The Lesson Is? Republicans Can’t Win As Republicans. They Cloak Themselves As Democrats

It’s time I put this in perspective.

Here are the news feeds.

A Different Romney Wins The Debate.
The Family Intervenes and Pushes Stuart Stevens Out of Inner Circle
Titians of Finance to Fight for Raising Taxes

Coupled with the opinion polls, what is happening is very obvious.

Americans support Democratic middle class values, they abhor the wing nuts of the Republican Party.

The opinion polls tell it all. While Romney was campaigning to see who could be the most conservative, he did very poorly against the Democrats when polled. Americans far preferred “the imploders” at first, people more mainstream in appearance, like Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorium, .. that is until they became familiar with their values…

It is not coincidental, that the last two Republican presidential candidates were the ones with the most LIBERAL credentials. Because America accepts those credentials. What America rejects, is slash and burn Conservative policies, that require no personal freedoms to individual Americans, whether it is economic, vaginal, religious, or political. Everyone is expected to conform to a very narrow norm.

So we now have a Republican who did exactly what he said early during the primaries. He shook the Etch A Sketch and is now running as the Liberal Governor of Massachusetts.

“I will not give a tax break to the top 20%.
There will be no tax cut on the top one percent.
I will not get rid of Roe versus Wade. Abortion is here to stay.
I will not put religion into government. Government is Government. Religion is Religion.
I will not nuke Iran.
I will not cut one penny from government spending.
I will support the rapid growth of wind farms and solar energy.
I will not cut 716 million from Medicare, even if it IS in my economic plan.
I never proposed $5 Trillion in Tax cuts.
I will not cut spending. I will raise it by 2 Trillion Dollars.
Government is too small. I will grow government to make it better.
I will not stop women from getting abortions.
I will not stop the removal of God from government….
Homosexual marriage is not really that bad after all, as long as they LOVE each other and it’s not just sex.”

These were all in the debate. It was a different Romney speaking. Why? Because as a conservative he was losing. As a conservative he was out of touch with America. As a conservative HE WAS IN THE MINORITY WITH MINORITY VALUES.

As Conservatives long expected, Romney is a liberal. They know it. Really? How does anyone expect a Mormon to support Pat Robertson and the 700 Club? You do it out of expediency; not a genuine shared system of belief….

But the point of this is not about Romney. It is about Conservatism. Conservatism fails, and simply for that reason alone, it is not upheld by a majority of Americans.

Which means, to win, one has to be a Liberal Republican… Just look at the polls. As soon as the Liberal Romney comes out of the closet, the polls get real tight….

But, as we saw with Bush W. You may run as a Liberal, but when you get in, it’s the Conservatives who take over. Two wars, a pharmacy company bailout, and regular government operation, all which were financed by our grand children’s future payroll deductions. They get to make less money so today’s Republicans can take it all.

In other words, to be a Republican President, you have to “trick” yourself into that position.

So, America, I know it sounds nice now, but over and over and over you have said, no that is not what we want.

What we do want, is someone who will do what we want, when they get into running America. let’s take the last president for example. Obama got us out of a recession in record time. One that was far worse than the Great Depression to some extents. Obama saved the American Automobile Industry. To do so he had to drive hard bargains against all parties . Obama killed Osama Bin Laden. America got what it paid for when they voted Obama.

Why change horses in the middle of the stream, especially when the other horse is heading back in the other direction? The wrong direction according to almost all Americans?

Romney knows that backwards direction leads to ruin. That is why the new Romney pushed the campaign message- minder outside the inner circle, and why Romney is now currently running for women’s rights. for the secularization of government, for the complete protection of the environment, for the elimination of greenhouse gases, and for the increase of taxes on the wealthy. That is why Romney is doing better in the polls….

Conservatism is truly dead.

Personal

Skip this if you are looking for policy.  Or rah, rah, rah for one party or another.  This is none of those.  This is about the tragedy in Aurora, and my thoughts upon looking into details.   As usual, I have waited my three day period of silence.  It takes three days for thoughts to gel, often because the shock of the initial hearing forces us to rely upon our environmentally developed emotional safety net, instead of a rational thought process.

We need to keep gun laws as they are.

Repeat, we need to keep gun laws as they are.  Please be advised.  I in no way want to make light of what happened.  There are  12 mothers, and 12 fathers out there who just had the worst thing life can do to a person.  There are may more praying now for the recovery of a good number of people.

This is not the first such tragedy.  I remember the fear of the sniper in Texas Tower.   Recently I was reminiscing how one man scared the hell out of Washington, DC.   One person confessed he darted from tree to tree on his way to the metro.  Funny now, but it wasn’t then.  But such is the power of guns.

Bottom line:  the problem is people.  It is not guns, it has never been guns.  It has always been people.  Always.

A point made was had one person been carrying a gun in that audience, more people might be alive.  Where is a super hero when you need one, eh?

Psychologically, we are  reactive people.  We’ve been attacked, how do we fight back.   And some people turn to saying …..” well, if guns were impossible to get, that crazy couldn’t have gotten them and used them on people. ”  And since we all have respect for their firepower, we nod our heads and say, yes, yes, yes.  But we fail to see the obvious.   The obvious here, was that guns have been around all this time…. the person has been around for 24 years….. but for some reason, on this day, this person used guns to wreak violence.

Why did we not regulate this person?

Why did we not catch that this person was going to do this?

The answer is, there is no way we could have.   It is just beyond our control.  It is beyond our capacity to prevent.  No one appears to have guessed this guy was attempting this event?  He worked the system surreptitiously to make sure no one knew he was going on a killing spree.  The exact same thing happened with the perpetrator of the Virginia Tech shootings.  No one could have guessed……

The only thing we can do, in preparedness for events like this, is to be well trained and respond in a very quick fashion to save lives.

It appears the police were there in minutes.  We did what we could.

Bottom line, is 12 people died in that horrible incident.  In the same weekend, 5 people died in a single car crash in New York City.  Likewise, in the same weekend a family of 3 crashed into a van outside St. Louis.  A DUI Teen killed two with his car on Long Island.  Houston just shut down all southbound lanes of the Gulf Freeway and one motorcyclist is dead.

No one jumps up to ban cars.  Why?  Well the obvious reason is that we are all familiar with cars, everyone of us has been in one, and that familiarity causes us to accept these things as something that was meant to be.  Those who are not familiar with guns, will use that  unfamiliarity to voice their fear and concern.  The opposite is true to those who know guns.  They know a gun cannot shoot a person unless a person performs at least 5 conscientious steps before firing.  We call car deaths accidents.  We label gun deaths as crimes.

Intent.

So, tell me liberals.  How does controlling guns make any dent on … intent?

He could have learned to fly, loaded his plane with explosives, and flown it right through the wall of that theater.

Guns have nothing to do with this.  It is a people problem.  Sadly,  if we had a proper medical system where regular checkups that were free at point of service, we could have channeled this youths sickness and could have done a lot more to prevent this tragedy, than passing tougher gun laws.

No.  Leave guns alone.  We are going to need them to supply the home grown militia’s we will need to fight the corporate armies that will eventually come to take away our jobs.

Our attention should instead be focused on doing anything we can for the victims families….. That is where we need to focus.