It's amazing how many people, through their actions, demonstrate that they don't really want freedom.
They consistently make private choices (not counting voting) which limit their own freedom.

I don't think they want freedom because freedom means responsibility for results.
It's psychologically easier for them to blame another for results than take responsibility for themselves.

The Candidates?
 

All of the candidates running for elected office are LIERS. They will tell you want to hear & then they will vote or do what is best for them. You want change? I doubt we will ever get it...TK

And that is the part that is dragging down parts of this country.

The current POTUS isn't just talking, he is getting things done, he may not have accomplished as much as he would like to have, but is getting things done and if he gets a second term he will get more done.

Bush the Younger got things done and so did Clinton. So in my mind getting things done isn't the problem, the problem is what they are getting done and who is benefiting.


I have my reservations about Mr. Paul, but wonder if his lack of co-sponsors has more to do with not towing the party line than it does his abilities.



True. And a lot of people believe whatever they are told. There is another group that votes for their team whether by party, race, etc.

Though I find more and more people stating they are voting for the lesser of 2 evils.


And little will change until we change our voting habits.

I could certainly be wrong, but after hearing of Rick Santorum's Satan comments that he made back in '08 and some other recent iffy remarks, I am really beginning to question his electability. Judging by the polls, that would basically leave Romney as the sole remaining candidate with any chance to beat Obama (and that may be a stretch based on his failure to incite enthusiasm even within his own party). A brokered convention may be a drastic measure (Karl Rove calls it "as remote as life on Pluto"), but with how things are going at this point, it could end up being the GOP's only hope of denying the President a second term in office.

However, the problem with that course of action is that both Gov. Mitch Daniels and Gov. Chris Christie, the two consistently mentioned alternatives, have remained adamant in their refusal to enter the race. The only other two options that immediately come to mind are Jeb Bush and Sarah Palin. Bush seems like a long shot at this point (and besides, I question how keen the American electorate would be on voting for another Bush), and Palin has enough baggage of her own. What does everyone else think?

While that part of the problem can't be ignored, it is a holding action, not a solution.

IMO, the solution is in influencing those few who are near us more deeply, rather than influencing many who are far from us superficially.
In time, those you influence will influence others.

Eventually, the effects of meaningful influence will win over the superficial.
The benefit for this type of influence will not be felt in our time, but will be felt by our posterity.

At present that is a long, long road. We might reach a point in a generation or two where 3 ring circuses and our quad yearly procession of Professor Harold Hills is usurped by common sense....and that's not taking into consideration that the power brokers are going to fight it tooth and nail every step of the way, or the possibility that it all turns to dust.

This approach to politics sure worked out pretty well for America in the mid-nineteenth century.

Not for nothing did James Madison warn of the perils of interests that centered around one or two key characteristics. Source is here.

Sigaba? Quoting Fed #10? Very nice! :)

Amazing!!! Madison could be speaking in the present day.

...and so we are left the choice as a Nation, Religion or Socialism...and given the two choices, Socialism is going to win? The media pounds away at the religion of every president (or presidential candidate) as if it was a bad thing. It is a non-issue. If people don’t get their heads out of their collective asses and realize that RELIGION is not the terminal illness affecting this country, then we truly are on the downhill slide.

When was the last time a President tried to have a law passed mandating people have a religion? Name the last “Faith Based Initiative” passed by a President. I can’t think of one off the top of my head, and I am not even going to take the time to Google it right now since I am on this rant. But as an exercise, if you have a minute, see if you can find one and compare that with the Patriot Act and/or Healthcare Reform. The media continues to promote these little petty battles over non-issues, and it is lapped up.

That's a good point, and one I ponder as to why it is such an issue. I would go as far as saying that considering that one of the pinnacles of America is Freedom of Religion it is un-American to make it an issue.

Right at this moment we have an administration that is actively attempting strip the right of a religion from practicing it's beliefs. I not a Catholic and I don't like where that is headed. If the Cult of Obama succeeds in forcing this edict on abortion and contraception down the throats of Catholics who and what will be next.

That Healthcare mandate and the Administration behavior on the matter makes Santorums's Fire & Brimstone or Mitt's Mormonism quite trivial.

I agree with you wholeheartedly, sir. As a Christian myself, I have absolutely no qualms whatsoever with the religious beliefs of Santorum, Romney, Obama, or any other politician for that matter. Some people, on the other hand, obviously do and insist (wrongly, in my opinion) that someone's religion can negatively impact their policy making. In the case of the Catholic Santorum, it would probably come from his acceptance of Church teaching regarding contraception, which many of the electorate would likely take exception towards. I suspect the Democrats and the media will both try to use that against him if he wins the nomination.

A person's religious views are ultimately their business, but that should not ever exclude them from the public sphere.

Some say Liberalism..............
 

....................................is a religion.

Heritics are delt with harshly.

...and those people are the ones that control the message, which means you get to make your mind up based on whatever stories the media chooses to transmit. I would like to hear more about repealing obamacare, income tax reform, getting the economy moving, and entitlement reduction.