Romney For President
Posted: October 13, 2012
Over the past four years, a contrived experiment in “hope and change” has gone dreadfully awry, to the point this nation is in dire need of reversal — or, as they say in the corporate world, a “turnaround” — fiscally, morally, philosophically, and spiritually. It needs leadership, and we have a person in mind — a “turnaround expert,” — to provide it.
Willard Mitt Romney is qualified for such a daunting task as president of these United States. The breadth of his resume meshes with the moment’s demands. He was a corporate executive, Olympic president and CEO, governor of a populous state, not to mention a religious leader and family man. His experience will stand him in good stead. A fractious, dispirited, divided America yearns for a man of such accomplishment and talent.
His virtues? Let’s start with business sense. He knows his way around a spread sheet, right down to the bottom line. And he’s made a payroll or two in his day. Even more importantly, Mr. Romney instinctively grasps the driving force of American economic exceptionalism — our commitment to capitalism (a word he’s not afraid to use) and freedom. That is, free enterprise and free markets.
As Mr. Romney said that June day in 2011 when he announced his candidacy, “In the campaign to come, the American ideals of economic freedom and opportunity need a clear and unapologetic defense, and I intend to make it — because I have lived it.”
Yes, he has. Mr. Romney is a success story in a land that once unquestionably valued and praised success rather than demonized it. Not only does he wish to restore that appreciation for well-earned success, but also wants everyone to “live it.” Or have the chance to.
Thus has Mr. Romney’s campaign focused incessantly on economic rejuvenation by creating more jobs for more people. A nation, he believes, pays its bills when its people have the wherewithal, by dint of their own initiative, to pay theirs.
Therein lies the secret of Mitt Romney’s appeal — a life story grounded in timeless verities.
Though Mr. Romney is, by nature, a conservative man, the themes he emphasizes are neither partisan nor particularly ideological — but quintessentially American: practicality, hard work, prudence, sobriety, restraint. And by so doing, at this most opportune time, he represents true hope and real change.
As head of the Salt Lake City Winter Olympiad, he displayed a keen ability not simply to get things done, but also to work with people in doing so. And, as the Republican governor of one of the nation’s “bluest” states, Massachusetts, he demonstrated similar traits.
America’s way out of the fiscal and economic wilderness demands such a person — someone able to stand firm on principle yet find a way, at day’s end, to sell his plans and prescriptions to folks ideologically disposed, or even compelled, to disagree. Ronald Reagan was such a person. We believe Mitt Romney can be, too.
Finally, Mitt Romney exudes an innate decency born of principles sincerely held — that being an ingrained pride in America’s greatness, her value to the world.
This pride shone through in the first presidential debate when, asked about the role of government. He turned, pointed to the stage’s backdrop featuring excerpts from the Declaration of Independence and Constitution, and said they will be his guides.
It radiated again earlier this week during a foreign-policy address at VMI. Mr. Romney sounded the clarion for America’s global leadership. The world is a far better place, he said, when America — particularly her military, which he seeks to reinvigorate — is strong. How true. Our nation will be a better place with Mr. Romney in the White House.
Mitt Romney is a proven commodity, a man exquisitely qualified and temperamentally suitable for the office he seeks, and for the challenges ahead. He has met his moment, and so we, without hesitation or equivocation, endorse him for the presidency of the United States.
Willard Mitt Romney is qualified for such a daunting task as president of these United States. The breadth of his resume meshes with the moment’s demands. He was a corporate executive, Olympic president and CEO, governor of a populous state, not to mention a religious leader and family man. His experience will stand him in good stead. A fractious, dispirited, divided America yearns for a man of such accomplishment and talent.
His virtues? Let’s start with business sense. He knows his way around a spread sheet, right down to the bottom line. And he’s made a payroll or two in his day. Even more importantly, Mr. Romney instinctively grasps the driving force of American economic exceptionalism — our commitment to capitalism (a word he’s not afraid to use) and freedom. That is, free enterprise and free markets.
As Mr. Romney said that June day in 2011 when he announced his candidacy, “In the campaign to come, the American ideals of economic freedom and opportunity need a clear and unapologetic defense, and I intend to make it — because I have lived it.”
Yes, he has. Mr. Romney is a success story in a land that once unquestionably valued and praised success rather than demonized it. Not only does he wish to restore that appreciation for well-earned success, but also wants everyone to “live it.” Or have the chance to.
Thus has Mr. Romney’s campaign focused incessantly on economic rejuvenation by creating more jobs for more people. A nation, he believes, pays its bills when its people have the wherewithal, by dint of their own initiative, to pay theirs.
Therein lies the secret of Mitt Romney’s appeal — a life story grounded in timeless verities.
Though Mr. Romney is, by nature, a conservative man, the themes he emphasizes are neither partisan nor particularly ideological — but quintessentially American: practicality, hard work, prudence, sobriety, restraint. And by so doing, at this most opportune time, he represents true hope and real change.
As head of the Salt Lake City Winter Olympiad, he displayed a keen ability not simply to get things done, but also to work with people in doing so. And, as the Republican governor of one of the nation’s “bluest” states, Massachusetts, he demonstrated similar traits.
America’s way out of the fiscal and economic wilderness demands such a person — someone able to stand firm on principle yet find a way, at day’s end, to sell his plans and prescriptions to folks ideologically disposed, or even compelled, to disagree. Ronald Reagan was such a person. We believe Mitt Romney can be, too.
Finally, Mitt Romney exudes an innate decency born of principles sincerely held — that being an ingrained pride in America’s greatness, her value to the world.
This pride shone through in the first presidential debate when, asked about the role of government. He turned, pointed to the stage’s backdrop featuring excerpts from the Declaration of Independence and Constitution, and said they will be his guides.
It radiated again earlier this week during a foreign-policy address at VMI. Mr. Romney sounded the clarion for America’s global leadership. The world is a far better place, he said, when America — particularly her military, which he seeks to reinvigorate — is strong. How true. Our nation will be a better place with Mr. Romney in the White House.
Mitt Romney is a proven commodity, a man exquisitely qualified and temperamentally suitable for the office he seeks, and for the challenges ahead. He has met his moment, and so we, without hesitation or equivocation, endorse him for the presidency of the United States.