First of all, could we just stop kidding ourselves that the Republicans and the Democrats actually have standing philosophic viewpoints? I'm old enough to remember when Republicans favored big government for the sake of defense and described a government deficit as something normal for any large economic organization while southern Democrats opposed any sort of equal rights legislation and the party as a whole pleaded for tax breaks. Ms. Bachman, however, is apparently not well informed enough to see either party's hodege-podge of claims as a hodge-podge.
Bachman does believe some things I myself find odd. Quite frankly though, that is no reason not to nominate or even elect her. Hell, I believe some odd things myself, and so in all probability do you. If you, I or Ms. Bachman didn't, it would mean that we haven't been thinking enough about the current failures in our government, economy and defense or trying to find original solutions to them. I'm a little worried, though, that Ms. Bachman may not overcome her oddness and may keep to it, jut like Barak Obama.
Where's Ross Perot when you need him? Or, did Ms. Bachman even notice his front-runner status of this founder of the Reform Party for much of the 1992 election, and so, would she even bother to learn from him? He often claimed nothing more than a willingness to try to figure out what would work rather than to assume a set of answers to be correct. Maybe we could use a leader like that....
Just a thought.
