Sweep the Leg

Well, obviously, we know now that McCain, God bless his heart, won Florida last week. So let's hope the Host's prediction of a Super Tuesday sweep by the Florida victor comes to fruition. This former Romney fan thinks McCain is the clear choice among the candidates as the next leader of the Free World. I am sick and tired of watching that flip-flopping, straw-polling, pandering goody-two-shoes Romney woodenly deliver platitudes and disingenuously invoke Ronald Reagan to his "social conservative" base. If I hear "Washington is Broken," or how it supposedly has been corrupted by "Washington insiders" one more time, I'm gonna shoot my TV with a 12-guage shotgun, Elvis-style. (Romney surely would understand, being a "life-long" gun supporter and hunter of various "varmints" around his house and the like - what a joke!). Romney's M.O. of constantly criticizing Washington as an ineffectual horde of do-nothing "insiders" rings especially hollow given he's too chicken shit to have actually lobbed a single volley at President Bush - instead constantly emphasizing what a great leader Dubya has supposedly been. His transparent ass-kissing of the GOP "establishment" is insulting.

And who fucking cares about the "establishment" anyway? I say move it the hell outta the way, and make way for a new era, a new "establishment" - one marked by sensible, pragmatic governance that focuses on what's important: keeping taxes low (which does not necessarily mean cutting them whenever you want to curry political favor); beefing up national security; keeping radical Islam at bay, if not eradicating its threat altogether; fueling a strong and thriving economy built not on government subsidy, but on properly empowered private enterprise; giving our public schools the tools to provide our young citizens with a top-quality, free and appropriate education; and making sure that no American is denied the very best health care because of his economic status or inability to pay. These are the things that Repubs like me who are fed up with the Bible-beating, born-again douche bags who hijacked our party for the last 8 years want going forward. While the "social issues" have some superficial appeal, at the end of the day, they don't produce American jobs, they don't put food on people's tables, they don't educate our youth, they don't result in a more efficient military strategy at home or abroad, they don't lower my taxes.

Now, would I like to see a country where, for example, abortion is most commonly considered taboo, even by the nut jobs at NOW? Where human embryos aren't systematically created and destroyed for experimental purposes? Where marriage between a man and a woman remains a sacred institution and recognized as the best means of raising our children? Of course I would. But to make those issues, or other "social issues" like whether Creationism or sex education should be taught in our schools (for which the answers, by the way, are certainly "no," and "yes," respectively) a focus of the next Presidential campaign is at worst absurd, and at best a complete and utter waste of time, energy, and resources.

So here's to hoping McCain mops the Primary floor with Romney's unctuous ass this Super Tuesday. It's time we get the GOP on track toward doing something it hasn't done in 20 years: actually leading this Country to greatness.