Romney has been praised in circles on the right for his recent debate performance, in which he thoroughly demolished a somewhat vacant Obama, leaving him the clear victor on the platform. However, conservatism did not win as Romney did. While Romney claims to be a champion of conservatism, his statements did match that claim. For example, he lauded Medicare, a product of Lyndon B. Johnson's ultra-liberal Great Society program, and accused Obama of cutting the program - hardly something a conservative would do. Further, he again supported his own plan for government-mandated universal healthcare in Massachusetts at the national level, as he has in the past.
The race between Obama and Romney is not, as it has been made out to be, a contest between a conservative and a liberal. It is rather a contest between two liberals of the most effective means of instituting liberalism. The choice between the two of them is no choice at all. The only choice for those who wish to preserve conservatism for future generations is Tom Hoefling, the only true conservative in the race.
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What does Hoefling plan to do about medicare, medicaid, welfare, etc?
ReplyDeleteHis plan is to eliminate all programs that the federal government is not specifically given the power to implement and return to constitutionally mandated government. That would include medicare, medicaid, and other wellfare programs.
DeleteNow, leaving what he has said and speculating on what he might mean. I doubt that he would be in favor of ending all wellfare programs immediately. To use the tired cliche, no one wants to see grandma starve. Realistically that means that the best that could be achieved in this generation is the beginning of the transfer of wellfare programs back - they were working better before the federal government got involved anyway - to state, local, and individual control.