I do want to respond but not item-by-item necessarily. I looked back at where I thought you said you voted for Romney -- and I think (but am not sure) you were responding to a post from Brumar who had said he had voted for Romney. It looked like you quoted it in italics and all this time I have thought that was YOU saying you voted for Romney.
"The R's are bad on liberty and the D's are bad on free lunch."
I find this interesting. To me, Rs are far better on liberty -- in particular, since Trump took office -- than D's are. Free speech is seriously under assault by the Ds today, and I'm sure you'll agree that free speech is foundational for all other liberties. Just in the last few days Jeff Sessions (I think) was drive off of a college campus where he was speaking. There are polls ranging from 40 to 50 percent of some age groups who now want to ban what someone proclaims to be "hate speech" in the US.
D's also wan't to kill the 2nd Amendment -- some of them, want it killed entirely. This, of course, is a very fundamental freedom in the US.
On the other side of the freedom coin, many Ds want to make "health care" a "right", and even provide it on the taxpayer's nickel to anyone standing on US territory. This, of course, means taking away the most fundamental of liberal rights -- the right to buy health care at the time and place of his choosing, and to keep that money he or she earns, and eliminating economic freedom in many ways (which, of course, imposes limits on political freedom that some people simply do not recognize).
So, at best, it would be a mixed bag as to who is the "freedom party".
I voted for Romney and felt and still feel he is a good man and would have made a good president. But he could never have done the things Trump has undertaken -- which require tremendous spine and stamina. As a result, I don't think the economic explosion we've seen would have happened under Romney since 2017 -- but have no doubt Romney could have done better for us economically than Obama did.
I believe Romney could have come to terms with Iran that would have been better than Obama got but also better than the "nothing" we now have. At any rate, Romney was a no-brainer vote in 2012 for me at least. |
