Posted on 08/11/2012 8:48:02 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion
Thank you Governor Romney, Ann. I am deeply honored and excited to join you as your running mate.
Mitt Romney is a leader with the skills, the background and the character that our country needs at a crucial time in its history. Following four years of failed leadership, the hopes of our country, which have inspired the world, are growing dim; and they need someone to revive them. Governor Romney is the man for this moment; and he and I share one commitment: we will restore the dreams and greatness of this country.
I want you to meet my family. My wife Janna, our daughter Liza, and our sons, Charlie and Sam.
I am surrounded by the people I love, and I have been asked by Governor Romney to serve the country I love.
Janesville, Wisconsin is where I was born and raised, and I never really left it. It’s our home now.
For the last 14 years, I have proudly represented Wisconsin in Congress. There, I have focused on solving the problems that confront our country, and turning ideas into action; and action into solutions.
I am committed, in heart and mind, to putting that experience to work in a Romney Administration. This is a crucial moment in the life of our nation; and it is absolutely vital that we select the right man to lead America back to prosperity and greatness.
That man is standing next to me. His name is Mitt Romney. And he will be the next president of the United States
My dad died when I was young. He was a good and decent man. I still remember a couple of things he would say that have really stuck with me. "Son you are either part of the problem or part of the solution."
Regrettably, President Obama has become part of the problem,...and Mitt Romney is the solution.
The other thing my dad would say is that every generation of Americans leaves their children better off. That's the American legacy.
Sadly, for the first time in our history, we are on a path which will undo that legacy. That is why we need new leadership to become part of the solution – new leadership to restore prosperity, economic growth, and jobs.
It is our duty to save the American Dream for our children, and theirs.
And I believe there is no person in America who is better prepared – because of his experience; because of the principles he holds; and because of his achievements and excellence in so many different arenas – to lead America at this point in its history.
Let me say a word about the man Mitt Romney will replace. No one disputes President Obama inherited a difficult situation. And, in his first 2 years, with his party in complete control of Washington, he passed nearly every item on his agenda. But that didn’t make things better.
In fact, we find ourselves in a nation facing debt, doubt and despair.
President Obama, and too many like him in Washington, have refused to make difficult decisions because they are more worried about their next election than they are about the next generation. We might have been able to get away with that before, but not now. We’re in a different, and dangerous, moment. We're running out of time -- and we can't afford 4 more years of this.
Politicians from both parties have made empty promises which will soon become broken promises--with painful consequences--if we fail to act now.
I represent a part of America that includes inner cities, rural areas, suburbs and factory towns. Over the years I have seen and heard from a lot from families, from those running small businesses, and from people who are in need. But what I have heard lately troubles me the most. There is something different in their voice and in their words. What I hear from them are diminished dreams, lowered expectations, uncertain futures.
I hear some people say that this is just "the new normal." High unemployment, declining incomes and crushing debt is not a new normal. It's the result of misguided policies. And next January, our economy will begin a comeback with the Romney Plan for a Stronger Middle Class that will lead to more jobs and more take home pay for working Americans.
America is on the wrong track; but Mitt Romney and I will take the right steps, in the right time, to get us back on the right track!
I believe my record of getting things done in Congress will be a very helpful complement to Governor Romney’s executive and private sector success outside Washington. I have worked closely with Republicans as well as Democrats to advance an agenda of economic growth, fiscal discipline, and job creation.
I’m proud to stand with a man who understands what it takes to foster job creation in our economy, someone who knows from experience, that if you have a small business—you did build that.
At Bain Capital, he launched new businesses and he turned around failing ones – companies like Staples, Bright Horizons and Sports Authority, just to name a few. Mitt Romney created jobs and showed he knows how a free economy works.
At the Olympics, he took a failing enterprise and made it the pride of our entire nation.
As governor of Massachusetts, he worked with Democrats and Republicans to balance budgets with no tax increases, lower unemployment, increase income and improve people’s lives.
In all of these things, Mitt Romney has shown himself to be a man of achievement, excellence and integrity.
Janna and I tell Liza, Charlie and Sam that America is a place where, if you work hard and play by the rules, you can get ahead.
We Americans look at one another's success with pride, not resentment, because we know, as more Americans work hard, take risks, and succeed, more people will prosper, our communities will benefit, and individual lives will be improved and uplifted.
But America is more than just a place...it's an idea. It's the only country founded on an idea. Our rights come from nature and God, not government. We promise equal opportunity, not equal outcomes.
This idea is founded on the principles of liberty, freedom, free enterprise, self-determination and government by consent of the governed.
This idea is under assault. So, we have a critical decision to make as a nation.
We are on an unsustainable path that is robbing America of our freedom and security. It doesn't have to be this way.
