Don’t Know Which Particular Candidate Of The 2012 Republican Presidential Primaries To Choose?
Monday, April 2nd, 2012The top three candidates in the 2012 Republican presidential primaries are Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, and Rick Santorum. Gingrich and Santorum are both Catholics while Romney is a Mormon, presenting two relatively uncommon faiths among presidential candidates in American history. As of Super Tuesday, Romney is the popular vote leader, with 3,472,365 votes.
Mitt Romney, born and raised in southeast Michigan, is the son of George Romney, a former governor of Michigan. Because of serving as the CEO of “Bain & Company” and attaining an MBA at Harvard University, he is highly praised for his background in business. He is also known for serving as a missionary for Mormonism in France, and his participation in The Jesus Christ Church of Latter-Day Saints.
While serving as governor of Massachusetts, he created roughly 15,000 jobs per year. Proportional to the population, his job-creation plan is believed to have been more effective than Obama’s job plans used in his presidency. However, he is often accused of switching sides repeatedly on important social issues such as abortion and stem cell research. Critics claim that he tends to follow the most popular opinion on an issue in order to gain the most support.
Born in Pennsylvania and raised mostly in Georgia, Newt Gingrich was a speaker for the House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. After his resignation, he has worked mostly as a consultant for various politicians. After spending most of his life as a Southern Baptist and being born into a Lutheran family, he switched faiths in 2009 to Roman Catholicism.
Most of his political views are parallel to the Republican Party’s. For example he is pro-life; he opposes stem cell research, drug law reform, same-sex marriage, and medical marijuana; and also supports prayer in our public schools. Overall, the general public consider very few of his political views to be unique in relation to his Party.
Rick Santorum served as a United States Senator in Pennsylvania for twelve consecutive years, from 1994 to 2006. Also, while maintaining loyalty to his party’s ideals, he is most often described as a social conservative. Although enjoying limited success at his campaign’s beginning, he has since gained momentum and is now considered, along with Mitt Romney, to be a front-runner in the race.
However, he holds certain viewpoints with which some Americans have expressed discomfort. For example: he stated, in an interview with a program on ABC, that he doesn’t believe in keeping church and state separate, and that religion and politics can mix. This worries Americans because, as history shows, even the most religious presidents in our history remained secularists despite their faith. Proponents of climate change have also expressed frustration with Santorum’s claims that global warming is both “junk science” and “a conspiracy theory”. They fear that, if elected, he would not properly address climate change, and that it would lead to catastrophe.
The following quote from Fidel Castro, to avoid plagiarism, has been slightly re-worded: “The selection for a 2012 Republican candidate for presidency of America is the single greatest competition in idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.” It appears that the 2012 Republican presidential primaries are running low on confidence and support. We can only hope, however, that Americans will make a good choice this November.
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