I say the GOP needs a candidate like Newt, someone that in a general way can focus their hatred, someone who leaves the audience on their feet cheering for the blood of the democrats. It seems to me the republican party has become the party of hatred. They hate gays and lesbians, they hate people who do not have the same warped religious beliefs, they hate the liberal media, whatever that is since multinational corporations are the media and I don't know of many liberal corporations in this country. They hate unions and pensions, unless they themselves are receiving one. They hate social security and medicare, which won't go over very well in florida, too many republicans receiving both here. They hate the unfair tax structure unless of course you are one of the wealthy who make their money on investments and pay a fifteen percent tax rate like Mr. Romney. They hate education, clean air and water, or does removing the EPA, President Reagan's creation, help in keeping our air, water and earth cleaner than if we had the EPA? I only know the things the GOP are against, not what they are for unless you want to consider the federal laws they want to pass to control our morals, like their endless crusade of a man and a woman makes a marriage. Why do republicans want to pass the buck off to the federal government so much when it is the thing they rail against on a regular basis, too much government control. I'm sure I'm not the only person who notices they say they are for less government but always want more federal laws passed against the things they don't like. When I hear republicans say keep government out of business, that's exactly what they mean, they want to pollute wantonly, practice predatory business methods, lie, cheat and steal as much as they can and try along the way to deceive the common man that they are on his or her side. They have no qualms about passing federal laws to discriminate against people who do not have their like beliefs.
I ask again, am I viewing the republican party in the wrong light for the past forty years?
President Reagan in my humble opinion started the ball rolling that has brought us to our woes of today. He fired air traffic controllers for having the audacity to whistle blow and tell the nation they need updated equipment, they tried to tell us we are not flying the friendly skies the commercials so often refer and got their butts fired in return. He then proceeded to start the dismantling of unions and his republican friends helped by starting to close down big manufacturing plants here only to open them on shores with cheaper labor and today we have the end result of that path. Nearly half of all Americans are either in or hovering at their particular poverty level depending on family size with no relief in sight. The thing that really made this country great is gone in the search for ever more profits for upper management and the shareholders, manufacturing.
