Romney and Gingrich - What Would You Do?
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For the time being, the GOP nomination race is being led by two men: Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney.We've all had the opportunity to watch debates as they pontificate about Obama's shortcomings and each other's shortcomings. So and so did this bad thing and so and so's policies and programs failed here and so and so's ethics are lower than a cockroach.
Enough of that. That's not cutting it in the primaries and it won't cut it in the general election. No, that's just pushing hot buttons so that people will react with their guts rather than their heads. Of course, given the nature of the electorate, that's often a good strategy.
Regardless, it's time to carve a line in the concrete [never understood why drawing a line in shifting sands made sense as a metaphor]. It is time to get away from what others have done or not done and state specifically what you as a candidate see as:
- the top five issues facing the U.S. over the next four years [keep religion, beliefs, and law pertaining to such out of it]
- how you would address those top five issues [get specific]
- why your approach would be better than what is presently the case
- who benefits from your solutions [everyone is not an acceptable answer]
- who might not benefit from your solutions, why, and is that a problem
- what it would take to implement your plan [besides votes in Congress]
We don't need a 164-point GPS directions kit. We don't need broad generalizations that have little meaning [give America back to the people; free will; hard work; more jobs... everyone says that; save the environment; etc.]. We need a high-level structure against which specific proposals will be tested and either accepted or rejected. If you can't come up with your top five issues and solutions, you are just blowing smoke.
We will then be able to see which candidate has the vision and substance to set a meaningful direction for the next four years. We've already seen that "hope" and "change" sound good, but are absolutely meaningless. Let's not repeat that by substituting some other unactionable nouns... "liberty" and "individualism."
WHAT WE DON'T NEED:
...maybe even step one.
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American voters need to reject both or risk increasing the chances of Obama winning another term.
Both men are terrible on the military because they want continued meddling abroad at a time when the US is broke and unable to deal with its unfunded liabilities. American voters want the troops back home and they should be back home.
Both men are insiders. As such they are weak on the size of government issue and incapable of making the serious cuts that are needed to keep the United States solvent for as long as possible. Government spending needs to be cut by at least two trillion a year. Most government departments and agencies need to be cut by 60-100%.
Both men are weak on the Constitutional limits set on federal power. Voters need to elect someone who understands and obeys the Constitution.
Both men are weak on individual liberty. GOP voters need to find a candidate who isn't.
From what I can tell Obama is laughing his ass off as either Newt or Mitt gives him a much better chance at victory.
Waiting anxiously for your take on to whom the voters will flock and sweep Obama out of office.
Waiting anxiously for your take on to whom the voters will flock and sweep Obama out of office.
Romney has a shot because he is not all that different than Obama. But his problem is that the two idiots running against him attacked capitalism and have managed to turn many Republican voters into envious hypocrites who would vote against a person because he happens to be rich.
The polls have Dr. Paul in a statistical tie with Obama. He hurts the Democrats with his stance in favour of peace, his stance against the bailouts that Santorum, Newt, and Mitt supported, his position on the War on Drugs, and on the issue of civil liberties. He gets the bulk of the independents and attracts many of the young people who were needed to elect Obama in the last election.
There is no way either Newt or Santorum has a chance of beating Obama AND being a good president. A victory by either would destroy the GOP because voters would turn against it if there is more war spending, the expansion of the police state, or a further devaluation of the USD.
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