Herbert: Rambo and the GOP

[fencesitter]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/01/opinion/01herbert.html?hp

****There’s so much talk of violence and mayhem as the solution to our ills. The candidates seem so eager to flex their muscles and engage the nation in conflict: Let’s continue the war in Iraq. Let’s show them what we’re made of in Iran. Let’s round up those immigrants and ship ’em back where they came from.

It’s like watching adolescent boys playing the ultimate video game, with no regard for the consequences. Rudy, the crime-fighter and terror maven, says he’s tougher than Mitt, who actually had illegals working on his property. Mitt begs to differ and says he’d like to double the size of the Guantánamo prison.

Are we electing a president or a sheriff?

Representative Tom Tancredo of Colorado wants to stop all immigration, legal and illegal. Too much immigration brings problems, he said. Among other things, “it makes it difficult for us to assimilate.”

(The bludgeoning of logic is yet another form of violence coming out of the debates.)

We’ve got the thunderclouds of a recession heading our way. We’re in the midst of a housing foreclosure crisis that is tragic in its dimensions. We’ve got forty-some-million people without health coverage. And the city of New Orleans is still on its knees.

So you tune in to the G.O.P. debate on CNN to see what’s what, and they’re talking about — guns.

Former Mayor Giuliani, once a gun-control champion, has swallowed the party’s Kool-Aid straight from the packet, not even bothering to mix it with water. “People will be allowed to have guns,” he said. “I’m not going to interfere with that.”

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[Jackpine Radical]

1. I'm all for that guns, guts & glory business.

Only problem is, the only Puggy candidate with combat experience is McCain, & Rove told me he's nuts.

[Demeter]

2. They Are All Certifiable, IMO

The GOP is running on empty, and hoping to con enough voters into pushing them over the finish line.

But the voters are running on empty, too, thanks to Dubya and his cronies.

[Briar]

3. I'm not sure Democrat

candidates are any better. They're echoing the same "centrist" soundbytes, right down to war mongering and worshiping the sacred gun.

[MasonJar]

4. Please do NOT ever compare our guys and gal to their pathetic

group. Instead just picture the Supreme Court when Stevens goes and the country when the evangelicals and the warmongers gain another 4 years.

[Skittles]

5. how do I find out how to email Mr. Herbert?

I am a huge fan of his