Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney needed to give the speech of his life at the Republican National Convention tonight, and managed to work the crowd into a frenzy with a balanced mix of policy and the personal.
“I wish President Obama had succeeded, because I want America to succeed,” Romney said after accepting the party’s presidential nomination. “But his promises gave way to disappointment and division. This isn’t something we have to accept. Now is the moment when we can do something. And with your help, we will do something.”
Romney said that debt, division, and unemployment were not the hope and change America voted for — “not just what we wanted,” but “what Americans deserved.”
“You deserved it because during these years, you worked harder than ever before. You deserved it because when it cost more to fill up your car, you cut out movie nights and put in longer hours,” he said. “Or when you lost that job that paid $22.50 an hour with benefits, you took two jobs at 9 bucks an hour and fewer benefits. You did it because your family depended on you. You did it because you’re an American and you don’t quit. You did it because it was what you had to do.”
“Now is the moment when we can stand up and say, ‘I’m an American. I make my destiny. And we deserve better! My children deserve better! My family deserves better. My country deserves better!’”
His speech capped off a night that touched on his Mormon faith more than at any other point in the campaign, when fellow church members came before the audience to talk about kindnesses he had done for their families as a congregational leader.
“We were Mormons and growing up in Michigan; that might have seemed unusual or out of place but I really don’t remember it that way. My friends cared more about what sports teams we followed than what church we went to,” Romney said.
He also addressed the Democrats’ war on women meme with a familial reference. “When my mom ran for the Senate, my dad was there for her every step of the way. I can still hear her saying in her beautiful voice, ‘Why should women have any less say than men, about the great decisions facing our nation?’”
The evening also addressed the Bain Capital controversy by explaining the business, how it was built, and what it has done for its employees.
“When I was 37, I helped start a small company. My partners and I had been working for a company that was in the business of helping other businesses,” Romney said. “…So we started a new business called Bain Capital. The only problem was, while WE believed in ourselves, nobody else did. We were young and had never done this before and we almost didn’t get off the ground. In those days, sometimes I wondered if I had made a really big mistake. I had thought about asking my church’s pension fund to invest, but I didn’t. I figured it was bad enough that I might lose my investors’ money, but I didn’t want to go to hell too. Shows what I know. Another of my partners got the Episcopal Church pension fund to invest. Today there are a lot of happy retired priests who should thank him.”
Romney also laid out policy specifics. “Unlike the president, I have a plan to create 12 million new jobs. It has 5 steps,” he said. “First, by 2020, North America will be energy independent by taking full advantage of our oil and coal and gas and nuclear and renewables. Second, we will give our fellow citizens the skills they need for the jobs of today and the careers of tomorrow. When it comes to the school your child will attend, every parent should have a choice, and every child should have a chance.”
“Third, we will make trade work for America by forging new trade agreements. And when nations cheat in trade, there will be unmistakable consequences,” he continued. “Fourth, to assure every entrepreneur and every job creator that their investments in America will not vanish as have those in Greece, we will cut the deficit and put America on track to a balanced budget. And fifth, we will champion small businesses, America’s engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare.”
And the governor gave a nod to social conservatives. “As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America’s first liberty: the freedom of religion,” he said.
“President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet. My promise is to help you and your family.”
yeah well, in all this jobs talk maybe he can turn OFF the spigot of H-1Bs, but unfortunately his plan, Jeb Bush, Condi Rice, and others all want more H-1Bs, further killing jobs for Americans, making a joke out of the press for education, and pretending in magic solutions instead of facing reality.
it was a nice convention with some good talk but Mitt is still Mitt and the problems are still tough, and for that matter Obambus hasn’t yet skipped town ahead of the posse.
I work in the software industry where we have a lot of folks who come on H1Bs. The problem is we have difficulty finding qualified Americans for these jobs.
I’m not saying we need to open the floodgates, but we also have to recognize that there are gaps in our labor supply versus the requirements of the jobs avaialable. Unfortunately closing that gap is not something that can be done quickly.
Are you a nativist, Josh? It was obvious from the RNC that an appeal was made to those Hispanic citizens who want to make it in America, and who are being held back by Democrat policies regarding regulation and taxation. As for H1B, neither Condi Rice nor Jeb Bush is on the Republican ticket. Leave it to the Democrats to swell the ranks of illegals and to encourage voter fraud. As for the folly of “the Hispanic Vote” (a folly because all Hispanic/Latinos do NOT have the same goals and interests), I wrote about that here: http://clarespark.com/2012/06/21/the-hispanic-vote/. Or see http://clarespark.com/2012/02/09/glee-goes-la-raza/.
The line about healing the planet vs helping you and your family is extremely effective because it calls the blowhard out.
Romney should make it a theme.
“Obama promised to save planet, I promise to save your families.”
Good thing families don’t need to live on the planet …
Families do live on the planet. But Obama has made the economic situation for many families much worse and done nothing to heal the planet. In fact, Obama has made everything worse. He promised much and delivered nothing.
The Bottom Line is – ‘Barack Hussein Obama’s Toxic Brew Of Radical Leftism…Third World Fixation…And Devotion To Islam’ – http://www.adinakutnicki.com – has pushed America to the edge of the cliff.
So, whether or not one believes he ‘meant well’, or aimed to destroy America from the onset (my commentaries are very clear on which way the wind is blowing),the fact of the matter is that ‘healing the planet’ has (almost) cost the destruction of the US!
Either way, the Radical-in-Chief has got to go – ‘Americans Hope To Change The Occupant of the White House..An Anti-American POTUS Runs An UnAmerican Campaign’ – http://www.adinakutnicki.com
Simple as that.
Bottom Line – the Radical-in-Chief has got to go!!
‘Barack Hussein Obama’s Toxic Brew of Radical Leftism…Third World Fixation…Devotion To Islam’ has pushed America to the edge of the cliff.
