for your consideration

Ladies and gentlemen of America, for your consideration, the men and women, who want to be president representing the Republican aka Tea Bagger Party:

It wasn’t a good night for the entire Republican Party, especially since it was such an opportunity for the party as this debate took place in the midst of what happens to be President Obama’s worst week in the White House. Team Obama could not have asked for a better visual than every single GOP candidate raising their hand saying they’d refuse to support a debt deal that had a 10-to-1 ratio of spending cuts to tax increases. (First Read, NBC News).

To the man and the one woman, all of the Republican/Bagger hopefuls stated that an amendment to the Constitution prohibiting same sex marriage would make this nation, well more American.

The candidates decided that the free market should run free and indulged with little discussion about the middle class except for the fact that if you stop taxing corporations and the ultra wealthy somehow the middle class will, um still exist.

The lady and the gents decided that health care for all Americans is so un-American. Again they proposed ‘in that I have health care and you don’t mode’, let the markets decide who can afford to live and can’t afford to live, so I guess the markets can decide who dies.

They found a common enemy in the Gay, the Muslim, the poor, the middle class, the worker and somehow pretended that the trickle down effect of the Bush years was a blip on the map and that this time they could make trickle down gush like a water fall. Pay no attention to history I suppose or the man behind the corporate curtain.

And lurking, lying in wait two other candidates who love to use smoke, mirrors, hate bigotry and bias are ready to pounce upon the scene. Sister Sarah is riding her bus to Iowa or is it her broom stick, and Governor Rick (Texas can and should secede from the union if we don’t like your rules and regulations USA) Perry is cooling his heels in South Carolina.

So, America, here we go. One of the many candidates will get the nomination for the Republican/Bagger Party to run for president. All of the candidates have decided who is an American and who is not. They all claim to be religious people, yet love to discriminate, alienate, and repudiate anyone who does not view God the way they do. All of the candidates like the wealthy love the corporations; have little interest in the poor or the elderly. They all talk about future generations but seem to lack the wherewithal and knowledge on how to help the current generation of Americans.

For the faults of our current president, and I am becoming less of a believer in his change you can believe in, at least President Obama has said words like Gay is okay, middle class need to earn money to pay their bills, Americans should have access to affordable health care, even Muslims have a right to pray in their own houses of worship, women have the right to freedom of choice in regards to their own bodies. To my dismay the president has compromised (so much) that many of the ideals I hold valuable for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness have been abandoned. But whether for the sake of this nation or his chances to be reelected, he has at least tried to find an agreement even though it sounds more like I will give in and I give up.

I care less if the person elected president is a Democrat or a Republican (the Tea Baggers scare me), but I do care a whole lot that the person in the White House understands that majorities are not the only ones to cater to, difference is good, it is not wise to ignore the weaker links, and equal, is not the same as separate but equal. I care more that she/he understand that we are the reason he/she is running for the office of president.

So far all of the Republican/Bagger candidates and the two undeclared individuals seem bent on “us vs. them”, division is greater then the whole, and my country or leave it. They are eager to please the hater, the blamers, the ignorant.

For your consideration, Mr. and Mrs. America the Republican/Bagger candidates, is this the America of tomorrow?