Barack's Pie in the Sky and Romney's Delusion

The Romney Delusion

Mitt Romney praises Bush, draws inspiration from Bush Sr. and Reagan, yet in 1994 when he was running against Ted Kennedy, he said he didn't support the policies of Reagan-Bush. See for yourself:



Courting the Republican base (the 30% of people in America who are blinded enough by their partisanship to give the President a positive approval rating), Romney has said whatever he thought he needed to say to prove that he is a real conservative. He touts his business experience and his experience as governor of Massachusetts as proof that he can handle the nation's economic problems, yet he endorses the Keynsian economic policies of this Administration that have thrust us into the most substantive inflationary economy since the Carter years.

Unfortunately, Romney doesn't realize that every time he says nice things about George W. Bush the Democrats are saving those videos, and all they will have to do in the general election is re-play Romney's own words, in debates and on the stump. No commentary will even be needed. Romney may be helping solidify the nomination by praising Bush, but it will be hard to run away from those comments in a few months. He has put himself into a precarious position--one that even his pomade and sweet-talking Mormon fakeness won't be able to get him out of.

At this point, the Republicans need to just suck it up and vote for McCain. He's not the second coming of Bob Dole...he's not a lot better, but he could be a lot worse.

Pie in the Sky: Barack's Naivete

Barack Obama's vapid rhetoric never ceases to dazzle the fat-minded masses. It also never ceases to nauseate me. He may have the delivery skills of Martin Luther King, but he doesn't have the substance.

"It's not about rich versus poor, young versus old and it's not about black versus white. It's about the past versus the future," Mr. Obama told the crowd that chanted, "Race doesn't matter."

"We are up against conventional thinking that says your ability to lead as president comes from longevity in Washington or proximity to the White House. But we know that real leadership is about candor, and judgment, and the ability to rally Americans from all walks of life around a common purpose — a higher purpose."

The trouble with Mr. Obama is that he has failed to define what that higher purpose is, or how we would get there. He has mentioned repealing the tax cuts. He has discussed massively raising social security taxes. And he has mentioned universal health care, but only in vague and undefined terms. If he is going to use such grandiose rhetoric to describe what his Presidency would be like, then he must explicate precisely how he intends to achieve that dream. Otherwise it is just more empty promises.

George W. Bush and Bill Clinton both ran on "changing Washington." So did Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter. They were the outsiders--the Governors who knew how to run a good state and thought they could change Washington. Yet they didn't change Washington. They didn't change it in tone or policy. The American train continues towards the inevitable cliff, and it has only gained in momentum.

No one person can change Washington. In fact, the only way to change Washington is to fire Washington--and only the American people can do that. In order for things to truly change, we must reject the stalemate that has emerged as a result of the Two Party System, and we must get a new Congress. That is the only way to change Washington--retake the people's house, send the pork barrel Senators home, and start afresh. 1994 was an attempt to do just this, but what happened is that in the aftermath of Newt Gingrich's departure, the Establishment came back and Dennis Hastert was annointed Speaker. As if to hearken back to George Orwell's classic novel Animal Farm, Hastert taught the pigs to sleep in human beds and to walk on two legs. And then Jack Abramoff was exposed--and Enron collapsed--and the War brought the lament of the Republican Establishment to a fever pitch and in 2006 the people said no more. So they put the Democrat Establishment back into power and they are equally (and by most measures more) unhappy with Congress now.

America doesn't need any more rhetoric--we don't need any more good speeches. What we need is good policy, and we need it fast. The cliff gets more inevitable by the day.