Here is the way I see it all:
1. Obama has not been a good president. Debates will always be made between Obama and Bush on who was worse. Both have increased the debt immensely. Both ran massive budget deficits. Both have made questionable decisions abroad in foreign policy and use of force. Obama has done an amazing amount of pandering to different groups and electioneering. Whether you blame Republicans in Congress or Obama for the debt ceiling, tax increases, fiscal cliff is beside the point. The fact is fiscal problems have not been solved and they have gotten worse on the long term scale and to the point where there isn't much time left before a debt crisis. Obama did not get a deal done. Who really believes he is going to become more moderate when its his last term and knows that he doesn't have to worry about re-election. He is in fact a Leftist big government spending politician. Thats just simply who he is. He is no moderate when it comes to Government spending. His 2nd term agenda is a best vague and we can't expect any serious changes. Obama and his administration is in the midst of a possible "cover up" or serious miscommunication failure in the situation that happened in Benghazi. There was so much conflicting information coming from White House officials and Obama himself when we have recently learned that the White House knew within Hours that a terrorist organization claimed responsibility for the attack. Yet they seemed to keep bringing up a anti Islam video as an excuse. The State Department had LIVE feed from a drone of what was taking place in Benghazi. When asked about the video from that an official claimed they no longer were in possession of it. The whole situation is a mess and there are so many unanswered questions. This is only going to get worse. All that to say This President no matter how "likeable" he may be he has been a failure to bring real fiscal change and be transparent as he suggested he would be in 08.
2. There are other candidates that I think would do a much better job at tackling debt, the deficit, and entitlements to at least get America back on track. the problem is none of them will even have a chance at winning. Everyone realizes that is just a fact of how this process is going to turn out. This means we are essentially forced to make the ultimate choice between two candidates again. This is frustrating but its the way it is in this election.
3. Mitt Romney while I am not fond of in certain terms and not sure how he will handle foreign issues seems to be the only other choice than Obama. I at least think Romney would at worst be like Bush or Obama on foreign issues. Not sure he could really be much worse. In the debates he seems to claim he will use different strategies in connecting with the Muslim world but we will see. What I am most concerned about is the Deficit, Debt, and entitlements. It is truly getting out of hand. All I can see is the past record of Romney. He has balanced budgets in Business, Olympics, and as Governor. You can question is social views, and foreign policy views, but I do think he will be better than Obama about applying some brakes to the fiscal problems. He is the only one that seems to be willing to do something about out of control entitlements.
4. I am not just going to sit back and not vote this election, because I don't fully agree with the two main guys. I am also not going to just throw my vote at a 3rd candidate that has no chance. One thing that sticks out in my mind is that Obama cannot have a 2nd term because I do believe that the problems WILL get much worse. If my overall view is that I KNOW Obama will be destructive then I have to try to push him out of government with my vote. Really the only way to have a chance at that is to vote for Romney. Honestly in my opinion many of Obama's decisions have been horrible. I don't think its worth it to allow a chance for him to have another term. In my mind he would be much worse in terms of fiscal issues and I could definitely see us going over the cliff with his 2nd term because no proof has shown that he can get serious things done. Spending MUST be cut. I KNOW what Obama has done and so I know what he likely will do. With Romney he has a history of balancing budgets. Thats enough for me.
I care about my country too much to risk it on giving a 2nd term to a President that I KNOW is a hard leftist who's core beliefs reside in growing government, and more spending in the belief that it will fix problems. With a Debt Crisis on the horizon there is no way I can risk that with the evidence on his lack of progress. At Obama's core he is a redistributionist with socialistic views who does not like capitalism and thinks it needs to be burdened with immense government restrictions.
