If John McCain's campaign comes to an end soon, I will be disappointed.
At one point, McCain was the GOP candidate I, as a Democrat, feared
most. He was also the GOP candidate that I was most prepared to accept
if he won the White House. McCain is a tough, brave and dedicated man
who had given his career to public service. And although I understand,
to a degree, the reasons his campaign has faltered, I am also nearly
stunned to think that Republicans feel that they cannot get his guy
elected. Bob Dole and now John McCain. The legacy of the "Greatest
Generation", and now that of their courageous sons and daughters,
failing to entice conservative voters. The party that Swift-boated John
Kerry leaving John McCain at the dock.
Romney is another rich dude who wants to spend an incredible amount of
his personal fortune to convince us all what a great human being he is.
What a great leader he is. What a great American he is, like Bloomberg
and Corzine and Schwarzenegger. Romney wants to teach us all how the
United States government should be run like a business. Romney wants to
lend his laser-like business acumen to the cause of reining in the
cost of government.
First of all, which President, regardless of his credentials and
regardless of his political party and that of the Congressional
majority, has ever been able to rein in the cost of government? The
answer is none. Why is that so? Because government cannot and should
not be run like a business. It could certainly be run in a more
business-like fashion. But it must never be run like a business. Every
election cycle, it seems, a conservative candidate such as Romney
appears to offer a diagnosis of federal fiscal obesity. The problem is
not how much we spend. It is how much we waste. Crumbling
infrastructure. Soldiers in Iraq, ill-equipped and undermanned. No
serious investment in renewable energy by this band of Oil Whores in
the White House. Businessmen, all.
We do not need another businessman in the White House. We need a
leader. A great leader. A man who will give Americans the hope and
courage to make the tough choices we face in order to realign our
symbiosis with this planet. A man who will redefine what America's
priorities will be for the next 50 years. And if not a man who will do
all that.....then a woman.