In the article linked below, Chuck Baldwin included an interesting (very long) list of positions that both Romney and Obama hold in common:
http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/home/archives/5229
But in another interesting twist, Chuck exposes the fact that a great many “conservative” organizations have received big money from “a slew of PACS and foundations that funneled thousands of dollars” that Romney created, and apparently they put on their own muzzles and made him out to be a “conservative”, as if he had repented of his strong pro-abortion policies and push for ever more and bigger government as governor in Massachusetts, increasing the control of government officials over our lives.
Here is just one paragraph with much of list but not all, with a comment below about one or two of them, kind of disclaimers…
As I have noted in previous columns, the differences between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are miniscule on virtually every salient issue. They both supported TARP; they both supported Obama’s economic stimulus package; they both supported so-called assault weapons bans and other gun control measures; Obama has an “F” rating from Gun Owners of America, while Romney has a “D-” rating from GOA; neither man supports a balanced budget; neither man opposes foreign aid; they both supported the bailout of the auto industry; they both have a track record of being big spenders; they both fully support the Federal Reserve; they both oppose a full audit of the Fed; they are both supporters of universal health care; both men are showered with campaign contributions from Wall Street; neither of them wants to eliminate the IRS or the direct income tax; both men are on record as saying the TSA is doing a “great job”; they both supported the NDAA, including the indefinite detention of American citizens without due process of law; they both supported the renewal of the Patriot Act; they both believe that the President has “executive power” to assassinate and kill; both support the “free trade” agenda of the global elite; they are both soft on illegal immigration; they both support NAFTA and CAFTA; they both have a history of appointing liberal judges; they both believe the President has the authority to take the nation to war without the approval of Congress; and neither of them has any qualms about running up more public debt to the already gargantuan debt of 16 trillion dollars.
I’m going to parse out that list for effect in bullet form to make them more visible:
They both supported TARP;
they both supported Obama’s economic stimulus package;
they both supported so-called assault weapons bans and other gun control measures;
Obama has an “F” rating from Gun Owners of America, while Romney has a “D-” rating from GOA;
neither man supports a balanced budget;
neither man opposes foreign aid;
they both supported the bailout of the auto industry;
they both have a track record of being big spenders;
they both fully support the Federal Reserve;
they both oppose a full audit of the Fed;
they are both supporters of universal health care;
both men are showered with campaign contributions from Wall Street;
neither of them wants to eliminate the IRS or the direct income tax;
both men are on record as saying the TSA is doing a “great job”;
they both supported the NDAA, including the indefinite detention of American citizens without due process of law;
they both supported the renewal of the Patriot Act;
they both believe that the President has “executive power” to assassinate and kill;
both support the “free trade” agenda of the global elite;
they are both soft on illegal immigration;
they both support NAFTA and CAFTA;
they both have a history of appointing liberal judges;
they both believe the President has the authority to take the nation to war without the approval of Congress;
and neither of them has any qualms about running up more public debt to the already gargantuan debt of 16 trillion dollars.
[Editor’s note: I do support free trade, but not the “free trade agenda” of “the global elite”, because their “free trade agenda” has nothing to do with “free trade”, but it does relate to very un-free control.]
There are more things they hold in common, and Chuck Baldwin does mention some of them, like the fact that they both support the current legal enforcement of the both ridiculous and dangerous (for babies) scientific view that a baby in the womb is part of a woman’s own body. Obama has broken many promises and told many lies, but then Romney says he’s pro-life, giving talking heads a chance to say they’re glad he changed his position, but he says he’ll do nothing about Roe v Wade, and he doesn’t talk about this, and he does not speak repentant about his economy-damaging effects of his policies as governor in Massachusetts.
Gun Owners of America (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Just to say that a forced tax on every Massachusetts resident that on the national scale Americans marched against by the millions and even all the left-leaning polls said were against by 70 percent, meaning probably 85 percent, is a “good solution” for anybody is to be clueless and shows he is NEITHER “conservative” and certainly not libertarian.
“Let’s not also forget that Romney’s advisors actually met with Obama’s advisors on a dozen occasions to assist them with designing ObamaCare! It’s no surprise that Romney is refusing to call ObamaCare a tax, even though it’s the largest middle class tax hike in American history. The reason for this is because, while governor, his RomneyCare plan–the model for ObamaCare–was attacked as a tax and he argued it wasn’t.
“Let’s not also forget that Romney’s advisors actually met with Obama’s advisors on a dozen occasions to assist them with designing ObamaCare! It’s no surprise that Romney is refusing to call ObamaCare a tax, even though it’s the largest middle class tax hike in American history. The reason for this is because, while governor, his RomneyCare plan–the model for ObamaCare–was attacked as a tax and he argued it wasn’t.
Romney projects an air of knowing much more about his topics than Obama, but he is still a top-down guy that wants to impose his own solutions on everybody that doesn’t want them. And so Romney will know what he is saying when he reads a teleprompter.
I pretty much agree with Mr. Baldwin that Romney will win this election, but unfortunately his administration will look like the Bush years, and meantime the powers that be in the USA continue to push us fast toward a dollar crash.
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