Posted on 07/14/2012 4:44:03 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
You need to consider- JR is (I assume, unless his residency is elsewhere ) voting in the Republic of California. His vote does not count. I’m voting in TX, and mine really doesn’t count either (Romney is a lock). Only voters in about 12- 15 states really matter.
“Wrong. It is every American’s fight.”
Even Rush now admits that Bush the Younger is no conservative. Even so Pat was the last person he backed in a presidential primary. Rush abandoned him when Bush the Elder invited him for a sleepover.
That was right before South Carolina and establishment scum like the degenerate gambler, Bill Bennett said he would not support the ticket if Pat won over Bush.
Rush could have destroyed that bucket of puss and we could have had a conservative on the top of the ticket.
That’s when it dawned on me that all the talk about supporting the party’s nominee is just talk. The establishment will not support a conservative so I feel no obligation to support a RINO.
Here you are again pulling another drama queen routine.
"Everybody look at me, I'm taking my ball and leaving.. Whaaaaaaaa.. why is nobody caring?"
Bork would have been great, Antonin Scalia is great and Kenned votes with the conservatives over 75% of the time.
My main point remains intact. If you vote for a candidate hoping for a conservative court, expect to be disappointing.
SInce 1980, Republicans have controlled the Presidency for 20 of the 32 years, yet we have not ended up with a conservative court yet. Is this accidental? I don't think so.
This patriot is standing his ground...
And hopefully we won't re-elect him President of the United States.
Apparently you are not well informed on this subject. You might go to his website and look at his plan before you say he doesn't have one. He even lists how much $ each plan saves. This is just a portion of a page just on cutting back spending. Beats the heck out of Obama's plan of totally bankrupting America. Two choices and one of them will destroy America, ABO.
MITT'S PLAN After three years of President Obama, many now question whether we can ever return to fiscal sanity, let alone fiscal strength. A point of no return may well be approaching — a decade of huge deficits could drive our principal payments and interest rates beyond our reach while starving the economy of the capital it needs to grow.
Fortunately, the American economy’s tremendous capacity for growth gives the country one more chance to correct course. Mitt Romney has spent his career executing turnarounds in the private sector, the Olympics, and state government. He will bring to Washington the turnaround philosophy it so badly needs.
Set Honest Goals: Cap Spending At 20 Percent Of GDP
Any turnaround must begin with clear and realistic goals. Optimistic projections cannot wish a problem away, they can only make it worse. As president, Mitt’s goal will be to bring federal spending below 20 percent of GDP by the end of his first term:
Reduced from 24.3 percent last year; in line with the historical trend between 18 and 20 percent Close to the tax revenue generated by the economy when healthy
Requires spending cuts of approximately $500 billion per year in 2016 assuming robust economic recovery with 4% annual growth, and reversal of irresponsible Obama-era defense cuts
Take Immediate Action: Return Non-Security Discretionary Spending To Below 2008 Levels
Any turnaround must also stop the bleeding and reverse the most recent and dramatic damage:
Send Congress a bill on Day One that cuts non-security discretionary spending by 5 percent across the board Pass the House Republican Budget proposal, rolling back President Obama’s government expansion by capping non-security discretionary spending below 2008 levels Follow A Clear Roadmap: Build A Simpler, Smaller, Smarter Government
Most importantly, any turnaround must have a thoughtful, structured approach to achieving its goals. Mitt will attack the bloated budget from three angles:
The Federal Government Should Stop Doing Things The American People Can’t Afford, For Instance:
Repeal Obamacare — Savings: $95 Billion. President Obama’s costly takeover of the health care system imposes an enormous and unaffordable obligation on the federal government while intervening in a matter that should be left to the states. Mitt will begin his efforts to repeal this legislation on Day One.
Privatize Amtrak — Savings: $1.6 Billion. Despite requirement that Amtrak operate on a for-profit basis, it continues to receive about $1.6 billion in taxpayer funds each year. Forty-one of Amtrak’s 44 routes lost money in 2008 with losses ranging from $5 to $462 per passenger. Reduce Subsidies For The National Endowments For The Arts And Humanities, The Corporation For Public Broadcasting, And The Legal Services Corporation — Savings: $600 Million. NEA, NEH, and CPB provide grants to supplement other sources of funding. LSC funds services mostly duplicative of those already offered by states, localities, bar associations and private organizations.
