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Oct. 9, 2012 11:33pm Jason Howerton

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign rally on Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012 in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. (Credit: AP)

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney joined Wolf Blitzer on CNN Tuesday to provide some specifics about his plan to reform the U.S. tax code — more specifically, which deductions and loopholes he would close and how he would recover the loss in revenue that comes with cutting taxes. However, he first vowed to stand by Israel as president, no matter what happens.

Addressing Iran’s nuclear ambitions, Romney said he is committed to stopping the radical regime from developing a nuclear warhead.

“There’s no daylight between the United States and Israel,” he said. “We’re both absolutely committed to preventing Iran from having a nuclear weapon. My own test is Iran should not have the capability of producing a nuclear weapon… I can’t speak for the president in this regard.”

The GOP nominee also said he would have Israel’s back both at the U.N and “militarily.” He said Israel attacking Iran would not surprise him if he were president.

Blitzer then pressed Romney about his plan to reform the tax code.

“I’ve made it pretty clear that my principles are; number one, simplify the code. Number two, create incentives for large business and small businesses to grow. Number three, don’t reduce the burden on high income tax payers. And, number four, remove the burden somewhat for middle income people,” Romney said.

The GOP nominee said he would make up for the dip in tax revenue through “additional growth” and putting a limit on deductions and exemptions, “particularly for people at the high end.”

“What I want to do is make it simpler, fairer – I want to encourage the economy to grow again. It’s pretty clear that the economy is not growing at the rate it should under the president.”

Romney said common deductions like mortgage and charitable contribution deductions would remain in place.

Blitzer asked Romney to be more specific about how he would go about limiting deductions.

“I’m not going to lay out a piece of legislation here because I intend to work together with Democrats and Republicans in Congress, but there are a number of ways you can approach this,” Romney replied. “One would be to have a total cap number – it could be $25,000, $50,00 – and people could put whatever deduction in that cap that they would like. Or, instead, you could take the posture that Bowels-Simpson did, which is going after specific deductions and limiting them in various ways.”

Romney continued: “I don’t want to make the code less progressive. I want high income people to continue to pay the same share they do today.”

The Republican nominee reiterated that it would be necessary to limit tax exemptions and deductions for the rich in order to pay for across-the-board tax cuts.

Blitzer then asked, “Would that add up to the $4.8 or $5 trillion that’s been estimated your tax — your comprehensive tax reduction would cost?”

Romney seemingly avoided the question as he never provided a clear answer. However, he did say that the Obama campaign’s claim that he is calling for a $5 trillion “tax cut” is “completely wrong.”

Romney said cutting taxes for all citizens and corporations will make America a “more attractive place for small business and large business to invest and to add jobs.”

“We’re not seeing the kind of job creation America ought to see following a recession. And we’re not going to see that growth unless we have a tax policy which encourages business — small and large — to make investments and to hire people. That’s why I want to put in place the plan I described,” he added.

Watch Romney’s interview on CNN here:

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Diane TX
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 3:12am
It’s to reassess if Obama is smart. After the Romney – Obama debate, it’s crystal clear that Obama is NOT smart at all. Mitt Romney is smart. Obama is not.

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- PATTY HENRY
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 4:21am
  Diane_TX I received an amazing EMAIL today…too long to post…but it’s all of the “coincidences” surrounding OBAMA, bottom line: He was picked by the Commies years ago, trained, sent to right schools (explains a lot) and his job : Destroy America. (there are at least 100 “connections” that I’ve researched myself/read about ….they will be exposing this creep for years and years….all of this explains why that dope won’t/can’t let his school records out (the subject matter of the Thesis’s/ the grades/ the way it was all paid for. I don’t know how much of it will reprint here but READ THIS:
  After attending Occidental College and Columbia University, where he just
  happened to have foreign Muslim roommates, Obama moved to Chicago to work for
  the Industrial Areas Foundation, an organization that just happened to have been
  founded by Marxist and radical agitator Saul the Red� Alinsky, author of Rules
  for Radicals, who just happened to be the topic of Hillary Rodham Clinton™s
  thesis at Wellesley College, and Obama™s $25,000 salary at IAF just happened to
  be funded by a grant from the Woods Fund, which was founded by the Woods family,
  whose Sahara Coal company just happened to provide coal to Commonwealth Edison,
  whose CEO just happened to be Thomas Ayers, whose son William Ayers just
  happened to serve on the board of the Woods Fund, along with Obama.
  
