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Needed to be a more direct attack at the President, Obamacare and his leftist agenda.
Not a bad job by Gov. Daniels. Props to Mitch tonight.
However, I see the Establishment has massaged the traditional message, updating and transforming it for 2012:
Now instead of demanding we surrender Social/Moral/Cultural issues because “The World is a dangerous place,” or because “National Security trumps all else” we are told to put them on the back burner for the sake of “Economic Security.”
Kudos on a nice attempt, but I’m still not interested in surrendering to the Liberals. It’s nice that they have come-up with a new strategy after all of these years, though. It took them a while, but they have a new angle on the whole “Let’s just dump the Social Issues” platform.
“The President’s grand experiment in trickle-down government has held back rather than sped economic recovery”
Nice line.
Great rebuttal speech by Gov Mitch Daniels! Just to add my comments.... I hate 0dumb0shit more & more every day! May he & his bastard family roast forever in Hell & the Lake of Fire. It is eagerly awaiting he & his family!
Barring a major screw up by Obambi, I think the GOP has blown this election. Our candidates have beat up on themselves to the point that no one left running is really viable.
The worst President in the history of our country looks to be heading for re-election, and we have handed it to him on a silver platter. They don't call us the stupid party for no reason.
Sorry for being a downer, but I am beyond disgusted with our party.
Great Line:
“The extremism that stifles the development of homegrown energy, or cancels a perfectly safe pipeline that would employ tens of thousands, or jacks up consumer utility bills for no improvement in either human health or world temperature, is a pro-poverty policy”
A Republican candidate should be able to beat Obama running on the Keystone decision alone.
Gov. Daniels did a nice job.
It’s weak pablum when Indictment is warranted.
"So 2012 is a year of true opportunity, maybe our last, to restore an America of hope and upward mobility, and greater equality. The challenges aren't matters of ideology, or party preference; the problems are simply mathematical, and the answers are purely practical."
This is the first time, I think, that a leading Republican has spoken bluntly (however briefly) about the catastrophe facing our nation in the near future.
"The better course is to stop sending the wealthy benefits they do not need..."
That sounds to me like "means testing", and that's the slippery slope that would inevitably end up turning social security into strictly another welfare program for the bums, deadbeats, losers, and parasites who comprise the Democrat party base.
"Wealthy" would continually be defined down until it included everybody who ever had an IRA or a 401k. No thanks, Mitch. Either give people the opportunity to opt out (ie., not pay into) or stuff that idea where the sun don't shine.
An excellent speech. But he completely skipped over all the social issues. Obama is a baby killer. That needs to be said. Obama and his friends are imposing sexual perversions on our school children. That needs to be said. Obama hates Christianity, and hates freedom of religion. That needs to be said.
And foreign policy? Many more of our troops were wounded and killed in Afghanistan under Obama than were ever killed under Bush. Yet Obama has basically lost that war. Bush had the war in Iraq almost won, but Obama lost that war, too.
Obama has given Brazil billions of dollars to drill for oil under the sea, although he has blocked any new development here—so Brazil could sell it to the Chinese! And now by blocking the pipeline he is trying to force Canada to sell all their oil to the Chinese.
Obama helped force secular leaders out in Egypt and Tunisia, and now fanatical Islamists are taking over. He bombed schools and hospitals in Libya and handed that country over to Muslim terrorists, too. The so-called “Arab Spring” is rapidly turning into a winter for the civilization we have built up over the past centuries.
And so forth. A good speech, but it leaves a lot out. And why on earth waste time with compliments for Michelle?
“Contrary to the President’s constant disparagement of people in business, it’s one of the noblest of human pursuits. The late Steve Jobs - what a fitting name he had - created more of them than all those stimulus dollars the President borrowed and blew.”
I confess I didn’t hear the speech, but that line is pretty darn good.
This could have been the best speech since Reagan’s “Tear Down This Wall”, but it won’t matter one bit. I bet tonight’s ratings for this event were the lowest yet for Obummer. Mitch had a bad lead in.
Delivered with the passion and intensity if a jelly-fish.
Brilliant, mature, well-reasoned and succinctly stated. The charisma of competence.
Not sure what others will say here, but I just watched a Republican advocate for turning Medicare and Social Security into PROGRESSIVE TAXES.
That was a step too far for even the Socialists in the Labour Party of the UK under Blair/Brown.
this is a disgrace,