Why this Democrat will be voting for Mitt Romney

BizPacReview.com ^ | July 17, 2012 | Barney Bishop

[T.O.K.]

In 1992, I was the executive director of the Florida Democratic Party. I managed political operations for the Democrats in one of the largest swing states in our nation.

Our nominee, Bill Clinton, went on to win the presidency, and he fostered eight prosperous years in our nation’s history. He delivered balanced budgets and surpluses that reduced the nation’s debt.

Clinton was the type of Democrat I’ve supported my whole life, fiscally conservative while still focused on the needs of the hard-working middle class. Clinton famously declared, “The era of big government is over.” Barack Obama is a completely different kind of Democrat.

[T.O.K.]

more please!

[cripplecreek]

I think democrats and “moderates” deserve each other. Nothing but toilet bowl scrapins and I’m openly encouraging them to go where they belong.

[Stosh]

” He delivered balanced budgets and surpluses that reduced the nation’s debt.”

He went along with balanced budgets and surpluses forced down his throat (sorry about that Clinton image) by a GOP congress.

I am sooooooooooo sick of that lie - Clinton didn’t do shiite about balanced budgets and surpluses when he had a donkey legislature.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

So....a Dhimmicrat operative from the Clinto era confides that Romeny is a Dhimmicrat.

Quell surprise!

[cdcdawg]

I think I have this right: Everything that this guy liked about Clinton came about because Newt Gingrich was willing to shut down the government to make Clinton do it. Amazing what lies these people will tell themselves.

[Tau Food]

Romney is expanding his liberal base at the cost of losing some of his conservative support. How many liberals will leave Obama for Romney?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

‘zackly.
Kudos to the GOPers in congress, not Horndog.

[capt. norm]

Can’t get your link to work...looks like Bizpacreview is not “answering their phone”.

[Jacvin]

Personally, I’ll take any vote we can get, as long as we kick BHO out of the Oval Office. I agree that Romney isn’t a real conservative, but our country cannot another 4 years of Obama.

[Broker]

Q -How do you tell a Romney supporter from an Obama supporter?

A- Romney supporters sign their checks on the front; Obama supporters sign 'em on the back."

[Opinionated Blowhard]

” He delivered balanced budgets and surpluses that reduced the nation’s debt.” He went along with balanced budgets and surpluses forced down his throat (sorry about that Clinton image) by a GOP congress.

True. But I would be happy to live in that time again -- a Dem president being forced to be moderate by a truly conservative Republican Congress.

[cap10mike]

More please is right!

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Why this Democrat will be voting for Mitt Romney

Rodents always recognize and flock to their own kind.

[Eye of Unk]

Go for broke, vote for Sarah Palin.

If you want to make big money at the track bet on the horse with the highest odds.

[Doogle]

And 1993 -- the year of the giant Clinton tax hike -- was not the turning point in the deficit wars, either. In fact, in 1995, two years after that tax hike, the budget baseline submitted by the president's own Office of Management and Budget and the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office predicted $200 billion deficits for as far as the eye could see. The figure shows the Clinton deficit baseline. What changed this bleak outlook? Stephen Moore is director of fiscal policy studies at the Cato Institute. Newt Gingrich and company -- for all their faults -- have received virtually no credit for balancing the budget. Yet today's surplus is, in part, a byproduct of the GOP's single-minded crusade to end 30 years of red ink. Arguably, Gingrich's finest hour as Speaker came in March 1995 when he rallied the entire Republican House caucus behind the idea of eliminating the deficit within seven years. We have a balanced budget today that is mostly a result of 1) an exceptionally strong economy that is creating gobs of new tax revenues and 2) a shrinking military budget. Social spending is still soaring and now costs more than $1 trillion. Skeptics said it could not be done in seven years. The GOP did it in four. .. the Cato Institute....October 8, 1998.

[SgtHooper]

Bingo! And the dotcom boom was well underway, to no credit of Clinton.

[tsowellfan]

Why this Democrat will be voting for Mitt Romney? = Not news

Why this Democrat will be voting for Sarah Palin = News
Why this Democrat will be voting for Newt Gingrich = News
Why this Democrat will be voting for Herman Cain = News
Why this Democrat will be voting for Rick Perry = News

Why this conservative will be voting for Mitt Romney (now that would be an article I’d read!)

[apillar]

more please!

I've heard from dozens of people in my workplace that voted for Obama in 2008 who are voting for Romney in 2012. Yet I haven't heard one single person anywhere say, "I voted for McCain in 2008, but that Obama has done such a great job I'm voting for him in 2012."

[cripplecreek]

[rockinqsranch]

Good One.