Moon bases, MasterCard and cook books.

A guest column by Hon. Corey E. Corbin

Corey Corbin served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 2000-2004, where he held the leadership position of Majority Committee Whip.  He was a member of the House Labor and Industry Committee, as well as the Election Law Committee.  Corbin was also twice the Democrat candidate for New Hampshire State Senate in District 17 and a former Chairman of the Sandown Board of Selectmen.  Rep. Corbin was also a member of the I-95 widening Fiscal Impact Committee, and has been published by the Josiah Bartlett Public Policy Foundation and New Hampshire Business Magazine for his leadership roles in reforming the Legislature and business tax policy.

If the four men vying for the right to challenge President Barack Obama as the Republican Party’s nominee are to be believed, our nation is facing the apocalypse should Obama be re-elected.

Every malady we are currently facing has been gleefully blamed on Obama and, to some degree, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.  From high unemployment and the banking collapse, to an increasingly aggressive (and potentially nuclear armed) Iran and out of control illegal immigration – Obama has either caused it all, or done nothing about it.

What, then, are the solutions offered up by these would-be chief executives of our great nation?  If you’re watching the plethora of debates that have been popping up like spring flowers over the airwaves, you know that their offerings are anemic, at best.

Let’s take the current front-runner, Former US House Speaker Newt Gingrich, for example.  Gingrich has been spending a lot of time on Florida’s space coast, in advance of that state’s primary, letting everyone know that under his administration, we will have a permanently manned base on the moon.  Yes, you read that correctly, a permanent moon base.   So while Obama, according to the GOP candidates, plays too much golf while the country crumbles, their (the GOP) front-runner is busy planning the construction of a Ramada Inn on the moon.

Not to be outdone, the former Massachusetts Governor, Mitt Romney, says he would handle illegal immigration by turning the problem over to VISA and MasterCard.  Huh?  Yes, that’s correct.  Romney thinks illegals should be documented by a card administered by VISA and MasterCard.  So now we want our immigration woes to be handled by some of the very companies that prey on those illegal immigrants by offering super-high interest rate and bad credit - credit cards.  Well that makes sense!

And just to remind us he’s not as insignificant as we know he is, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum thinks we should just chase illegal immigrants down with giant fishing nets and send them all back where they came from: apparently all 11-odd million of them (I think Santorum was overheard saying he would allow the KKK to administer his immigration policy).  Santorum also wants to invade Iran, Venezuela, Columbia, Honduras, Mexico, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Yemen, Somalia, and any US State that allows gay marriage.

Finally we come to the one GOP candidate who, in my humble, democrat opinion, makes the most sense when talking about the issues – Texas Representative Ron Paul.  The good doctor (he is a licensed MD) is always clear, concise, well thought, and understands the Constitution and the basic principles this nation was founded upon.

Perhaps my favorite Ron Paul moment, however, was his answer when asked in the last debate why he thought his wife would make a great First Lady.  He looked right into the camera and said “well, she published a great cook book.”

So there you have it, folks.  You can decide to cast a vote to send back to the oval office a pragmatic, steadfast champion of the average American, Barack Obama, or you can cheer wildly for the alternative: moon bases, VISA-gration, invading every other country in the known world, and the Ron Paul cook book.

Good Luck!