The supposed 'window of opportunity' for potential candidates to
decide whether to run for President is getting smaller. Donald Trump
is now topping the polls with his give-'em-hell solutions to this
country's pressing problems. He's headed to New Hampshire to expound
on those ideas. Two weeks ago Michele Bachmann headed to… Iowa and
got lost in the CORN by playing-up-to the people of that
geographically central, but otherwise unexceptional, state.
Intelligence should be one standard for judging the qualifications of
anyone wishing to become President. Even though it's a tradition of
long standing… no person who accepts the archaic RITUAL of acting like
impractical fools; jetting all over to USA; and wasting tens, if not
hundreds of millions of dollars just to press-the-flesh with the
maximum number of voters, isn't wise enough, nor practical enough, to
be our President.
As I regularly state, political parties—by whatever name—are
UNCONSTITUTIONAL. So to are the mindless, spaced-out, media-serving
primaries. Those automatically preclude from being President any non
megalomaniac who would be a better choice for President simply by
virtue of having a more sensible personality. Within, say, a six-week
period of well-thought-out candidate interviews and debates, every
voter who has access to a TV should be able to pick the candidate who
is most agreeable to him. And the total campaign expenditure of any
one candidate need not exceed five million dollars.
Rep. Ron Paul, that derelict candidate from the 2008 election, is
locked-in-on the RITUAL of brown-nosing the voters of Iowa. Paul
could easily have become our president in the last election if he had
simply done what I urged him to do, and abandoned the Republican Party
to run as an Independent. Glenn Beck, to his credit, sees BOTH major
parties as being out-of-touch. The Tea Party movement, which isn't
really a "party", is more agreeable to Beck, who has declined taking
continued credit for the 9/12 project. Beck will only go so far with
anything, then he bails.
On his flagging TV show, yesterday, Glenn Beck emotionally derided the
declining moral values in this country—which he attributes to our
being out-of-touch with God. At a McDonald's restaurant, a
transgender person got beaten-up badly enough to cause a seizure.
Only one person in that restaurant attempted to stave-off the attack.
Glenn Beck is most naïve; there is limited 'first aid' that can be
done for anyone having a seizure, other than to put them on their side
to reduce the chance of possible choking if they vomit. That person
was already on her side. Beck chided the video camera operator for
not rushing over to, essentially, do nothing. In defense of those
customers in the restaurant, they very likely didn't know "what
infraction" had so angered the attackers. Supposing that the victim
was a "bad person", most just looked around, and seeing no others
taking action, they took no action, themselves. The psychology of why
that same thing happens—most often in big, impersonal cities—has been
studied extensively. In rare cases, those not calling police, or
calling down the attackers, have been found to be criminally negligent
for not providing reasonably prudent assistance.
As was the case with that video camera operator, Glenn Beck sees the
"historically predictable" failures of our government, our economy,
and of our society. But he consistently does little or nothing. His
56 Refounders—as of the Constitution—failed to expose the "Good
Dirt" (a quote of J. R. from "Dallas") that would rally the American
people to vote-in good candidates. Prior to the 8/18 rally last year
in Washington, that drew 3/4 million people, Beck vowed to keep on his
"combat boots" until the corruption in Washington has been corrected.
But about that same time, the Obama W. H. put out a directive saying
that suspected terrorists (supposedly, including those proposing
violence, as in a… revolution) could be shot without recourse. That
threat caused Beck to take off his combat boots, put on his bullet-
proof vest, and to take-on the guise of being an evangelist deferring
all solutions to Divine Providence. He saw it as an act of God that a
flock of curious and very 'ham' Canada Geese flew over the reflection
pool. And of course there was that "eight-year-old" (looked 14) red-
headed kid who lucked up and got the last tickets to sit in a section
close to the Lincoln Monument. A father loving his son, oh how much
of a God-send 'that' is…
I could be flattered, but I'm not, that Glenn Beck has been reading my
essays under "Wringing-the-neck of empty ritual." For the first time
ever, Beck is acknowledging that no groups—religions included—can make
the needed changes in our government. Following my lead, he is now
charging INDIVIDUALS with that responsibility. Surprisingly, Beck
realizes that having anything other than a secular government would be
wrong. (Note: The latter is such a huge departure for Beck, that I
suspect it is due to the world-threatening mess caused by Muslims
believing that their religion should also control governments.) The
second proof that Beck is reading what I write is his overt… slap at
me for saying that 'I repeatedly asked myself what James Madison would
have thought about what each new thing I wrote in my New
Constitution.' Beck, almost angrily said: "James Madison isn't Jesus
Christ!"
