[IbJensen]

FYI and comment.

2012 is the most important election year in this nation's history. Choose freedom or soap in your hole; er, hope in your soul.

[WayneS]

downward

[LucyT]

[ScottinVA]

I have no doubt the majority of FReepers will do the right thing and do their damnedest to get Obama out of office, but we’re well to the political right of the American electorate at large.

And I don’t buy the BS about America being a “center-right” country, either. A center-right country doesn’t elect the likes of Barack Obama.

[ScottinVA]

Democrats – your trust is misplaced…verify his actions and claims. Check out what President Obama is saying about capitalism, jobs, about inequality, about the healthcare act and its future and how it will be paid for

Democrats HAVE verified his actions and claims and they're THRILLED with what he's doing, with one minor frustration... that he's not moving fast enough to bring America to its knees.

[Darteaus94025]

to the right.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

[gusty]

You have nailed the million dollar question. I believe that the question you pose is what is framing the current GOP primary. It is not so much establishment vs tea party, but where you come down on answering your question. Even each individual, like myself, is wrestling with this question. My heart says Santorum, but my head is not so sure and considers Romney. If the country is really conservative then by all means I'm all in with Santorum, but if I'm wrong, and I suspect I am, then I consider who can win with the electorate we have, not the one we wish we had. Some might consider that just holding back the tide temporarily, no difference between the GOP establishment and the Dems. But as a small business owner, I do not have the luxury of taking big chances to go for the most ideological pure(to my personal beliefs) candidate over the most electable. Where are we as a country in 2012, I only wish I knew.

[Jack Hammer]

Considering the number of people nation-wide receiving a taxpayer-funded bribe - excuse me, make that “receiving a taxpayer-funded check” - from Obama in exchange for their votes, it’s more than likely the direction will be toward more of the same, only worse.