Romney's “accomplishments”.
1. Implemented/created Gay Marriage in MA
2. Supported and forced Gay Adoption in MA
3. Supported Abortion wholeheartedly
4. Raised taxes/fees over 300% while being Governor of MA
5. Implemented a state-level Cap and Trade system.
6. Supported Man-Made Global Warming
7. Supported the Brady Bill
8. Implemented a state level Assault Weapons Ban after the Federal AWB was allowed to expire.
9. Supported TARP
10. Supported Amnesty for Illegal Aliens (Citizenship for those already here)
11. Supported McCain-Kennedy (Amnesty)
12. Implemented a socialized medicine in MA called RomneyCare complete with an Individual Mandate and $50 abortions.
13. Nominated 27 Democrats (out of 36 nominations) for judgeships in MA, many of them extreme left-wingers.
At least pretend that you're simply making the pragmatic choice, and not wholeheartedly supporting a liberal.
http://stevedeace.com/news/iowa-politics/santorum-is-right-romney-is-still-wrong/
A Stern Warning to the Conservative Elites about Mitt Romney
Published by Peter LaBarbera at 1:00 pm under ‘Pro-Family’ Compromise, Romney
Contact: John Haskins
JHaskins@ParentsRightsCoalition.org
508-480-0705
A Stern Warning to the Conservative Elites about Mitt Romney
Through their silence, the elites are assisting a political cancer that has profound consequences for our children and grandchildren
We write the following because we must oppose the deception of the American people by powerful and influential conservatives. Many in the conservative grassroots no longer trust the conservative media, lawyers and leaders, whom they see as serving the GOP establishment regardless of the will of the conservative base, regardless of the truth.
Most of us are not allied with any presidential candidate. But we are troubled by the unethical and Orwellian cover-up of Mitt Romneys role in catastrophic events in Massachusetts, once the cradle of American liberty. Actions he took as governor were beyond the pale. As Romney twice explained to the homosexual Log Cabin Republicans, it would take a Republican to enact their agenda ( www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2006/12/romneys_thought.html ).
Attorneys, journalists and pundits must be fearless and selfless watchdogs of politicians and guardians of democracy. This is a sacred trust that is being defiled. Silence about ugly truths, such as the points enumerated below, is a betrayal of the lofty status we claim in a constitutional republic. Pay the price of courage. Tell America the truth.
Phony Pro-Life Conversion
Issue # 1. Mitt Romney established abortion as a healthcare benefit in his own government-run healthcare plan at $50 per abortion after his supposed pro-life conversion. (http://www.mahealthconnector.org/portal/binary/com.epicentric.contentmanagement.servlet.ContentDeliveryServlet/About%2520Us/Connector%2520Programs/Additional%2520Resources/cc_benefits1220_pt234.pdf ) He created a permanent, official government role for an unelected Planned Parenthood representative on the health care board.
Issue #2. Romneys well-timed pro-life conversion for the Republican primary pulled a states rights committment out of nowhere to hedge his political bets. His claim that states rights trump the unalienable right to life is inconsistent and unprincipled: he simultaneously opposes an amendment to protect human life, but claims to support one to preserve marriage! What happened to Romneys committment to states rights?
Issue #3. Unforced by anyone, Romney overruled his own Commissioner of Public Health and lied about state law in order to compel Catholic hospitals to issue abortifacient pills in violation of their freedom of religion enshrined in the United States and Massachusetts Constitutions. Using exactly the crafty political theatre he employed to cover his actions on same-sex marriage and homosexual adoption, Romney posed as defender of the very thing he was destroying, gallantly asking the legislature to create a special religious exemption for Catholic institutions. Even Democrat former governor Mike Dukakis publicly agreed with Romneys commissioner of public health that state law already grants a religious exemption.
