I have always thought that politics are much more a matter of emotion rather than a matter of thoughtfulness and reason. Still the mind numbness of experts and pundits has surprised me, even stunned me during this election cycle. Mr. Romney refused to

Release his tax returns for a long time and when he was pressured beyond endurance and coming down in the polls for it, he released them and all the skeleton in the closet we discovered was that he made a lot of money but he paid all the taxes that he legally owed. Not only that, he had given 15% in donations in contrast to Obama’s 1%. It has also been characteristic of Mr. Romney that he seemed embarrassed of his success and has been unwilling to stand up for the capitalistic system that produced it. It took a lot of time and a lot of prompting by everybody before Mr. Romney finally said in the last debate that he is proud of his success. But here comes the kicker. All the conservative pundits seem to still be at a loss as to why Romney has behaved that way and it is here that I want to tell these useful idiots owned by the republican establishment. Helloooo, anybody in there? Does a conservative get embarrassed about success nooo! Does a liberal mindset hold contempt for the wealthy yeees? Is Romney embarrassed to defend his wealth? Yeeeees. Is Romney a liberal or a conservative? Well dah.

Where does Romney, a Massachusetts liberal come from? How mind numbingly irrational is it that so called conservatives fail to see that conservatism and Romney are mutually exclusive? So republicans, go ahead and nominate Romney and get ready to become the permanent minority when Romney pushes the conservatives into a third party.

I never seize to be amazed at the success that the left has had in this country. They first damned down the education to the point that high school graduates can not read their own diplomas. As a result they can dominate all politics through the media because the people no longer have the ability to think. There are two perfect examples of this in the republican primaries this year. The democrats are obviously favoring Romney because of what a milk toast liberal he is and therefore they can easily beat him in November. They trembled at the notion that Herman Cane might win the nomination so when he rose in the polls the media produced out of the wood work some nameless women who accused Cane of harrasment. Oh really, where did these women go after Cane dropped out? They crawled back into the wood work they came from. Their job was done. The brain dead republican crowd could not figure out that it was too convenient for nameless sources to be silent for decades and conveniently show up when Herman Cane was a threat to the democrats. Now it is Newt's turn to be the victim of a nasty democrat media and a brain dead public. Where was all this stuff about an open marriage for over a decade? Why is an X spouse cooperating with a newsmedia that are out to destroy her x husband. Has nobody been through a divorce in this country to recognize a bitter x wife that is ready to resort to slease in order to hurt the one who scorned her? So I am left wondering "Is there any hope for America" I really really doubt it.

During a recent debate Texas Governor and now ex-presidential candidate Rick Perry removed any doubt for all time that he is… the dumbest, least informed person to ever run for the highest office in the land. And considering that the list includes Michelle Bachman, that says a lot.

During that debate Perry called Turkey’s government Muslim terrorists. He also said that as president he would immediately end all foreign aid to Turkey. Apparently Perry wasn’t informed that Turkey doesn’t receive any foreign aid from the U.S. Then during an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Perry defended his statements by saying that the Turkish government condoned ‘honor killings’, which they do not. In fact Turkey had just increased sentencing for persons convicted of the crime a few years ago.

That Perry has shown himself to be far from the sharpest tool in the shed is no secret. But this latest demonstration of profound stupidity has placed our country in a seriously embarrassing position. Not only is Turkey one of our most important strategic allies. But they’ve also been a trusted and valued partner in the fight against’ terrorism. So, to have a sitting governor, an elected official whose oath included defending the constitution of the United States make statements so inflammatory as to force our State Department to issue an apology to a trusted ally is by all accounts an act of treason.

Fortunately Turkey’s leaders are mature enough to understand that the source of this idiocy does not speak for our country and has dismissed him succinctly. So apparently no harm done. But this writer finds it hard to believe that our State Department would leave it at that. So considering that just days after making these insane statements we find ourselves watching Perry quit despite the “Perry would rather lose than quit” rhetoric coming from his campaign as recently as Wednesday evening seems a bit too coincidental. Now of course we’ll never know this. But I have to wonder if perhaps Gov. Perry may have received a phone call telling, not asking him that it’s time to drop out of sight.

Well, I watched it. One more debate and I am left wondering. Did an alien spaceship abduct the republican candidates and replace them with drones of themselves? I fully expected as everybody else did that they would all gang up on Mitt Romney since he won the Iowa caucuses and he is the obvious frontrunner in most polls. I figured that out of instinct they would all direct their fire at the front runner. Where did I go wrong? These people on stage tonight did not seem to be aware who the front runner is. Ron Paul was attacking Santorum and Santorum was attacking Ron Paul for the better part of the first half hour. As the debate progressed nobody seemed to have the stomach to take on Romney on anything. Even when Newt had an open shot at him on the issue of the company that Romney ran he deferred to the New York Times to make his point for him. I mean really! In a republican debate trying to impress republican voters Newt is calling on the New York Times to cut Romney down to size? So again I am left wondering. Did these people on stage participate in the Iowa caucuses or did they sleep walk through them? Or even worse, could it be that the result of these primaries has been dictated from head quarters and all these guys are doing now is going through the motions?