Sigh. Romney is the better candidate, so just step off, JoeB.
Well, no, he really isn't. frankly, he's a failed one term governor. and he's lost more elections than he's won, so he's really not that good of a candidate. The only reason he has some plausibility is because the economy isn't great right now. He'd be a joke if unemployment was down to 5%.
Do you get that when the GOP went right on abortion (a false issue) was due to the religious right?
Quite the contrary. I think I considered myself "Pro-Life" all the way up to about 2008, even though I stopped beliving in sky pixies in about 1983. Keep in mind, the abortion advocates weren't advocating legalizing abortion as a form of birth control, they pushed hard luck cases like incest and rape and birth defects as a reason we needed to legalize them.
There certainly is a secular case to be made against abortion. If you accept that the fetus feels pain and is alive in a biological sense, then killing it is morally wrong. It's "right to life" supercedes the mothers "right to not be embarrased that she has crappty tastes in men".
What changed for me on the issue was 1) I concluded the Plutocrats who really run the GOP only use it to keep people upset and voting against their own interests and 2) as a pure practical matter, you can't allow abortion any more than you can effectively outlaw prostitution, drugs, alcohol or guns.
FDR and Truman did not project American power like the Wolofowitzes and Cheneys. FDR and Truman were reacting to threats AFTER Americans were attacked or our allies were attacked. If you can't see that difference, then you simply are out of your league here.
Bush and Cheney didn't respond until after we were attacked on 9/11. Now Saddam didn't attack the WTC and Hitler didn't attack Pearl Harbor. But that didn't stop them from taking advantage of the situation.
More to the point, this "projecting American Power" isn't a new thing at all. The Monroe Doctrine, the various interventions in Latin America, our occupation of the Philippines, Korea, Vietnam... We have been trying to remake the world in our own image for a long time. The only thing Bush was guilty of was still trying to do it after it wasn't fashionable any more, with people the effort was kind of wasted on.
You have given no reasons of worth to think neo-cons and the religious right will have great power under Romney.
Yes, I did, and given you can't come up with a counter argument, you know I did.
You are clearly arguing for a Romney election, because nothing you have posted argues against it.
Guy, an argument you don't like is still valid...
