I watched the Republican National Convention this last week on TV and came away with a few thoughts.
Politicians are liars: According to the radio and newspaper the next day, a lot of what the speakers said during the convention was either highly exaggerated or out-right lies. Why do politicians think we will like them better if they tell us things that are not true? The President of the United States is kind of an important job, and every four years we hire someone that we know has lied to us just to get us to like him more. Isn't that kind of sad?
The Republican candidates are boring: I listened to lots of speeches over three evenings. The most boring and pointless ones were delivered by Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney. All of the other speeches I caught were exciting, interesting, funny, or at least bearable, but I couldn't even listen to Paul and Mitt. I just completely zoned them out about ten minutes into each of their speeches. They have nothing to say; I've already heard it. It's all so generalized and dumbed down and panders to their base.
The Republican platform of issues sometimes doesn't make sense: It was very confusing to me because the speakers kept saying that the Republican party wants to protect the sanctity of life, defend traditional marriage, protect the freedom of religion and protect our right to own guns. But isn't traditional versus non-traditional marriage an issue of religious belief? In traditional marriage, a man and woman get married by the clergy in a place of worship and make vows before God. So if we had true freedom of religion in our country, wouldn't that include the right for people to participate in non-traditional marriage arrangements if they wanted to, and get married to anyone they wanted to? And I understand that people want the right to own guns so they can protect themselves from burglars and such, but how does shooting burglars mesh with the idea of the sanctity of human life? That just doesn't seem completely logical to me.
Clint Eastwood is a little bit fruity in the head: If you didn't watch the RNC then you don't know, but Clint Eastwood is kind of losing it a little. And he probably wasn't the best celebrity to put out there to represent the Republican party and make them look smart and logical and sane. It was just weird.
Chris Christie would like to run for President someday: I don't know if you noticed, but Governor Chris Christie from New Jersey really thinks he's hot stuff. And he's pretty sure that he's doing a rock-awesome job in New Jersey, and he's not afraid to share that. But he really didn't have a lot to say about Paul Ryan or Mitt Romney. So my guess is, he's really not that excited about either one of them, but the convention was a great opportunity to get out the word about how good he would be as the President. Just wait, you'll see.
Excited to watch the DNC next and see what kind of lies are told, who's boring, who's crazy, and what just doesn't make any sense. It's politics; what a circus!
