Posted on 09/30/2012 5:58:21 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
While Mitt hunkers down with Rob Portman preparing for the Big Debate #1, the finest minds of the conservative blogosphere are explicating the themes that could win the debate for him, narratives that go to the heart of what is wrong with Obama's tenure in office.
Daniel P. Goldman, who also writes under the pen name Spengler, has explained in clear language the Obama sand in the gears that cripples our economy. He uses an excellent rhetorical device to do so, positing three groups of Americans
From PJ Media:
Our first case is one of five million Americans unemployed for more than 27 weeks:
A second American is part owner of a $20 trillion investment fund.
A third American is terrified that her pension fund will go bust (as the Illinois teachers' fund will some time during the next ten years, among many others).
He explains that American #2 won't invest in companies that would hire #1. The problem is that Americans are no longer investing in each other. It is the pension funds and other vehicles for retirement savings which dominate capital markets, and right now they only invest in safe instruments, low-yielding but less risky securities. The reasons are pretty clear:
We have the highest corporate tax rate in the world.
We have an administration that sandbagged one of the biggest contributions to energy independence to become available in decades, namely the Keystone project.
We have a regulatory environment that makes it next to impossible to build a nuclear power plant.
We have a health care program that puts the biggest weight of a new entitlement program right on the economy's weak spot - firms with fifty workers.
We have an administration that can't get its act together to steer the economy away from a fiscal cliff.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Ever.
I do not name-call, comrade. Ever.
And if you look at the first post I made on the thread.... I was saying Romney was doing fine without the blogger advice.
I do not slam Romney. I expect he will win.
Still not voting for your guy.
/johnny
Perhaps not an idiot but you have to admit by not voting against Obama you are being useful.
CC
We can't vote against anyone.
/johnny
CC
Hmmmm, and I thought that all Chads lived in Floriduh!
Babies shouldn't be killed in the womb. Government shouldn't support that.
Men protecting their families shouldn't go to jail for guns that the government doesn't like.
You vote your principles. I'll vote mine.
/johnny
Just leave that well enough alone.
/johnny
You make Chad glad.
CC
/johnny
Have you ever considered how we got to where we are on these issues? If you have, you would have concluded that there is one overwhelming and all encompassing issue.
The four issues that seem to concern you and that you would most desire to change are the result of Supreme Court decisions. In the next four years we are likely to see one or more deaths or retirements on the Court and the new appointees will have a longer lasting and nonanswerable effects on your main issues.
If you're happy with Obama's two appointees to the Court, follow your intended course of action. If you wish to slow down or even reserve where we are or where we are headed, I suggest you consider which of two contenders is most likely to appoint less liberal justices.
My personal opinion, I think you’re an attention seeker. You like to post your comments to get a reaction/attention from people. You know you’re going to get Freepers riled up, begging you to vote for Mitt and reasoning that your non-vote is a vote for Obama, etc. etc. And you get to respond to all of these attacks, stand up for your so-called principles, show you’re not going to cave in, just so they can give you more attention with their second, third, fourth pleas for you to change your mind.... and the cycle continues. Which is fine——I don’t have a problem with people having a good time. You’re just not fooling everyone.
Why suddenly claim privacy when you hide behind an anonymous userid?
You are wasting your time on these forums and/or you are advancing a poorly hidden agenda. It's one of the two.
You wrote: I do not name-call, comrade. Ever.
Yet another example of your word having no value. Note your post #54: I mean, nosy Nancy, that you don't get to know who I voted for.
As much as I hate to say it, but in a case like this Principles be Damned. Vote Mitt so as the great magical kenyan doesn’t get a chance to really put this great country in the grave.
If you are coaching a team and you want to win, you may have to go with the kid that pisses you off from time to time. He has the tools needed to get the win, but would you rather lose by principles or win with someone you don’t see eye to eye with. Perhaps showing someone you don’t see eye to eye with the confidence you have in him, just might change the way he follows your lead. If you choose the loss based on principles, one, you won’t have your coaching job very long, and two, you give up your right to bitch about your loss for the next four seasons.
It is time to pull together and vote for the one that will make the country better not worse.
I disagree with your principal of cutting off your nose to spite your face.
CC
Obama says take the pain pill and don’t get the surgery.
” so you are voting for obama?
or making it possible for obama to win by voting 3rd party?”
Oh boy... here we go again with the cliches.
“If you would list your principles, we would be happy to point out the numerous contradictions.”
I’d be happy to do the same for you. It goes both ways.
“OK, let me get this straight, your not voting for Romney but you’ll vote for a pro-abortion, anti-gun, socialized medicine, large government liberal. Do I have that right?”
No.
“If the GOP wants my vote, they need to run a pro-life, pro-gun, anti socialized medicine, small government candidate.”
This seems to be a very difficult concept for some to grasp. Oh well. I’ll be pulling the lever for “other” as well :)
Vote for the most conservative candidate having a realistic chance of winning.
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