Politics

This is the reality we suffer under.

"Prediction 1: If Romney wins, in four years we will have a higher national debt, and still have a drug war, a police state, troops in 150 countries, and a national security/warfare state. Prediction 2: If Obama wins, in four years we will have a higher national debt, and still have a drug war, a police state, troops in 150 countries, and a national security/warfare state."

We're the the stupidest people on earth when it comes to politics, and we're going to pay a horrific price for that.

Along the same theme, this election will change nothing. I love this first line.

"Writing is often cathartic for the writer."

That's why I write. Fortunately for me, what I write tends to be entertaining for my readers. This article gets better from there.

Article compares the supposed core beliefs of Obama and Romney. I can sum this up: use government's gun to get all I can while I can.

In a telling act, the national Republican establishment passed new rules taking power over delegate choice from the states and centralizing it in the national establishment. This is a parallel to what both parties have done with government. It's a reminder that all government agents are corrupt, they all want power, they all want to advance their own interests at the expense of everybody else. They also refused to recognize some duly elected Ron Paul delegates. Some Ron Paul supporters walked out. The Governor of Maine, a Romney Republican, boycotted the event in response.

"As the roll call of states commenced, several states listed votes for both Romney and Paul. When repeating back the count, those at the podium cited only the Romney votes."

What a sham. This is going to hurt Romney politically. He won the nomination. All he had to do was be magnanimous, follow the rules, welcome Paul supporters to the party, and he would have been recognized as the Republican standard bearer. Now he's alienated many natural supporters, and he's going be dogged by attacks for his insecurity and underhanded actions. Democrats, who have nothing to commend them to the American people, are laughing and profiting from this disgusting display of personal interest at the expense of the party in general, but with Democrats running away from the Democrat convention as fast as possible, this is shaping up to be the biggest contest of losers in US history.

Ron Paul gets rock star welcome at Republican convention. Ron Paul set up Rand Paul to take over his movement, but I think the Republican establishment is ruining that opportunity.

I don't know if I believe this report.

"Gov. Chris Christie wasn’t willing to give up the New Jersey statehouse to be Mitt Romney’s running mate because he doubted they’d win, The Post has learned."

It smacks of truth, it's funny and the timing is impeccable given Christie just delivered the keynote address to the Republican convention, but who gains from it? The New York Post is a reliably conservative paper in the New England vein, if that can be called conservative. Who has anything to gain here? Christie, obviously. But conventional wisdom suggests Romney, Ryan, the publisher, the editor and the writer all lose. So why was this article published? Conventional wisdom must be wrong. Somebody high up at the paper must be a closet Obama supporter, under the thumb of one or just hates Romney. Romney probably made lots of enemies in New England. I'm going with the last option. It also makes sense that Chris Cristie, because he's a New England liberal like Romney, would have seriously misjudged the electorate.