True, he’s had some moderate positions in the past, but these have flip-flopped as frequent as pancakes at Waffle House.
1. Romney's positions are the most radically anti-women of any candidate in a generation:He supports banning all abortions, backed a so-called "personhood" amendment that could make certain forms of birth control illegal, and says he would "get rid of" federal funding for Planned Parenthood that provides preventive services like cancer screenings for millions of women.
2. Romney would repeal Obamacare. Insurance companies would once again be allowed to run up premiums, unjustifiably deny coverage for pre-existing conditions, drop patients when they get sick, discriminate against women by charging them more for coverage than men, and spend more of your premium dollars on CEO profits and bonuses instead of your actual health care.
3. Romney is a risk when it comes to foreign policy and national security. On many of these questions, he has shifted his position for political reasons, even within the same campaign. His only clear commitment is to endless wars: He has no plan to end the war in Afghanistan and would leave our troops there indefinitely. He called the President's decision to bring our troops home from Iraq by last Christmas "tragic."
4. Despite the lessons of recent history, Romney would double down on the disastrous tax policies that handed windfalls to the wealthy, but stacked the deck against the middle class. Under Romney, millionaires and billionaires would get a $250,000 tax cut, while families with kids making less than $40,000 a year would, on average, actually see their taxes go up. To the surprise of no one, Romney also opposes the Buffett Rule. He would allow millionaires to continue to take advantage of loopholes and special deals that often allow them to pay a lower tax rate than the middle class. And he supports tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas.
5. Romney would end Medicare as we know it -- replacing it with a voucher scheme that would drive profits for insurance companies by forcing seniors to purchase private insurance, paying whatever costs a voucher wouldn't cover out of their own limited budgets.
Romney and his special-interest allies are going to spend the next seven months trying to deny, downplay, or hide these facts from voters. It's on us to speak the truth.
And you can be sure that if elected it would not stop there…just as when some of these radical right wing Governors were elected…they also promised prosperity, jobs and getting America back in the right track…what did we get from them? We got Draconian, odious, repugnant anti-union legislation, voter disenfranchising, a lot of theocratic based initiatives…and no jobs…on the contrary…more tax cuts for the rich and the corporations at the expense of the rest of us.
And please, don’t forget that this man is just as homophobic as the religion he is part of, so you can expect a return of gay discrimination and even criminalization.
It kind of makes me question if God is really a Mormon…well, all the other Republican wannabees claimed to have been told by God to run for the nomination…yet, Santorum's pulling out of the race means that God, the beloved all-powerful deity whose personal endorsement somehow failed to secure the nomination for any of the other numerous Republicans — Santorum, Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann, and Rick Perry — whom they said encouraged each and every one of them personally to run for president. (We don’t know if it was done a direct long distance collect call from God by phone or in an e-mail) It is unclear at this point whether God will even bother to offer anyone his apparently useless endorsement in the general election.
Tidak ada komentar:
Posting Komentar