Posted by
Gary A McAvin on Wednesday, July 22, 2009 10:59:47 AM
This should be one of the major considerations for the GOP’s next presidential candidate. The people are tired of dysfunctional families and the political hacks that lead them. Is the GOP seeking the quintessential candidate, or are they just looking for a nice face on top with nothing between the ears but vacuousness (stupidity) where the brain should be? Should the GOP be seeking candidates with sordid pasts and scandal implications as resume requisites? Should the GOP follow the Democrats pattern of acceptance for any immoral and debauchery laden background? The GOP was supposed to be the party of morals and family oriented. The leader presents a party format, as is the leader, so is the party and its’ constituents, well mostly. The Bible talks of the time when Aaron loosed the people, and when he made the golden calf as an idol to be worshipped. The true leader, a strict moralist, was absent from their location, and while he was gone the people were loosed and their moral focus and moral compass was absent from their lives.
If the GOP fields an amoral candidate what will be the outcome? Will the people look upon the candidate’s immoral failings as an example to do the same? Will placing an adulterer or adulteress on the ticket for example, signify approval of this amoral behavior? Will the people think that it’s okay to commit adultery because the candidate did and look where they are, running for the office of president! No, because morals are still important! In his book Common Morality: Deciding What to Do (2004) Bernard Gert proposes ten moral rules which, if followed, create a moral system. The rules are as follows:
1. Do not kill
2. Do not cause pain
3. Do not disable
4. Do not deprive of freedom
5. Do not deprive of pleasure
6. Do not deceive
7. Keep your promises
8. Do not cheat
9. Obey the law
10. Do your duty
If the GOP can field a candidate that follows the Biblical Ten Commandments and can acknowledge Gert’s ten moral rules, they could once again capture the attention of America’s conservative voters. However, if it is business as usual, the GOP offers an amoral candidate with a dysfunctional family that flaunts their immoral actions; you can just stay home or not enter a preference when you are faced with the GOP vs. the Democrat choice for president at the voting booth 2012.
Why should the GOP place these kinds of people and then rub them in the people’s faces as the GOP choice (S) like it or not? Do you honestly think we want a morally used (amoral) or spent candidate? Do you honestly think that everyone is committing adultery or debauchery so it’s okay to run a candidate that did or still does? What is the problem with this picture, and why does the political wannabees continue to want center stage when they can’t even qualify for the office of dog catcher where they reside? We are being bombarded by a has been beauty queen that attended five different colleges in a six year span of time, with less than two semesters at most, she finally received a B.S. in communications with an emphasis in journalism from the University of Idaho. By every university standard offering this degree curriculum this degree should be easier to achieve in less time than that. However, what you have is a former beauty queen that can talk/communicate, a vacuous yakking beauty queen at that! And her college GPA is suggested to be fairly low, and that was obvious during her first speaking attempts. So, what is your point on that?
My point can be understood if one were to use the right head to seriously evaluate the person from a requirement point of view. Why can’t the GOP find an intelligent accomplished woman to run for the office of president, shall we say someone like Condoleeza Rice for example? Why can’t the GOP find a well educated woman to place on the ballot? I’ll tell you why, because the qualified (and emphasis on qualified) women are not face or body beautiful and they just don’t look good in a bathing suit. The GOP would rather field a former beauty queen that looks good in PR photos and a bathing suit. Regardless that this individual is the atypical vacuous beauty queen that rides the wave on looks without the necessary mental capacity or capabilities to run this country. GOP, if you are reading this…what are you thinking? Do you seriously think that you can place anyone this fatuous in serious contention? You think it was bad when she was selected for McCain’s running mate, just wait until the next time (should she be stupid enough to run) when the Democratic hit machine gets up and running, they will devour her in short order.
What America needs is candidates that do not and have not committed adultery or any other sexual immorality. America needs candidates who do not do drugs or drink alcohol excessively and whose family members don’t either. America needs candidates that do not have children who participate in sexual activity without being married and bring forth children out of wedlock. America needs candidates that live above the foul morass of the amorality in the Democrat Party and those who are devoid of any values whatsoever. America needs candidates they can look up to, not candidates they can compare themselves to, and then say, at least I’m better than they are, while they continue practicing abominable behavior because of the provided bad examples by the GOP et al parties. The pattern (s) of America’s leaders should be above reproach! America needs moral relevance not immoral insignificance.