So the Republican convention's over, and the Democratic one's next week...

[A Black Falcon]

True, one of the major problems in Congress right now is the Tea Partiers' refusal to compromise, and so when the voters see an equally stubborn presidential candidate, they're not likely to vote for him. (Our current Congress has the lowest approval rating on record in American history.) Mitt Romney has been cited as being a flip-flopper, but that's exactly what helped him to win his party's nomination. He's painting himself as a staunch conservative now, but when he was governor of Massachusetts, he was every bit as liberal as Ted Kennedy (well, not quite, but almost... for a Republican, anyway; he did support the War in Iraq, so he wasn't liberal on every issue, mostly just healthcare).

On the one hand people hate congress for being so divided, but on the other hand it's those same people who elected congress in the first place, so the people's record on partisanship is much more divided than the "we hate congress" polls would suggest. People hate that congress isn't controlled by their side, but the problem is that the two sides are so unified in disliking the policies suggested by the other that there's not much that can be done right not except brace for more divisiveness and failure to get much of anything done.

Despite the above though, a strong partisan won't win for president unless they can cover it up with SOMETHING, like Reagan unfortunately could. Ron Paul certainly doesn't have that. As for Mitt Romney though, that was great when he called himself a "severe conservative"... :lol

And yes, unfortunately, being ridiculously stupid isn't enough to keep these neo-cons out of public offices. As long as there are masses of stupid voters (particularly here in the racist south), the unabashed ignorance, bigotry, and backwards thinking of the far right will be exalted rather than condemned as it should be. The fact that Sarah Palin is still highly beloved around these parts (or the fact that she was at all) is very disheartening to me. I need to move somewhere more moderate, perhaps one of the swing states in the midwest.

Still in Alabama, huh? It probably would be good for your sanity if you were somewhere else...