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During the first few days of his presidency, Barack Obama set his liberal tone in stone. A moderate he is not.
In a nod to the anti-war left, he suspended all military tribunals for terrorist detainees and ordered that the Guantanamo detention facility be closed.
As a gift to the environmental left. he raised fuel efficiency standards for all 2011 auto models.
And for the pro-choicers, he ended the Mexico City policy, which had banned federal funds to international groups that provide abortions. He also funded the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, which is an abortion activist group and promotes the one-child policy of China.
Thankfully, the president has been restricted by Congress regarding terrorism policy – and frankly has been a solid warrior much of the time. Three years later, terrorists are being tried by the military at Guantanamo, drones strikes are killing terrorists, and Osama bin Laden is dead.
But – at the same time – Obama recently renegotiated higher fuel standards with carmakers and unions and has doubled-down on green energy. His stimulus packages were cash cows for renewable energy companies and he keeps pouring money into businesses that just aren’t delivering energy or jobs.
As well, President Obama has steadfastly stood for abortions – nominating pro-choice Supreme Court justices and fighting through ObamaCare to make religious institutions go against their church polity.
Contrast this left-wing agenda with a new Mitt Romney ad that outlines what his first day as President Romney would entail.
First, Romney will approve the Keystone Pipeline. The Obama administration has bowed to the environmental lobby to stop this construction project. They say that one small part of it in one state could cause huge environmental problems. Well, the path has been re-routed – the jobs await – the oil can freely flow. This is a reasonable first step to energy independence and solid job creation.
Second, Romney’s ad promotes tax cuts to help grow the economy. Liberals whine that this is turning back the clock and doesn’t work. The fact is that tax cuts stimulate the economy when accompanied by spending cuts. A Republican-controlled Congress will do both. Romney needs coat-tails and by November, he will have them and GOP majorities in both ends of the Capitol.
Finally, of course, a President Romney will issue an order to replace ObamaCare with some common sense health care reforms. The CBO admits the Affordable Care Act will bust an already overburdened federal budget. Polls show over and over that the people realize it is a pig-in-a-poke. And the fact is that what the president said is just not true – you may not be able to keep your insurance if you like what you have.
You only get one chance to make a good first impression. President Obama is a liberal. Mitt Romney is not.
By Matt Yutzy Co-Administrator Mitt Romney Express
The following is a post one of my friends had on Facebook
If we chose to have another four more years of Obama, it will be the only recorded instance in history of rats swimming towards a sinking ship.
1) Only in America could politicians talk about the greed of the rich at a $35,000 a plate campaign fund raising event.
2) Only in America could people claim that the government still discriminates against black Americans when we have a black President, a black Attorney General, and roughly 18% of the federal workforce is black. 12% of the population is black.
3) Only in America could we have had the two people most responsible for our tax code, Timothy Geithner, the head of the Treasury Department and Charles Rangel who once ran the Ways and Means Committee, BOTH turn out to be tax cheats who are in favor of higher taxes.
4) Only in America can we have terrorists kill people in the name of Allah and have the New York Times and MSM react by fretting that Muslims might be harmed by the backlash.
5) Only in America would we make people who want to legally become American citizens wait for years in their home countries and pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege while we discuss letting anyone who sneaks into the country illegally just become American citizens.
6) Only in America could the people who believe in balancing the budget and sticking by the country's Constitution be thought of as "extremists."
7) Only in America could you need to present a driver's license to cash a check, rent a canoe or buy alcohol, but not to vote.
8) Only in America could people demand the government investigate whether oil companies are gouging the public because the price of gas went up when the return on equity invested in a major U.S. oil company ( Marathon Oil) is less than half of a company making tennis shoes (Nike).
9) Only in America could the government collect more tax dollars from the people than any nation in recorded history, still spend a trillion dollars more than it has per year for total spending of $7 million PER MINUTE, and complain that it doesn't have nearly enough money.
10) Only in America could the rich people who pay 86% of all income taxes be accused of not paying their "fair share" by people who don't pay any income taxes at all.
