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    Romney's Speech at the Republican Convention (Full Text)

    Mr. Chairman, delegates. I accept your nomination for President of the United States of America.

    I do so with humility, deeply moved by the trust you have placed in me. It is a great honor. It is an even greater responsibility.

    Tonight I am asking you to join me to walk together to a better future. By my side, I have chosen a man with a big heart from a small town. He represents the best of America, a man who will always make us proud – my friend and America’s next Vice President, Paul Ryan.

    In the days ahead, you will get to know Paul and Janna better. But last night America got to see what I saw in Paul Ryan – a strong and caring leader who is down to earth and confident in the challenge this moment demands.

    I love the way he lights up around his kids and how he’s not embarrassed to show the world how much he loves his mom.

    But Paul, I still like the playlist on my iPod better than yours.

    Four years ago, I know that many Americans felt a fresh excitement about the possibilities of a new president. That president was not the choice of our party but Americans always come together after elections. We are a good and generous people who are united by so much more than what divides us.

    When that hard fought election was over, when the yard signs came down and the television commercials finally came off the air, Americans were eager to go back to work, to live our lives the way Americans always have – optimistic and positive and confident in the future.

    That very optimism is uniquely American.

    It is what brought us to America. We are a nation of immigrants. We are the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the ones who wanted a better life, the driven ones, the ones who woke up at night hearing that voice telling them that life in that place called America could be better.

    They came not just in pursuit of the riches of this world but for the richness of this life.

    Freedom.

    Freedom of religion.

    Freedom to speak their mind.

    Freedom to build a life.

    And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands.

    This is the essence of the American experience.

    We Americans have always felt a special kinship with the future.

    When every new wave of immigrants looked up and saw the Statue of Liberty, or knelt down and kissed the shores of freedom just ninety miles from Castro’s tyranny, these new Americans surely had many questions. But none doubted that here in America they could build a better life, that in America their children would be more blessed than they.

    But today, four years from the excitement of the last election, for the first time, the majority of Americans now doubt that our children will have a better future.

    It is not what we were promised.

    Every family in America wanted this to be a time when they could get ahead a little more, put aside a little more for college, do more for their elderly mom who’s living alone now or give a little more to their church or charity.

    Every small business wanted these to be their best years ever, when they could hire more, do more for those who had stuck with them through the hard times, open a new store or sponsor that Little League team.

    Every new college graduate thought they’d have a good job by now, a place of their own, and that they could start paying back some of their loans and build for the future.

    This is when our nation was supposed to start paying down the national debt and rolling back those massive deficits.

    This was the hope and change America voted for.

    It’s not just what we wanted. It’s not just what we expected.

    It’s what Americans deserved.

    You deserved it because during these years, you worked harder than ever before. You deserved it because when it cost more to fill up your car, you cut out movie nights and put in longer hours. Or when you lost that job that paid $22.50 an hour with benefits, you took two jobs at 9 bucks an hour and fewer benefits. You did it because your family depended on you. You did it because you’re an American and you don’t quit. You did it because it was what you had to do.

    But driving home late from that second job, or standing there watching the gas pump hit 50 dollars and still going, when the realtor told you that to sell your house you’d have to take a big loss, in those moments you knew that this just wasn’t right.

    But what could you do? Except work harder, do with less, try to stay optimistic. Hug your kids a little longer; maybe spend a little more time praying that tomorrow would be a better day.

    I wish President Obama had succeeded because I want America to succeed. But his promises gave way to disappointment and division. This isn’t something we have to accept. Now is the moment when we CAN do something. With your help we will do something.

    Now is the moment when we can stand up and say, “I’m an American. I make my destiny. And we deserve better! My children deserve better! My family deserves better. My country deserves better!”

    So here we stand. Americans have a choice. A decision.

    To make that choice, you need to know more about me and about where I will lead our country.

    I was born in the middle of the century in the middle of the country, a classic baby boomer. It was a time when Americans were returning from war and eager to work. To be an American was to assume that all things were possible. When President Kennedy challenged Americans to go to the moon, the question wasn’t whether we’d get there, it was only when we’d get there.

    The soles of Neil Armstrong’s boots on the moon made permanent impressions on OUR souls and in our national psyche. Ann and I watched those steps together on her parent’s sofa. Like all Americans we went to bed that night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world.

