Your Choice is Coming Up
Not since William Howard Taft has there been a fatter presidential candidate than our own Chris Christie - a strange combination of names - who was slated to say something in front of a bunch of assembled Republicans in Florida tonight. I don't care to listen because I am a resident of the state in which he is the governor, so I could probably write the speech. I don't need to tune into CNN to listen to it. He'll tell the world (or the American part of it) how the budget should be balanced and how badly we've done since the scourge of the Democrats have descended on America. It's that predictable. Politics has relegated itself to denigrating the other party and telling you how bad your life is because the other party is in charge. That's how it has been since the beginning of politics. But, for your lifetime, let's review: Jimmy Carter promised to bring back honesty to the office after the Nixon/Ford nonsense. Ronald ...