  Obama also worked on voter registration drives in Chicago in the 1980s and just
  ha
  
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KidCharlemagne
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:25am
Words of wisdom from the father of the United States Constitution:

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“To cherish peace and friendly intercourse with all nations having correspondent dispositions; to maintain sincere neutrality toward belligerent nations; to prefer in all cases amicable discussion and reasonable accommodation of differences to a decision of them by an appeal to arms; to exclude foreign intrigues and foreign partialities, so degrading to all countries and so baneful to free ones; to foster a spirit of independence too just to invade the rights of others, too proud to surrender our own, too liberal to indulge unworthy prejudices ourselves and too elevated not to look down upon them in others”
-James Madison, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1809

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- fastfacts
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 3:17am
  LAST ONE FOR THE NIGHT: BREAKING NEWS
  
  Did you see it, Suffolk Polling has now called FL, NC, and VA for Romney ( http://www.thedailycandidate.com/video/2012/oct/suffolk_calls_romney.html ) and will not be polling again in those states unless something drastic happens, but all trends show his support rocketing…
  
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Brother Winston Smith
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:16am
Pssst… Governor…

A decade+.
8,500+ DEAD.
10,000s injured.
110,000+ ACTIVE DUTY TROOPS on mind-bending meds.
Amputations.
SHOCKING levels of suicides.
Tour after tour after tour after tour after tour.
Trillions (that we DON’T HAVE) wasted.
NOBODY “TRAINED” enough to fight for themselves.
Americans murdered BY THE PEOPLE THEY ARE “TRAINING.”
NOBODY “liberated” (for more than an third-world minute).
Unconstitutional police/surveillance state. TSA, DHS, NDAA, VIPR Teams, swarming drones, “Patriot” act (1770s Writs of Assistance… THAT HELPED IGNITE OUR REVOLUTION).
A completely SURRENDERED ILLEGAL ALIEN INVASION into our OWN FRONT YARDS that is killing, raping, child-molesting, home-invading and hammered-driving-hit-n-running over THOUSANDS!!!!!!!

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- dmerwin
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 8:50pm
  Bro.
  We live in a complicated world. You can burrow down in your bunker or learn from the last 10 years.
  My takeaways are as follows:
  Support your allies.
  Stop funding your enemies (middle eastern oil and foreign aid)
  You cannot bring people into the 21st century that don’t want to be there. (stop nation building).
  Smite your enemies a devastating blow and leave. (stop nation building)
  Let the UN fund it’s own miscreants. (let the enemy fund themselves)
  That is it. Look out for America first and support those who support us. End of story.
  
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Brother Winston Smith
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:13am
Obama on “Hav’n yo back, militarily”:
Unconstitutional, isolationist foreign policy of welfare, warfare, propping up and tearing down.

Romney on “Hav’n yo back, militarily”:
Unconstitutional, isolationist foreign policy of welfare, warfare, propping up and tearing down.

Biden on “Hav’n yo back, militarily”:
Unconstitutional, isolationist foreign policy of welfare, warfare, propping up and tearing down.

Ryan on “Hav’n yo back, militarily”:
Unconstitutional, isolationist foreign policy of welfare, warfare, propping up and tearing down.

Ron Paul (NO LONGER A CHOICE) on “Hav’n yo back, militarily”:
Strong national defense, nonintervention, friendship with any who ask, entanglement with none, go to war with a Congressional Declaration.

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PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:10am
THANK YOU MONK http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/obamas-ring-there-is-no-god-but-allah/

not a cell phone ring tone. What is inscribed on the Gold Band on his ring finger..he’s worn for 30 yrs!

THERE IS NO GOD BUT ALLAH – INSCRIBED ON 0′s GOLD BAND ON HIS FINGER…

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Brother Winston Smith
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:08am
Governor Romney… I don’t recall you ever answering the question from the 2008 debates, when you stammered like a lying idiot…

Do you need a Congressional Declaration to go to war?

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Brother Winston Smith
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:05am
Governor Romney,

How?
With WHAT?
With WHO?
With WHAT MONEY?
With a draft?
With a military personnel of 5 tours?!?!?! 6? 7? 8?
In ADDITION to the nation-building we’re doing NOW?!?!?!?!
What if China jumps in?
What if Russia jumps in?
What if Mexico attacks US with millions of violent, “entitlement”-sapping, job-stealing illegal aliens? DO YOU HAVE AMERICA’S BACK?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

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ArchStudent
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 1:46am
the beauty of romney’s plan is that he outlined a principle and understands that congress is responsible for its writing and are an important part of the process. he holds them to his outline as the executive branch is supposed to, not “bypassing congress”

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:14am
  Another warmongering Republican for Israel’s interests. When will these guys understand that their loyalty is to America, and not to their political careers? No more American lives or wealth should be wasted on that warring, little, Zionist nation.
  
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- PATTY HENRY
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 4:29am
  @ THE_JERK: Go copy this down 100 times: PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH
  
  NOW run along and see if you can gain some maturity and knowledge. GOOD LUCK.
  
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- Dont-hate-on-me-2
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 4:42am
  Hey jerk how much do they pay you to harass forums?
  
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- justangry
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 5:40am
  Patti have you ever served over there? Have any of the idiots on TV that tell you what to believe about foreign policy ever served over there? Why not listen to the people that have and recognize there are a lot of us that believe bombing women and children isn’t what Jesus had in mind?
  
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- John 3:16
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 7:51am
  The jerk is not only that but very stupid as well. Sounds like a Ron Paul fruit cake with a glass of the Paulite koolaid. We must support our friend Israel.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 7:58am
  Leave jihad jerk alone. People need to see and read his nazi insanity to remember. Angry, isolationism works really well for an individual, not so much for a world power vs the spread of killer Islamists. Lots of peeps have served over there and elsewhere. Find resme and windy and work on the vocals for kumbaya.
  