    God bless Neil Armstrong.

    Tonight that American flag is still there on the moon. And I don’t doubt for a second that Neil Armstrong’s spirit is still with us: that unique blend of optimism, humility and the utter confidence that when the world needs someone to do the really big stuff, you need an American.

    That’s how I was brought up.

    My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution. I grew up with stories of his family being fed by the US Government as war refugees. My dad never made it through college and apprenticed as a lath and plaster carpenter. And he had big dreams. He convinced my mom, a beautiful young actress, to give up Hollywood to marry him. He moved to Detroit, led a great automobile company and became Governor of the Great State of Michigan.

    We were Mormons and growing up in Michigan; that might have seemed unusual or out of place but I really don’t remember it that way. My friends cared more about what sports teams we followed than what church we went to.

    My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all – the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would BE, and much less about what we would DO.

    Unconditional love is a gift that Ann and I have tried to pass on to our sons and now to our grandchildren. All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family – and God’s love -- this world would be a far more gentle and better place.

    Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist – because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That’s how she found out what happened on the day my father died – she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.

    My mom and dad were true partners, a life lesson that shaped me by everyday example. When my mom ran for the Senate, my dad was there for her every step of the way. I can still hear her saying in her beautiful voice, “Why should women have any less say than men, about the great decisions facing our nation?”

    I wish she could have been here at the convention and heard leaders like Governor Mary Fallin, Governor Nikki Haley, Governor Susana Martinez, Senator Kelly Ayotte and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

    As Governor of Massachusetts, I chose a woman Lt. Governor, a woman chief of staff, half of my cabinet and senior officials were women, and in business, I mentored and supported great women leaders who went on to run great companies.

    I grew up in Detroit in love with cars and wanted to be a car guy, like my dad. But by the time I was out of school, I realized that I had to go out on my own, that if I stayed around Michigan in the same business, I’d never really know if I was getting a break because of my dad. I wanted to go someplace new and prove myself.

    Those weren’t the easiest of days – too many long hours and weekends working, five young sons who seemed to have this need to re-enact a different world war every night. But if you ask Ann and I what we’d give, to break up just one more fight between the boys, or wake up in the morning and discover a pile of kids asleep in our room. Well, every mom and dad knows the answer to that.

    Those days were toughest on Ann, of course. She was heroic. Five boys, with our families a long way away. I had to travel a lot for my job then and I’d call and try to offer support. But every mom knows that doesn’t help get the homework done or the kids out the door to school.

    I knew that her job as a mom was harder than mine. And I knew without question, that her job as a mom was a lot more important than mine. And as America saw Tuesday night, Ann would have succeeded at anything she wanted to.

    Like a lot of families in a new place with no family, we found kinship with a wide circle of friends through our church. When we were new to the community it was welcoming and as the years went by, it was a joy to help others who had just moved to town or just joined our church. We had remarkably vibrant and diverse congregants from all walks of life and many who were new to America. We prayed together, our kids played together and we always stood ready to help each other out in different ways.

    And that’s how it is in America. We look to our communities, our faiths, our families for our joy, our support, in good times and bad. It is both how we live our lives and why we live our lives. The strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and goodness of our communities, our families, our faiths.

    That is the bedrock of what makes America, America. In our best days, we can feel the vibrancy of America’s communities, large and small.

    It’s when we see that new business opening up downtown. It’s when we go to work in the morning and see everybody else on our block doing the same.

    It’s when our son or daughter calls from college to talk about which job offer they should take….and you try not to choke up when you hear that the one they like is not far from home.

    It’s that good feeling when you have more time to volunteer to coach your kid’s soccer team, or help out on school trips.

    But for too many Americans, these good days are harder to come by. How many days have you woken up feeling that something really special was happening in America?

    Many of you felt that way on Election Day four years ago. Hope and Change had a powerful appeal. But tonight I’d ask a simple question: If you felt that excitement when you voted for Barack Obama, shouldn’t you feel that way now that he’s President Obama? You know there’s something wrong with the kind of job he’s done as president when the best feeling you had was the day you voted for him.

    The President hasn’t disappointed you because he wanted to. The President has disappointed America because he hasn’t led America in the right direction. He took office without the basic qualification that most Americans have and one that was essential to his task. He had almost no experience working in a business. Jobs to him are about government.

