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I Would Vote for Gov Romney if He Was a Democrat

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This is what I've been saying lately. I wouldn't mind Romney himself: I think he'd be a mediocre President, but Obama hasn't blown me away either and probably wouldn't dazzle much as second terms aren't great usually. The problem is handing over the entire Executive branch over to the GOP, whom I despise. Romney is a delegator first and foremost - he will delegate away most of his responsibilities to people who simply can't be trusted.

To Mark's final point on a third party - I thought it was interesting when Bill Maher called out the Occupy Wall Street Movementers for not forming some form of a party and getting people to run for seats. His argument was that the Tea Party had successfully done this and were on the far right of every issue. The occupiers could take up the room on the far left side and make their case.

Ultimately American politics continue to be corrupt and not even Obama could change that. I am a supporter still though.

A third party would dilute votes between the liberal candidates giving the Republican candidate a win. The Tea Party candidates ran as Republicans.

Sadly, the OWS focus on inclusion weakens it politically. It's really hard to rally around a movement that makes a point of attempting to reach across to people whose entire outlook on life you find toxic and appalling. There are people in the US, and they are probably overrepresented in the Tea Party, who harm the nation in direct proportion to their influence on national policy. They need to be defeated utterly, their ideology rendered nothing more than a curious historical footnote. Not parleyed and compromised with and OWS deliberately discourages this. They shot themselves in the foot.

I find it interesting from a UK perspective as over the last say 20 years the lines that divide a parties policeys have blured. We have 3 main parties labour, liberal and concervatives. Over the last 50 years or so the lines have started to become less clear and over the last 20 those lines have blured to the stage that it is not as easy to identify a policey to a party as it was in years gone by.

This seems to be a factor in USA parties and whilst I feel those lines are not as blured as they are in the UK, they are certainly not as clear cut as they were in years past.

Common sence prevails in many forms, nobody is ever going to argue against that.

It's far from perfect but it slowly and at times painfuly goes in the right directions.

Nomatter who you cide with the most important thing in any election is to excercise your rights too vote. It is when you get your say, albiet small in the future that effects you, so vote for who will serve you best as others have the right to think for themselves and show there feelings in there vote. Be selfish, but do vote.

The problem though is that there is still a line, and only one line. Either republican or democrat. If there were a third major party in between Republican and Democrat, Romney would probably fit pretty well in that one. He wouldn't be stuck in this situation where he feels the need to pretend he thinks trickle-down economics still works and Obamacare is a terrible idea.

> Who invented ObamaCare and has the most successful implementation to date?

Ted Kennedy...

A recent Frontline[1] suggests that Romney worked with Kennedy on healthcare primarily to serve as a crowning achievement for his future Presidential run.

[1] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/choice-2012/

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