Romney’s Final Debate Prep
Since the final debate on Monday will primarily concern foreign policy, Romney may be limited to making the two points just noted in his final statement. That’s not the case with the third item he needs to mention.
At a campaign even in Iowa on Wednesday, Obama gave Romney an opening to make that third point when he bogusly attempted to ridicule his challenger for not adequately explaining his economic plan:
Usually when a politician tells you he’s going to wait until after the election to explain a plan to you, they don’t have a pleasant surprise in store for you.
That statement presents the perfect opportunity for Romney to let Americans know what Obama, when he thought he couldn’t be heard, told Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev in March about his ability to accommodate Russian demands that we weaken our missile defenses:
After my election I have more flexibility.
Romney should bring up the exchange and tell America, “When a president of the United States tells a foreign leader whose country is not on fully friendly terms with us that he will ‘have more flexibility’ after ‘my election,’ he doesn’t have a pleasant surprise in store for the American people.”
If one is to believe the polls — a dangerous exercise, as PJ Media’s Zombie has noted, when those who conduct these surveys are failing to reach almost 40 percent of those they wish to contact and can only take one in seven of those reached to completion — Romney could be on the verge of taking command of the race. That’s great, but it certainly doesn’t justify anything less than an all-out rhetorical effort at Monday’s final debate. The worst president by far in my lifetime and every down-ticket politician who has supported him deserve the most decisive electoral beatdown Romney and Republicans can deliver.
Team Romney needs to treat all of the states considered toss-ups and the growing roster of those moving from “safe Obama” to “leaning Obama” the way Ronald Reagan did in very analogous circumstances 32 years ago. The Gipper, looking at a color-coded map with state-by-state electoral strategies, famously said: “They all look winnable to me.” He took 44 of them in his thumping of incumbent Jimmy Carter.
If he tells the American people what they need to hear and what the Obama apparatchik media has mostly kept from them, a victory approaching that magnitude may be within Mitt Romney’s grasp.
All Romney has to state is that he could not find the budget the numbers put aside for foregn aid. Then state that he could not find the number as the budget for it or anything else does not exist.
Works for me. Hope they’re reading.
The points made within this article are intrinsic, and for more reasons than just obvious ones.
Clearly, the Radical-in-Chief has many surprises in store for the second term. And in no small measure the ‘flexibility’ he guaranteed (behind the backs of the electorate…eviscerating ANY claim to transparency…Romney must mention this hypocritical juxtaposition)is akin to the ‘flexibility’ he is surely offering to the mullahs, as he – up until now – secretly shuttled for months!,Valerie Jarrett & other reps to jaw jaw with the mullahs.
Jarrett is his Iranian born alter ego/hidden hand, and she is promising them,if they agree to a ‘temporary’ halt to enrichment, then the Islamist-in-Chief will allow them to continue enriching for ‘peaceful’ purposes, and the sanctions will be lifted,but only once he wins a second term. Romney will hold their feet to the fire, so they must make this announcement BEFORE the election.
Know this – Jarrett is jaw jawing with one of the highest officials in Iran, and someone very close to the ‘Supreme Leader’, a confidante of his who is not only an INTERPOL felon ( having planned the murder of hundreds of Jews in the Buenos Aires Jewish Center bombing)but also an old family friend of her parents from Iran!
The point being that – http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/10/13/the-liar-in-chief-his-many-tall-tells-end-game-purposefully-tearing-the-u-s-from-its-constitutional-roots-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/ is busy lying his way to a second term of U.S. destruction!
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As usual Romney will face two opponents the USURPER and a corrupt ‘liberal’ moderator running cover for the USURPER. Add to that a sycophantic Lame Stream EneMedia which will report it as a USURPER triumph no matter how the debate goes.
The fact that Romney even looks close to polling even or slightly ahead of the USURPER is a miracle considering what he is up against with corrupt, devious Democrats and a compliant Lame Stream EneMedia. Just wait too for all the dead people and multiple voters to kick in in the election too.
I like your enthusiasm X but we’re not done yet. We need to stay on task.
Go volunteer for Romney’s election day efforts if you haven’t already. I’m sure they could use your help with something.
That goes for the rest of you guys here too. Volunteer already!
Excellent advise, Tom. And for the third and last debate, I hope that he drives home your points on Democrat budgetary cowardice and Obama’s cozying up to Putin’s anti-American agenda — both items are HUGE. But I would also like to see my candidate, Romney, go after Obama more extensively on the Fast-&-Furious federal felony that was hatched and executed by HIS Justice Department. Candy managed to deflect damage away from Obama on that issue in the second debate. I hope Gov. Romney aggressively revisits the matter in the final debate. This is the most impeachable offense that The Media has refused to investigate. I would love to see Romney rub his face in it.
If Obama brings up Romney’s lack of foreign policy experience, he could say something like: “Well, I know that in Austria they speak German, and I know that the President of the United States is not supposed to bow to anyone.”
Romney has at least as much foreign policy experience as Obama had in 2008. While I’m not certain, his work on the Salt Lake City Olympics likely involved quite a bit of contact with foreign officials.
