Republicans Bare The Worst

I seriously question the sanity or mental capacity of people who watched the Republican debates last night and still call themselves Republicans! What the debaters displayed was xenophobia, and ignorance wrapped up in obvious hyperboles. What Christie and most of the Republicans are advocating in regard to ISIS are the same things that are already being done, only the Republicans promise to super-size it! Here is an example: they talked about what they considered to be the paltry number of our air strikes on ISIS targets, completely ignoring the air strikes conducted by our allies. They advocated massive bombing, even carpet bombing while ignoring how many civilians would be killed and the propaganda coup that would give to ISIS. They talked about strengthening our military when we already spend more than what the next eight nations combined spend on their militaries.

The main reason the Republican candidates are trying to whip up the fear of terrorists and are lying about the strength (they say weakness) of our military is because Republican economic policies have failed dismally and fear and loathing is all they have to sell. Of course I would not rule out rewarding the military industrial complex with huge, lucrative contracts as a motive. As I have said before, the only winners of Bush's war in Iraq were Halliburton, Black Water and the other contractors so favored by the Bush administration that those contractors did not even have to submit competitive bids.

The great political windsock who funnels false hyperboles in any direction the lunatic right wingers are leaning is Marco Rubio. He prerecords his inane comments so as to be ready when anyone pulls his chatty catie string. Chris Christie was pulling that string for all he was worth and seemed amused by the results. Rubio's answer to almost everything was that President Obama knows exactly what he is doing. “He is trying to turn us into Europe!” Rubio railed. Other than stirring up the xenophobic ignoramuses who have no idea what Rubio really meant or how well the programs, such as socialized medicine, work in Europe, I cannot see how that response has anything to do with selecting a Republican Presidential nominee. Yet Rubio just kept repeating this absurdity, at least five times, as if it answered a question about him!

Of course Christie demonstrated his own ignorant demagoguery! Like you, “Obama was also a first term senator,” Christie said to Rubio, “and we don't want to repeat the mistake we made eight years ago.” Hey idiot! It was George W. Bush not President Obama who got us into an ill advised war with Iraq and crashed our economy, and like you, George W. Bush was a governor. Obviously the connection between Christie's brain and reality is a very congested bridge too far! By the way, how are the ongoing court cases and investigations about the Fort Lee bridge closure working out for Christie? Can you still hear the dripping?

As for the other candidates, they are not worth mentioning. Trump demonstrated that he is still a bloviating ignoramus, Bush is still a Bush, Carson is still professing his belief in the economic equivalent to the humors theory that had doctors purging and bleeding their patients, and the most reasonable of the candidates, Kasich, still has to lie about his record and President Obama's record because the facts do not favor Republican economics.