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- TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 8:06am
  WOW… reading the condescending and patronizing tone in our comment to Patty would make one think YOU actually flew planes over targets while putting and YOUR @ss on the line. When if ever did you put your @ss on the line besides toeing the chow line? Based on your past comments, you have zero respect for authority, your former leaders (and I’m sure your betters) and anyone who may have had authority over youat one time or another.
  
  Remember, in order to be a good leader you must have at one point in your life been a good follower. Problem with Ron Paul acolytes… they think they were born to lead and everyone else needs to “wake-up” because you haven’t a clue.
  
  Most Ron Paul Vets I’ve read on here I’m pretty sure wound up like Adam Kokesh (Ron Paul mouthpiece, record embellisher and disgraced Vet in the end).
  
  The last person to give anyone that kind of tone JUST should be you.. a Code-Pink / John Kerry / John Murtha styled Vet, an endorser of a DADT activist and traitor like Pvt Bradley Manning who may have gotten real Patriots killed.
  
  Give it a rest REMF… Patty’s probably got a better handle on foreign policy AND the Military than Ron Paul and any 500 of his whiney and candy-@ssed isolationist bunker mentality Vets like you combined. Most of you never made it past the follower point, let alone graduated to leadership… but you’re ALL experts. Meh.
  
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- justangry
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 8:55am
  Piss off lifer. I’ve had enough of your ****. You talk about Jesus and your love for murder in one sentence and don’t see the irony. Idiot. Talk about how glorious it was preserving a country from the commie menace while you suck the pud of the global atheist Bolsheviks that have their tentacles firmly embedded in our own country. Values voters, like you, are retarded and progressive and you’re too stupid to know it. I didn’t disrespect the pilots that actually did anything, I disrespected dumb ass thoughtless enlisted lifers like you that were fat lazy stupid and were on a power trip. Stand up and defend the Constitution instead of your party and regimental way of life you’d be lost without. In your case, Kissinger was right and you just love him too. What kind of animal can’t stand up for his own while kissing the ass of the domestic e n e m i e s he swore an oath to fight? Balls are just balls if you can’t think for yourself.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 9:09am
  Angry-
  At what point do you determine you are completely off the reservation? 5% to a loser is still 5% to a loser. Math again. We did not get here over night. It is going to be a rough road to hoe, no offense to Indy. Can pauljohnsonbarr fix anything tomorrow and does R&R really equate to a Marxist pos like we have now?
  
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- TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 9:24am
  LMAO. Like I wrote once before ANGRY… I get the feeling you were given a break or two from Captain’s Mast and a couple “lifers” gave you a well deserved comeuppance with some “wall-to-wall-counseling”… saving themselves the trouble of paperworking your @ss… I can almost bet on it.
  
  You Ron Paul nimrods (wanna’be patriots) display an arrogance that is only surpassed by the Liberal elitists in our country and their very own pud-knocking reach-around crowd. But if there is one group of ne’re-do-wells that can compete with them and stoop to their level… that would be you Ron Paul jokers. Clowns to the left of us… jokers to the fringe right and WE Conservatives trying to keep this country alive. Anarchist bastiges that you are… you fit right in with the OWS turds…
  
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- justangry
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 10:03am
  @Fubared, the Republican party showed it’s colors at the convention. If you ever want a voice you’re going to have to look outside the RNC/DNC. If you’re content that the two party system will someday give you something other than what you’ve gotten the past 100 years, that’s on you. I personally have little faith that it will produce anything other than the progressive agenda. I mean look at your nominees. They keep getting worse. More liberal/progressive each cycle.
  
  @Time2, You’re not even worth it. Keep sucking King George’s wang, loyalist trash.
  
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- Individualism
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 10:24am
  if that is the case we better get congress and senate to not go to war. as a matter of fact boycott any institution trying to kill our troops. the apartheid states in the middle east are not worth our time.
  
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- tzion
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 10:26am
  @just
  I really don’t see how 5% for Johnson would accomplish anything. The media would just ignore it so the only people who would notice are the ones who are already sick of the two party system. To kill the two party system you need to kill the primary system. What I’d like to see is for a candidate to declare their candidacy for office and, while they put their name in for the primary, they state from the get go that they won’t let the primary results dictate whether or not they run. That’s something the media can’t ignore. Unless Johnson can actually win a state he’ll probably be sidelined quickly.
  
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- PATTY HENRY
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 11:15am
  @ TIME_TO_END_ exactly!! THANKS. THESE BOYS don’t realize that by being STRONG we
  SAVE
  LIVES
  and
  WE
  PREVENT
  WAR
  
  As far as their votes….every vote that is NOT FOR ROMNEY/PATRIOTISM is for OBAMA/MARXISM.
  There is no other way they can ((((SPIN))))) it. THIS IS NOT a “normal” election…this is THE election.
  The two parties we have are not pretty, well one is b-ugly and the other is passable, (one having been hi-jacked by fools, Marxists/Communist, the other needs term-limits so their own Progressives (McCAIN and his gang) can hit the road…but that’s our system and now that people see the RISK of not being involved in their government, controlling what that massive mess can do… maybe once we
  rescue this PRECIOUS NATION, we will be able to restructure some things to prevent this from happening again…at least for 40 years.
  ROMNEY/RYAN 2012 or it will be our last election.
  
