COMMENTARY | I’d call the Republican Florida Primary a debate, but it wasn’t anything of the sort. For the 19th time, the GOP Presidential Candidates had a format to unify their party with developed solutions how to handle our nations growing problems and begin rebuilding the trust of the people. And for the 19th time, they fell flat on their face, choosing instead to allow the “Yo Mama” playground antics between Republican presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich take center stage, deterring from any progress that could have been made. All the while, Texas Representative Ron Paul and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum stood idly by, watching the calamity unfold and waited for a chance to speak.
Of the remaining four GOP Presidential Candidates; Romney, Paul, Gingrich and Santorum, the media spotlight stays glued on only two of them, Romney and Gingrich, both of which are backed by Super PACs, allowing them to spend more money on endorsements than the other candidates. This, however, proves nothing about their ability to run our nation. All of the Super PACs in the world combined don’t have enough money to buy someone intellect or make them a leader. Leaders are born, not created in the media, which both men prove every time there is a debate. No matter how many times Gingrich refers to Ronald Reagan or tries to emulate John F Kennedy’s 1961 speech in which he spoke of reaching the moon by the end of the decade, by making his own claim of intentions to colonize the moon by the end of his second term, people will always see right through him. The same goes with Mitt Romney, who constantly blames President Obama, then takes the same policies he ridicules, flips them upside down and tries to tell you it’s something different. It’s completely transparent and yet, these are the front-runners of the Republican Party? I’m beginning to wonder if either man actually believes in what he says. If not, that would explain their behavior on stage when they can no longer logically defend themselves.
The GOP desperately needs to change agendas and put their support behind another candidate or they can say goodbye to any chance of winning the 2012 presidential election. Yet somehow, I seriously doubt they will. I couldn’t help but notice though, after the debate was over, that off in the far distance, I swear I heard President Obama give a little chuckle before turning off the TV and putting his feet up on the Oval Office desk.