As such, ‘Americans Hope To Change The Occupant of The White House…An Anti-American POTUS Runs An UnAmerican Campaign’ can both be found at my blog.
Google – ‘Adina Kunticki’ and scroll down the HOME tab. Readers will find many more commentaries which shed further light on the subject.
FYI – PJM…links bounce back…can you fix this? It is much easier to post with a link! Thanks.
When obama was first elected, I had suspicions about his experience, his intentions, and his background. I gave him the benefit of the doubt and assumed that he was a well intentioned man who would certainly grow into the job as, for example, Harry Truman did. My God how I was wrong. This whacko has turned out to be the worst president in the history of the republic. The only person who has really benefited from the reign of obama is Jimmy Carter. He has been rehabilitated by the malevolence, incompetance, and venality of obama. I now realize that obama is NOT a well intentioned neophyte, rather, he is a malevolent narcissist with a giant sized messianic complex. Four more years of obama will sound the death knell for this nation.
I’m a single mother and in 2008 was doing the best I’ve ever done. Four years later I’m barely scraping by. Rents have increased, gas has doubled and food has gone up at least 50%. I don’t need lofty promises, I need my family helped. I appreciated Romney’s simplicity — the economy is the problem.
Yep he’s big on advertising but lacking on delivery, plus what was he advertising? I do not like what changes I have seen so far and I do still have HOPE, I hope that we kick his rear out of office!
I want an American President who will put the livelihoods of American citizens ahead of the rest of the planet in his priorities.
I care more about America than I do about the rest of the planet. I’m sorry if that shocks your transnationalist sensibilities.
CW,
“Good thing families don’t need to live on the planet”
Good thing for you “saving the planet” isn’t a measureable goal, with any real means of determining the success or failure of your efforts and the value of your expenditures.
Its just more liberal spin and opinion mongering substituting for actual, meaningful accomplishments, by people without the abilities to actually DO things
Not like, oh, I dunno, lowering unemployment to the 3% range, cutting the debt by a third, creating ACTUAL jobs, increasing the median household income, lowering taxes, or something all tough and “math-ie” like that.
Not your sides cup of tea, obviously.
“Saving the planet” is a great talking point.
Its KINDA like bragging about being the Editor of the Harvard Law Review….
When no one (on your side) bothers to ask:
“but if nothing was published, what did you edit?”
“What did you edit?” well nothing of course just like the ZERO that he is with that stupid Zero logo, and the “Office Of the President Elect” with an accompanying seal of some sort. Or the Sand dune thing they are building in Charlotte North Carolina on the beach where they actually made a sand castle of him of enormous size but it is getting torn up with the wind, what an ass!
Time and Place: the true blind spot of Liberals. You want to “heal the planet?” For one, how about waiting until more important things are resolved, such as keeping our nation from going bankrupt, subsumed in a sea of entitlements and debt?
But no. The Liberal mantra is “we just can’t wait,we want it NOW” even if to do so impoverishes us all.
Complete lunacy. Michael Savage was right; Liberalism is a mental disorder.
I’d say the fate of the planet is a little bit more important than the current state of the economy. Because, you know, without the planet we have nowhere to live and annoying little details like that.
In all seriousness now: The economy is the short term, the environment is the long term. I can understand why you’d want to fix the economy right away, but why not focus on both? I do, though, have a tough time understanding why conservatives are so opposed to pro-environment legislation when they’re all for the ridiculous amount of spending we’re doing overseas.
You answered your own question.
You can’t focus on both, because one is a short-term crisis, the other is a long-term problem. You won’t have the resources to fix the long-term problem, if you don’t fix the short-term crisis first.
It will be impossible to restore full employment without strong economic growth. And no one-NO ONE–knows how you can quickly restore strong economic growth while simultaneously cutting fossil fuel use by 80%.
“Saving the planet” will just have to wait, until after the livelihoods of the American people get saved and strong economic growth is restored. Without that, nothing else is possible.
Deep concern for the planet is a luxury that only wealthy nations can afford. Without a healthy economy, there is no money to pay for environmental policies.
Many of Obama’s green “investments” (of which Solyndra is only the most famous example), actually hurt the economy by throwing hundreds of millions of taxpayers’ hard-earned money down the toilet. Hakuna matata, which I believe is some African language for “Who gives a %$#@?”
If you are in a boat that has just developed a massive leak should you continue heading towards land to then also find that you have lost all navigational capabilities or would you try to first repair the leak and bail out the water or face certain death at sea?
The hell with a long term problem, and that is what is wrong with liberals, they worry about things that might be although uncertain instead of the certainty of the immediate problem.
Believe me the earth will take care of itself as it has for eons and without your help!
Kinda like your tantrumming 5 year old aren’t they, those liberals? “I want a lot and I WANT IT NOW!!!
Scary that Obama’s stated priority for his second term is addressing climate change. God help us.
If your house is on fire, do you call the UN or local fire department? In other words solve the problems most immediate to you.
In case you haven’t noticed, the environment IS immediate to you; it’s all-encompassing. We live in the environment. We are not separate from it. We should focus on building the economy and helping the planet at the same time, not one or the other.
Why should we save the environment of the rest of the planet? Is the rest of the planet going to save the American environment?
Get this straight:
America doesn’t owe the rest of the world ANYTHING.
We need to clean up our OWN environment. I support regulations to clean up our air and water. I do not support actions to clean up any other nation’s air or water. That’s their problem.
Let me repeat it once more:
America does not owe the rest of the world ANYTHING.
OK, so how many of these “save the planet types” bother to recycle? How many of them eschew bottled water? How many of them pull the weeds in their yards instead of spraying poison on everything? I suspect that many of these insufferable bores merely talk the talk….and talk and talk.
Aaron,
Just exactly what part of the environment that the USA can affect are you advocating?
