The Comeback Team & the Chicago Machine
The Comeback Team
I was calling Romney the “Comeback Kid” during the
primaries, and now that he’s picked his VP, the campaign team has dubbed them
the “Comeback Team.” And Congressman Paul Ryan is
being called the best GOP VP pick in the last 60 years. Romney’s first important decision as
president is an excellent one. I praised
Ryan in an earlier blog post (April 26, 2011) when he was under attack for his
budget proposal. Of course Obama is
already attacking it again, calling it “thinly veiled social Darwinism.” To be compared with blatant socialist
engineering by the Dems? And I thought
the liberal secularists were enamored with Darwinian theory.
Romney introduced Ryan at Norfolk (both entered from the USS Wisconsin,
Ryan’s home state). He called him a man
of unquestioned integrity and one who gets things done. He said together they’d offer solutions that
are bold, specific and achievable.
Ryan in turn said that Romney has the skills, background and
character to revive this country – the man for the moment. “He and I will restore the greatness of this
country....This is a crucial moment in our history.” He said his father told him you’re either
part of the problem or part of the solution – Obama is part of the problem,
Romney part of the solution. Our duty is
to save the American dream for our children and ourselves.
In Obama’s first 2 years, he passed all that was on his
agenda, yet things didn’t improve – 1 in 6 in poverty, etc. A record of failure. He is more worried about the next election than the next
generation. We can’t afford 4 more years
of this – it’s not a new normal. It’s
the result of misguided policies. This
will be a comeback, and get us back on the right track. Mitt Romney understands that if you have a
small business, you did build that. He’s shown himself a man of achievement,
excellence and integrity. We look at
each others’ success with pride, not resentment – it will improve life for all
of us.
Our rights come from nature and God, not government. We promise equal opportunity, not equal
outcomes. We were founded on the
principle of government by consent of the governed – an idea that’s under
assault. We’re on an unsustainable
path. We commit that we won’t duck the
tough issues. We’ll lead, and won’t
blame others, but will take responsibility.
We can turn this thing around – it will take leadership and courage to
tell you the truth. Together we will
unite America
and get this done.
Spin: Ryan makes the
battle shift from stewardship to ideas.
Change is now on the side of the GOP.
The Dems say Ryan is the architect of the radical House budget [that’s
right – exactly what’s needed]. Bill
Kristal – A bold and powerful pick. Ryan
has said they complement one another – Romney with executive experience in the
private, public & volunteer sectors outside Washington ,
and Ryan with legislative, Washington
experience. And both are strong on the
economy, which is the main problem.
Of course the Dems are already attacking the author of the
Ryan Budget plan – but they have no room to talk – they’ve passed no budget for
the last 3 years, but just continue to kick the can down the road, following
the European (esp. Greek) model, and inviting the same results.
More Pinnochios for the Dems
The Democrat machine & liberal media seem to be having
such trouble finding real faults with a man even Mark Levin (hardly a strong
Romney supporter) said has the cleanest record around, that they have to
fabricate them out of whole cloth.
Take for instance Harry Reid’s unsupported statement on the
floor of the Senate, that “Word has it Mitt Romney didn’t pay any taxes in the
last 10 years.” That earned him 4
Pinnochios from the non-partisan fact-checkers – their highest (lowest?)
award. Romney’s released the last 2
years of returns showing taxes paid, and he says he’s paid his lawful taxes every
year (in addition to generous charitable giving). Does anyone doubt the IRS would have come
after him if not? Harry needs to be
reminded of the LDS
Church
The Bain attacks continue.
The latest is an ad (by a former Obama advisor) depicting a man
describing how as a result of his layoff from a Bain company, his insurance was
lost, and his wife’s cancer was as a result discovered too late to save
her. The trouble is, he was laid off at
least a couple years after Romney left Bain to work the Olympics, and even then
for some years after that his wife still had her (different) employer’s
insurance, until her layoff. But the man
accuses Romney of not even being aware of or caring about such
consequences.
