The Upcoming Debates – What Romney Must do to Win

Written : Sep. 25, 2012

A boss of mine once said, “If you want the manager’s job, you must act like a manager.” In the three upcoming presidential debates, the first on Wednesday, Oct. 3, Gov. Romney must seem like our president. I suggest he avoid too much criticism of President Obama, and surprise us all with details. Tell them your plan, Mitt.

The mainstream media (MSM) will come prepared to trip the Republican candidate, so Governor Romney will need to turn their loaded, biased questions into clear answers. Don’t let them distract you, Mitt, as they will try. Stay on target and tell the American people what you came prepared to say. They will try to make President Obama look like a champion of the people instead of the commander-in-chief of so many failed policies. They will attempt to make you look like a fool, a rich guy, one who doesn’t care. We need to see how much you do.

A few of my readers might not understand how the questions will be biased, so let me give one example. The chances are high the talking heads might ask something like, “Governor Romney, when you said you didn’t care about 47% of the people in that video…” - He didn’t say he didn’t care about anyone, he said they wouldn’t vote for him. And, they won’t concentrate on any of President Obama’s gaffs, believe me. Not all, but several will be softball questions to the president, watch and see. “What do you like best about being president?” is but one example.

As a presidential hopeful, Mr. Romney needs to tell us about his vision for a stronger America in a safer world, his better economy via job creation at an accelerated pace, better schools, better teachers, his ideas for a re-invigorated and active space program, (how’s that for education, my liberal friends?) – and specifically, how to get there from here. We have to see him answer the president’s talking points, you know, “trickle-down doesn’t work…a return to the Bush policies…pay your fair share…spread the wealth…Republicans do teacher-bashing…more people covered than ever before…the Republicans opposed me at every turn…tsunamis, ATMs…I can’t change Washington from the inside…Republicans favor dirty air and dirty water…” He must challenge the president at least three times, ask questions of him, point out his failings in front of him; policies, ideas, over-spending, and ideology. Mr. Romney must seem like the adult while not scolding the child.

Yes, the specifics are all there, Democrats - policies, issues, details, on his web site here or here, pay attention, please. Tell us you don’t like the ideas, but do stop saying that there are no ideas. Oh, and by the way, if you own a business, you did build that!

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The Rich and the Jealous – or – You, Too, Might Succeed - and Then What?

Written : Sep. 18, 2012

When the Democrats say, “Pay your fair share,” what are they really saying? The term ‘fair share’ is never defined by anyone, but the extrapolation is that some pay their fair share and others do not. Which others? They say the 99% of Americans who are rich don’t pay enough, and the assumption is that they can afford to pay more. However, nearly half of all Americans don’t pay any taxes. The top 10% pay over 70% of all taxes. The bottom 50% pays just over 2% of all tax revenues – as of 2009. This is down from 4% in 1999, by the way. Is that fair?

How does anyone know that the rich can afford to pay more? From our president on down, no one knows for sure, they simply assume, and you know what they say about the word, ‘assume,’ right? If the finger-pointing individuals were rich, they tell us, they wouldn’t use any tax loopholes. They’d do the patriotic thing and pay even more than they needed to. Yeah, sure. When you make more money than you can spend it’s obvious that you invest it through an investment company. They tell you how to do it, and you do what they say to maximize the interest you can make on your money. Why not? Think it all the way through, Democrats. What if you succeeded beyond your wildest dreams?

In 2004, Democrats didn’t target one of the richest men ever to run for president, Sen. John Kerry (D-MA). They left him alone for political reasons, of course. But they sure do pick on wealthy old Mitt Romney, don’t they? Since his father was rich, they assume he inherited his fortune, but he didn’t. He gave his inheritance away and built his own net worth over time. And yet the jealous and bitter ooze out of the woodwork and accuse the governor of investing his money in a place where he can escape our over-zealous tax system. When it was revealed that Sen. John Kerry anchored his yacht in a different state to avoid paying nearly $500,000 in taxes, the frowning faces went into hiding. I refer you to Larry Elder’s article about Democrats who support higher taxes but don’t follow their own advice.

So, if nearly half the people – at the lower end of the income scale - don’t pay taxes, and Mitt Romney says so, why does the media attack him for it? If he says these people will probably not support him, why do President Obama’s supporters mock him for telling the truth? When he says he “won’t worry about those people,” he doesn’t mean he won’t be their president, he merely is saying that they won’t vote for him so he shouldn’t try to convince them, that’s all. Relax, liberal folks, he’ll be your president, too, and will work to lighten the load on business so they will hire you.