Do you understand the concepts of “marginal gains at enormous cost” or “diminishing returns”?
Surely you can’t believe the idiocy of the EPA’s ruling that CO2 is a pollutant. If you do, stop breathing.
– the President accomplished and what would he do in a second term?
“the fact of the matter is that ‘healing the planet’ has (almost) cost the destruction of the US!”
Furthermore, he didn’t do anything to heal the planet other than statements of vision. And finally, what fools don’t understand is that America can’t “heal the planet” without its hegemony, which is where it derives most of its soft power from. Most national governments that favor these policies (let’s pretend for a moment we know that they are needed and effective) only do so to encourage he US to lose its economic power…the key to its hegemony. The Soviets funded peace activists because they wanted the USA to give up, not because it reflected their beliefs. Now we have environmentalism being used in the same manner by those who wish to either destroy or surpass the USA.
We are not better people than any other people. We simply have the best system of government that encourages by rewards and constitutional regulations the best behaviors and the best leadership ( didn’t come close to saying perfect).
To prove this wrong, you must show evidence that Allah is truly the God. Or at least you have to prove that Judeo-Christianity has been a force for evil in the world. These claims are bogus, but behind every attack on the USA and its hegemony. Those who love freedom and success, and or the Bible or its values, thank God or their lucky stars for US hegemony.
Bring it on if you think you can.
For any person who has ever struggled to take a step forward, or to put food on the table, heat their home, or put gas in their car; the true face behind the mask of the environmental movement is hideous. We all want clean water and clean air, but we also need to feed our families and heat our homes. Supporting the radical environmental movement is like some kind of S and M. Yeah, make my life harder, whoo hoo, I love when everything is more expensive. Two steps forward and four steps back. Yeah, I just love it when the government intentionally makes my life harder. Woot, woot, it cost more to fill my gas tank this week. I can’t wait to forgo groceries when our heating bill necessarily skyrockets. Ah, refreshing, nothing like walking through life with a cement block tied around you. Heck give me a lead suit. I love when my life is more difficult, especially when it is socially engineered that way.
Well put! If everyone who feels like this votes, Barry and Michelle will soon be packing their bags.
I was wrong when I posted this morning that Mitt’s speech wouldn’t be as good a Ryan’s.
I thought it was a well constructed, well delivered speech. The themes that America celebrates success but Obama attacks it; Romney’s successful business experience as a strength to be highlighted instead of a weakness to be defended; the central importance of family and Romney’s confirmation that trade makes the ship to go are all key to helping America find itself again.
There were several poised digs at Obama, the best being the last one; “President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans.- Pause -. President Obama promised to heal the planet. – Pause -. My promise is to help you and your family.”
A successful convention that produced a stock of ammunition with which to pin down Obama. It will be interesting to see what the Democrats counter with at their upcoming convention.
I am sure Obama will spend his entire speech talking about non other than himself.
I hear Sandra Fluke is going to speak at the DNC. Watching a woman beg for free birth control pills while Obama begs for your children’s tooth fairy money should be comical.
What a clueless ass. She wasn’t begging for “free birth control.” The whole birth control issue pertains to whether or not a health insurance policy a woman pays premiums on (with her own money) should cover the full range of medical products and services, which happen to include contraception. Most women agree that they should, which explains the tremendous gender gap President Obama will continue to have. Unlike you, they don’t have “doormat” or “sperm receptacle” tattooed on their forehead.
Says the clown whose party has women dressing up as vaginas.
You’re not very bright, are you?
By the way, that was a rhetorical question that needs no response. Your other charming insights answer it enough on their own.
– who compared the GOP to the Klan.
I used to work in the insurance industry prior to joining the military, and let me explain why paying for contraception is just plain stupid. For the same reason your auto insurance doesn’t pay for oil changes. It is a known maintenance cost. You are trading dollars with your insurance company, and when you do that YOU lose, not the insurance company. Let’s just say that contraception is going to cost you $100 out of pocket with no coverage. “But my insurance should pay for that.” you say. OK. Your insurance pays for it. They are going to pay the $100 for your contraception every month, plus administration costs, so your premium will be $120 for the month. In the end you spend more for your ‘coverage’ than if you just paid out of pocket. The same reason insurance companies have deductibles. To discourage you from filing small claims for every little thing.
Insurance is what is known as a transfer of risk. You transfer the risk of large unexpected loss to the insurance company for money based on how risky you are. Contraception is not an ‘unknown risk’ it is a known and predictable expense and you don’t insure for predictable expenses. You budget for them.
Contraception is not an ‘unknown risk’ it is a known and predictable expense and you don’t insure for predictable expenses. You budget for them.
Democrats can’t budget. It hurts their brains.
That ship sailed a long time ago.
Health insurance pays for a lot of routine maintenance already: Yearly physical exams, yearly flu shots, etc. Some affluent employees have very generous health insurance plans that actually subsidize membership in health clubs or Weight Watchers or Jenny Craig.
It’s a misnomer to call this “insurance,” that’s all. It’s really a “health care plan,” which resembles a maintenance contract you purchase for your car or major home appliance. Maintenance contracts cover yearly inspections and any needed routine repairs and upgrades, not just fixing catastrophic breakdowns.
The state can compel me to by insurance, but cannot compel me to buy a maintenance contract. The idea that health insurance should really be a health maintenance contract further reduces any logical arguements that we should compel its purchase.
Well, good. Then using your logic health insurance companies shouldn’t have to pay for Viagra, which is a “maintenance cost.” In other words, the insurance company shouldn’t have to be paying to “maintain” the erections of old men who can’t get it up anymore. Not to mention the fact that birth control is used for other things besides birth control. I doubt you have ever worked in the insurance industry as your comment is based in pure ignorance.
I happen to agree with you on the subject of viagra. It is also a maintenance cost, and as I mentioned before they are a losing transaction to have with your insurance company.