Gay Marriage, Gay Adoption and Pro-Homosexuality Propaganda In Schools
Issue #1. In another flagrant lie about the law, Romney told Catholic Charities adoption and foster agency they had to give children to homosexuals even when normal mother-father families were lined up to give them a home. Again, he deployed his standard smokescreen, gallantly proposing a special exemption, with a wink of his eye to the militantly pro-homosexuality legislature. Again, he got caught. Former governor Dukakis pointed out that the state law that Romney was citing as requiring gay adoption was non-existent. It was merely an executive regulation that a governor can rescind with a few strokes of his pen. Romney was apparently fulfilling secret 2002 campaign promises ( http://massresistance.blogspot.com/2007/12/is-romney-working-with-log-cabin.html ) to Republican homosexual power brokers whose endorsement he coveted and received. He had sought no backing from social conservatives.
Issue #2. Romney says the Boy Scouts should accept homosexual scoutmasters and that homosexuals have a legitimate interest in adopting or producing and raising children.
Issue #3. Though Romney pretends he opposed homosexual marriage, he did the opposite. In 2002 he opposed a marriage amendment that would have prevented homosexual marriage. 120,000 citizens, including his wife, son and daughter-in-law signed the amendment petition. Romneys militant pro-homosexuality Republican predecessor, Governor Jane Swift, and Democrat legislators openly violated the constitution to deny the citizens their right to vote on the amendment. Even the ultra-liberal Massachusetts court ruled that they were violating their oaths and the Constitution. Romney failed to oppose their subversion of the law or to defend the peoples right to amend their own Constitution. ( www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/may/07051409.html )
Issue #4. Since the notorious Goodridge court opinion discovering a constitutional right to gay marriage, Romney has methodically lied about the judges legal authority and his own legal duty to enforce the Constitution. As professor of jurisprudence Hadley Arkes pointed out, under the state Constitution, the court has no jurisdiction over marriage law. An opinion issued without jurisdiction is legally void and cannot be enforced. Romney also knew that the same judges had recently admitted they have no power over the legislature or governor.
The Legislature never obeyed the judges by changing the marriage statute to legalize gay marriage. Under the state constitution that was the end of the line. The court neither ordered nor even suggested any intervention by the governor. Many lawyers and law professors (including Hugh Hewitt: http://massresistance.blogspot.com/2007/12/hugh-hewitt-told-romney-to-defy-mass.html ) told Romney to ignore the unconstitutional Goodridge opinion and embarrass the judges. Mysteriously, Romney rejected their advice. Why? The New York Times finally revealed four years later that, to win a coveted endorsement, Romney secretly promised the homosexual Log Cabin Republicans in 2002 that he would not defend the constitution against an illegal attempt by the judges to sneak same-sex marriage past the voters. ( www.nytimes.com/2007/09/08/us/politics/08romney.html?_r=3&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin )
When the Legislature did not legalize homosexual marriage, to fulfill his secret promise, Romney claimed that the judges had. This is a blatant lie plainly refuted by the state constitution Romney swore to uphold! He quickly found willing conservative lawyers, pundits and pro-family leaders to back him up. Rather than challenge the motives, integrity and expertise of their own friends and colleagues, most of the conservative establishment suddenly went silent. Ignoring his oath to faithfully enforce the statutes, Romney ordered officials to violate the marriage statutes and perform homosexual marriages. His Department of Public Health illegally bypassed the legislature by changing the marriage certificates from husband and wife to Party A and Party B.
Romney gave orders that illegally usurped the exclusive constitutional authority of the Legislature, as proven in this devastating Letter to Governor Mitt Romney from Pro-Family Leaders. (www.massresistance.org/docs/marriage/romney/dec_letter/letter.pdf ). He violated multiple Articles of the Massachusetts Constitution, including one of the most vital principles of American government, which John Adams stated more forcefully than anywhere else in American law:
In the government of this commonwealth the executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, the judicial shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers, to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men. Article XXX, Part The First
We deplore the glaring refusal of the conservative establishment to face the implications of a devastating article by a leading constitutional scholar, illuminating why pro-establishment attorneys have covered up Romneys unconstitutional actions:
The deeper failure must go to the man who stood as governor, holding the levers of the executive. And if it is countdown for marriage it is countdown also for Mitt Romney, whose political demise may be measured along the scale of moves he could have taken and the record of his receding, step by step [I]t became clear that even conservative lawyers had come to incorporate, and accept, the premises that gave to the courts a position of supremacy in our constitutional schemes. Hadley Arkes, Professor of Jurisprudence, Amherst College ( The Missing Governor, National Review Online May 17, 2004 )
We equally deplore the refusal to acknowledge the obvious truth in highly respected conservative attorney Phyllis Schlaflys assessment:
Massachusetts public officials
are groveling before the four judges
(Romney) said: We obviously have to follow the law as provided by the [Court] and
decide what kind of statute we can fashion which is consistent with the law.
