Romney and those gloves
But I’m not at all sure they were ever really on.
[ADDENDUM: You might be interested in watching Romney’s entire speech in Irwin, Pennsylvania yesterday, which was a response to Obama’s “you didn’t build that” remarks.]
[ADDENDUM II: For those who haven’t watched the Romney video, here’s the heart of the speech:
More here on a different but related topic.
And John Podhoretz thinks Romney should send Obama a fruit basket.]
Gloves are off, or not, in part depending on who hears him.
For some, explaining a major fault in Obama’s positions and doing so clearly is a hammerblow. For others, name-calling is required. Neither group is satisfied by the other’s requirement.
My two cents on the Obama “you didn’t build it alone” remark:
Reduce it to the ridiculous —–
There are trees in the forest. I want to build a house. God/Mother Nature/Gaia put those trees there, but I felled the trees, I trimmed the logs, I cut the notches, I stacked the walls and I built the roof. For Obama to say that I did not build that house alone because I used the natural resources that were present is, I offer, an absurd statement at its core. It’s much like saying that Einstein shouldn’t be given credit for e=mc^2 because all he did was describe what was there in the first place.
Thus, too is Obama’s statement about business absurd at its core. Highways weren’t put there specifically for my business or for anyone’s business, neither was the internet (in fact both of those were projects initially intended for national defense). The fact that others besides their intended users have taken advantage of them is a testament to the foresight, vision and skill of those who utilize the resources around them.
This, in fact, applauds American individualism and vision much much more than it applauds Obama’s intrusive government presence. North Korea has roads and bridges, so too do Syria and Egypt, and the former Soviet Union also had roads. Yet, none of them holds a candle to the American experience and the unique and unprecedented American contribution to posterity.
Yes, we stand on the shoulders of giants; we don’t exist or create in a vacuum and that is why we have the ability to see further into the distance than they ever could (not that we always do). To recognize THAT fact is not the same as Obama’s statement which credits those “shoulders” on which we stand as the primary driver of our success.
Taking off the gloves does not mean calling Obama a piece of shit or a scumbag. Socialist, yes, rascist, yes, liar, yes.
Where Obama has received protection because he is black, because others will attack for him, because he panders to voters, because he hands out goodies at the taxpayer expense, because he destroys long established friendships, because he abuses the tenets of religion, because he provides government power and influence to those who pay him and his friends money, because he uses the IRS and the DOJ to persecute and not prosecute, because he endangers covert operations, because he leaks national security information, because he creates anti-American Muslim and black welfare zones where white people dare not tread, because he has refused to expand our national prowess in space and technology, because he has enabled our enemies with promises of further cooperation, because he has abused the percs and benefits of his office, because his wife has abused the benefits and percs of his office, because he has divided, because he has created an artificial energy dependence, because he has ruled by decree rather than democracy, because he has perverted the rules of bankruptcy, because he has violated the first, second and fourth and tenth amendments, because he has harrassed those who come forth with legitimate grievance, because he has favored with government funds those states and persons favorable to him, because he has isolated Israel, because he has snubbed Poland and left it undefended, because he has set forth a plan for execution of complete tyranny, because he has provided fraudulent documents proving who he is, because he attacks and destorys people of good faith and value, because he doesn’t know the first thing of governance, because he has created a false, completely false, idea of who he is and how he was raised, because he does not enroll in the same system of health care that he bestows on others, because of all these things (and this is a short list) we shall rise up in November of 2012, in hatred against this attempt to enslave us, and take the office of President away from this traitor and world citizen, we shall continue to reform and remake and re-educate these great United States of America.
Yay!!!!!! I always knew he could do it!
I watched the whole speech yesterday and was quite mesmerized…. it was what I always hoped he would do. If he can maintain that energy and also hit back at BHO for the next 3 months, then there really is hope.
My major disappointment is that 98% of the US didn’t hear that speech as it’s summer and most, except the strange ones like us, are doing other things. He gives the same speech in late September and things will change.
Obama lets the cat out of the bag
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/obama-lets-the-cat-out-of-the-bag/2012/07/17/gJQAq0igrW_blog.html
[as a bonus national review has a piece up on the flouting of the Rule of law… ]
I, too, welcome this development, and I hope Romney socks it to the prez good and hard.
I’ve worried that focussing too narrowly on “the economy” and how it’s doing is risky and shortsighted: Yes, by all means, focus on it, but we need to make the bigger case — that Leftism is slavery, nothing less than slavery: that any uptick the economy might experience under a Leftist regime can’t last and will only be plundered by the oligarchs.
Above all, we need to make the case again for FREEDOM. To our fellow citizens, to all those who’ve been brainwashed.
http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-18/the-contender-mitt-romney-could-ve-been?category=
Ezra’s an idiot!
If Ezra Klein (Bloomberg link above) is dumping on the Romney campaign this can only be good news.
Klein is a lightweight that sees the world only through the distortion of Progressive lenses. As a counterpoint to his “Romney coulda been a contender” see the poll listed at ace of spades:
http://ace.mu.nu/
Scroll down to “Gigantic Horror Poll” by Gabriel Malor and note that 54% of Independents think Romney will do a better job handling the economy (vs. 34% favoring Obama). So, who really cares what Ezra Klein thinks?
Obamaworld is tense and worried. Their 100 million dollar preemptive strike failed to move the needle. The trend is easy to see and is not good news for BO.
Mitt takes the gloves off? That is the wrong metaphor here. Mitt knows it is know him versus Obama but the economy versus Obama. The economy is the teacher here, the impartial, silent and in the end, most convincing teacher. Think of how much time, effort and money has been spent to defy common sense principles and morality. All of that for what? Obama’s America?
Probably off topic… but the star of Obama’s anti-Bain Capital ad actually can’t stand Obama. Apparently the community organizer’s staff didn’t check who they got for the commercial: See here.
His view of Obama:
“I think Obama is a jerk, a pantywaist, a lightweight, a blowhard. He hasn’t done a goddamn thing that he said he would do. When he had a Democratic Senate and Democratic Congress, he didn’t do a damn thing. He doesn’t have the guts to say what’s on his mind.”