The Patriot Post Chronicle 10-10-2012

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The Patriot Post Chronicle 10-10-2012
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Getting Back on the Road to Prosperity

October 10, 2012

The Foundation

"The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men." --Alexander Hamilton

Editorial Exegesis

"The president's top-down interventions have virtually paralyzed our economy -- and [Mitt Romney has] presented a solution. ... The answer is pro-growth tax and regulatory reform. The answer is tax and regulatory certainty for businesses. The answer is growing our way out of the budget deficit with a broader, simpler tax base and reduced rates and deductions for all -- especially the risk-taker, the job creator and the entrepreneur. ... Mr. Obama has a much different recipe for lifting the middle class: higher taxes on investors, job creators and small businesses; borrowing money to fund more public-sector jobs and government construction projects; borrowing money to fund more green energy enterprises and projects...; and pushing more young people to seek a debt-funded college education when they have little hope of landing a job upon graduation. The suggestion that tax increases and higher energy prices will lift the middle class defies logic. But it's not terribly surprising coming from an administration that's completely lacking in business experience and openly hostile to free-market capitalism. ... Mr. Obama has never been the uniting agent of change he promised to be. His two biggest initiatives, the economic stimulus and his health care reform law, were rushed through a Democratic Congress without a single Republican vote, and the electorate responded in 2010 by giving Republicans control of the House. ... Mr. Romney, however, is a Republican who was elected governor of heavily Democratic Massachusetts. He had to work with Democrats to get things done. His leadership and ability to bring people together saved the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. As a businessman, his management skills turned failing companies into profitable ones. Mr. Romney vows to do that, again, in Washington. If we are to avoid a lost decade and a future calamity created by inaction on entitlements and government growth, this nation needs a team of turnaround experts. ... Mr. Romney is a fine family man who donates millions of dollars to his church and charity every year. There is not a whiff of scandal about him. This is why his opponents have tried to turn his very successes against him. ... The choice is clear. Only Mitt Romney has the principles and experience needed to put America back on the road to prosperity." --Las Vegas Review-Journal1

Upright

"Romney is finally succeeding in setting himself apart from Obama and giving voters a sense of something to look forward to with a Romney presidency. ... Moreover, Romney would unabashedly move to restore U.S. international leadership, saying our allies crave it and the world needs it. He sent a very clear signal that ... the days of deference to international organizations and the ideologies and goals of others would be over. The battle lines are clear." --columnist Keith Koffler

"A look at the president's career shows he has never stayed in a job four years without looking to move on to something better. ... Now Obama has been president for nearly four years. ... And his entire career suggests that by now he should be angling for a bigger, better job. The problem is, there isn't such a position -- and a second term in the same old job doesn't count. The chief benefit of winning re-election to a second term might simply be to avoid being labeled a loser, to avoid joining Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush as presidents who couldn't win a second time." --The Washington Examiner's Byron York

"Unlike Mitt, I loathe Sesame Street. It bears primary responsibility for what the Canadian blogger Binky calls the de-monsterization of childhood -- the idea that there are no evil monsters out there at the edges of the map, just shaggy creatures who look a little funny and can sometimes be a bit grouchy about it because people prejudge them until they learn to celebrate diversity and help Cranky the Friendly Monster go recycling. That is not unrelated to the infantilization of our society. Marinate three generations of Americans in that pabulum, and it's no surprise you wind up with unprotected diplomats dragged to their deaths from their 'safe house' in Benghazi." --columnist Mark Steyn

"The Obama campaign has put out a series of creepy e-cards. One incredibly irresponsible one encourages young female students to write home to their parents: 'Dear Mom, Mitt Romney says he would repeal the Affordable Care Act. So here's a quick question: Can I borrow $18,000 to help pay for my birth control?' The Family Research Center writes that, 'If your daughter needs $18,000 worth of birth control, you have far more serious issues to deal with than the cost.' At that level of promiscuity, as encouraged by the Obama administration, it is not only 'uncool,' it is creepy. What's next, e-cards detailing how to deal with the aftermath of venereal disease and shattered self-respect? Immaturity + creepy = 51-year-old Obama and his Liberal pals running your college student's sex life." --columnist Sharon Sebastian

"The classic blowhard is the loud blusterer, who always retells his own arguments and run-ins from the perspective of his own genius, thereby offering the embarrassing proof that he regrets just how poorly he was outfoxed and outargued without a script." --historian Victor Davis Hanson

Demo-gogues

No success: "This country does not just succeed when just a few are doing well at the top. It succeeds when the middle class gets bigger. Our economy does not grow from the top down, it grows from the middle-out. We don't believe that anybody is entitled to success in this country. But we do believe in opportunity. We believe in a country where hard work pays off and responsibilities are rewarded and everybody is getting a fair shot and everybody's doing their fair share and everybody's playing by the same rules." --Barack Obama, emphasis added

The BIG Lie: "On Friday, we learned that the unemployment rate is now at its lowest level since I took office. More Americans are entering the workforce. More Americans are getting jobs." --Barack Obama (Actually, the only reason the unemployment rate is so low is that so many Americans are leaving the workforce.)

Twitter spin: "We still have a lot of work to do, but w/unemployment dropping below 8% to the lowest level in 4 years, our economy's on the right track. There are still far too many people looking for work, but the policies advanced by Pres. Obama & Democrats are helping move our economy fwd. We could move faster if Republicans dropped obstruction, yet Sen. McConnell said his 'single most important' goal was defeating Pres. Obama. It's time for Republicans to put politics aside, and put the middle class first." --Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) in a series of tweets

Let's sure hope not: "We've come too far to turn back now." --Barack Obama

"We've made too much progress to return to the policies that led to the crisis in the first place. I can't allow that to happen, I won't allow that to happen, and that is why I'm running for a second term as president of the United States." --Barack Obama

Clueless? "Now, four years ago, I made a few commitments to you. I told you I'd end the war in Iraq, and I did. I said I'd end the war in Afghanistan, and we are. I said we'd refocus on the people who actually attacked us on 9/11 -- and today, al-Qa'ida is on its heels and Osama bin Laden is no more." --Barack Obama, who must have missed the memo that al-Qa'ida attacked three of our embassies, including the one in Benghazi on the anniversary of 9/11

Mountains out of molehills: "[Mitt Romney] said he'd bring down our deficit by going after what has been the biggest driver of our debt and deficits over the last decade -- public television, PBS. You didn't know this, but for all you moms and kids out there, you should have confidence that finally somebody is cracking down on Big Bird." --Barack Obama

He now does what he denounced then: "If you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from. You make a big election about small things." --Barack Obama in 2008