If I hear, “Why not vote for Romney, he’s better than Obama…and that’s who you should care about beating.” one more time…I’m going to scream. Who is to say that I want Romney over Obama…for instance, Obama would only get 4 more years to wreak havoc…while Romney would have a potential 8 year disaster plan. Advantage: Obama. But what about all the differences…well…I see these things as “basically the same ice cream, with a different flavored topping." Let me use some popular examples…so you can put it into perspective when deciding who you want to vote for.
War: Obama has us in undeclared wars, along with Presidential prerogative allowing strikes in Libya, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq…and soon to be Syria, Iran and who else? Mitt would continue undeclared wars but he also has said he is committed to stopping Iran from obtaining nuclear capabilities. His position on his website is to seek out everyone in the world who would plot against us…continued pressure (money) given to occupied countries to buy their cooperation. Gary would pull us out of all undeclared wars, return our troops to US soil and stop all foreign aid to countries. Our military policy would be one of a defensive nature. He could reduce spending immensely if we didn’t have 100+ bases in the Middle East, Japan, Germany…etc. Let those countries defend themselves.
Values: Obama has evolved to support Gay rights for marriage. Although he has a storied history with drugs, he continues the war on drugs and the spending for this has reached levels that cannot be sustained…all the while drug use has not been curbed by any of it. Obama also believes that abortion is a right, and supports the woman’s right to choose. Mitt believes that life begins at conception and has called for Roe v Wade to be overturned. He believes that marriage is sacred and should not be extended to gays…because it is “for the wellbeing of civilization”…meaning that as long as it is best for society, he should be able to usurp personal liberties. Gary believes in choice until the fetus is viable out of the womb. He believes prostitution would be safer if legalized, and since it is going on, it wouldn’t necessarily grow in popularity. Gays are individuals, and deserve the same rights as anyone…and the role of government is not to manage marriages, nor to decide who should be allowed to love someone else. Medical marijuana and recreational drug use are still safer than alcohol, and the federal war on drugs currently is not producing results to curb the demand for drugs. Save the money, release the prisoners and focus on the health aspect, not the criminal aspect of drug use…we can do more by seeing drug users as people, not criminals.
Health Care: Obama…well, he did Obamacare. Mitt has a sticky past with this issue, we all know that he was the architect…but let’s examine his ethos and extrapolate his position. He already thinks that the “wellbeing of civilization” trumps individual liberty, and here are some more quotes, “health care is essential source of well-being for the individual and family”…so government intervention is ok? “The role of the federal government is to create a level playing field for competition.”…wow…so free market and personal liberty…again take a backseat (or roof rack) to the common good? Mitt also believes that the wealthy should get fewer benefits (Social Security/Medicare) than those that are more “needy”…even though they contributed more than most to the system. Gary simply believes that the answer can be found by allowing states to explore different methods and learn from other states who have succeeded or failed. The federal government has no role in the distribution of health care services.
Government Role in Business: Obama believes that the government can have an active role in choosing which businesses succeed or fail, even if that means taking stake holding positions with taxpayer money and “bailing” out companies who are not fit to survive without the moneys. Mitt wants to have “limits to regulatory costs” and “structurally change the bureaucracy” to allow more flexibility in business to endure the regulatory costs incurred by governments meddling. Gary would eliminate corporate taxes, the government’s role is not to create wealth, jobs or winners and losers. Government and its agencies should not meddle with business without a valid and provable infringement of the rights of others.
Gun Control: Obama is willing to plant guns in criminals’ hands to fabricate a reason to write more gun control laws, even if it means a few government agents protecting our border are shot and killed with those guns. Mitt will “enforce all laws on the books” and never mentions whether he would limit the scope of the ATF and other out of control agencies without oversight by congress. If Obama gets a law written, I assume Mitt doesn’t care enough about liberty to work to overturn it, he would just enforce laws on the books. He has admitted that the NRA doesn’t love him…and neither should people who care about their safety enough to not wait for police to defend themselves. Gary has stated that gun laws don’t work to combat crime, as criminals don’t follow laws. He supports the individual’s right to defend himself, and the second amendment is there to limit the government from infringing on the rights of the individual.
Spending: Obama loves it…can’t get enough. Mitt wants to cut $500 Billion/year starting in 2016? What? Gary wants to cut 43% of the spending in the first year to balance the budget. These cuts would be to military, foreign aid, wasteful programs, as well as agencies that are not supporting the role of government. States would get grants to figure out their own issues and the role of the federal government would be pared back to constitutionally designated roles.
OK. Those of you that loved Obama’s positions…you won’t change no matter what. Those of you who supported Mitt’s positions…you will vote for him. BUT, if you can read this and see that it is "Six of one, and a half dozen of the other" with Mitt and Obama…then you KNOW…It’s gotta be Gary for President 2012.
-Rev
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