But what law? There is no law that requires or even allows same-sex marriages. Phyllis Schlafly ( Its Time To Rebuke The Judicial Oligarchy (EagleForum.org, Dec. 3, 2003 )
Schlafly was right, as any honest and competent lawyer knows. The Massachusetts Constitution powerfully refutes Romneys entire story that the judges changed marriage law and forced him to give unconstitutional orders:
[T]he people of this commonwealth are not controllable by any other laws than those to which their constitutional representative body have given their consent. Article X, Part the First of the Massachusetts Constitution
The power of suspending the laws, or the execution of the laws, ought never to be exercised but by the legislature Article XX, Part the First of the Massachusetts Constitution
Mitt Romney created homosexual marriage. His conservative legal experts are aggressively covering up both his role and the plain language of the Supreme Law of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Issue #5. Though Romney admitted the Goodridge opinion was not based on the Constitution and that the judges had exceeded their power, he opposed a citizens drive to remove the four rogue judges who violated their oaths. ( http://massresistance.blogspot.com/2007/09/iowa-patriots-seek-to-remove-gay.html )
Issue #6. Though Romney says same-sex marriage will damage religious freedom and harm children, who need both a mother and a father, he personally issued more than 190 special one-day certificates to allow homosexual marriages to be performed by legally unqualified persons. He claims he was just applying the marriage statutes evenly. But as Phyllis Schlafly reminded America, and even the outlaw Goodridge judges admitted, the Massachusetts statutes do not allow homosexual marriages, despite Romneys false claim that the court legalized homosexual marriage. Moreover, a governor is not obliged to issue any special marriage certificates to anyone. Since Romney says same-sex marriage will harm children and erode religious freedom, why did he violate the marriage statutes and issue hundreds of special permits? ( www.massresistance.org/docs/marriage/romney/record/ )
Issue #7. As governor, to please Massachusetts militant homosexual groups, Romney aggressively BOOSTED government funding for pro-homosexuality indoctrination, starting in kindergarten. He refused to defend schoolchildren and parents rights against this indoctrination. He refused to order his education officials to obey the law guaranteeing that parents can protect their children from sexual brainwashing. ( www.massresistance.org/docs/marriage/romney/record/ ) This is a continuation of his views since 1994 when he opposed congressional efforts to protect children by banning federal funding to public schools that encourage homosexuality as a positive lifestyle alternative. His deference to militant homosexual groups right to indictrinate other peoples children was jaw-dropping:
I think thats a dangerous precedent in general. I would have opposed that. It also grossly misunderstands the gay community by insinuating that theres an attempt to proselytize a gay lifestyle on the part of the gay community. I think its wrong-headed ( www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2006/12/romneys_thought.html )
With their silence about the illegal actions and toxic legacy of Mitt Romney, the elites are assisting a political cancer that has profound consequences for our future. If anyone has convinced themselves that so-called same sex marriage is a fringe issue and not a grave threat to the rule of law and to children they should read Maggie Gallaghers stunning article Banned in Boston. They should also investigate the pro-homosexuality indoctrination of Massachusetts children (Its 1984 in Massachusetts And Big Brother Is Gay) which had been covert, but in the aftermath of Romneys illegal orders imposing homosexual marriage, is swallowing up parents most fundamental right to protect their children and control their moral education. To remain silent about the re-engineering of the human family and child psychology, and the active and dishonest role Romney has played, is a dereliction of our highest duties.
We are among those who believe that same-sex marriage, homosexual adoption and pro-homosexuality indoctrination of schoolchildren hasten the decline of Western Civilization in its most crucial aspects, whether the elites face that and comprehend it or not. Yet many who have the greatest obligation are cowering in the shadows or even aiding the deception. Our silence is a fatal abdication of duty to our children and future generations, a breech of faith. It is a betrayal of the honor of young soldiers dying overseas for principles that we decided in our hearts long ago require no profound sacrifice from the elites.