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- justangry
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 11:45am
  @Tzion, 5% of the vote gives the Libertarian party the same public funding, ballot access, etc. that other main parties parties receive. It would be an equal rather than fringe. I’ve yet to verify, and thought it was 10% until recently.
  
  @Patti, Here’s you strength in Libya. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3e3g-8hHAw I like the infant with with shrapnel wounds myself. That’s really a toss up with the young boy with the jaw blown off that can’t even scream. If you’d like I can show you a 4 year old girl and 8 year old boy being blown away by the 30mm of an Apache, while they laughed about it. Time2 is an idiot that applauds murder for the NWO and oil. So are you.
  
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- TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 12:07pm
  Of course I’m not worth it JUST… because I’m getting warm… and you’re quitter, a whiner a pass the buck shicken-****. You quit the Military (you quit your country) and give everyone hear some fanciful (the burden was too hard to bear) BS stories about how your country, your Military and your leaders done YOU wrong and you JUST couldn’t be part of it any longer. Boo freakin’ hoo. To the Ron Paul zealot mindset… we’re JUST killers, murderers and maimers of defensless/helpless brown women and children (that’s a new Paul acolyte tactic… the “brown people”… not radical Islam). Fact is… Ron Paul was a coward who ran FROM danger not towards it… and his acolytes fall in perfect lock-step with that same cowardice in action AND in words.
  
  You Ron Paul acolytes are all show… no stay… as evidenced by the fact that you “do or die” faux patriots are now switching your Ron Paul “do or die” conscience to another fringer while at the same time you were bashing CONSERVATIVES for supporting any number of candidates who were NOT Romney but who are now voting for team America which IS Romney. Ultimately YOU ALL will be voting for Obama in the long run… so much for your Ron Paul “do or die” consciences. You cowards can’t even stick to your own consciences.
  
  Defenders of the Constitution my @ss.
  
  As always with you losers… it’s JUST another somebody’s done me wrong song…
  
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- justangry
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:11pm
  Our country is our Constitution. Without it, it’s just land. Patriotism doesn’t include blind submission to a corrupt police state. And I didn’t quit ****, you d*ck.
  
  http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=polycystic+kidney+disease&FORM=HDRSC2
  
  My life expectancy isn’t ****, and I get to suffer while I live the rest of it out. My bucket list includes doing everything I can to keep my daughter free. You support the people that think they have the authority to molest her. You support the people that think we don’t have the right to trial and question my patriotism? Go **** yourself, blood thirsty idiot statist.
  
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- justangry
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 4:20pm
  And you know after thinking about it for a while, I can’t even begin to tell you how it disgusts me to know that I’ll be leaving her behind in a world where we have tin men like you that would kill her for no other reason than someone higher up told you to do so. A mindless drone that can’t distinguish right from wrong for himself. A ‘so called’ man that needs someone with more stripes or bars to tell them what to do or unable to reach a state of mind where they feel empathy towards their fellow man. You’re a poster child for evolution demonstrating the missing link between man and monkeys. You know what the state is doing is wrong, yet you do nothing but support it and ridicule those that speak out against it. Vice is bad says Time2 according to the Bible and we must put a stop to it, violently if necessary but murder is just fine and dandy as long as someone higher up says it is. I reckon that’s about all I have left to say to you.
  
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- riseandshine
  Posted on October 11, 2012 at 12:10am
  Ooooh Yeah
  
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- riseandshine
  Posted on October 11, 2012 at 12:18am
  Ooooooooh Yeeaaaahhhh !
  
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asybot12
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 1:38am
@monk thanks for the ghostery , but I could notfigure ot the bubble thing it never showed up when I installed (firefox is my brow)

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- asybot12
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 1:45am
  OK found it
  
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TreeTrimmerJim
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 1:36am
“If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.” ~ W. Edwards Deming

Repeatedly during this interview and during the debate Romney talked about the process. Obama rarely explains his process.

Do you agree?

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- 1Archer4U
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 3:14am
  I’m not to sure I agree with W. Edwards Deming. He must have believed “all” men have character. Obama will never explain his true agenda. He want’s to remain in power. If you haven’t seen the movie 2016 Obama’s America, you need to. If it’s not in a theater near you, the DVD will be available 10/16/12. visit: http://www.2016themovie.com
  
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The-Monk
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 12:45am
There’s your choice…. an Islamic Muslim or Romney.

http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/obamas-ring-there-is-no-god-but-allah/

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- Scottsman
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 12:49am
  Where is Ron Paul or Gary Johnson in our choices? I keep getting the rediculous Mitt or Barack phone calls? Is that all we get for a choice?
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 12:54am
  Hi Scottsman,
  
  Looks that way. Paul is completely out of the race and Johnson will never win.
  
