Romney's Riff On 1992
After winning a bunch of primaries tonight, Mitt Romney gave a speech. Here's a portion:
Four years ago Barack Obama dazzled us in front of Greek columns with sweeping promises of hope and change. But after we came down to earth, after the celebration and parades, what do we have to show for three and a half years of President Obama?
Is it easier to make ends meet? Is it easier to sell your home or buy a new one? Have you saved what you needed for retirement? Are you making more in your job? Do you have a better chance to get a better job? Do you pay less at the pump?
If the answer were “yes” to those questions, then President Obama would be running for re-election based on his achievements…and rightly so. But because he has failed, he will run a campaign of diversions, distractions, and distortions. That kind of campaign may have worked at another place and in a different time. But not here and not now. It’s still about the economy …and we’re not stupid.
People are hurting in America. And we know that something is wrong, terribly wrong with the direction of the country.
Speaking solely in terms of the speech-writing, this is a vast improvement over some of what we've seen from Romney over the last year, no?
It’s still about the economy …and we’re not stupid. Not bad. Not bad at all.
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Jul '10
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That's a pretty good line, and exactly the right tone. Color me impressed.
Jul '11
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We found it worthy. A Better America starts tonight.
Jan '11
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Best I've seen him give. Lets hope he keeps it up.
May '10
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Cheers, Mitt. Keep it coming.
Apr '12
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Romney's victory speeches have been consistently solid
May '10
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His throwing the "fairness" rubbish in Obama's face was beautiful (eg, is it fair that politicians reward their friends with gov't contracts? that union members are forced to fund politicians they don't support? that inner city kids are denied school choice? that our kids are saddled with our debts? etc).
Jun '11
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Our president offers a target rich record to criticize and it looks like Romney is going to be nimble enough to hit all the targets. I am encouraged also.
May '10
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Happy to see Romney being the Romney I expected. I'm on the verge of being confident, and wondering not only how does Romney win, but how does he win while doing the maximum political and cultural damage to the Democrats and the MSM.
Jun '11
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"We're not stupid" That's a heck of a lot better slogan than the one Peter thought we'd be stuck with.
Nov '10
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Better, but still bland. But he's got the presidential gravitas thing more-or-less figured out.
With the current trajectory Mitt's got a lock on the presidency even if Obama has a war-chest of kajillions -- because I think he's also losing a lot of MSM support, or they're growing lukewarm on him -- and he needs them because he doesn't really connect with mainstream america without their grooming; he's almost entirely connected to big lobby, big environmentalism, big union. Romney may be filthy rich, but he's got a "down home" avuncularity that Obama can't buy, and Mitt's family is so ordinary they come right into your livingroom and make themselves at home. BHO's in troulbe.
We're in trouble too, because I don't think anyone in the GOP has a clean measure on where Mitt will go in office. Conservatives need, right now, to be working on how to keep him honest in his conservatism, which hasn't sold me, for one, despite his much improved rhetoric.
Jan '11
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Romney will be great - as long as he's smart (he is) and he learns (and he does). He knows that this is a "gloves off" bare knuckle fight, and I believe he can do it. If he doesn't - America and the world suffers. PS - Mr Robinson - what does it take to impress you? :(
Mar '11
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I think it is, at the same time, wonderful and depressing to see the comments on this post.
It is wonderful that even those of us that are ABR primary voters understand that we simply must vote for Romney because he is not Obama.
And it is depressing to find everyone being so fickle in forgetting why we were ABR voters in the first place.
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Romney should do an advertisement right now in which he says no more than this, and the Republicans should run it over and over again in the coming months.
Mar '12
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This is the candidate I expected him to be once the primary season was over. And based on his rapid response operation last week, I heartily encouraged. He understands what he's up against.
Apr '12
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I've said this before - Romney is vastly underestimated. He will only improve.
Edited on April 25, 2012 at 1:49pmMay '10
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R. Craigen: Better, but still bland. But he's got the presidential gravitas thing more-or-less figured out.
..................... Romney may be filthy rich, but he's got a "down home" avuncularity that Obama can't buy, and Mitt's family is so ordinary they come right into your livingroom and make themselves at home. BHO's in troulbe.
We're in trouble too, because I don't think anyone in the GOP has a clean measure on where Mitt will go in office. Conservatives need, right now, to be working on how to keep him honest in his conservatism, which hasn't sold me, for one, despite his much improved rhetoric. · 12 hours ago
RC, there are a lot of similar ABR sentiments expressed here. Can you do a post spelling out exactly what has to be done- or energetically attempted- as president to satisfy you- not the utopian dream but "OK" in terms of achievable center-right policy?