[kearnyirish2]

Any candidate who admits to loving this country will quickly be Palinized into irrelevance; the “country” you referred to is gone, and pining for it is practically a crime.

When Obama was re-elected in 2012, the writing should have been on the wall for any “traditional” Americans; he was a complete failure, but enough people had subscribed to the progressive/socialist agenda to drag him across the finish line anyway. He was handed a victory by a media that successfully smeared his opponent as a straight wealthy Anglo male.

[grania]

The country's different now with just about everyone being fed up with Obama, even dems who aren't vocal about it. That's why I contend that what we need is an American Putin, someone who can get past the little stuff and create a vision most US citizens can believe in.

I'm philosophical and sad today. South Carolina, and to a great degree the rest of the US, was close to that kind of united moment because of disgust over the nine murders in a church. And what does the media do? Try to turn it into an argument about the confederate flag. That's a new level of disgusting manipulation by the media.