I was so distracted by the uncalled for animosity displayed by Rick Perry last night.....When Perry first entered the race I had high expectations for him - I don't know why, maybe all the hype and suggestion of white knight on his charger...anyway, he certainly has not lived up to the hype. I am beginning to think he has so many negatives he tries to cover them up with his constant, and uncalled for attacks on Romney. Perry does not wear well. His physical stance reminds me of the high-school bully just waiting to pick a fight. With his solid backing on the immigration issues and bickering just doesn't do anything for me.
I was distracted by Romney's arrogance and defiance, especially on health care. When Gingrich and Santorum rightfully attacked Romney about RomneyCare and his lack of credibility on the issue, Romney got red-faced and angry. For some unknown reason Bachman came to his rescue and changed the subject. But you know, come to think of it, Bachman (who claims to be a conservative) never attacks Romney. Hmmmm. At any rate, Romney's temper and phony rhetoric are troubling. He says " well if they don't like it, they can get rid of it." However, the truth is once you put a big government entitlement in place that people get dependent on, it is not that easy to just get rid of. Romney has attacked Perry almost daily with inaccurate and false information (including fliers) about his record on immigration. So, as silly as it is, Romney's hypocrisy on immigration is fair game. Amnesty was yet another thing that Romney was for before he was against it.
Newt won the debate....again. He is the only one with workable solutions. If the public can forgive the sins of JFK, Bobby, Teddy, MLK,and Clinton, why not Newt? None of his sins put America in jeopardy like some of these Dems. And he has a Contract with real solutions. I would vote for anyone but the Hunt or Paul for Prez but even the weaker candidates would not kill America as Obama and his Dem minions in the Senate have. And we all know Mitt would wipe the floor with Bama in a debate by just reminding voters of the huge list of failed Bama policies. That alone would take about an hour in a debate. LOL
Romney did a great jobs! He clealy is the one that can best Unite the Republican party, independents, and democrats who realize what a disaster Obama has been to beat Obama in Nov 2012. And Romney has the most business experience to fix the disastrous economy Obama has inflicted on us and get Americans back to work. The Kool-Aide drinking left wing mainstream media knows all that so they will be after Romney, but then he should know that the mainstream media is on the Obama relection team, and be prepared for it. Hopefully? It always surprises me that Republicans tend to forget that!
The Boston Herald column Newt referenced in the debate last night was by Margery Eagan, "Health-care agency sick" http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view/2011_1018health-care_agency_sick/ . It exposes the disaster of RomneyCare as it's playing out in Mass.
Other aspects of Romney's record still need to be exposed. See MITT ROMNEY'S DECEPTION, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwwcAa6nHm4 He actually promoted "gay marriage" -- implementing it in violation of the Constitution, without legislative authorization. Romney called the illegitimate court ruling "law." Romney supported Kevin Jennings' "gay" propaganda in the Mass. public schools, a "Governor's Commission on Gay & Lesbian Youth," and Dept. of Educ. "Safe Schools" programs. He issued proclamations celebrating GLBT "Youth Pride" events. Romney included Planned Parenthood and its $50 abortions in RomneyCare. And more...
Thought the debate turned into a food fight, and CNN was after ratings -- not substance!
1 - Gingrich (Really seemed to be the only one that remained 'presidential' throughout the debate)
2 - Romney (Took a lot of blows, but still standing at the end)
3 - Cain (Also, took a lot of blows, but did not respond as professionally as Romney)
4 - (Distant Fourth) - Sanatorum -- strictly for throwing punches with some landing on Cain.
5 - Bachmann -- for repeating over, and over, and over that Obama was going to be a 'one term president', and again letting us know that she was a federal tax attorney
6 - Paul (Still Paul)
7 - Perry (He was not prepared again -- indicating that he was going to release another plan this Friday. Thought he really came across in a petty fashion. Perry -- in our view -- is not ready for prime time! The guy really seems to have an IQ deficit!)
Here is what I believe to be a more thoughtful and fair analysis:
1- Gingrich (smart elder statesman, not afraid to attack Romney) 2- Cain (for standing up to the criticism without getting angry) 3- Perry (for doing better than last time, was more prepared, more confidence and passion about the need for energy independence) 4- Santorum-not afraid to call Romney on his lack of credibility 5- Paul- I don't understand his foreign policy, but he is an honest man 6- Romney-too slick, too polished, and too phony; I don't trust him. He got angry and lost his cool when attacked by SAntorum, Gingrich, and Perry; and then he called out Anderson ! Anderson ! to save him. 7- Bachman-I don't get why she runs to Romney's rescue when she claims to be a conservative. Do they have a financial arrangement worked out?
Attacks on Romneycare aren't going to hurt Romney's poll numbers because its old news. All Romney supporters already know about Romneycare and have decided to support him anyway because it isn't a liability.
As more and more Americans fall into poverty, instead of any honest assessment of our program in Massachusetts, or the nation's need for health care reform in general, you get this sort of knee-jerk idiocy, with Gingrich and Romney running from their own ideas, instead of addressing the actual realities.
