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ORIGINAL: OsideGirl

He was the founder of Romneycare......

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

Code for "No universal health care."

If states had their own plans, that would be one thing. They don't.

Hence, the problem remains. Universal health care it is.

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a committee of evil clowns could have done a far better job

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

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a committee of evil clowns could have done a far better job

They had their chance. They did nothing.

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All this government "help" got us where we are today.

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ORIGINAL: DarkSteven

My contention is that the 2012 election is nothing more than a referendum on Obama and that his opponent really doesn't matter. Yeah, I know that Romney was billed as being the most appealing to independents, but I honestly think that he's pretty much a cipher.

So, how about you?

1. If you plan to vote for Obama, could you have been enticed to vote GOP if another candidate (say, Huntsman or Johnson) had been selected?
2. If you plan to vote against Obama, could another candidate have been awful enough for you to vote for Obama or stay home?

I'll go first. I will vote for Obama, but Huntsman might have given me some real thinking to do.

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ORIGINAL: OsideGirl
He was the founder of Romneycare......

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Exclusive Powers of the National Government

Under the Constitution, powers reserved to the national government include:

Print money (bills and coins)
Declare war
Establish an army and navy
Enter into treaties with foreign governments
Regulate commerce between states and international trade
Establish post offices and issue postage
Make laws necessary to enforce the Constitution

Exclusive Powers of State Governments

Powers reserved to state governments include:

Establish local governments
Issue licenses (driver, hunting, marriage, etc.)
Regulate intrastate (within the state) commerce
Conduct elections
Ratify amendments to the U.S. Constitution
Provide for public health and safety
Exercise powers neither delegated to the national government or prohibited from the states by the U.S.
Constitution (For example, setting legal drinking and smoking ages.)

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

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All this government "help" got us where we are today.

Try again. You'll get it eventually.

We were doing just fine, even started turning surpluses. Then the tax cuts and the wars, all unfunded.

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"I'd really like to see Mitt Romney release more than one year of tax records because there's been disturbing reports recently that he's got a ... secretive Bermuda corporation that no one knows anything about, investment in the Caymans," Wasserman Schultz said. "Americans need to ask themselves: why does an American businessman need a Swiss bank account, and secretive investments like that?"

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"I'd really like to see Mitt Romney release more than one year of tax records because there's been disturbing reports recently that he's got a ... secretive Bermuda corporation that no one knows anything about, investment in the Caymans," Wasserman Schultz said. "Americans need to ask themselves: why does an American businessman need a Swiss bank account, and secretive investments like that?"

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

Before you said he didn't have experience. Now he does.

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

Steven, in 2000, I could have been persuaded to vote for a good GOP candidate. I even took McCain seriously then.

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ORIGINAL: Sanity


Besides the wars the Dems voted to engage in, and voted to fund, and continue to vote to fund, that Obama is doubling down on and furthering with his "Arab Winter", and not to mention Barney Frank and Chris Dodd furthering Carters Fannie /Freddie house of cards scheme?

And only a true leftist would posit that taxing the private sector to make the government bloat up even further than it has already has any shot at delivering our salvation

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

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All this government "help" got us where we are today.

Try again. You'll get it eventually.

We were doing just fine, even started turning surpluses. Then the tax cuts and the wars, all unfunded.

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ORIGINAL: Moonhead

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Steven, in 2000, I could have been persuaded to vote for a good GOP candidate. I even took McCain seriously then.

That's actually a bit unfair. When Sorebutt was campaigning against against the chimp in 2000, he looked a hell of a lot more credible as a candidate than he did when he made his attempt to endear himself to the wingnut neocon element of his party eight years later.

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Before you said he didn't have experience. Now he does.

And when he was elected, I said I hoped he was going to have one hell of a good learning curve. He didn't.

I'm not also a great fan of the effect holding power for the very first time in his life has had on him.

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Your only argument, is to offer up your envy of other peoples' wealth, comrade?

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How can you vote for a candidate who hides his money to avoid his tax obligation to his nation? Romney lacks integrety at the very least and should be investigated for tax avoidance. It has nothing to do with envy of his wealth but everything to do with his lack of character and patriotism. He claims he paid every cent he owes . . . on the money that wasn't secreted away.