It is hard to be confident when your champions are Groucho, Harpo, and Chico

As a follow up to "Missing the Point" on 01/09/12 it is worth looking at the New Hampshire Primary and the the candidates migration to South Carolina. The rhetoric and campaigning by the flock of Republican candidates looks more like a movie from the 1940s. It is just not clear whether the stars are the Marx Brothers or the Three Stooges.

In "Duck Soup" Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho) is looking for money from a wealthy widow to save the bankrupt country of Freedonia. Mitt (I mean Rufus) is advised to eliminate a competitor by "... saying something to make him mad, and he'll strike you, and we'll force him to leave the country."  But the plan backfires and Firefly slaps his competitor instead which leads to war.

The Duck Soup characters could easily be replaced with Romney playing Firefly, Gingrich playing Trentino and  Chicolini and Pinky played by Santorum and Paul respectively. The ridiculous insults traded among candidates in the ongoing primaries sound a lot like Duck Soup dialogue. Saving a bankrupt country (Freedonia) by taking the money of a rich widow sounds a lot like current economic proposals. The elimination of rivals through "negative ads" sounds like Rufus T. Firefly's plan to insult his rival. Watching the New Hampshire Primary would have been a great comedy if the outcomes were not so important.

Today we have a front runner who believes he can do a better job of managing the economy than the current administration. He does not realize that is not in the job description of President or the capabilities of a mortal man to manage the economy of a country. He can however damage an economy

Two contenders believe that government has the power and right to manage the income and lives of individual citizens by determining how much money they can earn and how they should behave in their bedrooms.

One contender understands the role of government in domestic governance but believes that the country can exist without protecting itself from the real foreign enemies of the USA that are waiting to humble us in every way possible.

Where is the candidate who understands the Constitution and the role of government in America? Is there a candidate out there that understands limiting foreign entanglements while maintaining the capability to protect Americans and American interests? The reason the front runner keeps changing is the people are searching for a candidate that understands the need for a revolutionary approach. We are past the usefulness of band-aids.

The results in  Iowa and New Hampshire are not an affirmation of a candidate. Instead they are a spaghetti test. We keep throwing the candidates against the wall waiting for one to stick. Where are you Sarah Palin, or Donald Trump, or Marco Rubio or Person Unknown?