March 31, 2012 | 11:50 PM

If Romney is the Republican nominee, I see the 2008 to 2012 election cycle
as the end of the republican party and its usurpation of the Democratic one,
as the latter has become the Socialist party. Therefore, the election might
very well be between a Democratic, Romney, and a Socialist, Obama. The only classical Republican will be Paul, if he runs third Party, but he really
represents the Rep.

I was in the Kennedy Library the other day, and again I firmly believe and know
in my heart Kennedy was far too conservative to win the nomination of his party today. In fact, Kennedy's and Reagan's domestic and foreign policies are far, far, far more alike than Kennedy's and Obama's. Heck Reagan and Kennedy are closer than even Carter and Obama.

I wish I could get this to OSC. I can't vote for Romney, because I know
there's immorality in buying a company, leveraging its assets, taking 10's or
100's of millions of dollars in fees and walking away, as the company goes
under and folks lose their jobs and pensions. That's not capitalism, that's
immorality. Recall that the invisible hand notion found in Adams' "Wealth of Nations" was to be tempered by the notions found in his other book -- that we've forgotten -- "On Moral Sentiments." True capitalism is a balance of self interest and moral action. Maybe the left's constant assault on morality carries some of the blame of the absence of morality on current captalist practice.

I don't believe Romney will govern the way OSC describes. I've lived in Massachusetts twice, and a Republican here is far too liberal to be a mainstream democrat in most states of the union. I believe Romney will
well manage the decline, but do nothing to reverse it. I think he's a Rep
along the lines of Schwarzenegger: give the people what they want. See the East and Left coast link (MA & CA)? I think we need a president that will advocate and work to give people what they need. Romney's not that guy; Gingrich maybe; Paul definitely.

I wish the world was a Star Trek-like utopia, we're all people worked because they love it for no pay, just the provision of basic needs. In the absence of that, and given how much I hear folks say they long for a politicain to tell them the truth, I find the lack of support for Ron Paul interesting. He certainly has put his finger on the truths/root causes.

David Peeler