Comments on: GOP Presidential Race Now and Four Years Ago https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/09/12/gop-presidential-race-now-and-four-years-ago/ A [retired] college psychology professor's observations about public policy, mental health, sexual identity, and religious issues Wed, 30 May 2018 17:29:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Ken https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/09/12/gop-presidential-race-now-and-four-years-ago/#comment-73631 Wed, 30 May 2018 17:29:33 +0000 http://wthrockmorton.com/?p=10152#comment-73631 I’m saying that the election is over a year away and many things are likely to change in that time. Further, that the only name I (and I suspect anyone) can predict with any certainty will be on the ballot in Nov 2012 will be Barack Obama.

]]> By: Lynn David https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/09/12/gop-presidential-race-now-and-four-years-ago/#comment-73632 Wed, 30 May 2018 17:29:33 +0000 http://wthrockmorton.com/?p=10152#comment-73632 Ken, my comment was directed more towards Warren.
Mitt Romney who has received at least a million in campaign donations from mysterious corporations, doesn’t want unions to have that same right.

Speaking to reporters after touring a Boeing plant in South Carolina Monday, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney pledged to pursue legislation that would prohibit unions from contributing dues to political campaigns. “We have a very unusual circumstance in this country,” Romney said, “and that is that we allow union bosses to collect dues from union members and then to use that money as the union boss sees fit to elect people who might do their bidding. It’s unseemly at best.” “I will pursue and hopefully enact legislation which inhibits taking money in the form of dues and putting it behind political campaigns. That should not happen.”

Evidently corporations are to be allowed the rights of persons, but persons who band together for a specific cause cannot then have bestowed upon their singular endeavor that which they claim as individuals. Wait a second! Isn’t that also the definition of a corporation?

]]> By: Richard Willmer https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/09/12/gop-presidential-race-now-and-four-years-ago/#comment-73622 Wed, 30 May 2018 17:29:31 +0000 http://wthrockmorton.com/?p=10152#comment-73622 “… and he will start to look pretty scary to moderates, even compared to Obama.”
I think it’s worth remembering that, to many outside the USA, President Obama is regarded as the epitome of ‘moderation’ – perhaps too moderate in some ways!

]]> By: Lynn David https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/09/12/gop-presidential-race-now-and-four-years-ago/#comment-52857 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:21:09 +0000 http://wthrockmorton.com/?p=10152#comment-52857 Ken, my comment was directed more towards Warren.
Mitt Romney who has received at least a million in campaign donations from mysterious corporations, doesn’t want unions to have that same right.

Speaking to reporters after touring a Boeing plant in South Carolina Monday, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney pledged to pursue legislation that would prohibit unions from contributing dues to political campaigns. “We have a very unusual circumstance in this country,” Romney said, “and that is that we allow union bosses to collect dues from union members and then to use that money as the union boss sees fit to elect people who might do their bidding. It’s unseemly at best.” “I will pursue and hopefully enact legislation which inhibits taking money in the form of dues and putting it behind political campaigns. That should not happen.”

Evidently corporations are to be allowed the rights of persons, but persons who band together for a specific cause cannot then have bestowed upon their singular endeavor that which they claim as individuals. Wait a second! Isn’t that also the definition of a corporation?

]]> By: Ken https://wthrockmorton.com/2011/09/12/gop-presidential-race-now-and-four-years-ago/#comment-52856 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:09:32 +0000 http://wthrockmorton.com/?p=10152#comment-52856 I’m saying that the election is over a year away and many things are likely to change in that time. Further, that the only name I (and I suspect anyone) can predict with any certainty will be on the ballot in Nov 2012 will be Barack Obama.

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