As for your comment on birth control. Yes I am also aware of other uses for birth control, but to deny that birth control is used primarily for contraception, is dishonest. You are attempting to cloud the issue by stating that it can be used for other things. Yes but what is it’s PRIMARY function. And as for your questioning of me working in the insurance industry, whatever. I am not going to lose any sleep over your doubt. But then again you don’t come here to tactfully debate the issues, your posts are too agressive and insulting for that. You are here to sow as much hate and discontent as you can short of getting banned.
Well, good. Then using your logic health insurance companies shouldn’t have to pay for Viagra, which is a “maintenance cost.” In other words, the insurance company shouldn’t have to be paying to “maintain” the erections of old men who can’t get it up anymore. Not to mention the fact that birth control is used for other things besides birth control. I doubt you have ever worked in the insurance industry as your comment is based in pure ignorance.
I’m a women. I prefer plans with copays because the monthly premiums are lower. There is more to deciding the best and most affordable plan for my family than just $0 copays. Thanks, I would like the CHOICE to choose which kind of health insurance fits MY family’s needs.
It’s important to look for, find, and properly treat the unseen as well as the seen.
The insurance isn’t just something that she pays for (otherwise, there would be no real difference in insurance paying versus her paying out of pocket, except for insurance taking its cut) – it spreads the risk and costs among all premium holders; it’s not just Fluke paying for her birth control, it’s everyone at Georgetown including men and people opposed to contraception; why should their money be directed by Fluke instead of by those paying in?
It’s also Georgetown, private, Catholic school, through which she’s getting that coverage. Why should they be compelled to offer something at odds with their organizational values? Georgetown’s status and affiliations are well known, as well; why would Fluke go there if contraception was such a big deal for her?
The restriction of the health insurance offerings is itself a creation of government regulation and driving to employer/school models of providing health insurance as a perk, instead of letting it be its own distinct market serving people’s needs. The answer is to open that up and let people make the choices that fit their life while also fully accepting the costs that would result, instead of pushing those costs off on the unseen.
The real answer is to get the employer out of the health insurance business all together. Pay the employee the value of the health insurance and let health insurance providers offer a range of products that people can purchase.
If you want a policy that includes contraception and abortion coverage, then you can have one. But if I don’t want my policy to include those then it won’t.
Health insurance was added to employer benefit packages to get around the wage restrictions put in place during WW2. Well those are long gone, so why should this anachronism remain? I want to be able to have the same plan, the plan I choose, no matter who I work for.
CW,
“She wasn’t begging for “free birth control.”
Where were you when she “testified”?
The dumb (and not very attractive) bimbo was griping, specifically, about the $3000.00 out of pocket costs she was expending every year on Birth Control….
And how horribly unfair it was for HER to have to pay for it, and how, in order to maintain her preferred volume of slut-ness WITHOUT it affecting the I-Pod/College Princess standard of living she feels entitled to have, her Health Insurance (which will become “free”?) ought to pick-up the tab because recreational sex its a “medical” thing….
It was simply THE most egregious form of “begging for free birth control” that has ever been uttered on National Television, Period.
She was a plant, a Wannabe, essentially sitting in for her JOB INTERVIEW, thrusting out her vagina (like all democrats, because even the MEN are pussies) on que to show loyalty to the DNC, and demonstrate her burning desire to be a (paid university think-tanker on the public dole for life?) pitchwoman for their radical agenda.
It was as transparent as it was laughable, and Rush was right when he called her a “slut”.
Oh yeah and the insurance companies will just eat the cost of course! What Sandra and you are asking for is for everyone to pay for your birth control. If you’re man is too broke to pay for it then time to find another man. If you stop dating Democrats you wouldn’t have this problem.
Another clueless ass speaks again. What part of paying premiums to a health insurance company do you not understand? It isn’t unreasonable for a woman who pays premiums for a health plan to expect that plan to cover something as non-controversial as contraception, which is preventive medicine because it prevents pregnancy.
Lonnie Wild really is more smarterer than that C. Blunder. A woman “expects”, the government forces.
Would you lick Mr. President’s boot just for the fun of it, or would that require force?
And where’s O Be Bullshit One C. Blunder? That One is such a genius, much like the more known One.
Let it out C. Blunder, run Wild. Still no answer.
Buuuuck, buck, buck, buck.
I’ve always had a problem with using “preventive” medicine to describe birth control. Preventive medicine in my book includes something like cholesterol-reducing or blood pressure lowering medications geared to preventing disease. Birth control presumable prevents pregnancy, yes, BUT PREGNANCY IS NOT A DISEASE. IT IS A HEALTHY FUNCTION of a non-celibate woman’s body. Not the same thing in my book.
Cynical Wonder: You aren’t a cynical wonder, you are just a wonder. I watched this moronic woman deliver her speech. She wants the taxpayer to pay for her birth control. She said this and I assume that she meant it. It is not about insurance, it is about entitlement. You just aren’t cynical enough. By the way, for you to call someone, anyone, an ass is a sad case of projection.
Brian you are a MORON
Cynical wonder – great retort
Ah, but you and cynical wonder have to admit that a woman dressed up as a vagina does send the message that her self image is solely as a sexual organ. The suffragettes would have been appalled by such a sexist betrayal of women. My two accomplished and self reliant daughters would hoot with laughter at the notion that women are just mobile sex organs.
Well, you don’t generate the kind of verbal diarrhea Cynical Wonder generates. I’ll give you that much credit.
The public has been deceived as to Sandra’s REAL MISSION–TRANSGENDER PAID FOR BY WE, THE PEOPLE:
“…birth control is not all that Ms. Fluke believes private health insurance must cover. She also, apparently, believes that it is discrimination deserving of legal action if “gender reassignment” surgeries are not covered by employer provided health insurance.”
http://mrctv.org/blog/sandra-fluke-gender-reassignment-and-health-insurance
Well done Gov Romney!! you have me and my entire family votes…..
