The Republican Nomination For President: The Race For The Race For The White House

Those are EXACT objectives that the GOP has pursued, both historically and recently. None of those are an exaggeration in the slightest. When Ron Paul says he wants to eliminate the EPA, he's calling for dirtier air and water, specifically.

You think so? Have fun rallying your troops around that fake asshole.

To be fair, he's proving liberals wrong that he was only running to sell books. You like when liberals are wrong... so that's a consolation prize at least right?

Proving liberals are wrong is like someone "proving" to me there is a sun in the sky. I'm not impressed.

Thrown in for good measure. My Finn dAbuzz political bingo card is almost full. When it's complete I get a free sandwich at Subway.

I'm pleased to see you pay such attention to my posts, and that it can be rewarding in more ways than one. Does Subway sell Vegan subs prepared by pacifists who tear up when they read Thomas Friedman? If not I guess you'll have to donate your prize to the last occupier freezing on Wall Street.

Envy perhaps? Maybe you wished this would have been how things went for Obama in 2008? Yes, Gingrich has laid the blueprint for the weapon against Romney. All Obama needs to do is chime in come time. The rest writes itself when Romney can't reconcile himself to general audiences after the RNC.

Envy? Try and make sense deist.

Obviously you have not been paying attention to what Romney has been saying, or, more likely, you have an involuntary, reflexive reaction to anything that comes out of a Republican's mouth: You immediately stop listening after word-one and then substitute that which fits your preconceived notions..."I want retarded children and old people to die. I want dirty air and dirty water. I want America's youth to perish in the meat-grinders of foreign wars!"

It's a neat trick. Are you able to manage it when your mom scolds you for staying on your computer all night?

It shouldn't take a particularly sharp person to recognize Romney's game plan. It's precisely why he has not been embraced by staunch conservatives. He is, rather brilliantly, walking the tightrope between obtaining the GOP nomination and setting himself up for the general election.

Do you know what his tax policy is?

Other than supporting a continuation of the Bush tax cuts and pledging not to raise any taxes (which, of course, is part of the price of admission into the GOP primaries) the only taxes he is pledging to reduce are those that impact the middle-class. By doing so he is blunting Obama's inevitable attack that Romney wants to stick it to the middle-class in favor of the rich.

Since there are plenty of folks such as yourself who will accept such an attack without reflection, he's not building absolute immunity. The people who blindly accept the accusation though were never about to vote for anyone but Obama, so nothing is really lost. Instead he has a message for the moderates and independents: I'm a different kind of conservative. I'm truly rich and I know we rich don't need tax breaks. I know that you folks in the middle-class need a break and I'm going to give it to you in a conservative fashion...by freeing you from taxes on investments. You won't need to muck about with a 401K, because anything you invest will be tax free.

Obama has telegraphed his campaign strategy: Appeal to the middle-class. Demonize the rich and lay low on spending money on the poor. Obviously Romney is not ceding this territory to him.

But, since this is an interesting thread, here's a question for you: Who could be paired best on the Romney ticket?

There's only one clear choice: Marco Rubio.

I know he's saying he won't run, but what is he supposed to say?

He will deliver both conservative and latino votes and possibly even youth votes.

Assuming Rubio is serious about not running, look for Romney to press Christie, Ryan and Nikki Haley.
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You promote abortions?

Do you know what his tax policy is?

Other than supporting a continuation of the Bush tax cuts and pledging not to raise any taxes (which, of course, is part of the price of admission into the GOP primaries) the only taxes he is pledging to reduce are those that impact the middle-class. By doing so he is blunting Obama's inevitable attack that Romney wants to stick it to the middle-class in favor of the rich.

A sizable number of low-income families would see their taxes go up. For instance, about 15 percent of those in the $10,000 to $20,000 income group would get an average tax cut of about $140, but 20 percent would get hit with an average tax increase of $1,000, mostly because Romney would bring back the less generous versions of those refundable credits.

About one-third of those in $40,000 to $50,000 group would get a tax cut that would average about $400, but about one-six would face a tax increase of nearly twice as much.

Almost every millionaire would get a tax cut averaging roughly $150,000. As a group, those making $1 million or more would receive nearly half the benefit of Romney’s tax plan.

Since there are plenty of folks such as yourself who will accept such an attack without reflection, he's not building absolute immunity.

So you're saying you promote abortions.

It's not the cost of doing business cleanly that's prohibitive. It's the cost of proving that you're doing it cleanly. The regulatory overhead to demonstrate compliance is what's prohibitive.