I have always hated the fact that I don’t have a party to
represent me; neither the Republicans nor Democrats have policies that I
totally agree with and some of their policies I really detest.
I don’t think I am the only one that feels this way because
recently I have been seeing articles where business leaders who love the
Republican approach to the economy, cannot stomach the absolutely insane
policies on social issues and don’t know how to handle the disparity.
Many have to hold their noses while they vote Republican but
why does it have to be that way.
In Romney’s case, he was always a businessman first and
behaved with responsible business acumen. He was also a social moderate and
through the years was known as pro-choice, pro gay marriage, etc.
But to be nominated by the Republicans for the office of
president, he had to flip-flop and compromise his principles on social issues
and insult his own intelligence to get down in the mud with radical right-wing religious
nut cases.
In his defense, Romney did stand up for abortions in cases
of incest and rape and repudiated the views of a fellow Republican that talked
about legitimate rape and how women are able to prevent pregnancy after rape
through some natural female ability to control pregnancy?
Romney’s running mate Ryan, who has always been anti-choice
in all cases, flip-flopped and said that Romney’s views are “going in the right
direction”.
This extreme flip-flopping by both Romney and Ryan has me
concerned that they cannot be trusted to do what is right in their own minds
but constantly keep changing their positions to placate this or that group of
voters, supporters or sponsors…
I realize that politics demands some degree of flip-flopping
and a need to please everyone but there has to be a limit and the fact that
Romney/Ryan don’t seem to have a limit on flip-flopping, I cannot trust in
anything they say and cannot, in good conscience, allow them into a position of
power where I have no idea what they actually stand for when it comes to social
issues and what they are willing to allow once in power.
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