from "An Ol' Broad's Ramblings"
Posted on 04/30/2012 10:08:43 AM PDT by sthguard
As we move into the general election campaign, with Mitt Romney facing Barack Obama in the presidential race, it’s important not to lose perspective on the very real differences between the two. That starts with the recognition that Obama has made some astonishingly ill-conceived decisions as president, and that Romney would never have done these things.
During a party’s nominating process for president – of which I was a part on the Republican side in this cycle – candidates do everything they can to differentiate themselves from each other. As the candidates focus on these differences and the media plays up the resulting conflicts, you could almost get the impression that some of us would have preferred Obama to some of our fellow Republicans.
Please!
Not only do I prefer Romney over Obama, it’s not even close. This is not to say that every proposed policy of Romney’s is exactly what I would propose. But in stepping back and looking at the big picture, you have to recognize that the next president’s task will be to fix enormous problems. You would want the new president, above all else, to be someone who would never have been so foolish as to make the decisions that a) created the problems; or b) made them worse.
Here are nine examples:
Mitt Romney would never have thrown $862 billion down a rat hole, claiming it to be “economic stimulus” that would keep unemployment from rising above 8 percent. Then, three years later when unemployment was still struggling to get back down below 8 percent, he would never be so brazen as to claim such a move had actually been successful.
Mitt Romney would never have signed ObamaCare into law. I know some think otherwise because the plan he implemented as governor of Massachusetts had some similar elements. But ObamaCare was sold to the public with blatantly dishonest numbers and hidden taxes, and rammed through Congress via a series of political giveaways that would embarrass the most shameless of con artists. Whatever your disagreements with the structure of MassCare, Romney would never have done any of that. And if an ObamaCare repeal reaches Romney’s desk, he will sign it.
Mitt Romney would never have exploded the deficit to more than $1 trillion a year, then allowed his Treasury Secretary tell the chairman of the House Budget Committee, regarding plans to fix the problem, “We don’t have a definitive solution, but we know we don’t like yours.”
Mitt Romney would not be running around claiming that businesses need to pay more in taxes. He would not try to tell CEOs what to do with their cash reserves (although he could do so much more competently than Obama, since unlike the president he actually knows a lot about business), because he knows that is not the president’s job. He understands that businesses are the ones who create jobs, and the last thing we need when the economy is struggling to create jobs is to increase the tax burden on businesses.
Mitt Romney would not attack people for being successful. He would not encourage the middle class to resent successful people, but instead would encourage them to learn from those who have been successful, and to seek opportunities from them.
Mitt Romney would never have promised the Russians he would give them what they want on missile defense as soon as he didn’t have to worry about those pesky voters anymore.
Mitt Romney would never have stonewalled efforts to make crucial energy supplies available to Americans, as Obama has done on everything from the Keystone XL pipeline to the opening of domestic oil supplies in offshore locations and in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Mitt Romney would never have let Congress get away with not passing a budget at all for three years, while running up the nation’s credit card at unprecedented levels through a series of continuing resolutions that escape the light of public scrutiny.
Mitt Romney would never have blamed someone else for the continued impact of problems he was elected to fix – as Obama does endlessly.
This list could go on, but these nine are the some of the biggest things – and the big things matter most of all. Everyone involved with a primary campaign hopes their party will nominate the absolute perfect candidate, and when your guy doesn’t make it (or for some of us like me, when you don’t make it), you can fall into thinking that all is lost. There are actually people running around saying there is no difference between Romney and Obama.
People. Get a grip. The differences are huge. And it starts with understanding how many truly horrendous decisions Barack Obama has made since he took office, and recognizing that Mitt Romney is a man with solid experience and good judgment – and that he would never have made any of them.
That alone offers a compelling argument for sending President Obama an invitation – to the inauguration of Mitt Romney on January 20, 2013. I trust he will attend.
“Mike,” I hope you enjoy the short-lived pleasures of being part of a party with no principles left worth talking about.
Get back to me when you’re tired of being coy about your support for Mitt Romney.
“Mike,” I hope you enjoy the short-lived pleasures of being part of a party with no principles left worth talking about.
Get back to me when you’re tired of being coy about your support for Mitt Romney.
In fairness, Cain should also mention nine of Obama’s leftist efforts that have been (or would be) stopped by the GOP in Congress, but which they’d have let Romney get away with out of party loyalty.
Really “Mike,” let’s quit beating around the bush.
