Romney deserves to lose

It now appears likely that Mitt Romney will lose the presidential election. Romney will probably win Arkansas, most states in the West (except the Pacific Coast), and most of the South without much difficulty, so he won’t get trounced, but he will still lose.

Romney stands for exporting jobs to China; Barack Obama stands for preserving the American auto industry. Romney insists on tax cuts for the wealthy; Obama only wants the rich to pay what they were paying before the Bush tax cuts when the economy was in the best shape it has been in living memory. It would be different if these people were “job creators,” but recent years prove that to be wrong.

Romney has written off the poorest half of our country, and a lot of them are voters.

In the coming debates, Romney will have to explain his total hypocrisy about health care. Romney has said he will increase military funding and expand tax cuts, but hasn’t stated how he’ll cover the loss to the treasury. Most Americans know who doubled our debt between 2001 and 2009, leaving Obama with a runaway debt train and a collapsed economy. Americans will be expecting answers to a lot of tough questions, and Romney has offered no concrete answers, just vague promises.

Romney will lose, and he deserves to. If Republicans want to win back the White House, they’ll have to do better than the current candidate. MARK AROUH

Little Rock