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The Ebenezer Scrooge/Jacob Marley caricature was utterly demolished by the time it was all over. That does not mean it will not be used again. However, the Romney/Ryan campaign had signaled its tactical plan to refute the claims of their opponents by facing them head on.

There was one particular line which stuck with me from the Romney acceptance speech because it was a refreshing rejection of the hyperbole which accompanied the last Presidential race in the United States. The Republican Presidental candidate looked out at the enthusiastic convention attendees and, through television and the internet, into the living rooms of millions of Americans as well as millions of observers around the world. He offered what would be called in the business world a bottom line comment, "President Obama promised to slow the rise of the oceans and to heal the planet. My promise is ... to help you and your family."

1 posted on 08/31/2012 12:54:53 PM PDT by tcg
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That sounded awfully close to, “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.”...........


2 posted on 08/31/2012 12:57:17 PM PDT by Red Badger (Anyone who thinks wisdom comes with age is either too young or too stupid to know the difference....)
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In return, we need to NEVER allow an ass in the white house like there is right now.


3 posted on 08/31/2012 12:57:18 PM PDT by television is just wrong
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I couldn’t watch Romney’s speech last night because I’m on a magazine writing assignment in Honduras. But, from the response on FR, I have a feeling the speech was pretty much a bust. Am I right or wrong about that?


4 posted on 08/31/2012 12:59:28 PM PDT by hampdenkid
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even if the brief and bizarre interlude from Actor Clint Eastwood almost derailed the effort.

My a$$. It was one of the highlights of the evening.

6 posted on 08/31/2012 1:05:43 PM PDT by bcsco (Bourbon gets better with age...I age better with Bourbon.)
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I don’t need any help, and I don’t need any hugs...

Just leave me the hell alone.


12 posted on 08/31/2012 2:12:51 PM PDT by Sopater (...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. - 2 COR 3:17b)
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Mitt Romney does an awful lot of posturing and posing for the convention and TV. The posing looks fake and phony. The smiles don’t seem to be sincere.


13 posted on 08/31/2012 2:17:06 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (I wanna start a Seniors' Motor Scooter Gang. Wanna join?)
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We don’t need any help from Romney or other socialist politicians. The bipartisan political/regulator folks (the only constituents served by those politicians) need to stop violating our families and property rights. They should close and abolish all of the social/regulatory programs that they use to prevent domestic competition from working class families (public education, their pushing of social pathologies against men, anti-veteran sentiments, rural zoning—all of it).

Otherwise, they’ll soon have no real revenues at all—only debt.


15 posted on 08/31/2012 3:19:51 PM PDT by familyop ("Wanna cigarette? You're never too young to start." --Deacon, "Waterworld")
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