all political smoke aside - this is why you don't want congressional candidates as president EVER - they aren't leaders.......both sides......

the only 'qualified' leader in the race is romney, good or bad, he has had to lead, even a little state like massachusetts beats a congressmen who never has had to make a decision in his life NEVER HAD TO MAKE A REAL BUDGET.

watching those silly round tables all set up at the white house and having everyone submit ideas sounds really pretty in the classroom, but our enemies and partners are laughing their butts off at us........

just like all those economic teachers who were brought in to run our economy (last one left last september AND NO REPLACEMENTS????)

they spent 4 trillion dollars, were dead wrong and then went back to teaching FINANCIALS?????? to our kids?????

America is the largest corporation on the planet and it is time to hire someone who knows how it works. No matter the party - the job requirement DEMANDS A LEADER.........the rest is just smoke and fire

The point is that Romney, in that regard, is a giant FAIL.

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Get it through your heads: this is the Anybody But Obama election.

If enough people listen to you, we will look forward to the Anybody But Romney election 4 years from now.

I don't think this is a lie. Romey only recently came out against abortion. He's always been for it. He claims they had a friend who died because of a back alley abortion. From that point on he's been for it. He only came out recently to try and get the Republican nomination.

People need to separate conservatives from Repbulicans. Most Republicans are not conservatives.

I agree with Ram. 2016 will be another 'change' election. We MUST get rid of this administration who will put the peddle to the metal their next term. Then before the next administration becomes the same, do it again.
What I want to know is how we get rid of the career bureaucrats that do the most damage. (DOE,DOT,EPA,HHS,State Department, etc)

"Do you actually stand for what you claim to believe in, or are you a bunch of lying sacks of crap who lied about your position on both abortion and contraception and their compelled provision through health insurance?"

The answer would, of course, be "B" in every election for any pol who has a chance of winning the election. Kinda' the reason for the very old joke which begins, "How can you tell when a politician is lying?" and for this quote, "Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. -- Nikita Khrushchev".

No mainstream candidate is going to fix the deficit problem because as Karl has pointed out the economy's bottom will drop out. The sheeple will commend Obama for our glorious stock market pump, I mean economic recovery, and we will have 4 more years deficit spending bliss. Republican X would do the same thing but continue socialism under some other name that team elephant comes up with.

Living in Massachusetts, I've always wondered how the very Democratic-acting Romney ever managed to become the Republican Presidential front-runner. He's Obama all over again, but without the BC issues.

Sadly, I wish more of the red states realized this, because even if Romney were to win in 2012, the choices really come down to Obama, and Romney-Obama.

Crash and burn, baby.

"Anybody but Obama"... Please..

My vote will be a protest vote towards the Republican party should they choose Romney. I am actively trying trying to influence every conservative that I know to do likewise. You can have Romney.

Obama's inept enough.. Let him stay on vacation for all I care. He's also a president, and while that is dangerous, he is the devil we know. He won't have enough funding to actually do anything else and it doesn't seem like the "republicrats" want to go in a different direction.

Also on a "don't bash mormonism front" - I don't want some dude in the White House who was a bishop at a church that believes he's going to be a god someday and his kids will have their own planets. You don't get to be a bishop because you aren't actively involved... Sorry... not buying a tolerance issue here..

That is all...

If Barry reads tickers he’s probably doing the electric boogaloo right about now.

WHY THE **** ARE WE TALKING ABOUT ABORTION???

Nothing will be done on this. No one knows when life actually starts. And we're the giant turd floating around the top of the swirling bowl.

AND ABORTION MATTERS THIS MUCH TO ANY OF YOU???

Get over it. Way before Roe v Wade they were killing innocent little babies and way after its over turned they'll still be killing innocent little babies.

But we have a country where the rule of law doesn't matter anymore, where only 58% of able bodied people have jobs, where we have a hundred trillion in unfunded promises on the books, where the only way to get elected is to raise millions and be indebted to those who gave it to you.

AND YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT ABORTION???

Nothing is gonna change in this country ever til the bus goes over the cliff, good luck to you all.

