Courtesy of TheTruthAboutGuns.com
Like him or love him, Newt Gingrich has now gone beyond grasping at straws. Sure, he's spouted off about establishing a colony on the moon. Heck, I'd like to see that, but realistically we've got many financial issues we must address first; much like Newt. His campaign bounced a check to the Utah elections office. He's selling his (normally free) lawn signs touting his candidacy for around $10; signed pictures of you and he for around $50 to help his campaign. During a campaign stop, a penguin bit him. He got pissed at a UNC student reporter during a seemingly innocent interview. At a recent NRA event, Newt got a standing ovation with his proposed ‘Gingrich Doctrine’—a promise for a UN treaty to give everyone on the planet the right to bear arms. That's right, he feels it's a human right for everyone on the planet to bear arms. All this and Romney will STILL be the chosen one to run against Obama in November. I heard a commentator state "if you're tired of the 'mocha' chosen one (Obama), wait til you get a load of the 'vanilla' one (Romney)." This comes on the heels of rocker Ted Nugent telling the NRA convention over the weekend that he'd be either 'dead or in jail' a year from now if Obama is reelected.
How many weak candidates and elections must come and go while the US spirals in a seemingly downward, debilitating spiral?
In regards to Newt, well, I'm a supporter of the 2nd amendment. I also believe that sometimes what's good for the goose (The USA) isn't necessarily good for the gander (everyone else). With the exception of Turkey (arguable), our form of a representative republic government will not work for many areas of the world. It just won't. I wish it would, but it hasn't historically and won't. Madeleine Albright recently advised either Egypt or Libya not to fashion their style of government after the US constitution. Right winged pundits gave her a rash of criticism for the comment, however I agree with her in regards to Libya and Egypt or pretty much any other middle east country. When the US installed government falls in Iraq and in Afghanistan, it will be embarrassing and a literal bloody spectacle. I hope I'm wrong, but I do believe that will unfortunately happen. Not that the US way is a better option for everybody else on the planet.
For me and mine, I believe it's the best. I just feel in my heart our way of life isn't for everyone. Sure people in other countries may express a desire and want to be like we here in the US, but overall these people can only be ruled by dictators or scum. I read where people in North Korea are eating grass and tree bark to survive while their government wastes nearly a billion dollars on a rocket test. Of course there is hunger here in the US where we spend millions of dollars on various frivolity. Hunger and poverty, and i mean even 1 hungry child or person is too many, and being poor here in the US is no where near the levels as other countries.
Both sides of this year's political rivalry are accusing each other of being in bed with "the rich". While statistically the rich ARE getting richer and the number of poor are increasing, I cannot tell the poor are getting poorer with all of the computers, Xbox, PS3, and big flat screen TV's flowing out of places like Walmart or Kmart or Target and the ilk. Go and sit in the parking lot of one of these or another establishment on any given Friday afternoon/evening or during the weekend and see what I mean.
I don't see where this labeling and name calling and finger pointing is helping to resolve anything. From my feeble perspective, the Bush bail out was wrong in size and scope. Obama could have done something about it, but chose not to. It's an example of futility the general public feels about the US government. We as a people have come to a point where we see the hypocrisy, lies, and waste- regardless of who's in the White House- yet do little more than form Tea Parties and 'Ron Paul' like movements assuring each other on talk radio how "right" we are and how wrong those who oppose are.
Again, how many weak candidates and elections must come and go while the US spirals in a seemingly downward, debilitating spiral?
