Many libertarians claim that there is essentially no difference between Obama and Romney. This isn't true. For one, Romney, unlike Obama, has said that he would nominate a new Fed president to replace Helicopter Ben. (Remember, the market wants Obama to win because it believes that he would be more likely to allow Bernanke to continue to prop it up.) Secondly, Romney has said that he would work to repeal Obamacare. I don't care if Obamacare was largely modeled after Romneycare. Romneycare is a state program, not a federal program. Big difference. No, I'm not a fan of Romney. Quite the contrary, I can't stand his neoconservative foreign policy. But I won't sit idly by while fellow libertarians make a ridiculous black-and-white claim.Casino mogul Steve Wynn, a lifelong Democrat, has been on an anti-Obama tear as of late, warning of the repercussions of reelection. In particular, Wynn has been warning of how Obamacare would negatively affect employment, the nation's greatest challenge during this economic depression. In a recent interview with Jon Ralston, host of Ralston Reports on NBC-affiliate KSNV MyNews3 in Nevada, Wynn said that he, his colleagues, and his employees are "frightened" of the prospect of an Obama 2nd term:
The president is trying to put himself between me and my employees. I have no idea what goofy idea, what crazy, anti-business program this administration will come up. I have no idea. And I have to tell you, Jon, that every business guy I know in the country is frightened of Barack Obama and the way he thinks.For those who believe that Obama and Romney are essentially the same candidate, ask yourself the following: Since Gary Johnson has no chance of winning (let's be realistic), would you rather see the reelection of a president of whom the nation's jobs creators are afraid (if you've ever been long-term unemployed as I have, there is no way you'd allow that to happen), or would you rather have a new president who might force Bernanke to pack his bags and reduce barriers to employment? Sure, it's all talk right now. And Romney does have a history of flip-flopping. But at least he's saying some of the right things.
What job creators? All big business has done is gain big profits over the last ten plus years, not create jobs.
ReplyDelete"At least he is saying some good things" - I guess. You can't trust these guys, they are both statists, but maybe he will be less bad, although he is more of a war-demagogue than Oblamo.
ReplyDeleteThis has to be the most disappointing blog post on your site thus far. You are propping up the impossible "lesser of two evils" argument with what only amounts to a strawman.
ReplyDeleteObama truly is a bad president, but you are assigning a null value to his presidency which you infer is superseded by anything. Without analyzing any tangible policy, you're merely stating that a barn animal with a Republican red cape is an electable option over an aquatic animal with a Democratic blue cape. If you want to cherry pick statements from Romney's 20 years of vacillation, then you can assemble a constant narrative. But, if you take them _all_ without discrimination, you have nothing tangible to work with. For example, a sports gambling site can release to half of people a Denver win tonight, the other half San Diego. While half of the people will consider him a genius for helping them win, the point is that he hedged his bets with *both* predictions -- which in the barest of statistical scrutiny is no prediction at all, and hence bears no genius.
Very disappointing, Seth.
The Libertarian Party has it completely backwards. Instead of building a groundswell by pushing candidates for local and state office, it tries to accomplish the impossible by focusing on the presidency. Sorry to break it to you, but the presidency is not a realistic win for a Libertarian candidate in 2012. And it won't be a realistic win until the Libertarian Party gets its head out of its ass and focuses on smaller races. Instead of whining about Gary Johnson not getting invited to the debates, the party should make its presidential candidate a worthy contender by actually getting Libertarians elected to office.
DeleteThat said, I'll probably vote for Gary Johnson anyway for the sole reason that I live in SC, and the state's electoral votes are guaranteed to go to Romney. If I lived in a swing state or blue state, however, there's no way that I'd spend my vote protesting. Too much at stake.