Why I like Mitt and Fred, and why Huck and McCain are Liberal

Ah, the political season has set in. Everybody has set in around their candidate.

Frankly, I could not care less about the Democrat Party. I feel that any of the Republicans can beat them (save for maybe Huckabee and Ron Paul) so I will not talk about them.
On the Republican side you have the Ron Paul Kooks (yes many of them are that, not all though), and you have the Huckabee Evangelicals. You have people voting for John McCain, and so on, then you have the conservatives Fred Thompson and Mitt Romney.

People have wondered who I want to vote for and why. I like Mitt Romney as well as Fred Thompson. Some of you may ask, why Mitt Romney, why Fred? Why not Huckabee or McCain? I’ll tell you why. Fred and Mitt are as close to real conservatives as we can get in this election cycle. Huckabee and McCain are Liberals.

First, I don’t know officially who I want to vote for. I like Mitt Romney at times, and then Fred Thompson does something amazing. For instance last night, Fred Thompson finally lit up! He tore up Mike Huckabee and his only real response was. That’s all Fred can do is Attack because he has no message, which is totally wrong. I like Fred because he is the only one preaching Federalism. For those of you who do not know what Federalism is, well, shame on you! Federalism means sovereignty is constitutionally divided between a central government (the Federal Government) and the States. That means the power to govern is shared between the Federal and State Governments. It’s in our constitution all over the place, though it doesn’t literally say Federalism. It’s in our 10th Amendment. Most of you may not know what the 10th amendment is. It states “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
So, if it’s not in the constitution, it is a state power; for instance, Gay Marriage and Abortion. You all have strong opinions on those issues. My personal believe is that Gay Marriage is wrong and Abortion is killing an innocent life. But Because I am a Conservative (which by definition means I believe in Federalism too) I believe that the final decision should be left up to the states. That way, we have 50 different “laboratories” for public policy. If something is working out well in Alabama, it sets an example for the rest of the states, likewise, if it’s a complete failure, other states know not to go that direction.

This is what Fred Thompson believes on the domestic side. He also believes in Tax cuts, spending cuts, private health care, and so on. He believes in Personal Responsibility, meaning you pay the consequences for your actions. He believes in Individual Liberty and Limited Government. He also doesn’t fall for that Man Made Global Warming Crap like McCain. He is strong on Immigration too. Secure the borders and NO AMNESTY MR MCCAIN.
Fred is strong on the War on Terror too. He wants to increase the size of our Military, and create a missile defense system and so on. He wants to enhance our intelligence community. Those prisoners of war at Club Gitmo, well, they will stay their, and he wants to make a judicial system that deals with terrorists as enemy combatants, not criminals.

That’s just the start for Fred Thompson. I also like Mitt Romney.

Mitt Romney is one of the few in the race that actually has a record of fixing things in major trouble, and doing them in a pretty conservative way.
To start off, Mitt is a business man. He knows how to organize. He has fixed many companies in the past. In 1990, Romney was asked to return to Bain and Company (which he worked for from 1978-1984 as vice president) because it was facing financial collapse. As CEO, Romney managed an effort to restructure the firm’s employee stock-ownership plan, real-estate deals and bank loans, while increasing fiscal transparency. Within a year, he had led Bain and Company though a highly successful turnaround and returned the firm to profitability without layoffs or partner defections.
In 1998 Romney left Bain and Company to head the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Games Organizing Committee, which was running 379 million dollars short of its revenue benchmarks. It was so bad before Romney got in that they were talking about scaling back the games. There were also allegations of bribery with the top officials in the committee. When Romney took over, he revamped the organizations leadership and policies, reduced budgets and boosted fundraising. He worked to make sure the games were safe following the 9/11 attacks by coordination a 300 million dollar security budget. Romney even contributed 1 million of his own money to the games, and he gave 825,000 dollars of his salary he earned as CEO of the games to charity.
Then there is Romney’s Experience as Governor of Massachusetts in 2002- 2006.
Massachusetts had a 3 billion dollar budget deficit. By the time Romney got his hands on Massachusetts and fixed it up, Massachusetts had a 700 million dollar surplus! And this was without raising taxes. He also cut spending by 1.6 billion dollars! And he did so much more.
Romney is somebody that can bring change to Washington. Not Liberal Change, like the Democrats or Huckabee and McCain.

Now why do I not like Huckabee or McCain?

