Our country faces a momentous choice. The fact is the
United States is on an unsustainable course. At stake is nothing less than our
position in the world, our standard of living at home and our constitutional
freedoms.
That is why I am endorsing Mitt Romney for president.
We can’t afford four more years in which debt mushrooms
out of control, our government grows and our military is weakened.
For the past four years, we have squandered one
opportunity after the next to turn things around.
That’s true, folks; from the moment Obama allowed Reid
and Pelosi to hijack his first "stimulus" bill and load it with pork
instead of facing them down for the good of the nation we all knew... even if
only deep down for some of us... that we'd been played.
The longer we delay acting, the steeper the price we will
have to pay.
Folks... voting Republican is no panacea... but we know
that Romney and the Republicans will spend less than Obama and the Democrats. And,
folks... beyond the likes of Romney, Boehner, and McConnell, we know that there
are some real reformers within the Republican Party - folks like Jim DeMint,
Ron Paul, Rand Paul... and given his druthers, Paul Ryan - who will fight
establishment Republican "me tooism" from the inside - thus giving us
at least a hope of getting some true reform.
Let’s look at the country as it is now.
The American economy is stagnant. Economic growth is
insufficient to create enough jobs for a country whose population is growing.
The result is unemployment stuck over 8% for every single month of Barack
Obama’s presidency.
Yes... "excepting this month"... that is if you
believe the survey data. I don't. Nor does Jack Walsh. Nor - apparently - does
Ross Perot.
Folks... we've gone over this. Ad nauseum. This "miraculous"
7.9% U-3 unemployment stat is bogus. The U-6 unemployment stat didn't budge! U-6
unemployment stands at fourteen-point-seven (14.7) friggin' percent! (When
Obama took office in January 2009 U-6 unemployment stood at 14.2%!)
We have 23 million Americans who are looking for work and
either can’t find a full-time job, can’t find a job at all, or who have given
up looking. That is wrong. It’s not the way America ought to be.
At the same time, and not unrelated, is the extraordinary
explosion of federal deficits and federal debt. In the last four years during
Obama’s presidency, he’s added around $5 trillion to our national debt, more
than any previous president. This was accomplished by successive federal
budgets that each ran deficits exceeding $1 trillion a year. It is this massive
deficit spending that threatens to undermine our future standard of living. To
pay for our government’s massive debts, Washington’s profligacy, our children
and grandchildren will be paying interest and principal on the nation’s debt
for untold years into the future. That is wrong. It’s not the way America ought
to be.
Amen, Ross Perot... amen.
Even as we have engaged in runaway domestic spending, the
country has been put on the path to massive cuts in the defense budget.
President Obama’s own Secretary of Defense has called the proposed cuts
“devastating” to our nation’s security. History teaches that the price of
military weakness always exceeds the price of preparedness. And yet at a moment
when turbulence is sweeping critical regions of the world, we are increasingly
unprepared. That is wrong. It’s not the way America ought to be.
Listen... folks... I trust neither side with being able
to formulate smart foreign and defense policies... yet... we've seen what we've
gotten from Obama and Hillary Clinton... from Obama and Leon Panetta.
It is for these reasons that I am endorsing Mitt Romney.
He has spent most of his career in the private sector. He understands how jobs
are created. He understands how government can get in the way of that process.
As a president, he would do what this administration has been unable to do,
which is reform our federal government, pare it back, and — most critically —
keep it from acting as a brake on economic growth.
And compared to Obama's failed policies... yes... I
believe Romney's policies will overall be far, far better for our country.
Again, folks... we have the Obama record. We have the
Romney record. We see what unrestrained liberalism (well... Democratic Party
rule at least) has done in state after state, city after city. It's been disastrous.
Just look at our President's home - Chicago, Illinois. Look at California. Look
at Detroit, Michigan. Look at Philadelphia. Look at Washington D.C. and
Baltimore. Jeezus, folks... the policies of the Left don't work!
Equally important, as a governor, Mitt Romney balanced
the budget of his state for four straight years without raising taxes. Writing
in all caps is called shouting, and that fact is something that deserves to be
shouted from the rooftops. I should add that Gov. Romney accomplished this feat
while working with a legislature that was overwhelmingly under the control of
the Democratic Party in one of the most liberal states in the country.
Listen... I'm fairly confident that if I were to
deconstruct the Romney record as Governor of Massachusetts I'd find plenty of
budget gimmicks and bond issuances behind the "balanced budgets." But
that misses the point! You're always (or at least usually) gonna find that sort
of stuff! The bottom line is that Mitt Romney and the Republicans are going to
be less spendthrift and more financially responsible than Obama, Pelosi, and
Reid. It's not even a question!
In short, although he is a rock-solid conservative, he
knows how to reach across the aisle and make common cause with those with whom
he disagrees.
Well... I certainly don't look upon Mitt Romney as a
"rock-solid conservative," but if it's between him and Obama...
(*SHRUG*)
These are leadership qualities that are sorely needed in
Washington today. President Obama promised a great deal. He has had his chance.
The results are visible for all to see. It is time for a new beginning. It is
time for Mitt Romney.
And that truly is the bottom line.
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