Joy of joys--we here in Michigan have spent almost two weeks now inundated with ads and newspaper pieces about the battle royale featuring Willard Romney and Rick Santorum. The only pleasure I have is when one commercial says, "Rick Santorum can beat President Obama!" and I respond, "No, he can't!" and that's getting old after a couple thousand times.
The Free Press featured excerpts from their interviews with Romney and Santorum and frankly they're both regurgitating economic ideas that have already failed under Bush the Lesser and espousing social ideas that are only being used to see who can out wing-nut the other. Why I bothered to read the excerpts was beyond me, but I did come away amazed at how flaccid their positions were. Nothing new, nothing that hasn't failed before, nothing inspiring--in a nutshell, same shit, different day.
Not that the Free Press noticed--their editorial page was too busy telling us how the republicans were choosing their nominee for the Presidential election with what they described as "fringe voters."
Fringe? Nope--that's the republican party, the party of yesterday, the party of scared, old, white men. And if they'd been paying attention, they would have noticed that the republican party has been this way for a long, long time.
They're just more honest about it now.
Peace,
emaycee
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