The Sickness Which Has Infiltrated The Republican Party

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I hate to say it, but just as there is the very real possibility Mitt Romney could become the next President of the United States, there is also still the very real situation that many Americans believe the nonsense that Barack Obama is some God-less communist who wasn't even born in States.

The fact Obama is a committed Christian, has held a firm foreign policy, has taken out Bin Laden, rebuilt America's reputation with the rest of the West (and much of the world), successfully bailed out the American auto-industry, established a desperately needed nationwide health plan (strikingly similar to Romney's), has focused on keeping taxes low for 98% of Americans - that is everybody who earns under US $250,000 a year - and is secure enough in himself to list Bush senior as one of his political inspirations suggests he is anything but the communist / socialist the Republican Party has painted him as.

Guess what America? You have a centrist leader who is arguably worth the hype. What did you expect? That America would magically have unemployment of five or six percent in this current climate? 8.3% is rough, really rough. But are you so insular to not understand what's happening in Europe with countries like Spain battling unemployment well into the 20s?

There is absolutely nothing wrong with conservative values, but as New Zealand Herald writer Matt McCarten explains, nearly all moderate conservatives in the Republican Party have been squeezed out one by one as the party has lurched ever further to the right. Just this afternoon I had a call from one of my oldest friends who happens to be a lifelong conservative. He described both the Republican Party and New Zealand's own Colin Craig (leader of the out-of-parliament Conservative Party) as dangerous jokes because of their fostering of simplistic, outdated and ill-informed attitudes. The main problem is New Zealand's dangerous joke is understood to be a clown by 99% of the population; the Tea Party is steering the Republican Party towards similar territory and yet nearly 50% of the American population has been hoodwinked. Startlingly, a fiscally conservative social liberal of the enormous esteem of Clint Eastwood is amongst the fooled.

Click here to read Matt McCarten's article.