It really isn’t a shock when I say our political possess is broken. There are more Americans that are not registered to any party than those that are to the parties combined. Yet we let these nut jobs nominate candidates that are far left and far right to the majority of the country. In fact if you belong to either party you, my sir, are a moron. As soon as a party has you in their back pocket, they know that they no longer have to adhere to your concerns much like the blacks and religious zealots for the Democrats and Republicans respectively. (Full disclosure: I registered as a Republican as a bright eyed eighteen year old but am too lazy now to figure out how to unregister. And since in Ohio you can vote in any primary you like just by telling the polling people which one you want to vote in by telling them, it really doesn’t matter what you are registered as except whose propaganda you get sent to ad nausea in October each year.)
This can explain why more people don’t vote than do because who wants to elect the person that they think will screw up the country the least rather than picking the better candidate. The is further exasperated by letting two of the smallest state start the nomination process, especially when only ten percent of the already small population bother to trek in dead of winter to a polling station or caucus. This year is compounded this year with the media’s obsession with having a subway series even those both New Yorkers are unelectable.
With that said, last night’s Republican YouTube Debate was thoroughly enjoyable. Yeah Rudy Giuliani only bothered to laugh at his own video and wouldn’t shake anyone’s hand except when McCain reached over Thompson to do so; you can’t trust Mitt Romney because you can’t trust a man that uses that much hair gel; Fred Thompson showed why the writer’s strike needs to end; and McCain just had the demeanor that said, how can I possibly be losing to these morons.
And you knew the debate was going to great with the early gratuitous shot of Chuck Norris and Giuliani accusing Romney of employing illegal workers with Romney shooting back that Rudy was the best at hiring trustful employees (i.e. Bernie Kerrick). But the best moment was when they lead to commercial with the Thompson submitted video, only for Anderson Cooper to decide to not do so to ask Thompson, “What’s up with that?” I was though disappointed about the types of questions asked, nothing about education, the environment, or health care and way too much time spent on immigration, too many question directed solely at Giuliani and too many people asking for pledges for different stupid things.
If you missed the debate, you can watch all the questions over at the CNN/YouTube Republican Debate page but if you don’t have time to watch the two hour debate, here are the three questions I found most interesting:
Holy frack, a Republican actually talked about education and wasn’t even prompted to do so (unlike earlier when the goof ball Ron Paul suggested we get rid of the Department of Education). No one bothers to point out that much more Americans kill Americans each year than any terrorists. This question also is somewhat like the question I submitted (which I’ll get to later)
Here is where Mike Huckabee lost all the good will he built up with the Chuck Norris. Here he justifies the death penalty when the very next question he said he believed every word of the Bible. I know it has been a while since I’ve opened mine, but I’m pretty sure one of the more important lines in the Good Book is, “Thou shall not kill.” If I am mistaken there isn’t an asterisk to this passage that says it is okay to kill people who killed someone else. And there is another underlining problem with both parties. It makes no sense to me to be pro-life and pro-death penalty or pro-choice and anti-death penalty. You are either for killing people or you are not. I have much more respect for people that have the opposite view than I do than those that tow the party line of having it both ways.
I was completely shocked to know that there was an organization of gay Republicans. I have run into a couple of conservative gays in my life but I didn’t know there were so many of them that they were organized. And calling themselves Log Cabin Republicans is brilliant. I wonder if Dick Cheney’s daughter is a member. Also I wonder if Huckabee, who said he would accept anyone’s endorcement, would accept one from Osama bin Ladin. Granted, that isn’t going to happen because everyone know that bin Ladin obviously supports Hilary Clinton on the left and Rudy Giuliani on the right.
But as for a winner, John McCain was the clear winner. Even though he was in grumpy old man mode throughout the night, whenever he went toe to toe with the other candidate, he easily took the issue whether it was torture with Romney or Paul on the war. Also when everyone was asked what gun they owned, he had the best when he mentioned he knew how to use one when he was fighting for this country but no longer owns one. As a wise man once said, we don’t use guns; we prefer to beat you down like a man.” Mitt Romney on the other hand summed up his whole campaign when he begged Cooper to answer only to say that he had two guns in his house, but there were not his but his son’s. What a tool.
As for my question, here it is in written form. And for any candidate, Democrat or Republican, if you would like to answer it, my e-mail is on the side bar:
In 2001 Terrorist killed around 3000 Americans. That same year, Cancer killed over half a million Americans. Yet in next year’s budget there is $145 Billion going to the Global War on Terror but only $6 Million going to cancer research. Can anyone explain to me why we are spending a significantly less money on something that kills considerably more Americans? And if you were elected president, would you keep these trends on spending on the two?
You can watch random questions from both the Democrat and Republican Debates below:
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