Plenty of Pinnochio’s to go around, and they refuse to
withdraw the ad. Why should they? It and other groundless charges appear to be
having their desired effect of painting a cruel and heartless Romney – Obama’s
polls have pulled back ahead among the bleeding hearts who choose not to use
their minds or check their facts. What
Romney has called “Obamaloney,” countering the “Romneyhood” moniker. Obama mastered the art of emotional
manipulation as a community organizer, and has recently (just in time for the
election) been one by one selectively giving goodies to his targeted
constituencies to buy their votes – the Hispanics, women, unions, gays, Blacks,
etc.
And these are some of the same tactics mister Obama used to
win his first election to a seat in the Illinois
legislature. He ran unopposed after his
opponent dropped out in humiliation when Obama’s campaign exposed his divorce
records. Chicago style politics of character
assassination. Not running on personal
merits, accomplishments or issues. And
that’s just what we’re seeing here. Of
course he has no record to run on, even now after 4 years.
It’s interesting to contrast the clearly biased media
coverage of Romney’s recent trip to England ,
Israel & Poland with
coverage of Obama’s trip in 2008. The
Obama reports abroad & in the US were gushing for the unaccomplished but
promising Black candidate – so much fervor that they could hardly wait to award
him a Nobel Prize before he’d done anything (and still hasn’t). But they loved his liberal rhetoric, and over
the years have glossed over his gaffes. The
Media Research
Center reports that the US networks
only included Romney’s supposed Olympic “gaffe” in their stories after taking a
cue from the Brits. 18 of 21 reports
emphasized the “gaffes,” though they were innocuous (some called it a “tempest
in a teapot”) and certainly appropriate for a former Olympic president to
make. And Romney has many more
substantial accomplishments under his belt.
Of course the French socialist government decried Romney’s proposed cuts of
“needed entitlements.”
Obama demonizes Romney as “Romneyhood,” a reverse-Robin-Hood
who robs from the poor to give the rich.
But Romney proposes cutting taxes across the board. He does propose cutting spending, including
entitlements, but only in order to keep the programs and nation from
bankruptcy. But of course a socialist
would view anything besides redistribution of wealth as robbery. They want to milk the cow dry and not worry
about the consequences. Which is why
Obama is by all rights the food stamp president, and has waived for the states
requirements for welfare recipients to do more than just collect welfare. And of course Obama fancies himself as a real
Robin Hood who robs the rich and gives to the poor – buying their votes and
keeping them down on the welfare plantation – the soft racism of low
expectations.
4 More Years?
Having seen the very well-documented “2016” movie about
Obama, it is clearer than ever how strongly and consistently over his entire
life Obama was mentored and strongly influenced by some of the very most
radical Communists, Marxists, liberation theologists and
anti-neocolonialists. And how his
actions that have the effect of diminishing this country and its moderating
influence play right into those philosophies.
But he’s given a by out of prevalent white guilt over racism, and by
those mesmerized by his masterful oratory and glowing promises. Only his promises to unite and not divide
this country have been hollow as he’s made the divides even greater by
capitalizing on class & race warfare.
So, too, his promises to improve the economy & cut the deficit.
Such great promises, and what does he have to show? If the American electorate continues to fall
for it after 4 years, and all the examples of failing European states & American
cities and states, then they undoubtedly deserve to reap the consequences of
more of it. They will blindly follow
Obama & his slogan of “forward,” just like lemmings over a cliff. He ridiculed Republicans in 2008, saying we
drove the car into the ditch, and we can’t have the keys now. Well, he’s clearly demonstrated he can’t get
the car out of the ditch, and therefore the keys need to be given to those with
demonstrated abilities and ideas – not the same as those begun under the
Democrat Congress the last years of Bush’s presidency that precipitated the
economic crisis, e.g., the Dodd-Frank social engineering market manipulation. He’s like a college kid given a credit card
who goes out & charges with wild abandon for the consequences – his card must
be revoked before he can do more damage.
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