A VOTE FOR WILLARD IS A VOTE FOR THE PAST

We're almost on the eve of the 2012 election and it has been a fascinating process watching Willard Romney and the Republican party sink to new lows.

Romney is the most unabashed liar I can remember in presidential politics.  The problem is that it seems to work.  In polls Romney gets high marks for "leadership."  We used to frown on lying and now it's not a big deal.  We also have Republicans who are campaigning for other offices essentially saying that rape is no big deal.  It's part of their God's plan.

According to the calendar, we are in the 21st century, but Republicans want to roll back the clock to an earlier era when workers had no rights, women should be barefoot and pregnant and keep their mouths shut, minorities should "know their place," and the United States can bully the rest of the world into submission.

Abraham Lincoln used the phrase "the better angels of our nature" and I hope those better angels prevail.