Posted on 08/19/2012 7:06:50 PM PDT by grundle
What a depressing choice the American people are being presented with this year. We are at a point in our history where we desperately need a change of direction in the White House, and we are guaranteed that we are not going to get it. The Democrats are running the worst president in American history, and the Republicans are running a guy who is almost a carbon copy of him.
The fact that about half the country is still supporting Barack Obama shows how incredibly stupid and corrupt the American people have become. No American should have ever cast a single vote for Barack Obama for any political office under any circumstances.
Obama should never have even been the assistant superintendent in charge of janitorial supplies, much less the president of the United States.
The truth is that Barack Obama has done such a horrible job that he should immediately resign along with his entire cabinet. But instead of giving us a clear choice, the Republicans nominated the Republican that was running that was most similar to Barack Obama. In fact, I don't think we have ever had two candidates for president that are so similar. Yes, there are a few minor differences between them, but the truth is that we are heading into Obama's second term no matter which one of them gets elected. The mainstream media makes it sound like Obama and Romney are bitter ideological rivals but that is a giant lie. Yeah, they are slinging lots of mud at each other, but they both play for the same team and the losers are going to be the American people.
Republicans are being told that they have "no choice" but to vote for Romney because otherwise they will get another four years of Obama.
This "lesser of two evils" theme comes out every four years. We are told that we "must" vote for a horrible candidate because the other guy is even worse.
Well, millions of Americans are getting sick of this routine. Perhaps that is why it is being projected that as many as 90 million Americans of voting age will not vote this year.
Yes, Barack Obama has been so horrible as president that it is hard to put it into words.
But Mitt Romney would be just like Barack Obama.
Those that are dreaming of a major change in direction if Romney is elected are going to be bitterly, bitterly disappointed.
The following are 40 ways that Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are essentially the same candidate....
1. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both supported TARP.
2. Mitt Romney supported Barack Obama's "economic stimulus" packages.
3. Mitt Romney says that Barack Obama's bailout of the auto industry was actually his idea.
4. Neither candidate supports immediately balancing the federal budget.
5. They both believe in big government and they both have a track record of being big spenders while in office.
6. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both fully support the Federal Reserve.
7. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are both on record as saying that the president should not question the "independence" of the Federal Reserve.
8. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have both said that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke did a good job during the last financial crisis.
9. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both felt that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke deserved to be renominated to a second term.
10. Both candidates oppose a full audit of the Federal Reserve.
11. Both candidates are on record as saying that U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has done a good job.
12. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have both been big promoters of universal health care.
13. Mitt Romney was the one who developed the plan that Obamacare was later based upon.
14. Wall Street absolutely showers both candidates with campaign contributions.
15. Neither candidate wants to eliminate the income tax or the IRS.
16. Both candidates want to keep personal income tax rates at the exact same levels for the vast majority of Americans.
17. Both candidates are "open" to the idea of imposing a Value Added Tax on the American people.
18. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both believe that the TSA is doing a great job.
19. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both supported the NDAA.
20. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both supported the renewal of the USA PATRIOT Act.
21. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both believe that the federal government should be able to indefinitely detain American citizens that are considered to be terrorists.
22. Both candidates believe that American citizens suspected of being terrorists can be killed by the president without a trial.
23. Barack Obama has not closed Guantanamo Bay like he promised to do, and Mitt Romney actually wants to double the number of prisoners held there.
24. Both candidates support the practice of "extraordinary rendition".
25. They both support the job-killing "free trade" agenda of the global elite.
26. They both accuse each other of shipping jobs out of the country and both of them are right.
27. Both candidates are extremely soft on illegal immigration.
28. Neither candidate has any military experience. This is the first time that this has happened in a U.S. election since 1944.
29. Both candidates earned a degree from Harvard University.
30. They both believe in the theory of man-made global warming.
31. Mitt Romney has said that he will support a "cap and trade" carbon tax scheme (like the one Barack Obama wants) as long as the entire globe goes along with it.
32. Both candidates have a very long record of supporting strict gun control measures.
33. Both candidates have been pro-abortion most of their careers. Mitt Romney's "conversion" to the pro-life cause has been questioned by many. In fact, Mitt Romney has made millions on Bain Capital's investment in a company called "Stericycle" that incinerates aborted babies collected from family planning clinics.
34. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both believe that the Boy Scout ban on openly gay troop leaders is wrong.
35. They both believe that a "two state solution" will bring lasting peace between the Palestinians and Israel.
36. Both candidates have a history of nominating extremely liberal judges.
37. Like Barack Obama, Mitt Romney also plans to add "signing statements" to bills when he signs them into law.
38. They both have a horrible record when it comes to job creation.
39. Both candidates believe that the president has the power to take the country to war without getting the approval of the U.S. Congress.
40. Both candidates plan to continue running up more government debt even though the U.S. government is already 16 trillion dollars in debt.
Pennsylvania is off the radar as a “battleground” state.
My vote for Sarah won’t cause a de facto election of Ø.
Who has called all Americans ‘suspect’, Romney or Obama?
Who has been purchasing in mass quantities, coffins, MRE’s, pistol and shotgun ammunition, for misinformational purposes, Romney or Obama?
Who has been using Executive Orders, to walk over Constitutional constraints, Rommney or Obama?
Who has been coddling and bowing to our enemies abroad, Romney or Obama?
Who has appointed unConstitutional executive officers, Romney or Obama?
Who has been telling us, our money is not ours, but belongs to the State, Romney or Obama?
Who was it that decided that those that made over $250,000.00, made too much, Romney or Obama?