Glenn Beck seems to be saying he would have preferred that I ask Jesus
Christ what should be included in my New Constitution. The reason I
used Madison and the Founding Fathers as my standard was because I
could sense the SPIRIT of the Constitution just from reading what they
wrote. Jesus never wrote a Constitution, but the Golden Rule, "Do
unto others as you would have them do unto you." and "Love thy
neighbor as thyself." Would be pretty good constitutions, taken alone
or together. Beck is a cad if he supposes my motives are less high
simply because I, unlike him, don't DROP the name Jesus or give…
"credit" to God at every turn. I'll guarantee you this: I wasn't
inspired to spend fourteen years of my life writing my New
Constitution to benefit most Americans, unless I was a highly moral
person (who knows right from wrong).
Charles Krauthammer is one of those political commentators who will
lose his job once my New Constitution is ratified. He flagrantly
violates the provisions preventing celebrities in the media or in
entertainment, etc., from having more influence on the outcome of
elections than the man-on-the-street. Though "conservatively"
insightful, Krauthammer keeps including enough "jabs" at the right to
keep the liberal publishers of his syndicated news columns happy.
Unless he does that, he won't be making big bucks any more.
Krauthammer has only one standard of right and wrong, and that is
dollars and cents—just like most of those on the Fox News Channel,
especially Brit Hume.
Krauthammer erred big time when he called Donald Trump "a clown, with
no chance of becoming President." Sending out 'negative psychology'
is a ploy used by both the left and the right that must be stopped, if
we are to survive as a nation. If a candidate says obvious untruths
against another candidate he or she will be disqualified or jailed.
All election-related commentary (but not COVERAGE) in the media shall
stop!
Pitiful Gov. Mike Huckabee is probably jealous that Glenn Beck has
upstaged Huckabee's religious (insincere) sweetness. Barack Obama
hides his emotions behind a cool exterior. Huckabee hides his
insincerity behind a for-show, phony smile that may appeal to the
religious right. I knew Huckabee was two-faced when he interrupted a
guest who was saying negative things about Obama, so that his audience
wouldn't get to applaud their assent. I call Huckabee a two-faced
LIBERAL. Beck calls him a Republican "progressive", which is a
conflict of terms.
Numbers of people are proposing that we should pass a balanced-budget
amendment. My New Constitution does that within the main body of the
document:
"The House shall author bills of appropriation within budget; in
addition, the President shall have Line Item Veto power on all such
bills, except if overruled by a 60% vote of the House. 12 years from
the adoption of this New Constitution, and following a successful two
year test in two or more states, taxation in the USA shall be changed
to sales tax only—at a maximum conglomerate rate per annum of 35% of
the GNP—home food and medicines excluded.* "
Thinking Americans—like I hope the majority of my readers are—should
realize that merely passing a balanced budget amendment will still
leave in place all of the corrupt Washington establishment that let
the USA get into such sad shape to begin with. The expression is: "If
something is broken, FIX it!" All of our piddling with government
over the last century has left it still broken and unworkable. ***
The first step to correcting things is for any person with the
public's ear to adamantly renounce our… two party system, which is and
always has been, unconstitutional. SCRAP the primaries and SCRAP the
conventions! Let the voters decide their favorite candidates via the
magic of TV. If we had had TV a century ago, the… "ritual" of
campaigning in all of the states never would have gotten started.
It's time we wring-the-neck of the empty ritual of primaries(!) as
well as those of the other wasteful and hurtful things that we do in
this country! Instead of putting billions of dollars into the pockets
of the media for campaigns lasting two or three years, put only a few
million dollars into their pockets for campaigns lasting no more that
THREE MONTHS! Politics isn't a GAME, people; it is the bane of our
existence!
Respectfully submitted,
— John A. Armistead — Patriot
AKA NoEinstein on Google's sci.physics news group.
Those who are interested are invited to read my book: "The Shortest
Distance; Harmony Through Prosperity," available at Amazon and Barnes
and Noble.
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