A few years ago we started tracking all major candidates and their records, particularly Republican, in order to present the public with a view of just who these candidates are, what their character is and perhaps most importantly, who they represent. Seeing as how the primary season is long since over, I've had a request to update the list and include Libertarian Gary Johnson. Rather than alter the original post, I've simply ported over the relevant data, cleaned it up and added Mr. Johnson.
Republican
- Mitt Romney
- Flip flopped on -
- Abortion
- Claims he's pro-life
- Attended a Planned Parenthood fundraiser in 2004
- He even instituted tax-funded abortion on demand two years after his orchestrated “pro-life” conversion.
- Support for Islam, or not?
- Rammed through State run health care in Massachusetts (Will be in dead in the water vs Obama) and still supports it. (Obamacare is based on Romneycare)
- Believes the theory of anthropogenic global warming is real
- Has an economist adviser - Greg Mankiw who in 2007 wrote an op-ed for the New York Times entitled “One Answer to Global Warming: A New Tax.”
- He advocates carbon taxes through a “tax-swap plan” and declares that resultant “higher energy prices would encourage energy efficiency.”
- “the first and only state to set CO 2 emissions limits on power plants.”
- Wants to implement austerity
- Supports Federal intervention into marriage.
- Used to support gay marriage, flipped recently.(2)
- Refuses to sign petition to oppose gay marriage
- Mormon
- Supports gun control
- He describes his position on assault-weapon bans as the “same as [Sen. John] Kerry and [the late Sen. Ted] Kennedy.”
- Supports the War on Drugs?
- Supports war with Iran
- His foreign policy team consisting largely of recycled Bush-era veterans, including: former CIA Director Michael Hayden, former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman, former Pentagon comptroller Dov Zakheim, former State Department Policy Planning Chief and North Korea expert Mitchell Reiss.
- Support -
- Former Salt Lake City mayor Rocky Anderson, who ran an ad in which he said, “Take it from this liberal Democrat. If you want an amazing leader, vote for Mitt Romney.”
- Quotes
- 1998 - “Hillary Clinton is very much right, it does take a village.”
- “[T]hose who are here contrary to the law should seek to establish legal residence,” the document claims he said, “and if they do so, I’d be delighted to provide support.”
- Gary Johnson
- Former Governor of New Mexico
- Created a bigger government while Governor
- The budget rose 5% per year during his time in office. (That's a roughly 50% increase in the size of the State Government during those eight years.)
- When indexed for inflation - Spending in New Mexico rose at approximately 240% the rate of inflation -- or about double and a half as fast as prices rose.
- A major debt issue
- The amount of debt the State Government had outstanding nearly doubled (A gross $2.78 billion increase)
- The population of the state was (as of 2003) 1.87 million, so Governor Johnson added about $1,500 in debt to the financial responsibility of every man, woman and child in New Mexico during his administration and that's only for the state itself -- municipal governments added another billion, so the total was well over $2,000 per person.
- The population of New Mexico in 1995 was ~1.7 million. In 2003 it was 1.9 million, or 12% higher, an approximately 1.4% annual expansion.
- His campaign was $200,000 in debt
- Wants a return to the gold standard
- Wants to cut the federal government spending by 43%.
- Wants to institute a Fair Tax
- Believes in Free Trade
- Has claimed that the bankers have not committed any crimes.
- Hedged his position a bit.
- Libertarian leaning
- Supports gay marriage
- Heavy on vetoes
- Stood up against the TSA machines
- Wants to revise entitlement programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.
Democrat
- Barack Obama
The Issues
- The Debt (National, State)
- The economy (Unemployment)
- Entitlement programs
- The college bubble
- Foreign policy (4 concurrent wars - Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya)
- Syria, Yemen, Iran
- Property Rights
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