This is a forum of people who have political philosophies that fall into most likely less than 1% of the population, and you think we don’t see opposition? You think we can get by just existing in a bubble of people who agree and never have to encounter or deal with any opposing ideology? Seriously?
Again, you didn’t give any specifics about what you liked about these slimeballs…all you did was list crap they’ve claimed they would like to do. I don’t exactly consider “I like him because ‘he speaks about elimating government waste and improving efficiency’” a very intellectually sound reasoning. I mean really. You don’t say. Well break out the tickertape and start the parade, a politician talked about eliminating government waste.
I guess this means you like…every politician who’s ever lived.
You want specifics? (even though the above example you gave is kind of the exact opposite of that)…
Mitt Romney [former governor who was the first to enforce essentially an Obamacare healthcare system on the people of his state…a program Obama said was a big inspiration for him in his own plan…something that Romney praised Obama for]…says “he wants to elimate Obamacare and instead give the money to the states”.
Yeah I’m convinced.
Mitt Romney, a corporate insider who gets more money from billionaires than Barack Obama. The guy whose top campaign contributors are Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, and Morgan Stanley. This guy. You like him because he says stuff that you like the sound of. I’d say that pretty much explains the situation we’re in.
Santorum. Santorum. Mr. “They don’t hate us because of anything we’ve done, they hate us because we’re free and prosperous, imposing our values on each other is what America’s about”. He voted to double the size of the Dept. of Ed, he voted to expand Medicare and add free drugs to senior citizens (with no way to pay for it, of course), and he votes in favor of foreign aid. See, what people do tends to matter a little more to me than what they say.
But if you want to go on what people say, let’s hear what Rick Santorum has to say about homosexuals. Let’s hear what he has to say about starting wars and forcefully injecting American “goodness” at the point of a gun. (You know, George Carlin made a very perspicacious point once about this…mentioning how all the bullets and the bombs are shaped like dicks, and that this is a pseudo-psychological way of projecting yourself into other people’s affairs. Listen to what he calls it.)
And finally, as an aside, I already created a thread (quite some time ago) in fact that may already provide the kind of answers you’re looking for…
For anyone who still needs convincing against other candidates