Why I Want To Be Your President: The Frontrunner Edition

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney says he didn’t know the difference between Medicare and Medicaid until he became involved in government. Really? Never, ever had a conversation with a poor or disabled person about their health care coverage throughout his working life? While doing work for his church?

Texas Rep. Ron Paul knows enough about Medicare and Medicaid to call for eliminating both.  With “charity” hospitals and doctors as replacements. Yeah. That should work just great.

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich thinks it’s a good idea to abolish whole courts in order to get rid of particular judges. You know. The “activist judge”

And while I know former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum is not in the frontrunner category, I just couldn’t help myself.  The emphasis is mine:

Pella, Ia. Occupy Wall Street activists have misguided aims, but they are tapping into Americans’ accurate perception that many people are being denied a fair shot at a good life, Rick Santorum said here this morning.

“The reason you see some sympathy among the American public for them is the grave concern – and it’s a legitimate one – that blue-collar workers, lower-income workers, are having a harder and harder time rising,” the former Pennsylvania senator said at a presidential campaign stop. “They talk about income inequality. I’m for income inequality. I think some people should make more than other people, because some people work harder and have better ideas and take more risk, and they should be rewarded for it. I have no problem with income inequality.

Now, on to Iowa!