Romney did alright, but so did the chair. He’s being set up to lose.
Modern Liberal Loses it. Again. Did it ever have it?
Has there ever been a denial or answer about? -
C. Blunder, aren’t you Obi-jonKenobi, Jaycen, Lonnie Wild, Your Sensei, moho and a host of many, many others?
A sampling of the You People towering intellect –
Here we have a “classic” admission -
21. Obi-jonKenobi
“I could go on but what’s the point, you people actually seem to ENJOY being lied to.”
August 30, 2012 – 9:52 am
Jaycen posed as a very angry conservative. So angry it was Modern Liberal with a few words changed -
Jaycen
“You people don’t care…”
August 26, 2012 – 5:55 pm
C. Blunder being it’s usual self here. After all, nothing really exists but itself, the Cesspool, and a mirror.
Cynical Wonder
“What you people…”
August 26, 2012 – 5:01 pm
Cynical Wonder
“You people are clueless …”
Cynical Wonder
Cynical Wonder
“…you people genuflect and spread your rear cheeks for to follow up on that one. Weak …”
July 14, 2012 – 9:45 pm
Indeed. “Weak”.
Two old Persons Galore! The Wayback Machine speaks!
41. Your Sensei
THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS! . . .”
“…looking at you people…”
January 9, 2011 – 7:02 pm
39. Moho:
“…you people really do make me feel like an intellectual giant.”
Jan 8, 2010 – 5:38 pm
Delusional.
16. Lonnie Wild
“You clowns a delusional (again/still).
August 30, 2012 – 10:28 am
Obi-jonKenobi
Seriously, Me. Lucky, put down the crack pipe and step away from the keyboard, you’re getting delusional.
August 30, 2012 – 4:32 pm
Yes, the Cesspool does seem to have an endless supply of names for shit. In that world, it’s all you have.
Well C. Blunder, who’s up next? The pattern is repeating, all those posts with different IDs, the many post, becoming more frenzied, more IDs. Then a disappearance and a new personality emerges, A little calm at first, but with rising anger and self hate, with more IDs, and becoming more obvious as time passes. The style is always the same. Can’t be but who you are. Then repeat.
It’s all you have. You’re not really political, are you, just filled with a desire to lie.
Nicely done! You can actually smell the panic in those posts if you can find a way to ignore the hate.
You spent a lot of time on that! Cute! It’s important to keep busy in your golden years …
No. You “built” that C. Blunder.
Come on Most Moral Modern Liberal, lay it, all this bullshit you been pushing about lying, and you won’t answer a simple question.
Buuuck, buck, buck, buck.
So who’s up next? Might as well push it harder as C. Blunder for a bit with some oh so lame lols, idiots, stupids, or that good old time stand by, toothless hillbillies. Then dissappear.
Give us a show Liar, PJM’s just not getting it’s “free” money’s worth out of “you people”.
What do you have to lose? You have no integrity. Speak Kyber!
In American, sooner or later the truth comes out. And it hurts. Just ask Obama. Tonight he got the beating of his life.
Tell that to Paul Ryan. Even the crew at Fox News couldn’t keep a straight face with that pack of lies he was trying to sell you lemmings
LET’S GET AN UPDATE ABOUT OUR “SUPER HERO” PRESIDENT–FEEL FREE TO SING ALONG WITH ME:
“THEY CALL BARRACK, ‘PARIAH’” [To the tune of “They Call the Wind Mariah”]
Pariah
Pariah
They call “THE WON” Pariah
In DMV* they got a name,
For Liar, Dolt and Loser.
The Liar’s Reid, the Dolt is Joe,
And the Loser’s called “Pariah”
Pariah blows his Choom** around,
And makes the Kool-Aid stronger,
But still his groupies can’t be found,
They don’t trust him any longer.
Pariah,
Pariah,
They call “THE WON” Pariah.
When I last heard Pariah speak,
He’d lost all sense and reason.
The “Man of Steel” had grown so weak,
And the air was filled with treason.
Our seniors lost, their heritage sold,
Our children’s birthright squandered,
His “Hope and Change” had just fools’ gold,
How far from truth we’d wandered!
Pariah,
Pariah,
They call “THE WON” Pariah.
Pariah,
Pariah,
They call “THE WON” Pariah.
*District – Maryland – Virginia =”DMV”
** “Choom”, both a noun (marijuana) and a verb “to smoke marijuana”
Barry Soertoro aka Barry Obama aka Barrack Hussein Obama aka Barry Hussein aka…aka…aka… CREATED NEW WAYS TO GET HIGH. See, http://www.buzzfeed.com/gavon/a-users-guide-to-smoking-pot-with-barack-obama
This included BOTH marijuana a cocaine aka coke aka blow aka “Barry Fuel”…aka…aka
Cyclical Blunder coming from one of the USURPERS most sycophantic SHEEPLE your LEMMINGS slur is hilarious PROJECTION.
Cynical Wonder:
Please let us know how we can contact you after Election Day.
Seriously, dude, let everyone know where to find you after Election Day, you can buy the first 1,000 rounds of drinks … one for every name you Troll with here.
Instead of having him buy the first 1000 rounds of drinks….
How about WE dontate the first 1000 rounds… of ammunition….
To his, ahem, “Education Fund”
– Child Molesters. Better their fingers on the keyboard here rather than finger-fugging little boys, which will soon be made legal by the Dems. When they reply to you then they are admitting they are trolls and child molesters.
Why does anyone even bother replying to this moron. He/She is a poster child for why we need limited governemnt. There will always be people who want to dictate to and control others according to their own warped world view. When they get into positions of power and influence is when you start to see the real wisdom of our forefathers.
Romney is a doer not a talker. That old adage: actions speak louder than words.
