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Romney Arguments:

I want to use Romney's candidacy to advance his causes and arguments. This means debate. Thomas Jefferson said we should list pros and cons. Here is my list of reasons to agree and disagree.  Please help me advance the arguments:

We should not build a moon colony until we have a budget surplus.  

"America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home." - Governor Mitt Romney, UPI, February 26, 2005

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• Romney is a conservative 

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• "Competition in Educational opportunities makes traditional public schools better" ~ Mitt Romney
• Romney is a conservative on taxes. 

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• "We should ensure that environmental laws properly account for cost in regulatory process" ~ Mitt Romney

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• Students in failing schools should be able to exercise school choice 

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• "We should weaken the threat of the Castro regime" ~ Mitt Romney

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• We should not build a moon colony until we have a budget surplus From me (Anti Newt)

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• "We should tighten economic sanctions against Iran" ~ Mitt Romney
• Romney is a fiscal conservative 

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• The media is stupid

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• Women won't vote for Newt From me (Anti Newt)

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• "The worldwide tax code that we currently have is bad" ~ Mitt Romney
• "We should weaken the threat of the Chavez regime." ~ Mitt Romney
• "When parents and kids are free to choose their school everyone benefits." ~ Mitt Romney
• "A strong America is good for the planet " ~ Mitt Romney, No Apology
• The media does not go into very much depth in their portrait of the issues 

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• Romney knows more about business than any other candidate.

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• Obama is wrong on immigration.
• Religious doctrine has little to do with the kind of politician someone is 

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• "We should eliminate taxes for taxpayers with AGI below $200,000 on interest, dividends, and capital gains." ~ Mitt Romney, 2011
• "We should help threatened Islamic states with micro-credit and banking" ~ Mitt Romney, 2008
• Dodd-Frank is bad.
• It may seem like a strange paradox, but those societies that guarantee the least for their poor, often end up giving them the least 

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• Every 12 people should get 1 vote
• Obama is wrong on the cap and trade auction system 
• We should pay doctors according to how healthy their patents are 

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• We must not allow Jihadist to replace modern Islamic states with a caliphate.
• We should help threatened Islamic states with public schools
• It often seems that journalist would rather cause problems, than fix them 
• Romney is a conservative on the family. 
• The media is liberal  

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• We should focus tax breaks on the middle class.
• Debate websites should put reasons to agree and disagree with an idea in different columns
• Some southerners take their love of fellow southerners too far 

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• We should have a federal home schooling tax credit.
• Competition in Educational opportunities makes traditional public schools better.
• The LDS church is not in danger of loosing its tax exempt status because Romney 

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• Romney is a conservative on marriage
• Romney is a conservative on schools. 
• Choice is good 
• It often seems that journalist would rather cause problems, than fix them 

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• We should promote the individual ownership of health insurance.
• We must not allow a nuclear-9-11
• Obama is wrong on foreign policy 
• Republicans should stop being anti-intellect 
• Romney is conservative on abortion. 
• Romney is well read 
• There are a lot of things we should learn from Iraq 

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• The Clinton Administration tried to dismantle the military.
• The wealthy are doing just fine.

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• All cultures are not equal.
• We should help threatened Islamic states with the rule of law
• ObamaCare is bad.
• We should lower the corporate tax rate.
• Closing the achievement gap in our schools is the civil rights issue of our time.
• Punditry (debate and commentary) is more important than Activism. 
• Romney should release his book reports 
• Romney should challenge Obama to release his grades 
• Socialism doesn't work 
• Americans are stupid 

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• American foreign affairs are plagued by bureaucratic inaction.
• We should take Ahmadinejad at his word.
• We should ensure that environmental laws properly account for cost in regulatory process.
• We should maintain current tax rates on personal income.
• We should act to inform public opinion in Latin America.
• We must reaffirm our appreciation of legal immigration.
• Good teachers should be rewarded for their hard work.
• America should shift federal priorities to emphasize issues of Energy security.
• Discussing what is right and wrong may hurt some people's feelings 
• Every decision Romney made as Governor in a very liberal state has been on the side of favoring life 
• News outlets will have more readers/viewers the uglier our conflicts get
• Romney has succeeded at everything he has done 
• Romney is not a true Republican because he voted for Paul Tsongas 
• Some ideas should not be accepted as valid logical beliefs 
• The collapse of the American family should be cause for grave concern 
• The Department of Energy should shift priorities to emphasize Energy security
• We made many mistakes in Iraq 
• We should legalize drugs 