  It’s either Romeny or the guy who has been wearing a ring that says, “No God but Allah” since college and now uses it as his wedding ring.
  
  Check out the link above.
  
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- asybot12
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 1:01am
  That ring thing is astounding but with photoshop what is real these days but if true what a downer for MO unless she has one too (or as a Muslim bride can she wear one?).
  
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- Scottsman
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 1:03am
  Heard that same song and dance too many times before. Not giving up on RP! With lots of love…
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 1:05am
  screw winning. we lose with either romney or obama
  
  “Always vote on principle even if you vote alone”
  -John Quincy Adams
  
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- Scottsman
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 1:07am
  False friends ask interesting questions.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 1:09am
  Hi Soybom315,
  
  John Quincy Adams didn’t have an American hating, Islamic Muslim in the White House to worry about.
  
  We do!!! If Obama wins there will no America left to fix or save. We do have a chance with Romney.
  
  With 4 more from Obama….. it’s ALL OVER.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 1:12am
  Hi Scottsman,
  
  I hope that wasn’t directed at me…
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 1:18am
  Goodnight gents… I’ll check back here in the morning.
  
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- Scottsman
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 1:20am
  Sorry @THE-MONK, it was directed at you. Barack Obama is not an Isamic Militant. Mitt Romney is some what OK for now. But a lot of people need to vote 3rd, 4th and 5th parties to get our gov back into balance.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:21am
  Monk, sounds like you’re as full of as much hate, as those you accuse. Look in the mirror.
  
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- Simonne
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 3:27am
  Ron Paul & Johnson are going nowhere so make your vote count & get Obama out of there. He is bad for our country.
  
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- justangry
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 4:21am
  5% for Gary Johnson and the two party system is gone forever. Think about that. Romney is basically saying he’ll start WW3 here. (perhaps that’s why the LDS lowered the missionary requirements to draft age) There is no need for a war with Iran. Either the Chinese and Russians jump in and it hits our shore or we kill a BUNCH of innocent people that never did anything to us out of paranoia. His foreign policy is evil.
  
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- tzion
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 8:57am
  @Jerk
  You really should take your own advice. On a side note, one of those books you cited the other day “proving” Ashkenazi Jews are Khazars, a simple search turned up this:
  
  http://www.khazaria.com/brook.html
  
  Pay special attention to where it says “It also examines the many migrations of the Khazar people into Hungary, Ukraine, and other areas of Europe and their subsequent assimilation, providing the most comprehensive treatment of this complex issue to date. The final chapter enumerates the Jewish communities of eastern Europe which sprung up after the fall of Khazaria and proposes that the Jews from the former Russian Empire are descended from a mixture of Khazar Jews, German Jews, Greek Jews, and Slavs.”
  
  So Jerk, where did the German Greek, and Slavic Jews come from? Why is it that the Yiddish language, which was spoken by Jews in Russia, primarily based on German? How do you explain the fact that Ashkenaz refers to an area in western Germany?
  
  I also noticed that you never actually denied you were an antisemite but simply called me a progressive for using the word (as though its very usage is proof of my larger viewpoint). Isn’t name calling to distract from the issue a progressive tactic?
  
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- Irememberamerica
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 9:13am
  Geez… you would think the blaze would look into this ring thing.
  Thanks for posting the link to it Monk.
  
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- Individualism
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 10:31am
  No a Muslim, Mormon or a Christian (Gary Johnson)
  
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- Individualism
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 10:33am
  btw the election is not the only way to choose just look up what happened in iceland, that can be done even easier here if people are really mad.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 11:23am
  Hi Scottsman
  “Sorry @THE-MONK, it was directed at you. Barack Obama is not an Isamic Militant.”
  
  I never said “Islamic Militant” I said, “Islamic Muslim”. And the only question I’ve ever asked you was what kind of phone you were using when the poll people called.
  
  But, all is good. Hey…. it’s The Blaze after all. : )
  
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- Wes Hardin
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 3:55pm
  A guy who wears magic underwear and who thinks he’s going to become a god with his own world and harem isn’t playing with a full deck. That’s Romney.
  
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LeadNotFollow
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 12:40am
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God bless Mitt Romney for taking a stand for Israel.
Our Muslim President hates Israel. He’s on the side of radical Islam.
Vote him out. It’s our only hope for America’s and Israel’s survival.

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- justangry
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 5:45am
  So you believe Israel consists of a like minded people that all believe that war is the answer? If you don’t think that how do you know which side you’re on? Why not stand for individual Jews that want peace?
  
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- tzion
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 8:18am
  @Just
  Israel wants peace and has begged for it dozens of times. But as we all know, peace is a two way street. It is a simple fact that Iran doesn’t want Israel to live in peace. Forget their words, their actions say it all. A nuclear Iran would mean a nuclear Hezbollah. With Hezbollah flying drones into Israel and bombarding the country with rockets, do you think they are likely to permit them to get nukes? And as for us, have you forgotten about the Hezbollah training camps just across our very porous southern border?
  
