Whether you did or not, paid attention or not, I can tell you now that it was much ado about nothing, more or less.
Romney won some and lost some, Santorum strutted like a prize Turkey about his almost-there 2nd place in Ohio, and Gingrich ran the table in Georgia and kept hopes of relevancy (barely) alive.
In the process, the candidates upped their attacks on our sitting President, with Romney inferring the Obama administration has hijacked our liberty. I assume this is one more reference to the clause in the Health Reform Law that requires everyone to have insurance or pay a penalty.
Whatever. This refrain is getting tiresome from the Repubs. There are several good and valid criticisms they could raise against Obama, not least of which is Eric Holder's recent statement that assassination of American citizens abroad by our government does not constitute a denial of their rights to due process. As if their rights to confront their accusers and be tried by a jury weren't part of 'due process', or could be granted in absentia through some sort of surrogate process (who wants to play the terrorist defendant this week?)
But I'm guessing the Republicans are silent because either they - or a majority of their supporters - tend to agree with the President that liberty can be hijacked in this particular situation.
It's sad to say and worse to realize, but this is the state of our public and political discourse now. We make extreme statements, often supported by words and deeds taken out of context, and use them to assault those with whom we disagree. Whether this disagreement is one of true substance or only based on semantics or procedural details seems to make little difference in this all-out war for the hearts and pocketbooks of the electorate.
Super Tuesday may have been a harbinger of things to come. An 'Al Capone's Safe' of political thought, opened in prime time, to reveal not very much really.
Which is about what We The People will be getting come November, one way or the other.
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