For conservatives, its no surprise that the media supports Barack Obama and will do what they can to help him secure second term. This is something that the media will never admit to unless you happen to be Mark Halperin who confesses that the media will on Team Obama's side during the Presidential Debates:
The media has been sympathetic to Obama ever since he ran for President back into 2007. However, things haven't gone well for Obama since he's been office and people aren't enthusiastic about reelecting him. As a result, ever since Mitt Romney became the presumptive GOP nominee, the media haven't been subtle in their attacks on him. That is to be expected. However, they're doing a very bad job of it.
Lets examine all the ways the media attacks on Mitt have backfired on Obama.
The Media and Romney's Faith
For example, the media went after Mitt Romney's faith and that backfired on them when Lawrence O'Donnell intentionally misrepresented how the LDS Church began:
Lawrence O'Donnell admits his bias towards the LDS religion and that he can speak harshly against that religion because they won't retaliate against him for doing so:
HH: Would you say the same things about Mohammed as you just said about Joseph Smith?
LO’D: Oh, well, I’m afraid of what the…that’s where I’m really afraid. I would like to criticize Islam much more than I do publicly, but I’m afraid for my life if I do.
HH: Well, that’s candid.
LO’D: Mormons are the nicest people in the world. They’re not going to ever…
HH: So you can be bigoted towards Mormons, because they’ll just send you a strudel.
LO’D: They’ll never take a shot at me. Those other people, I’m not going to say a word about them.
HH: They’ll send you a strudel. The Mormons will bake you a cake and be nice to you.
LO’D: I agree.
HH: Lawrence O’Donnell, I appreciate your candor.
As a result of outrage over his slanderous interpretation of the LDS history, he has issued a half hearted apology in which doesn't apologize for the substance of his remarks but only that he's sorry for his poor word choices:
We are some how believe that Lawrence O'Donnell's slanderous and untruthful comments about the LDS Church was only to illustrate his point that religious intolerance is wrong and that refusing to vote for a political candidate because of their religion is wrong His false statements about the how The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints began undermines his own point since he was being intolerant towards one religion while preaching about the need for religious tolerance of all faiths.
Another example is with Martin Bashir who tells Mitt he's going to hell because the LDS scripture says that's what happens to people who lie since he believes Romney is lying about Obama's failed promise to keep unemployment under 8%. For someone who accusing another of lying, Martin Bashir lies about the source of the first scriptural passage since its from the LDS church’s Doctrine and Covenants, which is NOT in the Book of Mormon, yet the graphic on the screen noted that it was from the Book of Mormon. Mr. Bashir also impliesthat people who don't drink alcohol, which Mitt Romney doesn't in keeping with the LDS dietary law known as the Word of Wisdom, will not make good presidents.
Americans were warned that Obama might go after Romney's faith by getting others do it for him and Steven Colbert mocked Obama for even thinking about it. Yet, the media are acting as surrogates for Obama in going after Mitt's faith and its not helping Obama.
The Media's Coverage of Mitt's Polygamous Ancestors Backfires On Obama
The media took another approach in attacking Romney's religion by trying to make a big deal about the fact that Mitt Romney's distant Mormon ancestors were polygamists. However, the media immediately abandoned this story as soon people started to point out that Barack Obama's own father was an abusive polygamist.
Polygamy isn't a popular in America and the media was trying to associate Romney with that practice. However, if the media pushed that line of attack on Romney, people are going to end up being more curious about Obama's father than they are about Mitt's great great grandfather. But the attack alone ended up backfiring because it neutralized the attempt to tie Romney to polygamy by showing that Barack's own father was a polygamist and ultimately tied Obama to polygamy.
Dog In A Crate Or Dog On A Plate?
Another issue that the media tried to attack Mitt Romney is the old story of him putting the family dog in a dog crate and putting on top of the car during the family road trip. Once again that story died a quick death when conservative bloggers and commentators pointed out that Obama actually ate a dog. Moreover, they also found a story of where Mitt Romney actually saved a dog and some peoplefrom drowning.
The attack on Romney ended up hurting Obama because people realized how stupid the whole affair was and revealed how desperate the Obama campaign was in trying distract people from the real issues.
Will The Real Bully Please Stand Up?
