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Mitt gets my vote and many of the issues Romney brought up was correct and on the mark,
Wrong about the budget, wrong about the economy, wrong about jobs, wrong about the deficit, wrong about Obamacare, wrong about Benghazi, wrong to favor giving the rich more tax breaks. He was wrong about Civil Rights because he didn't have a position. Wrong about immigration. Wrong about the environment. His approach to foreign policy would've sent thousands more troops to die, so he was wrong here. He was wrong to want to only represent less than half the country. He was wrong to scream about taxes, yet not show his tax returns. The flip-flopping Frankenstein was just plain WRONG.
If he runs, there will plenty for his GOP opponents to decimate him with. He doesn't stand a chance in hell of winning the GOP nomination with his record of failure. Good luck with your support of him.
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You explained it with the last word of your post. She's a liberal, or as you misspelled it, 'Lib-rul.'
Ted Cruz is smart (deemed by a Harvard law prof as one of his brightest students ever), is a male, and has consistently fought for shrinking liberty. Would I expect you to support him? No, he's a conservative. It's as simple as that.
Well 'smart' or no, Cruz's only real 'accomplishment' is simply more obstructionism. Although I think you do illustrate both the critical difference, and the political weakness, in the current 'conservative' (aka 'libertarian') POV.
Folks like Cruz may be self-styled champeens of vague, high-falutin' stuff like "freedom', 'liberty', 'small gubment', 'the constitution', etc….. but poll after poll shows that none of those are really the primary concerns of most mainstream voters, who care much more about 'real world' issues, like jobs, the economy and a shrinking middle class (which BTW, are the main concerns of "lib-ruls" like Warren).
So that seems to be the big problem with 'libertarian' ideologues like Cruz, is namely gaining any wider voter appeal or "relevance" beyond just the GOP "base". 'Cuz just opposing 'leftists' and 'big gubmint' ain't gonna be enough these days to reach the Big Time!
Reagan won 44 states in 1980 and 49 in 1984 spouting the same rhetoric as Cruz does. Polling shows that voters want smaller government, and it has been this way for decades. See the work of Karlyn Bowman of AEI.
There is nothing wrong with obstruction of a bad idea, such as Obamacare. Granted the new GOP-controlled Congress is going to have to have a positive agenda of some kind. We'll have to wait and see about that.
If the Congress sends a bill on school vouchers, or border security, or cutting Amtrak subsidies, and Obama vetoes them all, are you going to apply the same label of obstructionism to him?
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^ The very reason Obama has had to make "end runs" is precisely because Congress isn't doing their job. So if they have 'other solutions' re: immigration, the minimum wage, alternative energy, climate change, whatever…. then, indeed, let's see 'em?!
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Put Jim Webb on that list and I'll vote.
I seriously doubt 90% of the people on this forum know Jim Webb's views NOW, let alone before he announced he was forming an exploratory committee.
That being said. I voted for Clinton.
My views are some what caught between hers and Warrens, but Progressives usually take a hard line, there for , nothing will get done, so im going with Clinton.
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Reagan won 44 states in 1980 and 49 in 1984 spouting the same rhetoric as Cruz does. Polling shows that voters want smaller government, and it has been this way for decades. See the work of Karlyn Bowman of AEI.
There is nothing wrong with obstruction of a bad idea, such as Obamacare. Granted the new GOP-controlled Congress is going to have to have a positive agenda of some kind. We'll have to wait and see about that.
If the Congress sends a bill on school vouchers, or border security, or cutting Amtrak subsidies, and Obama vetoes them all, are you going to apply the same label of obstructionism to him?
Obamacare being a bad idea is an opinion. An obstruction/objection to Obamacare should have nothing to do with funding the overall government.
You can be for your interpretation of small government, and be against Obamacare WITHOUT shutting down the Government. The 3 things should not all be tied together.
If I might ask, what exactly is the conservative beef with Warren (at least more specific than she's a 'leftist', 'commie', yada-yada)?
She helped establish the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has consistently fought for the shrinking middle class who rightfully believe "the system is rigged", while suggesting that the rich should pay more taxes (egads!), and she's hammered banks and so-called 'regulators' when no one else would. Also horror of horrors, she pushed for students to be able to take out government education loans at the same rate that banks like Goldmann Sachs enjoy! But perhaps her biggest 'sin' was publicly outing the recent Wall Street budget giveaway that virtually guts Dodd-Frank (you know, the banking limits specifically designed to prevent another Great Recession)?! So what's not to like (other than she's smart, female and a very persuasive Lib-rul)?!
she is a psychotic nut case, who should be committed to an insane asylum
Well 'smart' or no, Cruz's only real 'accomplishment' is simply more obstructionism.
I love it when someone actually obstructs another from taking a crap on the US Constitution.
Need more like them.
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