The presidential election of 2012 may just well be the most important election of our lifetime.
Four more years of the present administration is sure to cause irreparable harm to our economy and personal freedoms.
The Republican candidates this year are one of the finest groups we have seen and we would proudly vote for any one of them next November. Still, the number one issue at hand is in defeating Barack Obama and his progressive agenda.
We feel that the best candidate to take on this task and to win is Mitt Romney.
As a businessman in the private sector he was instrumental in helping many well-known businesses to success, such as Domino’s Pizza and Staples. In his time as Governor of Massachusetts, he helped turn a massive deficit to a 600 million-dollar surplus while working with a Democratic majority in the House and Senate. When he took office, jobs were leaving the state, when he was finished, thousands of new jobs had been created.
His efforts in saving the 2002 Winter Olympics from disaster were extraordinary. Asked to take over an event losing sponsors in the midst of a bid-rigging scandal with serious budget problems, he cleaned up the leadership, restored public confidence and trimmed the budget. He did all this while at the same time ensuring the safety of millions at the event in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
A record number of Americans are showing dissatisfaction with the direction the country is headed in. We have seen three years of economic ignorance by a president who has no grasp or focus of what truly needs to be done. It has all been guesses and misses. It’s time for a president who knows what to do from day one as we are running out of time for experiments. Governor Romney is the right man for the job.
Governor Romney has also proven his strong leadership qualities in organizing a superb team in this primary. They hit the ground running and accomplished a real presence across the country from day one. This will prove invaluable in next year’s election.
Of course, as is the norm in elections nowadays, the dirt will fly and the GOP candidate will be hunted down by the liberal media (part of Obama’s re-election team) and every nuance of his or her personal life will be dissected. Though we consider much of that insignificant, it is the way the game is played and how elections are won and lost.
Governor Romney’s life has been thoroughly scrutinized and he remains unscathed. We believe that this will help keep the election focused on the real issues that Americans care about. The economy, jobs, government spending, healthcare and energy will stay in the forefront instead of personal indiscretions. It will help expose President Obama for the “say whatever I have to say to be reelected” approach and show his true lack of direction. We can talk about things like his unwillingness to okay the Keystone Pipeline, which would create tens of thousands of jobs and help ease our domestic energy problems, all because he is afraid of losing some votes from his extreme environmentalist supporters.
The biggest hammer to be used against the Governor will be the issue of Romneycare. Though some of our conservative friends may not agree with Massachusetts’ healthcare reform measure, we know that what was done there was a matter of states’ rights and wasn’t the boondoggle that the Obamacare mess is shoving down the throats of every American; an unpopular plan that spreads economic misery while putting control of our very lives in the hands of bureaucrats. Romney plans to issue an executive order on day one to pave the way to eliminating Obamacare and giving that authority back to the states.
In our meeting with Governor Romney in August we were struck by his sincerity. Apart from some claims of his being born with a silver spoon, we laughed along with him as he recounted his early days on Lake Winnipesaukee with his family and his 16-foot boat he had to launch and take out of the water each time. How they would cruise to the end of Paugus Bay to eat at Burger King. How he at first couldn’t afford to buy property on the lake but, after years of hard work, he could. He has lived the American Dream and he understands that anyone can achieve that. Still, if we don’t do something soon, that opportunity will be forever out of anyone’s reach.
With a billion dollar campaign war chest behind him, President Obama will stop at nothing to win reelection. If he does, we feel this country may be permanently changed for the worse.
We must make a change, there are no options.
Mitt Romney is our best hope for us to see President Obama and his wife board that helicopter to leave the White House for the last time on Sunday, January 20, 2013.
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