IT'S UP TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO GIVE DEBATE REBUTAL

Romney wiped up the floor with Obama last night in the debate.  This makes it look bad for the President. The only good thing for the liberals like me is that Romney made many statements that he will have to defend. His campaign has been making these disturbing statements before but in the context of the debate, it was he who made them at 40 million people heard him make them.

What disturbed me more than Obama just losing the date were the ideas that Romney was selling. He clearly wants to go back to the Republican policies that caused the great economic collapse but he wants to do it with Paul Ryan at his back. We know what it means to have a Tea Party type standing behind a politician who might compromise. Eric Cantor stood behind Boehner in the House of Representatives in the same way as Ryan is standing behind Romney ready to cutthroat at the first indication of deviation from the Ayn Rand path—they made compromise a dirty word. For example, he blamed Obama for beggaring the middle class when everyone should know that it was Republican anti union busting and overseas jobs that was responsible. Everyone knows that the Republicans spent money like drunken sailors to create a debt crisis so they could use the shock doctrine of it to crush “New Deal Legislation”, which is 75 years old and is working beautifully in spite of all their attempts to destroy it. Somehow, the Republicans seem to think that if they do not have universal healthcare, do not have social security, and do not have infrastructure they will be better off. Of course, they think everyone should have healthcare, it is just that everyone for them means everyone who can pay for it as individuals. These are the very people who start and run insurance companies based on the very principles they are trashing.  If they do not have government but let corporations, which they cannot vote out of office, run things they will be better off.  They was private schools only the well off can afford; that way their children do not have to mix with poor kids. They want deregulation to favor their greed. They do not want big government but want to stick their nose into the voting booths to prevent minority voters from voting. They want all the good things in life but do not want you—the people working two jobs at minimum wage—to pay for them but worst of all they do not want you to have a vote.