Thanks I missed it and was looking for it on the internet.
Think Mitt has written the GOP platform.
I watched him give his speech, and it was excellent.
Can’t imagine McDumbGuy giving a speech like this.
Mitt’s speech was fantastic. He made McCain look like a doddering, braid-dead codger in comparison.
McCain like Dole will loose for all the same reasons. McCain has the political pull and experience, but he is less supported by the base. He won ultimately because he’s the consummate politician honed over 20 years in Congress, knowing how to get the delegates yet not be favored among the base and even stand in opposition on critical issues such as amnesty. Within the GOP he does have a lot of pull; but uninspiring, not really Conservative, he will lead the GOP to a huge defeat in 2008.
So, has he been offered VP in exchange for bowing out?
I hope he runs in 4 years. He doesn't just 'sound' Presidential, he IS Presidential.
That’s exactly what happens with high taxes, over-regulation, tort windfalls, mandates, and overfed, over-spending government. Did you see that today, government workers make more money than people who work in the private sector. Can you imagine what happens to an economy where the best opportunities are for bureaucrats?
It’s high time to lower taxes, including corporate taxes, to take a weed-whacker to government regulations, to reform entitlements, and to stand up to the increasingly voracious appetite of the unions in our government!
Mitt was the only one of the three left standing to really understands this. Yes, I'm an economic conservative. Social issues and national defense issues are important. But neither of them can advance without a free and growing economy.
It was a moving speech, very well delivered, and very difficult for me to watch, knowing that my party has left me. After the speech I changed my registration to Indepenent from Republican. Perhaps now the party will pretend to care about I have to say.
Thanks for this post. Mitt gave a wonderful speech. As I sat and listened, I thought, this man would have made a wonderful President.
Mitt just proved himself to be a stalking horse for McCain is what he did.
Romney's speech was pathetic and symptomatic of the demise of the Republican Party. For example:
Our prosperity and security also depend on finally acting to become energy secure. Oil producing states like Russia and Venezuela, Saudi Arabia and Iran are siphoning over $400 billion per year from our economy—
They are siphoning nothing. They are trading oil for our increasingly worthless dollars. If anything, they're the ones squandering their scarce resources. People who call for "energy independence" are insecure nationalists who know nothing about economics.
Don’t focus on the pork alone—even though it is indeed irritating and shameful. Look at the entitlements. `They make up 60% of federal spending today. By the end of the next President’s second term, they will total 70%. Any conservative plan for the future has to include entitlement reform that solves the problem, not just acknowledges it.
Romney never said anything in the debates about ending the wasteful social security and medicare systems or making them more efficient.
These Jihadists will battle any form of democracy—to them, democracy is blasphemous for it says that citizens, not God shape the law.
I thought conservatives also believed in God-given natural law. Democracy without respect for individual liberty is just glorified mob-rule.
I disagree with Senator McCain on a number of issues, as you know. But I agree with him on doing whatever it takes to be successful in Iraq, on finding and executing Osama bin Laden...
Anyone who is willing to spend "whatever it takes" on Iraq is a fool. I agree with Rumsfeld that we should have been satisfied with eliminating Sadam and his henchmen (while sending a clear message to anyone seeking to take his place).
Also, I tend to think that George Bush has decided that it is better to pin down an ailing Bin Laden in a Pakistan backwater rather than kill him and make him a martyr. He's been neutered, muzzled, and caged, so spending a zillion dollars finishing him off probably isn't worth it.
Thank you for posting. I’ve been looking for video and finally found this: http://blog.electromneyin2008.com/
I can’t help but see the parallels to the 1976 campaign that saw Ronald Reagan be the gentleman politican and put the party and the country above himself and graciously support Ford. Of course, Ford lost as McCain likely will, but the saving grace is that Reagan was able to win in 1980 to bring the country back from the brink that Carter had so ineptly led us toward. My only hope is that the GOP, conservatives and other Americans will realize the true qualities of Romney, as they did of Reagan, and bring him to power in 2012.