One Mans Opinion 12/20/2012
By Dewaine Shoulders
Well, it's been awhile. How've you been? Seen any good debates lately?
I had to come out of semi-retirement to say something, and I hope you'll understand why.
After last night's debate in South Carolina, I was impressed by two people: Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum. Now, they are polar opposites as far as their ideas on government is concerned--- Newt is a progressive Republican, Santorum is a Conservative Republican--- and they both have great ideas on how to kick-start the economy and bring fiscal sanity back to Washington.
Don't get me wrong, I like Mitt Romney and Ron Paul too, but to a lesser extent. All of them have solid ideas that would be good for America, and there again, all of them scare the hell out of me at the same time. None of them are perfect, and God knows that we can't expect perfection in a president. If so, no one would ever be president.
As for domestic policy, all of them have great ideas, and probably a mix of all of them would save America from bankruptcy.
As for foreign policy, I like Newt Gingrich and Santorum. Romney and Paul both have some good ideas, and some really bad ideas. Ron Paul has a lot of great ideas on domestic policy, but some of his foreign policy would not be good for America. Libertarians like his idea, and I do have SOME libertarian leanings, but in the end, Paul would take us back to an isolationist policy that we were in pre World War II. Not a good idea.
And I do agree with him that we should not send money to every country in the world while we're borrowing money from China. That does not make sense. But saying Iran could have a nuke and we shouldn't worry about it doesn't make sense. We shouldn't be the world's police, but we cannot forget our obligations to the world at the same time. So Ron Paul isn't the guy for me.
Mitt Romney: Two words - Romney Care! Not someone I would trust to repeal Obamacare, regardless of what he says. Nuff said!
Santorum is young, or at least younger than the rest of the field, and would be maligned by the media as the next Dan Quayle. Even if he could turn the economy around and make America the shining city on the hill again, the media and the leftist in this country would taunt him and belittle him as a kid. I can see Saturday Night Live doing another Gerald Ford or depiction of Quayle as a little boy sitting on George H.W. Bush's lap. Anyone remember that?
Newt Gingrich: He has as many skeletons in the closet as Michael Moore has chins. But at least he knows how to deal with Washington, and can get things done. He may be twice divorced and thrice married, but is that really that strange anymore? Elizabeth Taylor was married and divorced so many time, yet she was an icon. Also, does having affairs keep you from becoming president?
If so, most of our modern presidents would have been disqualified for the job. The most recent Adulterer in Chief, Bill Clinton, had at least one while serving as president, with Monica Lewinsky. Of course, Newt Gingrich was one of the Republicans that wanted to impeach Clinton because of that, and he was having an affair at the time.
So, even if he's a hypocrite, does that disqualify him from becoming president? Maybe. But there again, considering the times we live in, I doubt that his morality will be that big of a deal. This country is hurting! We have high unemployment, a weak dollar, trillions of dollars in debt, tens of trillions of dollars in unfunded liabilities, and a generation that has come up believing they are entitled to everything everyone else has, but don't want to work in order to get it!
America is in a mess, and we truly need a leader. Someone that can relight the flame of liberty, rebuild the shining city on the hill, and return fiscal sanity to Washington D.C.
I was someone that believed Sarah Palin was the person to lead this nation back from the brink, but the pressure on her family, I believe, kept her from answering that calling. I backed Herman Cain, and then every bimbo in America suddenly claimed he was having an affair with them.
Needless to say, my track record picking winners isn't that great this election cycle.
So, having said that, I'm supporting Community Organizer in Chief Obama in 2012. That way, someone else will win, and America can climb back out of the whole he's dug us into!
But that's just my opinion, I could be right!
