Presidential Candidates

I am going to take being called "a librul!" as a compliment, in the sense that I am violently anti-facist. I do not support any president, whom I consider my employee, using fear to acquire new authoritarian powers and pit Americans against each other. I believe the president and the enabling republican congress has broken the law by illegally wiretapping American citizens. I think that he has lied to us about US use of torture being a few bad apples when his VP and Secretary of Defense have their names on the memos approving techniques that violate Geneva conventions, and about secret prisons (in Syria! WTF!). I think that prewar intelligence on Iraq's capabilities that did not support the plan for unprecedented preemptive war was deceptively suppressed and discounted, the costs intentionally set too low, and dissenters in the administration were fired, and the nuclear threat was purposely hyped. As far as criticism of Romney below, my intent was to demonstrate that people of both parties change their mind for votes, and that primary voters have too much control over candidate selection. You may continue to merely dimiss all this as partisan rhetoric or conservative bashing. How many partisan liberals would you guess voted for Bush in 2000? I did, and I feel deceived.
I too have become more conservative on abortion since becoming a father - the pro-life advocates are 100% correct that widespread use of ultrasound has a dramatic effect. Not sure why you chose the 12-week max termination time, though I don't necessarily disagree with it (is that when the heart starts beating?). That cutoff point is something most Americans will never agree on.
On candidates, I cannot stand the sight/sound of Hillary and do not think she's our next president. Obama has developed an apparent case of foot-in-mouth lately with his comments on US troops. Newt is probably the most principled small government conservative. I might like Rudy if he would stop sucking bush's teat for one minute - he talks about him like he's some king sent from the lord above - please. Concerning John McCain - I lost respect for him since supporting him in 2000, because I think he is a bush apologist, and I don't understand how he can bring himself to hug the man who so viciously attacked his wife during campaign 2000. Don't know anything about Richardson - will do more research.