The commitment Mitt Romney and I make to you is this:
We won't duck the tough issues...we will lead!
We won't blame others...we will take responsibility!
We won't replace our founding principles...we will reapply them!
We will honor you, our fellow citizens, by giving you the right and opportunity to make the choice:
Mitt Romney is this kind of leader. I'm excited for what lies ahead and I'm thrilled to be a part of America's Comeback Team. And together, we will unite America and get this done.
Thank you.
When he stated nature I think he probably meant natural law which is a part of Catholic teaching - God gives us natural law and often we refer to it as nature but all good including nature comes from God.
Your Creator made nature and the laws of nature. This is what Ryan is referencing.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09076a.htm
“Coronary artery disease, at 55. Same with his grandfather and great-grandfather, both in their 50s. Let’s hope & pray that modern medical advances will prevent genetic destiny!”
There are some alternative things that really will ‘prevent that genetic destiny’. But modern medical advances are into treating symptoms, not the disease, or the cause of disease. Let’s hope that he ‘discovers’ what they are.
By the way, is there ANY legal or constitutional reason why Ryan could not BOTH be a congressman and VP?
I hear the engine of a Steamroller.
GTF out of the way Obama.
Pack the clubs and take your last free Hawaiian vacation.
You f’n mooch.
No tearing necessary - Sharia isn't covered by the First Amendment.
Why? Because Sharia is a law. It's not a religion. It's a legal system that would use the 1A to ban the 1A. There is zero possibility that the 1A was created to allow its own annulment. Zero.
And I haven't even gotten into Sharia's women-as-property thing. Or do you think disallowing that would "tear a hole" in the 13th Amendment?
Of course its the worse recovery in 70 years, when you do the same things FDR and hover did you get the same results.
Precisely - and the worst thing is to allow FDR to blame Hoover for the failure of FDR’s own policies.Obama “inherited” - actually, he asked for and was given a mandate to fix - a real mess. As he said at the start of his term, he was expected to fix it before the 2012 election. Well, It’s 2012, and here we are in the same mess we were in in 2008 when we elected him, only with much worse threat to our long term prospects. And when I say “long term,” I do NOT want to be understood as meaning, “in the sweet bye and bye.” The “long run” actually arrives PDQ. The part about “the long run” that really stinks is its duration.
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You mean, there's no easy road. There's a way back from anything. It just depends on how hard you need to fall before you figure it out. The Jews found a way back from . . . Babylonia! Hope we don't have to go there before things improve.
Unfortunately it isn't about the libs this time. Now it's the "purists" whom refuse to vote for Romney, even w/ Ryan, a true Tea Party leader, as 2nd hand man.
From what I have seen thus far....most of us dislike and distrust Romney. However; his choice of Paul Ryan was NOT playing it safe, as many of us worried he would.
Some state a VP has no power. Yeah right, hell will freeze over before Ryan just sits there w/ his hands in his pockets as Romney....the scary MORMON, does more harm than barry would.
I have seen a lot of fellow FReepers PRIDE take over their rational thinking.
It will take quite a few elections to bring our country back. We will win some (hopefully more than less, as we have been witnessing) and we will lose some. Such is life.
One thing that sticks in my side.....we call ourselves "the sleeping giant who have now awoke".
HELLO!!!!! WE WERE ASLEEP!!! IT'S OUR OWN DAMN FAULT!
Time for people to swallow their pride and do what needs to get done to get this anti-American OUT, PERIOD, END OF STORY.
And just for my own sanity, I DO hope this emmer effer is taken out in shackles.
You are correct...no easy way back, no way back that you or your children or in all likelihood your children’s children will ever see in their now reduced lives.
We will at the least be condemning generations to the malaise of socialism with no effective ability to alter the circumstances of the gray life that follows.
The left, the lazy, the criminals and the unions are now on top, looting the wealth of the richest society that ever lived. It seems endless to them because they only think of themselves and now. That’s the way of looters. But the wealth to loot will run out, and it will run out rather quickly. And then we all fall into the dark age that comes.
That is what giving Obama another four years of what will be unfettered power means (even if Republicans take both houses, his power will be absolute, he’s shown that already...what army does Congress have to stop him?)
“Our rights come from nature and God, not government.”
Cue for the psycholibs to start yelling “Hate Speech!!!!!!”
The one in the Pentagon. If Zippy sorta wins and pulls more of that s*@#$, things could get interesting. A lot of niceties go by the wayside in the face of national bankruptcy and depression, although I hope they don't. Praying big-time for Romney-Ryan.
Ryan has not been hiding. Where have YOU been.
All right, a bow hunter as well! Another plus in Paul Ryan’s favor. Listen to the liberal heads popping & sputtering....”A BOW HUNTER OF ALL THINGS”!!! What a bunch of p_ssies!
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