Defending Fiscal Insanity

National Review ^ | April 5, 2012 | John Lott

[Bobbys1963]

This is from part of John Lott's new book.

[LMAO]

A collapsing, childlike presidency and all the GOP can offer the voters is Romney.

[Carriage Hill]

“I was creating it before I was preventing it”.

[Clintonfatigued]

Any Americans who still supports Obama now have something wrong with them. It shocks me that he’s a viable candidate. A Republican President who had presided over a record like this would be facing impeachment hearings.

[samtheman]

I’ll state the obvious and say that the only way the Liar In Chief can get away with reversing his campaign stance one week after elected is the media is in his pocket.

[upchuck]

Violent crime will soar and illegal aliens will flood across our borders

I guess ovomit doesn't read the papers.

Hello?

[Standing Wolf]

“Demagoguery” is not too strong of a word to describe Obama’s speech.

The word "demogoguery" contains an awful lot of syllables for President Food Stamps, don't you think?

[justiceseeker93]

A collapsing, childlike presidency and all the GOP can offer the voters is Romney.

I'm not supporting Romney in the GOP primary process and cast my ballot accordingly.

However, even with his warts and all, he would clearly be much more "adult" than the childlike Obama on the economy and the federal budget. So if he's the GOP nominee, those of us who have preferred someone else would be foolish not to support him in the general election. When and if Romney is pitted head to head against Obama, we have to choose by far the lesser of the two evils, or else risk four more years of hell.

[SCalGal]

we have to choose by far the lesser of the two evils,

The lesser of two evils is still evil.

[justiceseeker93]

The lesser of two evils is still evil.

Yes, by definition. But unfortunately, we sometimes have to look at a less than optimal choice.

[Son House]

Romney is the ‘Give us Barabbas’ vote. Except for the Democrat’s Candidate is not to be compared to the Biblical reference, for us anyhow...

[RedMDer]

Click

[SCalGal]

But unfortunately, we sometimes have to look at a less than optimal choice.

There was no way we were going to get an optimal choice.

I can't vote for Romney and Romenycare.... I simply do NOT see how he can stand there and call himself "conservative".

We're being flushed. If the difference is being flushed slowly (Romney) or flushed quickly (Obummer), then I'm voting for my dog.

[SCalGal]

Romney is the ‘Give us Barabbas’ vote.

Love the analogy; mind if I borrow it?

[Son House]

Go ahead and use as you see fit, I was wondering if anyone else would get it, as you obviously know some folks here are protective about what they post being their ‘own’, but I figure once it’s passed through the internet good luck getting a post-copy-write protection.

[gogogodzilla]

More like... ‘all the card-carrying GOP primary voters can choose is Romney.

For despite the base being more than 60% of the party... they are not monolithic. Half are social conservatives who couldn’t care less about how big the government gets as long as their agenda is carried out.

And the other half are fiscal conservatives, who don’t want to pay for a big government... or want a government that powerful.

Social conservatives won’t even consider a fiscal conservative, as a small government cannot have the power to enforce their goals.

And fiscal conservatives won’t consider a government powerful enough to deliver what a social conservative wants.

Hence, we get the mushy moderate.

[SCalGal]

Go ahead and use as you see fit, I was wondering if anyone else would get it, as you obviously know some folks here are protective about what they post being their ‘own’, but I figure once it’s passed through the internet good luck getting a post-copy-write protection.

LOL, exactly, but it's still polite to ask. Thanks.

[rbg81]

Any Americans who still supports Obama now have something wrong with them. It shocks me that he’s a viable candidate.

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The SAD truth of the matter is that the election is Obama’s to lose. 50 years of liberal indoctrination have made most Americans unable to do even basic reasoning. And that holds especially true for women, who seem all-to-easily easily swayed by these ludicrious arguments. Our debt may scare Americans but, at the end of the day, specific cuts scare them more. I’m convinced that only a total systematic collapse will awaken people from their stupor.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

A collapsing, childlike presidency and all the GOP can offer the voters is Romney.

That about sums it up. Here we are again with another Dole and McCain. The GOP is absolutely pathetic.

[mo]

That’s not by accident. The GOP wants as far away from economic disaster AND real Federal Constitutional Reform.. As a consequence it will be decades before they own the WH again.