And Vice President 
Posted on 01/21/2008 5:48:14 AM PST by cotton1706
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George;
Thank you for your service,
You are expecting too much from politicians.
As a military man, honor and integrity are key. Politicians, not so much.
The primary is like the time when the staff is making the Op Order. This is the time to disagree, let your objections be known. After the decision is made...That order becomes yours. You cannot take your ball and go home becaue that would be disobeying an order.
Think about it.
You realize of course you just committed blasphemy with those words. Don your fire suit. lol
The Massachusetts health care proposal is NOT socialized medicine, like MediCaid or MediCare.
Under Romney's proposal, the state negotiates with PRIVATE health insurance companies to offer DISCOUNTED low low cost PRIVATE health insurance to individuals or companies.
If an individual or company CAN'T afford the payments, which range from $90-$290 a month, depending on the PRIVATE plan, then the state will subsidize the cost -- or pay the entire cost for the individual or small business.
The plan's main purpose is to prevent regular middle-class and/or wealthy individuals from pushing off their high-cost hospital bills onto the backs of taxpayers (MediCaid or MediCare) when ever they have an emergency catastrophic health issue.
Hillary's health care plan in 1993 WAS socialized medicine, in that the government made all decisions on care, hospital choice, medicines allowed, diseases covered, schools one could attend, etc.
Under Romney's plan, ALL DECISIONS are still in the hands of individuals through PRIVATE health plans.
What is so hard to understand about this??
Your words are getting old and tired, and increasingly irrelevant. Better figure out a strategy fast! Check my tagline for an idea.
that WOULD work....
Romney supports the WOT, and is actually stronger than McCain in a lot of ways (i.e. GITMO and Waterboarding). Romney would also defer to generals on the ground, while McCain might interfere too much (though on Iraq, he was right).
Don’t forget Michael Steele!
concur. It’s getting stale. But let’s not confuse malice when stupidity will suffice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzZC92IXHyw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5Xc-X8LckQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PURfrORhWPc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6QNQSTWfiM&feature=related
Who said it was hard to understand? FORCING businesses to buy health care, whether private or not, is big government intrusion aka socialistic pracice.
Romney is the only Republican candidate who CAN beat the Dems, whether sHrillary or Bomb-o Brack-a.
Romney has broad appeal from conservative Republicans, from mushy-middle voters, from women, from evangelicals, from fiscal conservatives, and even from conservative Democrats.
Just because Romney made a few PC pandering statements to the media 15 years ago during the heat of a campaign does NOT make him a liberal.
His record as Massachusetts Governor is fairly conservative, according to all ProLife organizations, according to the NRA, and according to dozens of family values coalitions.
Check em out if you don't believe me.
Of course there are a few 'watchdog' groups here and there who don't care for Romney. That is normal.
But the bulk found him to be quite acceptable.
“Just like I can empathize with mandated auto insurance laws.”
I see your point: but mandated auto insurance laws fall on the individual.
Perhaps I should hold my opinion until I learn more about Romney’s health care law, but in principle I am opposed to forcing small business to cover their employees with health insurance.
It’s hard enough to start a successful small business in this country: why make it harder?
If there is a waiver, that is a different story.
Here are some links to Rep. Blackburn’s background:
http://blackburn.house.gov/Biography/
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400032
I personally think she’d be a much better choice for VP than Thompson for a variety of reasons.
Tancredo has endorsed Romney. I trust his judgment on the issue. As someone who just returned from five days in South Carolina driving around the state following the McCain campaign and educating the public about McCain's stance on amnesty, you couldn't be more wrong about McCain getting the message.
McCain has been in the Congress since 1983. What has he done to secure the border, especially after 9/11? Why did he finally get the "message" about immigration reform just six months ago? Why didn't he champion the House enforcement bill [H. 4437] that passed in 2006? My immigration reform group has been in contact with the Romney campaign. He will not sign on to any form of amnesty. McCain will. McCain now talks about securing the border first, but he has not recanted his position of making the 12 to 20 million illegal aliens already here legal, except for the 2 million criminal illegal aliens, who he will round up "immediately."
A vote for Romney is a vote for Hillary or Obama passing an immigration bill with a dem congress. Not only that but for every other major issue.
That simply isn't true. Of the remaining viable candidates--McCain, Giuliani, Huckabee, and Romney--the only real conservative left is Romney. As a former Thompson supporter, Romney is the only real choice left for those of us who consider ourselves conservatives.
Check out his (Mitt’s) youtube site to see his speeches and responses to questions re: WOT. He doesn’t waver and he’s better than McCain in terms of taking the fight to the enemy and not bowing to the liberals.
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=GovMittRomney
These are WOT specific
Now that's funny! She sounds like Tah-rea-zah without the money!
George Bush was strongly pro-abortion until Reagan chose him as his VP, and then he made a complete U-turn. I’m not going to vote for Huckabee just because he’s the only candidate who is clearly anti-abortion. His liberal positions on all the other issues outweigh that to me.
We don’t have the luxury of voting for a candidate like Reagan who is certifiably conservative. We’ve got to read between the lines. A candidate who was slightly more liberal than I like while governor of a liberal state has more credibility to me than a candidate who is well to the left of center in a conservative state. At least Romney had an excuse for leaning to the left. McCain and Huckabee do not since their constituents are very conservative.
And Vice President
Or the brains. Judith is as dumb as an onion.
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