Mariahxxx
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Everyone is being a Monday morning quarterback on the right. There is a lot of I told you so's and posturing about Obama and his failures and his evil plan to give poor people health care. So I thought I'd compile a little reminder of the choices we had.
2008
John McCain - We had grandpa McCain who is a respectable senator, war hero and someone who has worked with both sides of the aisle to get things done, putting ideas first and policy second. One of the most disliked republicans within his own party for being so friendly with the democrats, but he was seen as the lesser evil. He was also considered to be the most electable and marketable to independents and democrats on the fence. And let's not forget his running mate Sarah Palin. She is considered to be a big reason he lost the election. She was originally a huge boost to the campaign with her history as governor of Alaska. Then she started to talk and everyone realized how clueless and unqualified she was. Then a scandal in Alaska popped up involving a fired state trooper. And then the anti-sex ed in schools abstinence only enthusiast's 17 year old daughter turned up pregnant out of wedlock. The hits kept coming and she became defiant to the campaign and a loose canon that hurt McCain far more than she helped.
Mitt Romney - The Ward Cleaver of politicians. A guy who inherited a ton of money from his father and ran a company that bought companies, borrowed against them and then ran them out of business called "Corporate Raiders" Some did well and many didn't. Many jobs were lost while Mitt got rich. VERY appealing to the pro-business republicans. But, he's a Mormon and that doesn't sit too well with the evangelists who have a ton of money and a big influence in Washington these days. Mormons believe Jesus lived in Missouri. They believe that we come from the planet Kolab which scientist have never found and that magical underwear will make us fertile and protect us from evil influences. Oh yeah, the religion was invented by a teenager in the 1800s named Joseph Smith. He spent more than 100 million of his own dollars on his failed bid to win the nomination.
Mike Huckabee Huckabee is a cartoon-ish looking guy, charismatic and seems like a nice guy. He was a far right religious person, and ordained Southern Baptist minister. You know, that division of the baptist church that says dancing is a sin. He plays bass and we all know that the nerd in the band is the bass player.
Ron Paul a libertarian who has a huge following and was the only republican candidate who wanted to end both wars. He had more support from the military than all the others combined. He just has zero charisma but obviously his ideas resonate with younger people which were his base.
The Result - Obama would go on to win a decisive victory over McCain in both the electoral and popular vote; he received the largest percentage of the popular vote for a Democrat in nearly a half-century. Obama's successes in obtaining a major party's nomination and winning the general election were both firsts for an African American. Obama won the popular vote by a little over 10 MILLION votes and nearly 200 electoral college votes.
2012
Mitt Romney - Romney beefed up his campaign and this time won the nomination. He changed many of his previous stances on abortion (he was pro choice in the 2000's as governor of Massachusetts) and on health care which the Obamacare law was nearly identical to the health care that Romney implemented as governor. He refused to admit this and that made him look like a "say anything" candidate. He was backed by big business because of his pro-business anti-regulation views. He was predicted by the entire Fox news pundit staff that he would win in a landslide. Karl Rove donated over $100 million dollars to his campaign as did Sheldon Adelson who committed up to $150 million if needed. Romney ran the most negative campaign in history with 3 of every 4 ads being attack ads. Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal said afterward when asked why the election was lost that "Romney made the mistake of making his campaign about his biography and attacking the other guy instead of how he would fix things. He had no answers and no plan that he presented to the voters. He only said he had answers and a plan and instead of saying what they were, he just attacked Obama who had a very well run campaign and a very clear plan, like it or not. He gave people a reason to vote for him, Mitt didn't."
Newt Gingrich - Former Speaker of the house and lifelong adulterer Newt is a gifted debater. He is loved by the right even though he has openly and admittedly cheated on his previous 2 wives, one while she was very ill and considered to be dying. He married that mistress and then cheated on her with wife #3 who looks like a frightened bird. He was also for indefinite occupation of Iraq and in favor of bombing Libya, until Obama did it then he suddenly became against it. He was very negative towards Romney and seeing Romney as the front runner targeted him repeatedly making the nomination candidacy one of the most negative ever.
Herman Cain - the Republican token black and Former Godfather's pizza CEO had the 9-9-9 plan that he repeated like a mantra. He wore a pimp hat and ended his commercials with him showing a sly grin, wearing his pimp hat with a toothpick in his mouth. it was creepy and not exactly heartwarming to his racist party base. The ads said "Leroy is here for your white women!" He said god personally visited him and told him to run for president. He turned out to have too many skeletons in his closet with adultery and pissed off mistresses and dropped out.
Michelle Bachmann - ahhh Michelle. The comedian's dream candidate. Another one who claimed god visited her personally and told her she should run for president and that she would be the first woman president of the US. She has a closet homo husband and one of the most annoying accents in existence. The clinic she and her husband run turned out to be the recipient of medicaid and state welfare money and she denied every knowing that. She actually won the Iowa caucus and seemed poised to do very well. Then she didn't.
