Cicero
Mayor
It occurs to me that the rightwingers have yet to go at one another's throat. I recall back in 2008 when for a time it seemed that if they could have done so, many Hillary Clinton supporters and Barack Obama supporters would have done real damage to one another.
Of course that was much farther along in the contest. So perhaps it's just too early yet for such passions to rise on the Right regarding their gaggle of candidates.
But then again, I don't recall right of center posters getting particularly heated in 2008 when McCain and the others were going through their trained seals acts on stage, fighting it out to be the last GOP candidate standing. Perhaps it's just not something that happens on the Right. I dunno.
At the moment the corporate background of Mitt Romney is coming under scrutiny and the reality that he seemed to have been pretty much a corporate raider, someone in an investment consortium that bought out struggling companies, laid off about half of the employees, forced the remaining employees to do the work of both their work and that of the missing men and women and then as soon as the newly lean and mean corporate machine began turning out a real profit, put it up for sale, and then took the money and started the whole cycle over again somewhere else.
Here's a few dirty little secrets though, George Herbert Bush also used to do the same thing before he finally became president. He was notorious for doing just that as a matter of fact and nobody seemed bothered by that sort of thing back in the 1990s. Lyndon Baines Johnson was a war profiteer back in the Vietnam War era, though of course that was never proved.
Generally speaking we do not put saints into the Oval Office. The nearest we came to doing so during the last century was perhaps Jimmy Carter and, frankly, he sucked dishwater as a president. The Left tried it again in 2008 and their Political Messiah has been a total dud.
So perhaps Right of Center voters are simply practical enough, realists enough, to instinctively understand that saints make for bad presidents [even false saints like Obama].
But then again perhaps it's still early times yet, and perhaps our Right of Center posters will yet get heated over this GOP contest for the Party's nomination. If so then that should get interesting by and by.
Of course that was much farther along in the contest. So perhaps it's just too early yet for such passions to rise on the Right regarding their gaggle of candidates.
But then again, I don't recall right of center posters getting particularly heated in 2008 when McCain and the others were going through their trained seals acts on stage, fighting it out to be the last GOP candidate standing. Perhaps it's just not something that happens on the Right. I dunno.
At the moment the corporate background of Mitt Romney is coming under scrutiny and the reality that he seemed to have been pretty much a corporate raider, someone in an investment consortium that bought out struggling companies, laid off about half of the employees, forced the remaining employees to do the work of both their work and that of the missing men and women and then as soon as the newly lean and mean corporate machine began turning out a real profit, put it up for sale, and then took the money and started the whole cycle over again somewhere else.
Here's a few dirty little secrets though, George Herbert Bush also used to do the same thing before he finally became president. He was notorious for doing just that as a matter of fact and nobody seemed bothered by that sort of thing back in the 1990s. Lyndon Baines Johnson was a war profiteer back in the Vietnam War era, though of course that was never proved.
Generally speaking we do not put saints into the Oval Office. The nearest we came to doing so during the last century was perhaps Jimmy Carter and, frankly, he sucked dishwater as a president. The Left tried it again in 2008 and their Political Messiah has been a total dud.
So perhaps Right of Center voters are simply practical enough, realists enough, to instinctively understand that saints make for bad presidents [even false saints like Obama].
But then again perhaps it's still early times yet, and perhaps our Right of Center posters will yet get heated over this GOP contest for the Party's nomination. If so then that should get interesting by and by.