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- justangry
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 10:43am
  @Tzion, I don’t even know what to say, man. You know I don’t anyone to die, but you are playing the what if game. I don’t believe we should go to war under that pretense. While I’m an agnostic, I do believe in much of Jesus’ teachings including the Just War theory of Christianity and unfortunately, that doesn’t include a preemptive strike because someone might someday develop a nuclear weapon and maybe give it to someone else. In reality that line of thinking gives us unlimited reason to go to war with anyone. Furthermore, the primary sources I’ve been looking at suggest that as early as 2002, the Israeli government was threatening to use nukes on Iran. What are the Iranians supposed to do with this information? I don’t think either government is doing their people any favors. I think our actions (cutting off negotiations) aren’t doing anyone any favors either. The reality of the situation is the Europeans believe we’re as close to a nuclear war as we have been since the 60′s. I think attacking them to prevent it will only strengthen their impetus of obtaining a weapon, if they haven’t already obtained one from Pakistan, North Korea, or Russia. I mean are you sure that isn’t the case, and they’re just looking for an excuse to let one fly knowing the international community could justify that as “they were merely defending themselves”? There just seems to be too many unknown variables that makes dropping bombs a bad idea because we don’t know the
  
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- tzion
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 12:48pm
  @just
  Essentially your argument boils down to the idea that Israel shouldn’t attack unless attacked first. The problem however is that Iran is already seeking Israel’s annihilation through non-nuclear weapons. Even if their acquiring a nuke wasn’t a concern Israel would eventually be forced to respond to their blatant hostility and aggression. Israel, to its credit, is willing to take a lot of punishment while only using measured responses, but eventually even their patience wears thin.
  
  Prior to the war of 1967, Israel was being continuously harassed by Syrian artillery and terrorists backed by Syria, Egypt, and many others. When Nasser mobilized for war and blockaded an Israeli port, Israel launched a preemptive strike. But even then, Israel limited their attacks to Egypt initially. Hostilities with Jordan began when Jordan attacked Israel and invaded a UN compound.
  
  I can assure you that, if and when Israel attacks Iran, it won’t be because of speculative potential futures, it will be because Israel cannot afford to allow Iran to continue its campaign for Israel’s demise.
  
  Let’s suppose you’re right for a moment and Iran has no intentions of providing Hezbollah with nukes. Does that change the situation? If Iran went nuclear who could stop them from arming Hezbollah? Who would dare try to impose sanctions against them? Who would stop them if they tried to close the Straits? Israel recognizes that the simple possession of nukes is enough to make Iran unstop
  
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- justangry
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:04pm
  @Tzion, Yes, that’s just what I believe. Love your enemy, turn the other cheek, and forgive those that trespass against us. I’m just not that afraid of Iran. There are things in this world I can’t control. I can try to prevent the people that have been lying about all the previous wars from getting into the Pentagon again. The only people winning run the Federal Reserve, military industrial complex and oil companies while we lose our rights.
  
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ambrosia
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 12:26am
Romney did a great job on this interview,
he seems to have found his comfort level, talking about & anticipating solutions
for our country.
He has the Presidential timber, that has been so lacking in our country
for the past term.

Also, it seems as if you can tell & feel
that even most of the Obama Media elite,
are now beginning to realize,
that they are speaking
with the next “Leader” of America & the Free World.

Romney commands respect because he believes America commands it-
it is incredibly refreshing & restorative.

Secretively, the liberal Blitzer seemed genuinely impressed with Romney-
enough to change his personal vote….who knows ?
Never say never !

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- Scottsman
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 12:36am
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T8_4s3Y4jk
  
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- CatB
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 12:39am
  I was at a Romney rally last month .. I knew then that if “that man’ was the same one that showed up for debates and interviews he would go far …. and look where he is going .. the polls are turning around and even some of the left wing media is finding out .. that he is the real deal. They may not like it … since they are so in the tank for Obama … but Romney is a genuinely nice man and a good man …. and a SMART man.
  
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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 1:16am
  @Cat – understood.
  
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The-Monk
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 12:14am
Take a closer look at Obama’s ring…..

http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/obamas-ring-there-is-no-god-but-allah/

There’s your choice…. an Islamic Muslim or Romney.

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- LeadNotFollow
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 12:33am
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  MONK… Thank you.
  That info was very informative. Romney should make some TV ads about Obama’s ring with the inscription “There’s is no God but Allah”.
  The media should expose Obama, before it’s too late.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 12:35am
  Hi LeadNotFollow,
  
  Just finished sending it to his campaign headquarters…..
  
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- LeadNotFollow
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 12:49am
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  MONK….. Did you also send it to The Blaze?
  Their “Have A Tip?” contact box is in the lower right corner of this page, in the big black area.
  
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- LeadNotFollow
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 12:57am
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  Oops, should have read *There, not *There’s.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 1:01am
  @LeadNotFollow
  
  Yep, twice and I sent it to Glenn’s personal crew first.
  
