VP Buzz: Romney's Strong New Leadership

There's been a lot of rumors that McCain might decide soon about V.P. so I thought I'd reprint my arguments for Mitt Romney and against Jindal, Crist, Palin, Pawlenty & Huckabee.  For a lot of reasons, the VP choice for McCain is critical and I trust McCain will give Romney serious consideration.

McCain has some weaknesses that Romney fixes as VP:

• McCain's having trouble raising money - Romney raised lots of money (more than McCain) and has lots of money.
• McCain's weak on the economy - Romney's fantastic.  Romney's a private-sector superstar who successfully counters Obama's populism with free market solutions to people's everyday problems.
• McCain lost big time to Romney in 5 of 10 states with less than 5% margin of victory for Bush in '04: IA, NV, MI, MN & CO
• McCain’s been in Congress (lowest approval ratings ever) for 30 yrs. Romney’s been successful outside the belt-way his whole life.  
• In FL, 600,000 voted for Romney - those votes could be crucial in a general election.  Bush won FL by less than 1000 votes in 2000.
• Net, net - Romney on the ticket may add 47 to 61 electors.  Bush beat Kerry by only 34 electors.

Romney for VP over Jindal, Crist, Palin & Pawlenty because:

• Romney has the judgment, character and experience to be a better President now - the others are a few years away.
• Romney raised over $100 million across the country from California to Utah to Texas - they haven't.
• Romney has had great success managing large companies, the International Olympics and Governor of the 13th largest state - the other candidates have been Governor, that's it.
• Romney has experience running a strong, organized national campaign - they have experience running a one-state campaign. 
• Romney has tens of millions of supporters - they don't.
• Romney can help deliver IA, MI, MN, ME, CO, NV, UT & probably NH - they deliver one state each
• Romney’s great success in the private sector makes him the perfect VP to help McCain help America win the global economy (having both a Harvard MBA & Law degree doesn't hurt either). 

Romney for VP over Huckabee because:

• If a chair dropped during one of his speeches, Romney would never say anything as stupid as:   "That was Barack Obama...somebody aimed a gun at him and he dove for the floor".
• Had Romney been selfish enough to stay in the race, Romney would have won three times the votes & delegates Huckabee got.
• The few states Huckabee brings to the ticket will be GOP anyway.
• Although Romney graciously left early, he raised 6 times more money.  
• Huckabee plays Clinton-style politics - such as running an ad saying he’s the "Christian leader" in evangelical Iowa and pulling the ad in NH - did Huckabee convert over New Jersey?

The only knocks on Romney are that he’s another "flip flopping Northeast liberal" and he lacks foreign policy experience. 

The “flip flop” charge is misleading.  Romney is actually very conservative, born and raised in Michigan, but moved to Massachusetts to attend Harvard.  During a very successful business career, Mitt and his wife Ann raised their kids and put down roots.  Later, he ran for office and had to make compromises to get elected, and govern, in the bluest of blue states. 

Would his critics prefer that Romney had uprooted his family and moved to Arizona, so he could run as a conservative?  Or that he had stayed in Mass, not compromised and not get elected?  Thankfully, Mitt pulled that liberal state a little to the right and Mass, and America, is better off for it. 

Let’s celebrate blue-state conservatives, not chastise them when they run for national office.

Regarding Foreign Policy experience, most of our greatest Presidents, and most of the other V.P. candidates, lack foreign policy experience.  At least Romney has some experience with foreign leaders during his global business career and as International Olympics CEO.  The alternative is to get a VP candidate out of the US Senate, now experiencing record low approval ratings.

Mitt 4 VP = Win 4 McCain! 

     

Obama owes Bono for "This is our Moment."

"This is our moment.  This is our time."  Perhaps you were moved when you first heard Obama say this.  Perhaps it was the first time you had heard anyone describe so eloquently the feeling that the world is being handed over to our generation, that the present is our responsibility.  It is a burden but to put it is so eloquently makes it sound like an exciting challenge - more hopeful, less scary.  Perhaps you thought those words were another sign that this man was indeed special.  Problem was, those weren't his words.

Yesterday, I heard the Rush Limbaugh program had made an allegation that Obama stole his trademark "This is our moment.  This is our time."  from a 2005 speech Bono gave.  I was shocked until I Googled it myself and found this article @ http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20050703/ai_n14683852.

EMOTIONAL Bono yesterday pleaded with the heads of the wealthy G8 nations to bring an end to death by disease in Africa.

The U2 singer, speaking in the opening minutes of Live 8, declared: "Eight of the most powerful men on earth are meeting on a golf course in Scotland. There's a lot at stake.

"We have a message for them. This is your moment to make history by making poverty history."

In front of 205,000 people in London's Hyde Park and an estimated two billion TV audience, Bono said: "So this is our moment. This is our time. This is our chance. To stand up for what's right.