Who was it that said he wishes to nationalize all businesses in the U.S., Romney or Obama?
Who was it that wrote in their book about “American Colonialism”, Romney or Obama?
Who can actually claim friendship, to a bomb-making, NYPD killing, avowed Communist criminal, Romney or Obama?
I did not vote for a Communist bastard last time, and I sure as shootin’ ain’t-a gonna do that, this time, neither!
Not voting for Romney
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Kid keep Ryan out of this
this has nothing to do with him...
I know Willard wants to hide behind a real man...
but this is about Wimpy Willard all on his cowardly lonesome...
This is about not voting for the sickening Willard...
That’s probably what the Florida Democrats who voted for Ralph Nader instead of Al Gore said in 2000.
Nope. Obama will thoroughly enjoy Romney’s soft socialist policies, since they will creep into the mainstream much easier than Obama’s hamfisted foolish attempts at socialism.
Wow, you really have started becoming a disgrace.
Now you are are joining Romney in his attacks on Reagan?
Mitt Romney despised Reagan and has spent five years trying to create the myth that Reagan was pro-abortion, or “adamantly pro-choice” as he says.
We have had to fight the anti-Reagan romneybots for all these years over Reagan, and now, you sign up for full membership in the worst element of the Romney supporting, crowd, the ones that try to tear down Reagan and Christianity, in service to Mitt.
“Romney is not a foreign born marxist jackass. There, that trumps all 40.”
Both Romney and Obama are admitted Progressives. Progressivism is just another form of collectivism like Marxism, Liberalism, Socialism, Democracy, et al, all of which the Founding Fathers hated.
Obama continued: “I am somebody who is no doubt progressive. I believe in a tax code that we need to make more fair. I believe in universal health care. I believe in making college affordable. I believe in paying our teachers more money. I believe in early childhood education. I believe in a whole lot of things that make me progressive.”
http://www.progressive.org/mag/nichols0109.html
“I think the old standby definitions of who votes for which party have been blown away in this campaign,” Romney said in a 2002 interview. “I think people recognize that I’m not a partisan Republican. That I’m someone who is moderate and that my views are progressive and that I’m going to go to work for our senior citizens, for people who have been left behind by urban schools that are not doing the right job. And so they’re going to vote for me regardless of the party label.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMcjJEXt9To
It is foolish to vote for someone else. It helps Obama.
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Lets see
not voting for Willard helps Obama
so not voting for Obama must help Willard...
There ya go
all better...
Pimping for 0bama in an attempt to hasten the Rapture....Brilliant.
CTHULHU ???
WTF???
I don’t speak Hawaiian...and neither does Ø, for that matter.
Then came the Supreme Judicial Court’s ruling in November 2003 that same-sex couples had a constitutional right to marry. In its 4-3 decision, the court gave the Legislature 180 days “to take such action as it may deem appropriate.” Opponents of same-sex marriage — citing a quirk in the state’s colonial-era Constitution that gave the governor authority over matters related to marriage — argued that the court’s decision was not binding and urged Romney to ignore it.
But Romney did not want to trigger a constitutional crisis — seeking, his adviser Flaherty said, to be “respectful of the law and respectful of people at the same time.” Initially, he struck a balanced tone with his two-track move to find a legislative solution that would satisfy the court while corralling support for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. “We certainly have to follow the law, and the Supreme Court has laid down what we must do,” he said on NBC’s”Today” show the day after the ruling. “But in my view, the right action is to follow two courses at the same time.”
But the governor quickly dropped all talk about complying with the ruling. Behind the scenes, Romney advisers worked to come up with ways to head it off, according to those involved. They consulted conservative constitutional experts such as historian Matthew Spalding, who works closely with former Reagan Atty. Gen. Edwin Meese III at the Heritage Foundation.
It was soon clear that Romney could not push a gay marriage ban through the state’s liberal-leaning Legislature. So he helped persuade Republicans to support a compromise amendment that barred same-sex marriage but legalized civil unions.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2878167/posts
“It was the Mass Supreme Court that issued the order.
Romney chose not to disobey it.”
Close but not quite. The linked thread has a timeline of what happened. The Mass Supremes told the legislature to “do something”, without having the power to do so. No law was or has been changed in MA wrt marriage except for the old requirement for a clean STD check from a doctor, no longer needed.
Romney, or someone working for him, told the town and city clerks to start issuing gay marriage licenses or lose their jobs, using forms that someone in Romney’s administration had already designed and printed up.
All irrelevant now, we have a choice- evil, or lesser evil, just like always.
We get it. Romney sucks.
Thing is...
He’s our only viable option.
And the Obama is much worse.
Not voting for Romney is not neutralizing a vote for the Obama. Election is a war of attrition. “The enemy of my enemy is my friend”; Romney may suck, but whatever you don’t like about him you’ll hate the Obama for even more.
This thread like many others recently is more than disgusting. I and most of my family will be voting a straight Republican ticket. The Commie in Chief has got to go. And with the right people in the House & Senate we can keep Romney focused on the main issues. Obama has to be defeated and soundly. Get on board or be willing to suffer with the destruction of this Nation. The time for infighting and bickering is over.
BFD. ANYONE who wants Obama to win a second term, even if it’s to “stick to the GOP establishment” has a f-ng screw loose. Go take a pill and a nap and come back in late November.
Nice list. I’m voting for Romney/Ryan.
so not voting for Obama must help Willard...
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Bingo.
Sometimes you just take what you get, and fight next time.
:D
It's not over 'til the Convention Coronation.
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