Picking our candidate for 2012

[Don MacLeod]

I am concerned that the main stream media will dictate the terms in our selection of a good elect able candidate for president in 2012.  Last night’s debate questions seemed to be aimed at those litmus issues over which a president has little control; issues such as abortion and gay rights and gays in the military.  The real issues that must be brought to the forefront and openly discussed should be what are we going to do about unemployment, onerous federal regulation, and onerous EPA edicts? Our candidates must have a stand on reducing our commitment to all entitlement funding with appropriate alternatives that address the liberal mantra of reducing entitlements on the backs of our elderly.  One good response could be that the status quo continues entitlements on the backs of as yet unborn generations. 

 

The republican candidates must address all of Obama’s current talking points with real counter point solutions.  For instance ethanol funding should be eliminated, even Al Gore said he was mistaken when he backed that turkey; elimination of this subsidy could help reduce the sky rocketing costs of food since corn feeds people as well chickens and animals used for meat. 

 

These same candidates must provide individual views and solution to moving education resources and requirements from Washington D.C. back to the states and local governments where they have historically resided. 

 

Why should we “continue to be patient on the economy”?   The administration’s faulty and fictitious economic statistics have really challenged my gullibility factor; what is our candidate’s respond to this level of fabrication?  Each time the economy slips further into the doldrums the main stream media preface the report with “unexpected” The administration’s and economic experts must be even lamer than they appear in their predictions. 

 

There are a myriad of other relevant and timely issues that the serious voters need to have addressed before we vote in the primaries and I feel the abortion and gay issues are simply red herring issues that will do nothing to advance the current third world situation we are facing here in the U.S.  Let’s start a petition campaign to force our potential candidates to tell us their specific stand on all of the issues that are sinking the U.S and our economy and what they will do to fix them there is no abstaining allowed.