America: Land Of Democracy: Declared or Potential Candidates for 2012

When enough people are ill-equipped to distinguish between a good idea and a bad one, democracy is compromised. --Cody Gault

This quote is filled to the brim with truth.

This blog is filled with people who are perfect examples of "ill-equipped" which is more than obvious from the way in which they behave. Americans, in general, seem ill-equipped. Our priorities are way off track. Our concerns over issues like where exactly it says "In God We Trust" are inflated. And then we have Conservatives who are supposed to push for small government focusing on issues like mandating a definition for marriage, whether gay and lesbian couples can adopt a child, and abortion which should ultimately be left up to the individual states (who shouldn't get involved in such private issues either, in my opinion). Here are just a few of the potential candidates for next year's election.....if these are the people we're choosing to represent us in our government, this society will never improve.

Sarah Palin

• Go back to what our founders and our founding documents meant--they're quite clear--that we would create law based ont he god of the bible and the Ten Commandments.
• Nuclear weaponry, of course, would be the be-all, end-all of just too many people in too many parts of our planet.
• I don't believe in the theory that human beings--thinking, loving beings--originate from fish that sprouted legs and crawled out of the sea.
• I am pro-life. With the exception of a doctor's determination that the mother's life would end if the pregnancy continued. I believe that no matter what mistakes we make as a society, we cannot condone ending another life. -----yet....in response to questions about her views on capital punishment, she had the following to say:
• My Goodness, hang 'em up!

Rick Santorum

• I don't think [birth control] works. I think it's harmful to women. I think it's harmful to our society to have a society that says sex outside of marriage is something that should be encouraged or tolerated, particularly among the young. I think it has, as we've seen, very harmful long-term consequences for society. So birth control to me enables that and I don't think it's a healthy thing for our country.
• The notion that college education is a cost-effective way to help poor, low-skill, unmarried mothers with high school diplomas or GEDs move up the economic ladder is just wrong.
• The elementary error of relativism becomes clear when we look at multiculturalism. Sometime in the 1980s, universities began to champion the importance of 'diversity' as a central educational value.
• And if the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything. Does that undermine the fabric of our society? I would argue, yes, it does. It all comes from, I would argue, this right to privacy that doesn't exist in my opinion in the United States Constitution...

Ron Paul

• The notion of a rigid separation between church and state has no basis in either the text of the Consititution or the writings of our Founding Fathers. On the contrary, our Founders' political views were strongly informed by their religious beliefs.
• The Founding Fathers envisioned a robustly Christian yet religiously tolerant America, with churches serving as vital institutions that would eclipse the state in importance.
• Because federal hate crime laws criminalize thoughts, they are incompatible with a free society.
• We don't get our rights because we're gays or women or minorities. We get our rights from our Creator as individuals.