You don't know me from Adam. You are judging, pure and simple.
BTW, I have an undergraduate degree in Economics from the Univ of Ark. and was working on my masters when I started working at a major hotel.
I then continued in the luxury hotel business for 30 years managing huge properties. Don't dare lecture me on free markets and freedom.
You are inferring only because of my lackluster support for so-called conservatives. You can argue until the cows come home at how conservative W was. You lie that he didn't say “I had to destroy the free market to save it” comment. You may call that pragmatic, I call it arrogant. Just like his daddy.
W could give great speeches and do the opposite. I saw him at the Grand Old Opry give a great speech until he started on that illegal immigration crap. The crowd booed him.
And now here you are, ala Rick Perry, lecturing me on the “Christian” thing to do and how “we can't do this and can't do that”. You sound like a RINO.
We didn't import them, won't have to deport them. Just turn off the magnet and most will leave on their own. It's not my fault Mexico is a basket case. Under your RIDICULOUS view, we should start ferrying Chinese across the Pacific to “get a better life”. Wouldn't that be the Christian thing to do?
Infusing a dying industry (yes, the government helped kill it) with cash IS NOT a free market principle. Structured bankruptcy is. I'd have flunked you if you were in my economics class for that view.
So why don't you get off the fence and stop this middle of the road argument trying to actually say Bush 43, Bush 41 and Romney are conservatives. They use conservatives as a means to power and then run back to the left of center to “work across the isle” and shove large government down our throats. Bush called it “compassionate conservatism” while I saw it as big government light.
People like Bushes, Romney, even Newt and Santorum, see power under any label as a way to implement their “enlightened” visions over the rest of us. Romney has NO record and says NOTHING that shows he'll govern our way out of this mess. At best, he says he'll just slow it down.
As to freedom, you are arrogant to presume I don't understand it because I don't blindly, like you, follow GOP thinking to the letter. I'm a conservative, not a Republican.
Don't forget this: it was the GOP, along with W, that banned the 100 watt incandescent lightbulb. I now have NO FREEDOM to purchase one. But I'm sure you have a pragmatic explanation. Now who is on a high horse?
P.S. America DOES NOT represent Christianity. It represents freedom of religion. If my knee jerked like yours I'd call you a religious bigot but instead I'm sure you just misspoke.
So, you are a mid level management guy...someone that would have worked for someone like me...who owned the properties. Let’s get something straight between us...I want to win...that means that we do not have the luxury of denying a good man like Romney from the Presidency just because he does not agree with every issue you desire. I can guess that in reality most issues you and he will be in agreement. The real question is are you going to simply blather your way through this election and do nothing positive to defeat the democrats or, are you going to play into their hands and help defeat freedom? Those really are what we are talking about when all is said and done.
I cannot help but wonder what someone like you thinks of all the famous conservatives who are endorsing Romney and have for a while? Are they all wrong in their assessments also? Is it really the world against the few “true conservatives” here? I don’t think so, I think there is some real blindness going on here and it is from you guys who will cut off your own nose to spite your own face...