Notwithstanding the Romney Republican lie that there are only two candidates for the American people to choose from this election, there are likely to be at least five choices.
One, the socialist pro-choice democrat now occupying the White House.
Two, the socialist pro-choice democrat with a Republican mask.
Three, the Ron Paulish choice of the paleocon, isolationist Constitution Party.
Four, a Libertarian pro-abortion anarchist.
Five, the America’s Party nominee, which is me. Pro-life, pro-natural family, pro-natural marriage, pro-RKBA, pro-private property rights, pro-natural law, pro-natural rights, pro-Declaration of Independence, pro-Constitution, pro-tax reform, pro-balanced budget, pro-spending reform, pro-national sovereignty, pro-secure borders, pro-Israel, pro-military, pro-Peace through Strength.
Which candidate are you going to pick, and why?
Try giving a straight answer for once.
As for the rest of it, LOL. I support his candidacy just like I support Obama's or yours (LOL), which is to say, I don't. At all. Ever.
Wow. We're making progress. Keep going like this and we might actually find out where you stand on something.
I'll breathlessly await your answer to my previous post.
I’m still waiting for you to prove I’ve ever supported Romney or any of the establishment GOP. If you’re going to accuse someone of something, actually have something to back it up with, you know, like a real person would do and NOT a politician.
Your answer will get mine Hoefling.
Okay. It is likely that I overreacted to your posts, and unjustly lumped you together with the Romney Republicans that are trolling on the Massachusetts socialist’s behalf all over FR right now.
My apologies if you are not one of them.
Your turn.
I just reread your posts on this thread, and indeed they are not overtly supportive of Romney. They’re primarily personal attacks on yours truly. But, whatever. I’ll await your clear answer as to who you are going to support among those who are likely to be available to vote for.
If each of you three succeed at electing Robamney and that is what you say you are going to vote to do, those of us who followed a circuitous path through the primaries not terribly different from Altura's but now absolutely REFUSE to cast a vote for Robamney because he is a leftist poseur, a baby-killer, a Church persecutor (making Massachusetts Catholics PAY for abortions after the liar claims he became "pro-life"), supporter of rump-ranging posing as "marriage, gun grabber, exclusively leftist judge nominating, envirowhacko, second generation leftist trash posing as GOP, etc., or for Obozo for analogous reasons will remind you of your errors and hold you ideologically responsible as time goes on.
Here's a challenge for you:
Based strictly upon what Robamney has actually DONE in his ultra dishonest and miserable life, and not merely upon his lies, specify any credible reason to believe that the sorry SOB will:
1. Repeal Obozocare and replace it with a free market solution;
2. Man the barricades and put a stop to various sexual perversions posing as "marriage" and to subsidizing those perversions through the tax code (i.e. making normal folks financially subsidize rump=ranging and other such evils;
3. Protect the Second Amendment RTKBA as defined by the Founders and by recent SCOTUS decisions dealing with the tyranny of DC and of Chicago;
4. Name to judicial vacancies actual conservatives and ONLY actual conservatives whether Patrick Leahy and John (did you know he served in Viet Nam; and do you know on which side?) Kerry like those nominations or not;
5. Absolutely refrain from unconstitutionally raping taxpayers to bail out his rich buddies with abominations like TARP, Stimulus, etc., and other similar aquandering so comforting to the Trust Fund Class;
6. Manage to avoid jumping on the bandwagon of fraudulent "global warming" or "global climate change" or whatever this anticapitalist mythology may be called in the future together with its elitist elements allowing Robamney's fellow elitists to buy their way to as much energy squandering as they please while turning the rest of us to a lifestyle reflecting the misery of medieval serfs;
7. Absolutely refrain from persecuting religious institutions Catholic and otherwise by making pro-life folks PAY FOR and SUBSIDIZE baby-killing via abortion, baby-killing via RU-486, baby-killing via the conventional birth control pill that prevents implantation but is NOT a contraceptive, baby-killing via the IUD which is also an abortifacient that does not prevent conception but does prevent implantation;
When those are answered, there will be more. These are specific questions which cannot be answered by weaseling around claiming that Robamney is a rank disgrace but he is somehow OUR disgrace and that somehow Obozo is marginally if quite invisibly worse.
Until the Reagan Card IS in the GOP deck, NO MORE SUPPORT FOR GOP CANDIDATES FOR POTUS!
