Posts tagged Mitt Romney
The “conservative” Romney-Ryan plan
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Given the big-spending, high-taxing, debt-soaking nature of the modern “conservative” movement, should we be surprised that this plan pleasantly pontificates as supporting “self-reliant, American capitalism” while simultaneously defining exactly what the modern conservative movement has become?
Supporting these red-tie wearing big government stooges out to drain the productive while reading from Teleprompter A instead of teleprompter B is an insult to most “conservative’s” intelligence.
Here are some fun facts from Paul Ryan’s “Path to Prosperity” Budget Plan:
1) Increases Federal Government Tax Collections from $2.444 Trillion to $4.601 Trillion, a $2.157 Trillion, 88% Federal Tax Collection Increase.
2) Increases Federal Government Spending from $3.624 Trillion to $4.888 Trillion. A $1.264 Trillion, 35% Increase Federal Government Spending.
3) ADDS $4 Trillion to the National Debt.
Please forgive me if I don’t commence clapping and cartwheeling at the stark differences between Romney and Obombya during our chance to “Save America” in this election.
Thanks to LP.org and Budget.House.Gov for the details.
Ron Paul’s reaction to the last POTUS “foreign policy” debate
0Among many interesting topics, Ron and Lew Rockwell discuss Romney’s geography gaffe about Syria being Iran’s only route to the sea, the “No way, I’M more pro-war than you” contest between the candidates, and the hypocritical critique of China being a major currency manipulator while we are running The Federal Reserve?! EH??? As the cool kids now say, “SMH.”
Mitt Romney flip flop collection
4I’m getting hammered by conservative friends lately who are freaked out by ObamaCare, Obama 2.0′s Supreme Court appointments, etc. Watching this, it is just preposterous to think we can trust Romney’s current positions on anything important. Except of course, his desire for war, more bailouts, and assaults on The Constitution/civil rights.
Will we be brought to a place of suffering and humiliation so that the Kingdom of God can manifest? That may be the way of the world, time will tell.
Psalm 146:3 says all that needs to be said, “Do not put your trust in princes, in mortal men, who cannot save.”
Fact-checking Romney and Obama’s first-debate speeches
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The excellent Ben Swann reports in the below video on Romney and Obama’s claims about the economy, our deficit, and how they plan to reduce it.
After listening to their plans to cut and keep certain programs; but never deal with our insanely over-funded and counter productive military presence around the world, or the entrenched but thoroughly un-Constitutional departments of commerce, education, energy, etc., neither candidate comes up with numbers stand up under fire.
Who did come up with a plan to reduce the deficit by $1T first-year, cut back our military offense while maintaining our defense, give young people a way out of the Social Security Ponzi Pit and BALANCE THE BUDGET in three years!?
Readers of this blog will likely not wonder long to come up with the answer: the honorable and wise, Dr. Ron Paul. Ben Swann reported on Dr. Paul’s plan a few months back as well.
Romney, GOP show true colors at RNC
0Why am I surprised?
The blatant disregard for rules, voting procedures and integrity has shown through at The RNC and the reality of Romney-Ryan 2012 is clear: we’re going to do whatever we want, whenever we want, because we can, to get elected and screw over the voting rights of Americans.
God bless ‘em.
If they win, expect to hear a lot of the same crap Obama said about Bush and why the economy didn’t recover. “If only Obama hadn’t screwed up so bad, we would be out of this mess.” Blah blah blah. One man was different but because he didn’t want to bomb the world he was shut out and cast aside. History will show the truth, what ever it may be.
The future will be bright, but our politicians are unlikely to deliver us from evil. Only God will do that, and apparently—although he chose Ron to show us many things—he hasn’t chosen him to be the savior we’d hoped he was.
Patience, prayer and passion will get us where we want to go.
The below article from Iowa delegate and witness to the madness Angie Davis is very “interesting.”
Naturally, Romney has said he doesn’t know anything about these and other shenanigans, but, that is statistically improbably, if not impossible.
Another gem from The RNC showing the GOP’s intentional fracturing of support and disregard of law and procedure. Yes another here, with Maine’s delegates getting disenfranchised at RNC.
GOP Destroys Integrity of National Convention, Flagrantly Cheats Ron Paul Out of Nomination
via The Unconventional Conservative
“It is not because men’s desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.”
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
I am so frustrated and angry with the blatant cheating that went on at the Republican National Convention in Tampa today. I am ashamed of my national party’s actions. I sat openmouthed, flabbergasted, appalled at the actions that they took to shut the liberty folks out.
Look…maybe Ron Paul had no chance to win. Romney had more delegates (though some ofthose were seated by deception and coercion.) That is not the point now. Do we, as Republicans, have so little respect for others that it is okay to cheat a 30 year Republican Congressman out of a legitimate nomination that he earned? By following the rules, no less?
Is it also okay that we completely ignore the will of the elected delegates who have achieved plurality and submitted nomination papers? Those papers were delivered to Preibus by Iowa’s Lieutenant Governor, Kim Reynolds, the Convention Secretary, over an hour before the call for nomination, the rolling roll call. She claims that it was her job to accept and deliver them, and that anything after that was the will of the Republican National Committee. Therefore, the will of the RNC was to cheat Ron Paul out of a legitimate nomination and to break their own rules.
Of gun laws and spiritual powers…
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My heart goes out to the family and friends I have in Colorado, across America, and the world at large who see the terrible things that evil people and “spiritual wickedness in high places” are doing today.
Many are reasonably asking: is this a problem of too many guns, or not enough guns? Should all guns be outlawed?
