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Old 09-21-2012, 07:53 AM
 
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Originally Posted by Memphis1979 View Post
I'm always curious of why anyone would vote for Romney.

It sounds like you are voting against Obama, which is as stupid as voting against Romney.

Vote for someone, not against someone.
I disagree. When an incumbent is running, you are voting that you either agree with his past performance or against it.

If you don't agree with his past performance you vote to give someone else a chance.

We never really know how a new person is going to perform until they have the job.
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Old 09-21-2012, 08:00 AM
 
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Romney is not in any way equiped for the office of POTUS...................
He has upset our allies when abroad
He jumps too soon and opens his mouth making assumptions without thinking before he speaks.
He is a elitist who is now in the pockets of his superpac and wall street
He has no real opinions of his own and changes his mind every two minutes as to what he believes.
His last venture into politics was a huge disaster and he has shown he does not know how to create jobs........ he left Mass. 47th in job growth.
He is against a decent health system
He is against same sex marriage
He is against abortion even from rape or incest or if the Mother's life is at risk
He is against benefits to help the poor even though his parents moved forward on benefits.
He is against women controlling their own bodies
He is against free contraception for women but ok with free viagra for men.
He is for more tax cuts to the wealthy and paying a lower percentage of taxes than the middle class and poorer amongst us.
He is for deregulation of Wall street and repeating the mistakes that put us into a huge recession.
He is a warmonger
He does NOT have any idea of how normal American's live or survive
He cannot even run his campaign successfully, let alone run the Country
He just wants to be President to be one up on his Dad and doing the job of POTUS is not his main concern.
In a nutshell............. Romney is NOT the guy for POTUS.
Most adults believe there are much MORE important things facing this country then most of the "me first" generation things you list.

Psst, how "equipped" was Obama to run the country? What experience did he have running ANYTHING?

Your list is pure b.s.
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Old 09-21-2012, 08:07 AM
 
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He will be forced, politically, to move against Obamacare, the persecution of the Church, federal support for abortion, and same-sex "marriage". These are the four Big Issues facing our nation today. These are the issues that have the greatest potential to sink this great country. The economy, though serious, is a far distant second and is inextricably tied to these evils.



What are his positions on the issues?



WRONG. It should be the priority of any sane voter to support the candidate who will best serve the common good of the United States of America - or who will do the least damage, as the case may be.
" These are the four Big Issues". And herein lies probably the biggest problem in our country today.

People actually believe these minor issues are far more important then the financial stability and security of our country.

It's no wonder we are in such sad shape!
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Old 09-21-2012, 08:10 AM
 
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Romney has shown over and over and over again that he is NOT for the common good but for the good of the Wealthy only. He has absolutely no idea how everyday American's live or even survive.
Romney is for his wealthy buddies and NOT the Country and will end up destroying America and alienating us from our Allies.
Obama wants to do the job of POTUS while Romney just wants the job of POTUS.....Simple.
How is Romney any different the Obama? Obama did NOT lead a pauper's life. He attended the MOST EXPENSIVE schools wherever he went.

I detect fake rage.
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Old 09-21-2012, 08:42 AM
 
Location: Sango, TN
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I disagree. When an incumbent is running, you are voting that you either agree with his past performance or against it.

If you don't agree with his past performance you vote to give someone else a chance.

We never really know how a new person is going to perform until they have the job.
For the 5th time in this thread, not liking the incumbent doesn't mean you have to vote for another bad choice. More names the Romney and Obama on the ballot.
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Old 09-21-2012, 09:11 AM
 
Location: London UK & Florida USA
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Most adults believe there are much MORE important things facing this country then most of the "me first" generation things you list.

Psst, how "equipped" was Obama to run the country? What experience did he have running ANYTHING?

Your list is pure b.s.
Unfortunately for Romney my list is absolutely true and the list hasn't got the destruction of Medicare/Aid or Romney being controlled by Israel as far as our military decisions or Romney deciding that to get a Education here, the student's should borrow from their parents.
Do you really think that Civil rights is not Important here...... The right for a Woman to control her own body or Gay's and Women and minority groups to be treated like second class citizens by Romney or outsourcing jobs to China and other cheaper Countries. To destroy any chance of a decent and affordable health system here for ALL American's or the fact that Romney is a war monger or Romney will make sure the wealthy pay less in taxes than everyday American's.
The Mormon church is even outraged by Romney's remarks about the 47%.
Please tell me what other issues are more important to America than what i have listed and just posted?
Romney cannot even run a successful campaign so how on earth can he run the Country?
He truly is a MORON wrapped in a IDIOT..........
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Old 09-21-2012, 09:40 AM
 
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I hear a lot of people that do not trust Romney or obama, so they say they are just not going to vote. All of it seems to be based on their "feelings". I can think of a lot of reasons why I would not vote for obama that are based on facts, not just "feelings". But, I haven't heard of a deal breaker reason yet to not vote for Romney. If you take obama completely out of the equation (I know that is hard), why would you just absolutely never vote for Romney?
Because Obama has been historically bad, and when I say "historically" I mean that no president has ever been this bad for an economy before. Obama is even breaking records that were made during the Great Depression, and other of his records date back to WWII.

