Romney closes out the primaries by attacking Obama’s unfairness
The news from last night was not that Mitt Romney easily swept the five states that held primaries; that was assured once Rick Santorum left the race, if not before. Nor was it the prospect, which is being confirmed this morning, that Newt Gingrich would also drop out of the race as a result.
No, the news is that Romney finally gave the speech some of us have been waiting for him to give. (Click here to see a video of the speech, which lasted about 13 minutes, or here to read the prepared remarks; he didn’t stray too far from them.)
The heart of it was the contrast he drew between himself and President Obama. First, what he said about the president:
Government is at the center of his vision. It dispenses the benefits, borrows what it can’t take, consumes a greater and greater share of the economy. You know, with Obamacare fully installed, government would have control of almost half of the economy, and we would have effectively ceased to be a free enterprise society.
This President is putting us on a path where our lives will be ruled by bureaucrats and boards, commissions and czars. He’s asking us to accept that Washington knows best — and can provide all.
We’ve already seen where that path leads. It erodes freedom. It deadens the entrepreneurial spirit. And it hurts the very people it’s supposed to help. Those who promise to spread the wealth around only ever succeed in spreading poverty around. Other nations have chosen that path. It leads to chronic high unemployment, crushing debt, and stagnant wages.
And then there’s his counteroffer:
I have a very different vision for America, and for our future. It’s an America driven by freedom, where free people, pursuing happiness in their own unique ways, create free enterprises that employ more and more Americans. And because there are so many enterprises that are succeeding, the competition for hard-working, educated, skilled employees is intense, so wages and salaries rise.
I see an America with a growing middle class, with rising standards of living. I see children even more successful than their parents — some successful even beyond their wildest dreams — and others congratulating them for their achievement, not attacking them for it.
The repeated mentions of free enterprise, and the good line about congratulating people on their success rather than attacking them for it, are welcome. But here’s where Romney signaled an important theme leading to November:
This America is fundamentally fair. We will stop the unfairness of urban children being denied access to the good schools of their choice; we will stop the unfairness of politicians giving taxpayer money to their friends’ businesses; we will stop the unfairness of requiring union workers to contribute to politicians not of their choosing; we will stop the unfairness of government workers getting better pay and benefits than the very taxpayers they serve; and we will stop the unfairness of one generation passing larger and larger debts on to the next.
When an opponent — as Romney correctly said Obama would do — wants to run not on his record but on distractions and distortions and fuzzy notions of “fairness,” you hit back at what other people might consider unfair. And there is a great deal of unfairness to be found in Obama’s conventional liberal positions, some of which Romney catalogued.
This is a promising start to turning Obama’s raw populism on its ear.
– By Kyle Wingfield
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General Motors is DEAD, Bin Laden is ALIVE If Romney had been president
April 28th, 2012
2:11 pm
@I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin…
April 28th, 2012
1:38 pm
Meanwhile, back in the female-friendly party, Obama’s father was a polygamist; his grandfather was a polygamist; and his great-grandfather was a polygamist who had one more wife (five in total) than Romney’s great-grandfather.
Wait a minute, I thought Romney was the Mormon?
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WHO CARES?
Tiberius - Banned from Bookman's and proud of it!
April 28th, 2012
2:24 pm
Real Athens, in case you didn’t know (what am I saying – you don’t know anything) POLITIFACT is not owned by the Tampa Tribune. The Tampa Tribune is (one of) it’s mouthpiece, but Politifact itself is funded by George Soros.
See, you learned something new today.
Tiberius - Banned from Bookman's and proud of it!
April 28th, 2012
2:30 pm
Meanwhile, the President has been proven to have lied about Mitt Romney, yet no lies have been proven against Mitt Romney by the libs on this blog.
Pitiful.
Tiberius - Banned from Bookman's and proud of it!
April 28th, 2012
2:39 pm
Off topic:
I’m not a birther, and always point out that Obama (or Soetoro) is a natural-born U.S. citizen as a result of being downloaded from his U.S-born mother, HOWEVER:
If this story is true about him applying for college scholarships by using foreign citizenship, that’s pretty unprincipled and rather tacky.
