I'm back!

Well Hello there to everyone still reading this. Guess what? I'm back in the State! Kansas to be specific and living it up in Newton... ah. Yeah. Living it up. My time in Ireland is finally all over, sad as it was, I knew it had to happen. It's time for me to shape up, make some money and study for the LSAT. Since I still haven't found the universe's best fish and chips, I think I'll continue this blog just for fun, maybe a few cultural views I have and the occasional political commentary too. To those who I haven't seen in months I can't wait to see you! And for those I've just left, I miss you all and wish we could walk down to the thirsty scholar and grab a pint...

Anyway, since being back I've noticed something kind of odd in American politics. The Republican party seems to lack elected leadership... What I mean by this is that the media seems to be calling Rush, Newt, Coulter and Cheney the leaders of the party, the voice of the party. Which is a little scary, and confusing. All three of these persons are fairly extreme on the conservative scale and none of them hold office at the moment. Why is it that simply because they are perhaps the loudest (or scariest in Cheney's case) that they some how speak for republicans? I'd prefer if instead of people who are polarizing, vicious, volatile and not elected, refrain from speaking for Republicans. If Senators or Representatives talk out about policy or appointments or the like, that's what they are suppose to do. Even high ranking bureaucrats can make speeches for their party, but really, entertainers, radio hosts, bloggers etc... they don't get to speak for the party, left or right. The reason we elect people is so that they will carry our voice or at the least consider our voice, these other folks have no need for that, they have no elections to win, just ratings or speaking deals. So, how's this, they can speak from themselves and they can give advice, but they aren't allowed to lead a goddamn political party!