What, me worry?

The GOP’s “Carly gap” is showing

Gotta admit I’m not happy about the Republican Party’s decision to exclude Carly Fiorina from the next debate. Sure, she scored in the single digits in Iowa, but she’s far from out of the running.

If fiscal conservatives don’t care about the importance of a business-like approach to balancing the budget, they should at least decry the GOP’s money that is likely being wasted on a podium already rented for Rand Paul.

As Rand Paul’s podium collects dust backstage, America will miss an essential conservative voice in the debate dialogue about America’s future: Carly Fiorina.

Without Carly’s integrity, clarity of thought and direct manner of speaking, yet another debate will become a slap fight when it could be a conversation on the issues that truly matter to Americans.

Pondering the “Carly gap” on that stage, I’m reminded of an image, of Alfred E. Neuman, the grinning mascot of the classic humor publication, Mad Magazine. His lack of self-awareness, conveyed by his tooth-missing smile and oblivious “what, me worry?” catchphrase, was an easy caricature of a 1960s establishment grown out of touch with the American people.

When our party’s candidates take the stage, the “Carly gap” will confirm that our party is becoming a living caricature of itself, oblivious to the realities that confront our country and likely to lose an election to either a walking national security disaster or a card-carrying socialist.

Let’s wise up, get Carly on that stage and move the conversation onto the issues that matter.

Take a minute to sign this petition at http://fairdebate.gr8.com/ and let the Republican Party know it’s time to grow up.