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• Evil people exist.
• The government should not redistribute wealth.
• People who want to remove consequences are wrong.
• We should isolate Iran diplomatically.
• We should improve our economic ties with Latin America.
• America should not tax middle class savings.
• Romney would help international relations.
• Communist leaders knew socialism couldn't compete so they advocated killing all capitalist
• Simply giving money to the poor does not work well
• It is not bad to change your position 
• It is not good having all the poor living together 
• Marriage is the best anti-poverty program 
• Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good 
• Obama lied about the platoon story 
• Obama lies 
• Only stupid people would think anything about Paris Hilton is important 
• People should have to pass drug test to get government assistance 
• Romney is a conservative on debt.
• Romney is a conservative on ESL. 
• Teachers should be compensated according to their ability to produce real results, not solely on the number of years they’ve been on the job 
• There are a lot of things to dislike about America 
• The way the government structures its foreign affairs assets is bad 
• To accept everything, equally, is to accept nothing, truly 
• We should encourage mixed use development
• We should reward good behavior 

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• China misappropriates intellectual property.
• We should try to strengthen human rights in South America.
• We should try to strengthen freedom in South America.
• We should use foreign aid and investments on those who stand alongside us.
• We must secure our border. 
• We must never ignore Latin America.
• Both Gays and Mormons have been discriminated against.
• Imports oil from unstable places threatens our national security 
• It is best to trust individuals to make decisions for their own lives
• It is wrong to lie 
• It was bad that it took until 1920 for the USA to give women the vote 
• No concept man forms is valid unless it is integrated without contradiction into the sum of all knowledge 
• Obama is wrong on Iran
• Raising taxes hurts working people and scares away jobs 
• Reagan wasn’t always pro-choice 
• Romney is a conservative on English immersion. 
• Romney is a smooth talker 
• The constitution of the United States is awesome 
• The fact that Paris Hilton is a billionare, proves that our society is unfair 
• We must never ignore Latin America 

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• We must constantly challenge bureaucratic group think.
• Iran is seeking nuclear weapons.
• China shouldn't be allowed to subsidize their private businesses.
• Creation of the Directorate of National Intelligence was duplicative.
• Jihadism is this century’s nightmare.
• We should help threatened Islamic states with competitive economic policies
• We should amend Sarbanes-Oxley to relieve mid-size companies from onerous requirements
• We must rebuild relationships of respect, trust, and friendship with Latin America.
• We need to strengthen education in America.
• We should emphasize math and science.
• We should promote charter schools.
• We should improve worker retraining.
• America should encourage legal immigration.
• America should welcome the best and the brightest from around the world to our universities.
• We should lower taxes for everyone.
• The US should implement national tort reform. 
• An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
• Barack Obama thinks its cool that he used to use drugs 
• Each state should be able to make its own decision
• Fox news lies when they say we report you decide 
• It is cowardly to attack citizens 
• Jacob Weisberg is an idiot 
• No Child Left Behind has helped stress the role of accountability in improving our schools 
• Obama is wrong on government health care 
• Obama is wrong on the new deal 
• Poverty is nonexistent for those who have children after they are married and graduate from high school 
• Republicans should be as conservative as they can in order to win elections and no more  
• Romney has stood up to teacher's unions 
• Romney is a conservative on the media.
• Romney has stood up to teacher's unions. 
• Republicans should be as conservative as they can in order to win elections and no more 
• Romney is not a typical Mormon 
• Romney is very smart 
• Socialism removes the reward for hard work 
• Some people deserve to be hated 
• Some things deserve to be hated 
• The end does not justify the means 
• The federal government shouldn't say when life begins 
• The judicial system is vulnerable to government or party interference and pressure 
• Americans are stupid
• We must secure our borders first, and then reform immigration policy 
• We should elect republicans from blue states
• We should isolate those who support the destruction of Israel 

