Day: January 25, 2008

Since several people have mentioned Bill Richardson this mornig and the headlines this week have included several candidates throwing in the towel, perhaps the time is right to start this discussion.

What I would like to know is the following:

Who would you like to see run as an independent candidate?

Now this is a realistic question so let’s limit our responses to realistic answers.

I would appreciate if you would put your choice in the first line of your response as it makes it easy to count if this thread gets lengthy.

It appears that many candidates today are running on FEAR.

This is very troubling.

Fear was used to manipulate the electorate in the past so I’m guessing they believe they can do it again.

I predict as we get closer to November the FEAR FACTOR will greatly increase.

So what can be done about this? Can we be proactive in addressing this issue.

I don’t believe our next President should be elected because people are afraid.

After all, look what happened the last time our country did that.

Mr. Mike Huckabee’s down-home, folksy media image is just a façade. What he and his supporters REALLY want to accomplish is to turn our once great nation into a theofascist state based on a literal application of the Old and New Testaments…with divinely-appointed Mr. Huckabee presiding…all the while ripping the United States Constitution and the civil society it supports to shreds.

In short, the man is dangerous with a capital “D”, with the “D” standing for “Dominionism”.

Society is rife with double standards. We all know that. And yet when common sense and full-blooded nature cry out for one — scream for one we can all ‘get behind’– it isn’t there. It’s missing.

I refer, of course, to the double standard by which it would be all right for female teachers to sleep with male students.

Now, some of you will immediately object, citing the so-called inability of a minor to give consent, and the so-called fact that such a teacher who sleeps with a teenage male must be driven by all sorts of pathological reasons to want to sleep with a ‘kid’.