{"id":6612,"date":"2011-11-08T15:31:09","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T20:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/?p=6612"},"modified":"2016-04-28T15:31:33","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T19:31:33","slug":"gop-candidates-and-their-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/gop-candidates-and-their-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Candidates And Their Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Rick Santorum<\/h4>\n<p>Santorum\u2019s first act as president would be to repeal ObamaCare. He is a textbook Republican with pro-gun, pro-business, anti-amnesty, and anti-abortion policies. With a year of campaigning left to go, Santorum\u2019s talk about family values puts him under fire for anti-gay rhetoric. Rick wouldn\u2019t even split the vote unless he picks up some momentum to keep up with the front runners.<\/p>\n<h4>Ron Paul<\/h4>\n<p>A Texas congressman and 100% wood carved Republican. Paul as president would mean the apocalypse for the Democrats. He\u2019s been preaching about auditing the Federal Reserve and ending the war on drugs. As he explains at every GOP debate, and in random fits in his sleep, Paul wants to tax foreign goods, cut loads of government spending and shrink the federal government to the size of a Radio Shack.<\/p>\n<h4>Herman Cain<\/h4>\n<p>The only candidate without political experience, Cain is a highly-educated American businessman. His 9-9-9 plan is nothing short of complete tax-reform, and he plans to slowly break Americans away from entitlement programs like Social Security. Cain is the wildcard in this campaign trail, and with a bit more than a year left his main focus is the future creation of jobs. His lack of political experience only helps him look more like a man of the people.<\/p>\n<h4>Michele Bachmann<\/h4>\n<p>Bachmann is a Tea-Party congresswoman from Minnesota. Although she was raised as a Democrat, she founded the house Tea-Party caucus in July 2010. She is dedicated to shrinking the federal government back to its constitutional confines. The media apparently hates conservative women and Bachmann is no exception. She\u2019ll have to outshine the media and her contenders to stay in the race.<\/p>\n<h4>Jon Huntsman<\/h4>\n<p>The former governor of Utah, where he implemented a flat-tax, Huntsman is a Demogorgon Republican with mixed social views. Politically Huntsman is more compassionate than conservative, and he will not appeal to rich Americans, but nonetheless he believes himself presidential material.<\/p>\n<h4>Newt Gingrich<\/h4>\n<p>Newt is among the most prominent of the GOP presidential candidates. He was speaker of the house in 1995 after the \u201cRepublican Revolution\u201d in 1994, where Gingrich co-authored the Republicans\u2019 Contract with America. Newt is a firm believer in Reaganomics, the equivalent of Satanism to Obama Democrats.<\/p>\n<h4>Rick Perry<\/h4>\n<p>Texas Republican Rick Perry doesn\u2019t let his Republican presidential predecessors shadow his presence. Perry calls everybody brother, and despite his cowboy attitude and the wide-open southern border to Mexico, Perry\u2019s state is responsible for 40% of new jobs in the country in the last four years. This will count heavily with Republican voters looking for a future president with a focus on jobs and a track record to prove it.<\/p>\n<h4>Mitt Romney<\/h4>\n<p>The top-tier candidate of the bunch and the accidental architect of ObamaCare, Romney\u2019s \u201cRomneyCare for Massachusetts\u201d was the framework for Obama\u2019s \u201cObamaCare.\u201d Romney defends his insurance, claiming it was specialized for Massachusetts while mirroring every Republican\u2019s initiative to immediately stop funding ObamaCare before sun-down on inauguration day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Santorum Santorum\u2019s first act as president would be to repeal ObamaCare. He is a textbook Republican with pro-gun, pro-business, anti-amnesty, and anti-abortion policies. With a year of campaigning left to go, Santorum\u2019s talk about family values puts him under fire for anti-gay rhetoric. 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