The Tea Party Debate

Well, after watching what I thought was a very strange debate, I have a few thoughts, and then I will have ideas on how some of those people can actually make it to the White House ( Isn't that a scary thought). For all of you in the debate, Social Security is not the problem, and it is not a Ponzi Scheme. It is fully funded for the next 25 years, and needs either a small change in age requirement or a increase in the top amount taken out to $150,000 and then indexed to inflation to be totally funded for 75 years (The Social Security Fund Report, 2011). So both Rick Perry and Mitt Romney and all others, shut up about it. Want to talk about jobs? Does the Tea Party want as its standard-bearer someone who was a hedge-fund manager and moved jobs overseas? Nope, and that knocks out Romney. Does the Tea Party want a governor whose chief-of-staff was a lobbyist for a medical company, and whose job growth was 1/3 that of Ann Richards? Don't like the federal government and want states to have the final decisions? Even that isn't good enough for Bachmann and Santorum. States have no rights to to force inoculations, if you take their HPV vaccine argument to its logical conclusion. Only parents would have the right to say which shots were given to their kids. This would mean the 3 in 1 shot kids have to get now to go to school could be a thing of the past. Want to look to the future? Forget Paul, who thinks every answer is to do it like it was done in the past. Newt, tell the crowds how you to get those jobs you worked with President Clinton, raising taxes adding regulations. Think the Tea Party wants any part of that? Want the most repressive tax in the world, one where the more money you make the more you can bring home? Neither do I, so that knocks out Cain. That only leaves one, and he isn't a member of the Tea Party. How could he be, he was an Ambassador in the Obama administration. Sorry Huntsman, that knocks you out. So where does that leave us? With an audience that would have felt right at home in the Roman Colliseum. Over 200 have been executed in Texas, as that a problem for the crowd? Not according to the audience, who applauded enthusiastically. Paul's medical plan would mean early deaths for those without money or religious connections. Is that a problem? Not according to some in the crowd, one who shouted that they should just die. With crowds like those, I just hope that if a candidate makes a big gaffe, we don't hear the next audience yelling for the lions like they did 2000 years ago in Rome. But I wouldn't bet against it.