Rick Santorum Italian guy with a crooked face and radical religious agenda. He said college is overrated and an elitist place that exposes young people to other ways of thinking and different views than what they were taught (I would prefer to use the term "forced upon") at home. he was also for getting rid of the minimum wage and wanted christianity to be declared our national religion whatever the fuck that means. He wanted to require creationism to be taught in schools and is another who believes that the earth is only 6,000 year old despite all scientific proof otherwise. he is against birth control and says that gay people are "animals and disgusting". He is one of the most investigated people in the Senate. But the craziest thing he ever did was declare that Bush was correct about Iraq even in hind sight, and that WMD's were found in Iraq even though Bush himself said that there weren't any found. Not only did he make that blonder but he is very anti-libertarian and said In June 2011, Santorum said he would continue to "fight very strongly against libertarian influence within the Republican Party and the conservative movement." In an NPR interview in the summer of 2005, Santorum discussed what he called the "libertarianish right," saying "they have this idea that people should be left alone, be able to do whatever they want to do. Government should keep our taxes down and keep our regulation low and that we shouldn't get involved in the bedroom, we shouldn't get involved in cultural issues, you know, people should do whatever they want. Well, that is not how traditional conservatives view the world, and I think most conservatives understand that individuals can't go it alone." in other words, government SHOULD be controlling more of our lives and saying what we can and cannot do at home and in our bedroom! WTF!!!
Rick Perry - The owner of a ranch that had ******head painted on a rock at its entrance. A guy who showed up drunk at campaign stops in Vermont and Pennsylvania. Another religious right nut job who couldnt make up his mind about much else. He was a very promising candidate similar to Howard Dean was for the democrats. The more people saw him and heard him speak the less interested they became.
Jon Huntsman Another Mormon and someone that many people liked a lot but didnt get much backing. He seemed more level headed and not so radical religious with a much more moderate tone, which could never fly with the current republican party. But his daughter is fucking HOT so he was my favorite. She is like Miss America hot.
The Result - Obama won the popular vote by over 3 million votes.
So no matter what you say about Obama there isn't a single person on this list who would be doing better today. You can say we wouldn't have this shitty new law but guess what? Our health care before was a disaster! It was using up far too much of our budget and a massive failure for the money. We would be in 2 wars instead of one, which we are phasing out of. We would be spending more on military and allowing businesses to do whatever the fuck they want without any punishment.
Like it or not, we got the lesser of the evils.
2008
John McCain - We had grandpa McCain who is a respectable senator, war hero and someone who has worked with both sides of the aisle to get things done, putting ideas first and policy second. One of the most disliked republicans within his own party for being so friendly with the democrats, but he was seen as the lesser evil. He was also considered to be the most electable and marketable to independents and democrats on the fence. And let's not forget his running mate Sarah Palin. She is considered to be a big reason he lost the election. She was originally a huge boost to the campaign with her history as governor of Alaska. Then she started to talk and everyone realized how clueless and unqualified she was. Then a scandal in Alaska popped up involving a fired state trooper. And then the anti-sex ed in schools abstinence only enthusiast's 17 year old daughter turned up pregnant out of wedlock. The hits kept coming and she became defiant to the campaign and a loose canon that hurt McCain far more than she helped.
Mitt Romney - The Ward Cleaver of politicians. A guy who inherited a ton of money from his father and ran a company that bought companies, borrowed against them and then ran them out of business called "Corporate Raiders" Some did well and many didn't. Many jobs were lost while Mitt got rich. VERY appealing to the pro-business republicans. But, he's a Mormon and that doesn't sit too well with the evangelists who have a ton of money and a big influence in Washington these days. Mormons believe Jesus lived in Missouri. They believe that we come from the planet Kolab which scientist have never found and that magical underwear will make us fertile and protect us from evil influences. Oh yeah, the religion was invented by a teenager in the 1800s named Joseph Smith. He spent more than 100 million of his own dollars on his failed bid to win the nomination.
Mike Huckabee Huckabee is a cartoon-ish looking guy, charismatic and seems like a nice guy. He was a far right religious person, and ordained Southern Baptist minister. You know, that division of the baptist church that says dancing is a sin. He plays bass and we all know that the nerd in the band is the bass player.
Ron Paul a libertarian who has a huge following and was the only republican candidate who wanted to end both wars. He had more support from the military than all the others combined. He just has zero charisma but obviously his ideas resonate with younger people which were his base.
The Result - Obama would go on to win a decisive victory over McCain in both the electoral and popular vote; he received the largest percentage of the popular vote for a Democrat in nearly a half-century. Obama's successes in obtaining a major party's nomination and winning the general election were both firsts for an African American. Obama won the popular vote by a little over 10 MILLION votes and nearly 200 electoral college votes.
