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Host, I sincerly believe that it is too late in the campaign cycle to raise up the better qualified "second tier" candidates. I will vote my favorored candidate during the primary, and I will support the democrat that is chosen. It is far more important to me that no chances are taken in winning the presidency even if my ideological preferences are compromised.
Your five issues are being avoided now because all candidates are presenting their "primary" faces to gain as much general support as possible. Hillary made the mistake of believing the pundits in her inevitability and launched prematurely into campaign rhetoric and arguably it has hurt her.
I agree with you on the importance of the five issues you presented. Respectfully, none them are as crucial as the ones that concern me the most:
- One or more Supreme Court justices will need to be replaced in the next four years. Nothing, absolutely nothing is more important to our domestic policy than keeping the court from tipping further right.
- It is also critical to undo the constitutional damage that has been done by this admininstration which requires a Democratic president.
- We must regain, or at least improve our image world wide. Good grief, look at the Republican candidates! None of them are qualified for the presidency and most of them want to out-Bush Bush. We must have a Democratic president to reengage the world with diplomacy.
- The entire "War on Terror" must be reframed for what it really is. Terror is a criminal act, not a cowboy war, and needs to countered appropriately and globally.
- And the "third rail" that frightens me the most is not just the US economy, but the entire global economy. It will require an abandonment of Reaganomics which will not happen under another Republican. We have wonderful candidates for happy times, but I don't see among them the vision and leadership needed to upright this Titanic. I hope that I am wrong.
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"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." Molly Ivins - 1944-2007
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