1) Mitt is from a blue state and understands how to work with the other
party: Mitt Romney spent four years as governor of Massachusetts, which
is one of the bluest blue states. In fact, as Romney has noted many
times, his legislature was 87% Democrats and yet, he still managed to
pass legislation and balance the budget. On the other hand, Barack Obama
has spent the last four years at loggerheads with the Republicans in
Congress. You can argue about whose fault it is, but the fact of the
matter is that Barack Obama and the Republicans in Congress have proven
to be incapable of cooperating and that seems unlikely to change if he's
re-elected. Maybe the same thing will happen if Romney gets into the
White House, but he at least has a track record of success in that area
while Barack Obama does not.
2) Mitt Romney is a moderate
Republican: Take it from someone who ran Notmittromney.com during the
primaries and preferred Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, Herman Cain, Michele
Bachmann, Rick Santorum, and Jon Huntsman to Romney: Romney was not one
of the more conservative candidates running. Although it's possible that
Romney will govern very conservatively if he's elected and many of us
on the Right will do all we can to try to influence him to do that, the
biggest reason some of us fought so hard to stop Mitt Romney was that we
feared he would be just as much of a moderate in the White House as he
was as the governor of Massachusetts. As a movement conservative, I
consider that to be a bug, but if you're an undecided voter, that's
probably exactly the kind of feature you're looking for in a President.
3)
He'd be one of the most decent men ever to sit in the Oval Office: This
will sound too good to be true, but most of the people reading this
column don't know a single, solitary person who is more compassionate
and giving than Mitt Romney. Just to name a few of Mitt Romney's acts of
charity, he raked leaves for the elderly, he bought milk for veterans
at a VA hospital for two years, he helped a dying 14 year old boy write
his will. At one point he devoted 10-20 hours per week serving in his
church. He made Thanksgiving dinner for a family with a sick child and
offered to pay for the college education of two boys who were made
quadriplegics in a car wreck. Despite what you may hear in campaign
commercials, Mitt Romney is exactly the sort of fundamentally decent man
that we should want in a position of power.
4) Who better to get
the economy going than a successful businessman? As Paul Ryan noted
during his debate with Joe Biden, the economy isn't doing so well.
Look, did they come in and inherit a tough situation? Absolutely. But
we're going in the wrong direction. Look at where we are. The economy is
barely limping along. It's growing at 1.3 percent. That's slower than
it grew last year and last year was slower than the year before. Job
growth in September was slower than it was in August, and August was
slower than it was in July. We're heading in the wrong direction; 23
million Americans are struggling for work today; 15 percent of Americans
are living in poverty today. This is not what a real recovery looks
like.
Who knows more about getting the economy on track, an
incredibly successful businessman like Mitt Romney or a politician like
Barack Obama? Who knows more about creating jobs? Obviously Barack Obama
isn't very good at it; so isn't it time to give a man who has proven
himself in the business world a shot at it?
5) What message does
it send if you reward failure? When you look at Barack Obama's first
term, the successes have been few and far between. The economy is
terrible and getting weaker; the unemployment rate is the same as it was
when Obama was elected; gas prices have soared. He has run up a
trillion dollars of debt every year of his presidency; he spent an
inordinate amount of time pushing through an unpopular health care bill
that wasn't even read before it was passed; his foreign policy in the
Middle East is in chaos. There just isn't much there that makes you say,
"Wow, the country could really use a little more of that over the next
four years." Meanwhile, Barack Obama hasn't even bothered to flesh out a
second term agenda. If the American people reward that kind of
performance with a second term, there's no reason to expect anything
other than more of the same. Can the country really afford to have
another four years just as bad as the last four years?
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