The supposed ‘window of opportunity’ for potential candidates to decide whether to run for President is getting smaller. Donald Trump is now topping the polls with his give-’em-hell solutions to this country’s pressing problems. He’s headed to New Hampshire to expound on those ideas. Two weeks ago Michele Bachmann headed to… Iowa and got lost in the CORN by playing-up-to the people of that geographically central, but otherwise unexceptional, state. Intelligence should be one standard for judging the qualifications of anyone wishing to become President. Even though it’s a tradition of long standing… no person who accepts the archaic RITUAL of acting like impractical fools; jetting all over to USA; and wasting tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars just to press-the-flesh with the maximum number of voters, isn’t wise enough, nor practical enough, to be our President.
As I regularly state, political parties—by whatever name—are UNCONSTITUTIONAL. So to are the mindless, spaced-out, media-serving primaries. Those automatically preclude from being President any non megalomaniac who would be a better choice for President simply by virtue of having a more sensible personality. Within, say, a six-week period of well-thought-out candidate interviews and debates, every voter who has access to a TV should be able to pick the candidate who is most agreeable to him. And the total campaign expenditure of any one candidate need not exceed five million dollars. Rep. Ron Paul, that derelict candidate from the 2008 election, is locked-in-on the RITUAL of brown-nosing the voters of Iowa. Paul could easily have become our president in the last election if he had simply done what I urged him to do, and abandoned the Republican Party to run as an Independent. Glenn Beck, to his credit, sees BOTH major parties as being out-of-touch. The Tea Party movement, which isn’t really a “party”, is more agreeable to Beck, who has declined taking continued credit for the 9/12 project. Beck will only go so far with anything, then he bails. On his flagging TV show, yesterday, Glenn Beck emotionally derided the declining moral values in this country—which he attributes to our being out-of-touch with God. At a McDonald’s restaurant, a transgender person got beaten-up badly enough to cause a seizure. Only one person in that restaurant attempted to stave-off the attack. Glenn Beck is most naïve; there is limited ‘first aid’ that can be done for anyone having a seizure, other than to put them on their side to reduce the chance of possible choking if they vomit. That person was already on her side. Beck chided the video camera operator for not rushing over to, essentially, do nothing. In defense of those customers in the restaurant, they very likely didn’t know “what infraction” had so angered the attackers. Supposing that the victim was a “bad person”, most just looked around, and seeing no others taking action, they took no action, themselves. The psychology of why that same thing happens—most often in big, impersonal cities—has been studied extensively. In rare cases, those not calling police, or calling down the attackers, have been found to be criminally negligent for not providing reasonably prudent assistance. As was the case with that video camera operator, Glenn Beck sees the “historically predictable” failures of our government, our economy, and of our society. But he consistently does little or nothing. His 56 Refounders—as of the Constitution—failed to expose the “Good Dirt” (a quote of J. R. from “Dallas”) that would rally the American people to vote-in good candidates. Prior to the 8/18 rally last year in Washington, that drew 3/4 million people, Beck vowed to keep on his “combat boots” until the corruption in Washington has been corrected. But about that same time, the Obama W. H. put out a directive saying that suspected terrorists (supposedly, including those proposing violence, as in a… revolution) could be shot without recourse. That threat caused Beck to take off his combat boots, put on his bullet- proof vest, and to take-on the guise of being an evangelist deferring all solutions to Divine Providence. He saw it as an act of God that a flock of curious and very ‘ham’ Canada Geese flew over the reflection pool. And of course there was that “eight-year-old” (looked 14) red- headed kid who lucked up and got the last tickets to sit in a section close to the Lincoln Monument. A father loving his son, oh how much of a God-send ‘that’ is… I could be flattered, but I’m not, that Glenn Beck has been reading my essays under “Wringing-the-neck of empty ritual.” For the first time ever, Beck is acknowledging that no groups—religions included—can make the needed changes in our government. Following my lead, he is now charging INDIVIDUALS with that responsibility. Surprisingly, Beck realizes that having anything other than a secular government would be wrong. (Note: The latter is such a huge departure for Beck, that I suspect it is due to the world-threatening mess caused by Muslims believing that their religion should also control governments.) The second proof that Beck is reading what I write is his overt… slap at me for saying that ‘I repeatedly asked myself what James Madison would have thought about what each new thing I wrote in my New Constitution.’ Beck, almost angrily said: “James Madison isn’t Jesus Christ!” Glenn Beck seems to be saying he would have preferred that I ask Jesus Christ what should be included in my New Constitution. The reason I used Madison and the Founding Fathers as my standard was because I could sense the SPIRIT of the Constitution just from reading what they wrote. Jesus never wrote a Constitution, but the Golden Rule, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” and “Love thy neighbor as thyself.” Would be pretty good constitutions, taken alone or together. Beck is a cad if he supposes my motives are less high simply because I, unlike him, don’t DROP the name Jesus or give… “credit” to God at every turn. I’ll guarantee you this: I wasn’t inspired to spend fourteen years of my life writing my New Constitution to benefit most Americans, unless I was a highly moral person (who knows right from wrong). Charles Krauthammer is one of those political commentators who will lose his job once my New Constitution is ratified. He flagrantly violates the provisions preventing celebrities in the media or in entertainment, etc., from having more influence on the outcome of elections than the man-on-the-street. Though “conservatively” insightful, Krauthammer keeps including enough “jabs” at the right to keep the liberal publishers of his syndicated news columns happy. Unless he does that, he won’t be making big bucks any more. Krauthammer has only one standard of right and wrong, and that is dollars and cents—just like most of those on the Fox News Channel, especially Brit Hume. Krauthammer erred big time when he called Donald Trump “a clown, with no chance of becoming President.” Sending out ‘negative psychology’ is a ploy used by both the left and the right that must be stopped, if we are to survive as a nation. If a candidate says obvious untruths against another candidate he or she will be disqualified or jailed. All election-related commentary (but not COVERAGE) in the media shall stop! Pitiful Gov. Mike Huckabee is probably jealous that Glenn Beck has upstaged Huckabee’s religious (insincere) sweetness. Barack Obama hides his emotions behind a cool exterior. Huckabee hides his insincerity behind a for-show, phony smile that may appeal to the religious right. I knew Huckabee was two-faced when he interrupted a guest who was saying negative things about Obama, so that his audience wouldn’t get to applaud their assent. I call Huckabee a two-faced LIBERAL. Beck calls him a Republican “progressive”, which is a conflict of terms. Numbers of people are proposing that we should pass a balanced-budget amendment. My New Constitution does that within the main body of the document: “The House shall author bills of appropriation within budget; in addition, the President shall have Line Item Veto power on all such bills, except if overruled by a 60% vote of the House. 12 years from the adoption of this New Constitution, and following a successful two year test in two or more states, taxation in the USA shall be changed to sales tax only—at a maximum conglomerate rate per annum of 35% of the GNP—home food and medicines excluded.* ” Thinking Americans—like I hope the majority of my readers are—should realize that merely passing a balanced budget amendment will still leave in place all of the corrupt Washington establishment that let the USA get into such sad shape to begin with. The expression is: “If something is broken, FIX it!” All of our piddling with government over the last century has left it still broken and unworkable. *** The first step to correcting things is for any person with the public’s ear to adamantly renounce our… two party system, which is and always has been, unconstitutional. SCRAP the primaries and SCRAP the conventions! Let the voters decide their favorite candidates via the magic of TV. If we had had TV a century ago, the… “ritual” of campaigning in all of the states never would have gotten started. It’s time we wring-the-neck of the empty ritual of primaries(!) as well as those of the other wasteful and hurtful things that we do in this country! Instead of putting billions of dollars into the pockets of the media for campaigns lasting two or three years, put only a few million dollars into their pockets for campaigns lasting no more that THREE MONTHS! Politics isn’t a GAME, people; it is the bane of our existence! Respectfully submitted, — John A. Armistead — Patriot AKA NoEinstein on Google’s sci.physics news group. Those who are interested are invited to read my book: “The Shortest Distance; Harmony Through Prosperity,” available at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
