You're kind of all over the spectrum here, but pretty close to the truth. Do you have a political leaning? I don't really pick one up from your post.
1) Steele lacks the mojo for the front of the house.
2) Sara Palin was a stunt -- she was used to throw the election. Had the GOP taken the country from Gingrich/Clinton prosperity to Great Depression II, and still been in office while their policies came home to roost, they would have lost the presidency in 2012 (badly), and, more importantly, the Dems would have a filibuster proof margin in the Senate, with the largest House majority in history. The country would be looking at another liberal era, like 1945-1980.
McCain literally had no choice. If the GOP had the presidency right now, it would have bankrupted them for the long term. I applaud the GOP's choice. They put Obama and the Dems in a financial black hole from which they will not escape. Gingrich is poised to re-take Washington in 2012, and the GOP can go back to the politics of terrorism -- a necessary front for the continued defunding the middle class.
You're kind of all over the spectrum here, but pretty close to the truth. Do you have a political leaning? I don't really pick one up from your post.
Leo Strauss is my hero -- father of the neocons. He subscribes to the anti-Democratic, Platonic notion that the wise should rule and the rabble should be drugged with fear, religion, and patriotism.
For example: I believe we needed to increase our military footprint in the Middle East because of its geopolitical significance. In order to sell this kind of policy, you have to lie to the homophobic, GED, Red State folks, i.e., you have to frame your message in simplistic Biblical Terms -- "fighting evil doers". Let me state for the record: the United States of America is not afraid of 15 men with box cutters or old crippled men living in Pakistani mud holes. That was merely food for the idiots. And we have no interest in a Democratic Iraq. We have an interest in an Iraq which protects our regional interests. Period.
We are king of the jungle and our economy requires cheap natural resources and cheap labor markets. The point of our military is not to defend against bad people, but to expand/control/protect a global system which benefits us (very often at the expense of others, whose territory has things we need). If you got a problem with that, than drive to your next Greenpeace rally in a hemp-fueled car. Otherwise, stand back and let the real men do what needs to be done. Let the woman and children worry about box cutters and homosexual marriage -- let them hide under their beds. The men have work to do.
I don't apologize for having less than 1/5th of the world's population but using over 25% of her resources. And I'm not going to sugar-coat it by talking about "Spreading Democracy". We didn't forge a 50 year partnership with the ruthless Saudis and other terrorist petro-states because we care about democracy. We don't allow China to underwrite our economy because we care about human rights.
I love it when hippies complain about the network of third world sweatshops that keep our consumer goods cheap. Life is a jungle and sometimes you have to play hardball. Big animals eat little animals. Humans are the biggest, baddest animal ever created. Our mission is not make the world a better place, but to maintain our lifestyle by militarily securing the cheapest possible resources (labor/material), while at the same time convincing woman and children that we're saving the world. Welcome to politics. This is what all Great Empire have done. They never talk about about the dirty work done in the outlying colonies. The reason we replaced the democratically elected Mosaddeq with the ruthless Shaw was because the Shaw was willing to sell his country down river on behalf of Western energy interests. The Shaw was our corruptible tool for greasing the wheels of petro-colonialism. Am I happy about this? No. But I'm not going to lie to myself about it, or start listening to Hannity, who feeds morons patriotic garbage about the "Redeemer Nation". Let's face it: courageous men like Bush and Chaney get things done, while the pundit'ocracy covers-up how the pig gets turned into the sausage.
God didn't give the Lion claws and sharp teeth so he could spread democracy. Nature is not fair, and we are of nature.
Deal with it. Stop justifying the blood spilled on behalf of your lifestyle. Stop mythologizing it. We are selfish brutes and we do bad things. Survival is contact sport. Humans kill more livings than any other life form. Own it. Enjoy your slice of the Global pie, but please, please stop telling me how great we are.
