It is very difficult to see anything reasonable or rational in the twice monthly conducted so called debates between ambitious men and a woman claiming to be Republicans as they are aiming to become the next President of the United States of America. In fact, in September 2011, there were three such spectacles, on the fifth, the twelfth and the twenty second of the month. And there are four more scheduled between now and the end of the year. On October 11 and 18, on November 9 and December 10.
Having seen all three September debates, we are only confused about why the powers to be in the Republican Party believe this to be good for the party and the country. From past experiences, we consider it to be factual that at least five if not six of the current flock of candidates do not have a snowballs chance in hell to ever becoming President of this great country of ours. We have long held the believe that this next election is probably the most crucial ever for America. The current administration has proven to all rational thinking people that they are totally incompetent from the top to the bottom and should have never been elected in the first place. But American voters have done this type of thing several times in our history. We are old enough to remember how Jimmy Carter got elected to the highest office of the land and how this micro-managing former peanut farmer from Georgia caused more problems in a very short period of time. But in 1980, Americans recognized this mistake and corrected course for the country by electing Ronald Reagan.
We do have a much worse situation now in that we are tumbling towards financial ruin and insolvency. Instead of discussing plans to reduce our unsustainable debt, we only hear how the country can reduce the speed towards bankruptcy by modifying the vast increase of more debt in the next decade. This is serious stuff, folks and we should not take this lightly.
But back to the Republican candidates and the multiple debates. Considering the dire economic situation we find ourselves in with high unemployment, ever increasing deficits, the incompetence in the White House, what do we have to hear from the Republicans? We hear them squabble over whether or not the Texas Governor Rick Perry issued an Executive order about vaccinations for sixth graders. This is an issue that never materialized to be a problem anyway. Then we have to listen to the Congressman from Texas Ron Paul that we in a way are to blame for the 9-11 attacks in America because we have stationed troops in a number of countries around the world.
What hogwash! It is a shame that the Republicans cannot do better than that or at least device a system whereby the number of ego-driven candidates is being reduced after each debate by at least one if not two. To our way of thinking, Mitt Romney and Rick Perry are the clear frontrunners and there maybe a third candidate who could surprise us but if anybody in their right mind thinks that people like Ron Paul, Michelle Bachmann, former Governors Huntsman and Johnson as well as former Senator Santorum have even a minor change, they are delusional. We also cannot see Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain ever winning the nomination of the party and it does not look like that Sarah Palin will join the race. The current debates are truly ego-serving events and do not help Americans to pick the right man for the job to oppose Barack Obama in the general election next year in November 2012. We can only hope that this absurdity will soon end.