Is there any 'undecideds' out there?

Undecided between Gary Johnson and Mitt Romney.

My thoughts. I can't support Obama because he doesn't believe in balancing the budget. My rationale is that like other Democrats, he doesn't believe in doing anything to scale back the entitlement state, and I don't expect him to. It is his party's core priority. They're calling for tax increases and defense cuts to balance the budget, but as a practical matter, you're not going to make up a $1 trillion-plus deficit doing that or even make a serious dent. You have to take on entitlements, because that's where the real money is. If you aren't willing to do that, you're not for a balanced budget - plain and simple.

I'm tepid on Romney, because he's very short on specifics, and he has a history of playing flippy-flop on all domestic issues, so he is an unknown in that regard. I like his foreign policy better than any of his opponents though. (I don't care that he's "out of touch." Obama has never had a real job either, so we're not going to get an "in touch" President either way.)

I like Gary Johnson on virtually every domestic policy issue, but I'm strongly against him on national defense. It's extremely short-sighted. He's also politically unviable, though as a Texas voter, my vote is a waste regardless of whom I support, so that's of no importance to me.
 
I'm thoroughly unimpressed with Obama's leadership, his slow learning curve on executive duties and failure to come up with a compelling response to the economic crisis. I like the fact that he doesn't see giving away the store, tax wise, to rich people as the sure route to economic success, because I think we've seen it isn't.


Romney's experience in the Olympics and in business is a plus. He understands finance and and jobs from a business perspective.

I honestly was troubled that his advisors unanimously suggested that he attack the Obama Administration's foreign policies while our embassies were under attack. To me it seemed a very UnPresidential. There should have been someone there to advocate the "America First" of McCain. I'm worried that his advisors are all cowardly "Yes" men or unanimous NeoCons.

I'm impressed that Romney could win and govern as a Republican in Massacusett. That seems like a leadership brand that could be good for the United States. As a moderate, personally, I worry that there has been a transformation from Anakin Romney to Darth Romney in the process of winning over a very strident and conservative Republican party.
 
I think the key issue is who will be better for the economy -- and I just don't know. I tend to believe that our current problems were largely caused by a tax-cut-cures-all mentality, which Romney essentially proposes returning to. But Obama's policies haven't exactly fixed everything either.

Are we better off than we were 4 years ago? Definitely yes. Anyone who says otherwise needs to pull up a newspaper or two from late 2008 and refresh their memories.

But are we ENOUGH better off than we were 4 years ago to justify giving Obama 4 more years? I don't know.

On social issues, I am equally scared by the far-right conservatives and the far-left liberals. I think Obama and Romney are both social moderates at heart, but are pulled towards their respective extremes by the two-party system. At the end of the day, I think this is going to be what tips my vote in Obama's favor:

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Obama is not a social moderate. Romney is a social moderate. Easy choice if the criteria is who is more moderate.
 
^. Thanks for the laugh!
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