Posted on 04/16/2012 10:47:55 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
Here are their positions on some major issues important to conservatives based on their actual records in government or past boasts.
Issue | Obama | Romney | Newt |
Advocated that abortion s/b safe & legal in America | y | y | n |
Defended Roe v Wade as settled law | y | y | n |
Advocated for abortion for underage girls without parental approval with judge's ok | y | y | n |
Supported planned parenthood | y | y | n |
Introduced $50 taxpayer funded abortion | y | y | n |
Supports homosexual agenda | y | y | n |
Better for homosexuals than Ted Kennedy | y | y | n |
Ok with homosexuals in Scouts | y | y | n |
Ok with homosexuals in military | y | y | n |
Supported and still supports global warming hoax | y | y | n |
Supports gun control (so-called "assault weapons" ban) | y | y | n |
Supports amnesty for illegal aliens (by any other name it's still amnesty) | y | y | n |
Is undeniable father of RomneyCare | n | y | n |
Is undeniable grandfather of ObamaCare | n | y | n |
Still boasts that RomneyCare is great! | y | y | n |
Still boasts that RomneyCare is a "conservative solution" | n | y | n |
Still believes RomneyCare is constitutional | y | y | n |
Still believes individual mandate ok at state level | y | y | n |
Believes state forcing individuals to buy health insurance is a conservative idea | n | y | n |
Believes compulsory health insurance with mandates and penalties s/b imposed on all states at state level | n | y | n |
Believes compulsory health insurance at state level is constitutional (states rights) | ? | y | n |
Believes the state has constitutional power to force you into a private contract against your will for no other reason than you live there | y | y | n |
Supports government "stimulus" spending claims more is necessary | y | y | n |
Believes personal income tax should be cut drastically (15% flat tax) | n | n | y |
Believes corp income tax should be cut drastically (12.5% corp rate) | n | n | y |
Believes capital expenditures should be 100% expensed in first year | n | n | y |
Believes capital gains tax should be eliminated | n | n | y |
Believes estate tax (death tax) should be eliminated | n | n | y |
Believes federal government must be drastically cut per constitutional limits | n | n | y |
Believes unconstitutional federal functions like education should be returned to the states and people per tenth amendment | n | n | y |
Believes social security/medicare s/b phased out/privatized/returned to states and people | n | n | y |
Believes everyone at EPA should be fired and start over as an agency to look for solutions/not hinder industry | n | n | y |
Believes the constitution restricts the government from infringing on inalienable rights | n | n | y |
Appoints/supports/cowers to liberal activist judges | y | y | n |
Will challenge activist judiciary | n | n | y |
Believes in founding principles and has best conservative record to back it up | n | n | y |
Well, when you put it THAT way......
The post you replied to is but one of many "I'm voting Obama /I hope Obama wins! / etc..." posts I'm seeing here lately. There was a time, it seems, when saying you'd vote for Obama got you zotted immediately.
My how times have changed.
Thank you for the chart image.
Posted it on Newt Facebook page
http://www.facebook.com/newtgingrich
“Nobody ever said Mitsy was conservative, just more conservative than Obama”
“Prove it. Per his record, he’s every bit as liberal as Obama is”
The fact that Dick Cheney and Paul Ryan have endorsed Mitt. That alone has convinced me to hold my nose and vote for him rather than keep Obama in office like you guys seem keen on doing.
I hear you, but don’t think we will even get a chance to vote for Newt — who was my early favorite along with Santorum as VP.
The 2012 election is between a Marxist and a Moderate.
So rather than check his record you'll just be a sheep. Got it!
In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams
I remain where I’ve been all along, in the ABOOR crowd. That’s “Anyone But Obama Or Romney”.
I just hope Newt’s still standing when it’s my turn to vote.
Yes, Newt’s lifetime ACU rating was 90. Perhaps you misunderstood - I believe Newt is a conservative and I did not believe (and do not) believe that Romney is a conservative. I wasn’t saying that Romney’s record was conservative (Conservapedia did - http://www.conservapedia.com/Mitt_Romney), I was saying that the idea that he was a conservative governor was a joke. I believe Romney was moderate at best.
