The Zombies of the GOP cannot settle on anyone they like enough…

Whew!....These repugs are tough; they’re apparently not happy unless they are eating their own!.... Case in point, the darling of the Conservatives, Bachmann is now scoring below Huntsman in the latest popularity polls. And the newer lover boy to come along, Perry is showing more cracks than a Tokyo skyscraper after the Tsunami.

What’s the operative word here, heartless, fickle? Call it what you will, but it seems that candidate popularity in “the party that takes no prisoners” lasts no longer than a cigarette between coffee breaks.

Front runner, Romney still holds the lead he has had in the last four years, give or take a blip here and there, but the faithful are not running out chanting Romney. Apparently, they are not sure that he is conservative enough and his Mormon credentials label him an unknown outsider even though he seems to have been running since I was knee high to a milkshake….Ask a southern believer what he thinks, and his expression tells you all you need to know.

But that seems to be the way it goes!

Now, the punjabs of the pocketbook are trying to reel Christie in, figuring him to be a populist and the next best thing to a serious candidate who can come on strong next to an Obama who is seen right now as stronger than their front line which seems to shift daily depending on the barometric reading.

Christie seems to be a plain talker but he may be vulnerable to the more radicalized right’s view of what a real conservative is….that hasn’t been determined yet; while one suspects that the whole Bush family is foaming at the mouth to get the real inheritor of the Bush mantle up and running, the one that is said to still have a few live brain cells, Jeb. How that is going to materialize is beyond even Swami-like prognosticators of the party’s future to comprehend.

Meanwhile, the most responsible of the GOP’s candidates lapses in obscurity, John Huntsman, who one could say, “he makes some sense….” But the mainline gurus think that Huntsman does not have enough of anything to endear him to anyone except perhaps intelligent independents and disenfranchised democrats who don’t see their future with Obama.

Even Newt has a good day now and then but lags behind virtually everyone. In fact, the other day, Santorum got off a good one that appealed to the GOP crowd and for a moment, he had a fleeting touch of fame that came and went. And the other day, the former Godfather pizza chairman razzle dazzled the onlookers by winning the latest straw poll and then alienated the minorities by referring to them as brain-washed.

By the end of this contest, it seems like they will all collapse into a hopeless mass of used up bodies and somebody will appear out of the woodwork to save the Republican’s proverbial backsides, yet, it seems that the party, influenced by the chronically intolerant would rather applaud death in the electric chair a la Perry and their anti-gay credentials than actually be taken seriously by anyone.

Les Aaron

Manifesto for the Common Man...

or Kick-starting Democracy!.... A Way Forward!

I believe that change is compatible with a changing and growing America. It is especially critical at this time, when we find ourselves having endured ten years of special interests, an arrogant and intractable posture from Congress and a retreat from real world concerns by the bulk of the population who feel beset upon by the powerful moneyed interests who control increasingly the legislation and the dialog that is pervasive in America today.

In short, it’s time to take the government back for the people who have suffered a double, if not triple indemnity at the hands of the ruling class as the rest of us watch our democracy evanesce into wisps of smoke and democracy looks more and more like the faded symbol of what was once the beacon to the tired, and poor of half the world.

This foundation document is a work in progress; as such, it is not set in concrete, but may be easily modified, customized, adjusted to to suit individual needs; I am making it available to activist organizations at no charge who are interested in bringing positive change to government that benefits the people…


A Rationale;

Dear Activist/Reformer:

As a citizen concerned for the future of the Middle Class and Democracy, I have prepared
The following document, which I call a Manifesto for Change for the People.
The Manifesto incorporates three parts: an Introduction; Rationale; and the recommendations for a Manifesto for the people which I hope will be used as part of the foundation of a program to move Democracy from the present level of stasis, and confusion as to what is in America’s best interests, but also to stem what I see as an increasing drift towards surrendering to the agendas of the rich and powerful and the subordination of legitimate democratic concerns..

Thank you for this opportunity.


Here's the accompanying preamble:

The Democrats do not have a plan for the Nation much less the middle class. What we’ve seen has been not only amateurish but lacking in drive, continuity and commitment. What we have seen has proved to be sketchy—not fully drawn or articulated, uninformed, demonstrative of a lazy intellect, it suffers from being advanced serially as opposed to in parallel—as part of a total program. After three years, it is clear that the senior advisers Obama has selected are much more aligned with the status-quo than reformers; they know nothing about the needs of the people; nor do they seem to show sufficient angst about the problems we face. It is clear that despite their credentials, they operate more like a group of disjointed amateurs rather than those who had promised to change the status quo, too ready to accept what is on their plate than prepare a serious, real attack on the challenges we face. Out of a need that began when I put together the book, “A Blueprint for Change: Taking Back the White House,” we changed parties, and administrations only to discover that the past looks unfortunately like the present. More importantly, we have a party that doesn’t represent the people and an Admin that is on disconnect and needs life support! We have allowed the GOP to speak for us and there is no blow-back; this is irresponsible and insufferable.

Les Aaron


August 25, 2011
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Respectfully submitted,
100 Committee
By Les Aaron, Chairman