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Romney understood that the nation’s outdated, complex tax code encourages U.S. corporations to park assets overseas and invest in other countries.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.
If Romney had gone after Obama like he went after Gingrich and Santorum, we would be in a much different country right now.
However, Romney showed he didn't have the ability to think on his feet when the trap set by Candy "check the transcript" Crowley caught both him and his prep team off guard and he let Obama slide instead of confronting him with the truth.
Lots of candidiates sucked, it’s just they all now look good compared to the current BO in the WH.
But you know what he got wrong?
How to win.
Too bad, so sad, won’t vote for the putz again.
He might have been right about many things during the campaign against 0-Tard, but he was a terrible candidate to run, and about as personable/likable as a corporate executive. NOT presidential material.
On the other hand, he probably would have been great in a cabinet position.
Jimmy Carter called , he want’s his foreign policy back..
>If Romney had gone after Obama like he went after Gingrich >and Santorum, we would be in a much different country right >now.
All he had to do was:
a)find a green party candidate to run, ala Ralph (but a younger Ralph
b)find a Sharpton like young (real) black to start and run a African American Party
c)find a gay man or woman to run as a candidate for the rainbow party
Is the Media choosing your next Candidate, AGAIN???
It’s not hard to get more things right than someone who never gets anything right. Yet, any Republican candidate is better than Romney, the modern-day Nelson Rockefeller.
Romney’s job was to stop a conservative from getting the nomination. He accomplished that. He mailed it in during the general campaign.
And we would still have Obamacare, with endless tweaks.
And the VP pick, inside the beltway business as usual.
And and and .....
/johnny
Obamacare was created one hell of a time before Romneycare. It was in the burner with King Obama’s communists army and was written up. Get your facts straight. Romney made it clear that he would repeal Obamacare and that the Federal Government should never get involved in health care. He made it clear that health care was a State issue.
He was too timid during the Obama debates on Benghazi.
He stuck his foot in his mouth of his 47% view of America.
We don’t need super-rich GOP candidates making clear that they look down on us.
I knew back then he would try to sign an amnesty bill regardless of his making believe he wouldn’t back then.
He was so phony no telling what he would have done as POTUS..
He had the chance to attack Obama on Benghazi, but once the media criticized him for it, he cowered in the corner and sucked his thumb.
I'm not so sure. He's such a henpecked husband, I wouldn't be surprised if she's got the itch again and it's the Mrs. that's pushing this. Hey! Third time's the charm in presidential runs, right? [rolls eyes]
Just one of those was, "Two people of the same sex who love each other(nausea surge) should be able to adopt children."
Not only all that, I would bet the farm that his SCOTUS nominees would have been left wing wack jobs.
He was right on the first two and wrong on the last one.
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