Posted on 07/17/2012 12:34:33 PM PDT by John W
I’ve been tough on Mitt Romney and leaned hard on his campaign to take the gloves off, get in the fighting spirit, and push back against Obama narratives.
Today in Irwin, Pennsylvania, Romney delivered.
The Right Scoop has both excerpts and full speech video clips.
Watch here.
http://www.therightscoop.com/soon-watch-romney-live-in-irwin-pennsylvania/
As I noted on Twitter during the speech earlier this afternoon, Romney impressed with both the substance and the delivery of his rallying cry on behalf of individual achievement and free enterprise. He was energetic and passionate.
I believed in what he was selling: A vision for restoring American greatness and defending success.
Obama’s inability to hide his ideological contempt for entrepreneurs & individual success has helped Romney self-actualize.
If he gives this speech with the same zeal and optimism from now until November — offering a clear, unapologetic contrast to Barack Obama’s bitter politics of resentment, class warfare, and entitlement, Mitt Romney will win.
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More praise for Romney’s speech here.
http://twitchy.com/2012/07/17/fired-up-romney-says-you-did-build-it-scores-with-rousing-pro-freedom-speech/
To: John W
“Impossible....we were told that Mitt is weak, an idiot, an amateur, an agent of the left, blah, blah,blah.”
It’s incredible to me to listen to some “conservatives who seem to forget how our political system is set up. It seems as if they too want to change the system to suit some other model.
We had one of the most brutal and illuminating Republican primaries imaginable which Mitt Romney won, fairly and according to our own rules. Now, some Conservatives want to keep playing the tired old “ it isn’t fair” game that the Libs are so fond of playing.
Mitt Romney wasn’t the candidate for which I voted. But he won the nomination. To keep whining and evangelizing about first choices accomplishes nothing for us but plenty for the opposition.
The candidates who lost to Mitt Romney have mostly laid the Primary to rest and have gotten on about the business of supporting the ticket and putting the Socialist/Marxist out of our Whitehouse.
However, some keep beating the “lesser of two evils is still evil and I won’t vote” drum. Make no mistake; if you don’t vote, you share the blame if Obama wins. And if Obama wins another term, you can also share the blame for the end of this Nation as we know it.
Mitt Romney is a Republican and we would have a very good chance of swaying him one way or another on issues of importance. We will have zero,zilch, nada chances of swaying the Dictator and Chief. The last three and a half years ought to have proved that.
The Bible says “render unto Ceasar the things that are his.” We, unlike the Romans, can have some say, however small, about who “Ceasar” is and his policies. I still wonder, at this point, what alternatives are realistic for those Conservatives who are so disgruntled.
That’s a cute little robot picture and I know you worked hard on it. However, it seems that posting in a grown-up board is making you a bit hyper. Perhaps it’s the big words. Allow me to post some that may be more familiar and may calm you somewhat: “cheese doodles” , “futon”, “basement”, “Mommy and Daddy”. There now, all better?
Is Michelle Malkin now considered RINO here?
Looked to me like he should have been looking for ICE.
No, the DUmmies won’t be voting Romney. They’ll be voting for your boy 0bama.
Romney: "Obama was born in the United States"
Romney: "Obama Doesn’t Need a Birth Certificate"
Romney: "The citizenship test has been passed"
“White House Quotes Romney in Defense of Health Care”
Wrong. Romney does his best when he ignores his damn handlers, and speaks with the passion that helps the audience see him as a leader, and not some empty suit Candidate.
Obama rants are entirely staged with his arrogant “look-up-my-nostrils-when-I-speak-down-to-you-because-the-boogers-you-see-are-what-you-are-to-me.”
:-)
As of today, probably.
the black guy?
No, the one with the round head on your right and over Romney’s left shoulder top row. Kept going ot sleep or something. He sure didn’t look black to me.
Romney hit it out of the park in his speech today. RINO or not, his message is the message I want the people to hear about free markets, etc.
DIOG, did you even watch this speech??
Just imagine that it’s not Romney at the podium, rather someone else giving that same speech. And ask yourself if the words spoken are those of a free-market conservative or not:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jozoBqL-eMM
Even if Mittens says things we want to hear and then becomes a RINO in office, he’d still be right of Brak Obutthole and at least he’d be giving speeches like this against Obutthole.
I take it you STILL prefer Obutthoe, right? If so, then you should understand from the standpoint of the election count, there is functionally little difference between you and an Obamabot troll.
>> Did Mr. RomneyCARE RETRACT his position on DEATH PANELS
and socialized medicine?
Unlikely.
I was unaware of that quote by Palin.
I envision a similar scenario that would help to buffer the moral stupidity Romney is known for.
So at least watch the 10 minute clip attached to this article is all I have to say (I intend to watch the full speech later). Romney has either been coached well or he has found his mojo - or combination of the two. He was on fire during this speech. Not the wooden cliche-ridden speech we've come to expect. It was passionate and full of the kind of plain talk we've come to expect from Reagan or Palin. Mainstream media coverage or not, if this is the kind of speech Romney maintains on the campaign trail and at the convention (where many people will hear him unedited on TV for the first time) - he will win this election by a wide margin.
What Obama said a few days ago about business people and how they are not responsible for their own success will be his undoing - so long Romney does not let that moronic statement die on the vine. The mainstream media will never show Obama making that moronic statement which by the say, sums up perfectly what Obama is all about - radical socialization of America. It is up to Romney to keep this alive and judging by the crowd reaction at this speech - Romney has a winning theme...take back America from this radical leftist socialist.
On another note, I've seen an increasing amount of consternation from Freepers here that Romney does not appear to be on the offensive and that Obama is putting out all these ads that are uncontested.
Well I am not sure that all Freepers are aware that campaign laws forbid Romney from using the money he is collecting for his campaign until AFTER the election. Due to the competitive primaries, Romney has already spent most of his pre-convention money which means that after the convention, he will have a pile of it to spend in just eight or nine weeks.
Because Obama didn't have any competition in the primaries, he is spending his pre-convention money now - making it seem that Romney is not even putting up a fight.
So the TV/radio ad war will be joined as soon as the convention ends. In the meantime, listen to the Romney stump speech. I was much encouraged by it and this bodes well for the fall campaign that has yet to come.
Correction to my above post. Romney will not be able to use the money he is raising now until after the CONVENTION (not the election!).
“The other day I said to my kid - “like a broken record”. He just stared at me. He didn’t know what I was talking about.”
I’m old enough to know what your’e talking about, and I agree. Going to be interesting for these folks when Romney wins and starts turning this country around.
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