Despite his big victory in Illinois on Tuesday, this was not a banner week for Mitt Romney. Indeed, he experienced a PR disaster when his longtime adviser Eric Fehrnstrom likened him to an Etch A Sketch: "You can kind of shake it up and we start all over again." Santorum and Gingrich quickly began brandishing the toys at campaign events. Will classic toys now become a 2012 leitmotif? Will Romney whip out a Slinky when he talks about Gingrich or a Mr. Potato Head when he goes after Santorum? Will Ron Paul feel left out and challenge the others to a round of Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots? Will voters forget about debates and use a Magic 8-Ball to determine who to vote for? One thing's for sure: No one who has been paying attention to this campaign will compare any of the candidates to a Lite-Brite.
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In the market, human beings will always be greedy and selfish. Markets can never help anybody. Any Christian who puts faith in the market than his or her Christian values is a fool.
That said what I am seeing with the Republicans field today is far from Christianity. It looks like they are living in another form of Christianity that Jesus called pharisaic life. Only the pharisees and sedducees lied, cheated and hated people while pretending to be Christians. One reason why the current Republican field is so weak is because the contenders are full of lies. If you lie God cannot bless you and therefore you will not succeed. These people lie about everything and at the same time support things that are unGodly. In no way would Jesus support the rich, who are already poweful by virtue of their wealth, at the expense of the poor. No body wants to be poor so for some in my party to blame poor people is just crazy and silly. I think we the Republicans supposed to call for more stimulates spending for the poor than the "ungodly" Democrats. Instead the Democrats are the ones standing by the poor while we stand by Goliahs. On the issue of health care, we stand with insurance companies and the Democrats stand with the sick with no assets.
When we scoff and sneer and call each other names, we are using school yard tactics. This is consistent with Arianna's use of toys and games to caricature the candidates and their campaigns.
In the end though, the powerful can get bitten by overestimating the childness and gullibility of the electorate and underestimating their ability and willingness to recognize a lie and reject it. Recall the Republican Congress' Terri Schiavo law and the effect it had. Recall John McCain's arrogant desparation in selecting Sarah Palin as his running mate and his equally arrogant concession in appearing on Saturday Night Live with Governor Palin the Saturday before election day. Recall the excesses of President Clinton and President Nixon. These were all instances when the powerful over reached themselves and go smacked down for it along with their parties.
The productive angle on this is "how do we promote intelligent electoral behavior?" Clearly our system is corrupt and close to broken. Come on you "occupy Wall Street" people and "Tea Party" people and Christians and everyone. How do we the people get it to work better? It's a sure thing that school yard stuff doesn't work. And it's just as sure that taking an unmoveable position based on something we believe doesn't work either.
The shifting center is what needs attn---the acceptance of the end of due process at any level, on any issue marks the beginning of the end of true democracy--and the voice of the ppl....
Privatization and deregulation set up the signs that say to the American ppl--Keep Out!
Occupy and Tea could be what brings back the We the ppl govt corporations are trying to destroy and demonize for all future generations---and if that happens we'll all look back in sadness as we then will see how easy we the ppl were to con and divide.
She dresses beautifully and keeps her mouth shut. Her education is limited so she won't mind the negatives thrown at women.
And do the GOP men realize that the sex they enjoy having with their mistresses, will be cut back. These women do not want to get pregnant, so when they want to have some fun on any given day, the mistress will say, "not today". No protection. Sorry". I wonder if that would change their opinion of contraceptives. Of course, Barbie wouldn't do that. She'll just get pregnant and force marriage. Just ask Edwards.
Thanks Supreme Court!