McCain can be summed up in this article by Mark R. Levin.

"There’s a reason some of John McCain's conservative supporters avoid discussing his record. They want to talk about his personal story, his position on the surge, his supposed electability. But whenever the rest of his career comes up, the knee-jerk reply is to characterize the inquiries as attacks.

The McCain domestic record is a disaster. To say he fought spending, most particularly earmarks, is to nibble around the edges and miss the heart of the matter. For starters, consider:
McCain-Feingold — the most brazen frontal assault on political speech since Buckley v. Valeo.

McCain-Kennedy — the most far-reaching amnesty program in American history.

McCain-Lieberman — the most onerous and intrusive attack on American industry — through reporting, regulating, and taxing authority of greenhouse gases — in American history.

McCain-Kennedy-Edwards — the biggest boon to the trial bar since the tobacco settlement, under the rubric of a patients’ bill of rights.

McCain-Reimportantion of Drugs — a significant blow to pharmaceutical research and development, not to mention consumer safety (hey Rudy, pay attention, see link).

And McCain’s stated opposition to the Bush 2001 and 2003 tax cuts was largely based on socialist, class-warfare rhetoric — tax cuts for the rich, not for the middle class. The public record is full of these statements. Today, he recalls only his insistence on accompanying spending cuts.

As chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, McCain was consistently hostile to American enterprise, from media and pharmaceutical companies to technology and energy companies.

McCain also led the Gang of 14, which prevented the Republican leadership in the Senate from mounting a rule change that would have ended the systematic use (actual and threatened) of the filibuster to prevent majority approval of judicial nominees.

And then there’s the McCain defense record.

His supporters point to essentially one policy strength, McCain’s early support for a surge and counterinsurgency. It has now evolved into McCain taking credit for forcing the president to adopt General David Petreaus’s strategy. Where’s the evidence to support such a claim?

Moreover, Iraq is an important battle in our war against the Islamo-fascist threat. But the war is a global war, and it most certainly includes the continental United States, which, after all, was struck on 9/11. How does McCain fare in that regard?

McCain-ACLU — the unprecedented granting of due-process rights to unlawful enemy combatants (terrorists).

McCain has repeatedly called for the immediate closing of Guantanamo Bay and the introduction of al-Qaeda terrorists into our own prisons — despite the legal rights they would immediately gain and the burdens of managing such a dangerous population.

While McCain proudly and repeatedly points to his battles with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who had to rebuild the U.S. military and fight a complex war, where was McCain in the lead-up to the war — when the military was being dangerously downsized by the Clinton administration and McCain’s friend, former Secretary of Defense Bill Cohen? Where was McCain when the CIA was in desperate need of attention? Also, McCain was apparently in the dark about al-Qaeda like most of Washington, despite a decade of warnings.

My fingers are crossed that at the next debate, either Fred Thompson or Mitt Romney will find a way to address McCain’s record. (Mike Huckabee won’t, as he is apparently in the tank for him.)

The original Article can be found Here

Huckabee, now, Mark Levin likes to call him Huckaphony, he calls himself a conservative, but the truth is, he isn’t. He might be a Social conservative (if you want to call it that), but he is really a Liberal.

Fred Thompson said it right the other day during the South Carolina Debate. He wants to bring on liberal economic policies, liberal foreign policies, he believes we have an arrogant foreign policy and the tradition of blame America first. He believes Club Gitmo should be closed and those enemy combatants brought here to the United States to find their way into the court system. He believes in taxpayer funded programs for illegals as he did in Arkansas. He has the endorsement of the National Education Association because his opposition to school vouchers. He said he would sign a bill that would ban smoking nationwide. So much for Federalism, so much for states rights, so much for individual rights that’s not the model of the Reagan coalition, that’s the model of the Democrat Party.

Here’s the rundown. The media have been building up Huckabee and McCain because they are liberals. And they know that they can easily be beat by the Democrats.
Fred Thompson and Mitt Romney are the two most conservative candidates. They are not Reagan, but they are the closest we can get to one.

The Drive-By Media will always tell you who is and who isn't a conservative, by who they try to prop up and who they try to destroy.

This is a time for choosing. This is a battle for the heart and soul of the Republican Party (as Fred put). The Republican Party will either continue its Reagan roots, or it will go the way of the Wigs.
I support Fred Thompson and Mitt Romney; they are the best ones to lead our Nation Forward.