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• If trade laws are burdensome and antiquated, enterprise will stall.
• We should not assume that Iran will act responsibly when they have the bomb.
• Because environmental sectors are not labor intensive, green jobs never made economic sense.
• Jihadism is similar to fascism and Soviet communism.
• We should help threatened Islamic states with basic health care
• We should help threatened Islamic states with competitive economic policies
• We should promote public-private partnerships in education.
• America should reform our immigration laws.
• America should end illegal immigration.
• America should streamline the system to recruit and retain highly-skilled workers.
• The government should provide regulatory relief.
• We should make the Bush tax cuts permanent.
• We should build and repair transportation infrastructure
• The Federal government must stop its borrowing and spending binge.
• There is a proper role for the federal government to play in Education.
• The federal government should not determine what schools teach or how they are ran.
• We need successful people from business to go into politics.
• Romney knows more about the economy than any other candidate.
• America should invest in energy research
• A website can make money by helping users organize reasons to agree
• The ends do not justify the means 
• Even with the estate tax parents can pass billions of dollars onto their children 
• Going negative often doesn't work 
• Harry Truman was right when he said that JFK was too young 
• It is fundamentally unfair to tax people retroactively 
• It is good to be free from bigotry
• It is wrong to tax money twice 
• It sets a bad precedent to allow someone’s religion to be a factor in politics 
• Money for education should not come out of property taxes
• Mixed use development results in less driving 
• Most theological questions are irrelevant to the presidency 
• Obama is bad on pork 
• Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper
• Obama is wrong on abortion 
• Obama is wrong on embryonic stem cell research 
• Obama is wrong on private accounts for Social Security 
• Obama is wrong on the economy 
• Obama is wrong on the vouchers 
• Obama wants to reward people for breaking the law 
• Paul Tsongas was a fiscal conservative 
• Paul Tsongas was a good guy  
• Reason is our only salvation 
• Romney is a conservative on abstinence education. 
• Romney is very educated
• Its OK that Romney raised some fees.  
• Romney would help change stereotypes about republicans 
• Socialism would be nice, if it worked 
• States that meet testing requirements should have flexibility in measuring performance 
• The Chinese communist party will take as much power as they can whatever it takes 
• The Federal government must stop its borrowing and spending binge 
• The federal government should not determine what schools teach or how they are ran
• The free market leads to better quality
• The government should provide regulatory relief
• Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper
• The line between investigating and persecuting is a very fine one
• Mormons are members of a cult
• The people should choose not the courts
• The presidential needs to provide leadership in energy independence
• There are more slaves now than there have been at any other time in history
• Things that are counter-intuitive are not always clever and don't always make good policy
• Thomas Paine supported the estate tax
• To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile 
• We should increase the size of our military by 100000 troups 

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• Jihadist are the only people who would use a nuclear weapon.
• God will not require us to do evil, to defeat evil.
• Income inequality is a problem.
• Protectionism is sometimes necessary in trade 
• Romney is a conservative on the war on Terror. 
• Romney is too Brady Bunch
•  The Death Tax Is Fundamentally Unfair 
• The Death Tax unfairly impacts families, farmers, ranchers and small businesses 
• The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter 
• You destine people to a life of mediocrity when you convince them that they cannot control themselves. 
• You shouldn't treat others how you want to be treated, you should treat them the way they would like to be treated 

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• An ID system for guest workers would cost too much 
• Equality of income opportunity is a problem in the USA 
• Mormons are typically pro life 
• Obama is naïve
• One party systems are bad 
• Power corrupts and ultimate power corrupts ultimately 
• Romney is too perfect 
• Young people are drawn to socialism because they are idealistic 
• The estate tax breaks the bonds between generations 
• The individual mandate opens the door to widespread regulation of health care 
• The people's republic of China would have rather killed 200–300 students than give up any control 
• There are more slaves now than there have been at any other time in history 
• The way we treat illegal immigrants is the way they treated Anne Frank

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• An eye for an eye would leave us all blind and toothless
• Mormons are members of a cult
• The Mormons religion is a cult, and we should not have a member of a cult be the president 
• Mormons should sit on the side lines of an effort by Governor Mitt Romney to lead the country 

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• Because he is Mormon voters will not support Romney
• Because Romney's ancestors were polygamist, he might sympathize with that way of life
• God will not require us to do evil, to defeat evil
• It is bad that Romney raised fees in Massachusetts 

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• Americans trying to defeat radical and violent factions of Islam will only backfire

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•  People shouldn't support Mitt because he is Mormon

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• It is good to be liberal