5.2% unemployment was the average 2000 - 2009- THE AVERAGE

SOMEHOW IN 3 YEARS AMERICA JUST GOT TOO DUMB AND LAZY TO EVEN THINK ABOUT FULL EMPLOYMENT (that is what the liberals and media are shoveling) IN 3 YEARS???

you put people back to work - real work - JUST THOSE EVIL OIL JOBS in Keystone and the Gulf and Alaska would be a start

1.5 million unemployed a month is the REAL NUMBER - not everyone can file for unemployment but they still LOST THEIR JOB

5 new wars

I can't keep my A.B.O. - 2012
Anybody But Obama

bummper stickers in supply, heheheheh
the stats are in on Obama
and after all this damage -----ALL THIS DAMAGE
we are looking real close at the guys who say - SO WHAT? GIVE US 4 MORE YEARS

we created 700 TRILLION dollars in mortgage backed securities - and then tied them to HOUSING

(thank you impeached clinton for gutting that glass-steagall act in 99, you and greenspan and cuomo and rubin fixed us, but good)

............I wrote that property would fall 50% in 2007 (beat with a bat by those 'positive people'). It has fallen 48% nationwide average as of the numbers last week - and no end in sight.

and it is going down another 20-30%. they nationalized 40% of our economy, housing is owned by the same people that brought you the post office - a money dump...............

if we don't fix housing we are done - it took 30 years to come back after the first depression.........

EASY FIX DON'T UNEMPLOY 1.2 MILLION 'BUYERS' A WEEK. ROMNEY KNOWS THAT............ROMNEY KNOWS HOW BUSINESS AND CAPITALISM WORKS..........WE ARE A CAPITALIST COUNTRY..............THEY HAVE SOCIALIZED EVERYONE YET, HEHEH...because we are armed.......thank GOD

unemployment is what destroyed housing. subprime could have all failed and we would not be facing 700 trillion in mortgage backed securities stuffed into every country, insurance company and bank AND PENSION FUND around the world

the first depression was caused by people buying stock on margin
this one is caused by people buying HOUSING ON MARGIN

remove the smoke and mirrors AND IT IS THE SAME HORROR

read up on the depression - they weren't crazy enough to do STOCK FAILURE BAILOUTS...........idiocy.......

ask any foreclosured person, 90% either lost their jobs or had a huge medical emergency

(NOT what the libs and media shovel - THEY WERE TOO DUMB TO READ THE DOCS)

5.2% UNEMPLOYMENT MEANS PEOPLE HAD JOBS WHEN THEY BOUGHT THOSE HOUSES

but we won't talk about 400,000 unemployed a week (that is 300,000 foreclosures to me) because it looks bad for the president, ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL, REMEMBER WHEN WE DIDN'T CARE ABOUT THE TRUTH LOOKING BAD FOR 'BUSH'and morning, noon and night we bashed him...............now the damage is ten times worse and SILENCE FROM MY MEDIA, or they beat Romney with a stick........sorry libs, Romney is the candidate and when 8 out of 10 Americans get in that voting booth - THE CHOICE IS SO OBVIOUS - if you love America that is?????

anything bad news for OBAMA AND IT DISAPPEARS while they change the subject to birth control (give me a break) (trust me - your whole family homeless and lving in a car is REAL BIRTH CONTROL - THE OBAMA WAY)

with Romney the media will HATE HIM HARD (you can see the ones who are telling us how bad he is now............ask them what they like about Obama? silence, what some guy said a 'known evil'. Look around, 4 more years of this????

we can't take 4 more years of the Party lies(they both do that) but with liberals, my media lies tooo.........with no investigative media, it is destroying us, I don't care what Cain did 20 years ago, I don't care about Palin's family does or on word about Mitt's religion

I care about the damage that is going on every hour since 2007 and Congress takeover, it is destroying us

remember those 1.2 million unemployed that the employed think won't hurt them, they quit paying taxes (1.2 million a month for 3 years don't pay taxes like they used to and won't buy a property for years and years) to understand how horrific the numbers really are

- we have dumped a city the size of orlando on unemployment rolls every single month for 36 months............yeah no story here........just move along

US trade deficit widens to biggest gap since Oct 2008 as imports hit record...

Gov't says unemployment still at 8.3%...

Jobs Recession Now Longest Since WWII...

"He's Obama all over again, but without the BC issues."

I have a new personal rule. Always vote against the candidate with the forged birth certificate. If the new guy's no better, deal with that problem next.

Anybody that votes for Romney as a "vote against Obama" is a MAJOR part of the reason this country is ****ed up beyond any repair.

