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Romney’s excellent speech (with video links)
michellemalkin.com ^ | July 17, 2012 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 07/17/2012 12:34:33 PM PDT by John W

I’ve been tough on Mitt Romney and leaned hard on his campaign to take the gloves off, get in the fighting spirit, and push back against Obama narratives.

Today in Irwin, Pennsylvania, Romney delivered.

The Right Scoop has both excerpts and full speech video clips.

Watch here.

http://www.therightscoop.com/soon-watch-romney-live-in-irwin-pennsylvania/

As I noted on Twitter during the speech earlier this afternoon, Romney impressed with both the substance and the delivery of his rallying cry on behalf of individual achievement and free enterprise. He was energetic and passionate.

I believed in what he was selling: A vision for restoring American greatness and defending success.

Obama’s inability to hide his ideological contempt for entrepreneurs & individual success has helped Romney self-actualize.

If he gives this speech with the same zeal and optimism from now until November — offering a clear, unapologetic contrast to Barack Obama’s bitter politics of resentment, class warfare, and entitlement, Mitt Romney will win.

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More praise for Romney’s speech here.

http://twitchy.com/2012/07/17/fired-up-romney-says-you-did-build-it-scores-with-rousing-pro-freedom-speech/


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To: John W

To: John W

“Impossible....we were told that Mitt is weak, an idiot, an amateur, an agent of the left, blah, blah,blah.”

It’s incredible to me to listen to some “conservatives who seem to forget how our political system is set up. It seems as if they too want to change the system to suit some other model.

We had one of the most brutal and illuminating Republican primaries imaginable which Mitt Romney won, fairly and according to our own rules. Now, some Conservatives want to keep playing the tired old “ it isn’t fair” game that the Libs are so fond of playing.

Mitt Romney wasn’t the candidate for which I voted. But he won the nomination. To keep whining and evangelizing about first choices accomplishes nothing for us but plenty for the opposition.

The candidates who lost to Mitt Romney have mostly laid the Primary to rest and have gotten on about the business of supporting the ticket and putting the Socialist/Marxist out of our Whitehouse.

However, some keep beating the “lesser of two evils is still evil and I won’t vote” drum. Make no mistake; if you don’t vote, you share the blame if Obama wins. And if Obama wins another term, you can also share the blame for the end of this Nation as we know it.

Mitt Romney is a Republican and we would have a very good chance of swaying him one way or another on issues of importance. We will have zero,zilch, nada chances of swaying the Dictator and Chief. The last three and a half years ought to have proved that.

The Bible says “render unto Ceasar the things that are his.” We, unlike the Romans, can have some say, however small, about who “Ceasar” is and his policies. I still wonder, at this point, what alternatives are realistic for those Conservatives who are so disgruntled.


61 posted on 07/17/2012 5:05:54 PM PDT by Aleya2Fairlie
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To: Diogenesis

That’s a cute little robot picture and I know you worked hard on it. However, it seems that posting in a grown-up board is making you a bit hyper. Perhaps it’s the big words. Allow me to post some that may be more familiar and may calm you somewhat: “cheese doodles” , “futon”, “basement”, “Mommy and Daddy”. There now, all better?


62 posted on 07/17/2012 5:23:31 PM PDT by Aleya2Fairlie
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To: Aleya2Fairlie

63 posted on 07/17/2012 5:30:15 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. " Pres. Ronald Reagan)
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Click the link. The Republic you save may be your own.

64 posted on 07/17/2012 5:54:34 PM PDT by RedMDer (https://support.woundedwarriorproject.org/default.aspx?tsid=93destr)
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To: Diogenesis

65 posted on 07/17/2012 6:30:27 PM PDT by NoLibZone (We must get down on our knees each day and thank God that McCain/Palin didn't win in '08. Right?)
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To: Aleya2Fairlie

Is Michelle Malkin now considered RINO here?


66 posted on 07/17/2012 6:31:46 PM PDT by NoLibZone (We must get down on our knees each day and thank God that McCain/Palin didn't win in '08. Right?)
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To: Palmetto Patriot

Looked to me like he should have been looking for ICE.


67 posted on 07/17/2012 6:44:17 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Half the people are below average, they voted for oblabla.)
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To: Diogenesis

No, the DUmmies won’t be voting Romney. They’ll be voting for your boy 0bama.


68 posted on 07/17/2012 7:00:21 PM PDT by Trod Upon (Obama: Making the Carter malaise look good. Misery Index in 3...2...1)
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To: Trod Upon
Nonsense. It is Mr. RomneyCARE who DEFENDS Obama on EVERYTHING.

Romney: "Obama was born in the United States"

Romney: "Obama Doesn’t Need a Birth Certificate"

Romney: "The citizenship test has been passed"


“White House Quotes Romney in Defense of Health Care”



Mitt Romney Sends Leftover Pizza to Obama Chicago HQ
After spending the day in Chicago fundraising, Mitt Romney
sat down with small business owners at Gino's East,
a pizza joint famous for their deep-dish pizza.
In fact, Romney himself tweeted a photo of a
delivery boy heading out with the loot, writing,
"Great deep dish at @ginoseast.
Sending the extra slices to @barackobama and his Chicago HQ team."

