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In reply to the discussion: 3 Scary Decisions Handed Down by the Far Right Supreme Court [View all]Pab Sungenis
(9,612 posts)For a lot of people, they DON'T know what Romney will be like. Look at Obama. We elected a man who we thought, at least judging by his stump speeches, was a fire breathing progressive who was going to change the way Washington works. Instead we wound up with a conservative Democrat who shoved one liberal constituency under the bus after another.
Who's to say that once he's in the Oval Office Romney won't suddenly revert to the Romney of 1994? We saw Barack Obama do a 180 degree turn practically overnight once he was elected. Now he's turning back to the man we all thought we elected, but for a lot of the Democratic base memories are long. For much of the past four years it's been a question of would we rather have an enemy who stabs us in the gut or a friend who stabs us in the back.
Of course we can't take a chance that Romney will revert the same way Obama did. If he governs the way he campaigns we are all screwed for generations.
Using the Supreme Court, which is one area Obama shafted us by replacing two liberals with one moderate and one anti-gay "moderate," as an argument for re-election is not a good one. We can, and must, make a better case for re-election than more "think of the Court" fear mongering.