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Romney

Higgins86 said:
my only worry with Romney is FP but it was the same worry I had when Obama took office. Most presidents are pretty green when it comes to FP and most of the stuff they say during the campaign trail never comes to head because they have people around them who advise them, people who are experts in the field.
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Well Romney has all of Bush's advisors on board so at least we know what we will get there. Can you imagine a weak inexperienced patsy like Romney who can't even stand up to Trump, standng up to Bolton?
Not likely. Romney's a Neocons wet dream. That extra $2 Trillion is just a down payment.
 
iguanaman said:
Well Romney has all of Bush's advisors on board so at least we know what we will get there. Can you imagine a weak inexperienced patsy like Romney who can't even stand up to Trump, standng up to Bolton?
Not likely. Romney's a Neocons wet dream. That extra $2 Trillion is just a down payment.
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that is belied by the fact that neither Bush has done squat to help Romney My sources (including former WH counsel attorneys, etc and two of Bush's biggest fundraisers) suggest that W and Mitt aren't exactly buddies.
 
Higgins86 said:
I live in NH and I wasnt talking about the whole state I was talking about my wifes family. Thought that was pretty clear!
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They are in the minority if they liked Romney as Goverrnor. He didn't run for a 2nd term because of his Presidetial aspiratations. But it is doubtful he could have won a 2nd term anyway. Some "Star" performer huh?

A March 2005 poll found that only 32 percent felt Romney should be re-elected if he ran for a second term as governor (69 percent of Republicans said he should be re-elected, compared to 31 percent of independents and 12 percent of Democrats).[234] Many in Massachusetts grew dissatisfied with Romney's frequent out-of-state travel and shift toward promoting socially conservative issues as he began to focus increasingly on national rather than state politics.[239][240]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governorship_of_Mitt_Romney
 
TurtleDude said:
that is belied by the fact that neither Bush has done squat to help Romney My sources (including former WH counsel attorneys, etc and two of Bush's biggest fundraisers) suggest that W and Mitt aren't exactly buddies.
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The lack of Bush "support" was requested by Romney....... That silence is the best support Bush could give. There is no more hated man than he.
 
iguanaman said:
Well Romney has all of Bush's advisors on board so at least we know what we will get there. Can you imagine a weak inexperienced patsy like Romney who can't even stand up to Trump, standng up to Bolton?
Not likely. Romney's a Neocons wet dream. That extra $2 Trillion is just a down payment.
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Bush's advisors the same advisors that had to deal with the biggest attack on America soil since Pearl Harbour? Very easy to 2nd guess them but what would you have done in the same situation? I was a teenager in the UK during Bush's term but I respected his response to 9/11 and equally respected his stance on Iraq. Iraq a country that the west had to go to war with during the Gulf war and then continued to disobey UN protocol during Clintons term which resulted in heavy bombing. The 2nd war in Iraq was only a matter of time and it meant little that Bush was president, it was coming.
 
andrewf said:
sorry about the punctuation I've always had a hard time using it
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Don't worry about punctuation. A good forum is about getting your point across and you did that well. People who play the grammar police simply have nothing to say, IMHO. Write on.
 
Hairytic said:
Don't worry about punctuation. A good forum is about getting your point across and you did that well. People who play the grammar police simply have nothing to say, IMHO. Write on.
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Um, did you see the OP? I've seen kindergarteners high on crack write better.
 
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andrewf said:
While I think both presidential candidates work mostly for the business community I have to say that Obama is way way better than Romney I mean look at his policies
Not lowering taxes on the middle class link here Romney Tells Ohioans Not to Expect ‘Huge’ Tax Cuts / ideastream - Northeast Ohio Public Radio, Television and Multiple Media while decreasing domestic spending
Increasing military spending the American people get noting from that policy
More tax cuts for small business most small business people are wealthy
Drilling for more oil which is horrible for the environment and the economy in the long run
keeping the rich on welfare through super low taxes
and more vertical taxes on the poor
Him and his teenage running mate keep on insulting the Federal reserve probably trying to get Ron Paul voter's, sorry to say Ron Paul is an economic no nothing
I mean he's so crazy and so right wing it's unbelieveable.
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Reading your post was like an epileptic seizure. So much progressive dogma, yet so little grammar.
 
