Who would have thought that Rick Santorum would be doing so well!

I think Rick Santorum has really great family values. I don’t know much about his foreign policy or economic policy though.

I have been following the Iowa caucuses. Here is what the count looks like right now:
99% of votes in. SANTORUM LEADS BY 5 votes!
RICK 29,662
MITT 29,657

I like what Michael Medved said on his radio show the other day:

“What is the purpose of taxation? Why do we tax people? We tax people in America because we need to pay the cost of government, not to take away from people who have too much, not to punish people who have been successful! The purpose of taxation is to take as little as possible from people on the society to pay the cost of government. We have a problem in Washington DC and the case of the problem is not that the government doesn’t take enough from the private sector, it’s that government spends too much! The spending has soared. It’s gone up to 25% of GDP!”

He also played an audio clip from an interview of Mitt Romney where Mitt said this:

“The notion that some people are doing too well is not an American notion. Did Thomas Edison make too much? Did Henry Ford make too much? Did Steve Jobs make too much? Does Bill Gates make too much? No! These are people who did not make this nation poorer by their having done well, they made this nation richer! They made the middle class better off. If your course in life is saying, ‘how can I keep those top people from doing well’, you’ll find a nation that’s poorer. The right course is to say, ‘how can I get more people to do well’.”

This has been, by far, my favorite debate out of all of them. The debate takes place in a Christian church in Iowa with a live audience of 3,000. The nominees are asked difficult questions about their world views, morals, faith and so much more. Michelle Bochman and Rick Perry both explain about their live changing events where they accept Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior. Rick Perry says that everyone has a void in their hearts that only Jesus Christ can fill! Can you imagine that happening on CNN or NBC? Herman Cain even tells an emotional story about his struggle with cancer and breaks down into tears.

The introduction is 30 minutes long and is very encouraging and refreshing with worship music, prayer and a great performance of the song America the Beautiful. Dr. Del Tackett is present in the audience and is mentioned, as well as the breakthrough video series that he headed up – The Truth Project. My wife and I really enjoyed watching this debate. I would highly recommend seeing it if you haven’t.

http://www.2012presidentialelectionnews.com/2011/11/video-watch-the-full-iowa-thanksgiving-family-forum/

It’s been two months since the occupy wall street (OWS) movement started. At first, nobody knew why the protestors were there. We all knew that they didn’t like the way the economy was going and that Wall Street was the place they choose to protest. Then, we heard about the movement being Anti-Capitalism (companies making a profit). What is the alternative to capitalism? Socialism, Communism, Dictatorship, Totalitarian, Anarchy. Would the protestors prefer one of those other types of government? Do they want us to be more like Cuba or North Korea?

I think that most of the protestors are there so they can feel like they have done something to try and change things – to be a part of something new and exciting. If you ask the question, like Michael Medved did on his radio show to one of the protestors, “What thing needs to happen so that you can say that your protests are successful?” or “I would feel like these protests are a success when [fill in the blank]” most of them wouldn’t know what to say. Some would say that we need to be more like North Korea like you’ll see in the video below:

Now the “Occupy” movement has moved into most of the 50 states and into many countries.

The news media is really giving Rick Perry a hard time about his momentary memory failure at the Republican debate last Wednesday. It could happen to anybody – we all forget sometimes what we are trying to say.

I have really enjoyed watching the debates over the last few months. I think any one of the people up there would be a better president than President Obama. Obama wants to tax the job creators more to make things more fair. Like Romney said in the debate last Wednesday, “This administration likes jobs, but doesn’t like businesses”. Also, Romney said that Obama is pulling out of Afghanistan based on politics and re-election.

Click on this link to see all of the past debates: DEBATE SCHEDULE