Comments about ‘Letter: Parties are over’

Mitt Romney is pro-choice and anti-choice. He is pro-gay rights and anti-gay rights. He is pro gun control and anti gun control. He is pro health insurance mandate and anti-health insurance mandate. Just this week he flip-flopped three times in a single day on pre-existing conditions. The only thing that Mitt Romney believes is that he should be president.

I have many problems with President Obama, but I will vote for him anyway, because I have no idea what Mitt Romney believes in.

Mitt Romney says it's all about the economy. Then he won't offer specifics on his marvelous job-creator abilities, only offering sound bites and platitudes, which a lot of Utahns buy into. You are free to your own opinions, but not your own facts. You are free to (waste) your vote, but please be a real Utah-patriot and be respectful of our amazing President Obama when he wins this election.

Renee, give it a rest and open a book once in a while. Just because they share your religion that makes them worthy candidates? Get serious. Look at his record as governor, what he actually did at Bain. How can you blindly follow any brothern just because he is a member of the priesthood. You'll need more than that to honestly convert the enlightened.

wow, Romney fanboy much? I guess this person (as will the electoral collage) willvote for Romney. Good to know Utah won't discuss any real issues, just vote for their guy, yeah the one who saved the Olympics.
Don't get me wrong, I'll be happy if Romney will, just for completely different reasons.

It is wonderful to have two presidential candidates representing each of the two major parties who have an equally strong faith in God and the American people.

I have to agree with Renee, the messages coming out of the Republican Party are very garbled. The normally moderate, rational, Mitt is hamstrung by the far right wing of the party who is just waiting to pounce on him if he says anything rational, or moderate. Yesterday, the Ayn Rand loving, Paul Ryan, told a reporter that it was up to Colorado to decide if they wanted to legalize marijuana, and I could just see the angst that the clean living Mr.Romney was feeling over being on a ticket that supported legalizing pot! The problem the Republicans have is that the "Mitt agenda" is too moderate, and the Paul Ryan, approach is too scary, no wonder they can't stay on message.

"... there are good people who understand principles of freedom and liberty..."

This rings hollow when you think about GOP stands on a woman's right to choose, gay rights, immigration reform, etc. These are today's "freedoms" demanding action, similar to slavery, women's sufferage, civil rights, etc. from generations past that conservatives stood on the wrong side of history (the GOP were liberal, pro-federal government during Lincoln's era). The GOP forgets that it was progressives that established these liberties and freedoms.

What bothered me the most, however, of the GOP convention was the rhetoric that Mitt will "make the tough decisions" as if Obama hasn't. Can you imagine if Mitt made the choice to let housing collapse (as he said he would in Nevada) or let the auto industry go under (as he wrote in the Wall Street Journal) -- rather than take Obama's difficult choices to help these sectors? Can you imagine how much immediate unemployment and economic hardships that would have created under a Romney Administration? And what about the individual and business tax cuts in the stimulus package?

I think "tough" Romney decisions will be tough on middle class Americans.

"A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit."
— John C. Maxwell, pastor, author, leadership expert

Which candidate blames Bush?

"Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
— Jesse Jackson, civil-rights activist, minister

It's very clear who is trying to unite America and who is trying to divide America in this campaign.

"The price of greatness is responsibility.
— Winston Churchill, British prime minister (1874-1965)

It's very clear why Obama will never be considered "great" and why Romney will always be considered "great".

Belief in God fosters faith. Faith is the willingness to DO the right thing even when the path is not clearly seen. When God is absent, faith is also absent and fear leads the way.

Obama tells us to covet, to envy, to take. Romney tells us to be honest, to live a life of service.

Look at the "associates" of the candidates. Which "associate" would you want in your home, Bill Ayers or Thomas Monson?

Mike:
Why will Romney always be considered great? What has he done that history will remember him for? I don't think it's that clear.
Also, you say "Obama tells us to covet, to envy, to take". Can you find me that quote?
You are right that it is clear who unites and who devides America, I'm just not so sure it is clear to you.

Q: Which candidate blames Bush?

A: Which candidate blames Obama?

The fact of the matter is that President Obama has had a very successful presidency. He has consistently made good decisions in foreign policy and domestic policy. While its true that unemployment is too high, this can't be fairly blamed on the president. The so-called "job creators" have been enjoying the lowest marginal tax rates in my lifetime—where are the jobs? If you really believe in the philosophy of the free market, then free-market players must take most of the responsibility for the current job situation.

