Romney likely Republican candidate

By now you've probably seen the news: The amazing -- and amazingly negative -- Republican race for president is all but over. Mitt Romney is almost certainly our opponent in this election.

That means America will have a very clear choice come November.

The President believes that this is a make-or-break moment for the middle class, and that without a strong and thriving middle class, we'll never have the growth we need.

That's why he's fighting for an economy rooted in our fundamental values -- one in which Americans can not only find work, but where folks who work hard can get ahead, responsibility is rewarded, and everyone, from Main Street to Wall Street, plays by the same rules.

He's fighting for an economy that's built to last, with a genuine and sustained commitment to education and training, advanced manufacturing, and homegrown, American energy.

He's fighting for a country in which every child has a chance, and every American, after a lifetime of work, can count on retiring with dignity and security.

And he's fighting to ensure that the responsibility for delivering on that future is broadly shared, which means ending the budget-busting tax cuts for the wealthy that add to our deficits and crowd out the very investments we need to grow.

Mitt Romney has a different, and frighteningly familiar, view.

He thinks you grow our economy from the top down.

He'd take us back to an economy based on outsourcing, risky financial schemes, and massive tax cuts for the wealthy. He'd return to the policy of allowing Wall Street, Big Oil, and other special interests to write their own rules.

But that's not all. Below are five other things that should give Americans pause.

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.

If people know the truth about Mitt Romney and President Obama, who they are, and their very different plans for this country, there's no way we can lose this thing.

This race is on.

Let's go,

Jim Messina
Campaign Manager
Obama for America


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Amen...

Romney isn't a radical righty no matter how many times you want to declare it. Look at his record in Massachusets. He worked in a bipartisan way to pass bills like Romneycare, the model for Obamacare. Jim must really think his audience are idiots. They should know in GOP primaries, you run to the right to gain votes of your party, but then actually legislate in a moderate way.

But continue your delusions.

If Romney is elected President, I don't expect his foreign policy to be much different than the current administration. And while Obama preaches a more draconian tax code, he has extended the Bush tax cuts every time when asked.

Which record?...The one where he was

for pro-choice before he was against it?
for RomneyCare before he was against it?
for gun-control laws before he was against it?
for the Dream Act, and path-to-citizenship laws before he was against it?
for LGBT rights before he was against it?

I'm confused....?

Obama was forced to extend the Bush tax-cuts ONCE ("every time he was asked?") as part of a bargain to get the MIDDLE-CLASS PAYROLL TAX-CUTS (You know, MIDDLE CLASS....as in everybody who makes LESS than $250,000/year.)--which the GOP opposed.

LJ same could be said for Obuma.

I am not a Romney fan but recognize the importance of voting for him. After watching Obuma abuse executive orders we need someone better.

No, the same can NOT be said of Obama... But rave on. It's fun to watch you squirm.

Nice that all you need is a letter.

Much easier than thinking for yourself. Just read a letter from Fearless Leader and obey like lap dogs.

Uh duh huh.."My name is JSG"

Scooped you by like 2 years here rookie
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pineinthegrass wrote: Nice that all you need is a letter.

Much easier than thinking for yourself. Just read a letter from Fearless Leader and obey like lap dogs.

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Pot/Kettle/Black

PS: (It's not that I'll vote for anything with a "D"...It's that I WON'T vote for anything with an "R"...)

LadyJazzer wrote: Pot/Kettle/Black

You could have save all that clip and paste by just posting a picture of yourself...