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Sorry but I totally disagree. I realize Romney wasn't the perfect candidate and his campaign management made a LOT of mistakes, probably with the help of the Republican establishment, if you want to call them that. But all of this talk about there being no difference between the parties is just BS. If you couldn't tell the difference between the policies of Romney and Obama, then you either weren't paying attention or you are ignorant... or both.
Here's a New Year's wish I would love to see come true. However it is defined or however many people are part of it, it is time to send the giant never-ending "GOP Establishment" made up of some professional politicians, some moneyed nouveaux riche who -- by virtue of their contributions and the faux friendships it buys with politicians -- consider themselves political landed gentry and the endless scam artist consultants they support packing.
As previously stated, I thought Mitt Romney to be a better candidate than did many observers. That said, the recent revelations in news articles that claim...
Big picture, let's see, TARP, Dept of Ed, Auto bailouts, neverending war, trashing the Bill of Rights, Entitlement nation, ethanol mandates...both parties are for all of this mess.
So, yes, there are differences. Like there are differences between bubonic plague and smallpox.