The Best the GOP Can Offer?

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http://www.truth-out.org/best-gop-can-offer/1319468997

Monday 24 October 2011

by: Richard L. Fricker , The Oklahoma Observer | Op-Ed

Following the Republican nominating process, the debates in particular, it is not hard to conjure up the image of people in a bar at 1 a.m. arguing over the best ever rock n’ roll song. What these candidates have managed to produce is an image of a vengeful, self-serving America void of compassion and on its way to losing what little moral cachet is left in this republic.

Whether Herman Cain is suggesting Mexicans entering the country illegally be summarily executed; Ron Paul telling the world that if you can’t afford medical care you deserve to die; publicly berating a member of the U.S. military in a combat zone for his sexual orientation; Rick Perry, without a second thought, presiding over the execution of 243 Texas inmates; or blaming the unemployed for the current economic crisis, this all presents a grave and dark picture of what we have allowed ourselves to become.

All of this begs two questions: When did America come to embrace blame and the culture of death? Is this really America?