presidential election is about bigger picture

For some people the 2012 election has boiled down to protecting women’s reproductive rights.  Seriously? Is that all we are dealing with here? 

At the democratic National Convention women’s rights activist Sandra Fluke spewed out a bunch of nonsense about the threat of women’s reproductive rights being on the line. That’s a bunch of fear-mongering hooey. No president can make abortion illegal, and Congress and the Supreme Court won’t.

We have had four years of money pouring into extremist social issues, and what do we have to show for it? A runaway deficit, a depressed economy, foreclosures and job losses like we’ve never seen before, and a hit on small businesses so hard that many of them won’t recover. Enough is enough.

If I had to choose between a government that would guarantee my daughter a federally-funded abortion-on-demand, or a government that would back off and allow private enterprise to work to allow both of my children to receive a good education and a good job that would provide them with decent medical insurance, I’m going to choose the latter hands down.

We can’t afford to have a community activist in the White House any longer. 

We need a businessman.  We need a person that can turn an economic deficit into a surplus. We don’t need someone to create a bigger divide between blacks and whites, rich and poor, Democrats and Republicans, or Christians and Jews and Muslims. We need someone who can heal the scars and bring people together for the common good; someone who can eliminate this “it’s all about me and my rights” mentality and say, “it’s all about US.” 

We don’t need a president who tries to cover up terrorist attacks on our embassies and ignores the crisis in the Middle East.  We need one who isn’t afraid to show a little superiority and take care of business.

We need a president who can show us how to lend a hand to a weaker brother.  Not by way of government subsidy, but by actually caring for the needs of one another; by supporting charities, crisis pregnancy centers, homeless shelters and churches that reach out to help.  Romney donated nearly $7 to 8 million to charities in 2010 and 2011.

As a country, we suffer from ingrown eyeballs.  We are so busy throwing ourselves a pity party that we trip over people who need our help.  We sit around and wait for the government to fix our problems and they make them worse.  We cry like a spoiled brat because we want federally funded abortions while 46 million people live in poverty.

There has always been rich and poor.  Being successful is not a crime.  Private citizens can do more to help the needy than the government.  Taxing the “rich” does not help the poor.  Obama is not Robin Hood.  Taxes don’t trickle down to the needy. They go into the black hole of government misspending for programs that don’t work.

Rhonda Tommer is a resident of St. George and a member of the writers group.