Again, when candidates talk to the camera with pre-planned or conscientious (purposeful) body language, genuine heart for the United States of America is blocked by such superficiality. At the Tea Party debate in Tampa, Florida the only one presidential candidate that did not care to expose some information that nearly all of the preconditioned engrained thinking bunch of tea partiers, nor I, had really known, except for what we had been told over and over by news media and then by our church leaders talking about Islam from the pulpits, that Americans and Christians are infidels to Islam, and Islam hates the American way of life (do you suppose such propaganda has engrained many fears and hate for Muslims and Al Qaeda and have helped to justify the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?), was Ron Paul, e.g., in defense of his web site in regards to a statement by candidate Jon Huntsman pointing out that Paul wrote "it was the United States' fault for Al Qaeda attacks," (which Paul told the audience bin Laden said this very same thing) and gave the reasons why the U.S. was attacked on 9/11. I guess Paul has taken down that statement and those reasons, for I couldn't find them on his web site, so I looked the reasons up on Wikipedia which reads, "[i]n various pronouncements before and after the attacks,[117][118] al-Qaeda explicitly cited three motives for its activities against Western countries: the presence of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia,[118][119][120] U.S. support of Israel,[121][122] and sanctions against Iraq[123]," (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks#Motives). Whether or not Paul was quoting or paraphrasing what bin Laden had said or whether he agreed with bin Laden, I may never know, but it did seem that as he repeated those reasons to the audience, the host of tea partiers believed Paul agreed with bin Laden. On another note,Paul did clarify for the audience that there is a difference between military spending and defense spending, therefore, the two are not the same.
It is also amazing to me that the republican candidates now want to bring our soldiers home from Afghanistan, when so many republicans are critisizing President Obama for putting in a timeline for withdrawing troops from Afghanistan. And I am further amazed at the candidates' desire to enforce the immigration laws when it was republican President Bush who had relaxed the laws for immigrants to come into the U.S. either way they wanted: legally or illegally.
So, as the average American is fully aware of all the two-face comments by politicians, the name of the game in this stage of politics is to start eliminating candidates. Huntsman started the elimination of Paul by playing on the emotions of the robust Muslim hater's club called the Tea Party.
Which would bring us to the understanding of why Romney didn't want to say anything bad about the Tea Party Club while debating in California, knowing that the next stop was at a Tea Party central debate in Florida. In California, Romney responded that he didn't suppose anyone in the Tea Party carried an identification card saying they were a Tea Party member, yet one of the discussions at the Regan Museum debate was on "pledges," and many Americans know that those inducted into the Tea Party have to sign a pledge to the Tea Party.
Cain did explain his 9-9-9 system at this debate. It's basically a flat tax for citizens and businesses, and the third 9 represents a national sales tax. I can't believe that those fine citizens in Cincinnati don't understand the the Fair Tax is a flat tax and is more trouble (more paper work) for the business person or any person for that matter than it is worth. I do agree with Romnie that we do need to restructure our business economics and trade agreements and bring manufacturing back to America. I also agree that middle-income Americans don't need to be paying taxes on their savings.
The one person I felt sorry for the most was the Afghan born woman who posed a question at the end of the debate in regards to once the troops leave Afghanistan, of "What will you do if you become president to ensure the health and well being of women in Afghanistan?" The two male candidates that responded may as well have said, "we will do nothing," because that is precisely what they meant in their round about response. I'm not surprised that the male candidates at a Tea Party event swept off any commitment to help women anywhere in the world, for the Tea Party's mission is to make sure males in America dominate and have more opportunity than women in America. To ensure health care for women in America, according to the Tea Party, women should stay or get married or have a job. To ensure health care for women outside of America, "good luck."
The national Health Care Reform was of course another topic at the Tea Party event. As John Wolfe, candidate for Congress during the 2010 election pointed out, health care should not be a condition dependent upon employment. NBC news reported tonight (September 13, 2011) 16.3% of Americans don't have health insurance, which equals to nearly 50 million Americans. I can't believe that any potential republican president of the United States is talking about scraping the Health Care Reform act when so many Americans have plunged into poverty and have no health care coverage. But, the talk may only come at the expense of satisfying a Tea Party audience.
Another shocker is, Michelle Bauchman, denouncing Gov. Rick Perry's executive order to save young female lives from cervical cancer by mandating the HPV vaccine produced by Merck. It took an act of Congress in 1990 to even begin breast and cervical cancer prevention and research when prior to this date, most if not all cancer research was in regards to other more general cancers associated with men. As this attack was just another ploy to eliminate Perry from the competion, Bauchman declared that Perry stepped over the line when it comes to personal freedoms. Here, again, Jon Huntsman chimed in to tongue lash Perry for trying to save lives and to have the vaccine administered in the school. (Even more interesting, the HPV vaccine is also available to males. Why should just females be vaccinated?) Huntsman makes a point here, though, for everything seems to fall on the operations of the school system. Just have students visit their friendly health clinics, don't place the burden on the already over taxed school system.
Bachman, being female herself, should not help the Tea Party set back female progress. If anyone is selling out, that would be Michelle Bauchman selling out her own gender just to further her own career on the suspenders of the Tea Party movement.
The three best candidates for the republican party will be Ron Paul, Rick Perry, and Mitt Romney. Bauchman and Palin literally sound identical, and Palin should not enter the race at all. Gingrich hasn't separated himself from the pack, Cain just can't compete against Obama and neither can Huntsman. Obama is extraordinarily better.
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