I was proud though of Romney’s speech, he wants America to succeed and has an actual plan.
Romney wants to work – while Obama still wants to BS.
All he wants to do is play golf.
Romney’s plan is the same as Bush II’s. Romney has never worked unless you count swindling. He has never created wealth – just moved money from one place to another.
Hi there Lonnie Wonder. Or is that Cynical Wild? Your Sensei?
no, they are not me. I try to use my real name all the time. I used to go by ‘Liberal Troll’. I think on Townhall when I post it calls me ‘lwild’. I am a real person, and I’m not playing games trying to gum up the works of the right-wing blog-o-sphere. I am however hell bent on calling out crappy right-wing bullstuff when I have time. I’m a Green and did not vote for Obama last time because he is a flaming centrist, triangulating, corporatist and he was going to win my state anyways. I will vote for him this time – he’s by far the best man for the job – all parties considered.
That’s good.
One down…
What’s the over/under about how many times next week we’ll hear, “Romney wants tax breaks for the billionaires and millionaires?”
When you’re bringing out the serial philanderer to talk about the good old days, so you can pretend some of the serendipity might rub off, you’re looking pretty lame. That’s about all Obama has got left after the SEALS mocked President Kardashian’s big kill. And the philanderer’s wife, the only other not lefty not completely dimwitted, might as well be on Mars next week she’s so far out of the loop.
Before it’s over, the Clintons are going to hang Barry out to dry. They don’t forget and they don’t forgive, all of this is calculated, and calling the Clintons racist in 2008 was low even for a feckless lib.
Barak H. Obama – self-hating millionaire/1%er.
– is a way of describing it in polite society.
Good speech, great convention and all that but I have to ask, did anyone else hear the “Don’t touch me!” guy a split second before Romney walked up the stage after shaking hands with delegates? I’m sure it was off camera and not directed at him, maybe to a security detail or something, but someone is going to run with that meme online. It was bizarre.
It was weird for sure. They cut that camera out very quickly after that.
so you dont like Rush Limbaugh Mitt?
Oops…’Adina KUTNICKI’. I DO know how to spell my name!
While Romney’s still in Florida, I really wish the Disney Animatronics folks would come out and adjust the controls on Mitt’s “I’m sincere” and “creating a shared bond” facial subroutines. Still in “uncanny valley” territory.
This election will be closer than it needs to be.
It won’t be close champ, even if you want it to be.
Obama does not want to “heal the planet”.
Obama wants to “fundamentally transform” everyone in the United States into destitute serfs who worship him as God Emperor…
excellent name – sounds like you mean it
What’s in a name anyway? Like, O Be Bullshit One.
It’s building!
We should be fair and pay attention to the Democratic convention before deciding. Maybe Obama really can control sea level. But Ryan’s speech coupled with Romney’s speech lays out a crystal clear choice which each voter must make. Ryan, a budget wonk, set the stage with one key concept unimaginable in Washington D.C.: We are flat out of time. D.C.’s axiom is eternal process, and the reason is that no one is ever laid off. Unintended consequences means another agency to form, not bankruptcy. If Romney is elected, the housing market in D.C. will plummet, just like south Florida.
The choice is crystal clear: Is a huge central government a good, or bad thing? Do we need control over EPA, or control over CO2? Do we need more nuclear power plants, or more regulators? Bill Clinton said that the science of Yucca Mountain would take centuries to complete. After spending $30 Bn on it, we are badly slipping schedule. Do we need a Dept of Justice which gives weapons to Mexican drug killers, or do we need to restore integrity to a broken organization? Do we really need the folks who “pencil whipped” the BP drilling rig? Who ignored proof about the Bernie Maddoff Ponzi scheme? Who knowingly subordinated US funding of Solyndra, otherwise no investor(like Bain) would fund this green turkey? Who knowingly screwed up the levees which Katrina destroyed (and killed 1300 Americans)? Who are forcing employers who self insure to pay for their employee’s abortion, after Obama promised he would not do this? All of these federal employees, and cronies, are still employed or enjoying fully funded retirements, while the old GM bond holders are eating dog food. Along with 23,000,000 Americans, who may have to, in the coming future.
We have a clear choice: Hope and Change, or reality.
“If Romney is elected, the housing market in D.C. will plummet, just like south Florida.” From your keyboard to G-d’s eyes, Mr. Hails, but I fear that the permanent bureaucracy you sketch so accurately in your second paragraph will be ruthless – and very effective – at protecting their fiefs. I hope that a clean sweep is even conceivable, let alone possible!
They’re also lazy. Offer them early retirement, and then don’t replace them when they leave.
Some sources to enforce your post: http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/the-number-of-congressional-staff-is-the-real-problem/
http://www.usa.gov/directory/federal/index.shtml
Nice, I see that the trolls are out fighting like crazy.
Good. It means that we got these right, both the speech and the convention.
Sherab, old buddy, to call them “trolls” is to pay too much respect to those who show no respect, and have no truth in advertising about their agendas. Call them bolsheviks, degenerates, vandals, anarchists, or nihilists.
A good opinion is a good opinion and should be respected. Well thought and well written is a worthy read. “Spray painting the Pieta” is criminally contemptous. Arguing with them is like teaching manners to the tar-baby. Watching their heads explode in self inflicted rage is a thing of wonder.
All true.
But I find the attitude of the decerebrated totalitarians rather sad to watch, therefore I find shelter in the good old Tradition and in the words of Tolkien.
They are indeed made of stone (at least, their heads are), they are aggressive, they live in a cultural neanderthaloid cave, they blindly obey the orders of an evil whose subtlety they can’t fathom, they have marched ON history for 150 years causing horrors without end. They are enemies of humanity…
They are trolls.
Copy/paste pre-approved paragraphs are in no short supply.
They must be those famed saved or created jobs payed with illegal union donation and Jon Corzine customers’ money.