At the same time, Romney has vastly more real-world experience than Obama. A sound foreign policy should be based on the real world, not the utopian fantasy world of liberal academics.
the fiscal irresponsibility is shocking. I hope that Mr. Romney can begin the debate by asking the audience, How are we viewed in the world.
we have a President who spends us into oblivion and is unable to get any support in the Congress for any of his budgets. How must that look? A weak, unengaged figure who enjoys going on tv entertainment shows than do the hard work of politics. We must project more competence….not only fiscally, but politically
The most important thing for Romney is to assure Americans that he is not a war-monger. Reagan did that brilliantly in 1980.
If Romney can do that, he’s on his way to victory. That’s the last stand for Obama, to make voters believe Romney is a blood-crazed, trigger-happy reincarnation of George W. Bush.
All you need to know about the election results is to hear the dogs that are not barking.
How many down-ticket DemocRat candidates are eager to be seen on the hustings with Obama?
Not that I’ve seen it reported,(a surprise, I know), but it would appear that most are of the same mind as was Bob Dole about help from Richard Nixon:
“I’ll settle for a flyover in Air Force One.”
Spot on Bilgeman, old chap. I daresay there are many more Baskerville hounds not barking in the kennel this election. There are those Jacksonian Democrats from Virginia to Oklahoma who put a shot across the president’s bows in the democratic primaries by voting for absurd candidates including an inmate. They will never vote Republican of course….until they do. And there are lot of independents who were happy to give a well spoken Black man eloquently promising hope and change a go – particularly after Dubya. These are another crop of your Baskerville Republicans – no Romney lawn sign, but in the privacy of the polling booth…Then there are those quietly distressed Beagles who still want the president to succeed, but know in their hearts that he wont. Those are the ones Romney has to convince
New term: “The December Surprise”
A win is the end sought by any means necessary.
As for a mandate, ask a San Franciscan. I’m not authority.
Excellent advice. We need a mandate so that a Romney win cannot be portrayed as “our turn at the funding trough. Yum. Yum.” We have a whole lot of businesses lusting after being the private part of a public-private partnership as some designated crony vendor and they will want the Reps to deliver the revenue stream. For example, education centered around using computers and smartphones may be largely vocational and visual instead of intellectual. But the computer companies want that revenue. Who do you think is pushing the self-interested idea that digital literacy and media literacy are as important as print literacy? Let’s just overlook the key fact that mental manipulation of symbols like letters for sound and mathematics is what helped create the minds we associate now with being literate and human.
Too many Republicans are pushing the Common Core because they think it sounds like a good Idea. The Left is fully aware that no one but them pays attention to the actual implementation plan. And it’s the implementation that matters. If Romney prevails, Republicans and Independents at all levels will have to begin to look at the actual implementation. Because it is nothing like the Idea of CCSSI. http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/is-common-core-a-catalyst-to-dramatically-alter-system/ is a good place to start.
Let’s make this election about why individualism matters and how we refuse to have personal autonomy and freedom redefined in collectivist terms. We are not subjects or serfs yet. But we are scheduled to be by 2015 or 16. 2020 is the outer limit in many of the plans I have seen and have copies of. There really is a Belmont Challenge and a Future Earth Alliance this President and his Science Czar John Holdren have signed us up for. And our funding.
Romney needs this:
I will not use military force without authorization of Congress – it is in the Constitution.
I will not use military force without a clear military objective.
If I use military force I will use overwhelming military force. It lowers causalities.
I will have a timeline but not tell it to the enemy.
A large unused American military force is cheaper in dollars and lives than a poorly deployed, inadequate force.
As well,
I will not use military force to turn a bad situation worse.
And if Dear Liar brings up “GOP cut $300 million out of the embassy security budget” reply with “What budget? Sen. Harry Reid, your ally, has refused budget votes for 3+ years.”
When EVERY member of Congress votes no on an issue it is astounding. The only other type of question every member of both parties could agree on is National Secretaries Week, or some other such trivial tripe.
ObamaRx’s budget proposals must have been outrageous.
Sadly, I have to disagree. The previous debates is when these issues should have been raised more forthrightly.
Romney would run the risk of talking about domestic economic issues while Obama is being utterly disingenuous in explaining away issues like US Ambassadors being assassinated by an Al Quaeda that Obama said was on the wane – and getting away with it while Romney continues to focus on domestic arguments that should have been made already.
However, there is a way to bring economics into the foreign policy debate.
Canada.
Romney already brought that up last time, this is his chance to point specifically to Canada negotiating a deal with China and re-routing their pipeline to deliver oil to west coast ports specifically to deliver it to China as a result of his administration’s actions blocking the matching pipeline in the US that would connect to it.
When Obama whines that we already have plenty of pipeline now, point out that under that logic we have plenty of bridges as well – no need to build one in NYC since we have a bridge out in San Francisco.
The pipeline has to be where the oil is.
With Americans paying 4 dollar-ish a gallon for gas, it’s gonna pi$$ most of the voters off to realize a viable solution to that problem was blocked by the administration.
