Mitt Romney is good

He's not perfect but he seems to be the only candidate who doesn't want to cut social security for the disabled & elderly. I also like Ron Paul but only for most of his foreign policy & civil rights. The only point on his foreign policy that doesn't make sense, is his neutrality with Israel. The Six Day war shouldn't happen again. His domestic policies might help debt in the long-run, but insurance companies could take too much advantage of it.

Mitt Romney is almost exactly like Obama, Ron Paul is the only candidate who stands up for freedom, the constitution, peace, sound monetary and economic policies, states rights etc. To me the choice is obvious, I don't understand why anyone would vote for these slimey flip-flopping corporate whores like Obama, Romney or all of the other republicans.

Mitt Rombey is Republican John Kerry.

And Rick Perry is a taller George W. Bush.

@Brodehouse: Rick Perry is a George W Bush that drinks.

pron haul is terrible, mitt romney is terrible, I have solved your political discussion

Shitt Romney. We don't need any more social conservatives in power.

Romney & Paul are the least evil, however Romney is better for poverty.

Having spent a lot of time around Mormons, I would never feel comfortable with one having any sort of power at all ever.

Rick Perry looks like he'd want to crush your hand during handshakes.

@bladeIV:

First of all Ron Paul would not be able to remove regulations on insurance companies as a president, that is up to the legislative branch.

Secondly what are you afraid of would happen? What regulations are there on insurance companies currently and how do these protect you? What's your source that Ron Paul would like to remove that regulation?

Do you really think some insurance regulation is more important than the writ of habeas corpus? More important than separation of power as the constitution declares? More important than the idea of being innocent until being proven guilty? More important than not having unconstitutional wars on 3rd world countries for private interest and having military bases in over 130 countries? More important than the 4th ammendment, which protects you from unreasonable searches and seizures? More important than having a free and unregulated internet? More important than not having a central bank run by private bankers controlling the currency, creating artificial bubbles and inflation? More important than not having corporative policies like big bailout programs for select corporations, basically fascist economic policies?

Whenever someone mentions Ron Paul, the first thing that comes to mind is his scene from Bruno.

Ron Paul's views on the economy are frightening, to say nothing of the racist newsletters that went out with his name on them. He talks so much about how "he's the only one saying these things". Sometimes that just means you're wrong.

@Trevorisamazing:

Nice ad populum fallacy. Also like he has been saying for the last 10 years, he did not write those things and he disawowed them.

I think Habeas Corpus is just as important as insurance regulation, none more, none less. And I do not support bailouts. However if the legislative branch tries to eliminate regulations on insurance companies, I don't think Ron Paul would Veto it. And this could allow these companies to drop whoever they want, whenever they want.

ron paul is especially bad because his We the People act would repeal Lawrence V Texas and make anal sex illegal in like 7-8 states

@duder123: Whether or not he wrote them, they went out with his name on them. He should keep better track of things that go out with his name on them. And his economic policies are just wrong. The gold standard is not a good idea, among many other things. Also he is not really for equal rights for minorities and homosexuals.

@ArcLyte said:

Shitt Romney. We don't need any more social conservatives in power.

Seriously. The social views of some of the people running are stuck in the 1950s.

@Animasta: how is that a bad thing?

also you folks who don't live in Texas have no idea how much of a dumbfuck Perry is.

@bladeIV: And what do you think the chance of that happening is? Barely any republicans or democrats agree with him, it's not going to happen. And exactly what does this regulation do? I also think it's weird that you feel that this issue is more important than the bill of rights.

He doesn't hate gay people, he doesn't "cure" gay peopl, he doesn't have an IQ of under 50 and can see the russians from Alaska, he doesn't sexually abuse like every woman he has ever met, he doesn't think crackbabies and teenagers having kids are great ideas, and he isn't Ron Paul, so yeah, he's probably okay except for the fact that he wears magical underpants. I'd go Paul tho. Bit too hardcore maybe.

Man, I really don't envy you americans this year. Your political situation is horrendous.

@Bam_D_Leprechaun: because good hardworking people could get arrested for being gay?

Healthcare is just as important as the Bill of Rights. I don't believe people who have been dropped by insurance companies after 20 years should lose all their benefits. Imagine if you were paying an insurer for 20 years & they drop you cause they feel like it. You can't do anything about it cuz it's private. Only thing you can do is sue, and you don't usually win.

@Ertard: The problem is Romney has to hate gay people to be taken seriously as a republican candidate.

@Trevorisamazing said:

@Ertard: The problem is Romney has to hate gay people to be taken seriously as a republican candidate.

Then this is easy. Mitt Romney isn't 'good' nor is anyone in the republican party.

I don't really follow American politics hardcore since I'm Canadian, but it does seem that Mitt Romney is supported by more level headed people. For whatever that's worth.

@duder123 said:

Mitt Romney is almost exactly like Obama, Ron Paul is the only candidate who stands up for freedom, the constitution, peace, sound monetary and economic policies, states rights etc. To me the choice is obvious, I don't understand why anyone would vote for these slimey flip-flopping corporate whores like Obama, Romney or all of the other republicans.

