Another mostly Republican audition occurred last night and a debate broke out. This was probably the best offering from either the Right or the Left so far. It was pointed, spirited and raised a few questions worth asking.
Fred Thompson was finally on his game and clearly “won” but is it too little, too late? John McCain seems to have been given a second political life but is he too liberal for the more Conservative base he’ll need to court in future primaries? Mike Huckabee is still working on his first political life but can he reconcile the differences between what he says he’ll do and what he has done as governor. Say Amen.
Mitt Romney is ahead of everyone on delegates but the opposition, including the lynch-mob media, is trying to bury him by portraying his fairly positive performance as something less than impressive. Is he really so strong a candidate that he has the rest of the field [plus the Marxists on the Left] running scared? Rudy looks and sounds ‘pale’ which is probably the result of his meteoric plummet from first to worst. Can he come back in Florida or anywhere else?
Finally there lurks the question, “Who is the bigger fool…the fool or the fool who follows the fool?” Enter the blathering Ron Paul who was so anxious to blame America for the world’s ills, he lost track of the reasons for his venom. Even the others on stage couldn’t believe the glimpses they received of Paul’s alternate universe. The fact is, this ‘nervous Nellie’ doesn’t even belong behind the same podium as the front runners. He’s not a first tier candidate, quotes chapter and verse right out of the Democrat play book and has, evidently, tried to repair his lobotomy with Crazy Glue. Unfortunately, this pathetic political caricature has developed a small but vocal fringe base that keeps him energized; they even managed to overload the Fox ‘text poll’, making it appear as though he had, somehow, recovered from his dementia for the evening.
The problem is that Ron Paul represents a real danger to the nation. This fool may just want the White House badly enough to run as an Independent, thus re-creating the Ross Perot syndrome. Any siphoning of Republican votes in November could hand the presidency to Barack or Hillary just as it was gifted to her husband Bill back in the 90s. Is it any wonder the Dems are taking it easy on candidates they can easily defeat like Paul and Huckabee? Could the liberal Left be rooting for these guys as hard as the Taliban is rooting for the Democrats?
Many of these and other questions will be answered on February 5th, “as the primaries turn”. Stay tuned!
R.S.F.
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