Amazing!  It's a great line and Obama can certainly use it but he should credit Bono and it's unseemly for him to feature the phrase in his acceptance speech for Democratic nomination in Minneapolis and the King of the World speech in Berlin.  But Obama doesn't seem to have a problem with what is unseemly. 

Here are some other examples of Obama things that aren't, well, "cool":

1. Campaigning in Europe as a candidate.  You don't speak in front of hundreds of thousands of foreigners as a representative of America until you've been elected to represent America.  Not cool.
2. Pandering to socialist Europeans but not willing to visit injured American troops.  The military said he could not have cameras but he could visit - he choose not to.  Not cool.
3. Saying, "I know that I don't look like the Americans who've previously spoken in this great city". Why say that?  It's not even true.  Both of Bush's Secretary of State, Colin Powell & Dr. Condi Rice, are African-American, look a lot like Barack and have spoken to German crowds.  But why does it matter what we look like?  Not cool.

There's lot more examples but I gotta go...

Here's another example of Bono using that phrase:

National Media Must Diversify

I found this McCain video of how much the media is in the tank for Obama:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfogMFL7UJo

and left this comment:

All kidding aside, the media needs to diversify itself. It may take years of hiring conservatives but it's important for the country and the world.

It's dangerous to have our national media so one sided.

For example, in 1994 a very charming Bill Clinton managed to convince the world that Hutus killing 50,000 Tutsis a week was not genocide and so he would not intervene.

Over 800,000 humans were butchered to death because the liberal media gave the liberal President a pass.

Diversify

It already got this response from 3swelldogs:

EXCELLENT point. we should have gone in there...and the shame of it was that it wouldn't have taken much at all to clear that up.

Hillary's lost her right to be heard.

7-24-08  UPDATE!

The website below, virginiadem.wordpress.com, actually allowed my comment to post, only to remove it later.  Everything I said, was factually true, which just goes to show you that the real fascism in America is on the left.  They love free speech as long as it's only and exactly what they want to hear.  Anything else and they will shut it down, erase it, deny it or otherwise mitigate it. 

Obama's speech today in Berlin reminded us of another fascist who gave speeches to hundreds of thousands in Berlin and his party made sure no criticism of him or his party was allowed in public.

Please let this web site know how you feel about websites that remove comments they don't agree with.  I completely understand removing spam or comments that are factually wrong or personally hurtful - mine were none of the above - they were just critical of the Clintons and the Democrats.

Shame on you Democrats!!!

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I came across more Hillary words:

http://virginiadem.wordpress.com/2008/07/14/republicans-should-apologize-hillary-clinton-finds-her-voice-again-at-aft-convention/#comment-1204.

and I said this on 7-14-08:

More tired old words from the woman who, long ago, lost her right to be heard.

In 1994, 800,000 blacks were butchered to death during the Rwanda Genocide and Bill Clinton did nothing. He had a UN obligation to intervene and he just said no.

Tens of thousands of woman, young and old were raped and mutilated and Hillary Clinton said nothing.

Wouldn’t it have been great if she had found her voice for them? I wonder how many children she could have saved?

Shame on the Clintons and shame on the Democrats for looking the other way because one of their own was in charge!

At least this web-site allows my comments to be posted without "moderation".

I'm getting cynical.

Obama folk, rightly, won't pay for Hillary's hit-job

I came across this gem of a story that describes how Obama supporters are reluctant to give cash to retire Hillary's campaign's debt when a good chunk of it was run up attacking Obama after she had no chance of winning.  I remember Hillary running ads in Montana and saying to my wife how odd that she's spending money this late in the race.  Now she wants Obama folk to pay those bills?

Anyway, here's the link:

http://www.againsthillary.com/2008/07/09/bad-blood-obama-donors-arent-rushing-to-aid-clinton/#comment-8633

...and here's my comment that, as of 1:41pm 7-9-08, was awaiting moderation.  We'll see if it posts.

How strange that the winner of a contest, any contest, pays off the debts of the loser?

Hillary lost this race months ago. Obama had a big lead over McCain. Rather than put her party ahead of her personal ambitions, as Mitt Romney did, she selfishly continues campaigning, against overwhelming mathematical odds, running up debt, gathering up delegates, buying ads and spreading rumors - anything that might convince America Obama is unelectable - a Hillary-fulfilling prophecy.

Now, Obama’s been damaged badly by Hillary’s hammer and Hillary wants Obama’s supporters to pay for the hammer. If they had an ounce of integrity they would not ask for the cash. If they had an ounce of integrity, they would have quit the race and not stayed in to bloody up Obama. Unfortunately, the Clintons have no integrity.

How do I know?

In 1948, the US promised the world, “Never again!” after 6 million Jews were murdered during Holocaust. In 1994, Hutus killed 50,000 Tutsis a week during the Rwanda Genocide - an obvious genocide the US must respond to. But Clinton did not respond. They managed to convince the world it wasn’t really genocide until over 800,000 had been butchered to death.

