Election 2012 - Who to vote for?

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onmyknees said:
The problem with voting Democrat is that you will be supporting Obama’s healthcare mandate which means that the employers of our Catholic charities, hospitals and institutions will not be able to afford to pay for their employees insurance. Many will have to shut down because of this. They have already closed down some of these for financial and moral reasons. The poor will not be getting the food that they used too. There will be more poor people. The administration is slowly taking away our religious freedom.:mad:
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Yes. And sadly, a vote for a democrat…is usually a vote for abortion.
 
irishpatrick said:
Life (from natural birth to natural death).

Marriage (one man/one woman).

Family (protect tradtional).

Religious Freedom.

The only person who wants to protect all of those is Romney.

Further, the poor cannot be helped without a robust economy and I believe Romney will make the economy stronger, which means increased opportunities will exist to help the poor.
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Rich_Olszewski said:
Or not choose at all. I certainly won’t vote for Obama, and** I don’t vote for Republicans**. I’ll have to do what I did in '08 - take a pass on the Presidential candidates. 🤷
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Looks like someone has a preconceived bias against Republicans. ;):D:(

At least you won’t vote for Obama though. 👍
 
Just found this this morning. Boehner has it right, at least with this voter.

John Boehner: Voters Need Not Love Mitt Romney
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…But at a June 30 fundraiser in Wheeling, W.Va., Speaker John Boehner offered a surprisingly frank assessment of the dynamic that surprised some in the audience.

Aside from Romney’s “friends, relatives and fellow Mormons,” Boehner said, most people will be motivated to vote for him in opposition to Obama.

The Ohio Republican made the remarks when an unidentified woman asked during a question-and-answer session: “Can you make me love Mitt Romney?”

“No,” Boehner said. “Listen, we’re just politicians. I wasn’t elected to play God. The American people probably aren’t going to fall in love with Mitt Romney. I’ll tell you this: 95 percent of the people that show up to vote in November are going to show up in that voting booth, and they
are going to vote for or against Barack Obama."…

Blue excerpt from: rollcall.com/issues/58_1/John-Boehner-Voters-Need-Not-Love-Mitt-Romney-215934-1.html?pos=htmbtxt
 
irishpatrick said:
Respectfully, it seems to me that you have an emotional attitude toward Republicans (“you don’t vote for Republicans” is an irrational attitude imo, especially since there are many great Republicans that I am certain you would be able to support if you knew them better).
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Perhaps my statement was too absolute. In local elections, I have voted for Republicans who I have known and counted as personal friends.
that Republicans give far more to charity, than do Democrats.
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Really now, is that a good reason to vote for a candidate of either party - that he’s generous from his own pocket?
after all, Obama or Romney will be our next President whether you like that or not.
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In '08, McCain or Obama were to become our next president regardless of my preference (who was Sen. Clinton). We live with whomever is elected, even if we have to hold our noses.
 
Rich_Olszewski said:
Perhaps my statement was too absolute. In local elections, I have voted for Republicans who I have known and counted as personal friends.

Really now, is that a good reason to vote for a candidate of either party - that he’s generous from his own pocket?

In '08, McCain or Obama were to become our next president regardless of my preference (who was Sen. Clinton). We live with whomever is elected, even if we have to hold our noses.
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See, you can vote for a Republican. Do it again this time.

The point about charity is simple. Republicans feel the poor should be helped by giving through charitable means, while Democrats prove they do not care much about charity, they care about manadating taxes for the poor, which simply equates to forced giving (not sure forced giving is what the Lord had in mind). I also know of no Republican who is against allowing for some level of safety net…it is just a matter that they are against huge NEW programs run by the government that they are against. The truth is, the larger the government gets, the smaller we get.

You say you won’t vote for Obama…so why is that?
 
irishpatrick said:
Democrats prove they do not care much about charity,
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Now, now, now. 🙂 Would you want to compare your and my charitable donations and the causes to which we donate? What you are doing here is making an overly broad generalization.
 
Rich_Olszewski said:
Now, now, now. 🙂 Would you want to compare your and my charitable donations and the causes to which we donate? What you are doing here is making an overly broad generalization.
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Girls girls girls…you’re both pretty. Noone here wants to get caught up in a “who’s is bigger” contest. 😃
 
Vote for the one who will give you more of other peoples money. It is our right to dependency.
 
Rich_Olszewski said:
Now, now, now. 🙂 Would you want to compare your and my charitable donations and the causes to which we donate? What you are doing here is making an overly broad generalization.
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Generalizations are important tools, yet they NEVER apply to everyone within a group. So, if it does not apply to you, that’s great. In general, Democrats give quite a bit less to charity, and yet they call for taxes from EVERYONE to cover their lack of charity. In other words, they feel a certain compassion for people, so they want to legally force everyone to do the same whether others agree or not.
 
Rich_Olszewski said:
Well, I shall. I’ll vote for my Republican friend once again in November. 🙂
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My point is straight forward. You stated you will not vote for Obama, you must have reasons, so what are they?

You also stated you won’t vote for Republicans, which you now admit was wrong because you do vote for some Republicans. So, what would it take for Romney to get your vote?
 
Scott_Lafrance said:
I’d rather not. Its how I communicate. I tried straight and serious for a while. I just doesn’t work for me. 🙂
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Well, it is a lousy way to communicate, imo. I am no girl, nor am I acting like one, nor will I attempt to compare things to what Rich doing. And, beyond that, I would think some “girls” would feel some real offense here, after all what are you saying about “girls?” 🙂
 
irishpatrick said:
Well, it is a lousy way to communicate, imo. I am no girl, nor am I acting like one, nor will I attempt to compare things to what Rich doing. And, beyond that, I would think some “girls” would feel some real offense here, after all what are you saying about “girls?” 🙂
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See my edited post.
 
Rich_Olszewski said:
Now, now, now. 🙂 Would you want to compare your and my charitable donations and the causes to which we donate? What you are doing here is making an overly broad generalization.
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It actually *is *a generalization! *Overall, *Democrats *in general *do *tend *to give and volunteer less than *overall, *Republicans *tend *to give and volunteer.

It doesn’t mean that there are *no *Democrats who give freely, and it doesn’t mean that there are *no *Republicans who refuse to donate.

It’s just an interesting commentary on the *tendency *of those who claim to want to help the poor and the *tendency *of those accused of wanting the poor to starve.
 
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