And completely in character for this lying Disaster-in-Chief.
http://www.szaboservices.com/show/occidental-college-transcripts-reveals-obama-claimed-foreign-citizenship-to-get-scholarship
General Motors is DEAD, Bin Laden is ALIVE If Romney had been president
April 28th, 2012
2:39 pm
@Tiberius – Banned from Bookman’s and proud of it!
April 28th, 2012
2:30 pm
Meanwhile, the President has been proven to have lied about Mitt Romney, yet no lies have been proven against Mitt Romney by the libs on this blog.
Pitiful.
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Everyone knows that MITT WITT IS A LIAR and the TRUTH AINT IN HIM.
Mitt Witt don’t give a rats behind about poor folks like you.
Mitt Witt would not eat your cookies or your CHEESY GRITS.
I bet you $10,000 he WON’T
heeheheeheehee
General Motors is DEAD, Bin Laden is ALIVE If Romney had been president
April 28th, 2012
2:41 pm
@Tiberius – Banned from Bookman’s and proud of it!
April 28th, 2012
2:39 pm
Off topic:
I’m not a birther, and always point out that Obama (or Soetoro) is a natural-born U.S. citizen as a result of being downloaded from his U.S-born mother, HOWEVER:
If this story is true about him applying for college scholarships by using foreign citizenship, that’s pretty unprincipled and rather tacky.
And completely in character for this lying Disaster-in-Chief.
http://www.szaboservices.com/show/occidental-college-transcripts-reveals-obama-claimed-foreign-citizenship-to-get-scholarship
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THAT DOG STILL WON’T HUNT.
bow wow bow wow CHEESY GRITS.
Real Athens
April 28th, 2012
2:43 pm
Now I know you’re pulling my leg.
“PolitiFact.com is a operated by the Tampa Bay Times.It was started in August 2007 by Times Washington Bureau Chief Bill Adair, in conjunction with the Congressional Quarterly. Adair remains PolitiFact.com’s editor. In January 2010, PolitiFact.com expanded to its second newspaper, the Cox Enterprises-owned Austin American-Statesman in Austin, Texas. In March 2010, the Times and its partner newspaper, The Miami Herald, launched PolitiFact Florida, which focuses on Florida issues. The Times and the Herald share resources on some stories that relate to Florida. Since then, PolitiFact.com expanded to other papers, such as The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Providence Journal, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The Plain Dealer, Richmond Times-Dispatch, the Knoxville News Sentinel and The Oregonian.”
George Soros has nothing to do with it. Paranoia will destroy ya.
Lil' Barry Bailout (Revised Downward)
April 28th, 2012
4:20 pm
Politifact almost always chooses to fact check things that make Americans, er, Republicans look bad. Occasionally they’ll throw in something not too embarrassing on Democrats as a fig leaf.
Politifact: Another biased libtard production.
Tiberius - Banned from Bookman's and proud of it!
April 28th, 2012
4:26 pm
Dig deeper, Real Athens. Soros doesn’t operate on surface level.
Dig deeper.
Tiberius - Banned from Bookman's and proud of it!
April 28th, 2012
4:34 pm
If only the Congress and the Supreme Court wold read and understand this quote. I’d say you libs on here should read it, but it would be
totally
lost
on
you.
“They are not to do anything they please to provide for the general welfare. … [G]iving a distinct and independent power to do any act they please which may be good for the Union, would render all the preceding and subsequent enumerations of power completely useless. It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States; and as they sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please.” – Thomas Jefferson
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April 28th, 2012
4:44 pm
GM:
OBAMA’S not even ALLOWED to make mistakes?
When he changes his position, he’s ridiculed for doing so.
Let it be known that I’m all for Obama’s national defense policies…Bush league all the way. The one exception is Afghanistan. George Bush had that one right…go light. Afghanistan is of no strategic interest to the U.S..
I could be wrong, but it was predicted that the monetary cost of Afghanistan will far exceed that spent in Iraq. And…
Scroll down to Figure 1.21 for U.S. fatalities since 2001.
FIGURE 1.21
U.S. and Coalition Troop Fatalities since October 7, 2001
Alot of U.S. fatalities since Obama took over. But if it’s Obama’s “good” war, all is well, right?