More recently, the media tried to paint Mitt Romney as a bully for playing a prank on a younger classmate in high school. Mitt Romney killed the story by simply apologizing for the event and moving on to discuss more important issues that face the country. There was nothing left to discuss after that apology.
However, the media tried to pursue this story anyways but it began to immediately fall apart as soon as it was discovered that the Washington Post was intentionally falsifying the facts of the story and that the man who was the source of this story admitted that he wasn't there when the prank occurred. Furthermore, the victim's sister was unaware that the prank had even happened and that the victim's family was upset with the media is exploiting this prank as a way to attack Romney. Moreover, there were facts present in that Washington Post story that was contradicted by facts presented in another magazine.
Its clear from the sloppy coverage that the media isn't being subtle in their attacks on Mitt Romney. That is to be expected. However, they're doing a very bad job of it since the story immediately fell apart by checking the facts. But then Dan Rather didn't do a good job with President Bush either once people started checking the facts behind the Texas Air National Guard documents.
However, not only did the media damage their own credibility when it comes to reporting the truth about Mitt Romney, they were unprepared for the rebuttal from the conservative bloggers and commentators who showed that Obama bragged about doing drugs and shoving a girl. Their attempt to make Mitt Romney look like a jerk and a bully only ended up making Obama look like the real jerk and bully.
This story pushed people away from supporting Obama and drove people to Mitt because everyone has done mean and stupid pranks in their life and they could identify and relate more with Mitt. The media also helped change the public's perception of Mitt Romney in a way that Mitt could not have done on his own. He's no longer a stiff and uptight person but is someone who knows when to work and when to play.
The Media and The War On Women
Despite the fact that Obama has been called the first female President, he hasn't been very friendly to women in the White Houseor anywhere else. Prior the media going after Ann Romney for being a rich house wife who hasn't worked a day in her life, Obama was up ahead in support from women. That backfired and now Romney isahead in support from women. If the media hadn't gone after Mitt's wife, Obama would probably have held on to his lead in support from women.
The Media & Obama's "Evolution" On Gay Marriage
Perhaps the biggest gift the media gave to Mitt Romney is the way they covered Barack's recent announcement that he supports gay marriage. Its clear that the media scrambled to present the event as a historic even despite the fact that Biden botched Obama's plan to announce his support for gay marriage by making him do it earlier than planned. The public isn't buying the media's coverage and itshurting Obama in so many different ways. Many African Americanswon't support Obama and are upset with him. The media has also help fire up the conservative base for Mitt Romney. Even worse, voters are less likely to vote for Obama because of the way he embraced gay marriage.
Conclusion
The media has no legal duty to tell the truth. The media are not neutral observers either. As a result, it is very difficult to punish the media. The media doesn't care about their credibility because their is no incentive, deterrent or punishment that would force them report the facts in an honest and truthful way. Even with conservative commentators, bloggers and media watch dogs that attempt to hold the media accountable for their actions, the media continues to openly and brazenly attack conservative candidates even when confronted with iron clad proof that they story they are reporting isn't true.
That's why Mark Halperin's confession is making waves among conservatives because you have a member of the media admitting that they will be biased long before the scheduled event. Conservatives can try to show past and current examples media biases and the media will deny it. But to admit ahead of time that the media will be "sympathetic" to Obama during the debates when they're supposed to be neutral moderators doesn't help Obama either because the public can't even trust the media to manage the event properly.
No matter what the media has done or will do, they haven't been helping Obama even though they are eager to help him win. What they actually doing is helping Mitt Romney win and that isn't good for Obama. When Mitt Romney wins in 2012, the media will be unhappy about it but they will have no one to blame but themselves.
Recently I’ve been hearing from all sides things like, “Romney isn’t specific enough about what he’s going to do” “I don’t know what he would do in office” “He needs to be more clear about his plans” “he’s doing well for someone who hasn’t articulated a plan yet.” I’ve heard it from the right, from the left, from the far right, from the far left, on Beck, on O’Reilly, on Blitzer, Maddow, Matthews, CNN, MSNBC, FOX, RealClearPolitics, DrudgeReport. From pundits I love, from pundits I have no feelings about one way or another, from pundits I loathe with a fiery passion. You name a media outlet I will show you someone who said Romney doesn’t have any specifics just vague generalities.