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- PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 1:57am
  More PROOF…yikes!
  
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- Individualism
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 11:01am
  i will take the person without the ring or the magic underwear.
  
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Scottsman
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 12:14am
Wow, the Blaze posted my comments!

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asybot12
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 12:03am
The two things I agree with are 1: his stance on Israel, I grew up in Europe the history is clear and has been for thousands of years.
The second is the reduction on business taxes currently from a tax point (let alone the labor, cost of infrastructure IE real estate etc) the US is the most expensive country on the planet to do business in. Another thing in this respect is the security North America offers businesses. We have stable governments that are not subject to take-overs and nationalization (as in Africa, South America and parts of Asia. And the list is larger not many take that into consideration.

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- Scottsman
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 12:08am
  I’ve had political polling calls to my house in Virginia the last several days looking for Mitt Romney support or Barrack Obama support.
  
  They have been from people with foreign time delayed countries and Indian or other accents, and also robo calls.
  
  Can either of these guys pay American humans or get American volunteers to make these calls? Are you kidding me?
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 12:17am
  @Scottsman
  
  Quick question….
  
  The phone they called you on… was it a lan line (plugs into wall), cell or Internet bundled phone?
  
  I’ve been really wondering about this. TIA
  
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- Scottsman
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 12:31am
  @THE_MONK, it is always the land line.
  
  If these guys can’t hire human Americans, who can they hire? TIA as well my friend.
  
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- Scottsman
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 12:35am
  @THE-MONK again, sorry, I have a bundle, much like this commercial, haha, jokes on me…
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T8_4s3Y4jk
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 12:39am
  Hi Scottsman,
  
  The reason I asked is because I’ve heard that the poll takers can not call cell phones or VoIP phones…. only land lines.
  
  This means the polls are way off. Most people don’t have land lines anymore. We got rid of ours over 6 years ago.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 12:42am
  OK, I got the correction Scottsman…. thanks!
  
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- Scottsman
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 12:47am
  @THE_MONK, so which ways are the polls off? Do they favor Ron Paul or Gary Johnson yet? Just alot of hope in my corner.
  
  They questions they ask only consider 2 candidates, BO or MR. Wow, like someone asks me if I want chocolate or vanilla ice cream, but I’m looking for a Rocky Road. Haha.
  
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- Scottsman
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 12:51am
  Any data mining going on here at theblaze.com? Just curious.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 12:59am
  @Scottsman,
  
  Yep, try using Firefox and install the Ghostery program afterwards. Here’s my cut and paste instructions. You’ll see all the blocked mining that was happening.
  
  Use Mozilla Firefox and install Ghostery for Firefox. (Ghostery doesn’t fully work in Internet Explorer).
  Firefox is faster than Internet Explorer also.
  
  http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
  
  http://www.ghostery.com/download
  
  Set the Ghostery bubble from 15 seconds to 0 or 1 second in options and make sure blocking is enabled.
  
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Conservative AMERICA
Posted on October 9, 2012 at 11:57pm
Does corrupt wolfie still look in the mirror from time to time?

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jamesctheman
Posted on October 9, 2012 at 11:56pm
This is where it gets weird. This guy is saying mostly all the right things. I’m so jaded by liars in this administration it’s hard see any politician as other than suspect. Like Trust.But Verify. Israel is sacred. The Holy Land should have never had to become a political point. Because of the current administration this actually needs to be said. Israel needs an ally with a president who understands the real danger that is before them. That they be able to take comfort in the fact we will live up to our covenant.

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soybomb315_II
Posted on October 9, 2012 at 11:56pm
It is interesting that Romney and many republican types think our foreign policy is not geared enough towards Israel. But from my perspective, almost everything we have done in the middle east over the last 30-40 years has been in Israel’s best interest – not ours

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- Individualism
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 12:01am
  there no ally, there a user, a parasite, that will just use and abuse this country and its resources in a way there our enemy but we should just cut ties with them not and not attack them.
  
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- GoodStuff
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 12:34am
  Ahh, how cute…the Paulestinians have chimed in.
  
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- menticide
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 3:55am
  I had to click on the story, if for no other reason than to see the frothing comments of the Paulbots. I wasn’t aware that this unemployed stay-at-home dad was secretly part of the conspiracy that forced the average American citizen to have to live under the jackboot of Jewish Supremacy until a Paulbot told me so. Man, I really want my cut now…
  
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- justangry
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 5:56am
  @Menticide, I click for the opposite reason. To see how many Beck worshipers think Israel is made up of a homogenous group of like-minded thinkers. Turns out that predictably there’s a lot. See we’re not antisemitic. We’re just standing with individual Jews that want peace instead of blindly following the will of a nation state and it’s paranoid hawk leader and hardliner ********. It’s the Beck worshipers demonstrating their collectivism, not us.
  
