The Three R's

Having a close, personal relationship with Jesus (whether sincere or not - it's hard to tell sometimes) comes across as very important to, what appears to be, the majority of Republican Presidential candidates on display at the most recent 'debate', (I have no clear understanding of where Rudy stands on this issue but then again apart from bombing the heck out of brown people I have no clear understanding of where Rudy stands on any issue.) so as an observer of this phenomenon known as pandering to the Christian Right one can't help but notice the plethora of contradictory, mangled, vote driven, talking point inspired, headline grabbing nonesense these drab, white goons are willing to utter in the name of early primary season notoriety, face time, name recognition, exposure, etc., necessary to continue their tired, uninspiring and base-centric or single issue campaigns.

That it has become painfully apparent that the Christian Right has as deep an understanding of the teachings of Jesus Chist as a fourth grader does of Ferme's Last Theorem and as their leaders in procession like uniformity are exposed as the charlatan, hate-mongering, race-bating, homophobic, mysogenist hypocrites that some of us always suspected them of being and that the faithful continue undaunted to blithely tithe these uber-pastors to super wealth and super debauchery regardless of their leaders tawdry actions and grubby exposees, seems to be of little, if no, import to this batch of candidates who faithfully, almost robotically continue their strategic spiral into the gutter of faithbased removal of brain from body by formenting this subjegated, sheeplike bloc. Who, who amongst us but the very ill-informed, very frightened and seriously misled applauds the use of torture by anyone, let alone a nation founded upon an incredibly hard-fought for release from tyranny? It's illogical!

Not one of these candidates strikes me as having anything but complete, if inexcusably temporary, contempt for the principles and mores this nation was founded upon, they are, afterall, embracing a cult that admonishes and wishes to dissolve the separation of Church and State, to radically alter the Constitution and Bill of Rights, to make hay with practically every Amendment except the sacrosanct 2nd and to turn this country into a 16th century theocracy under the supreme leadership of a born again, white, male President, who is supposed to agitate for armageddon and bring about the end of times. Not one of these candidates questions the validity or veracity of this ideological abomination or sees a conflict between it and their own personally held beliefs. What sort of President can that kind of conscious denial and betrayal of trust make? (See: Present Administration - White-House - Bush). Someone has to ask these candidates - Do you believe in the end of times? If the answer is yes who's gonna vote for the guy agitating for the end of the world? If it is no, hmmmm! Obviously, there are a couple candidates who are not, never going to question this credo, it is as much a part of the fabric of their being as breathing but, they are not going to be elected (See: Kansas - Idiot - Brownback), but for the front runners to be seen as goading and embracing this marginalized bunch of crazies for the sake of getting creamed by a generic Democrat appears like a dance with the devil for dancings sake.

If Mr. Romney actually believes that killing varmints, endorsing torture, enlarging Gitmo, apologising for his ancestral polygamus past, believing that being a member of the CLDS is not a hindrance and looking great is going to get him elected he should probably get an entirely new PR team. His pathetic ignorance on foreign policy has already condemned him to having to rely on national issues which, let's face it, he's shifted upon like the proverbial sands and will not be the lede in '08 anyway.

If the lisping mafioso wannabe Guilliani thinks that by holding his crotch and carrying a lead pipe and a saturday night special is all he needs for electoral success then, good luck to him. He's a one issue guy and the issue has passed it's sell by date, on everything else he has no established positions and is, quite frankly, just bluffing.

McCain is ok, he's just old, tired and confused as to where he stands, or shops, or leans, or sits, or lies down. We did this in the '80's, Reagan redux nobody needs.

As for the rest of the field, they are about as inspiring as a corporate memo on office waste and, for the most part, a pocket protector away from lunacy.

Unless one of these candidates has the guts to break away from the rhetoric of enablement and praise for the continued ignorance of the people they hope to represent, then I see them becoming increasingly irrelevant to the greater population who, by and large, have wised-up and turned away from the values espoused by the Christianist wing of the Southern White Party.