    I learned the real lessons about how America works from experience.

    When I was 37, I helped start a small company. My partners and I had been working for a company that was in the business of helping other businesses.

    So some of us had this idea that if we really believed our advice was helping companies, we should invest in companies. We should bet on ourselves and on our advice.

    So we started a new business called Bain Capital. The only problem was, while WE believed in ourselves, nobody else did. We were young and had never done this before and we almost didn’t get off the ground. In those days, sometimes I wondered if I had made a really big mistake. I had thought about asking my church’s pension fund to invest, but I didn’t. I figured it was bad enough that I might lose my investors’ money, but I didn’t want to go to hell too. Shows what I know. Another of my partners got the Episcopal Church pension fund to invest. Today there are a lot of happy retired priests who should thank him.

    That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story. Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples – where I’m pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping; The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised. At a time when nobody thought we’d ever see a new steel mill built in America, we took a chance and built one in a corn field in Indiana. Today Steel Dynamics is one of the largest steel producers in the United States.

    These are American success stories. And yet the centerpiece of the President’s entire re-election campaign is attacking success. Is it any wonder that someone who attacks success has led the worst economic recovery since the Great Depression? In America, we celebrate success, we don’t apologize for it.

    We weren’t always successful at Bain. But no one ever is in the real world of business.

    That’s what this President doesn’t seem to understand. Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn’t work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.

    It’s the genius of the American free enterprise system – to harness the extraordinary creativity and talent and industry of the American people with a system that is dedicated to creating tomorrow’s prosperity rather than trying to redistribute today’s.

    That is why every president since the Great Depression who came before the American people asking for a second term could look back at the last four years and say with satisfaction: “you are better off today than you were four years ago.”

    Except Jimmy Carter. And except this president.

    This president can ask us to be patient.

    This president can tell us it was someone else’s fault.

    This president can tell us that the next four years he’ll get it right.

    But this president cannot tell us that YOU are better off today than when he took office.

    America has been patient. Americans have supported this president in good faith.

    But today, the time has come to turn the page.

    Today the time has come for us to put the disappointments of the last four years behind us.

    To put aside the divisiveness and the recriminations.

    To forget about what might have been and to look ahead to what can be.

    Now is the time to restore the Promise of America. Many Americans have given up on this president but they haven’t ever thought about giving up. Not on themselves. Not on each other. And not on America.

    What is needed in our country today is not complicated or profound. It doesn’t take a special government commission to tell us what America needs.

    What America needs is jobs.

    Lots of jobs.

    In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before. Nearly one out of six Americans is living in poverty. Look around you. These are not strangers. These are our brothers and sisters, our fellow Americans.

    His policies have not helped create jobs, they have depressed them. And this I can tell you about where President Obama would take America:

    His plan to raise taxes on small business won’t add jobs, it will eliminate them;

    His assault on coal and gas and oil will send energy and manufacturing jobs to China;

    His trillion dollar cuts to our military will eliminate hundreds of thousands of jobs, and also put our security at greater risk;

    His $716 billion cut to Medicare to finance Obamacare will both hurt today’s seniors, and depress innovation – and jobs – in medicine.

    And his trillion-dollar deficits will slow our economy, restrain employment, and cause wages to stall.

    To the majority of Americans who now believe that the future will not be better than the past, I can guarantee you this: if Barack Obama is re-elected, you will be right.

    I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon.

    And unlike the President, I have a plan to create 12 million new jobs. It has 5 steps.

    First, by 2020, North America will be energy independent by taking full advantage of our oil and coal and gas and nuclear and renewables.

    Second, we will give our fellow citizens the skills they need for the jobs of today and the careers of tomorrow. When it comes to the school your child will attend, every parent should have a choice, and every child should have a chance.

    Third, we will make trade work for America by forging new trade agreements. And when nations cheat in trade, there will be unmistakable consequences.

    Fourth, to assure every entrepreneur and every job creator that their investments in America will not vanish as have those in Greece, we will cut the deficit and put America on track to a balanced budget.

    And fifth, we will champion SMALL businesses, America’s engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare.

    Today, women are more likely than men to start a business. They need a president who respects and understands what they do.

    And let me make this very clear – unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class.

    As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America’s first liberty: the freedom of religion.

    President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet. MY promise...is to help you and your family.