Are you people living in a goddamn cave? A sensory deprivation chamber? The darkness of space, where no one can hear Mitt Romney’s extensive plans?
Ignoring that his speech can get pretty detailed…spoken words are imperfect…let’s look at the written record,
This man has more specific plans the media knows what do with. So rather than critique him on points, they just say he’s lacking specifics.
namely MittRomney.com. Have you been toMittRomney.com, because it’s not your typical campaign website. Typical campaign websites, even Obama’s, are a half-dozen or so issues, most of them covered by a paragraph or two with a general statement of goals, and maybe one or two pages with two or three more pages of detail for the really important things.
And then there is Mitt Romney. This is the CEO of Bain. The Savior of the Salt Lake Olympics. The guy who balanced the Massachusetts’s budget without raising taxes. This is not only a guy who gets things done, he gets them done because he plans out what he is going to do.
And this kind of shows you why of the hundred deals Bain did, Obama can only find a few that were failures. This man plans for EVERYTHING.
26 Topics! And he didn’t just put a paragraph in each…no, I think he hired a Russian Novelist to fill these pages up.
This man covers every issues you could have questions about…
Screw the first 100 days, the first 100 hours is going to be productive under Romney.
How many Presidents do you know who has 5 bills and 5 executive orders ready to go day one?
But that’s not all…on that same page you have a link to the 160 page plan of Romney’s for the Economy called “Believe in America.” Let me say that again 160 pages of details of what caused our problems, what Obama did wrong and pages 31-153 of how Romney is going to fix the problem. And if you read it, it becomes pretty clear that this is the combined work of CEO’s and economists that know what they’re doing. “But I don’t have time to read 120 pages of plans” bitch the same people who claim that he’s not specific. Well lucky for you there is an Appendix of the 59 specific things he’s going to do. But you don’t know what he’s going to do to you…he only gave you 59 specifics.
Yeah, after these 59 major things, I have no idea what Romney will do…
But it gets better.
Want to know about foreign policy?…well, where Obama’s got one page of vague generalities Romney’s got pages on every section of the world…
…plus a page that lists ALL of Romney’s advisors on foreign policy and their qualifications. I’ll admit I don’t know the names of most of these people…but from the lists of credentials and experience this is a who’s who of foreign policy experience. Do you know who’s advising Obama…probably not, as he devotes only a page to economics and a page to defense. Ooooh…two whole pages for the most important issues facing the nation at this point.
Romney also has an impressive list of judicial advisors… as opposed to the crack team of Obama’s that gave us Sotomayor and Kagan, possibly the two most incompetent justices in the history of the Court, save Earl Warren.
As for most of the other pages, they follow a pretty specific format. They list basic principles, describe what Obama is doing wrong, and give SPECIFICS on what Romney will do. Don’t believe me, go read for yourself.
I mean how can that compare to Obama’s eight whole issues (one of them a made up issue) with pages full of nothing…oh and there’s pandering to a lot of different minority groups. They spend more time telling you about Michelle’s life than they do on how they’re going to fix the economy. But remember it’s Romney who is short on specifics. Oh, and Obama has a button that says “Espanol” (let’s forget that speaking fluent English is a requirement for naturalization…so exactly which legal voters aren’t speaking English?) Clearly Romney is the candidate who is just dealing in platitudes and vagaries, changing his talking points with the wind. Clearly.
So when you get a moment, drop by MittRomney.com and actually read some of the stuff there. I know that sounds boring, but you really should. Because if you do you will realize that not only is the comment that he doesn’t have specifics is insane as saying 2+2=5 (yes there are some lack of specifics where it comes to things that will actually be the purview of Congress to work out the details, but that would mean that Romney actually understands how laws are made, unlike Obama who thinks he rules by fiat).
Now, you can tell me that you don’t think Romney is being honest in what he says, you can tell me that you think his plans won’t work, but please stop this bullshit about him not having specifics.
On Tuesday, the Ron Paul campaign officially announced during a media conference call that they acknowledge they will not be able to stop Mitt Romney from attaining the appropriate number of bound delegates before the convention. Rather than throw the convention into chaos, their plan is now to use Congressman Paul’s considerable influence to impact the coming Tampa convention.
