What is a "Centrist"

[Warph]

"We the people" already have the opportunity to re-work the government... every 4 years.  Actually, more often than that when you consider the House and Senate seats, too.
In my opinion, the part of the government that should be re-worked is the election process.  That's where all the mud-slinging and name-calling and party lines are drawn hard and fast.  Give all the canidates the same amount of money to spend on ads and make them give any additional funds raised to charity.  Make them pay fines for saying false accusations of their opponent.  Do not make people only vote within their "party" during primaries.  Who cares if the final 2 candidates are from the same "party"?  As we all know, just because a person represents a "party" doesn't mean everyone within that party agrees with them.

Feeling as I do about Barack Obama, it's only natural that I would look for people to blame for putting him in the Oval Office. I mean, aside from the 63 million oafs who actually voted for the guy.  The first villains who come to mind are members of the media who are still, in the words of Bernard Goldberg, slobbering over him.  But I have come up with another group of troublemakers.  They're the folks who came up with the cockamamie primary system.

When you realize how much emphasis is placed on early results, both in terms of momentum and fund-raising, you can readily see how goofy it is that a tiny New England state and a handful of Midwesterners wield so much influence.  I have nothing against the voters of New Hampshire or the folks who vote in the Iowa caucus, but it's absurd that they should have so much power.  The solution is quite simple.  On the very same day, the Republicans and the Democrats would hold their primaries in all 50 states.  The two winners would then square off in November.  What money is let over can go to charity.  Not only would my plan streamline the entire process, but there would be far fewer interruptions of regularly scheduled TV programs.  So, what's not to like?

Frankly, I don't think my system would result in better candidates but, on the other hand, after 2008, it's hard to imagine either party doing much worse.  Issues aside, one of the things I like better about Republicans than Democrats is that we aren't so partisan that we automatically give our guys a free pass.  When McCain joined with Ted Kennedy to pass their amnesty bill, he got worked over pretty good by conservatives.  When Bush ran up the national debt, he got clobbered by Republicans and Democrats, alike.  But when, in just four short months, Obama tripled the deficit, nary a discouraging word have we hear from a single liberal.  Massive inflation looms over all of us and thousands of people have lost their jobs but Democrats just keep smiling and giving each other high-fives while Obama cranks out funny money like a counterfeiter on speed.

Of all the terrible things Democrats are responsible for, perhaps the worst is the way they foster and promote class and race wars in America for their own political advantage.  They tell black people that nothing is ever their fault -- not early pregnancies, not an embarrassing school dropout rate, not an overemphasis on athletics, not selling or using drugs -- that everything, instead, is the fault of white Republicans.  To poor people, they say they'd be rich if only white Republicans didn't steal all their money, just as they say to the 41% of Americans who pay no income taxes, "HERE'S A REBATE!"  And who is feeding them all this tripe?  Why none other than Charles Schumer, Keith OlberClown, John Kerry, David Letterman, Dianne Feinstein, Bill Maher, Norman Lear, the Clintons, Michael Moore, Harry Reid, Jon Stewart, Patrick Leahy, Arianna Huffington, Barbara Boxer, Nancy Pelosi and George Soros.... hell, I could go on and on... all of whom are white, very, very rich, liberal millionaires.

Clearly, P.T. Barnum was right about the birthrate of suckers and the Baltimore sage, H.L. Mencken, wasn't being overly cynical when he observed that nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.

[greatguns]

I love your idea on holding the primaries on the same day, but then we would have to think for ourselves instead of voting for the most popular one with the media.

[Wilma]

Warph, you forgot the Kennedys.  They were the first to endorse Obama.

[Warph]

Warph, you forgot the Kennedys.  They were the first to endorse Obama.

Your right.... Teddy should have been at the head of "the pack."  The pack.... hmmmm.... sounds like I'm talking about a pack of rabid dogs.  LOL... I guess I am.