[Marine_Uncle]

RE: "Yep, climate control, amnesty, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and health insurance mandates. This is the Romney alternative??"
It may come down to that. Don't know if you noticed but the Russians are getting a bit uppity up at this point. The new Start Treaty may break down. President Medvedev appears on the record now that he might consider targeting some of our European defense sites. We get no where with the North Korean issue. Iran's Mullahs and ruling elite may hold out for years as they approach a point where they just may be able to construct and make successful tests of atomic bombs. Iran will eventually improve upon their short range and mid range ballistic missiles to put the whole European and mid east in their sights.
The Chinese will continue their path on obtaining close parity with the US on the defense plane.
Who best to see to it that the US stops slipping in how the world views us.
Lots of things to have to consider here.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”It may come down to that......Who best to see to it that the US stops slipping in how the world views us.
Lots of things to have to consider here.”

The seeds of this decline were planted in the last administration by those that talked about how important it was that we be the world power. Those seeds were $$$(debt) related and also electing Obama. Romney is now the descendant of that school.

You dont stay a major world power by bankrupting your country, letting the better jobs flee over-seas (without bringing back better sustainable ones) and letting the country be invaded by the poor from a third world nation.