Posted on 04/30/2012 10:08:43 AM PDT by sthguard
As we move into the general election campaign, with Mitt Romney facing Barack Obama in the presidential race, it’s important not to lose perspective on the very real differences between the two. That starts with the recognition that Obama has made some astonishingly ill-conceived decisions as president, and that Romney would never have done these things.
During a party’s nominating process for president – of which I was a part on the Republican side in this cycle – candidates do everything they can to differentiate themselves from each other. As the candidates focus on these differences and the media plays up the resulting conflicts, you could almost get the impression that some of us would have preferred Obama to some of our fellow Republicans.
Please!
Not only do I prefer Romney over Obama, it’s not even close. This is not to say that every proposed policy of Romney’s is exactly what I would propose. But in stepping back and looking at the big picture, you have to recognize that the next president’s task will be to fix enormous problems. You would want the new president, above all else, to be someone who would never have been so foolish as to make the decisions that a) created the problems; or b) made them worse.
Here are nine examples:
Mitt Romney would never have thrown $862 billion down a rat hole, claiming it to be “economic stimulus” that would keep unemployment from rising above 8 percent. Then, three years later when unemployment was still struggling to get back down below 8 percent, he would never be so brazen as to claim such a move had actually been successful.
Mitt Romney would never have signed ObamaCare into law. I know some think otherwise because the plan he implemented as governor of Massachusetts had some similar elements. But ObamaCare was sold to the public with blatantly dishonest numbers and hidden taxes, and rammed through Congress via a series of political giveaways that would embarrass the most shameless of con artists. Whatever your disagreements with the structure of MassCare, Romney would never have done any of that. And if an ObamaCare repeal reaches Romney’s desk, he will sign it.
Mitt Romney would never have exploded the deficit to more than $1 trillion a year, then allowed his Treasury Secretary tell the chairman of the House Budget Committee, regarding plans to fix the problem, “We don’t have a definitive solution, but we know we don’t like yours.”
Mitt Romney would not be running around claiming that businesses need to pay more in taxes. He would not try to tell CEOs what to do with their cash reserves (although he could do so much more competently than Obama, since unlike the president he actually knows a lot about business), because he knows that is not the president’s job. He understands that businesses are the ones who create jobs, and the last thing we need when the economy is struggling to create jobs is to increase the tax burden on businesses.
Mitt Romney would not attack people for being successful. He would not encourage the middle class to resent successful people, but instead would encourage them to learn from those who have been successful, and to seek opportunities from them.
Mitt Romney would never have promised the Russians he would give them what they want on missile defense as soon as he didn’t have to worry about those pesky voters anymore.
Mitt Romney would never have stonewalled efforts to make crucial energy supplies available to Americans, as Obama has done on everything from the Keystone XL pipeline to the opening of domestic oil supplies in offshore locations and in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Mitt Romney would never have let Congress get away with not passing a budget at all for three years, while running up the nation’s credit card at unprecedented levels through a series of continuing resolutions that escape the light of public scrutiny.
Mitt Romney would never have blamed someone else for the continued impact of problems he was elected to fix – as Obama does endlessly.
This list could go on, but these nine are the some of the biggest things – and the big things matter most of all. Everyone involved with a primary campaign hopes their party will nominate the absolute perfect candidate, and when your guy doesn’t make it (or for some of us like me, when you don’t make it), you can fall into thinking that all is lost. There are actually people running around saying there is no difference between Romney and Obama.
People. Get a grip. The differences are huge. And it starts with understanding how many truly horrendous decisions Barack Obama has made since he took office, and recognizing that Mitt Romney is a man with solid experience and good judgment – and that he would never have made any of them.
That alone offers a compelling argument for sending President Obama an invitation – to the inauguration of Mitt Romney on January 20, 2013. I trust he will attend.
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Introduction:
Now are getting somewhere in our spirited discussion!
We are not here to please everybody!
If we can define who we are not, then we are at liberty to focus on the problems to be solved.