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- tzion
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 8:08am
  @Just
  While I won’t dispute your analysis of some of Beck’s supporters, you have collectively ascribed your views onto your fellow Paul supporters. Most of the Paulbots who post here are radical isolationists. Individualism here, for instance, has previously called our military and police forces tools of fascism and oppression. Despite his claim to be an individualist, he has repeatedly called for a unilateral and indiscriminate boycott of Israel, a country whose free market economy has the third most companies traded on the New York stack exchange, beating out all of the European countries. (Personally, I’d sooner boycott China, a country that has zero respect for ownership and property, as shown by their refusal to respect patent rights.) Individualism even supported OWS. In my opinion, his idea of American exceptionalism is little more than an “I’m an American so I’m entitled” mentality.
  
  Personally, having been there, I believe the vast majority of Israelis would like nothing better than to be allowed to live in peace. That said, having many friends who live there, I expect the government of Israel to protect their well being by any means necessary. Iran has a history of providing Hezbollah and Hamas with any weapon which can attack Israeli civilians while not directly engaging the IDF. I highly doubt that, given nuclear capabilities, they’d hesitate to provide those as well.
  
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Individualism
Posted on October 9, 2012 at 11:55pm
Traitor! anybody but Romney. we can always try again in 2016 or even earlier if people find out the other ways besides election. Stand up and Boycott Israel if they get our troops in that country otherwise your a traitor.

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- GoodStuff
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 12:33am
  RuPaul kook alert.
  
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- LeadNotFollow
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 1:29am
  .
  Wake up. Stop sipping the Kool-Aid.
  If Obama is re-elected, America won’t be here in 2016.
  We are in a fight for our very survival.
  
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- Individualism
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 10:19am
  better than being a zionist traitor to America. forget the apartheid states in the middle east.
  
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Ronko
Posted on October 9, 2012 at 11:55pm
Glad to see that Romney has a spine, he’s not perfect but infintely better then the current Diva President in office, who is too concerned about Big Bird and lies then Libya or the economy.

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Calm Voice of Reason
Posted on October 9, 2012 at 11:51pm
And he would demonstrate his reverence for the U.S. Constitution by requesting Congress for a formal declaration of war or authority to use military force within the allotted time frame of 60 days. Accordingly, every Tea Party Republican will hold their Congressmen accountable for keeping the President’s authority in check as well as convening a committee to examine the FAA’s jurisdictional purview with regard to the monkeys flying out of my butt.

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- sillyfreshness
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 11:54pm
  Israel can take care of themselves. They don’t need our help. After all, they are “chosen people.”
  
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nzkiwi
Posted on October 9, 2012 at 11:51pm
Finally a presidential (or near presidential) statement that might actually reduce the chance of war.

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- riseandshine
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 12:12am
  I see it just the opposite.
  
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- nzkiwi
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 12:24am
  What I mean is; if the Islamists realise that the US will resolutely lead the west in defence of Israel, they will likely think twice before initiating an attack. Israel might also stay its hand on “first strike” if it believes that the Islamists will back away.
  
  The above is by no means certain, but it is better than the west implying that Israel is on its own, thus emboldening the Islamists.
  
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- riseandshine
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 12:36am
  Yes, I figured that was your angle…thanks for the explanation.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 12:49am
  @nzkiwi,
  
  Check this out….
  
  http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/obamas-ring-there-is-no-god-but-allah/
  
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soybomb315_II
Posted on October 9, 2012 at 11:49pm
“Number three, don’t reduce the burden on high income tax payers”

The GOP nominee said he would make up for the dip in tax revenue through “additional growth” and putting a limit on deductions and exemptions, “particularly for people at the high end.”

Romney continued: “I don’t want to make the code less progressive. I want high income people to continue to pay the same share they do today.”
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What a sham!!! Romney spent the entire primary and general campaign talking about tax cuts for EVERYONE (even rich people). Now he has flip-floped. Worse than flip-flop, now he is talking about making the tax code MORE PROGRESSIVE. Told you so, told you so, told you so

You cant take the stripes off the liberal zebra
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/romney-vows-maintain-progressive-tax-code

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- KidCharlemagne
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:37am
  Romney continued: “I don’t want to make the code less progressive. I want high income people to continue to pay the same share they do today.”
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  The progressive income tax…….
  
  Plank #2 of Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto:
  
  2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
  
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americansfightingforcommonsense
Posted on October 9, 2012 at 11:39pm
And so we should. Israel is our strongest Ally in the Middle East and therefore deserves our help fighting against the evil that exists there. Whatever happens to Israel is what will happen to America. Protect our country by protecting Israel.

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- Restored One
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 11:51pm
  I totally support his support of Israel, but the following scares me , “number four, remove the burden SOMEWHAT for middle income people,” Romney said.
  I am voting for Romney, but………a quote like that is not comforting as my family and I are barely middle income.
  
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- kalli
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 12:13am
  @Restored: The next president will work with congress on a new tax reform bill…I would not read too much into that statement regarding the middle income earners. He wants to save those earners…the current empty suit wants to make them beholden to the gov’t (move them to the plantation) as his base supporters are now. I’m confident Romney will not rule by executive orders, but respect the rule of law provided by our Constitution and Bill of Rights. That respect alone will get my vote.
  
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