@@
April 28th, 2012
4:46 pm
Lawd ah mercy. GM’s starting to sound like Bosch at jay’s place…none too bright.
schnirt
@@
April 28th, 2012
4:49 pm
I never could figure out if Bosch was a woman trapped inside a man’s body or vice versa.
A harmless but pathetic little creature, he/she.
Real Athens
April 28th, 2012
5:05 pm
Tibby@4:26
I’m now convinced. You’re either paid to post, winding people up or completely, certifiably insane.
Tiberius - Banned from Bookman's and proud of it!
April 28th, 2012
5:10 pm
Not paid to post, nor insane, nor do I post just to wind people up.
I’m here to right the wrongs of liberalism as posted on this blog, and to open people’s eyes on on both the left and right to other possibilities than their partisan views.
It obviously isn’t working with you.
Real Athens
April 28th, 2012
5:16 pm
Ha Ha.
Newsflash. It ain’t working with anyone else either.
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
April 28th, 2012
5:21 pm
“WHO CARES?”
Largest Donor to Obama Super PAC Calls Mormonism a ‘Cult’
You do, stooge.
Try to keep up with your own strategy, tool.
Tiberius - Banned from Bookman's and proud of it!
April 28th, 2012
5:23 pm
“It ain’t working with anyone else either.”
Newsflash: I never expected it to work on people as dense as liberals are, but you don’t get a free pass, either.
General Motors is DEAD, Bin Laden is ALIVE If Romney had been president
April 28th, 2012
5:34 pm
@Tiberius – Banned from Bookman’s and proud of it!
April 28th, 2012
4:34 pm
If only the Congress and the Supreme Court wold read and understand this quote. I’d say you libs on here should read it, but it would be
totally
lost
on
you.
“They are not to do anything they please to provide for the general welfare. … [G]iving a distinct and independent power to do any act they please which may be good for the Union, would render all the preceding and subsequent enumerations of power completely useless. It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States; and as they sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please.” – Thomas Jefferson
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Blah blah blah blah
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex.
General Motors is DEAD, Bin Laden is ALIVE If Romney had been president
April 28th, 2012
5:35 pm
@I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin…
April 28th, 2012
5:21 pm
“WHO CARES?”
Largest Donor to Obama Super PAC Calls Mormonism a ‘Cult’
You do, stooge.
Try to keep up with your own strategy, tool.
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I DON’T CARE
General Motors is DEAD, Bin Laden is ALIVE If Romney had been president
April 28th, 2012
5:35 pm
@I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin…
April 28th, 2012
5:21 pm
“WHO CARES?”
Largest Donor to Obama Super PAC Calls Mormonism a ‘Cult’
You do, stooge.
Try to keep up with your own strategy, tool.
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I DON’T CARE
General Motors is DEAD, Bin Laden is ALIVE If Romney had been president
April 28th, 2012
5:48 pm
AT @@
April 28th, 2012
4:49 pm
I never could figure out if Bosch was a woman trapped inside a man’s body or vice versa.
A harmless but pathetic little creature, he/she.
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And you are an ignorant, unintelligent, classless WANNABE.
To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it.
You are The IDIOT.
Tiberius - Banned from Bookman's and proud of it!
April 28th, 2012
5:52 pm
Only the truly clueless could dismiss the words of the greatest of our country’s Founding Fathers with the words, “Blah, blah, blah”.
Truly sad how some on the liberal side are devolving.
Lil' Barry Bailout (Unexpectedly Revised Downward...Again)
April 28th, 2012
5:54 pm
Tib and @@, you haven’t been watching where you were stepping and have gotten dog doo all over your shoes.
@@
April 28th, 2012
6:14 pm
Why would GM respond to a post regarding Bosch, unless…
A GOTCHA moment?
And you, GM, have GOT TO BE the weakest link within the liberal chain.
LLB:
GM is a dingleberry which never hit the ground. Clingy, if’n ‘ya know what I mean.
@@
April 28th, 2012
6:15 pm
Oops! Make that LBB.
Mines so easy to remember. Why can’t everybody….
nevermind.
@@
April 28th, 2012
6:17 pm
LBB:
Can I call you LLBean?
J/K
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April 28th, 2012
6:22 pm
I THINK my butter beans are in. The Cajun next door walked a coupl’a beers over (2). I have low tolerance to alcohol.
