Andy Rooney Is Right

just a little common sense

Andy Rooney said on "60 Minutes" from 2006:

I don't think being a minority makes you a victim of anything except numbers. The only things I can think of that are truly discriminatory are things like the United Negro College Fund, Jet Magazine, Black Entertainment Television, and Miss Black America. Try to have things like the UnitedCaucasianCollege Fund, Cloud Magazine, White Entertainment Television, or Miss White America; and see what happens...Jesse Jackson will be knocking down your door.

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

I believe they are called the Boy Scouts for a reason, that is why there are no girls allowed. Girls belong in the Girl Scouts! ARE YOU LISTENING MARTHA BURKE?

I think that if you feel homosexuality is wrong, it is not a phobia, it is an opinion.

I have the right "NOT" to be tolerant of others because they are different, weird, or tick me off.

When 70% of the people who get arrested are black, in cities where 70% of the population is black, that is not racial profiling, it is the Law of Probability.

I believe that if you are selling me a milkshake, a pack of cigarettes, a newspaper or a hotel room, you must do it in English! As a matter of fact, if you want to be an American citizen, you should have to speak English!

My father and grandfather didn't die in vain so you can leave the countries you were born in to come over and disrespect ours.

I think the police should have every right to shoot your sorry ass if you threaten them after they tell you to stop. If you can't understand the word "freeze" or "stop" in English, see the above lines.

I don't think just because you were not born in this country, you are qualified for any special loan programs, government sponsored bank loans or tax breaks, etc., so you can open a hotel, coffee shop, trinket store, or any other business.

We did not go to the aid of certain foreign countries and risk our lives in wars to defend their freedoms, so that decades later they could come over here and tell us our constitution is a living document; and open to their interpretations.

I don't hate the rich I don't pity the poor.

I know pro wrestling is fake, but so are movies and television. That doesn't stop you from watching them.

I think Bill Gates has every right to keep every penny he made and continue to make more. If it ticks you off, go and invent the next operating system that's better, and put your name on the building.

It doesn't take a whole village to raise a child right, but it does take a parent to stand up to the kid; and smack their little behinds when necessary, and say "NO!"

I think tattoos and piercing are fine if you want them, but please don't pretend they are a political statement. And, please, stay home until that new lip ring heals. I don't want to look at your ugly infected mouth as you serve me French fries!

I am sick of "Political Correctness." I know a lot of black people, and not a single one of them was born in Africa; so how can they be "African-Americans"? Besides, Africa is a continent. I don't go around saying I am a European-American because my great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather was from Europe. I am proud to be from America and nowhere else

And if you don't like my point of view, tough...

I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG, OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND TO THE REPUBLIC, FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!

Romney Analysis

MY ANALYSIS OF MITT ROMNEY

        While doing this I have found that whether an item falls under "Positive" or "Negative" is largely subject to my own opinion. Although I am trying to think on a larger scale about them, about how they would affect America. And yes this is all ridiculously preliminary. I will be doing this for other candidates as well.

POSITIVES- Supports one strike, lifetime GPS tracking for offenders caught "preying on children through the internet"
-Wants to give sex offenders much tougher punishment.
-Supports death penalty.
-Wanted to abolish parole, limit probation, and end furloughs and release programs for violent or repeat offenders
-Supports reducing crime by improving our education system
-Supports harsher punishment for repeat drunk drivers
-Supports voucher program to allow students/parents to decide what school the child goes to. And opposes the unions running everything.
-Wants students to learn English as soon as they start school.
-Opposes gas taxes and supports alternative fuel and new vehicle technologies.
-Supports investment in nuclear energy and drilling in ANWR.
-Responded very well to Big Dig crisis. He immediately went to work on fixing it. Going so far as to demand and receive the authority needed to oversee and fix the project himself. But ONLY with the advice of the best experts available.
-Supports having a strong military.
-Wants to change the way we trade with China in order to make it more balanced.
-Supports deporting ALL illegals.
-Opposes chain migration
-Supports making English the national language

NEGATIVES- Still defends RomneyCare while blasting ObamaCare. Even though both are near identical trainwrecks for healthcare.
--He changes his stance on an issue about once every 10 minutes. Once supported abortion. Now he is against it but doesnt support punishing a woman for having partial birth abortion. Voted for abortion law even while opposing it. There are many examples of Romney flip flopping. This guy makes John Kerry look like a statue.
--Vetoed emergency contraception for rape victims.
--Thinks Reaganomics will fix our economy. I think that line tells you all you need to know about what he would do for our economy as President. "Trickle Down Economics" doesn't work. And Reagan tripled the national debt as President.
--Opposes gay marriage. This shows that he is out of touch with what really matters and is out of touch with the people.
--Believes our government has the right to spy on us to keep us "safe". Yet believes that enemy combatants are entitled to habeas corpus.
--Voted for bank bailouts.
--Supports cutting taxes on corporations.
--Supports No Child Left Behind, an utter travesty in our education system.
--Believes that healthcare is working because 47 million Americans "refuse to pay".
--Never enforced immigration laws as Governor and never went after "sanctuary cities" in his own state.
--Doesn't believe investing in our infrastructure will help our economy.
--Vetoed $220k that would have went to help the homeless.

 MY THOUGHTS: It is hard to trust a guy that flip flops so much. There isn't really any way to trust that he will do what he says, because he might change his mind the next day. He has some pluses but has too many negatives for me to vote for him.