Because Barack Obama has adopted so many core Republican beliefs
-- particularly in the realm of foreign policy -- the Republican race is
a shambles.
December 27, 2011 |American presidential elections are increasingly indistinguishable from the reality TV competitions drowning the nation's airwaves. Both are vapid, personality-driven and painfully protracted affairs, with the winners crowned by virtue of their ability to appear slightly more tolerable than the cast of annoying rejects whom the public eliminates one by one. When, earlier this year, America's tawdriest (and one of its most-watched) reality TV show hosts, Donald Trump, inserted himself into the campaign circus as a threatened contestant, he fitted right in, immediately catapulting to the top of audience polls before announcing he would not join the show.
The
Republican presidential primaries – shortly to determine who will be
the finalist to face off, and likely lose, against Barack Obama next
November – has been a particularly base spectacle. That the contest has
devolved into an embarrassing clown show has many causes, beginning with
the fact that GOP voters loathe Mitt Romney, their belief-free,
anointed-by-Wall-Street frontrunner who clearly has the best chance of
defeating the president.
In a desperate attempt to find someone less slithery and soulless (not to mention less Mormon),
party members have lurched manically from one ludicrous candidate to
the next, only to watch in horror as each wilted the moment they were
subjected to scrutiny. Incessant pleas to the party's ostensibly more
respectable conservatives to enter the race have been repeatedly
rebuffed. Now, only Romney remains viable. Republican voters are thus
slowly resigning themselves to marching behind a vacant, supremely
malleable technocrat whom they plainly detest.
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