Eliminate Title X Family Planning Funding — Savings: $300 Million. Title X subsidizes family planning programs that benefit abortion groups like Planned Parenthood. Reduce Foreign Aid — Savings: $100 Million. Stop borrowing money from countries that oppose America’s interests in order to give it back to them in the form of foreign aid. If pursued with focus and discipline, Mitt’s approach provides a roadmap to rescue the federal government from its present precipice. But that respite will be short-lived without a plan for the looming long-term threat posed by the unsustainable nature of existing entitlement obligations. Learn more about Mitt’s proposals for entitlement reform: [links to Medicare and Social Security]
Empower States To Innovate — Savings: >$100 billion
In fact, if the U.S. had never became cozy with the Soviet Union, WWII would have probably ended much more favorably to the U.S.
Gonna Need Popcorn for This One Bump...
It’s a fact. You are the one rationalizing that the next time it will be different No Warrens, Souters, and so on.
“The question is.... are you? Got your hotel reservation? Plane reservation? Is this real action you’re ready (and actually preparing) to undertake, or just internet talk?”
Well, gee, Agent Fornell, it almost sounds like you are hoping I will say something that constitutes an indictable offense.
That said, plane reservation? Hotel reservation? For an event like that? Maybe that other fellow was right: maybe conservatives are all hat and no cattle.
If, however, conservatives do peaceably assemble at the convention in significant numbers, you will see me there.
was hi-jacked by the moderates
I agree... have to keep chipping away.
“Apparently you are not well informed on this subject. You might go to his website and look at his plan before you say he doesn’t have one. He even lists how much $ each plan saves. This is just a portion of a page just on cutting back spending. Beats the heck out of Obama’s plan of totally bankrupting America. Two choices and one of them will destroy America, ABO.”
That's right.
Jim, one difficulty in trying to assert ourselves and our tight socially conservative group as the spokespeople for the Tea Party is the Tea Party is much bigger than us and ours. Casting the "true" Tea Partiers as social conservatives will make the tent much smaller than it really is and wouldn't be either as effective or accurate. The Tea Party is a large tent movement for fiscal responsibility and it is alive and well. Ask Governor Walker, he can attest to that. The Tea Party was formed as a grassroots protest movement uniting various and sundry folk who are all strongly against the ever-growing, intrusive, over-taxing, over-regulating, growth in government.
There are really only three ways to go.
1. Obama as president will be better for the country than Romney.
2. Romney as president will be better for the country than Obama.
3. Both will be exactly the same on every issue, absolutely no difference, so I don’t care.
IMHO if you believe #1 or #3 you are delusional, but everyone is entitled to their opinion.
With Obama’s latest, unconstitutional executive order to gut welfare reform, my family and I have changed our minds and have decided that we will be voting for Romney. We cannot bear the thought of another four years of Barack Obama’s lawless destruction of this country. And as much as I agree with Jim’s assessment of Romney and Obama being cut out of the same liberal cloth, I do not believe Mitt Romney has the vindictive disdain for America, Christianity, and the Constitution that Barack Obama has arrogantly had and continues to have, and therein lies the difference in our decision to vote for the lesser of two evils.
Are you really going? FABULOUS! And all your cash with you, for a small money tree for the socialist/Marxists you support, either O. or Romney.
See ya.
The point I was making was that you said he had no plan, he has a plan, it is thoroughly outlined on his website which I had never visited until tonight and no I haven’t read it all (it’s about as exciting as paint drying) but it does list line by line where he will make the cuts and how many dollars it will save.
Here’s what he says about Medicare and on that I strongly agree, medicare and all government programs are best handled as far down the chain as possible. The federal government needs to let states be innovative and do what they can to cut costs. The lower the level (city, county and state), the less corruption there is. Anytime the feds get involved , it turns out to be a cluster.
“Empower States To Innovate — Savings: >$100 billion
Block grants have huge potential to generate both superior results and cost savings by establishing local control and promoting innovation in areas such as Medicaid and Worker Retraining. Medicaid spending should be capped and increased each year by CPI + 1%. Department of Labor retraining spending should be capped and will increase in future years. These funds should then be given to the states to spend on their own residents. States will be free from Washington micromanagement, allowing them to develop innovative approaches that improve quality and reduce cost.”
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