Mitt Never Wanted to be President Anyway

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I am not saying I believe it, it could be cover to explain his failure... But it is possible his sons and his wife talked him into a second run.

It is difficult for me to believe... a well balanced, driven, productive guy like him wanted to try to run a second time and waste 4 more years of his life.. worrying about soundbites.

Running for president seems like the worst job I could imagine. to willingly give up your life for years to run for the office... You seem to have to believe the other party is killing the country, or you have to be an idiot with nothing else to do, or you must be an narcissist to want to waste so much of your life running.

Dont get me wrong... I would love to be a Senator, I think I would want to be a governor to make a difference in CA budget... but to put in the time to run... its not very appealing.

To think about the time it would take to run for president... kiss that much of your life good bye. It would not be an easy decision for any productive being or anybody who enjoyed life. Fundraiser's? Listening to other people bullshit all night. Flying around from town to town. Please, normal motivations will not cut it.

Maybe technology will change that.
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With the democratic legislature a republican Governor is not going to fix CA's fiscal problems.Arnold is a smart guy and could have fixed it with help but with the legislature in CA its hopeless
 
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I think he is.Charisma goes farther then intelligence in politics though
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Hence the reason we should have limited the vote to productive land owning tax payers. As the framers intended; and for good reason.
 
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With the democratic legislature a republican Governor is not going to fix CA's fiscal problems.Arnold is a smart guy and could have fixed it with help but with the legislature in CA its hopeless
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Unfortunately, that is a rational analysis.
 
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actually Romney did not even make that point well.

he would say it... then obama would blame bush...
the follow up was then to crush him on his economic policies and they never did.

Romney was afraid to say cut taxes... because he was worried about the media calling him a trickle down guy. so they just finessed the issue with bullshit.

I thought when he picked Ryan it meant... we would have a showdown between

More spending and more taxes or capped spending and lower taxes.
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You have to be REALLY stupid to believe tax cuts are a magical wealth creation machine. There was no way Romney, Obama, or any human being on the planet could create a robust economy out of what we had in 2008 in 4 years. Not humanely possible.
 
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You have to be REALLY stupid to believe tax cuts are a magical wealth creation machine....
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Can you name one single time in modern history when a country taxed itself into prosperity?
 
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You have to be REALLY stupid to believe tax cuts are a magical wealth creation machine. There was no way Romney, Obama, or any human being on the planet could create a robust economy out of what we had in 2008 in 4 years. Not humanely possible.
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when things are slow and store wants to bring in more revenues do they raise prices or have a sale?

Do you knew that when bush cuts taxes revenues went up by 40 percent and the the top 2 percent paid more in taxes.

did you know the Presidents own advisor Romer did a very detailed study of tax increases and found they lead to lower revenue.

You have to brainless and unstudied to think raising taxes creates more prosperity.

but it is because we have financial illiterates who think like you running the media... that we have politically leaders who do not understand the first thing about business or economics.

and if you really did shop at publix you would know that the govts policy of spending more and more which is debasing the dollar and creating massive food price inflation and other inflation destroying the purchasing power of the middle class.

Overspending is a massive tax on the working class.
 
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when things are slow and store wants to bring in more revenues do they raise prices or have a sale?

Do you knew that when bush cuts taxes revenues went up by 40 percent and the the top 2 percent paid more in taxes.

did you know the Presidents own advisor Romer did a very detailed study of tax increases and found they lead to lower revenue.

You have to brainless and unstudied to think raising taxes creates more prosperity.

but it is because we have financial illiterates who think like you running the media... that we have politically leaders who do not understand the first thing about business or economics.

and if you really did shop at publix you would know that the govts policy of spending more and more which is debasing the dollar and creating massive food price inflation and other inflation destroying the purchasing power of the middle class.

Overspending is a massive tax on the working class.
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Pro tip: Bush economy was a fraud based on the real estate bubble. The worth of that economy was decisively proven in 2008 i.e nothing.

Stores bring in more revenue depending on the product they sell and the elasticity of the product. You can raise prices and make more money (both revenue AND profit) when you have an inelastic product. If republican theories of economics were true it would be IMPOSSIBLE to do so. You can raise taxes and increase revenue to the government if you raise them responsibly.

Taxes are not a magical wealth creation machine. They have to be properly calibrated and left alone.

N.B I rewatched all 1992 debates (3 presidential and 1 vice presidential). It is amazing how the unwinding of the Reagan Bush economy propelled Clinton into office (and ross perot too).
 
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