Who are the contenders vying for the Republican Party nomination for the U.S. presidential election, which will take place on the first Tuesday of November, or 6/11/2012? One, there is the shifty Mitt Romney, former Massachusetts Governor, who changes his policies like he changes his socks, to appeal to the audience he addresses. Two, there are the megalomaniacs Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich, and the latter is a Likudnik opportunistic neocon. Then you have the ignoramuses Cain – once again-, Michele Bachmann and Texas Governor Rick Perry, and the rebel candidate Ron Paul, who is a medical doctor. Some of these have in fact withdrawn from the race, and others will soon follow. Truth be told, what Barack Obama has forgotten from his university education and what he learned in practical life, is many times bigger in magnitude than what all the Republican candidates combined retain. Yet, it remains to be seen whether the Republican electoral machine and the pro-Israeli media will be able to fool the American electorate come November. On the eve of the primaries, Romney chose to say, “I like being able to fire people”. He was speaking out of his experience as the CEO of an investment company that acquired companies, sold them and sacked employees. However, his statement, with the financial crisis in mind, has infuriated people. Nevertheless, he remains the preferred candidate of the GOP leadership, and the man with the best chance to win compared to others, as he won 39.5 percent of the vote, while others fell behind. Personally, Ron Paul is my preferred candidate. He went up a notch in my eyes after he dealt a humiliating blow to Gingrich in the last televised debate among the contenders. The famous anchor Diane Sawyer, who moderated the debate, had asked Ron Paul if he stood by his previous characterization of Gingirch as a “chickenhawk”, and Paul answered by saying that people who do not serve when they could and who get three or four or even five deferments, have no right to send Americans off to war. He also said, “I'm trying to stop the wars, but at least […], I went when they called me up.” After that, Ron Paul talked about the horrors of George W. Bush's wars, from Afghanistan to Iraq and the thousands of American casualties in their prime, and tens of thousands of disabled. Gingrich then replied by saying that he did not ask for deferment, but that he was married and had a child at the time. Ron Paul then retorted and said: When I was drafted, I was married and had two kids – and I went. Gingrich's protests were then lost amid applause for Ron Paul and the chants against Gingrich. According to the latest news about Gingrich, the billionaire Sheldon Adelson, owner of gambling casinos in Las Vegas, donated five million dollars to his campaign, as the two men are friends and are both fervent supporters of Israel. Gingrich has found himself a place among the neocons after his party dropped him in the late nineties, while Adelson is an American Jew who supports Israel, its crimes and its occupation, and the majority of his donations go to local Jewish groups or groups linked to Israel. Of course, Israel is an “invented” country (a word Gingrich had used to describe the Palestinian people) and has no historical traces whatsoever in our countries, while the prophets of Israel are the false prophets of biblical myths. I want to remind my Arab readers that the U.S. Supreme Court, which is now dominated by conservative right-wing judges thanks to George W. Bush's appointments, abolished last year a law limiting donations by individuals to the candidates to five thousand dollars as a maximum. This in fact has enabled Adelson to donate five million dollars to a political action committee (Super PAC), which I read has dedicated 3.4 million dollars for political advertisements in South Carolina, where a primary will be held on the 21st of this month. If the subsequent primaries reproduce the same results we saw in Iowa and New Hampshire, then Mitt Romney may not even have to wait until Super Tuesday on 6/3/2012, to secure the Republican nomination to run against Barack Obama. In the meantime, I promise the readers that I will return with an article on the “chickenhawk” phenomenon. Indeed, the majority of pro-Israeli warmongers had evaded military service, and then sent America's youths to their deaths in unnecessary and unwinnable wars, as Ron Paul said. [email protected]
