Republicans need a moral recheck

I have often said that the Republican candidates and party dogma had no standards. I was wrong.

I carefully listen to the actual debates and pronouncements of party spokespeople (as opposed to Fox and MSNBC snippets) so I don’t have to make a decision based on partisan selectivity. When you are not able to distinguish between an investment activity and a vulture activity you have a serious moral problem. Capitalism is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Capitalism created Wal-Mart just as surely as capitalism created the financial recession disaster we are just clawing ourselves out of. If you can tell a women with a 5-year-old cancer victim that it’s too bad you just have to eat the insurance cost (assuming you can actually get insurance on the open market), your professed Christian values are certainly suspect.

When you would bar abortions even to save the life of the mother, your moral compass is certainly out of kilter when you think that two deaths are better than one. And what can you say about someone who would deny effective birth control methods to young and old alike because of their personal dogma of ineffective reliance on abstinence methods?

And then there is a governor who decries big government and touts job creation that relied most heavily on big government jobs.

Yes, I was wrong to say the Republican candidates and party dogma had no standards (they do but they just seem to be low). They simply have no shame.

James Prescott

Schaumburg