Comments on: The Stupidity of Romney and Obama

By: sds

sds — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 12:47:12 +0000

Brilliant! That would be the same Simpson Bowles Plan that Obama rejected. Try to focus on my original point. You never were going to vote for Romney, substantive policies or no.

By: Ben Bell

Ben Bell — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 23:01:39 +0000

You see the problem is those are not substanitive policies. In case you haven’t noticed we have a huge budget deficit. You don’t solve the deficit by adding to it. Romney has to explain or come out in favor of policy that deals with the problems viz. Simpson Bowles.

By: Robert Cheeks

Robert Cheeks — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 19:59:57 +0000

Well Dr. I don’t think he ‘loved’ the gore. You do recall his remarks during Fredricksburg when he commented about the Union assaults against the entrenched Rebels? He said something about the senselees assaults, the horrific loss of brave men (bodies piled one on top of another, and the fact that because of that, ‘we’ should not ‘love’ war so much. Yet, no general fought so hard, engaging the whole of the army with alacrity when his ‘battle blood’ was up. “Lee to the rear” was a common chant among the troops. And, we should remember it was at the same battle where he referred to the Yankees as ‘those people’, as I recall. Ironically, he loved his ‘country’ (Virginia), and he served his nation with valor and honor, he even freed his slaves long, long before Gen. Grant, but to experience national troops marching into his country was just too much for that olde republican.

By: sds

sds — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 19:21:42 +0000

Ben Bell: As evidence that you are not really looking for “evidence” here from a quickly googled campaign website are some policies offered by Romney.

Make permanent, across-the-board 20 percent cut in marginal rates
Maintain current tax rates on interest, dividends, and capital gains
Eliminate taxes for taxpayers with AGI below $200,000 on interest, dividends, and capital gains
Eliminate the Death Tax
Repeal the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT)

Corporate Taxes

Cut the corporate rate to 25 percent
Strengthen and make permanent the R&D tax credit
Switch to a territorial tax system
Repeal the corporate Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT)

You may not agree with them, that’s fine. But don’t play us for fools. The readers of FT are not mindless robots taking MSNBC CNN talking points. Again, get real. You never considered voting for Romney and you’ve never heard Romney’s policies because you have never looked for them.

By: Peter Lawler

Peter Lawler — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 19:05:57 +0000

Robert, He should have done that! Was it Longstreet (I forget) who made that recommendation? But Lee loved the glorious gore of the big battle too much. Not a good strategy for the South.

By: Robert Cheeks

Robert Cheeks — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:13:52 +0000

Oh, it breaks my heart but you are right about Lee. He trusted in those men in butternut and grey, he believed in them for he had seen their courage and determination on so many glorious fields of valor. But, against those damn guns, eighty-eight of them in all, so few made the Yankee lines even though the Virginians broke the Vermonters and sent them a-runnin’.
If only he had moved the army between the Army of the Potomac and Washington City and forced Meade to assualt an entrenched position…if only, alas!

By: Ben Bell

Ben Bell — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 17:55:53 +0000

Blind to reason? Ad hominem attacks are by definition illogical. Instead of ranting, try offering exactly what Romney’s policies are regarding taxes and entitlements. I won’t vote for President Obama either, unless he officially comes out in favor of eliminating tax loopholes in accord with Bowles’ recommendation.

By: sds

sds — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 17:07:58 +0000

Ben Bell. Get real. Its clear from your comments that you were not going to vote for Romney anyway. Obama has not “offered substantive policy” in four years, except for a slow continual push for the redistribution of wealth. You are among the 47% of the population blind to reason, blind to the evils of socialism, and willing to give away your freedom for your lord, Obama. Please go back to your MSNBC and CNN talking point cocoon and we 53% will try to support you.

By: Kate Pitrone

Kate Pitrone — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 10:24:42 +0000

Brandt, to what or whose benefit would Romney or Ryan drive the economy into a nose-dive? Surely prosperity is power for the wealthy. It is an economic laissez les bons temps rouler that keeps them in power (and is a moderate’s excuse for the choice of them,) whereas the Democrats seek that in the social realm. For Democrats, if the economy is not doing well, then unions are far more powerful and much of their policy is driven by unions.

By: Ben Bell

Ben Bell — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 23:26:06 +0000

The fact that Romney unequivocally fails to offer substanitive policy even when expressing how he really feels is the reason I will not vote for him.