    I will begin my presidency with a jobs tour. President Obama began with an apology tour. America, he said, had dictated to other nations. No Mr. President, America has freed other nations from dictators.

    Every American was relieved the day President Obama gave the order, and Seal Team Six took out Osama bin Laden. But on another front, every American is less secure today because he has failed to slow Iran’s nuclear threat.

    In his first TV interview as president, he said we should talk to Iran. We’re still talking, and Iran’s centrifuges are still spinning.

    President Obama has thrown allies like Israel under the bus, even as he has relaxed sanctions on Castro’s Cuba. He abandoned our friends in Poland by walking away from our missile defense commitments, but is eager to give Russia’s President Putin the flexibility he desires, after the election. Under my administration, our friends will see more loyalty, and Mr. Putin will see a little less flexibility and more backbone.

    We will honor America’s democratic ideals because a free world is a more peaceful world. This is the bipartisan foreign policy legacy of Truman and Reagan. And under my presidency we will return to it once again.

    You might have asked yourself if these last years are really the America we want, the America won for us by the greatest generation.

    Does the America we want borrow a trillion dollars from China? No.

    Does it fail to find the jobs that are needed for 23 million people and for half the kids graduating from college? No.

    Are its schools lagging behind the rest of the developed world? No.

    And does the America we want succumb to resentment and division? We know the answer.

    The America we all know has been a story of the many becoming one, uniting to preserve liberty, uniting to build the greatest economy in the world, uniting to save the world from unspeakable darkness.

    Everywhere I go in America, there are monuments that list those who have given their lives for America. There is no mention of their race, their party affiliation, or what they did for a living. They lived and died under a single flag, fighting for a single purpose. They pledged allegiance to the UNITED States of America.

    That America, that united America, can unleash an economy that will put Americans back to work, that will once again lead the world with innovation and productivity, and that will restore every father and mother’s confidence that their children’s future is brighter even than the past.

    That America, that united America, will preserve a military that is so strong, no nation would ever dare to test it.

    That America, that united America, will uphold the constellation of rights that were endowed by our Creator, and codified in our Constitution.

    That united America will care for the poor and the sick, will honor and respect the elderly, and will give a helping hand to those in need.

    That America is the best within each of us. That America we want for our children.

    If I am elected President of these United States, I will work with all my energy and soul to restore that America, to lift our eyes to a better future. That future is our destiny. That future is out there. It is waiting for us. Our children deserve it, our nation depends upon it, the peace and freedom of the world require it. And with your help we will deliver it. Let us begin that future together tonight.
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    Let's see if Liberals can actually debate the points of the speech without name-calling or insults. I'll bet they can't.

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    Ann Romney's Speech to the Republican Convention (Full Text)

    I want to talk to you tonight not about politics and not about party. And while there are many important issues we’ll hear discussed in this convention and throughout this campaign, tonight I want to talk to you from my heart about our hearts.

    I want to talk not about what divides us, but what holds us together as an American family. I want to talk to you tonight about that one great thing that unites us, that one thing that brings us our greatest joy when times are good, and the deepest solace in our dark hours.

    Tonight I want to talk to you about love.

    I want to talk to you about the deep and abiding love I have for a man I met at a dance many years ago. And the profound love I have, and I know we share, for this country.

    I want to talk to you about that love so deep only a mother can fathom it — the love we have for our children and our children’s children.

    And I want us to think tonight about the love we all share for those Americans, our brothers and sisters, who are going through difficult times, whose days are never easy, nights are always long, and whose work never seems done.

    They are here among us tonight in this hall; they are here in neighborhoods across Tampa and all across America. The parents who lie awake at night side by side, wondering how they’ll be able to pay the mortgage or make the rent; the single dad who’s working extra hours tonight, so that his kids can buy some new clothes to go back to school, can take a school trip or play a sport, so his kids can feel. like the other kids.

    And the working moms who love their jobs but would like to work just a little less to spend more time with the kids, but that’s just out of the question with this economy. Or that couple who would like to have another child, but wonder how will they afford it.

    I’ve been all across this country for the past year and a half and heard these stories of how hard it is to get ahead now. I’ve heard your voices: “I’m running in place,” ‘’we just can’t get ahead.”

