Posted on 08/11/2014 8:07:16 AM PDT by Phillyred
Almost every day, it seems, brings a headline demonstrating how right 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was, and how wrong President Barack Obama was, on the critical issues facing America.
In 2012, Romney warned that Obama’s failure to secure an agreement to keep a residual military force in Iraq would threaten the U.S. gains made at such a high cost in American lives and treasure. “America’s ability to influence events for the better in Iraq has been undermined by the abrupt withdrawal of our entire troop presence,” Romney asserted.
The chaos in Iraq today supports Romney’s view. With no U.S. military presence to constrain Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, the Shiite politician persecuted Sunni leaders and gutted Sunni participation in government and the military. Worse, it set the stage for Sunni sympathies to turn to the fanatical Islamic State in Syria and Iraq that has conquered a significant part of the country and waged genocide against religious minorities. Obama has had to order U.S. air strikes to protect U.S. personnel in the Kurdish region and to support Kurdish militia to keep ISIS from capturing all of northern Iraq.
In the 2012 debates, Obama mocked Romney for calling Russia America’s top geopolitical foe. Today, Russia has stolen Crimea from Ukraine, funds and provides weapons and men to Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine and even threatens an invasion of the country. President Vladimir Putin meddles in the Mideast, seeks to expand Moscow’s clout in Latin America, and harbors renegade Edward Snowden.
On domestic issues, Romney in 2011 advanced the idea of giving veterans a voucher to obtain medical care they could not get at a Veterans Administration hospital. This year saw the VA scandal reveal that long waiting lists for hospital treatment were hidden. Legislation Obama signed this week allows vets to seek help outside the VA system.
Romney understood that the nation’s outdated, complex tax code encourages U.S. corporations to park assets overseas and invest in other countries. He recommended tax reform to keep that money and business in America and boost the economy. Obama does nothing about reform but demagogues as “unpatriotic” corporations pressured by the tax code to seek profits and better returns for shareholders overseas.
As governor in Massachusetts, Romney demonstrated an ability to work across party lines, and, as a business executive called upon to save the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics from scandal and financial ruin, he proved to be a problem solver.
Obama has never demonstrated a commitment to bipartisan leadership. In the opening days of his presidency in 2009 with the nation in financial crisis, Obama rejected GOP ideas for economic stimulus by telling Sen. John McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, that “I won.” Obama’s re-election meant only further gridlock in Washington.
All this hasn’t been lost on the public. Polls last month showed Romney would handily win a rematch and that he would be a 2016 front-runner in New Hampshire, which hosts the first presidential primary. Even some GOP donors warmed to the idea of a 2016 Romney bid.
Romney ruled it out. Probably with good reason. Another run would require his confronting the ghosts of 2012 — his “self-deportation” immigration rhetoric, his writing off of the “47 percent,” and his failure to defend his own business record.
While Romney might have been the president the country needs today, it’s not so clear he’s the candidate of tomorrow.
LOL! Priceless!
Bush had manège rial skills and an Ivy League MBA to go with it
He started this, he defied the constitution in a big way
The problem is that these people defy the job description as profiled by the framers
Manège rial skills are for businesses the country is not a business. When Romney campaigned he lost 47% who rightly don’t see the country as a corporation they wrongly see it as a nanny state which it is not and is failing as it tries to be
And that’s just the take its. Conservatives see a Romney as moving in and in the what the RNC calls spirit of compromise, push through all kinds of legislation that brings the country further into moral chaos which is the root of the problem
The same holds true for being able to "see with specificity the train wreck that is" Romney. Both are train wrecks and I refuse to vote for a train wreck.
Romney was a better choice than Obummer. Clearly.
Though I don’t like Romney it is not clear to me if we survive Obama to fix what he has wrought.
All those that refused to vote for Romney are complicit.
Romney was on every side of all issues. He’s more like a stopped clock than a knowledgeable leader. As for reducing illegal aliens, I doubt he’s talking about self-deport now. He wasn’t for it at all during 2012 presidential election in Florida. Etch-a-sketch and all you know.
There is and it's growing. They are in a panic that an actual conservative may be able to ride into the WH the anti-Obama wave that's building.