The hypocrisy of the so-called job creators on the right who blame the President for the fact that they aren't creating enough jobs is breathtaking.

This letter is rah-rah and all wrong.

And why is it OK for Obama opponents to say he has done nothing, yet when he or his supporters respond to that, they say he is bragging. The GOP doesn't want free information. They want to control what is said and your right to say it.

"why Romney will always be considered "great"."

I Respect Romney. He is a good husband and father. He seems like a kind and honest and generous man who helps his neighbor and wants the best for this country. Isn't that the measure of a man?

His success or lack of it as a businessman has no bearing on this.

Those who demonize him as a person are either ignorant or mean.

And, we can say EXACTLY the same things about Obama. And George Bush.

You may to re-think your priorities and your criteria for what constitutes a "great" man.

Oh please!

How do you know that he stands for "more freedom" and is all those good things you say about him when he changes his stance depending on who he's pandering to? In just the last few days he literally changed his view on health care 3 times. His own campaign advisers don't know what Romney truly stands for.... Other than SAY and DO ANYTHING to get into the white house.

Now why is that? Why does he covet the white house so bad?

Secondly, fox news is a right winger media. Why would they not want to promote Mitt?

Lastly, I have never heard a Presidential candidate brag so much about him. The right uses fear in every single speech and convention they have.

Romney wants to abdicate government...he has no plan because he advocates the government do nothing. We also need a strong President on National Security as demonstrated by Al Qaida # 2 in Yemen this week.

re: Omni scent,

The only way that you're going to believe anything is to look it up yourself. Use Google. It's a great tool. I had no trouble finding hundreds of examples of Obama preaching class envy, of taxing the rich, of advocating dismissing student loans, of telling people that they deserve everything that the "rich guy" has because the government made that "rich man" successful.

Intelligent people check facts from a variety of sources. They weigh the evidence and then they draw logical conclusions.

When you read Pastor Wright's sermons and then realize that both Barrack Obama and Michelle Obama parrot those "principles" when they advocate class envy and class warfare, it is easy to see that they actually listened to and believe Pastor Wright.

The same is true for the "principles" advocated by Bill Ayers and other "acquaintances" with whom they associate. They want us to believe a lie, but Mark Twain told us that you can't pray a lie. I would add that you can't live a lie and expect anyone of integrity to believe you.

The information is easy to find. Use a little elbow grease.

re: mike richards

Gee Mike, thanks for your great advice about Google. What a great new tool you've discovered! I looked on Google for "Romney flip flops" and found 1,570,000 results so that must be true, also "Romney's Bain Capital failure" had 800,000 hits so he's a flip flopper and a failed businessman. If you want to vote for a failed businessman who flip flops on every single issue, then that's your choice. It's pretty easy to present information like it's some type of fact when you say that Google is involved, but really it doesn't lend any type of legitimacy to your completely outlandish and badly misunderstood claims.

You don't like Obama, we get it, but stop using Google to try and legitimize stuff that you just make up in your head...

Wow!

For just a minute there I thought I was reading my tweenage daughter's secret love letter/diary about her grade-school infatuation with Justin Beiber!

No facts, No plans, No ideas, No reasons -- just hollow and twitter-payted giggly school-girl posters, notebooks, and tee-shirts!

No candidate should be elected President of the United States of America on the basis of vague unspecific promises that have no meaning.

Michael, Michael, Michael. Yes, Romney may tell us to be honest. But he himself is not honest. His Pinnochio and Pants on Fire ratings are embarrassing. If he is not telling outright lies, he is engaging in misrepresentation and deception and evasion. Just last night I watched an NBC interview with Romney. David Gregory tried to get him to give specifics on which tax loopholes he would eliminate. He refused to name one. Why? Either because he doesn't intend to get rid of loopholes that would cause himself and others in his 15 percent tax bracket to pay more or he knows that giving specifics would cost him votes from those who would end up paying more.

And Renee, "Fox News commentators, and others, rarely portray Romney in the manner he deserves." This statement tells me you are watching mostly Fox News. If Faux News, the Republican channel, doesn't portray him in the manner he deserves, who will? Of course, you seem to want the news to portray him in a red-striped robe, holding a prophet's staff, ready to lead the U.S. out of Pharaoh's (Obama's) socialist bondage.