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By Tim Arnold<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

August 16, 2011<\/p>\n

Let me see if I’ve got this … right<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Michelle Bachmann, who’s beholden to evangelical Christians and whose beliefs stem from the dogma of Francis Schaeffer, who argued in his film series (\u201cHow Should We Live Then?\u201d) that “Christians, and Christians alone are Biblically mandated to occupy all secular institutions until Christ returns” (and claims the US government controls all us citizens thru psychotropic drugs), whose husband runs a clinic based on “curing homosexuality thru prayer,” (because gays, as she says, are “part of Satan”) and whose position on our nation’s economy would doom the US to bankruptcy (even S&P had to correct her assessment of their credit downgrading), all the while she continues to benefit from government farm subsidies, triumphs in the Iowa straw poll over …<\/p>\n

Ron Paul (barely) –\u00a0 Paul landed less than a single percentage point behind Bachmann (although you wouldn\u2019t know it from the conservative media\u2019s instant anointment of Bachmann, Romney and Perry as the party\u2019s \u201cTop Tier Candidates\u201d).\u00a0 A perhaps surprising showing in this conservative state since many of his libertarian positions are, well, provocative: legalize marijuana; abolish income tax; allow Iran to have nukes (\u201ceverybody else does\u2026\u201d); pull the US out of the United Nations and NATO \u2013 and the Middle East; allow states to secede from the union; eliminate the Federal Reserve; eliminate legal tender laws and sales tax on gold and silver \u2013 heck, let the free market determine monetary standards.\u00a0 Dr No has voted against virtually every initiative for government spending and new taxes in his 14 years as a Texas Congressman \u2013 more no\u2019s than any other office holder.\u00a0 All of which impressed Iowans enough to rank him the second most-desirable Republican candidate.\u00a0 The American People \u2013 in Iowa \u2013 have spoken!\u00a0 But who\u2019s listening?<\/p>\n

Willard Mitt Romney \u2013 who “didn\u2019t participate” in the Ames Straw Poll, lest he have to explain his successful universal health care program for his home state (note: you can run \u2013 but you can\u2019t hide), who showed up anyway and said, “hey, corporations are people, too, my friend,” which is no surprise coming from him, given the millions major corporations have donated to his campaign, knowing he’ll continue to support non-taxation of same. This includes Bain Capital, his former private equity firm, who has anonymously donated $1 million to his campaign. His resume now features his 20 years in the corporate world as more relevant than his minimal 4 years in political office.<\/p>\n

Tim \u201cTPaw\u201d Pawlenty \u2013 who once had the courage to stand up to W and Karl Rove over their attack of Iraq, and who has offered himself as a potential leader of the free world, picks up his toys and stomps out of the very first competition because he finishes a dismal 3rd.\u00a0 And, like the rest of his fellow running mates, cowers to the Tea Baggers – whose financial platform will continue to cripple this nation, given Washington’s refusal to stand up to these Nazi’s.<\/p>\n

Newt Gingrich \u2013 who, during his first week as a presidential candidate labeled fellow Republican Paul Ryan\u2019s budget proposal “right-wing social engineering,” causing most of his fund raisers to flee, followed by all of his staff leadership soon after, and whose third wife obligated him to as much as $500 thousand debt at Tiffany’s – and who\u2019s also willing to eviscerate Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security and continue W’s tax cuts on the wealthy.\u00a0 All of which illustrates his arrogant hypocrisy.<\/p>\n

Rick Santorum – who’s slathering for extreme right-wing voter support exceeds even his competitors\u2019, and leads him to equate gay marriage with incest, akin to “a father marrying his daughter.”\u00a0 Which is not only irrelevant but, as further evidenced by every single last one of his Republican running mates\u2019 platforms and in addition to its pathological ignorance, has absolutely nothing to do with the genuine problems this nation is facing today.<\/p>\n

Herman Cain – who cares?<\/p>\n

And then there’s Rick Perry, who proudly proclaims his father-in-law performed his vasectomy as a campaign point, who has totally confused separation of church and state with his keynote at the Texas Christian Prayer Rally \u2013 having already extended official state support to the Islamic community through his personal and official relationship with “His Highness” Prince Shah Karim Al Husseini, the Aga Khan IV, and the spiritual leader of the Shiite sect of Nizari Ismaili Muslims, whose 18 million strong believe he is a direct descendant of Muhammad. Perry, who\u2019s been described as W2, who said Texas should maybe secede from the United States of America, whose coffers are over stuffed with millions of corporate dollars, who’s spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of tax payer’s money on vacations and foreign “trade missions,” whose state ranks at the very bottom in public education and whose claims about Texas\u2019 financial strengths are a myth, who argues that the US has no constitutional right to mandate income tax and whose hypocritical madness could actually boost him beyond Bachmann as the Republican Tea Party candidate for US president. Yeah, Perry\u2019s got balls. Which only proves it takes a hell of a lot more than that to qualify for President.<\/p>\n

Sarah Palin showed up in Iowa, too.\u00a0 When asked if the president was to blame for the nation’s credit downgrading, she said “… yes.\u00a0 Because from the top, leadership starts from the top, the leadership of our country.”<\/p>\n

Spoken like the true genius she is, another passenger on the Ship of Fools that is the Republican Tea Bagger party.<\/p>\n

The Republican Party continues to demonstrate its utter lack of ideas, its sense of reality and its inability to accomplish anything constructive.\u00a0 Drowning in its fear of the Tea Party, it is polluted with rabid political bias, consumed by a Nazi-like rage and driven by its single-minded myopia to get rid of Obama at any and all costs – all of which is tantamount to hoisting itself on its own petard, doomed to failure and guaranteed to extend the Democrats’ hold on the White House.<\/p>\n

Have a nice day.<\/p>\n

Editor\u2019s Note: Views expressed by columnists published on FogCityJournal.com are not necessarily the views or beliefs of Fog City Journal. FCJ supports free speech in all its varied forms and provides a forum for a complete spectrum of viewpoints.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ron Paul (barely) – Paul landed less than a single percentage point behind Bachmann (although your wouldn\u2019t know it from the conservative media\u2019s instant anointment of Bachmann, Romney and Perry as the party\u2019s \u201cTop Tier Candidates\u201d). A perhaps surprising showing in this conservative state since many of his libertarian positions are, well, provocative: legalize marijuana; abolish income tax; allow Iran to have nukes (\u201ceverybody else does\u2026\u201d); pull the US out of the United Nations and NATO \u2013 and the Middle East; allow states to secede from the union; eliminate the Federal Reserve; eliminate legal tender laws and sales tax on gold and silver \u2013 heck, let the free market determine monetary standards. Dr No has voted against virtually every initiative for government spending and new taxes in his 14 years as a Texas Congressman \u2013 more no\u2019s than any other office holder. All of which impressed Iowans enough to rank him the second most-desirable Republican candidate. The American People \u2013 in Iowa \u2013 have spoken! 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