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Posted on 06/20/2007 8:38:55 AM PDT by Reaganesque
Of the 43 Presidents of the United States, only a handful have distinguished themselves as giants who truly changed history. In every case, it was because they brought a new vision to America in times of great international challenges, and by force of their leadership, brought us from turmoil and uncertainty to building a strong America and a safer world.
Whether it was President Truman’s clear-eyed approach to containing the spread of Communism, or President Reagan’s plan to finally confront and defeat the Soviet threat, all great American Presidents are willing to buck the conventional wisdom of Washington and affirm the power of American leadership in the world.
I believe we need that kind of leadership again, and that is why I support Governor Mitt Romney for President of the United States.
Most voters know Mitt Romney from what he did as Governor of Massachusetts, where he took a financial crisis many deemed hopeless and restored the state’s economic strength – turning deficits into surpluses without raising taxes. This built on a business career specializing in taking companies facing difficult challenges and leading them to stunning successes.
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What most voters may not know, however, is that Mitt Romney’s real world experience and vision makes him the ideal person to lead our nation as we face a new generation of global challenges. And his experience is much different from being in Washington. After 9/11, many argued that we should cancel the Winter Olympics in the wake of these terrorist attacks. Yet Mitt Romney led efforts with leaders and government representatives from around the world to secure the first major international event on U.S. soil since that tragic day. Throughout his business career, he worked with leaders from across the world and made hard decisions with companies, jobs and critical resources on the line. His work has taken him from places ranging from Beijing to Guantanamo Bay, and to critical nations such as Israel, Iraq and Afghanistan.
The challenges we face today are fundamentally different than the industrial military conflicts of the Cold War era, and we must go farther than responding to threats once they reach our borders. No candidate for President understands how to succeed in this new era better than Mitt Romney. No one has a clearer vision of how we can build a strong America and safe world.
The Romney plan starts with a strong military. When he came into office, President Bush inherited a military that had been deprived of the funding necessary to defend America’s interests overseas. Those technological and manpower gaps remain to this day. Governor Romney knows that nothing is more important than supporting our troops and providing them with the resources they need. That is why as President, his first priority will be to invest in and strengthen our military.
His plan calls for the addition of 100,000 troops, an increase in military spending to at least 4 percent of GDP, and eliminating pork-barrel spending and waste so that we can focus on providing the personnel, modern equipment, training and health care needed to support our troops.
At the same time, Governor Romney understands that for America’s economy to be secure, we must achieve energy independence. He believes strongly that America is vulnerable because of our increasing dependence on foreign oil, often from unfriendly or unstable countries. Governor Romney has a plan to reduce this dependency by helping America become more energy efficient and attain clean, affordable, renewable and American produced sources of energy.
To prepare for the conflicts of tomorrow, Governor Romney also understands that we must learn from the conflicts of yesterday. We cannot solve every conflict and crisis with military force. Yet, America has too often treated its dozens of civilian institutions as an afterthought.
To meet today’s challenges we need to fundamentally rethink and revitalize our civilian instruments of national power as well as how they work with our military forces. Governor Romney would coordinate and unify the goals of these civilian institutions, responsible for everything from reconstruction, hunger relief, emergency health care delivery, economic growth and education. He would then give control over these various aspects of foreign policy and outreach to skilled leaders with the authority and accountability to achieve results.
Finally, Governor Romney will revitalize our alliances and act to take on radical jihadists and their sources around the world: the hateful ideologies and bleak policies that produce hopelessness and violence in the Middle East.
As President, Governor Romney would strengthen alliances such as NATO and unite the developed nations of the world with modern Muslim states to create a Partnership for Prosperity and Progress. The Partnership would support the efforts of these modern Muslim nations to turn back the jihadist movement both through stepped-up security and intelligence and through the introduction and improvement of basic services such as proper education, health care and economic growth.
By working with the rest of the world to strengthen democratic institutions and human rights in the Middle East, young Muslims can have an optimistic vision for the future beyond the false call of violent jihad.
