Anti-Romney Republicans

[BritishDixie]

There are a few of them on the board. I'm wondering, out of the batch of Republican candidates from this cycle, who would you have wanted to get the nomination, and do you think they'd be doing better than Romney at this point?

Romney has flaws, but he's made the race close. I really have a hard time believing that Newt, Perry, or Santorum (all of which have serious flaws as well) could do that.

Discuss?

Thats very true. One thing that p****s me off is this constant talk or Romney being not a true conservative. I think it's much more likely that he moderated his views in order to be elected Governor of the most liberal state in America.

[BritishDixie]

The thing about Ron Paul is his message has been the same ,even when he was a young congressman.  The only difference is now a big portion of Americans are starting to understand the short end of the stick they're inheriting as a result of the national debt, unemployment, a weak dollar, our overseas empire, expansion and nation building.

The only reason his voice is bigger now than in the 1980's is because of what's happend since then, we bombed Iraq, Afghanistan and Sudan and kept our bases on Saudi Arabia, and continued to screw over Palestine in favor of Israel and as a result got 9/11. And what are we doing now? We're bombing Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan  and trying to propagate us into a war with both Syria and Iran and trying to topple anti-American regimes and destabilize the middle east.

What also happened since the 1980's? The government violated three crucial Amendments with the patriot act and has not only detained but has also admitted to assassinating American people without due process. Whiles they continue to violated international law at Guantanamo and all around the would.

What else happened? The most predictable financial crisis since the great depression, as the federal reserve, federal government and the bankers contributed to nearly ended our whole financial system.

People realize we have a fundamentally flawed system and are tired of hearing the same solutions said by different politicians, they've heard enough Reaganomics, enough welfare state, enough military expansion, enough bailouts, enough taxing the rich, enough war on terror ext. And that's the people that rotate around Ron Paul.

 It's the kind of people who don't see much difference between Obama getting over a million dollars from Goldman Sachs in 08 and Romney getting 600 thousand so far from Goldman sachs. The same interest... The same politicians.

H.W, Clinton, Bush, Obama

Four different politicians same destructive foreign policy and interest.

Yup -- four Ivy League Masters of the Universe in a row.  If I'm right in my prediction, we will get our fifth in a row this year.  But thank goodness we are nowadays too smart to elect some cheap state university or Eureka College-type grad!

I invite you to read AMERICA'S RULING CLASS -- AND THE PERILS OF REVOLUTION

As over-leveraged investment houses began to fail in September 2008, the leaders of the Republican and Democratic parties, of major corporations, and opinion leaders stretching from the National Review magazine (and the Wall Street Journal) on the right to the Nation magazine on the left, agreed that spending some $700 billion to buy the investors' "toxic assets" was the only alternative to the U.S. economy's "systemic collapse." In this, President George W. Bush and his would-be Republican successor John McCain agreed with the Democratic candidate, Barack Obama. Many, if not most, people around them also agreed upon the eventual commitment of some 10 trillion nonexistent dollars in ways unprecedented in America. They explained neither the difference between the assets' nominal and real values, nor precisely why letting the market find the latter would collapse America. The public objected immediately, by margins of three or four to one.
 
When this majority discovered that virtually no one in a position of power in either party or with a national voice would take their objections seriously, that decisions about their money were being made in bipartisan backroom deals with interested parties, and that the laws on these matters were being voted by people who had not read them, the term "political class" came into use. Then, after those in power changed their plans from buying toxic assets to buying up equity in banks and major industries but refused to explain why, when they reasserted their right to decide ad hoc on these and so many other matters, supposing them to be beyond the general public's understanding, the American people started referring to those in and around government as the "ruling class." And in fact Republican and Democratic office holders and their retinues show a similar presumption to dominate and fewer differences in tastes, habits, opinions, and sources of income among one another than between both and the rest of the country. They think, look, and act as a class.

READ MORE AT http://spectator.org/archives/2010/07/16/americas-ruling-class-and-the/print

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