Mitt Romney would make a bad president.

1) Resolution" What this debate was going to try and be about was whether these ideas are good ideas"This whole time youve been debating about anything BUT his policies. You debated primarily about in round 1 was that his gaffes overseas will reflect his foreign policy and that he is secretly driven by money, both of which I shown were irrelevant. The only "policies" you did mention is that "he will push for deregulation" however Romney has gone on record saying that the LAST thing he is thinking about is deregulating wall Street"Of course, we have to have regulation on Wall Street and on every street to make sure that our economy works well, so it's factually inaccurate to begin with. " He added: "Look, no one is talking about deregulating Wall Street. "- Mitt Romney in response to Biden's "chains" gaffe. http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com...Therefore your argument that he wants to push for ambitious deregulation is unfounded because we dont know what his policies on de-regulation are. Hes been flip flopping quite a bit but the latest version of Romney is against deregulation. " my opponent was taking the BOP of showing that Mitt Romney would make a good president"The resolution is that Romney would be a bad president, All I have to do is show he could be a do-nothing president or an average president because you defined bad as "inferior to Barack Obama". Obama's approval ratings in real life and on DDO are squarely at 50%, so in order to prove that he wont be a bad president, I have to show that he (Romney) would not be inferior to Obama (approval at 50%). You dont have to be a good president to be above 50%, you only need to be average. "In that last round, he offered nothing to suggest that Mitt Romney will be a good President, or even that he won't be a bad one. "I was refuting your arguments that he would be a bad one. .. If you dont have arguments showing he would be bad and I havent shown anything saying he would be great, then that makes him average, which is enough to fulfill my BOP. "This shows that my opponent cannot think of anything to say and is clutching straws. Straws that cannot even be considered legitimate points. "Acting like a d*ck wont help you win any arguments, watch your conduct"First of all, His, 'few', gaffes were not blown out of proportion at all, and were rightly criticized by Democrats and Journalists alike. .. It is unacceptable all the way through and should be taken seriously and with outrage"Name one media outlet that is still making an issue out of this. Not even MSNBC, the biggest critic of Romney, is commenting on this statement because even they know that this isnt an issue and merely a poor choice of words. This gaffe does not in any way foretell what his foreign policy towards Israel and the Middle East would be. "It is absurd to claim that the Secretary of State will make any policy moves without the president's backing and support"And where did I say that exactly? Putting words in my mouth only makes you look like even more of a d*ck you know. .. "Is he trying to say that blame should be put on the Secretary of State if his administration makes a mistake (which is highly likely)? "Jesus you like twisting what I say. My point was that Romney's gaffes in foreign policy arent a big issue because A) The Secretary of State is our representative to the world, not Romney. B) Romney's gaffes now wont reflect how he interacts with nations in the future, and C) If the SoS is making gaffes left and right, THEN it could be a problem because the SoS's job is to keep relations with all these countries in good shape, not Romney"Romney's business instinct will show if he becomes President. He will vouch for quick venture "get rich quick" schemes that aim to save the economy short term and not long term"So your biggest argument against Romney is that you somehow know for a fact that hes a secretly corrupt businessman whose only goal for becoming president is to help him and his buddies get rich fast? And you claim that Im clutching at straws. .. The Pro is trying to claim that a persons occupation will determine how they will act as president, which is a claim that is illogical any way you put it. If this was true then Reagan (An actor) would have only became president for attention. Carter (A peanut farmer) would have given huge sums of money and subsidies to farms. And Ford (A male model at one point) would have turned the country into a liberal paradise with no regulations regarding sex or exposure. You cant claim to know how a person will act as president based solely on their former occupations. "If the U. S doesn't bail out the big banks then they drag the economy down with them. .. .. Any person with a half decent idea of how the U. S economy works can see that the bailout was necessary to stop the bill getting any bigger"Didnt you say in round 2 that Romney would be a bad president for continuing the bailouts to these banks who according to you "got us into this mess"? Make up your mind already, I cant waste character space over your flip flops. " I am saying that Romney will be a bad president because there is no way he will stand up to the banks and stop them from behaving like bulls in a china shop"And that is based on your "knowledge" that Romney is a corrupt businessman. .. .. I refer again to the quote above referring to how Romney is completely uninterested in deregulation. "Yes I can criticize him for making a mistake. .. "People make mistakes from time to time, including presidents and presidential hopefuls, so just let it go already because everyone else already has. "All in all, I have shown much more substansive material as to why Romney will be a bad president"Yes the Pro has substantially criticized Romney for planning to continue the bailouts, and then substantially criticized Romney for planning to NOT continue the bailouts. Other then that the Pro has only commented on a few of his honest mistakes and argued that those will make him a bad president. "my opponent has offered very little to counter that. "Then allow me yo fix that. Here is a list of policies by Romney that will make him a good president1) Supports Farm subsidies for Ethanol production2) Supports the Citizens United Ruling but has gone on record saying that he wish he could take the money out of politics and that he would like to do away with Super-Pacs3) Supports increased spending for energy related research4) Supports tougher emission standards for coal power plants5) Opposes Cap and Trade6) Against raising the Minimum Wage7) Against a second stimulus8) Supports Free Trade, NAFTA and CAFTA9) Against Torture10) Supports Gay Adoption and refused to sign a pledge banning Gay Marriage11) Supports the teaching of Evolution (Other insane GOP candidates do not)12) Supports the Second Amendment but wants to ban automatic weapons13) Supports greater transparency for the Federal Reserve14) Supports ending the death tax15) Supports a form of a national catastrophe fund 16) Supports sanctions against Iran17) Supports a balanced Budget Amendment. http://en.wikipedia.org...http://www.thepoliticalguide.com...http://www.ontheissues.org...I have now shown 17 policies arguing why Romney would make a decent president and made my point that some of his more extreme policies will likely not be passed into law because of Congress. The Pro meanwhile has only claimed that he knows what Romney is like on the inside and will act like a shady and corrupt businessman should he be elected, and that his foreign policy gaffes will define how he will act as president and hurt our reputation. .. .