We have an historical 44 months in-a-row with over 8% unemployment.
We have an historical 48 million people on food stamps
We have an historical percentage of Americans living in poverty
We have an historical percentage of Americans on Welfare
We have an historical percentage of Americans on Social Security Disability
We have an historical debt and deficit spending
We have an historic four years without a president signing a federal budget
We have two historic downgrades of our nation's credit rating

And our total US workforce has not been so low since about 1979

So, speaking from a historical perspective, anyone would be better then Obama, especially someone who understands how the market economy works.
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Old 09-21-2012, 09:44 AM
 
Location: London UK & Florida USA
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How is Romney any different the Obama? Obama did NOT lead a pauper's life. He attended the MOST EXPENSIVE schools wherever he went.

I detect fake rage.
You are kidding right?
Romney was brought up in a successful family. His Father was the one who built his fortune after being on a special welfare system implemented for the sole use of Mormon's returning to the USA. Romney WAS not the one who built anything............. he was working for his Dad's campaign for no salary as his Dad gave him any money he needed. He worked as a volunteer in the Gov's office because he did NOT need to earn money as his Dad kept him. He also went to Paris for three years unpaid as once again his Dad made sure he was financially ok........ Romney has never had to worry about losing a job as his Dad was there to keep him in money.
Obama was brought up in a single parent home and went to some public schools, one was a Catholic School.... bet Romney NEVER went to a public school.
Obama had to work hard to get grades to enable him to go to Harvard and did NOT have the money that Romney had to fall back on if he did not get good grades.
Do you really think Obama was living a life of luxury and Daddy's money as Romney did?
Obama is a great example to us all that with hard work.... help from the Govt. in tough times that we can all be successful.
Romney is a example of a kid who's life's already mapped out for him from a young age with NO money concerns and a complete elitist lifestyle that is now coming back to bite him in the butt as he has shown a COMPLETE lack of knowledge of how real everyday Americans survive..... "let them eat cake" comes to mind when thinking of Romney.
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Old 09-21-2012, 09:48 AM
 
Location: Portland, Oregon
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Why should anyone look to CD to see why they should or shouldn't vote for someone?
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Old 09-21-2012, 10:11 AM
 
Location: London UK & Florida USA
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Because Obama has been historically bad, and when I say "historically" I mean that no president has ever been this bad for an economy before. Obama is even breaking records that were made during the Great Depression, and other of his records date back to WWII.

We have an historical 44 months in-a-row with over 8% unemployment.
We have an historical 48 million people on food stamps
We have an historical percentage of Americans living in poverty
We have an historical percentage of Americans on Welfare
We have an historical percentage of Americans on Social Security Disability
We have an historical debt and deficit spending
We have an historic four years without a president signing a federal budget
We have two historic downgrades of our nation's credit rating

And our total US workforce has not been so low since about 1979

So, speaking from a historical perspective, anyone would be better then Obama, especially someone who understands how the market economy works.
Simple answer to these questions is that when President Obam took office the Country was DEEP in the toilet. Around 850,000 jobs being lost each month........... A housing markeet collapse...... HUGE business closures............. The stock market collapse........... TWO expensive wars in both money and lives.
Since Obama took office we are now seeing Jobs coming back, over 4.5 million jobs are back but the destruction of the Job market by Bush and the Republican party means that we need many more new jobs but getting jobs back trumps losing jobs everytime. Houses are now going back up in price and the housing market is sabalising. The stock market is booming again. Industry is comin g back to the USA and the auto industry is saved and thriving. We are out of Iraq and coming out of afghanistan. We are now on the road to build a decent and afordable health system for ALL American's. War vet's are getting better treatments nd fast tracking into education and jobs. Women's rights at work are being addressed etc etc etc etc.
Food stamps are high because of the devestation caused by Bush in the job markets and food stamps were here before Obama but high now NOT because of Obama but the destruction in jobs.
We were downgraded by S&P because of the obstruction and "circus" by the right.... even S&P said that the obstruction caused uncertainty causing the downgrade.
The defecit is high because everyone knows that if someone destroys your home ( America) it costs fortunes to repair it.
All of the above arguments blaming Obama for our problem's today are just trying to deflect the reason of the huge hole we are in away from who actually got us into it (Bush) and onto the shoulders of the guy getting us out of it (Obama).
BTW................... 8 years of destruction cannot be cured in 4 years.
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