So, how did this idiot get the Republican nomination? This is what I don't understand.
Has it reached the stage where Republicans will now nominate anyone, regardless of whether they are really Republicans, so long as they don't designate themselves as Democrats?
Why is this such a worry? Because the Deomcrats gave up their principles long ago. They've become the lowest common denominator. The Democrat credo is as follows:-
"We don't believe in: work, freedom, liberty, individuality, Constitutionality.
We don't remember why our fathers and grandfathers fought in wars.
We believe in welfare, societal guilt, marginalising and ostracising "unbelievers". We believe in weakness, softness.
We eschew personal responsibility, individual and corporate ingenuity - unless it involves getting "Something For Nothing" (Registered Trademark, All Rights Reserved).
In short, we are the party of communal obligation and personal dislocation. We are for the Land of the Fettered, the People of the State.
We want your sons and your daughters and if you don't give 'em to us voluntarily, we'll be around to pick them up!!
If Republicans follow the Democrats and continue to put forward candidates like that despicable Bloomberg, we will be saying, "Goodbye, America, it was fun...for a while."
The same way Ike, for example, elbowed Bob Taft out of the nomination in '52, just before embarking on an 8-year retreat from communism. And Taft wasn't even that conservative by then. FDR's crowning achievement was to destroy Americans' faith in their ability to weather hardship and bootstrap themselves back into prosperity. After the war, few Republicans dared to attack the New Deal and so, 20 years later, LBJ was able to expand the nanny state far beyond Roosevelt's wildest hallucinations. A few years ago, Milt Friedman pointed out that we are now 50% socialist. I'd call that an optimistic assessment.