Save a few billion dollars and fix what is broken - Romney in 2016
I doubt many people,
Democrats in particular, want to review the consequences of having elected
Barack Obama to the presidency the last two elections. First there were the empty promises whose
failure was blamed on Bush even though the Democrats controlled both the House
and Senate the last two years Bush was president and the first two years under
Obama.
Blaming Bush for what had
to be approved by Congress is just plain hypocritical yet what did happen is we
got ourselves into an economic quagmire the likes of which we haven't seen
since the Great Depression.
Still, it was obvious to
candidate Obama in 2008 that we were in the midst of an economic catastrophe
and if elected he would have to get us through the mess. So he spent a billion dollars on his campaign
and won with 52.9 percent of the vote, a mandate in the eyes of the Main Street media.
Now I admit I don't
understand Ivy League math anymore than I understand voodoo economics but I do
know a little about numbers and I know if just 4 tenths of 1% of the vote had
voted for McCain instead of Obama then McCain would have been president. Since when was less than 1% a mandate?
So we got Obama and soon
it became obvious the promises of hope, deficit reductions, withdrawal from
wars, working together, serving all Americans, immigration reform, closing
Guantanamo prison and re-establishing America's prominence in the world were nothing
more than typical campaign promises, empty promises at that.
Obama did bail out General
Motors (who benefited from that?) and the banks but about 7 million people
still are not working nearly 6 years later and no fat cat crooks are in
jail. He also gave us ObamaCare, which
he personally guaranteed would lower the cost of health care, lower the cost of
insurance premiums, let you keep your old doctor and let you keep your health
insurance.
Thanks to his health care
program he got re-elected in 2012, this time with just 51.1% of the vote after
spending yet another billion dollars in his campaign. Two billion dollars spent by Obama in just
two campaigns could have fed a lot of hungry children and met the health care
needs of a lot of refugees from his failed foreign policy.
Once again his Main Street media called
it a mandate and a vindication of ObamaCare since there was absolutely nothing
else to show for the first four years and by now the national debt had more
than doubled since Bush left office.
The Obama 2012 people's
mandate shrunk in half from 2008 and now a change of just 2 tenths of 1% of the
vote would have made Mitt Romney president.
As for his 2008 promises,
he did pass health care reform but everything else remained as it was before he
got into office. Oh he did end the war
in Iraq if you called
leaving thousands of Americans behind ending anything and now more Iraq civilians
than ever are being killed in sectarian violence.
As for the glorious
ObamaCare promises, so far, none of those promises have come true. Oh yes, and the national debt has now soared
to over $17 trillion and Obama has no intention of fixing our future.
He ran on the platform
that he had experience but I think we realize now that being a community
organizer and part time state and federal senator does not substitute for real,
hands on experience in the big jobs, the tough decisions and the ability to
bring people together.
Ironically he also treated his opponent Mitt Romney mockingly and with derision when Mitt said Putin was a danger to our foreign policy and Obama scolded him that the Cold War was over and Russia being a threat to anyone ended in the 1980's.
In hindsight Obama might have been a little less arrogant as Russia has blocked his every move on Syria, Iran and North Korea not to mention destabilizing Europe as he stole Crimea from the Ukraine and has amassed troops on the border of the Ukraine as we await his next move. Some paper tiger that Putin and again Romney was right but I hear no apology from the Obama camp.
This year he will lose control of both the House and Senate and it will take Hollywood spin the likes of which we haven't seen since the Clinton administration to hear what kind of mandate he has for his last two years in office, spin like I didn't inhale or I didn't really have sex.
In hindsight Obama might have been a little less arrogant as Russia has blocked his every move on Syria, Iran and North Korea not to mention destabilizing Europe as he stole Crimea from the Ukraine and has amassed troops on the border of the Ukraine as we await his next move. Some paper tiger that Putin and again Romney was right but I hear no apology from the Obama camp.
This year he will lose control of both the House and Senate and it will take Hollywood spin the likes of which we haven't seen since the Clinton administration to hear what kind of mandate he has for his last two years in office, spin like I didn't inhale or I didn't really have sex.
What America needs is a
Reagan type with real world experience, a demonstrated ability to work with both
political parties, experience running a real office and organization, maturity
in respecting all nations and peoples of the world, common sense, and is not enamored
with the Hollywood crowd. We need a break from politics and politicians. Peace, stability, real hope, and integrity are sorely lacking in Washington but Romney just might be able to deliver them.
Oh my gosh, isn't that the
choice we had in 2012 when 2 tenths of one percent too many of the people
believed the Obama health care promises and re-elected him. As I recall, Mitt Romney offered all those
alternatives to the young, hip and confident candidate Obama.
If we only valued
experience more than flash, maturity more than stubbornness, compassion more
than partisanship and integrity more than expediency think how different things
might be right now.
There are a host of good
Republican candidates poised to run for president in 2016 but with Obama a
sitting, lame duck president and his hands tied by a GOP congress you can bet
the partisan rhetoric will be turned up even higher than right now.
Do we really want to spend
billions trying to decide who should be president when we already vetted one
candidate who survived the Obama onslaught and the media manipulation, was
every bit the gentleman we sorely miss, has proven he can work with people of
both parties for the public good, and even got health care right when he implemented
it in Massachusetts?
Mitt Romney is still out
there and time and again he has answered the call to public service whether in
state or federal government or the Olympics.
He doesn't need to spend a billion dollars to tell you who he is. He does know how to fix the economy,
implement health care, and gain the respect of foreign nations. Finally, he would have a great group of young
and aspiring Republican governors and members of congress to bring into his
administration.
Think about it. It's never too late to admit a mistake and
correct it.
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