Jesus titty fucking christ. I didn't bring it up. It was raised as some sort of an equivalence by exiledintheusa for justifying taking what Romney said and willfully misinterpreting it to make him look worse. Except he said Obama didn't utter the now famous phrase, when he clearly did.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_quoting_out_of_contextObama's case is a sure case of fallacious out of context quoting. Is a pure smear job.
Romney meant what he said. he wants to devolve some fairly important powers to State government - incidentally pretty scary for women and minorities in the south and midwest.
Would you honestly prefer if the country had a 'state lottery' when it came to disaster aid? Yes, you are right that it is locals who provide much of the equipment and man power currently, but there are some states will less resources than others. Would you like to put all your faith in your state, or worse, a private agency like Halliburton?
A country is the sum of it's parts - all of them, the good and the bad. If you let it devolve too much you threaten the threads that tie the country together - the natural evolution from such policies is eventual irreparable socioeconomic polarization. The North East and the West Coast will be fine. The South will be fucked and the people therein. They already receive the most federal funding, social handouts and other outside aid. The GOP, if it were to follow such a path would be dooming the rural poor to a second tier standard of living.
Hoya, I like you - you are a good guy and I hope you and yours are well and without any lasting damage from the storm. The GOP don't care for you or yours.
The Democrats don't much either, to be fair. The Republican party of today is not the one you read about in the history books - the Democrats are more akin to them.
Romney and his constituents (the mega rich) want to effect the kinds of changes that will see the completion of the corporate takeover of USA. What you see happening to Greece now, will be the USA's fate eventually, should their plans come to pass. This is not a matter of nailing your colours to your team, or supporting the party through thick and thin. They are not the Republicans you think they are - you need to get involved in reclaiming that side of the party back - because there were great Republican presidents in the past, and great, socially responsible men in the party of yore. The lunatics have taken over and unless they lose next week, you are never going to get the party back from the racist, misogynistic, homophobic, religious theocratic mentalists that are steering the Elephant. Get rid of them and their ideas. All is not lost.
Romney will kill your party, and take a lot of good people with him.