Proposals prove they are out of touch

Editor:

I'm glad the GOP is putting their candidates and ideas on display for Florida voters so that my neighbors and friends can see how out of touch with the middle class's reality the Republicans' proposals are. We need to make sure they take their ideas with them when they leave Florida because they're not what we need.

The Republican candidates would erase decades of progress - from abandoning struggling homeowners, taking away a woman's right to choose with no exceptions, and breaking up families with their out of touch plans for immigration reform.

What I've seen so far has convinced me beyond a doubt that they're simply wrong for Florida. They're just so out of touch.

I know one thing: Progress isn't going back to when my friends could be denied health insurance for a pre-existing condition. And it isn't bringing back the policies that drove our economy to the brink of another Great Depression and allowed Wall Street to write their own rules.

But for 2012 I'm sticking by President Obama. He's standing up for the middle class and keeping his word on everything from health care reform to making college more affordable. He's the right pick for Florida.

Valari Fauntleroy

Lake Placid