    Sometimes I think that late at night, if we were all silent for just a few moments and listened carefully, we could hear a great collective sigh from the moms and dads across America who made it through another day, and know that they’ll make it through another one tomorrow. But in that end of the day moment, they just aren’t sure how.

    And if you listen carefully, you’ll hear the women sighing a little bit more than the men. It’s how it is, isn’t it?

    It’s the moms who always have to work a little harder, to make everything right.

    It’s the moms of this nation — single, married, widowed — who really hold this country together. We’re the mothers, we’re the wives, we’re the grandmothers, we’re the big sisters, we’re the little sisters, we’re the daughters.

    You know it’s true, don’t you? You’re the ones who always have to do a little more.

    You know what it’s like to work a little harder during the day to earn the respect you deserve at work and then come home to help with that book report which just has to be done. You know what those late night phone calls with an elderly parent are like and the long weekend drives just to see how they’re doing. You know the fastest route to the local emergency room and which doctors actually answer the phone when you call at night.

    You know what it’s like to sit in that graduation ceremony and wonder how it was that so many long days turned into years that went by so quickly.

    You are the best of America. You are the hope of America. There would not be an America without you.

    Tonight, we salute you and sing your praises.

    I’m not sure if men really understand this, but I don’t think there’s a woman in America who really expects her life to be easy. In our own ways, we all know better!

    And that’s fine. We don’t want easy. But these last few years have been harder than they needed to be. It’s all the little things — that price at the pump you just can’t believe, the grocery bills that just get bigger; all those things that used to be free, like school sports, are now one more bill to pay. It’s all the little things that pile up to become big things. And the big things — the good jobs, the chance at college, that home you want to buy, just get harder. Everything has become harder.

    We’re too smart to know there aren’t easy answers. But we’re not dumb enough to accept that there aren’t better answers.

    And that is where this boy I met at a high school dance comes in. His name is Mitt Romney and you really should get to know him.

    I could tell you why I fell in love with him -- he was tall, laughed a lot, was nervous -- girls like that, it shows the guy’s a little intimidated -- and he was nice to my parents but he was really glad when my parents weren’t around.

    That’s a good thing. And he made me laugh.

    I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms.

    When he was 15, dad came to America. In our country, he saw hope and an opportunity to escape from poverty. He moved to a small town in the great state of Michigan. There, he started a business -- one he built himself, by the way.

    He raised a family. And he became mayor of our town.

    My dad would often remind my brothers and me how fortunate we were to grow up in a place like America. He wanted us to have every opportunity that came with life in this country -- and so he pushed us to be our best and give our all.

    Inside the houses that lined the streets of our town, there were a lot of good fathers teaching their sons and daughters those same values. I didn’t know it at the time, but one of those dads was my future father-in-law, George Romney.

    Mitt’s dad never graduated from college. Instead, he became a carpenter.

    He worked hard, and he became the head of a car company, and then the governor of Michigan.

    When Mitt and I met and fell in love, we were determined not to let anything stand in the way of our life together. I was an Episcopalian. He was a Mormon.

    We were very young. Both still in college. There were many reasons to delay marriage, and you know? We just didn’t care. We got married and moved into a basement apartment. We walked to class together, shared the housekeeping, and ate a lot of pasta and tuna fish. Our desk was a door propped up on sawhorses. Our dining room table was a fold-down ironing board in the kitchen. Those were very special days.

    Then our first son came along. All at once I’m 22 years old, with a baby and a husband who’s going to business school and law school at the same time, and I can tell you, probably like every other girl who finds herself in a new life far from family and friends, with a new baby and a new husband, that it dawned on me that I had absolutely no idea what I was getting into.

    That was 42 years ago. Now we have five sons and 18 grandchildren and I’m still in love with that boy I met at a high school dance.

    I read somewhere that Mitt and I have a “storybook marriage.” Well, in the storybooks I read, there were never long, long, rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once. And those storybooks never seemed to have chapters called MS or breast cancer.

    A storybook marriage? No, not at all. What Mitt Romney and I have is a real marriage.

    I know this good and decent man for what he is — warm and loving and patient.

    He has tried to live his life with a set of values centered on family, faith, and love of one’s fellow man. From the time we were first married, I’ve seen him spend countless hours helping others. I’ve seen him drop everything to help a friend in trouble, and been there when late-night calls of panic came from a member of our church whose child had been taken to the hospital.