Not certain there are beans in every hole. I’ll know for sure in about 10 days.
@@
April 28th, 2012
6:25 pm
GM:
Look, somebody gave you a star.
@@
April 28th, 2012
6:35 pm
DANG! Obama’s had to go begging to Bill Clinton. Wants Bill to pressure his donors to contribute to Priorities USA Action ’cause their running short.
After what Obama’s campaign did to Bill & Hillary in 2008? I wouldn’t.
@@
April 28th, 2012
6:36 pm
Sho ’nuff got quiet in here.
Tiberius - Banned from Bookman's and proud of it!
April 28th, 2012
6:45 pm
Had to grab a bite to eat, @@.
Tiberius - Banned from Bookman's and proud of it!
April 28th, 2012
7:13 pm
Heh, heh. Bookman thinks the Brookings Institution and the American Enterprise Institute are “non-partisan”.
Both are shameless shills for bigger government and representatives of the Washington elite – on both sides of the aisle.
The two rubes who wrote the article Jay quoted have zero clue as to the mood of this country, nor the motivations of the people on Main Street.
But in typical Bookman fashion, he’s quick to pounce on something that fits his narrow world-view and call it “mainstream”, when nothing could be further from the truth.
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April 28th, 2012
7:16 pm
NYTimes is reporting that healthcare costs are flattening out.
And just when Obama needed the “high cost of” to save him from disaster.
Ahhh pooh!!!
Tiberius:
Had to grab a bite to eat
Dentures get away from ‘ya, did they?
J/K (ISH)
getalife
April 28th, 2012
7:57 pm
“Top Romney Aide: Auto Bailout Was Mitt’s Idea” Aol.
Take that cons.
getalife
April 28th, 2012
8:01 pm
ti,
They are gop think tanks moving your party left into the real world.
Lil' Barry Bailout (Revised Downward)
April 28th, 2012
8:16 pm
Now the Brookings Institute is a GOP think tank. Pure brilliance.
getalife
April 28th, 2012
8:30 pm
You lie:
Brookings is con.
Lil' Barry Bailout (Revised Downward)
April 28th, 2012
8:30 pm
Funny…posts that include the phrase “$pice Gir1$” spelled correctly go into moderation.
Lil' Barry Bailout (Revised Downward)
April 28th, 2012
8:32 pm
Yeah, Brookings is con.
To lying dirtbag Marxists. Like your Idiot Messiah.
@@
April 28th, 2012
9:42 pm
Getalife:
In 2008, one of Al Gore’s campaign stops was at Brookings. They hung banners and the like all about. That pretty much tells ‘ya The Brookings Institute is NOT a conservative think tank.
@@
April 28th, 2012
9:49 pm
Every man’s favorite think tank.
schnirt
Women think on their feet.
getalife
April 28th, 2012
10:31 pm
“Initially centrist, the Institution took its first step rightwards during the depression, in response to the New Deal. In the 1960s, it was linked to the conservative wing of the Democratic party, backing Keynsian economics. From the mid-70s it cemented a close relationship with the Republican party. Since the 1990s it has taken steps further towards the right in parallel with the increasing influence of right-wing think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation.”
Wrong as usual.
getalife
April 28th, 2012
10:35 pm
“Women think on their feet.”
With the gop war on women, you are on the wrong side @@.
Remember when I told you that you moved so far right, you are in radical territory and way out of the mainstream?
j$
April 28th, 2012
11:04 pm
LOL
getalife woos @@ to the dark side.
bye, @@, have fun with getalife!
j/k
@@
April 28th, 2012
11:05 pm
Getalife:
With the gop war on women, you are on the wrong side @@.
I do everything within my power to avoid groups of women. They tend to be overly emotional.
@@
April 28th, 2012
11:16 pm
Hello j$.
Goodnight j$.
j$
April 28th, 2012
11:20 pm
Hi @@,
Nite nite, @@.
RW-(the original)
April 28th, 2012
11:25 pm
j$ and @@????
/must be a flashback……
and getalife thinking he has any idea where the mainstream is, is hysterical
Ummmm…nite guys (ISH)
j$
April 28th, 2012
11:38 pm
RW!
Holy diablo sanwich:)
Good to see you, sir!