A case for Mitt Romney

Ann Coulter:  Strongest Case Against Romney a Few Sheets Short of a Ream  "Among Romney's thousands of business decisions, the one I gather his opponents consider his absolute worst was the decision to close a paper plant in Marion, Ind. Which wasn't his decision at all.
"It was labor trouble at the Marion plant of a Bain-acquired company, Ampad, that formed the basis of Teddy Kennedy's desperate 11th-hour attack on Romney in their 1994 Senate competition.....
"It is beyond journalistic malpractice for media outlets showcasing the bitter and lying Johnson to neglect to mention that he was the union president who led the strike that forced Ampad to close the plant.

"And yet The New York Times, MSNBC and others who have publicized Johnson's sob story regularly refuse to convey that crucial fact. This would be as if a judge excluded the fact that the defense's principal witness is the defendant's mother."  (Emphasis added)

Bain helped make the turnaround in Domino's Pizza


The Hill:  The case for Mitt Romney is actually pretty strong.  "Romney needs to build a better case for his election, a narrative that is more authentic, more revealing of the real Mitt Romney and more convincing to the voters.
"The narrative must fit into this time we live in." 


Someone wrote, "McCain wanted to be nice; Obama wanted to be president". Please, no more timid, McCain-type campaigners!  That Someone wrote the following about the Republican's opponent in this election:

My opinion was gradually set in steel as I read and studied and pored over Obama’s own books. The incongruous details of his race-obsessed memoir — the invented episodes, the composite characters, the utter lack of humility and true introspection — all bespoke a man of innate dishonesty and a lack of healthy shame. His audacious book on politics did nothing but hammer home his lack of principles and values, as he equivocated every single position, until the reader could determine absolutely nothing coherent about the writer.

donkeyhotey

Romney MUST overcome that "timid" label;  I'm an evangelical, but Romney's Mormonism is no  factor to me at all. While many of us would take issue with Romney's biblical beliefs- a non-issue in this case- we must appreciate that Mormons generally love this country and are patriotic people. 
I only question Mr. Romney's political convictions and his ability to confront Democrats with a solid defense of free markets and capitalism. It seems that Romney exemplifies the good things in capitalism, but apparently educating the ignorant masses will take Newt Gingrich.
Romney? Santorum? Gingrich? I have not a clue, yet. Do you?  TD

SOTU as commented upon by Terrell the Terrible

http://terrellaftermath.com/

Cartoonist's takes on the State of the Union

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/

http://conservativedailynews.com/2012/01/decline-of-the-union-address/

Government’s Proper Role in Creating Jobs: Top Five Actions to Take

Heritage  "Abstract: America needs jobs. A government committed to free enterprise, limited government, and individual freedom, and not to more borrowing and spending, can properly help. To help unleash the private sector to invest and create jobs, Congress should promptly take five specific actions: enact the New Flat Tax, free America's energy resources, grant effective free trade negotiating authority, stop excessive government regulation, and end the artificially high pricing of labor for federal construction projects under the Davis-Bacon Act and government-mandated project labor agreements."

http://theweek.com/section/cartoon/0/222164/all-cartoons

Pelosi knows Gingrich's secrets

Does this say anything about the Democrat's desire to run against Romney?

Exchange of the Day

Pelosi: "There is something I know. The Republicans, if they choose to nominate him that's their prerogative. I don't even think that's going to happen."

Nancy Pelosi’s evil mind games  "This is the ultimate mind game, trying to pick our nominee without actually having to put up any information.

"Would Nancy Pelosi lie for political gain?  You betcha.  She accused the CIA of lying to Congress about waterboarding, even though the records showed she was briefed and her prior public statements contradicted her.  She also is a malicious person who led the charge to demean the Tea Party movement as un-American." "

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Byron York:  What really happened in the Gingrich ethics case?  "Given all the attention to the ethics matter, it's worth asking what actually happened back in 1995, 1996, and 1997.  The Gingrich case was extraordinarily complex, intensely partisan, and driven in no small way by a personal vendetta on the part of one of Gingrich's former political opponents."

Mr. York includes links to the following:

Newt to Pelosi - 'Put up or shut up...bring it on'  " "My life has been looked at by lots of people and I've been around a long time. And I just think that when you are a left-wing Democrat, the prospect of a Gingrich presidency is really sort of like a nightmare," Mr. Gingrich added."

donkeyhotey

Pelosi's office says she has no new dirt on Newt Gingrich  "Pelosi has suggested in two interviews that she knows something that could prevent Gingrich from becoming president, but her office said the California Democrat doesn’t have any secrets about Gingrich, who has shot to the top of national Republican polls after winning the South Carolina primary."

NY Daily News: Gingrich as GOP winner might be a good Newt/bad Newt situation for Obama   ..."Fourth, Gingrich has an amazing ability to rile up the Republican grass-roots against the financial, intellectual and political elites they believe are responsible for destroying America. Romney, who looks and talks and pays taxes like a privileged person, simply can’t do that. Nor can Obama, since many think he and the mainstream/elite media, whatever that is, are in lockstep."

Assessments of the SOTU (Updated)

Heritage Reaction Roundup "The President must not understand that an economy based on free-enterprise with limited government involvement will, in fact, work for and benefit more than just the wealthy. His administration’s idea of an economy that works involves imposing heavy-handed government regulations and threatening tax increases at every turn. Right now, the country is experiencing the tremendous uncertainty that such policies breed. It is the bad kind of uncertainty, the kind that keeps employers from hiring and entrepreneurs from launching new businesses. It keeps the economy stuck in slow, instead of revving it up. In place of more regulation, higher taxes, and increased government spending, the President should propose to take the country in a new direction in tonight’s speech. A direction that leads to less onerous government regulation, fundamental tax reform, and a government that spends taxpayer dollars responsibly."

Here is just one of numerous assessments contained in this column:

Want to Bring Back Jobs? Avoid Overcriminalization - Joe Luppino-Esposito  "He can start by avoiding the criminalization of American businesses by means of outrageous statutes such as the Lacey Act.  Just ask the workers at the Gibson Guitar plant in Tennessee, who were confronted by armed federal agents because of allegations that they imported wood from India that wasn’t properly finished with Indian labor."....

 So if Obama wants to encourage American jobs, he would do well to stop making it a crime to engage in business here.

WSJ: Obama has done nearly everything he wanted. That's the problem.
"So last night he took credit for the shale gas revolution he had nothing to do with and proposed new policies to "spread the wealth around," as he famously told Joe the Plumber in 2008 before he took the words back."....
"Perhaps this will work if Republicans nominate a standard-bearer who is damaged, or too cautious or guilty to challenge this politics of envy."


UPDATE:  RNC Video: Familiar Rhetoric, Failed Record



This guy grades the SOTU on its punctuation  He's reaching for it here.


Liberal economists agree: Obama agenda will fail