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Balancing the budget is boring.
We have Hollywood to entertain us. Our president’s job is to balance the budget.
Our Youth Culture is so crappy it would be very difficult to have both a good president and a president that is popular with the loudist voices within American Youth culture (such as late night talk show hosts).

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Obama’s criticism of Romney’s business record is stupid

May 14th, 2012 | No Comments | Posted in Mitt Romney

On “Morning Joe” today, former Obama “car czar” Steve Rattner denounced a new campaign ad that attacks Mitt Romney for business decisions he made during his tenure at Bain Capital.

Specifically, the ad targets Romney and Bain Capital for the private equity firm’s decision to acquire GST Steel and the jobs that were lost under their control.

Rattner called the ad “unfair” and defended Romney’s decision at Bain Capital. Rattner says Romney’s job was to make profits for the firm’s investors, not save jobs.

“I think the ad is unfair. Mitt Romney made a mistake ever talking about the fact that he created 100,000 jobs. Bain Capital’s responsibility was not to create 100,000 jobs or some other number. It was to create profits for his investors, most of whom were pension funds, endowments and foundations. It did it superbly, acting within the rules and acting very responsibly and was a leading firm,” Ratner said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Monday.

“So I do think to pick out an example of somebody who lost their job unfortunately, this is part of capitalism, this is part of life. And I don’t think there’s anything Bain Capital did that they need to be embarrassed about,” he said.

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Also, hadn’t he already left Bain?

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Young people should support Mitt Romney over Barack Obama

April 27th, 2012 | Comments Off | Posted in Mitt Romney

1. Obama is spending money so he can be popular, but leaving young people with the bill.
2. Youth unemployment under Obama has skyrocketed.
3. 1/2 of new college graduates are unemployed or unemployed.
4. The youth unemployment rate is 16.4%.
5. In high school, it is OK to vote for the “coolest” kid for class president, but once you have the right to vote you have an obligation to pick the person who is most likely to balance the budget, and avoid financial ruin for the country. If American youth pick the wrong president, they are the ones who will have to live with the country as it falls apart.

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Romney is more likely than Obama to Protect the secret ballot

April 27th, 2012 | Comments Off | Posted in Mitt Romney

Background and Context

We should protect the secret ballot. Union bosses want to remove the secret ballot so they can intimidate and threaten those who don’t vote to support the union. Removing the secret ballot is un-american. We all have the right to vote how we want without fear of intimidation. Even Russia has the secret ballet. Even Iraq has the secret ballot. It would be sad if we send our solders over seas to start democracy in the desert, and we let Obama remove the secret ballot here at home.

President Obama Supports The Employee Free Choice Act, Which Would Eliminate Secret-Ballot Elections That Shield Workers From Privacy Concerns And Intimidation. “President Barack Obama told AFL-CIO union leaders Tuesday in a videotaped address that the controversial Employee Free Choice Act will pass, signaling his full backing for legislation that makes union organizing easier. … The bill would make it easier for unions to recruit workers because it would let them join unions simply by signing cards rather than through secret-ballot elections in which companies can campaign against the union.” (Kris Maher, “President Tells Unions Organizing Act Will Pass,” The Wall Street Journal, 3/4/09)
“I will protect the right of American workers to vote by secret ballot. And I will fight to stop union bosses from using the dues of their union members to support those bosses’ favorite campaigns.” (Mitt Romney Delivers Remarks at Values Voter Summit, October 8, 2011)

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We need to balance our budget before debt destroys our country.

Romney is more likely to balance the budget than Obama

April 27th, 2012 | Comments Off | Posted in Mitt Romney

Background, context, and assumptions:

2. Obama has done a very bad job with balancing the budget

1. Romney has never had an unbalanced budget as Governor. Obama has never had a balanced budget as president.

3. Romney has seriously addressed entitlement spending. Obama hasn’t. Romney has a plan that balances the budget. Obama doesn’t. Romney balanced the budget in 2003, as Governor Massachusetts.

4. Romney balanced the budget in 2004, as Governor Massachusetts.

5. Romney balanced the budget in 2005, as Governor Massachusetts.

6. Romney balanced the budget in 2006, as Governor Massachusetts.

7. Romney was able to leave money in the rainy day fund, even though he faced a 3 billion dollar budget deficit when he came into office.

8. Romney turned around budget problems at the Winter Olympics, which was $239 million dollars short (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Winter_Olympic_bid_scandal)

9. Romney has promised to only spend money on things that we can justify borrowing money from China for to pay for.

10. Romney balanced the budget for many companies. Romney was willing to make tough choices in his business life that resulted in balanced budgets for the organizations that he ran, including Bain consulting, Bain Capital, and the many companies that he bought, and ran.

11. Obama has done a very bad job with balancing the budget

12. Romney supports the line item veto which would reduce federal spending.

13. We should only select presidential candidates who have previously balanced their states budget as Governor. Romney balanced the budget all 4 years in office, without raising taxes.

Romney will help the economy more than Obama

April 27th, 2012 | Comments Off | Posted in Mitt Romney

1. Romney is more likely than Obama to keep our trade laws from being burdensome +1

2. Unlike Obama, Romney understands that countries shouldn’t subsidize their private businesses. +1

3. Romney is more likely than Obama to help our economy by decreasing debt, stabilizing our currency and preventing inflation.