I read elsewhere that Romney’s ACU rating as governor was 55. I have no idea if that’s true. A few weeks ago, however, the Chairman of the ACU said that “Although former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has never served in Congress, we have similarly reviewed his gubernatorial record and campaign positions both of which earn him bona fides as a true conservative.”
Upcoming Events
Monday, April 16th
Newt 2012 Town Hall Meeting
Monday, April 16 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. CT
Pappasitos
723 S Central Expressway
Dallas, TX
Callista Gingrich to visit Salve Regina University
Monday, April 16 7:00 p.m.- 8:30pm ET
100 Ochre Point Avenue
Antone Room, # 107
Newport, RI
Tuesday April 17th
Callista Gingrich to visit the Middletown YMCA
Tuesday, April 17 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. ET
YMCA
792 Valley Road
Middletown, RI
Note: Callista will read her book Sweet Land of Liberty
Callista Gingrich to visit the East Providence Library
Tuesday, April 17 - 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
East Providence Public Library
41 Grove Avenue East
Providence, RI
Note: Callista will read her book Sweet Land of Liberty
Callista Gingrich to speak to Greenwich Republican Town Committee
Tuesday, April 17 6:30pm-8:30pm ET
Caprice
455 North Main Street
East Greenwich, RI
Newt Gingrich speaks to the Lancaster County GOP
Tuesday, April 17 - 8:30 p.m. ET
Lancaster County Convention Center
25 S. Queen Street
Lancaster, PA
Wednesday April 18th
Callista Gingrich to visit the Smithfield YMCA
Wednesday, April 18 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. ET
15 Deerfield Drive
Greenfield, RI
Note: Callista will read her book Sweet Land of Liberty
Thursday, April 19th
Newt Gingrich to speak to the New York State Committee Annual Dinner
Thursday, April 19 7:30 p.m. ET
Sheraton Hotel and Towers
Metropolitan Ballroom
811 Seventh Avenue
New York, NY
I’m posting that great image on FaceBook! Bttt!
Romney has big plans for you and me. For starters, even with all the damage he has done to our nation and our freedom with RomneyCare (ObamaCare) he still loves the little piece of statist/fascism bearing his name and is now setting up a national health care task force to impose it on all 50 states. He still insists that it is a “conservative free-market” program and he refuses to recognize the truth. Well, that’s probably because “truth” is a foreign concept to him, but that’s another story. If RomneyCare is free-market then why does it require government force, mandates and penalties for non-compliance to impose it on us? There is nothing conservative or free-market about RomneyCare or its author.
Romney must think the “con” in conservative stands for conman. He certainly is a flim-flam man. There’s nothing conservative about Romney despite the rhetoric spewing from his big lying mouth. As they say in Texas, he’s all hat and no cattle.
Out toking.
I hope I’m able to get it posted on mine. If not, I’ll give you my password.
What the he!!??
The PARTY gives us McCain and tells us to take a pill and support him in the name of conservatism....Then with the greatest chance in history to knock 'em dead with a true conservative to clobber 0bama and retake the Whitehouse they give us Romney and tell us to take a pill and support him.
The party IS the problem and they are going to lose the conservative support before November because of their "our way or the highway" attitude and that will be the death of the GOP once and for all.
Romney is nothing but a lying liberal political hack who is in it for himself and he is attempting to suck every penny he can out of "true" conservatives only to destroy conservatism and most are falling for it like the little suckers they are.
Romney is a guarantee of 4 more years of 0bama and the "suckers" will blame true conservatives for sticking to heir convictions and voting conservative!
WONDERFUL TO HAVE YOU BACK IN ACTION!
Praise God!
Newt Gingrich speaks to the Lancaster County GOP
Tuesday, April 17 - 8:30 p.m. ET
Lancaster County Convention Center
25 S. Queen Street
Lancaster, PA
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