Romney’s speech was excellent, every bit of it. I am sick unto death of empty soaring rhetoric, meaningless drabble meant to sound intelligent and benevolent, but instead it goes beyond unrealistic to fantastical. “Roll back the tides” yes Moses we hear you.
How refreshing to have a candidate who ‘gets it’. He knows where jobs come from, who “built it”, and how tough it is for people who are trying to make ends meet. Obama says “The private sector is fine.” Yes Nero we hear you.
Last night we heard from someone living here, you know, on OUR planet. He didn’t color his words with flourish to camouflage a lack of substance like the other guy, he spoke plainly, directly, earnestly. Yes, Romney we hear you. And in November, he’s going to get that chance to make things better for us.
Exactly. If I want “flourish” I’ll watch a play. I don’t want an actor in the WH, I want a worker; and generally they’re not that dramatic.
As nice as the speech was, I think he made a mistake in not exposing Barack the Sun King for what his Vengeance (or as Leftists prefer to call it, either “Justice”, “Fairness”, or “Liberation”)-based ideologies stand for.
Barack’s not a nice guy. So Mitt needs to stop saying that he is. Everything Barack the Sun King and his supporters say are meant to stir up various overstated, overexaggerated (and sometimes even completely imaginary) Grievance Vendettas.
Start pointing out that the Left’s philosophy of Social Vengeance won’t bring people together, it will only tear them apart.
What a comforting, nice, kind, loving, intelligent guy we would have running this country. When you look at who he would surround himself with it helps you understand how he was so successful at everything he’s done.
No CHICAGO thugs!
No czars who are unaccountable to the taxpayers and who move under the radar.
No hangers on who do nothing, but want to get a hand out.
No valerie jarrett who is so jealous of STRONG WOMEN like oprah that she won’t let her see the pres, even if she was partly responsible for obama winning (not that I thank her for that!).
I wish everyone was listening to Glenn Beck this morning and his thoughts about Mitt’s talk. Glenn nailed it.
There are many stories about Romney and how he helps people, but as Ann said he doen’t do it for publicity, he does it because he is a caring human being. The dems won’t be able to call him a vulture or hearless, uncaring any more. He is none of those things.
Please let’s stand with Mitt and change the course of this country.
My #1 choice was Herman Cain.
My #2 choice was Rick Santorum after Cain dropped out.
My #3 choice was Mitt Romney after Santorum conceded.
I was wrong. Mitt Romney is a fantastic choice.
Living out on the west coast, I was not familiar with his performance as Massachusetts governor. As a retired Navy flyer I had enthusiastically supported John McCain in 2008, and therefore didn’t really check into Romney and only had MSM impressions back then. I also had not figured out just how badly the MSM was intentionally lying to the public. (It was only after seeing their heinous treatment of Sarah Palin that I realized it wasn’t a misguided sense of objectiveness, they were INTENTIONALLY lying). Romneycare didn’t help my views when Obamacare burst on the scene. Now that I have gotten a good solid look at the man, heard the testimonials about his _performance_, and seen that he has the intellectual and moral courage to pick a powerful intellectual and charismatic younger running mate, I am convinced he is absolutely what our country needs right now.
Good comment. If you and everyone like you convince ten people around you to vote for Romney, Barry and Michelle will soon be packing their bags. Nice image, no? Go for it!
There wasn’t a dry eye in my house as the couple told about loosig their 14 year old son. Can you imagine how hard it must’ve been for Mitt Romney to go and sit and talk to the young man knowing what was going to be his future – to help a young man make out his will, so that his possessions were going to that person he wanted them t?. It would be easy to be too busy. Romney is used to doing the hard things.
One of the hardest things I had to sit through was having my husband’s nephew asking him to speak at his funeral. He was 29, had cancer, was married. You just want to hold them and say, “it will be alright!”
The woman he visited who had her laundry strewn around her house to dry because they didn’t have a drier. So instead of just sitting there, he got up and by the time the visit was over, all of her laundry was folded. This is a compansionate man!
And you fools who don’t recognize that, but want soaring pronoucements are going to be the death of this republic!
Those were wonderful presentations. I just hope the people who needed to hear them, did.
How many men do you know fold laundry without being asked? ZERO, right? I just don’t get why women don’t adore Romney!!
This is exactly what scares me with Mitt wanting to heal. This talk drives me crazy and I’ll bet he will pardon the criminals in this administration after he is elected. How can we be a nation of laws when we do this to the guilty. I honor the tough love people who do what’s correct verses what feels good. Sandy Berger still has a job working for the government for pity sakes along with many others. A nation of laws? No, a nation of politics and double standards is closer to the truth.
I was saddened to see Mitt Romney appearing to disparage the goal of slowing the rise of the oceans at the very moment a hurricane’s storm surge was wreaking such damage to the gulf coast.
You’re probably also sad that he didn’t address aging, when all of us, every single one, is getting older.
I sure hope your comment was sarcasm. Romney is exactly opposite the hubris that could make such a claim.
Carmelita–
But he DID address aging. He said that his united America “. . . will honor and respect the elderly, and will give a helping hand to those in need.”
Oh boy. More pleas for false empathy as some kind of litmus test for true concern and caring.
Are you willfully obtuse or just plain ignorant of the fact that Romney’s comment was a direct poke at Obama’s incredibly arrogant acceptance speech when he said that people would look back and say “This was the moment when the rise of the seas began to slow and our planet began to heal.” As if he were Jesus Christ himself.