It’s over. Now it’s time for the main event, and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is already in excellent scoring position. Considering that there are still six months until the general election in November, many Democrats are starting to get worried about the presidents reelection chances, including prominent Democratic strategist James Carville.
Where only a few weeks ago the Obama campaign was crowing that it was trouncing Romney in the polls, it's now becoming apparent that the Romney machine is a force to be reckoned with. After a week of a being locked in a statistical dead-heat with the president, Romney this week launched ahead of Obama in several major polls.
Gallup shows Romney beating Obama by 7 points, well outside the margin of error. That same poll showed that as many as 71% held a dismal view of the economy; 58% also believed that new leadership at the White House could help swing things around.
Rasmussen also has Romney beating Obama 50% - 43%. Romney breaking through the 50% mark for the first time is definitely a good sign for Republicans.
A New York Times/CBS poll showed Romney up 46% to 43%. That same poll showed Romney winning among men and women, a clear sign of improvement for the Republican frontrunner.
The Obama campaign has tried to counter the Romney surge by claiming that the methodology used in the NYT/CBS poll was fatally flawed and biased. Even Chuck Todd at MSNBC during an interview with deputy Obama campaign manager Stephanie Cutter didn’t seem to be buying that one, especially considering the source of the poll.
The Obama campaign will have a lot of money and the championship advantage on its side. It will use smear and scorched earth campaign tactics. It will not, however, have the easy ride to victory it had in 2008. Obama has never faced a tough opponent before, and while Romney may not be conservative enough for some on the right, he definitely is not going to be the punching bag that John McCain was be in 2008.
Another thing worth mentioning is that much of these new polls may not fully reflect the backlash from President Obama’s endorsement of gay marriage. It is possible that he could lose even more ground in the coming days.
The Obama campaign should be worried. For a supposedly ‘weak’ challenger to be doing this well this far out should be a huge wake up call. This one won’t be easy. According to most polls, a majority of Americans are beginning to think that they’d be much better off under a Romney administration. Romney has a very good chance of dethroning the powerful incumbent.
Conservative Samizdat Samizdat (Cамиздат-Cам-"self, by oneself"; издат-"publishing house"): Translates to mean self published. Providing conservative news and opinion since 2009.
By Jared Allebest Conservative Samizdat
Today, Ron Paul has done something that I can actually support and get behind. He's suspended his campaign. I literally jumped up and down for joy at this news. However, I am not completely thrilled with this news because even though Ron Paul isn't running any more, he's encouraged his supporters to still go to the local conventions and become delegates.
Obviously, the Paul campaign will continue with its strategy of urging supporters to swamp state conventions and get themselves elected delegates to the national confab. As we’ve written before, this is a clever, cheap way of using complicated delegate-allocation rules to Paul’s advantage.
What the Texas libertarian may be doing is amassing “stealth delegates” – delegates bound by primary or caucus vote to Mitt Romney, or one of the withdrawn GOP candidates, who are personally in favor of Paul. It’s hard to count how many such delegates there are – or whether they’ll abstain in the first round, or otherwise cause some sort of disturbance, in Tampa.
Ron Paul was never in the 2012 race to become President. There were two reasons why Ron Paul jumped into the 2012 race.
The first reason is that Ron Paul wants influence the Republican party platform. Earlier this year, he admitted that he isn't in the race to become President but that he's in the race for the sole purpose of amassing enough delegates so that he can use his delegates as a way of getting the Republican party to adopt his libertarian views on foreign policy, economics and other issues.Furthermore, he admittedon Fox News that he doesn't want the power of being the President but simply wants to influence the Republican Party on matters he considers important.
However, if that is his goal, Ron Paul has only has 104 delegates as of today. In contrast, Mitt Romney will soon win the GOP nomination since he has 973 of the 1,144 delegates and only needs to secure more 171 delegates to formally become the GOP's nominee. Mitt Romney will get those delegates at the next primaries next Tuesday in Nebraska and Oregon. If not, he'll get them the following Tuesday in Arkansas and Kentucky. By May 29th, he should have the nomination wrapped up in Ron Paul's home state of Texas. After that, we will have the the final primaries will set in California, New Jersey, Montana, New Mexico, South Dakota and Utah.
