what do you fear most from a Romney presidency (an unlikely possibility, granted)?

[grasswire]

I don't expect a Republican to win this election.

But let's say that Romney is the GOP nominee and wins. What is the worst scenario? Would the BFEE control him? Who would be the man behind the curtain -- his Karl Rove? What policies would he promote that would be anathema to us all?

Of course, Ruth Bader Ginsberg is likely to step down in several years. A GOP president would have two or three SCOTUS spots to fill, probably.

What else?

I am most interested in whether the Bushes own him.

[TheWraith]

1. The same thing with any Republican President.

He or they would be a rubber stamp for a right-wing Congress. Look at all the insane shit the House of Representatives has been passing, then imagine if all they could actually turn it into law.

[grasswire]

2. But they have been passing insane shit with a Democratic president.

Sigh.

[qb]

3. A slick, charismatic leader...

[sudopod]

12. Where do you think Romney can hire one of those? nt

[RKP5637]

4. Confirmation of the failure of Americans to grasp and understand

the implications of their vote and ushering in an even more RW America. "If" I had to pick a R president, Romney would IMO be far less harmful than the R alternatives running for nomination.

My greatest concern (I think) is the filling of empty SCOTUS spots.

[rocktivity]

5. More corporate personhood -- but fortunately, that's percisely WHY we can beat him.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12517256


rocktivity

[kestrel91316]

6. A headlong rush to theocracy.

[Kablooie]

7. He will make coffee and caffeine illegal.

[MatthewStLouis]

10. That reminds me. Why aren't we bringing up the question: Who would you rather have a beer with? :)

I get that he's a Mormon, but he's one cold fish anyway...

[Herlong]

8. BFEE with magic underpants.

Times two and global.

[DCBob]

9. If the GOP takes the WH this country is doomed.

Bush nearly destroyed us.. Romney would finish us off.

[TBF]

14. Agree - which is the reason I am still here posting.

My inclinations run towards supporting socialists/communists but even CPUSA has endorsed Pres Obama given the reality in this country.

[FrenchieCat]

11. A list questioning how any of us would feel if a nightmare became reality......

How will you feel when the new President nominates partisan cabinet members like Phil Gramm for Treasury, Jeb Bush for the Justice Department, John Kasich for the Office of Management and Budget, Scott Walker for Labor Secretary, Paul Ryan for Health and Human Services, Rudy Giuliani as Secretary of State, John McCain as Secretary of Defense, and Newt Gingrich as UN Ambassador? Sure, it may not be those particular ideologues in those exact positions; in fact, it could be worse still. Keep that in mind.

How will you feel when the new President gets a chance to replace Justice Kennedy, or worse yet, Justices Breyer and Ginsberg? What about all of the other judicial nominees that the new President will get to choose?

How will you feel when the new President gets to sign into law the privatization of Social Security?

How will you feel when the new President gets to sign the the age increase for Medicare eligibility, and the cutting of benefits for seniors?

How will you feel when the new President decides to nominate folks over at the FCC who would vote against Net Neutrality? How mad would you be if the Internet became less of a factor for free speech, and more of a factor for message manipulation and propaganda?

How will you feel when the new President eliminates the mortgage modification partnership it has with banks, and you are back to being underwater, left to drown… on your own?

How will you feel when the new President re-instates the reproductive gag order on Third-World countries?

How will you feel when the new President dismantles the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau?

How will you fee when the new President pushes to reverse the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure (CARD) Act?

How will you feel when the new President works to reverse Dodd-Frank?

How will you feel when the new President rescinds benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees?

How will you feel when the new President reduces or eliminates the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (aka Food Stamps)?

How will you feel when the new President doesn’t extend unemployment insurance for the unemployed, and won’t compromise on the issue whatsoever?

How will you feel when the new President reverses policy advances made in our relations with Cuba?

How will you feel when the new President signs the bill repealing the Affordable Care Act, and thereby nullifies the ability for patients who have pre-existing conditions to be covered by insurance companies?

How will you feel when the new President re-establishes a middleman for student loans?

How will you feel when the new President refuses to hold any discussion with labor, or to have anything to do with them?

How will you feel when the new President ignores the United Nations, and becomes their nemesis?

How will you feel when the new President decides that the Afghanistan timetable for bringing our troops home shouldn’t be followed?

How will you feel when the new President reverses the ban on torture?

How will you feel when the new President resumes the Star Wars program?

How will you feel when the new President cuts federal education spending, and pushes vouchers?

How will you feel when the new President declines to identify who comes to the White House?

How will you feel when the new President pushes to reverse the FDA tobacco disclosure rules?

How will you feel when the new President advocates to deny national funding to NPR and Planned Parenthood, and the National Endowment for the Arts?

How will you feel when the new President increases taxes on the working poor, and decreases taxes on corporations, capital gains and the estate tax?

How will you feel when the new President pushes to abolish the EPA, the Department of Education, and the FAA?

How will you feel when the new President denies climate change?

How will you feel when the new President sells federal lands to pay down the deficit?

How will you feel when the new President advocates for corporations’ right to accelerate mountain-top removal, and assures oil companies that they have nothing to fear in reference to their subsidies?

How will you feel when the new President decides to push for a DOMA-style Constitutional amendment?

How will you feel when you have to look at this new President on the television. a President who talks in bumper sticker slogans, while being divisive. ideologically driven, and grossly arrogant, and who governs with regard to his own base and not all Americans?
http://www.democratsforprogress.com/2011/09/03/we-all-have-a-choice-in-the-2012-election/

[Rowdyboy]

13. A heavily stacked far right-wing supreme court

That enough by itself don't you think?

[treestar]

15. I would not fear it with a Democratic Congress but with an R one

Obviously, terrible things could happen, as listed by Frenchie above.

[WhiteShoesATL]

16. Romney the Ripper

he'll kill whats left of the Unions and they'll ban the minimum wage