4. Obama would tax the economy to death.

5. Romney is more experienced at cutting inefficiencies than Obama.

6. Romney is more experienced at balancing budgets than Obama.

7. Romney is more experienced promoting international business than Obama.

8. Obama only worked in the real economy once. In his book “Dreams From My Father” he said that working in the private private sector made him feel like ”a spy behind enemy lines“. This is not a pro-business person… this is an extremest.

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- Balance the budget
- Improve the economy
- Balance our economic interests with environmental interests
- Protect the secret ballot
- Support 1 person 1 vote by fighting voter fraud
- Properly balance environmental and business needs

Romney is more likely than Obama to do the following important things:

April 18th, 2012 | Comments Off | Posted in Mitt Romney

- Run the federal government like a business (holding them accountable to accomplish their goals in the most efficientmanner).
- Help the republican party be about issues, instead of identity politics
- Support legal immigration, while opposing illegal immigration
- Unite the country
- Shrink the size of the federal government
- Return power to the states
- Spend the appropriate amount of money fighting global warming

Unlike Obama, Romney won’t:
- Make backroom deals with Russia
- Punish success
- Apologize to our enemies
- Show weakness to our enemies
- Interject himself into racially charged local issues
- Take a back seat and let Nancy Pelosi and Harry Read run this country
- Spend most of his time playing golf (”I must admit, I scratch my head at the capacity of the president to take four hours off on such a regular basis to go golfing,” Mitt Romney said on Bill Cunningham’s radio program on WLW-AM. I would think you could kind of suck it up for four years particularly when the American people are out of work,” he added).
- Send his family on extravagant tax-payer funded vacations
- Reward failure
Please help me increase brainstorm more items for this list. Also, I want to create a link to a post with specific examples, quotes, videos, etc for each item.

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2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 2012 Press Releases

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Romney and his Dog Seamus

April 15th, 2012 | Comments Off | Posted in Mitt Romney

This is a photo I took in Yellowstone last summer. As you can see it is a Christian sticker Bedazzled motorcycle. The owner of the bike also owns a dog. Instead of leaving the dog he purchased a trailer for his bike, to which he secured a dog carrier with awesome bull horns, and additional decorations.

This man took a lot of time to make sure his dog was happy. The dog obviously looks very happy. He is not trying to get away. He loves his owner, and obviously his owner loves him.

Here is a picture of Mitt with his dog when he was about the age that Obama was eating dog:

Mitt Romney Dog

Do you think the press will ask Obama if it tasted like Chicken? Do you think they will spend near the amount of time that they have spent pestering Romney? We’ll see.

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Romney Personally Pledged To Break “Glass Ceiling”

April 15th, 2012 | Comments Off | Posted in Mitt Romney

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Senior Positions held by Women

April 15th, 2012 | Comments Off | Posted in Mitt Romney

“You may have noted, well you probably didn’t see the little Boston Globe article. They didn’t make a big deal out of it in the Boston Globe, but in the University of Albany they looked at all the states in the country and looked at all the senior positions to see how many were filled by men and women and it turned out that our state was ranked number one in the number of women in senior positions. Just over 50 percent. I’m most proud of that.” - Governor Mitt Romney, NH Federation of Republican Women’s Lilac Dinner

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IL 4 Mitt Romney!

March 16th, 2012 | Comments Off | Posted in Mitt Romney

When I created this website, I had no idea that Illinois would be so important. The hits are really increasing. Please help by linking to this site!

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Would the Keystone XL pipeline cross and jeopardizes sensitive environments?

March 9th, 2012 | Comments Off | Posted in Mitt Romney

We have to balance environmental needs with business needs
The oil came from the ground. It was in contact with moisture. If it spilled back on the ground or in the water it could be cleaned up. We are not creating something that is evil and never existed before, we are extracting it and moving it from one place to another. The dirt that it was in is no less sacred than the dirt that it crosses. We are just cleaning up the dirt that it came from! Think of extraction just as a large clean up and transportation project.
We already have roads, cities, houses, gas stations, factories in Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas. We can’t just wall of these states, and declare them national wildlife preserves.
We already have gas trucks driving across the same rivers that the XL pipeline would cross. They pose just as much a threat as the XL pipeline would.
Pipelines are safe. They are inspected, have standards, codes, inspectors, regulations, etc. They have been operating safely for many years and many miles. Pressure is monitored. Metal thickness is inspected.

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re: “Iran is more concerned about self-defense than aggression”

March 9th, 2012 | Comments Off | Posted in Mitt Romney

The relative concern for offensive military force versus defensive military may be interesting, but it holds very little reliant information for decision makers. Before Hitler came along, perhaps all of their tanks were meant to be used in a defensive war. Once Hitler came along he could use the tanks for offence or defense. Nuclear weapons are a tool and can be used in defense or offence. The problem in Iran isn’t just one or two people who want to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. The problem is a country who’s leading export is hatred. It is not good for these type of countries to get nuclear weapons.

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We can not assume the leaders in Iran can be motivated by rational secular self interest

March 9th, 2012 | Comments Off | Posted in Mitt Romney

The leaders in Iran gain power by a game of one upmanship in which power is gained by expressing increasingly outrageous belief that God is testing your faith, and that you have to put your faith in him, and that he will save you. This will cause Iran to pursue their violent anti-israili dogma without fear that they will be punished by the USA because their power is gained and maintained by expressing absolute faith in Allah. Am I wrong?

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Iran is seeking nuclear weapons

March 8th, 2012 | Comments Off | Posted in Mitt Romney