Good comment about the Supreme Court. I’m sending this to you because I don’t want to waste the next several hours of the day arguing with ansel12.
I wonder... is he/she suggesting that he or she would rather have Obama appoint the next 2-3 Supreme Court justices than Romney?
Yeah, that’s the ticket. This person would have to deal with Romney for 4-8 years, but with Obama’s appointees to the Court for probably decades. Yep, that sure seems like a winning strategy to me. /s
BTW, I’ve noticed that in the last few months it seems that FR has degenerated into sometimes very heated discussions between people I would call religious/social conservatives and those I would call political/economic conservatives. I am I guess (although I don’t like all these boxes we get put into) something of a conservative libertarian, so I usually just sit and watch.
But if these two sides don’t get there act together, we’ll all lose.
I’m reminded of two comments made by Americans :
“We had better hang together or we most assuredly will all hang separately” (Franklin)
“Never let the perfect be the enemy of the good”
(Reagan)
There is a lot of bickering, and i don’t know why some folks would rather have obummer instead of Romney.
I really heard it form on one of my post, and someone said it best, Well Bless Your Heart.
Here’s what I posted, i think you’ll like it.
His full Name is: Willard Mitt Romney
He was Born: March 12, 1947 and is 65 years old.
His Father: George W. Romney, former Governor of the State of Michigan
He was raised in Bloomfield Hills , Michigan
He is Married to Ann Romney since 1969; they five children.
Education:
B.A. from Brigham Young University,
J.D. and M.B.A. from Harvard University
Religion:
Mormon - The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints
Working Background:
After high school, he spent 30 months in France as a Mormon missionary.
After going to both Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School simultaneously, he passed the Michigan bar exam, but never worked as an attorney.
In 1984, he co-founded Bain Capital a private equity investment firm, one of the largest such firms in the United States .
In 1994, he ran for Senator of Massachusetts and lost to Ted Kennedy.
He was President and CEO of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.
In 2002, he was elected Governor of the State of Massachusetts where he eliminated a 1.5 billion deficit.
Some Interesting Facts about Romney:
Bain Capital, starting with one small office supply store in Massachusetts, turned it into Staples; now over 2,000 stores employing 90,000 people.
Bain Capital also worked to perform the same kinds of business miracles again and again, with companies like Domino’s, Sealy, Brookstone, Weather Channel, Burger King, Warner Music Group, Dollarama, Home Depot Supply, and many others.
He was an unpaid volunteer campaign worker for his dad’s gubernatorial campaign 1 year.
He was an unpaid intern in his dad’s governor’s office for eight years.
He was an unpaid bishop and state president of his church for ten years.
He was an unpaid President of the Salt Lake Olympic Committee for three years.
He took no salary and was the unpaid Governor of Massachusetts for four years.
He gave his entire inheritance from his father to charity.
Mitt Romney is one of the wealthiest self-made men in our country but has given more back to its citizens in terms of money, service and time than most men.
And in 2011 Mitt Romney gave over $4 million to charity, almost 19% of his income.... Just for comparison purposes, Obama gave 1% and Joe Biden gave $300 or .0013%.
Mitt Romney is Trustworthy:
He will show us his birth certificate
He will show us his high school and college transcripts.
He will show us his social security card.
He will show us his law degree.
He will show us his draft notice.
He will show us his medical records.
He will show us his income tax records.
He will show us he has nothing to hide.
Mitt Romney’s background, experience and trustworthiness show him to be a great leader and an excellent citizen for President of the United States.
You may think that Romney may not be the best representative the Republicans could have selected. At least I know what religion he is, and that he won’t desecrate the flag, bow down to foreign powers, or practice fiscal irresponsibility. I know he has the ability to turn this financial debacle that the current regime has gotten us into. We won’t like all the things necessary to recover from this debt, but someone with Romney’s background can do it. But, on the minus side, He never was a “Community Organizer”, never took drugs or smoked pot, never got drunk, did not associate with communists or terrorists, nor did he attend a church whose pastor called for God to damn the US.
You should know the difference between the men running for America’s top office.
Does Obama/Biden deserve 4 more years?
“there” is “their” (too early in the morning.)
An "economic conservative" is just a liberal who knows how to count.
Ditch the social conservatives, and nothing is left of conservatism. Theodore White, no friend of the movement but a haughty enemy, once observed that Barry Goldwater united the "economic" and social conservatives -- that both the libertarian and social conservatives look back to him. Ronald Reagan was aligned with Barry, atop the bifurcation which liberals and their ilk have labored mightily to exaggerate with their clever initiatives, to split the conservative movement politically -- and largely succeeded, because of the fecklessness of so-called Atlantic Coast-schooled "conservatives" who are less conservative than they are too rich to care about anything but their bank balances.