If the Clinton’s had any integrity, they would have taken action to stop the killing of almost a million people. They didn’t, so they don’t.

 

 

Hillary owes more than you think

Hillary's campaign debt is rising and that's not all she owes. 

Today, I read in the BitsBlog that the June 22, 2008 -NY Post- is reporting that:

"New campaign-finance filings reveal Clinton has even more debt than previously reported, while Obama’s fund-raising has stalled.  

He pulled in $22 million in May - a sharp drop from the $30 million to $55 million he got in each of the prior three months.

And presumptive Republican nominee John McCain came up almost even with his Democratic rival, taking in $21 million last month.

The new reports show Clinton’s debt has risen to $22.5 million - $12 million of which is in personal loans she poured into her campaign - and she reported only $3 million in available cash. More debt is expected to be reported in the coming weeks.

...an Obama spokesman said there's no specific plan to rescue Clinton from her debt.  Discussions so far "have focused more on what these two can do to bring the party together and move it forward than it has on these logistical details," Obama communications director Robert Gibbs said last week. "

Of course, this story has some interesting political and ethical subplots.  Isn't it interesting that Obama's fundraising dropped off so sharply in May, almost in half, from the previous months, even though his race with Hillary was heating up. 

Interesting also that McCain almost matched him in May, largely as a result of fundraising done with Bush at Romney events in Salt Lake City and at Romney's vacation home in Park City, Utah - and no one is reporting that.  No one is talking about how much Romney raised for McCain.

Another interesting subplot in the NY Post story is the pleading by Clinton folk that Obama pay off her debt and the statement by an Obama spokesperson that they have no such intentions - good for them!

Anyway, as interesting as the political and ethical dilemmas, I was first struck by the moral one.  Whenever anyone talks about Hillary owing anything, I first think of what she and Bill owe that they can't pay back - the victims of the Rwanda Genocide their lives back.  I left this comment at the BitsBlog:

"Hillary owes more than $22 million dollars.

She and Bill owe Africa, and the nation of Rwanda, a lot more than that.

You see back in 1994, over 800,000 blacks were butchered to death during the Rwanda Genocide. Back in 1948, the US promised “Never again” would we allow an entire people to be targeted for extinction.

Yet Hutus killed 50,000 Tutsis each week and Bill did nothing. Tens of thousands of women, young and old, were raped and mutilated and Hillary said nothing.

Hillary owes a lot more than $22 million.

No amount of singing in black churches or donating to African charities will bring back 800,000 lives or make up for the injustice of doing nothing during Africa’s worst genocide ever.

n’est pas?"

 

 

I'd like to write a blog soon called "The Clintons are Morally Bankrupt" that logically puts together, side by side, the huge debt they owe for abandoning Rwanda next to all the things they've done that they think are making up for it and add all the things they possibly could do during the rest of their lives and it should become very clear - they're deep in debt, can never get out and should file for moral bankruptcy, very soon, immediately. 

Finally, Some Justice 4 Rwanda.

I subscribe to the HillaryClintondotcom on YouTube - just to keep an eye on things.  Well, I got this gem of a video yesterday, thanking me for...

I did not even finish the video (I never can stomach more than a minute or two of a Hillary video).  I just like to see if they finally let me leave comments.  You see, Hillary's campaign has a policy of not allowing comments she doesn't like to be posted on her YouTube videos.  I guess her staff reviews each one and posts it (or not) depending on if they like the content.  The net result is lots of glowing compliments of Hillary and nothing else.  It's a little like that movie the Stepford Wives or Pleasantville.  Ironic that hippie democrat types think conservatives are fascists who strictly regulate expression but the reverse is actually true.  Giuliani, Mitt, McCain, Thompson, Huckabee all had open comments on their YouTube videos during the GOP primary.  You know this because there was some nasty critical comments of each candidate mixed in with lots of "Go Ron Paul!" comments.  Not so for Hillary.  I don't know about Obama - I'll go check it out.

Anyway, I left the comment below to make the Hillary staffer reading it think a little bit about the person they're supporting.  Someday, I'd like to get the MSM to write about this but until then, your my biggest audience!

Here's my comment:

Finally.

Justice 4 Rwanda.

Over 14 years ago. the Clintons let 800,000 Africans die needlessly - butchered in the Rwanda Genocide after America had promised "Never Again".

Now, it is with sweet and just irony that an African-American has ended the White House dreams of the couple who did nothing about Africa's worst genocide ever.

How ironic Hillary "the feminist" never spoke out while tens of thousands of women, young and old, were raped and mutilated.

May God forgive her.

I submitted it and the response was, "Comment Pending Approval!"  just like that, with the exclamation mark - like I'm supposed to be excited it's pending approval instead of just being posted like 95% of all other YouTube comments.

I'll let you know if it gets approved.  Don't wait up too long :-)

UPDATE:  June 7, 2008

Nope - still no posting of my comment 24 hours later.  You can check yourself @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8-Bkbre_7A