We are all adults here. As the right wing is fond of saying, we need to have an adult conversation in this country. But that conversation needs to be mediated by the truth. Not shades of grey but black and white. The Republican Party believes in no government. They believe in tax breaks for the richest people, while claiming it is "for everyone." They do not believe in Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid. They do not have any real solutions for these because fundamentally they do not believe they should exist. How would older people survive? The disabled? The least in our society? The truth is that the GOP does not care as long as the government is not involved. And the Tea Party? They are the Republican Party on steroids.
While I may dislike Governor Christie it is largely because we disagree so widely on policy. But what I do admire is that he has no problem saying what he believes and defending it. If only the rest of his party would do the same. It is difficult to have an adult conversation in the national dialogue when one side is playing hide and go seek with their true beliefs. Their disingenuousness is firmly rooted in a harsh political reality however. That is that the true nature of their beliefs only helps 2% of this country. It is hard to run on that. It is hard to run on ending Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. It is hard to run on the notion that they need to give millions of dollars back to the richest Americans because they will "create jobs" when everyone knows they won't.
That's a tough ticket to sell. Because no matter how you dress it up with the crazies and their sound bites, we all know what it smells like. No matter how many Fox interviews you do to convince us it is "what the American people sent you to do," we all know what it smells like. You see, we all know that a true Republican claiming to want to just "reform" entitlements is about as likely as a judge secretly implementing Sharia Law from the bench. And as Governor Chris Christie pointed out so accurately, that's just crazy crap.
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