On the Sunday shows, George Will scoffed at the hype in the press over the GOP potential Presidential candidates. In fact, the majority of talking heads now seem to agree about the various crazies adopted by the press for sundry reasons – they are not credible candidates. Fox news embarrassed itself by giving a platform to the blowhards under the dubious title of “debate”.
The left wants Romney because he’s as left as the GOP gets after Huckabee and doesn’t have Huckabee’s religion/social issues. The GOP main stream and real conservatives want Daniels. Some of the latter talk about Ryan, Christy, Bush, Huntsman and Pawlenty. Nobody but the crazies like Palin, Bachman, Trump or Gingrich. And nobody at all mentions Santorum or Ron Paul or the rest of those nitwits in the Fox “debate”.
As if on cue, Huckabee and Trump are out while Gingrich and Romney have pretty much imploded for the last time.
George Will said with his usual calm, confident, matter-of-fact manner that in 2013 one of three people will be giving his acceptance speech: Barack Obama, Tim Pawlenty or Mitch Daniels. That is guts ball for Will and incredibly reassuring.
The center of this nation needs to vote in the Republican primaries next year. The objective is to defeat Obama – that man is simply too far left to lead America. Obama is a demonizer, divider and class warrior, far from the promise of the 2008 candidate.
In addition to the Presidential decision, Congressional progressives and right wing crazies must be dealt another severe beating at the polls. The Presidential candidate should serve as the model for the kind of Senator we want to see in Washington.
The Bible thumpers and libertarians who run the Republican Party must be ignored. They will not vote for Obama or stay home and see him reelected. We need a leader in the White House with a history of bringing people – and legislators – together to solve problems. We need a model of common sense that puts aside the tired old saws and attacks real root issues. We need a model for Congress to follow and he probably needs to be the kind of person loathed by the activist base in both political parties.
Our troubles can only be solved by bipartisan Congressional action led by a President who has earned wide support from the American people. That man is not Barack Obama. The right man, it seems to me, is Mitch Daniels.
Vote in the primaries; defeat the party radicals.
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