The debates among the Republican candidates for Presidential
nomination reveal the different views, temperaments, personalities,
character, individual idiosyncracies, perspectives,their religious
beliefs, educational backgrounds, even their respective intuitive and
combative faculties (if any), as the TV audience may have noted.
Heated controversies usually give rise to diverse aggrupations of
followers who become more and more inflexible,
unless the contenders come to realize their goal is the election
of the nation's next President, not merely the Republican nomination
for that post.
I recall an old politician's formula for his success as Senator
for successive terms in the Philippine Senate:- Per Amang Rodriguez,
"Politics is addition, not subtraction nor division." The clever
politician never denigrates, deprecates. nor scoffs at those who
disagree with him. True, without near fisticuffs, insults or censorable
verbiage, debates and campaigns would be very uninteresting,
boring indeed. Here in the United States, dissent among the political
contenders and their followers is also rife and quite heated. However,
he who can bring under his wing the greatest number of voters
(no matter from what camp, religious, racial, or age group a voter
may have come from) will win the elections.
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