The truth is this: Mitt Romneys fictional defense of natural marriage, childhood innocence, life in the womb and constitutional governance is sustained only by our silence in the face of overwhelming propaganda. Edmund Burke famously said, All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
Dante went further: The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
It is very telling of todays conservatism an endless regression of sophist ironies and nuances, dissolving, in the end, into absolutely nothing at all that dire warnings from ancient voices seem like faint, distant echoes bouncing absurdly against rock walls far below our feet, beneath a precipice that we scaled long ago in the conceits of our modern conservative minds.
To continue in silence or in support of the craftiness and ruthless ambition of Willard Mitt Romney betrays generations past, present and future, including our own children and grandchildren.
Pay the price of courage, friends. Tell America the truth.
Sincerely,
Judge Ned Kirby (ret.), former Assistant Minority Leader, Massachusetts Senate
Atty. Edgar Kelley, former Assistant United States Attorney, Massachusetts District
Atty. Robert Paine, author: The Governors New Clothes; How Mitt Romney Brought Same-Sex Marriage To America
Dr. William Greene, President, RightMarch.com
Dr. Ted Baehr, Chairman, Christian Film and Television Commission
Linda Harvey, President, Mission America*
Gary Glenn, President, American Family Association of Michigan*
Michael Heath, Executive Director, Christian Civic League of Maine*
Ray Neary, Director, Pro-Life Massachusetts (former President, Massachusetts Citizens for Life)
John OGorman, Member of the Board of Directors, Massachusetts Citizens for Life
Peter LaBarbera, Founder, Republicans For Family Values; President, Americans for Truth*
Diane Gramley, President, American Family Association of Pennsylvania
John Haskins, The Parents Rights Coalition
Gregg Jackson, Co-host, Pundit Review, author: Conservative Comebacks to Liberal Lies, contributor, TownHall.com,
William Cotter, President, Operation Rescue: Boston*
Brian Camenker, President, MassResistance
Mark Charalambous, Spokesman, CPF-Fatherhood Coalition, Massachusetts
Nedd Kareiva, President, Stop the ACLU Coalition
Phillip Magnan, President, Biblical Family Advocates
Rev. Earle Fox, D. Phil, (Oxford), President, Road to Emmaus, School of Judeo-Christian Apologetics (www.theroadtoemmaus.org)
Janet Folger, author, columnist, President, Faith2Action
Michael W. Calsetta, Former President, Conservative Democratic Alliance
Allyson Smith, Director, Americans for Truth-California*
* For identification purposes only. All persons are signing as concerned private citizens. This information is solely for educational purposes and not in support of any candidate.
The irrefutable proof that Romneys conservative lawyers are lying to America:
Letter to Governor Mitt Romney from Pro-Family Leaders.
www.massresistance.org/docs/marriage/romney/dec_letter/letter.pdf
Governors New Clothes; How Mitt Romney Brought Same-Sex Marriage To America, by Robert Paine, Esq. http://robertpaine.blogspot.com/2006/06/governors-new-clothes-how-mitt-romney_17.html
The most thorough documentation of Mitt Romneys record anywhere is at: http://massresistance.org/romney/
Contact: John Haskins
JHaskins@ParentsRightsCoalition.org
508 480-0705
good men to do nothing.
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UPDATED: Mitt Romney got 20 fewer votes in Moulton precinct, Appanoose County GOP chairman says JASON CLAYWORTH 10:57 AM, Jan 6, 2012 Categories: Caucus Insider
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NOTE: An earlier version of this blog incorrectly reported which numbers Appanoose County GOP chairman Lyle Brinegar believes are accurate. The numbers he referenced as accurate earlier today are those sworn in the affidavit by Moulton resident Edward True.
Mitt Romney received 20 fewer votes than are reported from a Moulton precinct in numbers posted by the Republican Party of Iowa, the Appanoose County GOP chairman said today.
The final vote between Iowa caucuses winner Mitt Romney was eight ahead of Rick Santorum.
We stand by the figures that were presented by the Moulton precinct caucus, said Lyle Brinegar, chairman of the Appanoose County GOP.
