Posted on 11/04/2014 4:06:01 AM PST by Nextrush
Go out and vote today, I will.
There are good folks to vote for in some cases. One in my case and I will write-in names for others.
I hope Scott Walker wins today in Wisconsin because he should not be punished for demanding concessions from government employee unions and getting his state's fiscal house in order.
I'm not endorsing Walker's back down regarding same sex marriage. I'm also not endorsing Walker for president in 2016 either.
I wish my governor would have done the same in Pennsylvania, but it hasn't happened. Governor Tom Corbett raised gasoline taxes, agreed to Medicaid expansion under Obamacare and backed down on gay marriage after a federal judge appointed by George W. Bush made it legal in PA.
I will not vote for him or his crony capitalist opponent Democrat Tom Wolf either today.
Four years ago there was a Republican wave in reaction to Obamacare, now there is another GOP surge probably more driven by Democrat base voters staying home than anything else. I suspect a major reason are the harsh economic conditions associated at least in part with Obamcare.
If I were honestly a "liberal" or a "progressive" I would be so angry with Obama for using military force in the Middle East, spying on my data with the NSA etc. etc.
If I were a working young person who voted for Obama the impact of the "Affordable Care Act" would leave me cold.
The notion that I lose my health insurance coverage and have to pay rates that are way higher is bad enough. Then the notion that my employer is cutting my hours to under 30 to comply with the law hurts again.
Going to the store and watching food prices jumping higher (and they are at double digit % rates) would demoralize me even more.
Health care stocks are booming right now because Obamacare really was a way to help large hospital groups and large insurance companies.
It forces Americans to buy higher priced health insurance by government regulation with the extra money flowing into insurance companies and then into doctors and hospitals with the big operators reaping the rewards because of the economy of scale and the small ones being hurt and driven out of business.
Even the death panels will help the bottom lines of the big special interests that Obama did the favor for in exchange for $$$$$$$.
Obamcare was sold with progressive sounding language and bells and whistles like abortion and birth control, but it was a sellout to the big money healthcare industry in the end.
The Republicans have no intention of undoing this bonanza for special interests, they have spoken of a better "marketplace" for health insurance if they had their way.
Mitt Romney drove up health insurance costs in Massachusetts before Barack Obama with his version of the same thing to help the same interests. In one speech during the 2012 campaign Romney noted that a lot of "freeloaders" were showing up at hospitals.
Romney spoke truth but many of those "freeloaders" he spoke of are also the same folks he wants to give a "pathway to citizenship" for.
I have received dozens of emails in the last few months with Mitt Romney's name on them promoting the Republican candidates.
Romney has been all over the campaign trail for GOP candidates reprising a role Richard Nixon played in 1966 on his way to a 1968 comeback and election victory.
If Paul Revere were around, I would have him on a horse...."Romney is coming. Romney is coming....."
A trivia question. Which special interests benefitted when states made it mandatory to get auto insurance coverage back in the 1970's or so?
Get out and VOTE!
Mandating that each vehicle be insured individually rather than each driver seems to prove that 'Insurance, Inc' has more clout than 'AutoSales, Inc'.
All to the tune of tens of millions stolen each year from the pockets of the average household.
As for today:
Corbett is primarily a GOPussy;
Wolf is a typical slimy (D)emagogue.
Happy Voting, Campers !
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I was the eighth voter at my pct this AM. When I slid my ballot into the counting machine, it registered my vote as #8. In the 2010 mid-term election, I was second in line. When I slid my ballot into the machine, it registered my vote as #34. Things are looking up already :)
I’m vacillating about whether to vote for Corbett. I know he’s a colossal failure as governor, but when I look at Wolf, I see shades of Obama: socialist policies couched in deceptive rhetoric, and absolutely no specific details about the nightmare he likely intends to inflict.
I will definitely NOT be voting for my local congressman since he voted for CISPA. There’s a lot I can excuse, but support for government surveillance is where I draw the line.
There will be no tax which Tom Wolf does not try and raise. That alone is reason enough for me to hold my nose and vote for Corbett.
Can we make Mitt the ambassador to Madagascar for the next 20 years, and not let him board a plane to come back?
Did the same this morning. Hopefully the GOP-led PA state legislature is able to derail much of Wolfie’s tax-and-spend agenda if Corbett goes down as expected.
Come on! Make him the V.P. nominee in 16’. Let the country know what it missed out on by moving the office to Detroit. Give him 4 years to turn that city around. Use military tactics. Get rid of the riffraff first. THEN move 100,000 GAYS into the city. Give them each a-run down abandoned property(or 2). Gays are an urban renewal group(no government). Next restore it’s French history by importing 100,000 gay FRENCHMEN+ dykes. Last find 100,000 Haitians(French colony)-either those already in the u.s. or import the semi-skilled ones.
Willard is the Ebola of the GOP
He should be banned from coming back..
From your lips to God’s ears....God Bless Mitt but he’s wrong.....
I voted the way I did today and I will accept the result.
Here in Wolf’s home county (York) turnout seemed a little higher.
I’m not sure who benefits from that yet.....
What could be more demoralizing than Romney?
I voted today and am ready to accept the results....God Bless You and God Bless America.....
Isn’t it amazing how the political system really works....That’s one reason I’m a big Sarah Palin fan because she doesn’t like cronyism between business and politicians.....
Glenn Beck speaks of him as a good man at times and I would agree with that as to personal moral habits...in politics I see something not so good at all.
His father was the ultimate anti-conservative in opposing Goldwater in 1964 and I think Mitt follows in those footsteps....
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