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OK,

Here are some upsides for Romney (mostly they are sound management/fiscal conservatism - he’s kind of liberal/libertarian on social issues).

-Over 800 vetoes on the Democratic legislature in Mass.. he vetoed in-state tuition benefits for illegal immigrants and opposed driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants. He vetoed an attempted moratorium on any new charter schools.

-Supports the Hyde Amendment, which broadly bars the use of federal funds for abortions.

-Taking the State budget from deficit to surplus.

-Turning around the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City, in the aftermath of 9/11.

-80% success rate at turning around failing businesses
while with Bain Capital.

Looking ahead, what he is proposing for the nation, is different from what he ran on in Massachusetts (he pretty well honored the socially liberal/fiscally conservative platform that he ran on then/there).

Romney’s website says that he:

-Will appoint an Attorney General who will defend the Defense of Marriage Act.

-Believes that life begins at conception and wishes that the laws of our nation reflected that view. But while the nation remains so divided, he believes that the right next step is for the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade.

-On his first day in office, Mitt Romney will issue an executive order that paves the way for the federal government to issue Obamacare waivers to all fifty states. He will then work with Congress to repeal the full legislation as quickly as possible. (He told us this at CPAC as well.)

-Mitt Romney will treat regulatory costs like other costs: he will establish firm limits for them - Impose a regulatory cap of zero dollars on all federal agencies, and require congressional approval of all new “major” regulations.

Notice how starkly different Romney’s platform is from Obama’s so far. Notice how starkly different they have been in their fiscal management results (polar opposites). Objectively, you must admit that there is a significant difference between driving the nation into bankruptcy at a record rate (Obama) and turning around a State budget deficit into a surplus (Romney). Paul Ryan and the Wall Street Journal have supported Romney’s economic plan.

Although Romney has no foreign policy record to assess objectively, his platform/positions are pretty well strong on defense and promoting liberty around the world. We know what a disaster Obama has been and will be.

My take is that Romney makes the electorate an offer, and honors it if elected. He was upfront in Massachusetts that he would allow liberal positions on homosexuality and abortion (which the electorate wanted), and would deliver fiscal discipline (which was clearly needed). I think that Romney is now offering the wider nation a relatively more conservative contract, but still one that is focused primarily on fiscal management. Obama, on the other hand, is lying his ass off while undermining us as fast as he can on all fronts. Always has, always will.

Obama must be defeated.

Horse hockey to all that. The man is a statist just like Obama.

Proof: His on-going love affair with RomneyCare which is the same as ObamaCare and is pure usurping statism.

He also shares Obama’s love for bailouts, TARP, stimulus spending, and increasing the debt limit and says it’s all good and that more will be needed.

The man is a purebred statist.

Statism: The theory or practice of concentrating economic and political power in the state, resulting in a weak position for the individual or community with respect to the government.

Vote straight conservative!!

Statism is the enemy of liberty and must be defeated!!

WELL SAID!

Very impressive! Thank you!

It is indeed refreshing to hear reasoned debate.

Each of your points were well stated and without the cheap, verbal abuse/humor? that yours truly is prone to needlessly add. ( No apology here from me, as my feeble attempts at humor keeps me from using, shall we say, the more visually expressive “French”).

There are many points on which Romney needs to make more clear, and one of them is his plans if he is going to just replace Obama”care” or ABOLISH it FOREVER.

“- - - - one that is focused primarily on fiscal management - - - - “ is also one of my concerns. If Romney is just to plant posies on the lip of the Financial Cliff, then the Rule of 72 says that with even modest US T Bond interest inflation, the USA will be without T Bond Buyers during Romney’s watch.

Romney”care” or Obama”care,” it is just two very similar ways to eventually destroy America.