Ron Paul also wants to get rid of minimum wage, wants to restrict freedoms such as abortion and gay marriage (technically, he wants to let the states decide, and his personal opinion is being against those. However, letting the states make the choice is the same thing as restricting it, and definitely not the choice of a practical man who cares about freedom). He's also a creationist, which makes his opinion on anything intellectually suspect (although that's nothing new for american presidents).

From what I can tell America is fucked whoever gets in.

@Trevorisamazing:

It's funny that you think that his economic policies where wrong, he was one of the few politicians who were able to foresee the recession

@duder123: This doesn't change the fact that some of his economic policies are not sound, or the fact that he doesn't believe in equal rights for everyone.

@Pinworm45: he introduced an act that would define life as the beginning of conception, and this was federally, so...

@Pinworm45: He's a constitutionalist and respects the rule of law, which is not something I could hold against him. As the constitution says issues like abortion are up to the states themselves to decide. If you would like to regulate abortion on a federal level you should pass constitutional ammendments for it.

Oh noes, he's a creationist, surely that means he must be the worst candidate ever!

@Trevorisamazing: He does believe in equal rights for everyone. What's your proof that he doesn't? His economic policies are a hell of a lot better than Romney and Obamas, keynesianism does not work and kept us in the last great depression for 15 years.

Yup. Sure looks like an honest good guy that would make a fantastic president of the most powerful nation on the planet.

As an outsider looking in I have to laugh at American politics. Not at the candidates or the process, but the people themselves that believe in each and every single one of these fucking assholes.

They're all utter shit. Too bad one them will be elected.

@duder123: http://blog.readyokaygo.org/post/14433400951/10-reasons-not-to-vote-for-ron-paul

Numbers 1 and 7 on that list, although it's all good to look over.

I don't think any of this lot have a chance against Obama, unfortunately.

He might be a little bit less of a joke than the other republican candidates but he's still a joke.

Too bad Huntsman doesn't have a chance among right-wingers because he seems to be the only guy with some common sense in this race.

You want SOPA? then vote for Obama. Romney however knows that bill is stupid.

@bladeIV said:

You want SOPA? then vote for Obama. Romney however knows that bill is stupid.

Wrong

@Trevorisamazing:

Affirmative action is racist against WHITE people. It's systematic discrimination against whites who will not be able to get the education or job they would get otherwise because the school or workplace will choose another person solely for his or her skin color. I have not heard about the other stuff but I will look into it.

I vote none of them. As soon as there is a party that does not represent the corporation's interests is when there will be an actual choice. The presidential elections today mean nothing, it's all the same results, all you choose is the hair color.

Romney thinks SOPA kills business, while Obama supports it.

@duder123 said:

@Pinworm45: He's a constitutionalist and respects the rule of law, which is not something I could hold against him. As the constitution says issues like abortion are up to the states themselves to decide. If you would like to regulate abortion on a federal level you should pass constitutional ammendments for it.

Oh noes, he's a creationist, surely that means he must be the worst candidate ever!

Why is Extraordinary Rendition represented by LEGO people?!

I want to like Ron Paul, but Libertarianism doesn't work as a governing philosophy.

@bladeIV said:

Romney thinks SOPA kills business, while Obama supports it.

You've made this exact post 3 times so far. This must be the only reason you know of to support Romney.

I don't know guys, Republican nominees are always saying how everything Obama is doing is wrong but I'm pretty sure if one of them were in power they would have done most of the same things. For example, the big bailouts they all seem to hate. Ron Paul seems like the only politician where what you see is what you get. Everyone else on the republican side is your atypical at this point stereotypical lying white American christian politician who hates the Gays and Muslims.

@bladeIV said:

Romney thinks SOPA kills business, while Obama supports it.

Romney has always been a flip-flopping puppet and he wouldn't change if he became president (lol won't happen anyway).

Go preach somewhere else.

Ron Paul's stance on civil rights, I think, can be summed up by talking about the civil rights amendment. He has said repeatedly that he is opposed to the civil rights amendment and would have voted against it. Specifically he's against the portion that forbids private companies from discriminating against customers. He claims that we should leave this issue to the free market, that if, for example, a deli decided not to serve black people people would not shop there. The idea being we do not need to require that deli owner to not discriminate because he would simply go out of business. It's certainly a compelling idea, its an idea that is behind many conservative anti-regulation arguments. However, its an argument we know is empirically false. That deli owner would not necessarily go out of business because there are often racist or uninformed deli customers that would continue to patronize the store. In other words, people are not rational and that irrationality can and DOES result in unequal treatment both under the law and otherwise. Sending abortion and gay marriage issues to the states WILL result in a restriction of those rights by certain states and sending civil rights issues to the states is NOT pro civil rights, not by any stretch of the imagination.

The older I get the more I realize voting in national elections is pointless. 

Guess what guys, the whole system is fucked, a new president isn't going to fix anything.

Elaborate, condescending, blistering rape of the OP's political views complete with textual evidence from a PoliSci 101 class.