Sure but to bad he got the BIGGEST issue of the campaign WRONG,OBAMACARE,he took it off the table and millions stayed home on election day,why the hell would you run this boob again
Would YOU be pleased with the situation we were in if Romney had won and a Republican administration was in the midst of advancing:
--nationalized health care with on-demand subsidized abortion
-- gay marriage and forcing Americans to formally recognize all "marriages" between homosexuals as equal in legitimacy to true marriage between man and woman
-- gun control
-- carbon-cap "global warming" seizure of food and energy production and consumption
Centurion, THAT is what would be happening right now if Romney had won; Obama would be long forgotten. Would YOU be "pleased with the situation"? Would you be here taking responsibility for what you voted for? OF COURSE NOT! You are only willing to take responsibility for voting "against."
Catherine and I and (thank God) enough fellow freedom-loving Americans, understand that we are responsible ONLY for what we vote FOR, thus Romney lost. It let the likes of you off the hook. Otherwise, instead of being here on FR as you are now whining that Obama won, you would be here on FR whining that you didn't vote for all of the leftist government tyranny Romney has always and will always promote, you only voted "against" Obama, waaa waaaa waaaahhh!!! You'd be a whining victim either way.
That should tell you something loud and clear.
All those that refused to vote for Romney are complicit.
Absolutely one hundred percent WRONG, and stupidly wrong at that.
YOU voted to turn the Republican party and America hard left. While I understand that you intended to vote "against" Obama, I also understand, as wholly as you FAIL to understand, that the only thing you did was to vote for turning the nation and the GOP hard left. You were and are complicit in making liberalism in both parties STRONGER. You were and are complicit in surrendering to government tyranny and leftism.
Take responsibility for what you voted FOR and accept the reality that voting "against" is entirely imaginary.
IMO, Mitt Romney best represents the interests of Wall Street. The Wall Street types are only interested in maintaining their entrenched status. I still don't see why these people wouldn't have pushed Romney hard to get elected. They would love to have one of their own in the White House.
Other than the Mormon bloc and Wall Street types, Romney does not really have a natural constituency. At least, not in the Republican Party. Social conservatives don't trust him based on his previous support of abortion and the gay agenda (despite his convenient conversions on the issues). Economic conservatives are leery of Romney because of his big-government solutions to almost all societal problems. Capitalists should be concerned about his for the same reason. Big-government solutions to economic problems almost always favor big-business interests. The interests of the entrenched business and capitalism often diverge. IMO, Romney is far to the left of the Republican agenda but only a little to the right of the Democrat agenda.
On paper. No real record of success. And he wanted to make government bigger with increased spending and initiatives like the prescription drug program that added $7.3 trillion to our long term unfunded liabilities. We also had wars that weren't paid for. Bush was not about making government run more efficiently or being smaller.
Manège rial skills are for businesses the country is not a business. When Romney campaigned he lost 47% who rightly don’t see the country as a corporation they wrongly see it as a nanny state which it is not and is failing as it tries to be.
As someone who spent 36 years working in the federal government, the problem is that government is not being run like a business. Yes, there have been attempts to reward cost reductions and efficiency and introduce business concepts, but the bureaucracy has effectively thwarted any such efforts along with a Congress that really doesn't want to reduce the size and scope of government.
Conservatives see a Romney as moving in and in the what the RNC calls spirit of compromise, push through all kinds of legislation that brings the country further into moral chaos which is the root of the problem
The root of the problem is that Americans want all the benefits a European-style welfare state has to offer, but they don't want to pay European level taxation to pay for it. Hence, we run up these huge debts and borrow from future generations to pay for it. We are living way beyond our means. The longer we delay getting our fiscal house in order, the more painful and draconian the solutions will be. Turn out the lights, the party is over.
I agree with you. I won’t support him. He ran and lost and we do not need a repeat.
+1
That was my first thought. Why is he being pushed on us again?
Yes, and we have many more stolen elections ahead of us.
He did not get everything right.
Insanity - Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
Well said!
And it is only going to get worse in the future. The IRS scandal is only the tip of the iceberg of how the dems have infiltrated and manipulate the supposed impartial government agencies to their benefit. What has the GOP-e done in response, absolutely nothing.
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