Sunday, May 6, 2007

Would Teddy Be Welcome in Today's GOP?

It was quite something I must say to see the Republican debate. None of them in any way of course, compared with Teddy Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln or the Republican heroes of an earlier time in America.

John McCain did have the guts to attack special interests and oppose the religious fanatics on stem cell research. Rudy Giuliani boldly defended a woman's right to choose.
But there was no global warming talk. No talk about sending troops to where they're really needed, in Darfur. And the real conservative guy from Texas sounded like he didn't want government to protect us at all, not from terrorists, not from corporate greed. He said something about Wall Street being well off because of some tax and because of inflation. HELLO! Earth to rightwingers! Of course Wall Street benefits from inflation. The corporations raise prices, we all have to pay those higher prices, so there we see it: of course they love inflation. But why would they want taxes? It makes no sense. Big business in America wants nothing more than a Republican to shrink government even more than Bush has, cut taxes, and let them enslave the rest of us in the fascism of free enterprise.

It's sad that Teddy Roosevelt would be so out of place in this party. Maybe McCain and Giuliani have some of his progressive qualities, but obviously the Republicans will end up picking the most rightwing of the bunch. At least this means Hillary or Obama might finally come in and clean up. That is, if the Democrats finally come around to have the decency and courage to nominate someone who isn't just a corporate asset and shill for the status quo.

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