Matt Strawn, chairman of the Republican Party of Iowa, continued to express confidence Friday that the order of finish will not change. He said the party would make no further comment until its two-week vote certification process is complete.
Moulton resident Edward True has signed an affidavit saying that he helped count the vote at the Garrett Memorial Library in Moulton and that the precinct had two votes for Romney, not 22, as reported online by the state GOP.
Brinegar says True is correct.
Im not disputing what Ed True said, Brinegar said.
Appanoose County has 12 caucus precincts. All but two had no votes or single-digit votes for Romney, while one had 20 votes and the Moulton site reported 22.
Drake University political science professor Dennis Goldford said the results even if the certification reveals a different answer will change little other than bragging rights.
Santorum, who for months remained in the single digits in polls, wildly beat expectations, and that is the real story, Goldford said. The caucuses dont result in an actual election, so theres no additional harm done in terms of having to eject a candidate from a position, Goldford noted.
However, there is potential for long-term consequences regarding the credibility of the Iowa caucuses, Goldford warned.
It reinforces the view from other states that the Iowa caucuses are this unreliable, amateurish event, Goldford said.
Romney, Virginia GOP commits election fraud: FOX News
The Examiner
Michael Phelps
With only minutes before the first Super-Tuesday Caucuses were set to close, FOX News and the University of Virginia Center for Politics reported a likely election fraud situation, committed by Mitt Romney and the Virginia GOP.
The establishment elite may be up to their usual 2012, nomination process shenanigans again as more people in positions of knowing have come forward to proclaim their displeasure with the establishments handling of challenges to their favorite candidate.
Multiple states across the country reported precincts tampered with, votes permanently lost, elections oddly postponed, permanently unverifiable results, and now simply not even allowing candidates to even be on the ballot to begin with.
Reporting from Virginia, FOX Newss Shannon Breen gave voice to political analyst, Virginia Techs Larry Sabato, who says it is very likely Mitt Romney and the Virginia GOP establishment, and their minions purposely kept signatures from being counted so, at least, Newt Gingrich wouldnt be on Virginias ballot on Super-Tuesday.
With only minutes before the first Super-Tuesday Caucuses were set to close, FOX News and the University of Virginia Center for Politics reported a likely election fraud situation, committed by Mitt Romney and the Virginia GOP.
The establishment elite may be up to their usual 2012, nomination process shenanigans again as more people in positions of knowing have come forward to proclaim their displeasure with the establishments handling of challenges to their favorite candidate.
Multiple states across the country reported precincts tampered with, votes permanently lost, elections oddly postponed, permanently unverifiable results, and now simply not even allowing candidates to even be on the ballot to begin with.
Reporting from Virginia, FOX Newss Shannon Breen gave voice to political analyst, Virginia Techs Larry Sabato, who says it is very likely Mitt Romney and the Virginia GOP establishment, and their minions purposely kept signatures from being counted so, at least, Newt Gingrich wouldnt be on Virginias ballot on Super-Tuesday.
If the allegations are investigated and found to be accurate, it would represent an addition to the growing list of reports showing the establishment elite to be manipulating the nomination process country wide, in favor on Mitt Romney.
Further stealing caucuses from other candidates, mainly Ron Paul, to likely insure the continuance of a 1%r agenda that, according to Wall Street and the lions share of its campaign donation money, Mitt Romney is most likely to support should he be the nominee and beat Obama in November.
Supporting Medium:
FOX News (video): Romney & GOP kept Gingrich off of Virginia ballot
Examiner: Ron Pauls wife, Carol Paul says elections are being stolen
CSM: Did Mitt Romney steal Maine caucuses from Ron Paul?
