Obama, Gingrich, Perry -- they all hate capitalism, but they sure like the loot it gives them to be the career politicians they are. Where would career politicians be without capitalism?

Don’t kid yourselves. The liberal-statist agenda is to raise taxes on the wealthiest (who already pay the great bulk of taxes), lower taxes on the poor and middle class, and massively expand the welfare-entitlement state, especially for the middle class. The conservatives will only ask, “How are we going to pay for it?” But the real question should be: WHO is going to pay for it? Obviously, those who make the most money are the ones who are going to pay for most or all of it as both taxes and government expand over time. Yet these are the same people who provide the jobs for the great majority of the working and middle class. They are the “capital” in “capitalism.” How does hitting them up for more money help the middle class? The politicians will take the credit for the seizure of wealth and expansion of nice-sounding programs, but those upon whom the middle class and the career politicians depend for their paychecks are going to be burdened ever further. I just don’t understand how this is any kind of solution, any more than a drinking binge for an alcoholic does anything other than (briefly) alter his perceptions of reality. 

Increasingly, it seems likely that Mitt Romney will attain the Republican presidential nomination for 2012. He's a deeply flawed candidate. He has flip-flopped on issues more than any other candidate in modern times, and that's saying something. In the span of less than a decade, he has favored socialized medicine, a free market for medicine, Big Government, unhampered capitalism, abortion rights, gay marriage, anti gay-marriage amendments and anti-abortion laws. He favors high taxes, low taxes and the status quo, all at the same time. Reviewing his record makes one intellectually dizzy. But if Romney is deeply flawed, his opponents are profoundly flawed. Gingrich and Perry are opposing Romney based on arguments from the socialist left. Santorum is a religious fanatic who reportedly opposes the "pursuit of happiness." And Ron Paul, while refreshing as a fiscal hawk, is an even more extreme pacifist than Obama, who actually says the crazy fundamentalist mullahs in Iran should have a nuclear bomb.

Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, referring to Barack Obama and his foreign/defense policy: "He's not only the most radical President in history domestically; he is the first President, Republican or Democrat, at least since Franklin Roosevelt, who didn't get up every morning thinking first about what threats the United States faces. He just doesn't care about national security the way other presidents did, " Bolton told an audience at a veterans rally in Hilton Head, South Carolina.

The American people, Bolton continued, are looking for a president "who doesn't believe that the role of America in the world is to be a well-bred doormat."

Bolton also stripped the President of any credit for the killing of Usama Bin Laden.

"It's because Navy Seal Team 6 killed Usama bin laden. That's his definition of success. As somebody pointed out, in 1969 when Americans landed on the moon, it's like Richard Nixon taking for credit for that, because it happened to occur during his presidency," Bolton said.

Bravo John Bolton!