President. 

I’ve noticed friends that are disappointed because Santorum lost, since they prefer Santorum to win and be the rival of President Obama in the primaries. I can’t understand why people think that if Santorum wins that will be beneficial for Democrats, I believe the opposite. 

To begin with and contrary to what many believe, Santorum is not a bad speaker, he’s not as good as President Obama – far from it – but he is much better than Mitt Romney. Second, most of the extremist right wingers and the Tea Party followers are either with Santorum, Newt Gingrich or Ron Paul, and by now we all know that neither Ron Paul nor Newt Gingrich stand a chance of winning. Their followers most likely will go to Santorum. The religious extremists would prefer to vote for Santorum than Romney, simply because even though Romney is a Christian, he is a Mormon – in the eyes of the Catholics, Baptists, Evangelists, etc. the Church of the Latter Day Saints it’s a “sect,” not a Christian religion. On the other hand, Mitt Romney is the least crazy of the contenders, actually, the sanest of all the republican candidates. Remember, during the campaign of 2007-2008, when he ran a campaign based on his ideals – an old fashioned republican, a group now extinct – he lost in a blink of an eye. That is why he is probably behaving and sounding like the nuts out there, we say he’s flip flopping, in reality, he is sewing the nuts so he can reap them in November… when he is planning to make peanut butter out of them! 

Another thing against Romney is that he does not know how to be a “regular guy”, he really tries hard to be ‘one of us’ but he fails miserably – every single time. He has no charisma, and at times I even feel sorry for the man, but that lasts less than a second. 

But Romney will lose, there’s no doubt in my mind… the real danger against President Obama was Santorum and thankfully, he is running behind. There is still a long way until Election Day, but I surely hope that Romney will continue winning. 

I truly hope Romney is the republican nominee… if he is, we can be certain that President Obama will be shaping the future of this country for four more years.

And the Plot Thickens…

For those of you that might not remember, the stars of the show were: Michele Bachmann and her sidekick Marcus Bachmann; Herman Cain; Jon Huntsman; Rick Perry; Ron Paul; Newt Gingrich; Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum.

The Republican presidential primaries are turning out to be a very, very entertaining spectacle. Like a good soap opera, we have had the Insane (Michele Bachmann); the gay (Marcus Bachmann), ok, granted… he wasn’t a candidate, but boy, didn’t we have a field day with him!!; the dumb Macho man (Rick Perry); the synister old guy (Ron Paul); the guess star (Herman Cain); the rich guy (Mitt Romney); The educated and well-traveled (Jon Huntsman); the sex-maniac, unfaithful, egocentric and “guess what my religion is” guy (Newt Gingrich); the guy that seems good but is in reality fanatical and delusional (Rick Santorum). We’ve seen it all, and apparently, they’ll keep coming!

Nothing much can be said about the guess star, Herman Cain, except that I believe he spent too long so close to a hot oven that he might have “cooked” his brains a bit and that must be why he suffers from such a chronic case of bad memory and truly does not remember the many affairs he had or the women that had to put up with his unsolicited sexual advances. Maybe, since he was so used to timing pizzas or they would be free, not being able to perform for more than 10 minutes, he thought these sexual experiences didn’t count and were “free”… Poor guy, he only lasted for a few guess appearances and on December 3rd, 2011 his “contract expired”, but not without a fight.

My favorite, kind of the salt and pepper of this charade, was Michele Bachmann. Who doesn’t remember the statements given by Michele? They were paramount! One of the most memorable was "I will tell you that I had a mother last night come up to me here in Tampa, Florida, after the debate. She told me that her little daughter took that vaccine; that injection and she suffered from mental retardation thereafter." Her pathetic lies, the wild look on her eyes, her complete and utterly denial that her husband was gay; everything about her was so absurd that we didn’t know if to laugh, cry, or pity the woman. She and Marcus brought so much entertainment into an otherwise boring event that I don’t know about you, but I for one miss her! Without much fanfare, Michele was gone from the picture on January 4th, 2012.

Next in line of drop-outs, is Jon Huntsman. He was the most educated of them all. He was a bit arrogant. Ok, ok… a lot arrogant, but at least he had reason to be, damn it… the guy even spoke Mandarin! He tried very hard to fight a clean fight but, since he wasn’t getting anywhere with this tactic he tried to show aggression and, in his first attempt to show some teeth, he failed miserably! People could see he didn’t mastered the art of hypocrisy and ill intentions which are a pre-requisite to be a GOP contender so, with a sad look on his face that could bring tears to his mother’s eyes, quietly left the scene on January 16, 2012.

The cowboy, gosh… who can forget him? He was almost the male version of Michele Bachmann with a bit of Herman Cain just to make it more interesting. This guy, who really thought he had a chance to swim in a shark infested pool and be the daddy of all sharks, was devoured pretty quickly, you see, Rick Perry was as dumb as a doorknob and owner of a memory the size of a mosquito – not very good attributes for someone running for the presidency. This is one of his most memorable quotes, where he had the opportunity to show the world how brilliant he was: "I will tell you: its three agencies of government, when I get there, that are gone: Commerce, Education and the -- what's the third one there? Let's see. ... OK. So Commerce, Education and the -- ... The third agency of government I would -- I would do away with the Education, the ... Commerce and -- let's see -- I can't. The third one, I can't. Sorry. Oops” He couldn’t even remember his own plan! It was brilliant! But as all good things do have to pass, this cowboy rode into the sunset and went back to the lone star State on January 19th, 2012.

By this time, all we have left are: Newt, Paul, Mitt and Rick. The four horsemen of the apocalypses! If any one of them by any chance – whether Americans go crazy and vote for any of them or, as it is very likely they could do, fixing the elections – it will be the end of this country and we Liberals, Progressives, Democrats and Independent know this. The vision these men have for our country and the middle class is to be feared. But I seriously doubt this will happen.

Not even the GOP seems to have much faith in any one of them and is considering bringing into the picture two of their most beloved stars: Chris Christie and Jeb Bush. Will they accept to play into this soap opera? What will they be bringing into the picture? Of course, we know that Christie will be bringing about 400 pounds of lard with him and Bush more or less the same weight in crap coming as he does from the Bush clan; but politically and most importantly, from an entertaining point of view, what will they provide us with? I can’t wait for the next episode! Who will be the first of the 4 to leave the show with his tail between the legs? Count Dracupaul? Porky Newt? Saint Orum? Or Mitt Money?

Ah… don’t miss the next episode of this very interesting saga! Stay tune!