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The GOP Primaries: The Adultery of Hope By Ron Hart
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The GOP primaries have been a wild ride. A Rasmussen poll now has Newt Gingrich leading Mitt Romney by twenty-one points. Some guy named Ron Paul keeps placing first or second in most polls, yet no one in the media seems to recognize him. Michele Bachmann led at one time, as did Rick Perry; last month it was Herman Cain. Yet Newt is surging now, which is what got him in trouble with his divorces. A man named "Newton" has to understand this law of gravity: what goes up can quickly come down.
In what seems like the 500th GOP debate, which is only watched by Obama's campaign team because the candidates are making all of his 2012 attack ads for him, the GOP searches for another Ronald Reagan.
Romney has been beaten up for the many different positions he has taken in the past but, unlike Herman Cain or Newt Gingrich, none of them has been on top of a woman who was not his wife. One would think the heavily evangelical Iowa Primary voters would take a dim view of adultery, but they seem to prefer something they understand over something they don't: Mormonism.
Newt made amends by saying he was sorry and became a Catholic. Nothing says you have given up chasing women like converting to the religion of the Kennedy family.
The template was set with John F. Kennedy and then Bill Clinton, but most voters do not mind what you do with your personal life as long as it does not involve a "dead woman or a live boy." Ted Kennedy survived the former.
Ron Paul continues to win the straw polls; he recently scored 53% of the Ohio GOP to win that one, too. You really never hear much about Ron Paul when the media can focus their attention on illegal Hispanics found working in Mitt Romney's hair or lining up prime time interviews with women who say they "do not want to hurt Cain's family" as they go public about an alleged affair. Nothing says "I did not want to hurt your wife and family" like going unsolicited to the media with your secret.
We knew it was over with Herman Cain weeks ago; it never bodes well when you are the first candidate to use the word "consensual" in an interview.
The three worst presidents of modern times, Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, have no revelations of sex-capade baggage. However, from Ben Franklin to Thomas Jefferson, our Founding Fathers had many sexual indiscretions. So maybe what the voters are saying, even in the GOP primaries, is that they really do not care what you do as long as you have a bold plan to reverse the course this country is on, which 71% of Americans dislike.
I believe the next GOP debate will be on "America's Top Chef," where all the candidates will make a soufflé. Actually, the next debate will be a Lincoln-Douglas style format. And, like the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, no one will watch them on TV. Only the candidates' gaffes will be played over and over on TV, amplified by the pundits. I am not really sure what the upside of all of this is, other than it seems to have allowed the few long-shot candidates of substance to rise to the top and made them tougher candidates. Obama will have no record to run on, but he does have $1 billion in stimulus money kicked backed to him and the media in his pocket. He will be formidable. He has also made more purportedly "official" trips to swing states than any of his predecessors.
As the GOP candidates bloody each others' noses, Obama is avoiding his beloved media. He has held far fewer press conferences than previous presidents, even though he knows he will get softball questions from CBS, NBC, ABC, PMS-NBC and CNN. In fact, CNN's White House correspondent asked President Obama a question about the GOP candidates' view of waterboarding: "So I'm wondering if you think that they're uninformed, out of touch, or irresponsible?" I guess CNN gave Obama the three choices in case his teleprompter was not working.
After the "Cain Train" got derailed, Herman Cain has to be saying, "Let me get this right: I get blown out of the race for alleged affairs and my GOP support goes to Newt, the guy with the most admitted affairs." No wonder the GOP loves "family values," since it seems to have a lot of them.
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© 2010 Ron Hart
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