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GOP needs to get serious about governing 

GOP needs to get serious about governing 

Kevin P. Martin

A businessman/reality television star and a doctor each lacking any government leadership experience, and two first-term senators who come election day will both be only 45-years-old. About one month before voting starts in Iowa and New Hampshire, these are your front-runners for the Republican presidential nomination. Together, these four — Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio —are garnering nearly 75 percent support in the most recent RealClearPolitics average of polls.

That so many Republicans are supporting candidates with no demonstrated history of government leadership for the most important executive position in the world is unfathomable. After all, one of the Right's principal warnings in 2008 about then-candidate Obama was his lack of any demonstrated leadership experience. Hillary Clinton warned of Obama's lack of experience in the primaries.

Questions for the Republican candidates
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Questions for the Republican candidates

Robert N. Driscoll

On Jan. 14 and 28, and Feb. 6, the Republicans will have the final three debates prior to the New Hampshire primary. Although Fox Business, Fox News, and ABC will host the debates, in my fantasy world, these are some of the questions I'd like to see asked of the remaining Republican candidates. I hope the debate moderators feel free to crib a few of these.

To Chris Christie: President Obama has been roundly criticized by Republicans for treating Islamic terrorism as a "law enforcement" problem rather than as an existential threat. You have touted your experience as a US attorney as your primary qualification for being Commander-in-Chief and handling the war on terror. Does this mean, as a former law enforcement official, you agree that terrorism is primarily a law enforcement problem?

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