re: #71 HappyWarrior

I mean I want to while I know I can’t be 100% objective be fair to these guys but this is where Mitt Romney lost me last night for example. He’s talking about cutting social programs, taxes, etc and one of the moderators asked him about defense. He says clear as day that he will not cut defense. Now, riddle me this, we’ve got a huge deficit and defense is the biggest part of our budget expenditures and Mitt isn’t willing at all to consider defense cuts. It’s almost like he thinks the Defense budget comes from gold chests donated to the Treasury by leprechauns and isn’t part of the budget as a whole. Oh and he comes across as a total phony when he tries to act tough. But that’s Mitt Romney’s whole problem, he is a total phony.

It was the standard giant panderer response. To hell with reality, just say whatever will supposedly get you the support and votes. In this forum that means promising to not touch defense spending while gutting social programs.

I’m sure the debate site is suffering a shortage of bamboo right now.