Why I'll Never Vote For Romney

I know we just finished a mid-term election, and I know the 2012 Presidential elections are almost two full years away, but I feel the need to comment on it now. Why? Because GOP big-names are already positioning themselves to be the presidential candidate in 2012, and an early front-runner for the spot has already surfaced. His name is Mitt Romney, former Governor of Massachusetts and the father of RomneyCare.

After four years of an Obama Presidency, we will feel the need for a President who will lead this nation along a path to fiscal sanity once again. In the four years since Pelosi and Reid took control of Congress, the last two of which were under Obama's direct supervision, they managed to increase our national debt by $5.2 TRILLION. If the pace doesn't slacken, and if the liberals in DC had their way, that number will have grown to a staggering $7.8 trillion... virtually doubling our national debt in six short years.

Obama has also engaged in a massive bureaucratization of America. He's taken control of banks, auto companies (he even took ownership of one company), and our entire health care system. No good solution can come from the private sector, according to him, and so every "solution" has been coming from the government. The size and scope of the Federal government has grown dramatically, and Obama is poised to use more Executive power to bypass or even circumvent Congress. Case in point would be his consideration of using a "signing statement" to nullify the Gitmo restrictions Congress included in a lame-duck spending bill, thus ignoring a Congressionally passed law merely because he wants to.

After all of that, we don't only want, we absolutely NEED someone who believes the exact opposite of what Obama believes. We need a man who believes the private sector is our greatest strength. We need a man who believes that government is too big and costs too damn much. We need a man who is willing to reduce his own power and that of Congress for the good of this nation.

And that man is NOT Mitt Romney.


Mitt Romney may talk a good game now, but his past accomplishments tell a very different story. If there is anything that is fair to be used as an example, wouldn't that be what Romney himself views as his signature achievement, the jewel in his crown? I think so, too.

So let's look at the Massachusetts health care system that predated ObamaCare. Mitt Romney spear-headed the effort to "reform" the Massachusetts health care system, and he signed the legislation in 2006. It was this health care program, nicknamed RomneyCare, that was used by liberals in DC as the blueprint for ObamaCare. Romney's plan for the health care overhaul was to force people to buy insurance or pay a fine, require companies to offer insurance or pay a fine, require insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions and sell insurance to all comers, and to force taxpayers to foot the bill if anybody couldn't afford insurance after all that.

Sound familiar? It should, because ObamaCare was definitely modeled after it. How can we support a politician who essentially implemented ObamaCare in his state as a candidate for President? If these are his political bona-fides, he's running in the wrong political party.

RomneyCare is already in deep trouble, which probably doesn't auger well for ObamaCare... And our nation.

Although Massachusetts has only a 3% uninsured rate, the rate of subsidy is almost twice as high as predicted. Insurance rates, predictably, are skyrocketing, and insurers have stopped offering unprofitable plans for sale. And though the uninsured rate is low, that doesn't mean people are getting needed health care. Most of the general practitioners in Massachusetts aren't accepting new patients... there is far more demand than they can fill. Of those lucky few who DO find a doctor to treat them, waiting lists are long... up to 44 days by one estimate.

So where do all those patients go? They go to emergency rooms, of course, thus further clogging an already clogged system.

All of this followed because Mitt Romney, the man who would be the "conservative" President to follow liberal Obama, decided that government regulations could fix the problems in the Massachusetts health care system. Government is good, the private sector is bad.

Romney's private beliefs appear to blend pretty well with Obama's, don't they?

So why, exactly, should we believe we'll have a smaller, less expensive, and Constitutionally aware government under Mitt Romney? I'm sorry, but I'm just not that gullible.

If Romney wins and becomes our next President, it will be without my vote and over my strenuous objections.

What about you?