Why bother searching your history? You are supporting Robamney now and that defines you forever.
But what you object to is NOT ad hominem but God’s honest truth. This is not mere disagreement. This is definitive difference.
Hear! Hear! Bravissimo!
>>>>>> “ If each of you three succeed at electing Robamney and that is what you say you are going to vote to do, those of us who followed a circuitous path through the primaries not terribly different from Altura’s but now absolutely REFUSE to cast a vote for Robamney because he is a leftist poseur, a baby-killer, a Church persecutor (making Massachusetts Catholics PAY for abortions after the liar claims he became “pro-life”), supporter of rump-ranging posing as “marriage, gun grabber, exclusively leftist judge nominating, envirowhacko, second generation leftist trash posing as GOP, etc., or for Obozo for analogous reasons will remind you of your errors and hold you ideologically responsible as time goes on.
Here’s a challenge for you:
Based strictly upon what Robamney has actually DONE in his ultra dishonest and miserable life, and not merely upon his lies, specify any credible reason to believe that the sorry SOB will:
1. Repeal Obozocare and replace it with a free market solution;
2. Man the barricades and put a stop to various sexual perversions posing as “marriage” and to subsidizing those perversions through the tax code (i.e. making normal folks financially subsidize rump=ranging and other such evils;
3. Protect the Second Amendment RTKBA as defined by the Founders and by recent SCOTUS decisions dealing with the tyranny of DC and of Chicago;
4. Name to judicial vacancies actual conservatives and ONLY actual conservatives whether Patrick Leahy and John (did you know he served in Viet Nam; and do you know on which side?) Kerry like those nominations or not;
5. Absolutely refrain from unconstitutionally raping taxpayers to bail out his rich buddies with abominations like TARP, Stimulus, etc., and other similar aquandering so comforting to the Trust Fund Class;
6. Manage to avoid jumping on the bandwagon of fraudulent “global warming” or “global climate change” or whatever this anticapitalist mythology may be called in the future together with its elitist elements allowing Robamney’s fellow elitists to buy their way to as much energy squandering as they please while turning the rest of us to a lifestyle reflecting the misery of medieval serfs;
7. Absolutely refrain from persecuting religious institutions Catholic and otherwise by making pro-life folks PAY FOR and SUBSIDIZE baby-killing via abortion, baby-killing via RU-486, baby-killing via the conventional birth control pill that prevents implantation but is NOT a contraceptive, baby-killing via the IUD which is also an abortifacient that does not prevent conception but does prevent implantation;
When those are answered, there will be more. These are specific questions which cannot be answered by weaseling around claiming that Robamney is a rank disgrace but he is somehow OUR disgrace and that somehow Obozo is marginally if quite invisibly worse. “ <<<<<<
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WHOO HOO!! BlackElk!
I am astounded who is serving the beast around here! ASTOUNDED!
I am purple from guaranteeing that the souless GOPE will vote, pass, push and pull for this SELF-PROFESSED PROGRESSIVE, Romney, in order to advance his SOCIALIST/PROGRESSIVE agenda, where as, the same GOPE will fight tooth and nail to stop, kill and bury OBAMA in a second term, when he is found offering up the SAME PROGRESSIVE AGENDA as Romney!
ROMNEY HAS A RECORD. OBAMA DUPLICATED IT!
We are being played AGAIN, using our FEAR as the tool to herd us onto the train!
You wait. This can get worse. There will have to be a coming apostasy next, as things will get “progressively” worse, in order to justify our own cowardice.
Fear is not only over-taking our reason and common sense and the FACTS, it can take over our conscience, which eventually gets seered and affects our faith.
There is no one who doesn’t know that Romney is not our saviour, and his record is evil. We can not vote for this man.
There are those who will ignore conscience. They will remain more interested in grooming their fear, relying on themselves over thier conscience, seeking instead their own Peace and Safety in exchange for their conscience and trusting God.
WHO WOULD VOTE FOR A PROGRESSIVE ON A REPUBLICAN TICKET??
Rationalize that.
Thank you BlackElk! Great post!
Settle down, you people.
I’m calling the home. Someone should be over to help you soon.
We really shouldn't let Romney's actual governing record concern us too much. He's severely conservative, you know.
Why do you look at me like that? It's what he said.
I can hardly wait to see the answers, should any of the recipients survive the shredding you just gave them.
from "An Ol' Broad's Ramblings"
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