Re: Voters Have Two Candidates, No Choice

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On Mar 22, 3:24 pm, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Voters Have Two Candidates, No Choice
>
> > Posted on Mar 22, 2012
>
> > AP / Steven Senne
> > Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks at the University
> > of Chicago.
>
> > By Robert Scheer
>
> > With Mitt Romney's super-PAC limo now on cruise control to victory at
> > the GOP convention, voters are left with only two reasons to vote
> > against Barack Obama: Either they are desperate to return a white man
> > to the White House or they feel strongly that it is time to break the
> > glass ceiling denying Mormons the presidency.
>
> > Out of a sense of tolerance I could cotton to the latter—heck, why
> > should the bizarre beliefs of Romney's church be a deal breaker? I'm
> > hoping for a strong Jewish contender someday and wouldn't like her
> > burdened with defending Old Testament claptrap.
>
> > The problem in this mind-numbing Republican primary season is that the
> > campaign has exposed Romney as not just another white male Mormon like
> > some of the fairly reasonable senators who have represented Utah. Or
> > like Romney's own father, George, at one time the governor of
> > Michigan. No, this Romney is now widely regarded as the vulture
> > capitalist he is, a politician who is a say-and-do-anything
> > opportunist with no moral limits on his outsized ambitions.
>
> > Nothing is sacred to the former Massachusetts governor, not even his
> > own signature health plan that he sold to that state's voters as the
> > standard for rational government decision-making as regards the deep
> > problems faced by our economy. The weaknesses of what Romney and the
> > GOP deride as Obamacare have been all too obvious in the plan Romney
> > touted in Massachusetts—a mandate to sign up without the cost
> > restraints that a single-payer government program would offer. Now,
> > with a new national plan from Rep. Paul Ryan emerging from the U.S.
> > House, Romney and the Republican Party generally seek to compound that
> > error by undermining Medicare and Medicaid, two programs that offer at
> > least a modicum of cost control.  Instead, the candidate and his
> > fellow Republicans would turn consumers over completely to the tender
> > mercies of for-profit insurers.
>
> > The justification for gutting what little remains of enlightened
> > government programs to aid the vulnerable is, of course, the dreaded
> > federal deficit. (Lest we forget, seniors were foremost among the
> > vulnerable until the arrival of the programs now under attack.) What
> > is so outrageously hypocritical about the proposals from both Romney
> > and Ryan is that they do not touch, and indeed would further open, the
> > spending spigot that caused all of the red ink following President
> > Bill Clinton's budget-balancing act.
>
> > Advertisement
>
> > Both Romney and Ryan want to increase President George W. Bush's tax
> > breaks for the wealthy, which seriously cut revenues while treating as
> > sacrosanct the Cold War levels in military spending that Bush put in
> > place in a wildly irrational response to the 9/11 attacks. This week
> > Ryan announced that defense spending is off-limits, and Romney has
> > campaigned for an increase in what represents more than 40 percent of
> > the non-mandated federal budget.
>
> > I can't wait for the moment in a presidential debate when Romney talks
> > about the need for even more advanced U.S. weaponry to counter the
> > emerging military threat from Communist China and Obama ever so coolly
> > points out that Bain Capital, the company that Romney co-founded, has
> > been supplying those Red tyrants with surveillance equipment to better
> > monitor their citizenry.
>
> > With Ron Paul's fortunes as a presidential candidate declining, there
> > is no pressure on GOP leaders to link a withdrawal from the imperial
> > adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan with a reduced federal handout to
> > the military-industrial complex. Nor will the Republican leadership
> > confront the party's responsibility for the nation's economic
> > collapse, the subsequent loss in tax revenues, and the Fed and
> > Treasury policies that bailed out the Wall Street charlatans who
> > invented this meltdown.
>
> > Instead of reigning in Wall Street greed, the GOP is demanding a
> > reversal of even the tepid efforts of the Obama administration to hold
> > the financial industry accountable to honest business practices. And,
> > at a time when the largest multinational companies have shifted jobs
> > and profits abroad, the GOP stands for rewarding that betrayal of
> > American workers by eliminating all taxes on overseas corporate
> > profits.
>
> > The pity in all this is that a legitimate critique of the Obama
> > record—present to some degree in the Paul dissection of the
> > president's war policy and his continuation of the Bush Wall Street
> > bailout strategy—will not be heard in the general election debate.
> > Instead, on the one hand, we will have Obama offering clever-sounding
> > arguments for establishment policies that fail to deal with high
> > unemployment, a brutal level of housing foreclosures and sharpening
> > income inequality. And on the other hand there will be a Republican
> > Party so steeped in the ethos of greed, racism and war-mongering that
> > it would leave even Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon, were they alive,
> > with no choice but to vote for Obama as the lesser evil.
>
> > More:
>
> >http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/voters_have_two_candidates_no_cho...
>
> > --
> > Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> > Have a great day,
> > Tommy
>
> > --
> > Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> > Have a great day,
> > Tommy
>
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