RightChange: Obama: “Doesn’t Matter Who The GOP Nominates”

During an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes,” President Obama brushed off the importance of whom the GOP nominates as the 2012 Presidential candidate.   He said the election is going to come down to which candidate voters believe has the better vision for the country.  After the President’s stop in Osawatomie, Kansas where he outlined his vision for America’s future, we should all hope voters choose to vote different in 2012.

From the National Journal:

“Defiantly proclaiming “it doesn’t really matter” who the Republicans nominate against him, President Obama declared that he is ready to take on either Newt Gingrich or Mitt Romney and ask voters to contrast his vision with that offered by the GOP nominee. In an at-times feisty interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes,” the president suggested there is little difference between the two front-runners for the nomination.

“The core philosophy that they’re expressing is the same,” he told Steve Kroft in an interview conducted in two parts last week and aired Sunday night. “And the contrast in visions between where I want to take the country and… where they say they want to take the country is going to be stark.” He predicted “a good debate” and a clear choice for the voters.”

The candidate who was once vague on what Hope and Change would entail has now come clean with how he plans to run the country in 2012:

He boiled down the 2012 campaign to a single question to be answered by the voters: “Do they see a more compelling vision coming out from the other side?” He characterized the Republican vision as more tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations and “gutting” regulations. “If the American people think that that’s a recipe for success and… a majority are persuaded by that, then I’m going to lose.”

What Mr. Obama is trying to say is voters will choose between two different ideologies- and he is right.  Republicans want to strengthen America’s free market enterprise.  They want to do so by reforming our tax code to make it fair for all incomes, not just the middle class.  They want to encourage job growth in America by gutting regulations that have proven to only benefit little bureaucracies in Washington D.C.  Most importantly, they believe big government is in the way of growing our economy in this present time. 

President Obama wants the opposite. He wants to strengthen the government’s role in the economy by taxing the wealthy 60-65% of their income to pay for government investments.  He wants to continue the regulations on businesses so that the government ultimately has the say on what the private sector does.  Most importantly, he believes the role our government has in healthcare, education, business, agriculture, technology, taxes and our economy should be expanded.  He plans to accomplish this by blaming one class of individuals for all of our economic woes.

The outcome of this election will determine what type of America voters want. Will it be an America where the people tell the government what to do?  Or will it be a nation where the government runs the people? Voters will hold that power November 2012 and this time, they know exactly what kind of change they are voting for.

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