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Do you at least understand that Romney doesn't hate America? That's more than you can say for Obama, who shows every day that he despises this country and its people.

As someone who has stood in elections, won some and lost some, been the interviewee and interviewer in job interviews, let me say a couple of things.

An election/job interview is not where you get to choose the perfect candidate. It is a time when you get to choose the most suitable among the candidates AVAILABLE.

THAT, IN TURN, MAKES THEM THE BEST CANDIDATE. This is the bit few realize bcos they are stuck in their wishful thinking and kindergarten-adolescent mindset. So let me explain the rationale -

If there is a BETTER leader out there, in whichever party, whichever state, HE/SHE DID NOT THROW THEIR HAT IN THE RING. Which means they are NOT THE BETTER LEADER. Think it over.

So this is the basket from which you get to choose, and if you think it is a lousy basket ask yourself how it got to be so. Whether you live in a Democracy or a Dictatorship (of any flavor, left / right / military / sociliast / plutocrat / autocrat / whatevercrat) YOU ACTUALLY CHOOSE YOUR LEADERS ONE WAY OR THE OTHER! Saddam could not have run Iraq for as long as he did purely on his wits and charisma, it took millions of Iraqis at EVERY level to play along and keep him in power. Same with Stalin, Mao, yada yada yada. So grow up and realize that these Bushes and Trees in your garden are the product of your work - intentional or unintentional, thoughtful or reckless, moral or immoral, courageous or cowardly.

So in summation, the collective population of the United States thinks Romney, Santorum are the most "qualified" candidates to run against Obama. They also think Obama is the most "qualified" candidate to run on the Democratic platform. Obama will win, short of defeating himself with some stupid move to come, and that will be because (calm down now) HE IS THE BEST CANDIDATE RUNNING IN THIS ELECTION according to the American people, including those like Chris Christie, Mitch Daniels, Jeb Bush, <you fill your choice here> who all VOTED FOR HIM BY NOT RUNNING AGAINST HIM AND OFFERING THEIR BETTER VISION AND ABILITIES TO LEAD AMERICA IN THE NEXT 4 YEARS.

I wish it wasn't so, but it is. Yeah, all you people SUCK! And stop blaming EVERYONE ELSE for it.

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Living in Massachusetts, I've always wondered how the very Democratic-acting Romney ever managed to become the Republican Presidential front-runner. He's Obama all over again, but without the BC issues.

Sadly, I wish more of the red states realized this, because even if Romney were to win in 2012, the choices really come down to Obama, and Romney-Obama.

Crash and burn, baby.

Yep.

What a farce.

Sounds like we're having a 3 G discussion, while the patient bleeds to death.

What do you want to bet the price of contrceptrives doubles in the next 3 years?

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Sounds like we're having a 3 G discussion, while the patient bleeds to death.

Really?

Where do you see guns, gays or God in a discussion about whether the ****ING GOVERNMENT has the right to STEAL money from one person and GIVE it to another, effectively forcing you to buy a good (in this case contraception) you don't want to purchase?

The point is that Romney often is called a "free market" guy.

BULL-****ING-****.

I was too quick to type a non reasoned response. "Typically" the abortion argument comes from a religious viewpoint, though I'm not particularly religious I do have a strong opinion.

I'm am totally opposed to Robomneycare.

I thought a few posters had good points in this thread. The last time I voted FOR a candidate was Ross Perot. Ever since then I've been voting against the biggest toilet in the room.

It's sad.

Voting for "the lesser of two evils," you are still voting for "evil." Duh.

If all my choices are Satan I will write in Beezlebub

Jstanley:

My sig would seem to apply here: "It's justifiably immoral to deal morally with an immoral entity."

If the Republicans can keep the House and gain the Senate, would a President Romney sign on to the Tea Party Budget?
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/21502....

Contraception is not an issue. The issue is freedom of religion. If you think it is about contraception, then you have taken Obama's hook.

All issues are important. Every issue has a constituency. Do not be misled by those that say social issue are unimportant.

I do not believe Republicans will lead us into a war against Iran. Romney, Santorum and Gingrich are all religious persons. Unless a war can be squared with Just War Theory, none of these three will take us to war.

I think Israel has a better handle than we do on what is happening in Iran. Israel has everything to lose, so if it attacks Iran, we can pretty much figure that it had no other choice except face annihilation. That is just my opinion. Others might not want to link their case for war to Israel's choice.