“The changes needed in this country are straightforward enough, but there are always partisan reasons to take an easy way out. There are always special interests that will fight against any challenge to the status quo. And there are always those who will worry more about their next election than the health of our country.
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“I’ve just never understood why, just because you’re a member of a party, you have special rights. That’s not the civics that I learned in junior high school, and if Ralph Nader wants to run, good luck to him.”
Is there a hotter ticket for President right now than these two?
1.) They have similar fundamental beliefs;
2.) they both can appeal across party, racial and religious lines;
3.) they are both Washington outsiders; and
4.) most importantly, they are both extremely competent and very scandal free.
“We can’t borrow our way out of this. The jig is up.”
“Our political system is, at the least, badly bent and many are concluding that it is broken at a time where America must lead boldly at home and abroad. People have stopped working together, government is dysfunctional, there’s no collaborating and congeniality.”