Hairytic said:
Don't worry about punctuation. A good forum is about getting your point across and you did that well. People who play the grammar police simply have nothing to say, IMHO. Write on.
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If you say so.
 
Higgins86 said:
See im sick with the left wing potraying Romney as some sort of rich overload as much as im sick with the right wing saying Obama is a dirty commie. Romney no matter what you say about him is a successful business man which in America ( a captalist country) is a plus and his record as Gov of Mass is on the table. My wifes family are from Newburyport Mass and are democrats but the majority will be voting in Romney because they liked him as a Gov. Personally im not fond of Romney but I dont think for one second if he were elected that the USA would collapse, you dont make the kind of money Romney has by acting recklessly in a position of power.
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Bush was a business man and a good governor also. That didn't turn out so well.
 
Higgins86 said:
my only worry with Romney is FP but it was the same worry I had when Obama took office. Most presidents are pretty green when it comes to FP and most of the stuff they say during the campaign trail never comes to head because they have people around them who advise them, people who are experts in the field.
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I worry about Romney on FP also, but what I worry about is he is using former Bush advisers. We don't need any FP adivers from the Bush administration.
 
Hairytic said:
I worry about Romney on FP also, but what I worry about is he is using former Bush advisers. We don't need any FP adivers from the Bush administration.
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What kind of advisors do we need? Perhaps more like Rahm Emanuel.........Mr. "Never let a good crisis go to waste." :lol:
 
Rokkitsci said:
As long as our military maintains its chain of command with honorable people in command I don't worry about foreign policy relative to national security. Aside from that I don't really care much what other countries "think" of us = as long as we are the super-power and continue using our incredible military resources for the right causes.

I do fear that with a long string of 'progressive' (commie-leaning) presidents our military chain of command will become infected with 'political correctness' and lose its core strength. Then our foreign policy will become just another political weapon to be wielded to protect one social experiment after another until it will be indistinguishable from Saddam's "Republican Guard." A personal body guard for a corrupt president.

We need strong constitutionalists (i.e. conservatives) at the helm of President of the United States.
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Saddam wasn't a socialist, so I don't understand how you get from point A to point B on this one. BTW, progressives are not communist leaning. Also, conservatives are no better constitutionalists than progressives. Maybe you should learn what a progressive is.
 
FluffyNinja said:
What kind of advisors do we need? Perhaps more like Rahm Emanuel.........Mr. "Never let a good crisis go to waste." :lol:
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Right, because we know that the Romney advisors would never, say, take advantag of a major terrorist attack on US soil to invade Iraq.
 
AdamT said:
Right, because we know that the Romney advisors would never, say, take advantag of a major terrorist attack on US soil to invade Iraq.
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Pure speculation on your part.......Rahm Emanuel actually said it.....on camera. Nice try. :lol:
 
AdamT said:
Speculation my ass. :lamo

The impact of Bush linking 9/11 and Iraq / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com
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Dude, this article is from 2003. First off, how do we know that Romney is using all of these very same advisors or will be if he's elected president? Second, when are you dems gonna let the Bush era die? I think we're treading on historic ground here..........has ANY president in history ever run a campaign for REELECTION on a former presidents record........from over four years in the past? This is laughable really. Speaks volumes as to the failures of Obama's policies both foreign and domestic.