It is a proactive and positive plan for America. It is a plan I believe most Americans will support. Sadly, so many Presidential candidates are not as bold or as optimistic about our ability to shape the world. They talk of false deadlines and of retreating from the world. I support Mitt Romney because he is different. He is a leader. He has a record of real-world executive success. In the faces of a new generation of challenges, he knows how to make America strong and build a safe world and prosperous future.
Mitt is not different. He is exactly like every other RINO.
Wow! Less than two minutes! Personal best?
Nah, I can do better.
This piece reads like a tenth grade paper for Civics class. It’s all cliches.
He’s “exactly” like Rudy? Please explain.
> Mitt is not different.
But his positions soon will be.
Mitt Romney has problems, and he can’t work himself out from under them. The one piece of video, where months after he claimed to have a change of heart on abortion he was still supporting choice, disqualifies him as an honest candidate. And for a GOPer to win in ‘08 the tightrope is long and windy, and Mitt has already fallen off on numerous occasions.
See #8.
And yet he has double digit leads in NH, IA and CA. But then you’re all aware of that; hence the automatic “Mitt-sucks” childishness. Your guy isn’t ahead so, tear the front runner down.
That ad, the one with the “change of heart” statements and then the date certain quote that make a lie of it, hasn’t been thrown up by any of the candidates. It will be at some point, if not by the GOP then by the dims, or even Bloomberg!, if Romney gets the nomination or VP nod. Too much baggage. If he gets the nomination, I’ll be right there with you on his side, but only to stop the libs from fulfilling their dream.
I agree Mitt is very different...i first knew of him from a town hall meeting here in NH many years ago before he was governor of MA...he showed up took notes and listened to the issues that people addressed. I think he was just trying out the idea of entering politics and quite thoughtfully too...which is different.
... The one piece of video, where months after he claimed to have a change of heart on abortion he was still supporting choice, disqualifies him as an honest candidate. ...I disagree. It proves that he is honest, to a fault maybe. :)
Recently, I was attacked by one of my opponents because when I ran for Governor I promised to maintain the status quo with regards to laws relating to abortion in Massachusetts. Of course, I kept that promise. But in Massachusetts, that meant vetoing pro-choice legislation – as I consistently did as Governor.Excerpt from Governor Mitt Romney's Remarks At The National Right To Life Convention Forum, June 15, 2007
Today he's not. Tomorrow is another story....
We certainly wouldn’t want a leader who acted on firm moral conviction. We want someone who will govern by polls and public opinion. Someone who will say anything to get elected and then maintain the status quo even if he knows its wrong!! Guess that means Mitt’s our guy... or Bill Clinton. He perfected that approach after all.
The tape I’m referring to is one where Mitt comes out as personally pro-choice. This was said months after the time he now claims to have changed his mind during the stem cell debate. He could spin it as you have, and will probably have to do so. But one of the topics or motives on this thread concerns primary support, and he won’t have mine before August of next year.
In this regard, Mitt minces his words.
I like the guy who says Roe v Wade should be overturned and who has not only recently come to the realization of this truth.
If Mitt has come to this realization sincerely, then that’s great and good for him. As for being President of the United States of America, I prefer someone who has always known this truth, because it is that important and it is not negotiable. Let the hollow reeds blow in the winds of popularity. Sheep and goats know how to turn away from what threatens their life, human beings with reason know enough to turn away from what threatens theirs.
The Second Vatican Council itself, in discussing the respect due to the human person, gives a number of examples of such acts: “Whatever is hostile to life itself, such as any kind of homicide, genocide, abortion, euthanasia and voluntary suicide; whatever violates the integrity of the human person, such as mutilation, physical and mental torture and attempts to coerce the spirit; whatever is offensive to human dignity, such as subhuman living conditions, arbitrary imprisonment, deportation, slavery, prostitution and trafficking in women and children; degrading conditions of work which treat labourers as mere instruments of profit, and not as free responsible persons: all these and the like are a disgrace, and so long as they infect human civilization they contaminate those who inflict them more than those who suffer injustice, and they are a negation of the honour due to the Creator”.
Front runner? You’re reaching Reaganesque....really reaching.
Good Second Vatican Council quote. Now if we can only get that whole statement into the party platform in ‘08!
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