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We elected Geo. W. Bush as a supposed conservative. We already knew that the entitlement mess was unsustainable.

So what did his administration do? Push for Medicare Part D. He made the situation worse, not better. Some conservative.

His father raised taxes. Some conservative.

So now... you’re coming along to tell me that Romney is going to be some sort of panacea against Obama, despite Romney’s state health plan being a prototype for Obama’s, despite Romney being not terribly believable on this pro-gun rhetoric, nor terribly assuring on his outlook on selecting judges and justices.

Would Obama be a wreck in his second term? Hell yes. This we know.

But you people are peddling a point you cannot prove: That Romney would be some sort of substantial improvement over Obama. Romney’s record does not support this leap of logic. You only *suppose* this to be true.

The article you cite is codswallop. The author makes no case for Romney, only against Obama. Let’s postulate for the sake of brevity, that everything he says about Obama and his style of government is true (because it is). WHAT IS ROMNEY GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?

Romney hasn’t said anything about disassembling the overwhelming bureaucracy in DC. He hasn’t said anything about rolling back environmental regs that are choking the private sector. Or stupid and unattainable CARB standards which are now used as national EPA standards. None of the root of regulatory excess is being targeted by Romney.

Romney is just talking in very big picture terms. That means he won’t do jack. The only thing Romney has said specifically that he’s going to eliminate is the subsidy to CPB and PBS. That’s good. But I’ll believe it when I see it, because even tho the amount of money is low, that entire cluster is a great example of what is wrong with DC. Programs like CPB and PBS, as insipid as their programming is, have constituencies who show up on Congress’ doorstep, wailing and crying for money. And Congress approves said money. How is Romney going to actually cut CPB/PBS subsidy when Congress controls the purse strings?

The stakes are high regardless of who gets into office, and I’m here telling you people that Romney & Ryan’s plans, even if they get everything they’ve said they want, delay what is becoming increasingly inevitable by a year, perhaps two. That’s if and only if they get everything they want - and they won’t, because the GOP won’t have a filibuster-proof lock on the US senate. It’s still an open question whether the GOP can even capture the majority of the seats in the Senate. If they don’t, I’ve got a newsflash for you: Romney and Ryan will get next to nothing done. There will be no serious spending cutting unless Congress decides to all get drunk and stay home, in which case the automatic spending cuts kick in.