[TheRealThing]

Listening to the news, I heard Romney announced today that he would not run again for President.

A lot of people put him the same company as John McCain and Jeb Bush though, I do not. Romney was hard to get to know, in fact, I can't really say I knew him until late into his second run. Without belaboring already posted opinion, let's just say that to my way of thinking he was no RINO and would have made a very good President, both at home and for our interests abroad. At any rate, and for what ever reason, though the man himself is a good communicator whose effectiveness is in no way tied to a teleprompter, somehow his campaign staff managed too great a barrier between his candidacy and the voting public. That separation, plus the fact that they allowed the Dems to define him using distortions innuendo, added to his failed candidacy. Therefore a great leader will pass from prominence, discarded by the voting public via the most superficial of whims.

That's the thing about Republicans that I find nerve-wracking. Taking the high road with the voters by not responding to dirty political maneuverings, excludes the very members of the electorate which are susceptible to being influenced by such schoolyard name calling. I believe they must give the low information voter a reason to think about their vote. In not responding forcefully to the slander associated with today's elections, they (Republicans) seem willing to cede those votes in the form of a gift to the Dems who never feel pressed to scrap for them. Contrary to DNC generated propaganda, Republicans are not disconnected and big feeling anymore than are vacuous elitists like Pelosi and Reid. I mention Reid because of the statement he made from the floor of the Senate, citing an anonymous source in charging that Romney had not paid taxes for 10 years. Now, people like me and others on here, will not need any help making up our minds but if the Republicans want to get some of those lo info votes, they have to respond.

One more thing. Republicans cannot hope to claim the moral high ground if they're going to harken back to the same authority that the Dems do, which of late has been to espouse the social fad of the day. If homosexuality was wrong back in 2007 when Mr Obama was making his run up to the white house, then it was wrong in 2010 during the repeal of DADT. If certain social behavior is wrong, then a ticking clock cannot change that. And, if it is wrong when the able bodied will not work, neither will the clock have any impact. Dems call such things "change" or "moving the country forward." Such is the true face of this idea that men are evolving. As evolution is a lie, so is the idea that men are getting better. America of 2014 accepts some pretty incredible behavior as the new norm. The slaughter of 70 million innocent babies lies in our rearview, with the promise of many more to come. Welfare is a government subsidized choice, not a predicament. Laws are being penned by the scores which benefit the homosexual, which is now a new class of it's own in this land.

Just going by the evidence, I would say men are showing the symptoms of decline.