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Straw Men II

Written : Sep. 10, 2012

A straw man is a stereotype, a cliché, an imaginary figure, set up for one side to argue against the other. The straw men arrived – just in time - to the Democratic National Convention last week in Charlotte, NC. As predicted, the Democrats set up the rich man straw man, just to knock him down. Their best speaker, former President Bill Clinton, said that the Republicans hate President Obama. No, we don’t. We dislike his policies. (How many times must we say it?)

Elizabeth Warren, running for the Senate in Massachusetts, in a fit of cynicism told her audience of Democratic delegates that the system is rigged against them. Although 50% of lower-income citizens don’t pay taxes, she implied that Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee, avoids paying his fair share of taxes (whatever that is) by sheltering his income in the Cayman Islands. But rich, famous Democrats do the same thing. Even you would do it if you could. It‘s legal, but sounds like a call for equality to knock a guy who does it, and unfairly label him. The media avoided telling you that billionaire rich guy, John Kerry, who ran for the Democrats at the top of their ticket in 2004, anchored his yachts in another state to avoid paying taxes. It’s okay to shelter income, but only if you are a Democrat and speak about some lemon-laced, vague, and impossible form of fairness.

Candidate Warren also said that Republicans say they don’t believe in government (although we do). Then she knocked the straw man down. “Sure they do,” she continued, “they believe in government to help themselves – and their powerful friends.” However, this reflects what the Democrats believe. Look at how environmental companies received millions of dollars in stimulus funds. See how much money America lost by ‘investing’ in Solyndra. Yes, over half a billion dollars! This company represents the president’s powerful friends.

John Lewis, the influential civil rights leader, perpetuated this myth: The Democrats want to move us forward while the Republicans only want to go back. Then he set up the old voting straw man. He implied that Republicans suppress the vote. Meanwhile, the mainstream media refused to cover the story (and legal case) about voter intimidation perpetuated by the Black Panthers (with a billy club), shouting racial slurs against whites in Philadelphia during the 2008 election. Guess who they were supporting in the 2008 election, and I can give you a hint; not Republican John McCain.

I did not mention all the straw men who came to Charlotte for the Democratic Convention, but the Democrats did not disappoint, they knocked all of them down.

Another straw man the left uses is that they are the party of tolerance while the Republicans exclude people. Please see the short video from the Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show. Click on the very next URL shown below, which proves just how 'tolerant' the delegates were at the DNC. You've got to see this!

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Here Come the Straw Men

Written : Sep. 3, 2012

A straw man is a false set of circumstances set up for one side to argue against the other. The straw men are coming. The left loves to use these, their imaginary friends, against the right. One such straw man is the evil, rich, oil tycoon, laughing while secretly salting his money in his wall safe. Consider their make-believe, conservative racist - is there any other kind? Another, the rich Republican businessman, only cares about money. He'll purposely hurt the working poor as much as he can – and reap the company profits while exploiting their labor. These people don’t really exist (If so, who are they?), and yet the Democrats are already railing against them.

The 2012 Republican National Convention (RNC) was held in Tampa, FL last week. The Democratic National Convention (DNC) just began in Charlotte, NC. So get ready; the silly season descends upon us. One liberal argument you may not have heard yet is that the Republican convention contained coded, racial messages to rev up their Klu Klux Klan membership. On Sep. 1, 2012, ‘Political Analyst’ Jonathan Alter, on MSNBC’s Weekends with Alex Witt, explained this phenomenon by likening it to the 1960’s-1980’s. When President Nixon said, “Law and Order,” explains Alter, the statement was actually code for stirring up the president’s white constituency against minorities (like whites don’t commit crimes!). Mr. Alter also said that President Ronald Reagan, when speaking about ‘welfare queens,’ meant the phrase as a subconscious message of racism to his white base. (And yet, conservatives don’t classify groups the way liberals do, and most of those who receive welfare in this country are whites!)

The left says they couldn’t see any blacks and Hispanics in the RNC. But, which channel were they watching? Talk about putting the blinders on a horse! I saw them all on CSPAN. The other networks refused to show most of them and didn’t air their stirring personal stories given in stirring, wonderful speeches. I wonder why? For those on the left who saw them, the response generally was, ‘Well, these people do not represent their own minorities.’ So, the Republicans can never win in liberal eyes. BTW, my left-wing friends, we don’t see them as minorities – only you do; we see them as freedom loving Americans who understand this country’s greatness. It’s a drag being called a racist when you’re not. Drop the psycho-babble, and get with reality, Democrats.

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