Idaho had their Republican Caucus yesterday. Here’s a county breakdown:
Now, what is to be learned from this? A friend of mine has joked that we should blow up the bridge in Riggins, separating North Idaho from Southern Idaho. We’re clearly two different states.
So Romney won soundly. I’m not exactly surprised. However, it is incredible how many people agreed that black people voted for Obama because he was black, yet too few of my libertarian leaning Mormon friends will admit they voted for Romney because he was a Mormon.
Additionally, I’m most frustrated with the fact that if people refuse to vote for Ron Paul’s message of individual liberty, why then can they not at the minimum vote for Newt’s moon colony? It is as if we are being offered steak (something that’s good for us = liberty) and another person offers us pizza (something fun and delicious = the moon base) and we all came together and overwhelmingly chose a heaping bowl of saltine crackers.
Afterwards, listening to Romney speak last night I noticed something. I’ve heard a lot of politicians say something along the lines of, “In <town> I had the chance to talk to <Bill / Susan / Tom> who <lost his job / couldn’t afford health insurance / was injured in Iraq>, and he/she told me that…”
Said politician earnestly recounts the sad event and how the person approached them to do something about it, and by God he’s listening to the American people!
Romney and Obama (though I repeat myself) have both done that with great frequency.
This is the mark of a man who is running for office because he’s seeking power, not because he believes in something. A person who is seeking office for the right reasons has done so because he saw something specific he personally feels needs correcting. In the above, the person is finding things to believe in after he has sought office. Therefore he sought office for some reason independent of these views he’s espousing or the current Joe the Plumber he’s parading out in public.
Now for solar flares!