    You may not agree with Mitt’s positions on issues or his politics. Massachusetts is only 13% Republican, so it’s not like that’s a shock.

    But let me say this to every American who is thinking about who should be our next president:

    No one will work harder. No one will care more. No one will move heaven and earth like Mitt Romney to make this country a better place to live!

    It’s true that Mitt has been successful at each new challenge he has taken on. It amazes me to see his history of success actually being attacked. Are those really the values that made our country great? As a mom of five boys, do we want to raise our children to be afraid of success?

    Do we send our children out in the world with the advice, “Try to do... okay?”

    And let’s be honest. If the last four years had been more successful, do we really think there would be this attack on Mitt Romney’s success?

    Of course not.

    Mitt will be the first to tell you that he is the most fortunate man in the world. He had two loving parents who gave him strong values and taught him the value of work. He had the chance to get the education his father never had.

    But as his partner on this amazing journey, I can tell you Mitt Romney was not handed success.

    He built it.

    He stayed in Massachusetts after graduate school and got a job. I saw the long hours that started with that first job. I was there when he and a small group of friends talked about starting a new company. I was there when they struggled and wondered if the whole idea just wasn’t going to work. Mitt’s reaction was to work harder and press on.

    Today that company has become another great American success story.

    Has it made those who started the company successful beyond their dreams?

    Yes, it has.

    It allowed us to give our sons the chance at good educations and made all those long hours of book reports and homework worth every minute. It’s given us the deep satisfaction of being able to help others in ways that we could never have imagined. Mitt doesn’t like to talk about how he has helped others because he sees it as a privilege, not a political talking point. And we’re no different than the millions of Americans who quietly help their neighbors, their churches and their communities. They don’t do it so that others will think more of them.

    They do it because there IS no greater joy.

    “Give and it shall be given unto you.”

    But because this is America, that small company which grew has helped so many others lead better lives. The jobs that grew from the risks they took have become college educations, first homes. That success has helped fund scholarships, pensions, and retirement funds. This is the genius of America: dreams fulfilled help others launch new dreams.

    At every turn in his life, this man I met at a high school dance, has helped lift up others. He did it with the Olympics, when many wanted to give up.

    He did it in Massachusetts, where he guided a state from economic crisis to unemployment of just 4.7%.

    Under Mitt, Massachusetts’s schools were the best in the nation. The best. He started the John and Abigail Adams scholarships, which give the top 25 percent of high school graduates a four-year tuition-free scholarship.

    This is the man America needs.

    This is the man who will wake up every day with the determination to solve the problems that others say can’t be solved, to fix what others say is beyond repair. This is the man who will work harder than anyone so that we can work a little less hard.

    I can’t tell you what will happen over the next four years. But I can only stand here tonight, as a wife, a mother, a grandmother, an American, and make you this solemn commitment:

    This man will not fail.

    This man will not let us down.

    This man will lift up America!

    It has been 47 years since that tall, kind of charming young man brought me home from our first dance. Not every day since has been easy.

    But he still makes me laugh. And never once did I have a single reason to doubt that I was the luckiest woman in the world.

    I said tonight I wanted to talk to you about love. Look into your hearts.

    This is our country. This is our future. These are our children and grandchildren.

    You can trust Mitt.

    He loves America. He will take us to a better place, just as he took me home safely from that dance. Give him that chance. Give America that chance.

    God bless each of you and God Bless the United States of America.

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    Romney made a speech ??

    Nobody noticed...
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    Quote Originally Posted by ELVIS View Post
    Romney made a speech ??

    Nobody noticed...
    That's because you were reading the latest conspiracy theories on infowars and that idiot Alex Jones.

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    No, I watched it...

    Stiff Mitt was awful, Obama will kill him in a debate on style and likability alone...

    Ann Romney and Marco Rubio did very well...

    Romney looked like a dishonest preacher last night...

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    How is that Obama is considered divisive when he's had to bat down Birthers for 3-1/2 years and counting? When he's had to face more obstruction from the other side of the aisle than any other time in the history of American presidency?
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    Quote Originally Posted by DLR Bridge View Post
    When he's had to face more obstruction from the other side of the aisle than any other time in the history of American presidency?
    That's nothing more than a bullshit liberal talking point...

