A few years ago a radio personality who was arrested for sending his maid out on the streets to buy drugs for him, told me that there was no such thing as a political moderate, only far right-wing people who were always right, and far left-wing people who were always wrong.
He said the far right-wing people loved America, and the far left-wing people loved Communists and wanted to have very dirty sex with anyone named Kennedy or Clinton.
He said people in the middle did not really exist. You were one or the other.
This confused me because I have voted for both Republicans and Democrats. I feel conservative on some issues, and liberal on others.
I am very proud of the way our men and women in uniform have served our country. They know this is an unpopular war and yet they do their jobs with bravery, skill and dignity. They should be treated with honor.
I like the idea of student loans for college. Since this has been privatized, some unscrupulous lenders have screwed some kids with quite high interest rates. I hope our government watches this more closely. I got a low interest government-backed loan for college from the Industrial National Bank, and I paid it off in three years. I always appreciated the opportunity.
I am conflicted over the death penalty. On the one hand it seems barbaric, and yet when I think of that animal that buried that little girl alive, I could kill him myself with my bare hands.
I can see why people want the right to bear arms, but I don’t know why we need to allow assault weapons that our police departments hate. Even the NRA is coming around on this one after Virginia Tech.
I wish more of our wetlands could be kept out the hands of developers and put into a protected state, and yet I agree with President Bush about exploring the possibility of new nuclear reactors. The nuke power program France has seems to have worked well.
I used to love the stories years ago about the meetings between then House Leader Tip O’Neil and then President Ronald Reagan. The icon of new conservatism and the standard bearer of old time liberalism would, from time to time, sit and drink a scotch together, and no doubt argue about issues. Two men with nothing in common but the respect each held for the others commitment to his beliefs, and an Irish ancestry.
That seems to be gone today. Maybe forever. I can’t see Harry Reid helping President Bush clear brush at the ranch and then knocking down lemonade together. We Americans now want our politics played like our sports. Either you are on my team or you are the enemy.
As a Red Sox fan, I am not allowed to appreciate A-Rod. He is a worthless showboat in Red Sox Nation. And so is Johnny Damon, the bastard traitor.
I don’t think we will ever go back to political civility again. The screaming heads on radio and TV won’t allow it. Neither will the single-issue people, or the political advisers like Rove. Too much money involved for them. They only make money when there is hate to broil. Believe me, I see it everyday.
I have decided to not fight the new ways. In fact, I have come up with a fiscally brilliant idea based on our love of sports!
I want all our candidates to dress in either blue or red jumpsuits, depending on their political persuasion. Like a NASCAR driver, each candidate would slap a patch on his or her suit representing some company or organization that supports him or her.
For instance, John Edwards could have a “Gee your hair smells terrific” patch. Hillary could choose from dozens of Hollywood studios for patches, as could Fred Thompson. As a Mormon, Mitt Romney would be a natural for bike companies and producers of white short -sleeved shirts. With all these endorsements we could end the election reform problem forever!
In the end though, it probably doesn’t matter. It looks like in a couple of years the White House will be occupied by a New Yorker, one-way or the other. Rudy is the front-runner for the GOP, Hillary the front-runner for the Dems, and Bloomberg the billionaire mayor of the Apple has just gone Indie, and will probably run too.
The next President of the United States…will be a New Yorker. That ought to piss off about 75 percent of the population beyond the Hudson River.
Start spreading the news, it’s gonna get ugly.