Even with all the dishonest and deceptive tactics used by his supporters to become delegates, it won't disrupt or hurt Mitt Romney at the national convention in Florida:
Massachusetts aside, the Paul campaign has mainly flexed its muscles in states where Romney didn’t do well — and where Rick Santorum succeeded, such as Minnesota, Iowa, Louisiana, and probably Missouri when they hold their fourth or fifth event that will actually select delegates. The net effect of the Paul conversion will be to weaken Santorum’s influence, not Romney’s. Romney will win enough bound delegates from primary states to secure the nomination on the first ballot.
Even though Ron Paul has told CNN’s Newsroomthat he doesn't support or like the idea of disrupting the GOP convention, he wants to do what ever he can to insert his political agenda and beliefs into the GOP platform. However, by the time the GOP convention rolls around, he won't have enough delegates to accomplish his short term goal of influencing the GOP platform. Ron Paul will be in a inferior bargaining position in attempting to negotiate with the Republican party into adopting his views on the national platform.
Moreover, Mitt Romney and the national Republican party will not tolerate any kind of disruption at the convention which is designed to railroad the GOP to adopt Ron Paul's political beliefs. Nor will they or even sit at the negotiating table with man who is not a conservativeand who conservatives won't support.
Ron Paul knows he won't become President or be picked by Mitt to be his VP. I hope they won't even let Ron Paul speak at the convention.
Ron Paul is delusional if he thinks he can influence the GOP. He can try but it won't work.
The second reason why Ron Paul jumped into the 2012 race is because even though Ron Paul announced earlier this year that when the 2012 race is over, he will be retiring from politics, his son's political career is just starting. Which means Ron Paul has long term political aspirations for his son and is setting the stage for Rand Paul's eventual run for President:
The elder Paul’s continued presence in the 2012 presidential race is in large part an effort to secure funds and infrastructure for his son’s own possible White House bid in 2016.
“If [Ron] hadn’t stayed in through the last few weeks, he would not have made those trips to the donors on the West Coast, in California,” said the adviser. “That’s 30 percent of his campaign’s income that will help build his movement for years to come. Yes, Ron is 76 years old, but he has a son.”
However, all of Ron Paul's short and long term plans might crumble if there is a brokered convention or if there is disruption of any kind. If that happens, Ron Paul might make it possible for Obama to win a second term and everyone will blame the Pauls for that.
Despite the good news that Ron Paul has suspended his campaign, conservatives still need to be on the alert at their upcoming state conventions in which Ron Paul supporters will still try to be delegates. If you are a Romney supporter in a state that has an upcoming convention PLEASE try to be there. We must NOT let our guard down. We want to end the deceptive shenanigans of the Raul Paul supporters in order to make sure nothing happens before the GOP convention in Tampa.
Conservative Samizdat Samizdat (Cамиздат-Cам-"self, by oneself"; издат-"publishing house"): Translates to mean self published. Providing conservative news and opinion since 2009.
By Jared Allebest Conservative Samizdat
Current Massachusetts Goveneor Patrick Deval has claimed that Mitt Romney has flipped flopped on gay marriage while Barack Obama didn't flip flop but "evolved" on the issue of gay marriage:
Massachusetts Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick slammed Mitt Romney as a flip-flopper on Sunday while defending President Obama as leading through “convictions,” a reversal of the attacks launched by many Republicans against Obama.
“I think what we know is that Mitt Romney has occupied many positions on many issues, and he has, you know, back in 1994, when he was running for the United States Senate he said publicly that he would be better than Ted Kennedy on gay and lesbian issues. He takes a different position in front of a different audience today,” he said on ABC’s This Week.
Alternately, Patrick said that Obama “is running on and leading through a set of convictions.”
Patrick was referencing Obama’s admission that he supports gay marriage, a position that many critics have called a flip-flop on the issue, with Democrats defending it as an “evolution.” But Patrick’s statements make it clear that neither candidate is free from the accusation of flip-floppery.
