Tuesday 9 December 2008

Home, Sweet Home, Chicago

Congratulations to the Sheriff of Cook County (which includes and is centred on Chicago), who is refusing to evict those who are up to date with their rent but whose landlords have defaulted on their mortgages.

Cook County is also the base of the ideal successor in Barack Obama's Senate seat, a totally orthodox Catholic and veteran Civil Rights activist. Regular readers who know him personally, will he do it?

Meanwhile, the latest gossip is of giving Hillary Clinton's seat, not to Bill Clinton after all, but Caroline Kennedy. Come on, New York (where I also have regular readers), get you act together.

That seat needs to be filled by a Democrat who enjoys the endorsement of the Working Families Party on the protection of workers and consumers, on fair trade and fair tax, on universal health care, on Social Security, on environmental responsibility, on Civil Rights, and on foreign policy realism, whatever disagreements that party might have with him or her on other issues.

And that seat needs to be filled by a Democrat who enjoys the endorsement of the Conservative Party on family values, on strictly limited and strictly legal immigration, on constitutional checks and balances, on national security, on energy independence, on Second Amendment rights and responsibilities, on America as an English-speaking country, and (one trusts, now that the Bush Era is coming to an end) on foreign policy realism, whatever disagreements that party might have with him or her on other issues.

On that first basis, such a Democrat would also deserve the support of the Green Party. On that second basis, such a Democrat would also deserve the support of the Pro-Life Party. And on that double basis, support for such a Democrat could and should unite the warring factions within the Independence Party.

Right Democrat would love to hear from you - rightdemocrat@aol.com.

Now.

So, where are you?

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