What These 2012 Fabricated "Culture War" Distractions Really Are...

[Politico]

Let's just call it like it is: Anybody who is energized by Obama's recent announcement is simply a useful idiot who is being duped by a distraction. Why don't they stop and wonder for a moment why Obama did not make this announcement one, two or three years ago. It's not a coincidence that Obama and Biden "changed" their mind on this issue just this past week, shortly after Mitt Romney clinched the GOP nomination and is starting to gain traction with a slowing economy (Seen the jobs report for April? Seen the situation in Europe? How about JPMorgan's $2 billion loss out of Britain?). Some people need to stop and ask themselves why they are supporting politicians who have politicized a sensitive issue in the exact same disgusting fashion as George W. Bush eight years ago, albeit in the opposite direction. Why do some people like being used with little to show for it?

As for Mitt Romney, he knows this election is about the economy. Why? Because, quite frankly, it's stupid to believe otherwise. Most of America, including Mitt Romney and Co., is not falling for the weapons of mass distraction.

For the record, I disagree with Governor Romney on gay marriage and support President Obama's so-called "change of mind."

[Politico]

I know this will come as a shock to you, but the rights of women and of LGBT Americans actually matter to many people.

Absolutely, but that does not mean they should be used in a game of political football, does it? Barack Obama is as guilty of political football on gay marriage as George W. Bush eight years ago. I ask once again: Why did Obama not make this announcement one, two, or three years ago? Why is Obama and his team exploiting gay people in an election year?

[Politico]

I don't recall Republicans having problems rounding up the culture war in 2004 when they petitioned all those anti-gay ballot measures to ban gay marriage/civil unions.

Republicans do even worse on fiscal policy. I mean just look at Romney's plan: Bush tax cuts 2.0, increased "defense" spending + an itching for a third "overseas operation", more financial deregulation and more privatization of public services for-profit all (partially) paid for by massive cuts to government programs benefiting the non-rich.

Straight up subsidization of private greed at the expense of the public good.

There is no subsidization. Taxes belong to the taxpayers, not the government, and if most taxpayers vote for a tax cut, they ought to get what they want. Romney's plan is authored by esteemed economists from Harvard and Columbia. We've tried Obama's plan by his economists, and it did not work. Keynesianism did not work in the '70s and it did not work this time either.  It's time to return to the principles of Milton Friedman. The sub-prime mortgage crisis will never be repeated because the Fed is better mentoring the banks, and it's abundantly clear that that the separation of commercial and investment banking will definitely come back if banks drop the ball like that ever again.