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    They used to have guys that wrote these speeches for them but now I think they just use a speech making app on their phones.
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    Romney should do a search for an app that reduces stiffness...

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    Quote Originally Posted by ELVIS View Post
    That's nothing more than a bullshit liberal talking point...
    Factual talking point. Just one of many.

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    Romney is the Republican equivalent of Al Gore when it comes to personality. Maybe he'll shove his tongue down his wife's throat in the next few weeks on national television. That was about as genuine as Michael Jackson and Lisa marie presley's kiss.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DLR Bridge View Post
    Factual talking point. Just one of many.
    No, not a fact. You obviously have selective memory and forget what a pain in the ass Dumbocrats were to George Bush.

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    Nick, I certainly don't mind you merging my threads to reduce board clutter, but the same should be done for the worthless threads started by Dummies on your side of the political aisle. Agree? I'm all for tidying up the Forum to make it more easy to navigate.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BigBadBrian View Post
    Nick, I certainly don't mind you merging my threads to reduce board clutter, but the same should be done for the worthless threads started by Dummies on your side of the political aisle. Agree? I'm all for tidying up the Forum to make it more easy to navigate.
    I have! There's just more of it today. You could also continue a thread in their thread even if you don't like the titles...
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    Quote Originally Posted by ELVIS View Post
    Romney should do a search for an app that reduces stiffness...
    He could just put a book in front of it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DLR Bridge View Post
    Factual talking point. Just one of many.
    Bullshit...

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    Quote Originally Posted by DLR Bridge View Post
    How is that Obama is considered divisive when he's had to bat down Birthers for 3-1/2 years and counting? When he's had to face more obstruction from the other side of the aisle than any other time in the history of American presidency?
    It's his fault for being black, thus inspiring the divisiveness, birthers, and obstructionism, silly!
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    Quote Originally Posted by ELVIS View Post
    Bullshit...
    Which, you attending a liberal church or Ed playing bass on ADKOT?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ELVIS View Post
    Romney should do a search for an app that reduces stiffness...
    Those apps would be called "Beer" and "Weed".

    But Mittens being a Mor(m)on wouldn't know anything about that.
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    And aside from the sad senile ramblings of the 82 year old former movie star, last night was pretty much a 5 hour infomercial for the Mor(m)on church. Can't believe no Osmonds were involved.

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    Mittens does not stand a chance.

    He is a cardboard cutout, with the intellect and plans for our country to match.

    Any of these Republican members of Congress who want to go on about how little Obama has accomplished have to look only at themselves to see why.

    It is amazing what Obama has managed to accomplish, with Congress so full of idiots, err, I mean, "Republicans".

    No need for me to even read Mitten's speech. It is full of lame half-truth and uninteresting and misleading rhetoric. He has no real plans for this country.
    Just stands up there making the same old statements made by all the presidential candidates for the past 100 years.

    What I find truly hilarious is that more people in the US were watching Honey Boo Boo on TV than the RNC.

    And for your information, Brie, I was watching neither.

    I know it was difficult for you to watch the RNC, with you knowing there was a much more intellectually challening program on (Honey Boo Boo), but that is ok. You can watch Honey Boo Boo in re-runs.
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    Dupe post.

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    In all seriousness, the RNC has to see that their base is shrinking year after year...

    Their platform is anti-women's rights, anti-immigrant, anti-poor and anti-minority.... The problem with that is that chunk of people, collectively, is now the majority.....

    They've gotta start at least attempting to be inclusive, instead of exclusionary.... Or else it's just gonna get worse for them....
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    Quote Originally Posted by jhale667 View Post
    It's his fault for being black, thus inspiring the divisiveness, birthers, and obstructionism, silly!
    I'm all for having a black man as President..........just not THAT black man.
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    Quote Originally Posted by gbranton View Post
    I'm all for having a black man as President..........just not THAT black man.
    What about this black man? He'd definitely kick some ass
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    You can bet your sweet ass and half a titty that Black Dynamite could pimp slap Congress into a China cabinet and get something done!

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    Solid.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Va Beach VH Fan View Post
    In all seriousness, the RNC has to see that their base is shrinking year after year...
    Support for both sides of the bullshit left/right game is shrinking...

    There is zero difference between the two and people are waking up to that fact...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Va Beach VH Fan View Post
    In all seriousness, the RNC has to see that their base is shrinking year after year...