In a stark and surprising contrast to this disaster, there was a shooting in Aurora, CO just months ago that could have proven deadly to more people but was ended quickly by an legally armed Church attendee. Yes, the movie shooter was protected in body armor, but if one or two people began returning fire, would he have been distracted enough to be tackled by other people?
Despite the “corny” nature of the question, we should also ask, what would Jesus do here? Would he have cast out spirits that were affecting the man? Would he have spoken the words of God to bring the man to repentance and change his actions?
Can we acquire those abilities and, “do greater things” than even He did?
I do believe these things are possible, and as Christ said, “prayer and fasting” is the means to increase our abilities; and that ONLY by doing so can we deal with the powerful spiritual entities at work in this realm.
It is worth knowing that Mr. Romney has made his thoughts on the matter known:
100 Ways Mitt Romney Is Just Like Barack Obama
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Click for the similarities
The New York Times recently made a less than half-hearted attempt to summarize the similarities between President Barack Obama and presumptive Republican Party nominee, Mitt Romney. As New York Magazine reports, the Times wasn’t able to do much better than: They both like Star Trek, Modern Family, and Chicken. Here at IVN, I thought we could find just a few more similarities of just a little more substance.
The following list isn’t just a bunch of opinions, but documented facts that together draw a compelling picture: Far from being polar opposites, the two “choices” offered as presidential candidates by this country’s two main parties are nearly indistinguishable on the substantive public policy challenges Americans face. Using the New York Times piece as a starting point, here are 100 ways Mitt Romney is just like Barack Obama:
1. Star Trek
2. Modern Family
3. Chicken
4. The signature legislative accomplishment of the man that Republicans have chosen to repeal and replace “ObamaCare” was “RomneyCare,” which was the blueprint and model for The Affordable Care Act.
Rand Paul Endorsement of Mitt Romney Was a Tactical Masterstroke for Libertarianism
0My comment: this was a tough pill to swallow, and I have privately criticized Dr. Paul Jr. for his tactics; however upon review it does make a lot of sense. The real issue here is how will Rand vote. As long as his work in the Senate “Acta non verba” (translation: deeds not words).
from Barry Lyndon at policymic.com
I’m starting to think I must be the only voice in an avalanche of Paulites who wasn’t outraged by Senator Rand Paul’s endorsement of Mitt Romney.
As a libertarian with a perspective of the Scottish independence movement and the nascent liberty movement in my home country, Ireland, I sometimes wonder if many of Ron Paul’s supporters are more invested in the short game of winning elections than in the long game of building a free world, an objective which transcends personality politics.
So was Rand Paul’s endorsement really a sellout? Or was it a tactical master stroke for the libertarian agenda? It depends. Let’s face it, the reaction itself was just a lot of hot air, equivalent to the outrage of folk fans when Dylan went electric in the sixties.
“Sellout!” they cried. “He’s giving in to the man!” It’s a rich metaphor considering the general air of folk whimsy about Ron (as well as the purity complex of his more hardcore fans) and the more hard-edged, charismatic persona of his sequel.
I don’t believe that supporting your party’s nominee somehow represents a devaluation of principles. Endorsements are just talk, and talk is cheap. But no need to worry; so far at least, Rand walks the walk. He is against foreign aid. He wants to audit the Federal Reserve. He has proposed a budget which balances in five years. He is one of the few members of the Tea Party insurgency who eats with a knife and fork.
He may be willing to haggle, but Rand is no moderate.
If he was wrong about anything, it was timing. To give Romney his backing just one day after the Paul campaign announced their shortfall of delegates must have stung for legions of supporters who were so emotionally invested for so long in defeating Romney.
But by sending the message that he is a team player to the inner bigwigs of the Republican Party, Rand succeeds in doing something that Ron never managed to do: build bridges. Speculation on a VP slot aside (of which I am quite skeptical) it means at the very least he may be given a headline slot in the convention in Tampa.
A similar convention gig launched Barack Obama into the public consciousness back in the 2004 presidential race when Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) was the Democratic nominee for president.
Frankly, I couldn’t care less about Romney. His Keynesian, pro-war and pro-nanny state policies, not to mention that sheer oiliness makes him a pretty weak candidate in the first place.
I would like to see Obama getting a second term, then Senator Paul in 2016. Better suffer through four more years of big government neoconservatism under Obama (it’s true) than a potential eight under Romney and an war with Iran thrown in for good measure.
Rand Paul will become a sellout if –and only if — he changes his senate voting habits away from libertarian values. I will be watching him very closely to see if this happens. If he starts “blowing in the wind,” I will certainly eat my words. But if I’m right, that Paul is simply being prudent in the pursuit of libertarian goals, then I hope Paulites everywhere will join me in giving full support to his future endeavors.
To be 90% right and in office is more use to the cause of liberty than to be 100% right and sit on the sidelines.
Socialism, capitalism and too many “conservatives”
11It’s a funny thing today to see the battles waging against “liberals” and “conservatives” raging for either “free market capitalism” or “government-controlled industry”—but what if our commonly perceived choices aren’t all that different?
Despite the logical perception and the apparent differences between Obama and Romney, Jon Stewart does a great job showing how “socialist” many prominent “conservatives” really are.
If Obama’s policies and core philosophy is so flawed, and Romney shows a multitude of similar positions, why are so many placing so much faith in him?
In the end this is a Strong Word: “Do not put your trust in princes, in mortal men, who cannot save.” Psalm 146:3
Amazing disparity between media and reality with Ron Paul
0While the “mainstream media” asks, “Where is Ron Paul?”, he has been having an incredible tour on the West Coast, drawing over thousands and thousands of people to his speaking events.
Compare that with the Romney video below and tell me what direction in which this country is going. As the young people on fire with the spirit of liberty and peace steadily grow the potential is nearly limitless.
