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McCain has lost my vote due to his poor character and his voting against the tax cuts that turned our economy around.
Huckabee is a morale conservative which I am but a fiscal Democrat who is week on defense.
Please do not vote for either of them. Romney has the complete package (fiscal, morale, and defense) but if your too bigoted to vote for him vote for Guliani
The fact that all these guys piled on Romney show that they see him as the biggest threat. Although the MSM were emphasizing the thrashing the other five tried to give Romney, on most of the blogs he was seen as the clear winner.
A lot of people who had been leaning towards McCain disliked what they saw. Lots of people said they decided to vote for Romney after his performance on tonight's debate.
Glad to see it. No one else has anywhere near the executive ability, brains, and analytical ability that Mitt has. TV's Jim Kramer says on a great YouTube video that Romney is the best businessman in America. Just what we need to keep the economy on track.
Stable, ethical guy with no skeletons in the closet. The Democrats worst nightmare--someone with integrity and genuine, proven ability.
Go, Mitt! Straight to the White House!
The YouTube clip shows exactly how dishonest Huckabee is. Two weeks after Romney issued a January 2007 press release supporting the surge; the Huckster does an interview deliberately distinguishing himself from other candidates by withholding support.
In the Jan. 24, 2007 interview on MSNBC�s �Live,� Norah O�Donnell asks:
�We have a Rudy Giuliani, who supports the president�s plan on Iraq. We have Governor Mitt Romney, who also supports a troop surge. How are you different from any of those candidates?�
Huckabee: �Well, I�m not sure that I support the troop surge, if that surge has to come from our Guard and Reserve troops, which have really been overly stretched.�
As to getting rid of illegals, the candidate who says send them back is... part owner of Greyhound bus company? Let's do the math: 40 people per trip, and we need to remove 10,000,000 people. Hmmmm. Logistics... logistics... Not imposible, but darn dumb! No, the president is not going to put people on buses, etc. What ever idiot promotes that can't divide, can't envision the negative photo ops sent throughout the world, etc. ect.
Big fence, big gate, use available means to make citizens out of people. Busing is ... beyond the pale. Good grief. Get a grip on it.
He also made Mass deficit a surplus w/o raising taxes, which means he cuts wasteful spending. This guy is money
Big fence, big gate, and use modern means to id everyone and let's move on.
Yeah, they got away with walking hundreds of miles through parched desert, working crappie jobs, and hiding from everyone and still sending money home, etc. Facing reality is a prerequisite for being a leader. Which republican is going to stand up for big fence, big gate, and modern means of iding people?
Now you do not have to follow that advice if you own a bus company with 250,000 buses ... and can put 40 people on each bus...
reality always interferes with idealism
When you look at Romney's qualifications, his education, his record on running businesses, his example of moral ethics, and his resilience toward the bitterness and anger of McCain, how can you say he is an idiot? Idiot? Who's the idiot?
Mitt has my Vote!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They have it exactly backwards. He is the by far the brightest of the bunch. Consider:
1. He obtained a Harvard Law degree AND a Harvard MBA. Each tough enough. But; he got them concurrently (at the same time; for those making the uniformed comments)
2. He raised $30 M in start-up capital and turned it into $40 B in managed assets.
Oh, that we were all such idiots.
The others in the race are faint, flickering candles in a room ablaze with Mitt�s bright light.
Of course he�s going to seem polished to those unaccustomed to seeing someone so articulate and bright. One does not get where he is without being exceptional.
Romney is another one of these.
We need statesmen - not CEO's.
Only Ron Paul gave an answer that was honest, decent, and factual.
The idea that we should be starting wars with other nations, policing cultures we don't take time to understand, and setting up a worldwide empire - especially uninvited - is the clear antithesis of what our divinely inspired Founding Fathers believed.
Until Romney has the decency and courage to recognize this, I am one Mormon at least who simply can't vote for him on any position that involves foreign policy.
You, amigo, are the one who is embarrassing.
As for the Huckster, we all know what happened with the last Southern Baptist who got into office. He was more interested in chasing interns then running the nation.
Let's see what Mitt can do. He saved the Olympics and then ran MA very well.
NBC's TIM RUSSERT (Jan 6): "Do you believe that voting against the Bush tax cuts was a mistake?" SEN. JOHN MCCAIN: "Of course not." (NBC's "Meet The Press," 1/6/08). In 2001, McCain Was ONE OF ONLY TWO Republicans To Vote Against The $1.35 Trillion Tax Cut. (H.R. 1836, McCain Voted Nay). In 2003, McCain Was ONE OF ONLY THREE Republicans To Twice Vote Against The $350 Billion Tax Cut. (H.R. 2, McCain Voted Nay). Sen. McCain Voted Against Real Tax Relief For New Hampshire Families: In 2004, The U.S. Treasury Estimated The Effect Of The Tax Cuts Sen. McCain Voted Against On New Hampshire ((U.S. Treasury Department Website, Posted 4/1/04). "More than 180,000 married couples in New Hampshire will benefit from" elimination of the marriage penalty, which McCain voted against. "125,000 taxpayers in New Hampshire will benefit from the reduced tax rates on capital gains and corporate dividends" that McCain voted against.
GW has done his darnedest in the past 8 years to build the U.S. presidency into a more powerful office than it has ever been in history. (The Con-sti-tution? Whassat?) Whoever wins in November is going to inherit more power (and less checks and balances) than any president before. You know what they say about Absolute Power... I for one hope that whoever wins is a good man (or woman), leads well, and uses that power justly. (And surrenders much of it back to the legislative branch where it belongs, but that's probably hoping too much.)
The sooner he is out of this race the better.
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I do think charging illegal aliens money and letting them stay in our country is AMNESTY. They must be deported. The children who have been born here can go back with their parents, or they can stay here with LEGAL relatives/friends. We are not the "bad guys" for taking this position - we are acknowledging the law. The parents broke the law when they came here ILLEGALLY.