Mitt’s Swan Song: Highlights
How does the family-values, only-genuine-conservative, savior-of-the-Limbaugh-revolution candidate begin his farewell? With a Johnson joke, of course:
As of today, more than 4 million people have given me their vote for president, less than Senator McCain’s 4.7 million, but quite a statement nonetheless. 11 states have given me their nod, compared to his 13. Of course, because size does matter, he’s doing quite a bit better with his number of delegates.
Sacrebleu!
I am convinced that unless America changes course, we will become the France of the 21st century—still a great nation, but no longer the leader of the world, no longer the superpower. And to me, that is unthinkable.
To whom do we turn to find out what makes America great?
Simon Peres, in a visit to Boston, was asked what he thought about the war in Iraq. “First,” he said, “I must put something in context. America is unique in the history of the world."
Leave it to the President of Israel to teach us about the virtue of refusing to steal land.
"One nation in history, and this during the last century, laid down hundreds of thousands of lives and took no land. No land from Germany, no land from Japan, no land from Korea. America is unique in the sacrifice it has made for liberty, for itself and for freedom loving people around the world.”
Would you like fries with that bomb?
The best ally peace has ever known, and will ever know, is a strong America!
Why the prophets of Deseret refused to trade with Gentiles:
If we learn anything from the history of economic development, it is that culture makes all the difference. Culture makes all the difference.
Has Mitt forgotten what month this is?
[A]lmost all of us are immigrants or descendants of immigrants who came here for opportunity—opportunity is in our DNA.
Rick Warren, time for your Mormon slap-down!
Americans love God, and those who don’t have faith typically believe in something greater than themselves—a “Purpose Driven Life.”
What distinguishes us from everyone else (or "Why They Hate Us II" or "Did he just say 'we sacrifice our country'?"):
We believe in hard work and education. We love opportunity . . . And we sacrifice everything we have, even our lives, for our families, our freedoms and our country.
Once again, has Mitt forgotten what month this is?
[S]exual promiscuity, combined with the twisted incentives of government welfare programs have led to today’s grim realities: 68% of African American children are born out-of-wedlock . . .
I'm talkin' to you, "Barry"!
A nation built on the principles of the founding fathers cannot long stand when its children are raised without fathers in the home.
Does this include those who attack the doctrine of the Trinity?
The attack on faith and religion is no less relentless.
Dick Cheney is from Massachusetts?
I wonder how it is that unelected judges, like some in my state of Massachusetts, are so unaware of this reality, so oblivious to the millennia of recorded history. It is time for the people of America to fortify marriage through constitutional amendment, so that liberal judges cannot continue to attack it!
Of course, it has nothing to do with contraception and Muslims . . .
Europe is facing a demographic disaster. That is the inevitable product of weakened faith in the Creator, failed families, disrespect for the sanctity of human life and eroded morality.
Why my foreign policy would've been great.
America must never be held hostage by the likes of Putin, Chavez, and Ahmendinejad.
It's a mighty big wing.
In one wing of the world of Islam, there is a conviction that all governments should be destroyed and replaced by a religious caliphate.
Moses, Aristotle, and Charlemagne were jihadists.
These Jihadists will battle any form of democracy—to them, democracy is blasphemous for it says that citizens, not God shape the law. They find the idea of human equality to be offensive.
I must needs go to Jerusalem.
If I fight on in my campaign, all the way to the convention, I would forestall the launch of a national campaign and make it more likely that Senator Clinton or Obama would win. And in this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign, be a part of aiding a surrender to terror.
The Puritan/Mormon promise:
I firmly believe, by the providence of the Almighty, that we will succeed beyond our fondest hope. America must remain, as it has always been, the hope of the earth.
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I must be one of those "rationally ignorant" voters the political scientists talk about. Has Mitt Romney been saying things this absurd for his entire campaign, or is this a particularly bad speech? At any rate, I will be even more apathetic from now on since the remaining candidates are even worse than Romney.
A magnificent deconstruction. Thanks! I bet Huckabee's goodbye speech will be even better.
Well done, Mr. Faulkner.
His straight-man-in-a-weird-church was a refreshing change from the weird-man-in-a-straight-church we've seen the last 15 years.
Some of us will miss him, particularly in November, when, barring a miracle, it will be Senator A (R-2611) vs Senator B (D-2611). Feel free to add the requisite number of asterisks to those initials.
The Romney's are cursed when it comes to running for President.
Well it looks like Bonnie & Clyde may be nominated on the Republican side of the isle. McCain's in-laws on his wife's side of the family, (John married into a criminal fortune) were all convicted outlaws for bootlegging in the State of Arizona. ... But the funnier part of it is John McCain is not a citizen of the U.S. as a technical matter. No he wasn't born in Mexico although you do have cause to believe so. He was actually born on the banks of the Panama Canal. Check it out. ... Yes not so terribly long afterward in a Jungian synchronicity we lost the canal. (But John survived.) They sent him down canal in a basket. (Not kidding.) No, then John married Up and is mantra today is also 'No, you can't have my Bud Light!'
If King Cryrus could see it now. He'd laugh and say "You can't make this stuff up." Then he'd pause and add "well, yes you can!"
And I'd submit as counselor - "Yes majesty and now they never know when they're going to have another Moses story on their hands." And we'd LAUGH. "Let's send them 'somewhere' to build something. It's getting a little bit thick around here."
John's 'pumped & primed' for 100 years of fighting "islamo-Fascism" of course only where they live, not around here where his own are vulnerable...That's just wherein 'terrorism' and illegal immigration occur. And we'd LAUGH, long as we weren't in the towers (i.e. harm's way) that day...or wherever the show must go on. There's no business like show... no business we know...
Actually with State-Capitalism you can just shorten that whole thing to "there's no business."
Mrs. McCain said last night in a t.v. interview 'now she and her husband were almost home.'
What does she mean by 'home?' She must mean home in the Bush-White House where they'll finally be 'safe' from their own past and ABOVE the Law. What else could she have meant? 'Home, home on the range...'
'Oh, give me home...where the buffalo roam...'
Though I may agree with him on theological matters, I do have a hard time with the political Mitt. I have a really hard time understanding why running a business qualifies one to be President of the United States. Aren't there some differences there, like profit motive and competition?
There were some ugly moments (even more than usual) in the campaign. Like a question asked by a random civilian in Iowa about what Mitt would do about the Chinese threat, taking our jobs and such. He blithered on about how China represents a great opportunity as well, and that we should take advantage of those opportunities. And then the mumbling bumblings about believing in the Bible. That was hard to hear. Cringe-worthy, even. That was his moment to score some evangelical votes, and it was a swing and a miss. One of my favorites, if I can call them that, was on a debate when a man asked a question as to which conservative candidate would oppose corn subsidies. Mitt Romney talked about how important it was to maintain corn subsidies for our energy independence. I don't remember any justification as to why this was conservative.
"I must be one of those “rationally ignorant” voters the political scientists talk about. Has Mitt Romney been saying things this absurd for his entire campaign, or is this a particularly bad speech? At any rate, I will be even more apathetic from now on since the remaining candidates are even worse than Romney."
If you haven't noticed that Ron Paul (R-TX) is one of the remaining candidates, then you may well be among the rationally ignorant. If you've noticed Paul and regard him as a worse candidate than Romney, then drop the 'rational' in your self assessment.