69 posted on 07/17/2012 7:15:31 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. " Pres. Ronald Reagan)
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To: Jumper

Wrong. Romney does his best when he ignores his damn handlers, and speaks with the passion that helps the audience see him as a leader, and not some empty suit Candidate.

Obama rants are entirely staged with his arrogant “look-up-my-nostrils-when-I-speak-down-to-you-because-the-boogers-you-see-are-what-you-are-to-me.”


70 posted on 07/17/2012 7:51:58 PM PDT by Graewoulf ((Traitor John Roberts' Obama"care" violates Sherman Anti-Trust Law, AND the U.S. Constitution.))
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To: stephenjohnbanker
He musta read our posts.....

:-)

71 posted on 07/17/2012 8:05:50 PM PDT by Lakeshark (I don't care for Mitt, the alternative is unthinkable)
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To: NoLibZone

As of today, probably.


72 posted on 07/17/2012 8:08:04 PM PDT by John W (Viva Cristo Rey!)
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To: Sequoyah101

the black guy?


73 posted on 07/17/2012 8:36:29 PM PDT by MrChips (MrChips)
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To: MrChips

No, the one with the round head on your right and over Romney’s left shoulder top row. Kept going ot sleep or something. He sure didn’t look black to me.


74 posted on 07/17/2012 9:07:31 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Half the people are below average, they voted for oblabla.)
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To: Diogenesis

Romney hit it out of the park in his speech today. RINO or not, his message is the message I want the people to hear about free markets, etc.

DIOG, did you even watch this speech??

Just imagine that it’s not Romney at the podium, rather someone else giving that same speech. And ask yourself if the words spoken are those of a free-market conservative or not:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jozoBqL-eMM

Even if Mittens says things we want to hear and then becomes a RINO in office, he’d still be right of Brak Obutthole and at least he’d be giving speeches like this against Obutthole.

I take it you STILL prefer Obutthoe, right? If so, then you should understand from the standpoint of the election count, there is functionally little difference between you and an Obamabot troll.


75 posted on 07/18/2012 1:09:13 AM PDT by AlanGreenSpam (Obama: The First 'American IDOL' President - sponsored by Chicago NeoCom Thugs)
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To: Diogenesis

>> Did Mr. RomneyCARE RETRACT his position on DEATH PANELS
and socialized medicine?

Unlikely.


76 posted on 07/18/2012 1:35:33 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: NoLibZone

I was unaware of that quote by Palin.

I envision a similar scenario that would help to buffer the moral stupidity Romney is known for.


77 posted on 07/18/2012 1:41:08 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: John W
I just watched clips of the Romney speech. You are not going to see anything about this speech on mainstream media because it was absolutely devastating to Obama and we all know that mainstream media is 100% in the tank for Obama no matter what so they will continue to portray Romney as an out of touch "rich guy" who "purchased" the nomination with money from Bain Capital, blah, blah, blah.

So at least watch the 10 minute clip attached to this article is all I have to say (I intend to watch the full speech later). Romney has either been coached well or he has found his mojo - or combination of the two. He was on fire during this speech. Not the wooden cliche-ridden speech we've come to expect. It was passionate and full of the kind of plain talk we've come to expect from Reagan or Palin. Mainstream media coverage or not, if this is the kind of speech Romney maintains on the campaign trail and at the convention (where many people will hear him unedited on TV for the first time) - he will win this election by a wide margin.

What Obama said a few days ago about business people and how they are not responsible for their own success will be his undoing - so long Romney does not let that moronic statement die on the vine. The mainstream media will never show Obama making that moronic statement which by the say, sums up perfectly what Obama is all about - radical socialization of America. It is up to Romney to keep this alive and judging by the crowd reaction at this speech - Romney has a winning theme...take back America from this radical leftist socialist.

On another note, I've seen an increasing amount of consternation from Freepers here that Romney does not appear to be on the offensive and that Obama is putting out all these ads that are uncontested.

Well I am not sure that all Freepers are aware that campaign laws forbid Romney from using the money he is collecting for his campaign until AFTER the election. Due to the competitive primaries, Romney has already spent most of his pre-convention money which means that after the convention, he will have a pile of it to spend in just eight or nine weeks.

Because Obama didn't have any competition in the primaries, he is spending his pre-convention money now - making it seem that Romney is not even putting up a fight.

So the TV/radio ad war will be joined as soon as the convention ends. In the meantime, listen to the Romney stump speech. I was much encouraged by it and this bodes well for the fall campaign that has yet to come.

78 posted on 07/18/2012 2:36:01 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: SamAdams76

Correction to my above post. Romney will not be able to use the money he is raising now until after the CONVENTION (not the election!).


79 posted on 07/18/2012 2:39:29 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: 1010RD

“The other day I said to my kid - “like a broken record”. He just stared at me. He didn’t know what I was talking about.”

I’m old enough to know what your’e talking about, and I agree. Going to be interesting for these folks when Romney wins and starts turning this country around.


80 posted on 07/18/2012 4:49:10 AM PDT by Rennes Templar
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