In response to a thread I saw about no one talking of their support for Mitt Romney and only trashing Obama - Here ya go:
I, like so many, bought into Obama's rhetoric and lofty promises of Hope and Change in 2008. Although I disagreed with him on so many key issues, I thought it was a new era, a new time, a new political arena, and I thought he was going to be the one to get America on track. Man was I wrong.
4 years later, I see that his tenure as President has been nothing but a failure. I'm not someone that believes he is just crumbling America because he hates America, rather I think he's tried everything he thinks will work.. and it isn't. As Romney said, "he's out of ideas, and out of time."
I think he's tried his social experiment on America, and I believe it's failed. From Obamacare, to supporting gay marriage and no longer defending the law of the land (DOMA), and to supporting government funded abortions - he has to go.
His economic policies have obviously failed as well. Unemployment still sky high.. Gas prices still skyrocketing.. America lost it's AAA credit rating.. What's next?!
Now that I've made the case
against Barack Obama (as an ex-supporter.. yes, it's amazing what four years of Obama can do to someone).. Allow me to make the case
for Mitt Romney.
Mitt Romney - Businessman, Religious leader, Governor.. Why is he the right choice to beat Obama? While I admit that Mitt Romney wasn't my first choice, he is my 100% choice now. Here's why - listed in importance to me..
#1. He's for defending our laws and upholding marriage as an institution between a man and a woman (DOMA).
#2. He's for protecting innocent life by repealing Roe V. Wade and letting the states decide abortion laws.. and he's also for cutting
ANY government funding that goes to killing innocent life.
#3. He doesn't want to cut our military at such a volatile time.
#4. He's a businessman. We need someone that
knows a thing or two about running something and how to get businesses doing business again.
#5. He'll be a strong ally of Israel.. and may even make a couple trips over there.. (ahem, Obama, ahem..)
#6. He's for repealing Obamacare and letting the states decide their own health care laws, like he did in Mass.
#7. He'll protect the second amendment and won't tour the world making apologies for America.
Just my top 7.. I know he isn't perfect.. but when we compare him to Obama.. There's no contest..
Romney 2012!
I was a Bush supporter in 2000. That's when Republicans believed in the individual mandate, cap and trade, the Dream Act, and no nation-building.
That seems like a very long time ago now. Republicans today have to pretend to believe in stupidity in order to get the lowest-of-the-low vote, uneducated types who are mostly older white folks who actually think it would be good if their Social Security was privatized.
I supported Barack Obama in 2008, not because of "Hope" and "Change", but because he's got the right kind of temperament that this country needs. He's a levelheaded man who has the right mix of smarts and balls.
He campaigned that if we had Bin Laden in our sights, that we would get him even if he was in Pakistan.
Mitt Romney and John McCain said they would not have. What you say means something to me, and if you say you're too ******* chicken to get the job done even if that pisses off some folks in Pakistan, than it makes it hard for me to support such chickenhawkery.
Unlike you, I do not believe that Obama has "tried his social experiment" on America.
Allowing gay folks to fight for their country is not an "experiment"; it's equality in action.
Making it law that an insurance company can't kick your kid or your wife off the plan because of their expensive treatments or for a pre-existing condition is not a "social experiment"; it's common sense.
Under Obama, domestic drilling has increased at a faster rate than under the previous administration. Look it up. That's no "social experiment"; that's Drill Baby Drill in action.
Under Obama, 95% of this country has seen lower taxes.
When Obama took office, we were bleeding 750,000 jobs per month. Within 6 months after he passed his Stimulus--which he compromised on and turned 40% of it into tax cuts instead of direct shovel-ready job action like he really wanted to in order to get corporate Democrat and Republican votes--we stopped losing jobs and the economy was rescued.
Since then we've seen 30 months of consecutive private sector job growth. Meanwhile, we've seen over 600,000 public sector job losses in just the last couple years. That's a social experiment called "less government" and how's that workin' out for ya? That's 600,000 less people to buy what I'm selling and I blame the Tea Party for it.
Fuckin' baggers, they go on about hating Europe so much but all they wanna do is follow Angela Merkel and the David Cameron right into a double-dip recession with austerity measures alone.
And that's Mitt Romney's prescription for our economy. Just keep cutting and outsourcing jobs, give the Mitt Romneys of the world a quarter of a million in additional tax breaks to help get them through these obviously tough times the top tax bracket must be having, and that will somehow get the money into the hands of the people I need to buy my products.
What a load of bullshit.
Nobody with a conscience can honestly vote for Mitt Romney and say his economic priorities aren't totally back-asswards.
Tell me, how do you think he's going to afford an additional $5 trillion tax cut?
Don't you find it totally irresponsible that he wants to take Medicare, turn it into a voucher coupon program, kicking old white folks into the private market so they can be charged outrageously for being old and infirm? And who do ya think that debt is going to fall to when a whole group of $20,000/year old people on retirement cheques start having to pay hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars a year on health care they can't possibly afford?
The military budget is bloated as it is. Cutting it by half a trillion over a decade like the President wants to do is fair and a nice start in the right direction.
Obama has governed just like the centrist that I thought he would be, and it isn't his fault that morons and loonies, flat-earthers and birthers have overtaken a once great party instead of working with Obama to get things done.
President Obama was elected. By 9 million votes. He was given a mandate and all he was faced with was blind hatred by his opponents instead of an outstretched hand ready to go to work.
The economic philosophy this country still has is from a conservative two-term administration, so this business that Obama has tried his "experiment" is laughable, particularly because you can't go into detail about what these so-called experiments have been, since there haven't been any yet, they've all been held up or filibustered.
If the Bush Tax Cuts had expired a year and a half ago on the top 2 brackets, this country would have nearly $100 billion less in its yearly deficit.
Had he gotten his other plans through, we would have seen a $50 billion decrease in taxpayer money given to the health lobby to advertise us. Filibustered.
Had he gotten his Jobs Bill through, we'd see public-private partnerships and the beginning of the creation of about 3-4 million jobs over the next couple years. Filibustered.
Obama wants to cut about $500 billion in corporate subsidies to multinationals who are doing just fine on their own and who aren't investing in America. No can do: FILIBUSTERED!!
80% of the country, including mainstream Republican voters, say we should have higher and more fair taxes on millionaires and billionaires. Pocket change to a rich man would mean a trillion or two over the next decade in revenue to help with jobs, education and lowering the debt. No can do though: FILIBUSTERED!!!
Sorry, I'll stick with the guy who wants to fix things, and that's President Obama, not Mitt Romney, who doesn't know where he stands on anything.