    Their platform is anti-women's rights, anti-immigrant, anti-poor and anti-minority.... The problem with that is that chunk of people, collectively, is now the majority.....

    They've gotta start at least attempting to be inclusive, instead of exclusionary.... Or else it's just gonna get worse for them....

    Doesn't seem like becoming inclusive is part of their plan, either - what with people like Lindsey Graham complaining the other day about there not being enough "angry white males" for them to continue on long-term.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ELVIS View Post
    Support for both sides of the bullshit left/right game is shrinking...

    There is zero difference between the two and people are waking up to that fact...
    Actually, that's not true...

    Obama/Biden represent mediocrity and more of the same, with a slight chance of improvement, if they get a decent Congress.

    Mittens/Munster represent Mor(m)on theorcracy and Randtard fascism with a chance of complete nihilistic destruction if they get the Congress THEY want.

    My final position on this election is as follows:

    I have every intention of voting for Rocky Anderson. But if my state becomes "too close to call" (as unlikely as that is) I will do what I have to in order to keep these two fucking psychopaths away from the White House.

    If you think the financial criminals are "too big to fail" now, just imagine what would happen if these pieces of shit privatized social security.

    If you think the criminal insurance industry has too much power as it is, wait until they get to become the TRUE death panels. Because not a single one of these legalized mafias is going to accept Eddie Munster's "vouchers" from senior citizens in declining health. If Clint Eastwood wasn't a millionaire movie star, do you think he would have a chance in Hell of getting insurance coverage after displaying dementia on live TV??

    And pass this along to any right wing military vets..... once Eddie Munster succeeds in destroying Medicare, do you REALLY think the VA isn't going to be next??

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    Quote Originally Posted by DONNIEP View Post
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    That's one badass leisure suit!

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    Quote Originally Posted by FORD View Post
    Actually, that's not true...

    Obama/Biden represent mediocrity and more of the same, with a slight chance of improvement, if they get a decent Congress.

    Mittens/Munster represent Mor(m)on theorcracy and Randtard fascism with a chance of complete nihilistic destruction if they get the Congress THEY want.

    My final position on this election is as follows:

    I have every intention of voting for Rocky Anderson. But if my state becomes "too close to call" (as unlikely as that is) I will do what I have to in order to keep these two fucking psychopaths away from the White House.

    If you think the financial criminals are "too big to fail" now, just imagine what would happen if these pieces of shit privatized social security.

    If you think the criminal insurance industry has too much power as it is, wait until they get to become the TRUE death panels. Because not a single one of these legalized mafias is going to accept Eddie Munster's "vouchers" from senior citizens in declining health. If Clint Eastwood wasn't a millionaire movie star, do you think he would have a chance in Hell of getting insurance coverage after displaying dementia on live TV??

    And pass this along to any right wing military vets..... once Eddie Munster succeeds in destroying Medicare, do you REALLY think the VA isn't going to be next??
    That's one fucked up post...

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    Quote Originally Posted by ELVIS View Post
    That's one fucked up post...
    Because you know every word of it is God's honest truth?

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    No, it's agenda driven drivel...

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    Agenda driven drivel is what we have tolerated for the last 32 years. And that agenda (unrestrained predatory corporatism) is killing this country.

    Along with other countries (Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.)

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    Quote Originally Posted by fourthcoming View Post
    Romney is the Republican equivalent of Al Gore when it comes to personality. Maybe he'll shove his tongue down his wife's throat in the next few weeks on national television. That was about as genuine as Michael Jackson and Lisa marie presley's kiss.
    It's true voters are completely fickle.

    They all say they don't want spin and it's about policies not personalities but when it comes down to it they just vote for the guy they find most likable.

    It's fucking dumb it's like choosing your heart surgeon based on the one you would most like to go on vacation with.

    The Bush v Kerry election debates convinced me of this more than anything else I've ever seen...

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    You liked Kerry over Bush ??

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    Quote Originally Posted by ELVIS View Post
    You liked Kerry over Bush ??
    What sane person didn't?

    I mean Judas IsKerryot was the weakest possible candidate the Democrats could have ran. And clearly the treasonous stealth Repukes known as the DLC wanted it that way.

    Even so, he was still miles ahead of the Chimp.

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