2012
Mitt Romney - Romney beefed up his campaign and this time won the nomination. He changed many of his previous stances on abortion (he was pro choice in the 2000's as governor of Massachusetts) and on health care which the Obamacare law was nearly identical to the health care that Romney implemented as governor. He refused to admit this and that made him look like a "say anything" candidate. He was backed by big business because of his pro-business anti-regulation views. He was predicted by the entire Fox news pundit staff that he would win in a landslide. Karl Rove donated over $100 million dollars to his campaign as did Sheldon Adelson who committed up to $150 million if needed. Romney ran the most negative campaign in history with 3 of every 4 ads being attack ads. Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal said afterward when asked why the election was lost that "Romney made the mistake of making his campaign about his biography and attacking the other guy instead of how he would fix things. He had no answers and no plan that he presented to the voters. He only said he had answers and a plan and instead of saying what they were, he just attacked Obama who had a very well run campaign and a very clear plan, like it or not. He gave people a reason to vote for him, Mitt didn't."
Newt Gingrich - Former Speaker of the house and lifelong adulterer Newt is a gifted debater. He is loved by the right even though he has openly and admittedly cheated on his previous 2 wives, one while she was very ill and considered to be dying. He married that mistress and then cheated on her with wife #3 who looks like a frightened bird. He was also for indefinite occupation of Iraq and in favor of bombing Libya, until Obama did it then he suddenly became against it. He was very negative towards Romney and seeing Romney as the front runner targeted him repeatedly making the nomination candidacy one of the most negative ever.
Herman Cain - the Republican token black and Former Godfather's pizza CEO had the 9-9-9 plan that he repeated like a mantra. He wore a pimp hat and ended his commercials with him showing a sly grin, wearing his pimp hat with a toothpick in his mouth. it was creepy and not exactly heartwarming to his racist party base. The ads said "Leroy is here for your white women!" He said god personally visited him and told him to run for president. He turned out to have too many skeletons in his closet with adultery and pissed off mistresses and dropped out.
Michelle Bachmann - ahhh Michelle. The comedian's dream candidate. Another one who claimed god visited her personally and told her she should run for president and that she would be the first woman president of the US. She has a closet homo husband and one of the most annoying accents in existence. The clinic she and her husband run turned out to be the recipient of medicaid and state welfare money and she denied every knowing that. She actually won the Iowa caucus and seemed poised to do very well. Then she didn't.
Rick Santorum Italian guy with a crooked face and radical religious agenda. He said college is overrated and an elitist place that exposes young people to other ways of thinking and different views than what they were taught (I would prefer to use the term "forced upon") at home. he was also for getting rid of the minimum wage and wanted christianity to be declared our national religion whatever the fuck that means. He wanted to require creationism to be taught in schools and is another who believes that the earth is only 6,000 year old despite all scientific proof otherwise. he is against birth control and says that gay people are "animals and disgusting". He is one of the most investigated people in the Senate. But the craziest thing he ever did was declare that Bush was correct about Iraq even in hind sight, and that WMD's were found in Iraq even though Bush himself said that there weren't any found. Not only did he make that blonder but he is very anti-libertarian and said In June 2011, Santorum said he would continue to "fight very strongly against libertarian influence within the Republican Party and the conservative movement." In an NPR interview in the summer of 2005, Santorum discussed what he called the "libertarianish right," saying "they have this idea that people should be left alone, be able to do whatever they want to do. Government should keep our taxes down and keep our regulation low and that we shouldn't get involved in the bedroom, we shouldn't get involved in cultural issues, you know, people should do whatever they want. Well, that is not how traditional conservatives view the world, and I think most conservatives understand that individuals can't go it alone." in other words, government SHOULD be controlling more of our lives and saying what we can and cannot do at home and in our bedroom! WTF!!!
Rick Perry - The owner of a ranch that had ******head painted on a rock at its entrance. A guy who showed up drunk at campaign stops in Vermont and Pennsylvania. Another religious right nut job who couldnt make up his mind about much else. He was a very promising candidate similar to Howard Dean was for the democrats. The more people saw him and heard him speak the less interested they became.
Jon Huntsman Another Mormon and someone that many people liked a lot but didnt get much backing. He seemed more level headed and not so radical religious with a much more moderate tone, which could never fly with the current republican party. But his daughter is fucking HOT so he was my favorite. She is like Miss America hot.
The Result - Obama won the popular vote by over 3 million votes.
So no matter what you say about Obama there isn't a single person on this list who would be doing better today. You can say we wouldn't have this shitty new law but guess what? Our health care before was a disaster! It was using up far too much of our budget and a massive failure for the money. We would be in 2 wars instead of one, which we are phasing out of. We would be spending more on military and allowing businesses to do whatever the fuck they want without any punishment.
Like it or not, we got the lesser of the evils.
