Mitt Sees the Emperor Without His Clothes

True sign of a politician. I’ll get yours from them, but you need to back me.... You don’t have to do anything, but VOTE, and get your friends to do the same.

Oh so true, patriotspride!!!

This sort of thing has nothing to do with good government, and everything to do with gaming the system....

Thank you oh so much for your astute observation!

A very insightful commentary, as always, betty. Thank you!

It appears that we are in agreement on just about everything regarding the upcoming election, except maybe for our optimism that Obama will be defeated (I don't know your specific view on that).

Good economic stewardship requires the government to get out of the way of wealth creation by keeping taxes low and keeping regulation from strangling private initiative, creativity, and risk taking.

That, in a nutshell, is the platform on which Romney/Ryan must run, regarding the economy. But I am not convinced they can win, even with such a simple and truthful premise. The media are inundating the minds of the uninformed electorate with nonsense -- such as the fact that Romney has not made his tax returns for the past several decades public, or the fact that he may (or may not) have had a slip of the tongue during a fundraising dinner four months ago. Somehow the 'big picture', and the bone-deep corruption inherent in it, is being lost in a mountain of biased trivia.

I am losing faith that the American electorate is anymore capable of separating the wheat from the chaff. And that inability may prove, more than all else, to spell the demise of our beloved republic.

Best to you and yours, dear sister in Christ --

~ joanie

Mitt Romney sees the emperor without his clothes and, although he may not have wanted his comment to become headline news, it's about time the American electorate at least has access to the truth contained in it. They certainly aren't going to obtain that truth from the mainstream media.
Romney may have killed his election chances, if the media have any say about it, but he shot from the hip. He wasn't talking about Social Security retirement recipients, or Medicare recipients, or hard workers like you and me. He was talking about those who have embraced the entitlement/victim mentality, and those who are seeking to reap the benefits of American's working class without having legally contributed to that benefit pool. This administration has created, and nurtured, a slick PR campaign selling such a mindset as a part of the American dream, and those who have swallowed that PR will crawl to the polls, if they have to, just to see to it that the entitlement mentality continues to be rewarded.
Alexis de Tocqueville foresaw exactly this more than 150 years ago:
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.

Excellent commentary, once again, joanie! ping to my friends.

Somehow the 'big picture', and the bone-deep corruption inherent in it, is being lost in a mountain of biased trivia.... I am losing faith that the American electorate is anymore capable of separating the wheat from the chaff.

In the "big picture," it seems to me if the American majority is corrupt, then Obama will be re-elected. If they cannot see through the lies, and refuse to acknowledge the relentless corruption of the federal government spearheaded out of the Executive Office of the President, then the America we know and love is over, starting on November 7th.

I am not "optimistic" that Obama will be defeated. If the American people can no longer discriminate the truth from lies, then we get what we deserve.

Which would likely include several Left Progressive nominees to the Supreme Court, who will collectively take a meat-axe to the Constitution and especially the Bill of Rights. A President who "legislates" by Executive Order, illegitimately usurping the powers of Congress; whose regulators interfere with virtually every aspect of our lives, demanding our compliance with the least whim of some elitist, technocratic bully out of Washington.

We will have lost our Constitutional Republic.

But do people today even care about such things? This is what I wonder about, and what has me so discouraged — for I suspect the answer in many quarters today is: "No." Many would rather have freebie benefits paid for by someone else than a viable Constitution designed to preserve and protect our natural liberties. They'd rather be "safe" than free....

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. — Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania (1759)

Thank you ever so much for writing, dear sister in Christ!

Let us pray to God that He will continue to bless the United States of America!

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