What's Wrong with the GOP Presidential Field?

First of all let me begin by saying this is by no means a biased viewpoint on the GOP Presidential field but rather just what I can tell from how the field is shaping up to be. So going down the field in no particular order:

MITT ROMNEY

Okay, here's my problem, the guy just can't be trusted. First of all he claims that President Obama didn't consult him about the flaws in his health care bill when President Obama and Congress/Senate were trying to pass the national Health Care bill. One problem there: He didn't HAVE to ask Former Governor Romney because he assumed that Governor Romney signed off on the whole bill, not aspects of it. Think about it, you're the President and you're looking at a bill as an example of the very bill you're trying to pass. You wouldn't call the guy who signed off on the bill because there would be no reason to.

Then you have the switching on issues such as global warming, gay marriage, abortion, etc. Here is a man who decided to run for President in 2008 and just on a dime flipped his opinion on these issues. He knew people knew he was from Massachusetts, he knew people wouldn't go for his views so what did he do? He changed them. And why, do you ask? Simple. He wanted to be President. He's an opportunist who doesn't care how he gets there just as long as he gets there. In short, what does Mitt Romney stand for?

Mormonism. I know it shouldn't be issue and a politicians religious views are his or her business. Sorta. He is a politician after all so it does matter in the public eye. People don't have too high a view of Mormonism and it's one of the more recent religions so they find it a hard thing to swallow. That and instinctively what people think about when they think about Mormons is those people who come to your door, ring the doorbell and when you open it expect you to become fervent about Jesus as they do. Problem that is they don't know if they are offending or enlightening who ever opens the door.

MICHELLE BACHMANN

Let's be fair to her, she's a nice lady who genuinely cares about the issues and is a hard worker. She's raised over a dozen children and that is very commendable, after all who could or would be willing to take on such an undertaking? Kudos to her for that. But then she does have the problem with the religion issue. Seems her husband has had a Christian counseling service that has tried to turn gay people into straight people which is to say that's like trying to turn an apple into an orange, just isn't gonna happen. All that does is even confuse the patient even more. Should she apologize for her husbands actions/beliefs? Maybe, but that leads to another question: Should someone who is overtly religious be President of the United States? Probably not considering when you have religion running a country it ceases to be a Democracy and becomes a Theocracy. Although she is starting to lead in Iowa she must be careful not to let her religious views overcome her own thoughts. After all it's she who is responsible for her actions, thoughts, and words, not God. That's why Pat Robertson and Mike Huckabee never became President. Say the economy falls into a depression (which is possible) and 10 months into her term as President she says, "Well I didn't do anything about it because God told me not to do anything about it." Not good.

HERMAN CAIN

Could he be the first black Republican President. Maybe. He is the only one up there who is not a politician who makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. When he speaks everything makes sense but will his race get in the way? I hope not, but there seems to be a lack of GOP minorities in congress and Senate. I pretty much don't care what someone looks like just as long as they aren't totally full of it and keep their promises. That's what a politician is supposed to do, work for the people. Not just work for the people but be their ambassador in Washington D.C. With the mind of Gerald Ford and the voice of a judge he would make a fine President it's just a matter of getting over that racial hurdle. If Barack Obama can do it why can't he? First he has to prove himself better than the front runners.

RON PAUL

Here's an interesting guy and I've been following him for years. He has got to be one of the fiscally legislators in all of the congress and senate. In fact, I'd go far as to say if they would actually listen to him we wouldn't have a financial crisis. He's for abolishing the IRS (who'd disagree with that?), the auditing of the FED (where's the Gold in Fort Knox?) , lowering taxes whenever a tax bill comes up (always a good sign) and being more cautious in Foreign affairs. So what's wrong with that? Absolutely nothing. But therein lies the problem. The government establishment quakes in its boots at the thought of no IRS. Without an IRS the government couldn't wage war at the drop of a hat, it would be forced to be on its toes about the economy, and it would have to get its taxes from some place else. That and every dollar a man or woman earns is his or her own. A dollar is worth a dollar.

He wants to audit the FED. No problem there, after all what's wrong with that? Simple: The government could hide its secrets. No longer would people be blind to black ops. No longer would we not know what bills between bills are. Like for example building a water tower in Des Moines within a tax bill. I'm not saying that specific thing has been done but that's the gist. That and he's for a more cautious foreign affairs attitude. I don't agree fully on his foreign affairs attitude but for the most part he's got a point. We can't run ourselves too thing overseas so we can't take care of our own country, that's just ludicrous. That's what Osama Bin Ladin wanted. He wanted us to be so involved in Iraq and Afghanistan that our country would be destroyed from within.

So why can't he reach the top of the pile? Easy. The truth hurts. Whether you're a high government official or an average citizen what he has to say scares the tarnation out of them. He was right about the economy collapsing in '08, he was right about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac falling, he warned about Goldman Sachs. But did they listen to him? No. Then the American people are afraid of losing their social security and medicaid/medicare, which is perfectly understandable, but when he tells them that social security and medicaid/medicare are dying anyway it goes through one ear and out the other. Maybe he can last to the end, like in 2008, I don't know.

JOHN HUNTSMAN

Former Governor of Utah and Ambassador to China he has taken a little flack. For starters Obama picked him to be the ambassador and many Republicans really don't like that. Can you blame them? I mean many Republicans hate, loathe and despise President Obama, that's just the way of the game these days for Presidents. But it's mind boggling how that has anything to do with our relations to China. So that's one problem. Another is he, like Romney, is also a Mormon which I don't know if that will affect him or not. Problem moreso him than Romney. When it comes to John Huntsman the simple question is: Is he too liberal? Only time will tell, hopefully before the nomination.

