Why I Can't Vote for Romney | National Catholic Reporter

Why I Can't Vote for Romney | National Catholic Reporter by MSW.  MGB: The Tea Party's reason for being is to oppose Obama because of his age and race. They will go away when they get another old white man to be president. I expect Romney, if elected, would do what his military and economic advisors tell him is the best thing, and that he will surround himself with really able people. The problem is, I don't trust the GOP neo-cons he has surrounded himself with, even if, after the election, he enacts almost exactly the same tax policy as Obama would have. I also shivver at the thought of Romney's staff having Patriot Act era powers. I would expect that a CEO in chief would be Nixon all-over-again, which means some scandal over abuse of power would likely result. The country need not go through that again.
As far as abortion and contraception, they are non-issues until the pro-life movement adds detail to their vision of what a pro-life nation would look like in the law and in the circumstances of families facing both a teen pregnancy and a miscarriage. As for contraception, it has not been an issue since December 2000, when the EEOC said women had a right to it in any preventative policy. The HHS MANDATE IS ONLY ABOUT COPAYS!. If this is a personal issue for you, you have a skewed sense of what is important.
As for Ryan, his place on the ticket is code that Romney knew he would lose. The frightening thing is that he is getting closer that we all like, although if Medicaid is made more of an issue over the weekend, it will mean that he loses Flordia for the ticket. BTW, you basically have to go bankrupt to use Medicaid for nursing home care.