BuzzFeed: Outrage: Ron Paul Manager Claim Conspiracy In Maine
Political Wire: Santorum Says Romney Rigged Straw Poll
WSJ: Paul Campaign Challenges Romney's Maine Win
Examiner: Maine vote fraud official
Examiner: Nevada vote fraud official
Examiner: Iowa vote fraud official
Suggested by the author:
Iowas delegate seats for sale: Sources
Carol Paul: Election fraud confirmed
Romney Paul alliance: Pure establishment theater
Ron Paul Campaign: Establishment hiding Maine Caucus results
Newsmax accidentally prints Romney Nevada win article 2 days early
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LABELS: CORPORATE RULE, ELECTION FRAUD, LARRY SABATO, MITT ROMNEY, NEWT GINGRICH, RICK SANTORUM, RON PAUL, VIRGINIA
UPDATED: Mitt Romney got 20 fewer votes in Moulton precinct, Appanoose County GOP chairman says JASON CLAYWORTH 10:57 AM, Jan 6, 2012 Categories: Caucus Insider
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NOTE: An earlier version of this blog incorrectly reported which numbers Appanoose County GOP chairman Lyle Brinegar believes are accurate. The numbers he referenced as accurate earlier today are those sworn in the affidavit by Moulton resident Edward True.
Mitt Romney received 20 fewer votes than are reported from a Moulton precinct in numbers posted by the Republican Party of Iowa, the Appanoose County GOP chairman said today.
The final vote between Iowa caucuses winner Mitt Romney was eight ahead of Rick Santorum.
We stand by the figures that were presented by the Moulton precinct caucus, said Lyle Brinegar, chairman of the Appanoose County GOP.
Matt Strawn, chairman of the Republican Party of Iowa, continued to express confidence Friday that the order of finish will not change. He said the party would make no further comment until its two-week vote certification process is complete.
Moulton resident Edward True has signed an affidavit saying that he helped count the vote at the Garrett Memorial Library in Moulton and that the precinct had two votes for Romney, not 22, as reported online by the state GOP.
Brinegar says True is correct.
Im not disputing what Ed True said, Brinegar said.
Appanoose County has 12 caucus precincts. All but two had no votes or single-digit votes for Romney, while one had 20 votes and the Moulton site reported 22.
Drake University political science professor Dennis Goldford said the results even if the certification reveals a different answer will change little other than bragging rights.
Santorum, who for months remained in the single digits in polls, wildly beat expectations, and that is the real story, Goldford said. The caucuses dont result in an actual election, so theres no additional harm done in terms of having to eject a candidate from a position, Goldford noted.
However, there is potential for long-term consequences regarding the credibility of the Iowa caucuses, Goldford warned.
It reinforces the view from other states that the Iowa caucuses are this unreliable, amateurish event, Goldford said.
WHAT WAS ROMNEY HIDING?
OBAMA WILL HAVE FUN INVENTING WHAT ROMNEY WAS HIDING.
Romney Admits He Destroyed Government Records To Keep Them From Political Opponents
By Alex Seitz-Wald on Nov 21, 2011 at 1:10 pm
Last week, a Boston Globe investigation uncovered that former Gov. Mitt Romneys administration destroyed emails, purchased hard drives, and otherwise obliterated all digital records of his time as governor of Massachusetts. This happened as Romney was leaving the state to campaign for president (the first time), and observers immediately speculated that the systematic destruction was politically motivated to hide embarrassing data.
Romney and his campaign have so far denied this, with the candidate saying this weekend in New Hampshire that his staff took the highly unusual step of purchasing their work hard drives because they might contain confidential and private information. Meanwhile, hes made calls for greater White House transparency a part of his campaign message.
But in a fairly stunning admission today during an interview with the editorial board of the Nashua Telegraph in New Hampshire, Romney suggested that his administration deleted emails because they didnt want opposition research teams to have access to them:
ROMNEY: Well, I think in government we should follow the law. And there has never been an administration that has provided to the opposition research team, or to the public, electronic communications. So ours would have been the first.
Watch it:
While Romneys claim that no previous administration had kept emails may be true, thats hardly a strong precedent given that emailing was not commonplace for very many years before Romney took office.
Meanwhile, Romney clearly broke precedent with the hard drive buybacks, as staffers for previous administration called the purchases unheard of. Terry Dolan, who worked in six previous administrations in the state, told the Globe, That had not happened prior to the end of the Romney administration. I dont remember anybody buying their hard drives. I dont remember anybody buying anything, said Stephen Crosby, who worked for Romneys two predecessors.
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Thanks for the information. I will check it out and appreciate you giving me some to look into it all.
My favorite was not Romney either, but compared to Obama I will be voting for Romney.