1.) What is the problem? [One problem at a time, please].
2.) Who owns the problem?
3.) What would Jesus do to solve the problem?
Discussion:
If we shout and scream and prance,
The enemy shouts “Charge and Advance!”
But if we listen to what is behind the words,
From all who speak, sincere and true,
Perhaps then the reasoned ones
Will also listen to you?
Proposal:
We can spend endless monologues proving that WE are right, but the problem to be solved will only fester and remain.
So “who” is not what we seek to find, we seek the criteria that will solve the problem.
Drop the “who” and find the “what,”
And demand the Elected “who”
Obeys our “what!”
We are the Rebels in the Rebellion,
We have no friends in the GOP-E.
“Don’t Tread on Me,” we proudly wave,
Now let us define the problems first,
And demand that empty political suits, obey, Obey, OBEY!
We are in Charge,
And here we stand.
Choose to join us,
You political hams!
BTW, this just might, could, unify our energy into a focused effort that the politicians will seek to embrace. (They have proven to be clueless so far on finding a focused effort to solve problems!)
BTW, BTW, it will drive the Liberal Agenda Media, and their consultants nuts!
___________
HERE WE GO!
Please answer the following question:
1.) What is the problem?
Those two thoughts are weird enough in anyone’s book!
Yeah, I still think Romney is full of it. But not evil like Obama.
I think Romney and Obama are both evil. They may have differing masks, but both represent the continued destruction of the republic’s foundations.
By refusing to vote for Obama’s opponent, you are helping Obama, or is the addition and subtraction here a little too tough for you to understand?
Tell me, did you get kicked off the “Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader” when the questions got to math?
You’re arguing with EV, you know the answers before you even asked them.
Besides Hoefling is allegedly running for President himself. Have fun getting 100 votes at the most LOL.
"Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right."-- Fulton J. Sheen, 1953
“The TRUE DANGER is when liberty is nibbled away, for EXPEDIENCE, and BY PARTS.”-- Edmund Burke
All that’s keeping me sane after reading this thread is realizing that it’s only a few people who are clinging to the beliefs expressed here.
They are persistent and faithful and I’d want them on my team in the loony bin.
It’s ironic because I remember the tent meeting the night Herman Cain was deciding whether or not to back out of the race.
It was almost religious in the fervor for Herman. People were begging him to stay in, praying for it.
And now he’s a sell out jerk.
Oh, well.
Know this - I do not vote liberals any longer, I do not care what the Republican establishment says.
Yes, I live in Santa Barbara are you jealous?
I live here because this is were work is, I live here because this is where I grew up and I live here because this is where my husband is, and the rest of my family. Oh, yea the gorgeous weather every single day, and the beach.
Oh and another thing I have know idea what your reply has to do with what I said.
I seriously wonder how any trolls and/or Flat Earthers we have here.
In November, Obama or Romney will be elected. If Conservatives sit home, they will be the first to scream about the disastrous results of a 2d Obama term.
I seriously wonder how many trolls and/or Flat Earthers we have here.
In November, Obama or Romney will be elected. If Conservatives sit home, they will be the first to scream about the disastrous results of a 2d Obama term.
Have fun getting 100 votes numbnuts.
Self-serving and ego-driven. Yep, you’ll make a GREAT politician. Way to go Hoefling. LOL
Are you for real? Are you calling Jim Robinson a Flat Earther? Taking a dump on your host's living room carpet? Really?
God will judge.
Yep, you’ll make a GREAT politician.
I'm sick of politicians.
Way to go Hoefling. LOL
Thanks.
-- Winston Churchill"Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."
I’m 100% correct and you know it. Your laughable Presidential aspirations are nothing but ego-serving and yes you are the CONSUMMATE politician.
And you can throw worthless quotes around on an internet forum all you want, but that doesn’t change the TRUTH of what I say Hoefling.
Well, enjoy your ride with the pro-choice anti-republican GOP nominee, then. It will be interesting to see how far you get without conservatives propping you up.
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