Deval Patrick knows about flip flopping since he took Mitt Romney's $ 2 billion surplus that he left at the end of his term as governor and flipped it to a whopping $101, 908, 205, 432 debt (as I write this post) for the state of Massachusetts. Governor Patrick Deval has taken Mitt Romney's surplus and squandered it and is on track to be about 1.5 or 2 billion dollars in debt. What's even more amazing is that Governor Deval has been receiving $7 billion in federal stimulus funds for the las two years and Massachusetts which hasn't helped reduced the deficit.
In fact, his spending is so outrageous since he blew money on himself and his staff which made the citizens of the state very unhappy. Thanks to Deval Patrick's leadership, Massachusetts is in debt. And what's his solution to fix the problem? More spending.
Govenor Duval has flipped the state back to the same level of debt before Mitt Romney became Governor of Massachusetts and he hasn't improved the state financially but regressed back to the same old problems.
Conservative Samizdat Samizdat (Cамиздат-Cам-"self, by oneself"; издат-"publishing house"): Translates to mean self published. Providing conservative news and opinion since 2009.
By Jared Allebest Conservative Samizdat
Mitt Romney's speech at Liberty University has been well received by Evangelical leaders:
“I thought it was a really good speech,” said Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council, who had backed Mr. Santorum. “He hit on the religious freedom aspect, again recognizing the shared values while acknowledging the theological differences he has with them. I think he made very clear what marriage is, and in the context of his speech, he spoke about the importance of marriage and the family, even giving a hat tip to Senator Santorum.”
“I don’t think I could have improved upon the speech,” he added.
Gary L. Bauer, president of the Christian advocacy group American Values, who had strongly pushed for Mr. Santorum, said this speech would help assuage the concerns of evangelical Christians.
“I thought it was a home run, and I think so will most values voters,” he said. “He also clearly stood for the sanctity of life, clearly stood for the traditional definition of marriage, and I think importantly, encouraged the students to be bold and stand for those kinds of values, too. I think it’s going to be hard for critics to find much in this to criticize.”
Mitt Romney's speech helped turn those who were lukewarm about his candidacy into strong supporters for him:
His staunch opposition to same-sex marriage, which provided one of the rare political moments in the speech, is helping Romney build a bridge to evangelicals, who hopscotched from one candidate to another in the primaries while shunning the front-runner. Phil Burress, president of Citizens for Community Values, told the Washington Postrecently, “So many people were rather lukewarm toward Governor Romney and were really looking for some more tangible reasons to support him. Then lo and behold, it just fell out of the sky when Obama came out and endorsed same-sex marriage.”
Even those who are associated with Liberty University wereimpressed with Mitt Romney:
Romney, even as a guest, was initially treated as an outsider at Liberty. The announcement that he would be the commencement speaker prompted an uproar. A graduation Facebook page was overrun with hundreds of posts objecting to the choice.
But on Saturday, the crowd received him warmly and Jerry Falwell Jr., the son of the founder who now heads the school, called Romney “the next president of the United States.” The university presented Romney with a chair, engraved with, “There’s always room for you at our table.”
Romney’s message struck the right chord with Dean Shelton, a 74-year-old retiree who lives in Lynchburg. Common faith is important, Shelton said, but shared values are even more so. “What I liked about it was that he had the right philosophy on life that we share,” he said. “We’re not electing a minister, we’re electing a president.”
For Craig and Rene Yoshino, who traveled from Seattle to see their daughter graduate, the candidate’s references to culture and traditional marriage were essential, although neither believes that Mormonism is a segment of Christianity.
“It’s what matters for salvation, but not for the presidency,” he said. “Between Obama and Romney, Romney fits more closely with us.”
As a result, Mitt Romney's speech is resonating with alot of people because he's seeking to find common ground with all Americans even if they have different religious, political and social views. Its clear that Romney isn't seeking to be a Pastor in Chief or even to make a name for himself as the first Mormon in the White House. Our nation is a republic in which the government should represent the interests of all the people, rather than just a select few. Mitt speech shows that Romney is the leader America wants in which he will lead our country on the basis of values and beliefs that are common to most people.
Mitt Romney sincerely, genuinely and strongly wants to be a leader for all Americans and help get America back to excellent economic health so that people can have jobs, pay their bills, support their families and make a difference in their communities.