Say what you will.......we have Rahm on record saying"never let a good crisis go to waste...." all you have is a speculative article from 2003 and a few washed-up former Bush advisors that Romney may have consulted to help formulate at least part of his foreign policy approach......you are grasping at straws.........and not grabbing hold of very many. :lol:
 
TurtleDude said:
that is belied by the fact that neither Bush has done squat to help Romney My sources (including former WH counsel attorneys, etc and two of Bush's biggest fundraisers) suggest that W and Mitt aren't exactly buddies.
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Or his help isn't wanted by the Romney Campaign, not wanting to be associated with a 'failed' president.
 
Higgins86 said:
Bush's advisors the same advisors that had to deal with the biggest attack on America soil since Pearl Harbour? Very easy to 2nd guess them but what would you have done in the same situation? I was a teenager in the UK during Bush's term but I respected his response to 9/11 and equally respected his stance on Iraq. Iraq a country that the west had to go to war with during the Gulf war and then continued to disobey UN protocol during Clintons term which resulted in heavy bombing. The 2nd war in Iraq was only a matter of time and it meant little that Bush was president, it was coming.
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LOL Bush was warned about 911 and told no one. His foreign policy is widely held to be the worst in modern history. 5000 dead in a useless war that he started under false pretenses. Don't get me started on Bush
 
FluffyNinja said:
Dude, this article is from 2003. First off, how do we know that Romney is using all of these very same advisors or will be if he's elected president? Second, when are you dems gonna let the Bush era die? I think we're treading on historic ground here..........has ANY president in history ever run a campaign for REELECTION on a former presidents record........from over four years in the past? This is laughable really. Speaks volumes as to the failures of Obama's policies both foreign and domestic.

Say what you will.......we have Rahm on record saying"never let a good crisis go to waste...." all you have is a speculative article from 2003 and a few washed-up former Bush advisors that Romney may have consulted to help formulate at least part of his foreign policy approach......you are grasping at straws.........and not grabbing hold of very many. :lol:
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So you think he will throw Bolton under the bus if elected? You must be kidding, Romney's nothing but a wuss in a tuxedo. Neocons will easily take over in a area Romney does not much about. It is a frightening thought. Will Romney allow another attack like Bush did? Will the same suspects take us into war in the middle east again? How many Americans will die this time?

Eleven years after the fact, the key relevance of 9/11 to Campaign 2012 is that Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has surrounded himself with neoconservative foreign policy advisers much as George W. Bush did in 2001, when the neocons let their ideological obsessions blind them to the threat from al-Qaeda.

In spring and summer 2001, the CIA and counterterrorism experts frantically rang warning bells, trying to get President Bush to order a full-court press aimed at stopping an attack that al-Qaeda was plotting. U.S. intelligence agencies weren’t sure exactly where al-Qaeda would strike but they were sure that something big was coming.

The neocons, however, had regarded the Clinton administration’s fear about al-Qaeda terrorism as a distraction, a relatively minor concern when compared to the neocon certainty that the far greater Middle East danger came from Saddam Hussein’s Iraq
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Romney's Neocon Foreign Policy: Written by Those Who Ignored al Qaeda Threat | Alternet
 
andrewf said:
Not lowering taxes on the middle class link here Romney Tells Ohioans Not to Expect ‘Huge’ Tax Cuts / ideastream - Northeast Ohio Public Radio, Television and Multiple Media while decreasing domestic spending
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Yeah...I'd TOTALLY believe public radio. They're soooo non-biased.

Increasing military spending the American people get noting from that policy
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They get security against folks that want to do them harm.
More tax cuts for small business most small business people are wealthy
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The vast majority of small business owners aren't wealthy. You are delusioned.

Drilling for more oil which is horrible for the environment and the economy in the long run
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How would it be horrible for the economy? Explain please.
keeping the rich on welfare through super low taxes
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Super low? We have the highest corporate taxes in the world! Obviously you don't know much about business.

Him and his teenage running mate keep on insulting the Federal reserve probably trying to get Ron Paul voter's
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Oh, but Obama's doofus of a VP is totally competent because he's not "teenaged?"

You've totally discredited yourself on only your 16th post. Nice.
 
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