GOP Debate Tonight

(The roughest of impressions, as I was also playing with the Striderling while watching)

Dear Governor Perry,

It is not evidence of how very pro-life you are that you mandated 12 year old girls get a vaccine in your state. It was a cheap politician's trick to say such a thing.

And I am not lacking in compassion if I think non-Texan residents should have to pay non-Texan rates for college tuition.

In conclusion, sir, I really wanted to like you... buuuut you're making it rather difficult. Herman Cain is looking better and better.

Dear Herman Cain,

Why does the media ignore you so much? I'm glad you're so gracious about their clear favoritism for Perry and Romney. I haven't decided yet if you're the best candidate for President, but I've been very impressed so far.

Dear Mitt Romney,

Meh. Must we talk about books so much? I don't really care what you said in a book. After all, Rousseau wrote Emile and then let his own children starve in orphanages. I care about what you've done and, quite frankly, RomneyCare makes me nervous.

You did appear more amicable and sensible than Perry, though. That also makes me nervous.

Dear Michelle Bachmann,

I like you too, mostly, although you clearly lacked confidence and clarity on some things. It took you a leetle bit too long to realize that you were potentially arguing for no taxes at all, which doesn't work.

Still, I loved what you had to say about education belonging to the parents.

Dear Rick Santorum,

I absolutely loved what you had to say about education too. Thank you. It drives me a little bit batty the way supposedly conservative commentators consistently downplay you and Herman Cain. I'm a grown up, please let me decide on my own, I want to tell them.

Dear Gary Johnson,

Uhm. Somehow I missed that you were running. I'm sorry? Your comment about your neighbor's dogs creating more shovel ready jobs than Obama was funny, though.

Dear Ron Paul,

I feel the same way I did about you before... lots of good ideas, some I cannot go with, and a wish that the media would let you, Santorum, and Cain out of the corner and into the real playing field.

Dear Mr. Huntsman,

I don't want a moderate. That's the game McCain played too, and look where it got him (and us).

Dear Newt Gingrich,

You're still a brilliant politician. And I have no doubt you'd make a better President than Obama, but I really do wish you'd bow out and let some of the fresher blood have a chance at things.

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Other things in my head:

Why, YES, please let's get rid of the NEA and EPA. Now.

We're headed in a very depressing direction.

Kept thinking of the lecture my professor from Argentina gave: "you think you have freedom of choice in America? You don't, really. You go into the grocery store and are proud because you can choose skim milk, 1%, 2%, whole milk... you never think about all the choices that have already been amde for you before that point. It's not real freedom of choice."

Or: "A country ends up with a dictator once? That happens occasionally in history. A country ends up witha dictator more than once? That is an indication there is something seriously wrong with her people."

sigh

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Final note of the evening.

Dear Striderling,

I love you. I will make the best political choices I can for your future but I'm not really certain how things will end up. I don't want you to grow up with negativity and worrisomeness around you, though. I want you to grow up with hope, determination, and resourcefulness. So I will always try my best to make political calls, but not dwell on them... and to let you know that as important as this life is, it's the one coming up that has the real hope in it.

Love,

Mom