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Romney: 'My Country Deserves Better!' (Acceptance speech excerpts)
Weekly Standard ^

Posted on 08/30/2012 5:06:27 PM PDT by GOPinCa

Here are excerpts of the remarks Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney plans to deliver this evening in Tampa, Florida:

Four years ago, I know that many Americans felt a fresh excitement about the possibilities of a new president. That president was not the choice of our party but Americans always come together after elections. We are a good and generous people who are united by so much more than divides us.

When that hard fought election was over, when the yard signs came down and the television commercials finally came off the air, Americans were eager to go back to work, to live our lives the way Americans always have – optimistic and positive and confident in the future.

That very optimism is uniquely American.

It is what brought us to America. We are a nation of immigrants. We are the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the ones who wanted a better life, the driven ones, the ones who woke up at night hearing that voice telling them that life in that place called America could be better.

They came not just in pursuit of the riches of this world but for the richness of this life.

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Every family in America wanted this to be a time when they could get ahead a little more, put aside a little more for college, do more for their elderly mom who’s living alone now or give a little more to their church or charity.

(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012rncconvention; acceptance; romney; romneyryan; speech; tomney
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To: GOPinCa

Looking forward to seeing our Communist In Chief and his nasty, classless wife removed from the White House....


61 posted on 08/30/2012 9:49:02 PM PDT by Tamzee (The U.S. re-electing Obama would be like the Titanic backing up and ramming the iceberg again.)
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To: FreeReign

Could we compromise on just leaving the office empty for four years ;-)


62 posted on 08/30/2012 9:50:20 PM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: achilles2000

Correct, and we have to fight to keep Romney from totally breaking conservatism, which is his lifelong goal.


63 posted on 08/30/2012 9:51:34 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: achilles2000

I am voting for Romney, but I didn’t vote for any Bush, McCain or Dole! Mine is NOT one of those reliable votes you refer to.


64 posted on 08/30/2012 9:51:53 PM PDT by Private_Sector_Does_It_Better (I AM ANDREW BREITBART)
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To: GOPinCa
Boehner was obviously drunk when he did the closing. It was the absolute antithesis of the temperance, prudence, and moderation Romney had just pitched, effectively stepping on a speech they needed to be an unqualified success. Instead, Boehner appeared the corrupt boorish corporate fat-cat that swing voters despise in the GOP. It was almost cartoonish.

The wussy should be canned for that alone.

65 posted on 08/30/2012 9:55:58 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The Slave Party Switcheroo: Economic crisis! Zero's eligibility Trumped!! Hillary 2012!!!)
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To: Carry_Okie

HE NEEDS TO GO!


66 posted on 08/30/2012 9:56:42 PM PDT by commonguymd (New media has not replaced the MSM. It has emboldened it. Never underestimate the power they have.)
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To: ansel12

Tell us about bam’s military service...


67 posted on 08/30/2012 9:58:31 PM PDT by cracker45
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To: BurningOak

Where is your evidence that bam is, in fact, a Christian?

JC


68 posted on 08/30/2012 10:01:29 PM PDT by cracker45
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To: cracker45

I already gave the Romney family history in post 6.

I will add a powerfully significant note to it.

As a white Mormon, Mitt Romney was given a draft deferment by his church (they were in charge of their own deferments, and would submit them to the draft board), a draft deferment forbidden to black Mormons, no black Mormon could receive a draft exemption from Romney’s religion.

Black Mormons were not allowed Mormon draft deferments, they went to war.


69 posted on 08/30/2012 10:08:39 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: driftdiver
There are two choices for President and one of them will be the President next January.

There will be several more choices on my ballot.

I don't expect I'll be voting for any kind of liberal.

/johnny

70 posted on 08/30/2012 10:14:33 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: ansel12

Put up or shut up. Vote for Obama. It’s what you want to do. Just do it. Channel your inner socialist. Given the standard you set, no candidate since about 1860 has been conservative enough. You want a candidate that not only doesn’t exist but has never existed. Reagan would certainly have failed the test. Which begs the question... What candidate has ever been good enough for you, ever? I’m serious. Who?


71 posted on 08/30/2012 10:17:06 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
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To: achilles2000

So you’re willing to let America die to prove... What?


72 posted on 08/30/2012 10:19:18 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
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To: GOPinCa

A communist or a Mormon.

A COMMUNIST or a mormon.


73 posted on 08/30/2012 10:19:44 PM PDT by glock rocks (Hey... shut the damn barn! Were you raised in a... um, wait...)
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To: glock rocks

Communist and moron is redundant.


74 posted on 08/30/2012 10:23:05 PM PDT by dfwgator (I'm voting for Ryan and that other guy.)
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To: Ramius
Vote for Obama. It’s what you want to do. Just do it.

I think we were asked to stop that kind of attack on those that we disagree with.

/johnny

75 posted on 08/30/2012 10:25:41 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: MizzouScotsman; ansel12

Unless your family was aboriginal, they immigrated from somewhere.
_______________________________________

“aboriginal” ?????

WOW n00bie..

Is that your term for Native Americans ???

My family arrived here in 1623 ...

mmore than 200 years before Willards did...

They didnt immigrate either...

They merely came to a Dutch colony from The Netherlands..

Like going to like in Puerto Rico...

No immigration involved...

And thanks...

I was thinking Willard didnt mention his beloved illegal aliens...

but he did after all...

“a narion of immigrates” is a favorite phrase amongst the AMNESTY Bill crowd ...


76 posted on 08/30/2012 10:48:06 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Carry_Okie

Boehner was obviously drunk when he did the closing.
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other people said that on other threads...

I thought he was his normal delf

I didnt know to rfeally look at him because I was watching online and had only the CSpan page on Max

Id had trouble earlier with my FR page when I refreahed it so I didnt go back and forth to0 the Convention thread...

so I missed where FRTeepers were commenting on Boehner...


77 posted on 08/30/2012 10:55:11 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Ramius

ROTFL.


78 posted on 08/30/2012 10:57:48 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: ansel12

Yah?


79 posted on 08/30/2012 10:58:59 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
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To: DEADROCK

So which liberal are you voting for Zero or Mitt?


80 posted on 08/30/2012 11:13:02 PM PDT by tallyhoe
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