"Who's driving the wedge?"
"Regarding President Obama making a statement on the shooting of Trayvon Martin: Republican presidential candidates Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney have traveled around this nation, and continue to do so, condemning gay marriage, abortion, out-of-wedlock births and access to contraception; wanting to abolish the separation of church and state; letting Rush Limbaugh get away with his misogynist views; and saying the poor don't have good role models and that blacks need to earn a paycheck to know what it's like to earn real money, and now have the gall to espouse that the President is putting a wedge between the American people? These GOP theocrat bullies are hypocrites and, worst of all, false witnesses.
How in the heck can these three candidates even conceive of leading this nation into more civil and ethical behavior with such repulsive political views and/or agendas?
I say these candidates have no idea how to dream of great things because they are totally devoid of compassion, kindness, consideration, sympathy, unselfishness, hospitality, charitableness and, most of all, humility; they are the worst Christians to have invoked Jesus' teachings.
Nora Luttrell
Bakersfield
[emphasis mine] Note the characteristics Nora finds good in a national leader. She would have government be her savior.
.......PETHOKOUKIS: Under your plan, what would the U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio be at the end of two Romney Presidential terms?
ROMNEY: Jim, I’m going to have to get Lanhee Chen, my policy director, to get you that precise number. What I’m focused on is to get to a balanced budget by the end of my second term … But as the public debt as a percentage of GDP, that number is not in my head, but I can sure get it for you.
......PETHOKOUKIS: Speaking of housing, Glenn Hubbard has a plan to use [Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac] for a mass refinancing of GSE mortgages. Do you think there is any merit in that idea?
ROMNEY: I am studying that. As you know, Glenn is an adviser of mine, and there are some elements, which I am forced to consider when I study a program like that. One is not to encourage moral hazard where we encourage people to believe they’re going to get bailed out. And secondly, not to break the contract which had existed with any party to the mortgage document. It would be inappropriate to throw a huge loss to some party which had relied upon the existing practices of the marketplace. That being said, I am always interested in new ideas and will give it a careful review but no conclusion at this stage.........
Interesting.
Paul Weyrich, a co-founder of the Moral Majority, supported Romney in 2008 and came to regret it, saying that Romney believes government is God.
Quote of Paul Weyrich warning about Romney:
“When a chief executive can violate multiple articles of the oldest functioning constitution in the world and disobey statutes he solemnly swore to defend and execute faithfully, then blame judges who never even asked him to intervene, he mocks the principle of limited government and the separation of powers. He robs Americans of their unalienable right to self-government, for which so many soldiers, sailors and airmen have died.”
“These are just two issues (there are more) that absolutely disqualify Mitt Romney as a viable Vice Presidential option. He would fatally harm your appeal to voters with deep constitutionalist and social conservative commitments.”
“If Governor Romney is on your ticket, many social conservative voters will consider their values repudiated by the Republican Party and either stay away from the polls this November or only vote down the ticket. For the sake of your election, the health of your party, and the future of America you must not allow the obvious electoral consequences of that to occur.”
Quote is courtesy of Politijim:
http://www.politijim.com/2012/01/paul-weyrich-warns-conservatives-on.html
“Nora” has become legion amongst liberals and the left.
Reading her comments, it should be obvious to all here that the “gap” between the left and the right has grown to become a gaping chasm that will never again be “bridgeable”.
What choices does this leave us?