OK, lets just start a thread as to why we support a certain candidate. I do support Perry and Newt. Here is my reasoning for Perry. I will do Newt later.
The top of the list is that he created more jobs than any other candidate and more then the rest of the country during a recession. Over a million new jobs in the last 10 years that he was governor and over 45% of all the jobs created in the country during the recession. There is an article out there showing how it was not at all just because of the oil industry. I will find it. He passed TORT reform in which attracted thousands of doctors to the state. Stopped funding planned parenthood and using our tax dollars for abortions in Texas. Has the best plan for closing the border. Thousands of more boots on the ground and drones and strategic fences in highly populized areas but don't waste hundreds of billions in the desert on a fence that they can climb in less than 20 seconds. Wants e-verify and is fighting to close sanctuary cities. Has gotten rid of so many regulations and taxes that he has attracted more businesses back to the US and to Texas than any other state. Has lowered taxes throughout Texas industires. Has the best tax plan that can actually pass because it leaves the old one in place for now till people get use to it. Has by far the best energy and jobs creating plan which most of America agrees with other than Environmentalists. He wants to repeal Obamacare immediately! He wants to repeal Dodd / Frank. He has no moral issues from his past that have come out and none that anyone can find. Other than Santorum he is the strongest Christian Conservative running. Everyone is saying that he will attract the most Latino votes which we have to get to win this election. He didn't say he wanted to electrocute them. He was the Commander in cheif over 20,000+ national guard and also knows quite a bit about foreign issues and policies and has been overseas speaking with them about business policies. He was the governor of, if it were a nation, the 13th largest economy in the world and he still created jobs when the rest of the world was going the other direction. There is more but I need to get back to work.
Why do I support Obama in 2012? Simple, at his worst I still think he is light years better than what the Republicans are offering. I am genuinely concerned that the Tea Party extremists have hijacked the GOP and any Republican president will cater to them. I at least know with Obama that he will veto anything that puts Medicare or SS in jeopardy, or tries to repeal Obamacare, or gives huge breaks to the wealthy and corps at the expense of our middle class.
Simple...Obama is the only one running who can keep the Tea Party from running amok.
jmc wrote: How about he is dumber than a bag of cake mix. We need a more stupid President?. Great idea!
Standard Dem talking point. "W" was dumb. Reagan was a moron.
Currently we have an intellectual law professor and how many jobs has he created?
Sometimes ability is worth so much more than book learning. Bill Gates & Mark Zuckerberg both dropped out of Harvard and have created many more jobs than Barack Hussein Obama.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
archer wrote: Why do I support Obama in 2012? Simple, at his worst I still think he is light years better than what the Republicans are offering. I am genuinely concerned that the Tea Party extremists have hijacked the GOP and any Republican president will cater to them. I at least know with Obama that he will veto anything that puts Medicare or SS in jeopardy, or tries to repeal Obamacare, or gives huge breaks to the wealthy and corps at the expense of our middle class.
Simple...Obama is the only one running who can keep the Tea Party from running amok.
Check the Denver Post today, Obama and his people are setting up a new taxing plan for Social Security and other entitlements that will hit the poor much harder than the rich.
Guess who was the first President to tax Social Security benefits? Clinton. Sometimes you have to get past what the press tells you and actually look at what is happening.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
jmc wrote: How about he is dumber than a bag of cake mix. We need a more stupid President?. Great idea!
Standard Dem talking point. "W" was dumb. Reagan was a moron.
Currently we have an intellectual law professor and how many jobs has he created?
Sometimes ability is worth so much more than book learning. Bill Gates & Mark Zuckerberg both dropped out of Harvard and have created many more jobs than Barack Hussein Obama.
archer asked for a positive thread about what we like about candidates, and I knew it would be a Dem like jmc to throw the first unproductive crap out there. Never anything to contribute.
archer wrote: Why do I support Obama in 2012? Simple, at his worst I still think he is light years better than what the Republicans are offering. I am genuinely concerned that the Tea Party extremists have hijacked the GOP and any Republican president will cater to them. I at least know with Obama that he will veto anything that puts Medicare or SS in jeopardy, or tries to repeal Obamacare, or gives huge breaks to the wealthy and corps at the expense of our middle class.
Simple...Obama is the only one running who can keep the Tea Party from running amok.
Check the Denver Post today, Obama and his people are setting up a new taxing plan for Social Security and other entitlements that will hit the poor much harder than the rich.
Guess who was the first President to tax Social Security benefits? Clinton. Sometimes you have to get past what the press tells you and actually look at what is happening.
The Viking wrote: archer asked for a positive thread about what we like about candidates, and I knew it would be a Dem like jmc to throw the first unproductive crap out there. Never anything to contribute.
jmc's post was no worse than SS109's condescending post.....yet you applaud that one. Hypocrites.