When Obama claims otherwise, Romney need only point the fact that Canada tossed their original plans to pipe it directly to the US in order to redesign the system to deliver it to China. We had first opportunity and Obama slapped them in the face for their efforts.
Mexico.
Romney was already pandering to Hispanics when he pointed out his ancestry has roots in Mexico. He likewise needs to continue to point out that immigration needs to be dependent upon legal immigrants, not illegal immigrants. No quibble with how he handled that.
Beyond that, he needs to get his facts down cold on Fast & Furious, complete with WHY it’s not the same as the program started and shut down under the Bush Administration:
- How when Bush instituted a similar plan, the weapons in question contained electronic tracking devices – but no similar devices were ever incorporated into the Obama Administration effort.
- How when Bush instituted a similar plan, the Mexican government was fully informed beforehand as to what was happening and warned when weapons were on the move towards the border. If US LEO’s didn’t intercept, then Mexican LEO’s could. Under Obama’s plan, the Mexican government was never informed.
- How when Bush instituted a similar plan, the weapons were under surveillance 100% of the time, but that under Obama’s plan the weapons were allowed to walk out of gun stores with no one watching them at all.
- How when Bush instituted a similar plan, no Mexican or US citizens were murdered with the weapons, but how under Obama’s plan hundreds have died – including US citizens. High profile cases where drug lords had specific weapons from Fast & Furious should be tossed out as examples.
- How the Bush plan ended before Obama took office – and how Obama’s plan was not started until long after Bush had left town.
- WHY the Bush administration terminated the program – and ask Obama why, in light of the shortcomings the Bush administration identified as justification for terminating the program, that the Obama administration saw fit to go ahead and do it anyway but with even fewer safeguards.
- Romney’s verbal pummeling of an incompetent Obama administration should include copious references to Issa’s documented inquiries so as to avoid another Crowley type intervention on Obama’s behalf.
He should point out that this is NOT how you treat a major US trading partner, and NOT allow himself to get sidelined into this or that US gun control proposal or law, it’s about how you treat a trading partner.
China.
Romney needs to point out the numerous failures of the Obama administration in protecting US-based copyrights in China, and continue to point out (as he has already) that China manipulates their currency to remain unfairly competitive with the US on wages.
The Middle East.
Romney should point out that our involvement in that region is directly tied to our need for oil. Our need for oil can be satisfied by western hemisphere sources, predominantly North American sources, of oil production.
This would eliminate our need to even be involved in that corner of the world, lead to lower energy prices and gas prices at the pump, lead to a more stable US economy not at the whim of market forces ruminating on what some tin pot dictator in the middle east is going to do tomorrow morning as he rants against the US, and cease sending US wealth to an area of the world that ends up funding – directly or indirectly – terrorist activities directed against the US.
Romney needs to go on the offense regarding Obama’s Gulf Coast bans on drilling, how a federal judge has actually been overruling the administration – but how the net effect of his “moratorium” was to encourage the owners of the MOBILE (mobile as in can be moved, not the oil company name) oil drilling platforms OUT of US waters and into waters off of South American, and under the influence of South American countries led by dictators who don’t like us very much.
Those oil drilling rigs are not coming back into US waters anytime soon. Doesn’t matter if he lifts the moratorium now or not, the damage has been done.
This doesn’t even get into the Benghazi attack, when it’s now come out that we had a drone watching the events live and yet the administration didn’t direct US assets to act.
I could go on, but those should be more than adequate to keep the Mumbler-in-Chief stuttering at length as his brain tries to formulate a believable response.
I will add one more item to the list that Governor Romney should include tonight and that is the tremendous debt built up by Obama, if there was ever a national security issue, the debt, held by a burgeoning force like China represents a grave security threat to the United States.
The relationship between “facts” (reality?) vs “imagination” seems (to me) to be one of the crucial issues. It’s akin to the West meets Islam. One of the most noteable (disturbing?) features of Islamic thinking is the ready malleability of “facts”. (There are many instances of this in Islam — people shifting into other people; people shifting into animals; magical occurrences abound; etc.)
Obama’s performance in the last debate comes to mind — when he claimed that all along he had characterized Benghazi as a terrorist attack — when, in fact, all adults in the audience instantly recognized such a claim is an audacious lie. Ah, yes, East meets West. (Or Freud’s primary process/magical thinking vs reality-testing). On November 6 Americans will be tested.
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Mitt Romney ought to have a display behind him showing obama’s version of foreign policy; the four pictures on Drudge showing him bowing to other countries head’s of state. We have our very own apologist in chief. I believe he owes every American citizen an apology for making things so much worse, not the least being the increasing racial divide.
Since this is a foreign policy debate – it would be wise to keep the subject on foreign policy.
I think he has to talk a lot about the implosion of European economies. He needs to make it clear that Obama has us on the same path that is leading to disaster in Europe. That allows him to return the focus on the US economy without going outside the scope of the debate.
Milton Friedman uses a pencil to illustrate how the free market price system promotes cooperation and harmony among those with no common interest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ERbC7JyCfU&feature=player_embedded
“The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.” Milton Friedman