{"id":1390,"date":"2012-11-02T11:00:38","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T16:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2012-11-02T21:37:21","modified_gmt":"2012-11-03T02:37:21","slug":"how-im-voting-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/politics\/how-im-voting-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"How I’m Voting in 2012 or Why You Shouldn’t Vote Third Party This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I wanted to quickly list my reasons for voting for Romney and not voting for Obama<\/a>, why I’m not voting for a third party (and why you shouldn’t either)\u00c2\u00a0and my prediction of who will win.<\/p>\n

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3D Scan of a 20 Week Old Abort-able “Fetus”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Obama has done nothing to stop abortion and supports broadening it.<\/strong> Historically he voted against Bush\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Born Alive Infant Act, not once but three times, saying things like the act “would have taken away from doctors their professional judgment when a fetus is viable.” \u00c2\u00a0He only supported the bill when saying it contained language that protected the Roe v. Wade when a previous version of the bill was exactly the same<\/a>.Showing his stripes, he immediately overturned Bush\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s (marginal) protection of human beings by overturning the ban on testing embryos by signing an Executive Order (13505<\/a>) on March 9th 2009 in direct opposition to the Dickey Wicker Amendment<\/a> until it was overruled by the Appeals court<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0allowing tax dollars to support murder (more on how this entire story was misreported<\/a>). Obama backs the Freedom of Choice Act<\/a> which was explicitly designed to flip the Supreme Court\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s decision<\/a> supporting the ban on partial birth abortions<\/a>. It contains language that gives the right to terminate a pregnancy even after fetal viability to protect the mother’s life or health\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhere health is undefined and historically includes emotional health.<\/p>\n

Obama’s character reflected with presenting the Affordable Health Care Act. <\/strong>Obama defended the taxes in the Affordable Health Care Act as a penalty and explicitly not a tax on the American People. Then, in front of the Supreme Court, his staff argued that it was a tax. The Supreme Court agreed that it was a tax<\/a>. Obama showed his stripes in blatantly lying to get his way, and continues to applaud this as a win when it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s yet another tax burden on the American people who can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t afford it.<\/p>\n

Obama has an explicit bias against a portion of the American population that carries the heaviest tax burden. <\/strong>This small percentage of people pays roughly 50% of the American taxes. Sure, Obama’s comments on the\u00c2\u00a0redistribution of wealth<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(2001) were taken out of context<\/a>, but that doesn’t detract from the fact that he keeps demanding the ones with the heaviest tax<\/a> burden to pay more<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0His proposed taxes and policies have increasingly shown<\/a> he has no problem turning the weight of the government against one class of people and thus setting a\u00c2\u00a0fiscally suspect<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0and ill precedent<\/p>\n

Obama’s use of the public while abusing Governmental power. <\/strong>He ran his first campaign on nothing but clever marketing \u00c2\u00a0and slick deals and continued to do the same with his second campaign. He ran his first campaign on Bush blaming and continues it into the second: and it is all false<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(and here<\/a> and here<\/a>). This redounds back on his penchant to twist the public in whichever way he wants. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ill precedent. He waffles on<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0the problems in Libya<\/a> and turns our attention to a video<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0casting aspersions on freedom of speech by his actions. He ignores the problems with Government Spending (regarding Social Security or Medicaid) and instead turns our attention to the Rich. He says he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s against extreme rendition and takes steps to prosecute the previous administration, but then silently re-signs his support of extreme rendition<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand turns the public eye. He is against Guantanamo Bay, swears he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll close it, turns the Public Eye and leaves it open<\/a>. He repeatedly makes use of powers that previous administrations rarely used for the purpose of shutting up the media<\/a>. He again deflected by placing the blame of certain decisions (sequestration) in the hands of congress<\/a>. He enacts and upholds unconstitutional laws<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(NDAA) which outline the imprisonment of American Citizens for an indefinite amount of time and somehow gets it through<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0even with so-called reservations. He points to how rich his opponent is and suddenly money from NoWhere fills his coffers in convenient small amounts so that he doesn’t have to report where the donations come from. No, not only the 2008 campaign, but again in 2012<\/a>. He repeats the lie that Planned Parenthood is on the frontline of mammograms while they only really provide hands on breasts examination without x-rays<\/a>. Again and again he turns the eye and refuses to deal with the fundamental problems or fulfill promises or address concerns. There’s a\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0list here<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0of general character questioning scandals (some I’ve already mentioned), and\u00c2\u00a0some<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0within the last month and a half.\u00c2\u00a0His character is lacking.<\/p>\n