NEWT GINGRICH

The guy is old news. He's 1990's politics and although we need someone who has taken care of the budget before the country doesn't need his baggage. When his second wife died he was carrying on an affair with his secretary. Many politicians lead extramarital affairs, right? Of course, but here's the problem, he did it while she was laid up in a hospital bed. And here's the capper: He carried on the affair while he was trying to get President Clinton impeached over the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Let's see you're cheating on your wife and you're trying to punish a man cheating on his wife. That's like robbing a bank and then chasing the guy down who is robbing the bank across the street. It's ludicrous. Plus why did he lose nearly all his staff? No one knows to tell you the truth but that can't look too good. He's a very knowledgeable man but I can't see him getting the soccer mom vote.

RICK SANTORUM AND TIM PAWLENTY

I'll put them in the same listing because they are both the same: boring as whale poop! They fail to energize the American people and I find it fruitless to go in depth on two guys we know will be the first two to drop out. Both are way, way, way in the far right which doesn't work either because when you go to far to the left you have socialism/communism and go to far to the right and you have fascism. Not a pretty thought considering the world leaders in the past who have been fascists.

And of course, yet to run:

RICK PERRY

We know this guy is going to jump into the race and he's currently 3rd behind Romney and Bachmann but let's be serious, do we really need a reminder of George W. Bush? Don't get me wrong but with that swagger, that heavy twang and that sense of entitlement to be President do we need someone like that? If people disliked Bush they are going to hate Perry. And I'm not just talking about Democrats, I mean independents as well. Sure he can get the nomination, that's perfectly possible, but there is something wrong with a man who has such a thirst for power that he thinks he can be Governor of Texas as long as he likes. That's about as close to a dictatorship as we'll see in this country, thank God.

Here is something most people don't know, at least nationally, which is he tried to pass the North Texas Corridor bill. Basically what it is is he'd have it so there would be this great big highway that would go vertically up through the central part of Texas, from roughly the Texas border to the Oklahoma/Texas border. That sounds all fine and dandy until you see that it goes not only outside the country but in both directions. What it would do is go from the southern tip of South America to the most northern part of Canada. In other words it would've allowed anyone to go through this continent without being securely checked. This is bad. First of all, terrorists could go through. Illegal immigrants could go through. Criminals could go through it. Drug runners. Escaped felons. You name it. This bill he passed was bordering on treason. For that reason alone he shouldn't be President.

And what about the so called job surge he created? They've been mostly retail and government jobs. That's nothing to cry home about, and although to him that may be something to be proud of your average college graduate isn't helped by that. Say you're a recent college graduate, or maybe some poor guy who just got layed off from a marketing firm, and you're desperate for a job and the only choice is retail. That is a huge destroyer to an ego, not only does it say your dreams and hopes have been washed away in a blink of an eye but it says this is the best you can get for a long while. Not only that, 40% of jobs added to the Texas economy have been minimum wage with no benefits or incentives of any kind. In the past year government jobs have gone up a whopping 25%. So that is to say unless you want to work for the Texas government you're out of luck. Minimum wage jobs are something to brag about with Perry, after all he doesn't have to work at Wendy's or McDonald's, he just cares about the numbers not the actual sorts of jobs people get. Texas is second to last with the most minimum wage jobs, the worst being Mississippi.

Now outside of jobs he has nothing to brag about. We're almost dead last at students who become high school graduates, #44. About the same for SAT scores, and the big whopper in education is of people over age 25 we're dead last when it comes to those over 25 being high school graduates. That is just down right pathetic. How is he a great governor if he can't even fix education? That and every district in Texas lost a considerable percentage of teachers this year.

To say Perry is Bush on steroids is an understatement. President Bush is a "compassionate conservative", he would've never allowed this to happen in Texas. Even if it did, Laura Bush would've made sure he made Texans education system much, much better.

SARAH PALIN

Odds are she won't run. Michelle Bachmann is making too much traction and would run Sarah null and void, maybe even cancelling each other out. Let's face it, we're all sick and tired of Sarah Palin, no matter their political affiliation. The woman when she had her tv show shot a deer on tv! She blew its brains out, now how stupid is that? In 2008 she did something similar when she stood next to a moose that she just shot with it's guts hanging out of its stomach. Of course she tried to hide that photo from the American public but eventually something like that gets out.

Then there is that thing with Paul Revere with her claiming that he ran across New England on horseback carrying pistols, guns blazing. B.S. I researched it, I even read his disposition to a magistrate on the matter. At 10p.m he was told to go warn the people that the British were coming. So he gets on his horse, rides during the night, hoping not to run into any redcoats along the way. He didn't have any guns on him, no weapons of any kind, and why? He was scared out of his mind. So he got about half way through his ride, warning various tavern goers along the way, when he's stopped at a towns limits by about a dozen British soldiers. Its captain told Paul Revere to get off his horse, which he did, and told his men to search good ole Paul. As they are doing this the Captain put his gun to Paul's head and said, and I'm paraphrasing of course, "If we find any guns on you I'm going to blow your brains out." Does that sound like a guy with guns blazing?

For a woman who doesn't read she sure likes to pose as a historian. How can a woman write a book who doesn't read? How can someone who quits her job as governor try to put herself on the national stage? That's just mind boggling.

SUMMARY

Will the real Republican nominee please stand up? We have two categories of Republican contenders here, actually three:

1. The unethical/amoral (Romney, Gingrich, Perry, Palin)
2. The too religious (Bachmann, Pawlenty, Santorum)
3. The too truthful to win (Ron Paul, Herman Cain, and maybe Huntsman)

I'd take a too truthful over a too religious or too unethical/amoral any day of the week. No matter what your choice is, if you're a GOP voter, remember this: "A cause is worth fighting for, even a hopeless one". The GOP field is nothing to cry home about, I just hope the people of the United States gets an honest, decent nominee.

In short: God help us.