After last nights GOP Presidential debate, some of us have broken hearts. It seemed like such a squabble, (which is defined as a “noisy altercation”), that I couldn’t tell who won, or who would likely lose support, or who had the best ideas, because of all the noise!

Aesop said it this way: “A husbandman who had a quarrelsome family, after having tried in vain to reconcile them by words, thought he might more readily prevail by example. So he called his sons and bade them lay a bundle of sticks before him. Then having tied them up into a fagot (a bundle, as in bundle of sticks), he told the lads, one after another, to take it up and break it. They all tried, but tried in vain. Then, untying the fagot, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest of ease. Then said the father: ‘Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for all your enemies; but differ and separate, and you are undone.’”

It makes me wonder if the Republicans are making it easier for their opponents, the liar and the socialist, to overcome their own great obstacles in a general election.

The Republicans have quoted Ronald Reagan’s 11th Commandment from time to time, but they seem to pay no heed to it. Perhaps they would listen to these words from their hero, President Reagan: “The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of ideas—a trial of spiritual resolve; the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish, and the ideals to which we are dedicated.”

A little less bombast, and more a few more words about our “spiritual resolve, the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish, and the ideals to which we are dedicated.”