Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) told the Republican National Convention tonight that the purpose of November’s election is “to make sure that America is still a place where tomorrow is always better than yesterday.”
“This is a big honor for me,” the senator said of the speaking slot to introduce GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney. “Not so long ago I was just a underdog candidate. The only people who thought I could win all live in my house. Four of them were under the age of 10.”
Rubio said that the only consistent advice he received about what to say in this pivotal speech was “don’t mess it up.”
“Our problem with President Obama is not he is a bad person. By all accounts, he too is a good husband, a good father, and thanks to lots of practice, a good golfer,” he said. “Our problem is not that he is a bad person. Our problem is that he is a bad president.”
“Do you think he’s watching tonight? Because his new slogan is the word, forward. Forward,” Rubio continued. “A government that spends $1 trillion more than it takes in? An $800 billion stimulus that treated more debt than jobs? A government intervention into healthcare paid for with higher taxes and cuts to Medicare, scores of new rules and regulations. These ideas do not move us forward. These ideas move us backwards.”
“These are tired and old big government ideas that have failed every time and everywhere they have been tried. These are ideas that people come to America to get away from,” the senator said. “These are ideas that threaten to make America more like the rest of the world instead of helping the rest of the world become more like America. As for his old slogan, under Barack Obama, the only change is that hope is hard to find.”
November’s election, he said, “is not simply a choice between a Democrat and Republican. It is a choice about what kind of country you want America to be.”
Acknowledging that, for some in the TV audience, the last few years “have tested your faith in the promise of America.”
“You want to believe we’re still that special place where anything is possible. You just do not seem — things not seen to be getting any better, and you wonder if things will ever be the same again,” he said. “Yes, we live in a troubled time, but the story of those who came before us reminds us that America has always been about new beginnings, and Mitt Romney is running for president because he knows, if we are willing to do for our children what our parents did for us, life in America can be better than it has ever been.”
On the subject of new beginnings, Rubio began his speech with a nod to a country’s a few hundred miles away from Tampa.
“There is no freedom or liberty in Cuba, and tonight, I ask for your prayers that soon freedom and liberty will be there as well,” he said.
• “The Convention Made Us Think–How About You? –No?”
Dedicated to “The Empty Chair”
Did you think it enough to be “likeable”?
Did you believe it sufficed to be “cool”?
You once promised command of the land and the seas,
For four years you have played us for fools!
Bernanke’s abusing his printing press, .
Geithner (tax cheat) never had one good plan.
And we found you’d betrayed us and lied to us.
When you claimed we’d “unite” at your hands!
You still haven’t a clue as to what to do,
To make jobs, spend much less, calm our days.
So you get up and turn on your Media whores,
And go golfing in a Choom** induced haze.
You made food stamps a “virtue”, you degraded our fisc*,
You bowed lower and lower each day.
To the tyrants and despots whose great goal in life,
Was to kill the American Way.
You said, “I’ll do it in three or I’m outta here”;
Now you say “I just need another four”.
Since you spit on our seniors and crippled our land,
We’d be crazy to allow you do more!
* Fisc = the treasury of a nation – see “national debt” rating downgrades.
** Choom = both a noun (marijuana) and a verb (“to smoke marijuana”)
Barry Soetoro aka Barry Obama aka Barrack Hussein Obama aka … CREATED NEW WAYS TO GET HIGH. See, http://www.buzzfeed.com/gavon/…
obama. These included BOTH marijuana and cocaine aka coke aka blow aka “Barry Fuel”…
Cuba is an old dull issue and no one cares very much what happens there. The Cubans have chosen their lot, let them live with it. They are no strategic threat, let’s top wasting money on these folks. When the regime falls the Miami Cubans can waste time and money in the courts trying to reclaim their lost property.
Your post is an insult to the brave Cuban dissidents who risk their lives,daily in the struggle to win a modicum of human rights for the opressed and starving Cuban people.Lots of things happen in Castro’s stalinist “worker’s paradise”; none of them good: the torture and murder of dissidents, the daily repression of civil rights,and the abject misery and material poverty of life under communism.You are either a callous cuban-exile hating libtard (that is to say, a crypto stalinist),or just plain stupid which is what your monniker means when translated into Spanish:BRUTO!
2012 Election Integrity Project
http://www.judicialwatch.org/projects/2012-election-integrity-project/
Whether Mitt wins or loses, we saw the next president introduce Mitt.
Go to 9:05 to hear question/answers on Romney’s change in Abortion position including explanation on the change, and the official Mormon Church position. 10:35 is “off air” dialogue between Romney and the host; where Romney claims Church Leadership that are Pro-Choice. Romney tells the host he is wrong when he reads from the Church publication that participation or advocacy of abortion can be disciplined.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vINVnWYk0U&feature=watch-vrec