The Rise of Fringe Candidates

Let me add my two cents worth to the debate as to why the Huckster & Paulus have so many votes. Many of my acquaintances are Firm Protestant Calvinists (FPCs). They fit every profile of normality and are totally family-oriented. They do their best to walk the straight-n-narrow and attend two church services, morning and evening, 'bout every week of the year.

The FPCs vote mainly to keep Democrats out of Power. Their #1 issue is Pro-Life. The #2 issue is that at least (R) party will give some sort of freedom to religious organizations. #3 & #4 are a mixed bag between foreign policy & taxes. (R) candidates will try to keep taxes lower and will at least fight a war to keep some of our enemies away. The Democrats are pro-abortion, pro-murder, pro-racism, pro-homosexuality or pro-hedonism, in short.

The 2006 elections showed the corruption of (R) candidates on almost every issue from greed, to adultery, to gov't spending. Now, the FPCs have done the Google searches, seen impressive websites, and watched the Youtube videos from the kook fringes of American Society. They slowly start to believe that our Presidents, Bush & Clinton, knew of 9/11 in advance, actively participated in it, or worked in some sort of cover-up. The behavior starts to border on irrationality. The chief explanation lies in the fact that the Gov't and now the party of Reagan are corrupt through and through.

Then comes a barrelful of (R) candidates: one is Mormon and maybe no friend of Christianity; one is NY Republican or Liberal; one is not conservative on most issues having lost to Bush in 2000; one is unheard of and not doing well, probably just another (R) candidate; one is very open about his Christianity, very pro-life, humorous, and has a new idea about taxes; and one is very small-gov't and wants to do something about the mess in Iraq.

The last two seem Fresh & Different without ties to the formerly corrupt (R) party. They also probably did not participate in the 9/11 conspiracy. That's it.