Fox News journalists who moderated this latest debate lived up to their reputation of offering the nation and its people zero information with their silly questions. And of course the candidates showed how silly they really are once again by debating who is the most conservative. They all think it is more important to be conservative than to be an American.
The conservative republicans still try to pass themselves off as the elite but they have no viable answers as to how the country and its people can move forward in the 21st. century. They are still trying to live and project the Reagan ideology of trickle down economics. That in itself should be a sign to the people to reject the republican nominee in the general election.
Reagan's and Bush's record deficit spending and debt is something the republican presidential candidates will follow to continue Reagan's ideology to deprive the federal government of sufficient revenue to maintain the quality of life that social security and medicare recipients enjoy today. President Clinton's administration built a sound fiscal bridge to the 21st. century but the present republican candidates supported the policies of George W. Bush that blew the bridge up.
The candidates would continue the Reagan and Bush policies per their own words. The past is still the key to the future and the past has proven a democratic philosophy is so much superior than a conservative ideology at moving the country and its people forward.
Prior to the election of President Obama the republican party controlled the white house 20 of the previous 28 years. During that period of time Reagan, Bush 41 and Bush 43 never articulated an economic policy or a fiscal policy to balance the federal budget. In the 2008 campaign John McCain followed the same script and now the present republican candidates still can not articulate what they stand for or how they would address the nations problems. They are still stuck on abortion, gay marriage, gays in the military, personal attacks and their signature item of blame the democrats.
This writer has been around since Franklin Roosevelt's time and I can not think of a more sorry bunch of republican presidential candidates. Hopefully one day soon the republican party in general will shed its right wing radical and neocon anti American ideology and take part in a real debate on the issues. Thiry one years of a failed conservative ideology is enough. And that really says it all.