His policies are fundamentally political and then used as an instrument.<\/strong> Historically he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t support homosexual marriage until Biden made an “accidental” public remark<\/a>. Once it was out, Obama came out the next day supporting homosexual marriage<\/a>. Coincidentally, on the\u00c2\u00a0Presidential Election year.\u00c2\u00a0 If he had taken a stand on what he said he believed in, he would\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve taken extreme political heat but instead he politicized this and flopped. Now he uses it as a blunt instrument against the opposing party when this was a total politically motivated swing. \u00c2\u00a0Abortion is a hot topic so he brings contraception to the fore with the HHS Mandate in the Affordable Health Care Act while demanding religious institutions to come on board<\/a>. If not, those places are threatened<\/a>. And as such, he uses this club to paint people who are against it as hateful religious bigots that need to shut down<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Other concerning things.<\/strong> He signed the Honoring America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Veteran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and Caring for Camp\u00c2\u00a0 Lejeune Families Act which, although generally alright, demarcates certain protests as not-protected by the First Amendment\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Freedom of Speech<\/a> by punishing them with criminal or civil action. Westboro is evil, but seriously: when you start attacking Freedom of Speech, where do you stop? Well, you keep going. Like\u00c2\u00a0the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act which makes it easier to bring criminal charges against\u00c2\u00a0protesters\u00c2\u00a0by allowing arbitrary redefinition of protected areas<\/a>. Or the National Defense Authorization Act further expands governmental powers against terrorists but this time in the digital realm\u00e2\u20ac\u201dincluding the detention of American citizens for an indefinite amount of time. He signed it even saying that he had \u00e2\u20ac\u0153serious reservations\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a>! If that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the case, you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sign the bloody bill. But no, he merely expands unprecedented governmental powers<\/a> and shrugs. People rightly flipped when Bush expanded the governmental powers in this way: why is no one flipping out now that Obama is “Bush on Steroids”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Good outweighed by concerns.<\/strong> He has done some good things, this is true. Some of the bills he supports have good aspects. The Affordable Health Care Act has a bunch of good things. So does the Veteran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Care. Even the NDAA. But they have a mess of bad things and he still supports them. And then his support of things that are outright evil should be troubling to anyone\u00e2\u20ac\u201despecially Christians who should know better.<\/p>\n

This leaves why I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m voting for Romney (a non-Christian) and not some other third party.<\/p>\n

Not because of Mitt’s problems with Obamacare since he was the founding father of a health care plan that was an early model (though he rightly argues against. a national plan). Not because of Mitt’s flop against abortion which may not or may have been legitimate<\/a>. Not for his seeming disconnectedness from the people (even though that is patently false if his time in Massachusetts were allowed to speak).<\/p>\n

Partially because I think Paul Ryan has a ton of potential though even that isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a convincing reason. Mostly, but not primarily, because this upcoming President gets to choose a couple of\u00c2\u00a0Supreme Court justices<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There is no third party that has made any convincing waves. Third party votes will detract from where the main campaign is occurring and these policies need to be reigned in.<\/p>\n

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m voting for Romney because Obama shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be allowed to get a second term to do whatever he wanted to do, but couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do during his first term. <\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>I’m not sure Romney will overturn everything Obama has done; some things that Bush has done should be overturned<\/a>. Romney has had chances to say and he hasn’t<\/a>. But even so, I think a vote for him is better than a vote for a third party. I’ll vote for a third party candidate when I can (sometimes locally where it matters, also mid-term elections, maybe if there is someone who really stands out), but this election isn’t that election. I voted for other candidates during the primaries but now there are no viable third party options that stand against what I’ve brought up with the political clout to get it done.<\/p>\n

Therefore, I’m voting Romney. You should too.<\/p>\n

But even with all this that I’ve posted (and it’s out there), I think many of the American people have bought his act while ignoring his policies. My prediction is that Obama will win anyway. I hope not, but there you go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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