The GOP 2016 Presidential Campaign:  a party in crisis

This is one of the most hostile and negative campaigns and debates I have seen in a very long time.  The more the GOP establishment and its special interests belittle and attack Donald Trump, the more the people want him.  Mitt Romney bashing Trump is all that is needed for Donald to win.  Icing on the cake.  The people love that the Party is in chaos over Trump and it is well deserved.  The GOP establishment is scratching and clawing to try getting rid of Trump but he is here to stay.

While Trump is not the most experienced with many of the issues, he does stand out as the better candidate.  It seems that Kasich has the most experience in a variety of areas, but he is not that well known or liked.  A Trump / Kasich ticket would be an interesting one, with Ben Carson as the top health care adviser and/or US Surgeon General.

Rubio and Cruz have consistently been part of the problem in Washington and can't be trusted.  Cruz has shown he doesn't work well with others, so wouldn't be an effective President.  Trump is the candidate, the real deal.  Better get used to it.

A few words on our legislators and on "political correctness..."

By "legislators" I mean those who serve in the US Congress, and those legislators at the State and Local levels.  They all seem to forget that they serve the people who voted for them and not merely for themselves and their very wealthy special interests.

We need more legislators who are middle road oriented and who balance our needs and objectives in an intelligent, rational and responsible manner.

We all have lost the art of compromise, which was very important to the men who developed our Constitution.  Balance is crucial in making our democratic Republic work properly, but we've tossed all of that balance out the window.

Legislators rather do nothing than to compromise and be reasonable with their perceived enemies on either side.  It needs to stop because we are committing national suicide.

In addition, being "politically correct" (whatever that is these days) is destroying what was great about our nation.  

Once upon a time we called a Christmas tree a Christmas tree.  It didn't matter.  Now all of a sudden we can't function without being "politically correct."  

I say throw "political correctness" out the window, along with most of our legislators.  We deserve better.

The Hoopla about the Affordable Care Act

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the same thing as “Obama-care” but a lot of people still don’t know that.  Polls show that people may like the ACA but don’t like Obamacare.  Go figure.

Systems speaking, there are always glitches and problems with new systems whether in the private sector or in government. As with most new systems, for the most part we have a parallel [health care] system running until the bugs are taken out of the new system.

I was not for the ACA, but I also recognize all the finger-pointing at the new system is yet another political avenue for those against it to rally together to create unnecessary attacks in the hope to somehow eliminate "Obamacare" but it will not happen that way.

The ACA is a major law that must now be continued and fixed along the way, until it is proven to be a bad law that does not help or work for the majority of people. When that happens it will be and should be removed from law by the very people it was supposed to help --- the voters.

Republicans and Democrats need to stop the in-house fighting for every issue under the sun. People need government to work for them and not for the benefits to elected and appointed officials and their special interests. That said, government needs to get out of regulating our daily lives. At the Federal, State and Local levels, government is dictating how we should live much more than it has in the past. It needs to stop.

Extremism at either end of the political and economic spectrums is what is destroying the America we once knew and loved. Once upon a time in America we used to work together, but that was then and this is now. There doesn't seem to be much hope that it will change soon.