What Mitt Romney Needs To Say
Posted by RB in Blog on September 21, 2012 10:18 am / 5 comments
It’s Friday, and after an exhausting week of watching the Beltway Media act like they are the ones running against Mitt Romney instead of, you know, covering the news, I thought I’d offer Romney some advice. Unlike many of those in the conservative wing of the Beltway Media, I’m offering constructive advice, not sniping from the sidelines using anonymous “insider” sources.
Obama, for all intents and purposes, admitted in an interview that he sold the country a bill of goods in 2008. After a campaign of unicorn dreams about “Hope and Change” he finally said what those of us who opposed him back then already knew. He was never up for the job. Mitt Romney has to seize on this, and apparently he knows this because he hit Obama in a stump speech minutes after the President’s monumental gaffe.
But now he has to take it further. Romney has to use this in response to virtually every question asked of him by the Media from now until the election. He also has to weave in his unique set of qualifications for handling the problems we face in this country. Here’s an example:
Beltway Media Question: “Much has been said about your refusal to release more tax returns. Why won’t you release more?”
Mitt Romney: “I’ve released two years of tax returns. This election isn’t about my taxes. It’s about the future of the country. It’s also about the last four years marked by failure of leadership. The President himself has admitted he can’t change Washington from the inside. Four years ago, he campaigned on changing Washington from the inside – that’s why he was running for office. Since his election, more people are on government assistance. More people are in poverty. Unemployment has been above 8% for 43 straight months. Our economy is completely stalled. The Federal government has grown and is stifling entrepreneurship. Small businesses are floundering under its weight. Releasing more tax returns will change none of that.
The President wants to make this campaign about my taxes because he has a failed record and can’t run on that. Here’s what you need to know about me:
I’ve spent my entire life taking broken organizations and fixing them. I started Bain Capital to do just that, and by any objective measure, I was successful. When the Salt Lake Olympic Games were on the verge of collapse, I was asked to step in and fix that very broken organization. I was successful. I became Governor of Massachussetts and took a broken organization and turned it around. It is what I do.
Washington is broken. It is broken to a point where the Federal government is suffocating the private sector. President Obama is okay with that. It fits his government centric worldview. I’m not okay with that. I can fix Washington so that it can get out of the way of the American spirit of free enterprise and free people. I can take my experience in the public and private sector and fix Washington from the inside.
It’s what I do.”
Then he should drop the mic and walk off stage…
Seriously, though. Obama has handed Romney a golden opportunity to showcase his experience and record of success at doing exactly what this country needs right now: Fixing Washington.
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Bingo. The appeal of Herman Cain was 2-fold: First, he had a track record of fixing broken organizations. Second, he didn’t engage in the political zingers, nor did he speak with focus group shaped political jargon. That latter bit was also the genius of Ross Perot, and even to some extent, Barry Obama in 2008.
I think that most people — even hard core political wonks like me — are ready to chuck the entire political scene, sensing that it is very broken and has devolved into a screaming match of the latest daily zingers. (Note to people on both sides — don’t care how nasty or snide you are, the latest hyperventilated talking point won’t change me, or most other interested voters.)
He should point out that the country is broken, and do so using non-jargon terms. He should then point out that he’s got a solid reputation for fixing stuff, and yeah, sometimes he got paid well for that, but other times he did it for free.
And yeah, he shouldn’t wait until the closing remarks of the last rebate in hopes that he’ll do the Reagan.
Straight talk –
“We live in a country whose budget is so unbalanced that we could shut the government down, except for SS, Medicare, Medicaid and debt payments, and not balance the thing.
“We could confiscate all of the money from every billionaire, tax all income above $250k at 100%, and not balance the budget.
“We live in a country where we intentionally printed up the money needed to pay a year’s deficit just so we didn’t crash the entire economy. Our largest lender is now suffering their own economic downturn, and relationship with them are strained, but we are dependent on them for more money.
“We live in a country where we could divorce ourselves from foreign oil, but then choose to buy it from our enemies, forcing us to keep a huge military to secure that supply. And then we wonder where all of our money for schools, roads, and bridges has gone?
“One side screams for cuts, the other for taxes, and still more for a do-nothing approach, but the truth is that we’re gonna endure tough any way we go. The task at hand is to unite a country that is more divided than at any time since the 1960′s in order to endure that pain, to fix our problems. But we live in a country where our leader can’t get a single vote in favor of his latest budget from his own party. Indeed, not one Congressional candidate of his own party has asked him to campaign for them. If he can’t lead his own party, how can he reunite the entire country, or for that matter, the world as it faces an ongoing financial crisis?
BINGO!
Mitt paid taxes based upon his accountant. In what country did he pay those taxes. Hey Mitt, prove it. Release your complete tax returns.
Another thing he should say is that if Obama was TRULEY honest with HIMSELF, not to mention the public, he would quit trying to take down America over his distorted “Daddy issues” and just get out of the race all together and see a dam shrink!! Oh, and Larry Linn if I were you I would be more concerned about what Obama is doing with YOUR money than I would be about what President Romney does with his!!