The truth is, as Physicians For A National Health Care Plan point out, 'the reason we spend more and get less than the rest of the world is because we have a patchwork system of for-profit payers,' all of them, I'd add, seeking not the best answer for a patient's health, but to sell the most profitable services, devices and pills, many of them unnecessary. What Romney should say is that a) the cost containment problems presented by the Commonwealth's universal coverage were always planned to be addressed subsequently, as they are now by the move to substitute global pay systems for fee-for-service amongst providers, and that b) as Obama always pointed out before his usual dive into the arms of special, campaign contributing interests, that a true single-payer system would be of great advantage to the nation's peoples and industries, spreading risk over the entire pool of patients, and allowing for the elimination of all sorts of overlapping bureaucracies. Every other industrial country has healthier populations wildly more content with their healthcare than ours, at half the cost.
These people should try to understand not only Socialism, which in the age of massive markets is the only truly fair way of distributing the fruits of a huge, collective endeavors such as is our interconnected economy while preserving the price-setting and resource allocation virtues of free-markets, but why it is that the owners of property and their millionaire politician shills are so anxious to turn the entire concept into a Frankenstinian monster - and has nothing to do with the efficiency of crony capitalism, and everything to do with protecting their own obscene gains.
Meanwhile, misery and suffering and literal death and destruction face millions of our people, so that the rich can cavort in their limousines and twenty-thousand foot manors, and then joke about being unemployed as they seek, laughably, to call themselves our leaders.
Perry needs to quit now and quit wasting our time and other people's money. What an embarrassment for the people of Texas that they elected this man twice! If Perry were nominated Obama would whip the daylights out of him at their first and only debate.
On the other hand, Romeny did extremely well against all comers last night. He was the adult in the room giving them all a lesson in simple civility. He will easily beat Obama, hands down.
The rest of them haven't got a clue which end is up.
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Other aspects of Romney's record still need to be exposed. See MITT ROMNEY'S DECEPTION, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwwcAa6nHm4
He actually promoted "gay marriage" -- implementing it in violation of the Constitution, without legislative authorization. Romney called the illegitimate court ruling "law."
Romney supported Kevin Jennings' "gay" propaganda in the Mass. public schools, a "Governor's Commission on Gay & Lesbian Youth," and Dept. of Educ. "Safe Schools" programs. He issued proclamations celebrating GLBT "Youth Pride" events.
Romney included Planned Parenthood and its $50 abortions in RomneyCare.
And more...
1 - Gingrich (Really seemed to be the only one that remained 'presidential' throughout the debate)
2 - Romney (Took a lot of blows, but still standing at the end)
3 - Cain (Also, took a lot of blows, but did not respond as professionally as Romney)
4 - (Distant Fourth) - Sanatorum -- strictly for throwing punches with some landing on Cain.
5 - Bachmann -- for repeating over, and over, and over that Obama was going to be a 'one term president', and again letting us know that she was a federal tax attorney
6 - Paul (Still Paul)
7 - Perry (He was not prepared again -- indicating that he was going to release another plan this Friday. Thought he really came across in a petty fashion. Perry -- in our view -- is not ready for prime time! The guy really seems to have an IQ deficit!)
1- Gingrich (smart elder statesman, not afraid to attack Romney)
2- Cain (for standing up to the criticism without getting angry)
3- Perry (for doing better than last time, was more prepared, more confidence and passion about the need for energy independence)
4- Santorum-not afraid to call Romney on his lack of credibility
5- Paul- I don't understand his foreign policy, but he is an honest man
6- Romney-too slick, too polished, and too phony; I don't trust him. He got angry and lost his cool when attacked by SAntorum, Gingrich, and Perry; and then he called out Anderson ! Anderson ! to save him.
7- Bachman-I don't get why she runs to Romney's rescue when she claims to be a conservative. Do they have a financial arrangement worked out?
The truth is, as Physicians For A National Health Care Plan point out, 'the reason we spend more and get less than the rest of the world is because we have a patchwork system of for-profit payers,' all of them, I'd add, seeking not the best answer for a patient's health, but to sell the most profitable services, devices and pills, many of them unnecessary. What Romney should say is that a) the cost containment problems presented by the Commonwealth's universal coverage were always planned to be addressed subsequently, as they are now by the move to substitute global pay systems for fee-for-service amongst providers, and that b) as Obama always pointed out before his usual dive into the arms of special, campaign contributing interests, that a true single-payer system would be of great advantage to the nation's peoples and industries, spreading risk over the entire pool of patients, and allowing for the elimination of all sorts of overlapping bureaucracies. Every other industrial country has healthier populations wildly more content with their healthcare than ours, at half the cost.
These people should try to understand not only Socialism, which in the age of massive markets is the only truly fair way of distributing the fruits of a huge, collective endeavors such as is our interconnected economy while preserving the price-setting and resource allocation virtues of free-markets, but why it is that the owners of property and their millionaire politician shills are so anxious to turn the entire concept into a Frankenstinian monster - and has nothing to do with the efficiency of crony capitalism, and everything to do with protecting their own obscene gains.
Meanwhile, misery and suffering and literal death and destruction face millions of our people, so that the rich can cavort in their limousines and twenty-thousand foot manors, and then joke about being unemployed as they seek, laughably, to call themselves our leaders.
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On the other hand, Romeny did extremely well against all comers last night. He was the adult in the room giving them all a lesson in simple civility. He will easily beat Obama, hands down.
The rest of them haven't got a clue which end is up.