I wish that Romney addressed more of the theft of money from the Medicare system to finance Obama Care. Medicare was funded by taxes that I paid, my wife paid and everyone else in America paid. It was a funded system to take care of us in our older years. Yet, without our approval 718 billion dollars were taken from it. Now my wife who is a provider is informed that there is a cap on Medicare for physical therapy of $1880 per year. This amounts to about 16 visits. If you have been injured, maybe 16 visits will restore you, maybe. If you need more, it will come out of your pocket. The real victims of this are the chronic patients, who without physical therapy are unable function. It tells the elderly you can choose now between the quality of life, eating, medication, or housing. It dooms the elderly to a miserable life and an early death. In effect, Obama has declared war on the elderly. He is simply killing them by neglect. Can this be called murder? Is Obama guilty of murdering millions of elderly or at least attempting to do so? It is going to be unfathomable for me to watch the women of America cheering for Obama while he is killing their mothers.
The caps will also make it uneconomic for many doctors to operate. Think about it. Many baby boomer doctors are in their late 50s or early 60s. Many of them have provided for their retirement. If the government makes it so unattractive for them to practice, they will retire early. So the number of doctors we have will decline just as–you know where I am going–the number of baby boomers needing doctor’s care will skyrockets. This means it will be much more difficult to find a doctor who will see you and much longer waits for appointments. My GP has now gone to a “Concierge Service” plan. This means he stops seeing patients who are not willing/able to pay an extra $1500/yr per person to guarantee access. This is just a fee to be considered a patient. The cost of treatment, office visits, etc. doesn’t change. An important feature of Obamacare will be problems for everyone who can’t afford these extra fees having big problems getting medical care, while those who can have to take on extra costs. Not a good outcome for anyone.
Huh, what the platform says is, “Yes, we know that nearly 2 million US STEM workers have been displaced, and many more US citizen construction and meat-packing and fishery workers have been displaced. So, we’re going to lower standards for student and work visas, and bring in millions more to totally eliminate any possibility that a few US citizens just might be able to get work or create new jobs for themselves. Never mind that you had to raid your retirement savings to survive, we neeeeeed more cheap young pliant foreign labor with flexible ethics to increase our (politicians’ and execs and immigration lawyers’) wealth.”
Neither party addresses this potential lethal problem, but if the Repubs keep their straight talk promise, they must. It encompasses immigration policy, military strength, infrastructure survival, and of course, money and power. (The document, “The Gathering Storm… “, outlines the problem.)
Jeb Bush stated that China and India produce eight times more engineering students each year than the United States. America produces lawyers. Corporate America lobbies hard to raise engineering immigrant quotas; with big pipes, they have off shored millions of technical jobs to lower pay scale nations. ( There is no other profession: law, military, or medicine, which is seeing this outsourcing pressure.) Engineering salaries are based simply on a modulated supply and demand. As a result, mid career engineering incomes are not much higher than new grads, and much lower than other comparable professions. It has become a hire-fire profession. jgo makes this clear. It is common that a new reg. from Washington D. C. will destroy an entire sub discipline (e.g. coal fired power plant engineers) As a result, there is little incentive to enter this most demanding profession.
Due to this unstable situation, America has no idea what, how many, or what type engineering expertise is needed (e.g. Wind mill experts or radiation experts. Most of our advanced degreed engineers are foreign born. 51% of the PhD candidates in nuclear physics, a related field, in US universities, were/are citizens of China.) How many Chinese experts are needed in our H bomb labs? What would a CEO pay them to keep his family from being under a mushroom cloud?
Messrs Obama or Romeny owe us some answers.
Not sure that is what is intended. Many of these foreign students train in useful subjects such as medicine and engineering. Many of them start companies, which pay taxes and create jobs. If we only had native-born doctors in this country, we would have an even huger shortage than we already had.
I can not speak about the life science technologies, but in engineering I totally concur. Without the talented, disciplined, and decent, contribution of foreign born engineers, America would collapse. Your toilet would not work in your dark house. But in the last few years, there has been a growing reverse brain drain. Educated foreign born experts are, “going back home”. The most common reason given is that America is no longer seen as lucrative. The technology profit centers are popping up in China and India. That is the root of the 8:1 ratio.
On a personal level, each engineer must pursue his/her dreams. On a national level, it is death to America. And a worthy debate issue.
Romney is a good man who takes Matthew 6 seriously and does not blow a trumpet and invite the press in to watch him Do Good Deeds. He’s the kind of man my Daddy was, who does what needs doing and doesn’t want anybody to throw him a parade.
If only he didn’t remind me so much of the son of my Jewish mother’s best friend that she keeps throwing in my path. “He’s a nice boy, a good provider, he’ll be good to you and the children” … okay, Mama, sure enough…but if only he wasn’t so plain vanilla store brand no nothing blah.
Excitement is overrated.
You look at Ann and you call him vanilla! I don’t think so!
Why is it always nice girls want bad boys? Then when they end up abused or their husbands have affairs on them, they look back at those good men and wonder where their heads were.
Life is long and someone who is a good provider, would love you and your children ain’t so bad!
Romney is a man with compassion and leadership qualities. He’s been successful in everything he’s done. Even persuading his one true love to marry him and be his partner, and I think you could say she could’ve had any numbers of good men to pick from. She choose wisely. She has a man who loves her and will stand by her rich or poor sickness or health.
Well, anyway, Appleby, have a good life, don’t regret any of your decisions, but make them wisely.
It should be clear to any objective person regardless of affiliation that the only person willing and able to cross the isle is Romney, not because he is a republican but because he is a centrist. He will not be manipulated by the republicans. Contrary to the demo believe, Pr. O will not compromise. Far left people do not compromise. Did the European communists ever compromise? The h/o communism in Europe shows that they must be defeated! Do Americans remember Hungary, Czechoslovakia and more recently Georgia invasion by Putin. The democrats in the US have been blackmailed in submission by the far left. Therefore they cannot be trusted. The far left will sell failed socialism to the masses while the elite will live like republicans.
Mitt Romney caught on hidden camera – claims some Church Leadership is Pro-Choice
Published on Jul 28, 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vINVnWYk0U&feature=watch-vrec