The US Republican Primaries: Michael H. Prosser, Ph.D. (January 24, 2012) (551,000 comments since February 23, 2011) [Post 317]
35 commentsThe US Republican Primaries: Michael H. Prosser, Ph.D. (January 24, 2012) (551,ooo comments since February 23, 2011 [Post 317]
www.michaelprosser.com Jan. 24, 2012 (a disclaimer: I voted in China as an absentee ballot for Barack Obama, and will vote for him again in 2012).
From my perspective, of having lived and taught university courses in China for nearly 10 years, only Jon Huntsman had any sensible views related to China-US relations. It is a pity that he quit his commendable job as ambassador to undertake a nearly impossible run for the presidential nomination, when Mitt Romney had already been running for 6 yeears and has enough funds to keep him going through every primary.
I liked Romney better before all of the very nasty Sujper Pac adds in his favor and against Newt Gingrich and Santorum, and before his nastiness in the most recent Florida debate. On the other hand, both Romney Gingrich who several times has indicated that they will spend their time speaking about Obama, have both descended to the most nasty infighting possible.
Romney’s 2010 tax records and estimated 2011 tax records do show how wealthy individuals with increbibly intelligent tax lawyers pay far less tax returns than ordinary people. Romney has said that he will pay his required taxes, and not a dollar more–suggesting a very different temperament than Warren Buffet, who has said that he will give away more than half of his wealth. While Romney has given 3 Million dollars in charity, far more than Gingrich’s 3%, Romney is a faithrul member of the Morman Chuch which calls upon all of its members to tithe ten percent of their income to the Church. Thus, if he paid 10% of his charitable contributions to the Church, based on a 30 Million dollar income in 2010, that is in keeping with his faith.
Gingrich, following the earlier lead of Sarah Palin, loves to assail the media for asking him entirely fair questions,for example, when the news of his second wife claiming that Newt asked her for an”open” marriage so that he could continue to have Callista as his mistress, and the amazing standing ovation that he received in the South Carolina state–apparently one with a very hiigh level of evangelical Christians who should be shocked at his actions, is really the height of hubris! It is amazing that Gingrich’s “grandiose” ideas–usually a negative connotation, make it quite clear that he is not emotianally stable, and is so egocentric, that making him the Republican nomineee would as Noonan and Krauthammer’s message to the GOP “You’re losing this thing” entirely likely.
I do think that the Republican front runners (Paul will probably stay in; Santorum will probably have to drop out sooner or later), Romney (boring, now frightened, hesitant and stumbling) and Gingrich (far too arrogant to serve as our president), will self destruct. Both of them have offered so many arguments, totally unsupported by any evidence (Romney–If Obama is President, Iran will have a nuclear bomb. If I am President, Iran will not have a nuclear bomb; Gingrich (I will straighten out the mess in Washington within one year”).
We will see the impact of Obama’s State of the Union speech tonight, in terms of cutting the deficit, tighening the federal government, restoring faith in government, overcoming the housing crisis, creating jobs, and whether the so far mostly “no” Republican congress can cooperate for the good of the American people, or whether their only goal as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Romney, and Gingrich espouse–the only goal is defeating President Obama.
I am not entirely pleased at Obama’s successes, but he did inherit the most recent devastating recession from the George W. Bush administration, and it is evident that the Washington problems cannot be solved in a single year, and perhaps not for several years. Than Obama now owns the recessionarry problems is correct, but certainly the Republicans have given him precious little help recently in overcoming these problems.
While both Romney and Gingrich harshly criticize Obama’s foreign policies, (Gingrich–”Palestinians are an invented people” Romney “American troops leaving Afghanistan in 2014 and announcing it publically plays into the hands of the enemy” “If Fidel Castro dies, he will go somewhere else,” Gingrich “If Fidel Castro dies he will go down below,” while forgetting to note that Castro gave up power to his brother Raul several years ago) as foreign policy continues from administration to administration, Osama bin Laden has been caputred and killed; Col. Gaddafi has been routed; the Arab Spring that may have been initiated by George W. Bush, has been occurring, and the results may be good or bad. the US and China relations will proceed; the sanctions on Iran will proceed; the US will continue to be an important force, and increasingly so in the Asia/Pacific region. As some commentators acknowledge, campaign statements on foreign policy tend to meet reality once an election occurs–as has happened with Obama’s candidate claim to immediately close the Guantanamo prison. No president can entirely repudiate the previous administrations’ foreign policy except at great peril.
So, on the second January Florida debate, in personal statements and debates, Romney–”Gingrich left the House as Speaker in disgrace,” Ron Paul’s accurate statement that Gingrich did not leave at his own volition, but he did not have the votes to remain speaker, and Gingrich’s and Romney’s misstatements, and half truths about each other, American policies, and governance, on a personal level, I am hopeful that which ever one wins the Republican nomination, he will continue to self-destruc and President Obama will have a second term where he can try to finish some of the so far unfinished efforts that he has made to create job spending, cut fat out of the federal administration, and reduce the deficit to levels approaching those made by President Clinton toward a balanced budget. Miichael H. Prosser, Ph.D.
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