Not so fast with the front runner stuff

As of right now you get the impression that it’s all settled between Rick Perry and Mitt Romney for the GOP nomination, not so fast, at the same point in 2008 Rudi Giuliani was the front runner trailed closely by Fred Thompson with John McCain an afterthought.  Perhaps we would have been better if McCain had remained an afterthought, but I digress. The point is, I do not accept that we have to limit our choices to the candidates that the press gives us as front runners.

I have quarrels with Rick Perry, though I have not ruled him out as my choice, I have very serious problems with Mitt Romney as well and I’ll be darned if I will let some God-awful pollster tell me rather I have to choose one of these two or not!

First of all I do not yet have a satisfactory answer from Mitt on Romney-care. He has said correctly that the constitution allows states to screw up the health care system and force odorous mandates on its citizens but does not make the same allowance for the Federal Government. Somehow I find little comfort in the fact that Romney’s only basis for undoing the piece of legislation that transforms America into a land of the formerly free is a technicality? Romney still defends Romney care and if only he had gotten more of what he wanted it would have worked. I’m sorry but that doesn’t do it for me. Romney won’t even denounce the individual mandate which in my humble opinion is the third most immoral thing in the government today, right behind abortion and the death tax. Reagan said about socialized medicine, “   "behind it will come other government programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have known it in this country until one day as Norman Thomas said we will wake to find that we have socialism.", "We are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children, what it once was like in America when men were free."  I don’t sense that type of commitment from the Romney camp, and it will take a slew of convincing before Mitt Romney will get my primary vote.

Gov. Perry also has some ‘splainin’ to do. How dare you Mr. Governor mandate that my little girl get vaccinated against STD’s? Now he has admitted that the decision to mandate HPV vaccinations in Texas was a mistake, duh! There are things I would go to jail rather than do and this vaccine would have been one of them had I lived in Texas and had the program been implemented. Michelle Bachman was right to call him out on this but in truth I don’t care who profited the important point and the one Gov. Perry has not answered to my satisfaction is  why Gov. Perry believes that government has such a big role to play in what parents do and do not do.

It disturbs me greatly that Gov. Romney seems to have the strongly held views that please his electoral target audience. We need true conservatives not men who will campaign like Reagan and govern like Clinton. This troubles me and before I concede that Romney is viable I want proof of sincerity.

I am also concerned about the Perry position on immigration, specifically the in state tuition policy he supported in Texas. I think it certainly warrants debates as to rather in state tuition rates being extended to the children of  illegal immigrants signifies a support of lawlessness, and if it bespeaks an overall weakness on the broader issue of border security but what infuriates me is the response to criticism that the Governor has decided to pursue. if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart. “  further the governor has implied that people who have a problem with this position are uncomfortable with people with different sounding names. So if we disagree with Rick Perry we are hate filled bigots. Governor you were much closer to getting my vote before these asinine comments!

Remember many people voted for McCain because they believed the media twist that he was the only one that could defeat Hillary. Please do not let the media make this decision based on polls and experts claims of electability .my advice keep studying the candidates and choose the one you believe will save this country! We will keep doing that here.

Until next time, Keep on the firing line.