To be or not to be a Republican

It must be hard to be a Republican these days and pretend to any semblance of intelligence. Mr. Romney chose Mr. Ryan to be his running mate and he said that Ryan’s budget largely mirrored his own. But, no, Romney would not endorse it. It was interesting because up to then Romney’s budget has been and continues to be a secret. We only know that he will decrease taxes and therefore revenues, not touch services meaningfully and somehow balance the budget. Mirabile dictum. However, now we do know it is like Ryan’s, but different. That is truly enlightening. In Massachusetts Mr. Brown is running for re-election as a Republican. I tell you this because you’ll find no mention of it in his advertizing. It’s like Romney’s budget. It’s there but where? Actually, if you suffer through Mr. Brown’s TV ads, you would think he is running in the Democratic primary. He runs on his independence even though he all but a minimum amount of the time he aligns himself with the Republican line. Again the same as Romney’s budget the same but different. Actually if you mute the sound on his early ads (always a good idea no matter whose ads.), it is fun to watch the facial expressions of his nearest and dearest. But it better to save your brains cells. I have not watched the latest. I’m waiting for him to find himself. Now we have the most idiotic to date Mr. Akin of the ‘legitimate rape’ fame. In spite of the outrage, he will not drop out of the race claiming a mere slip of the tongue. He may have a point. All the big shot Republicans, including Romney and Brown (who may have been prescient in pretending he was not really a Republican), were rightly quick to condemn him. Yet at the same time the Republican Party was inserting a plank in the party platform condemning abortions no matter what the circumstances, rape, incest or danger to the health of the woman. It is easy to be confused twixt what is said and what is done. Lastly, who are these doctors who Akin claimed told him a woman’s body will ‘shut down’ and prevent pregnancy in case of rape? Can you get a medical degree and license on line? I thought you at least had to wander down to the Caribbean for a few years first.