Maybe I’m too lazy to be a pundit or a reliable author of liberal talking points. In what seemed like the blink of an eye, months have gone by since my last post. So perhaps I will focus on brief talking points rather than more lengthy pieces from now on.
Getting back to business, like most everyone else, I have been at once captivated and horrified by what I hear from the Republican candidates…obviously, a race to the right and from there to the bottom. I keep asking myself, “Why are Republicans so very unhappy with their frontrunner?”
Independents, and other folks of good will…including moderate Republicans, should make no mistake. The ENTIRE Republican Party is playing to, and in the pocket of, the so-called Tea Party…angry, angry people who would rather vent and rant than govern. The Tea Party ABHORS compomise. The Tea Party LOVED the debt limit crisis, becasue it empowered them, and let them show their anger and contempt for the courtesies, compromise and civilty required for governing.
So Republicans now play to the most angry and irrational of their constituents, who HATE the very idea that Mitt Romney because he might one day even consider compromise. They want what they want. PERIOD. To hell with science, economics, mathematics, the future. They have been throwing tantrums ever since the day the President took the oath of office.
The Tea Party and its Republican lackeys WANT WHAT THEY WANT with no thought for the real life consequences. None of President Obama’s compromises were acceptable either, because they want it ALL. Not just a fair deal or good compromise. They want it all, and they cannot abide a candidate who will not promise them everything they want…and with a vehement, angry conviction.
God help us if they win. We’ll need it.