16 December, 2007

Republican candidates of the same mold

The Republican candidates either have scandals in their past or are flipfloppers on the issues, or support unpopular causes. They all are talking about the past by promising to reduce the size of government (now while in power increased it) and appointing “strict constructionist” judges, etc, that make all judicial decisions based on their rightwing politics.

They all still support the war on Iraq and are in favor of running up huge debts to overseas governments like China. Their new "red scare" is to promise to be tough on illegal immigrants.

In many ways, at a time when the country — and even some Republicans — are hungry for change, this field of candidates is promising more of the same: to do just what Mr. Bush did, but promise to go one better.

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