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Jan 16
Later this year on stages somewhere in America there will be two pairs of shoes that will be very important. One pair will be worn by President Obama and the other by the republican nominee for president. They will be debating before the American people concerning issues of great importance affecting the future of our country. More Americans will be watching the debates than at any other time in the campaign. The question for conservatives is which of our candidates do you want to be in these shoes?
Many people say Gov. Romney should be the man for he is the one who can win. Please think with me how this would likely play out if Gov. Romney is in the shoes regarding two of the major issues of the campaign, healthcare and jobs.
Healthcare: Gov. Romney will have to acknowledge that he pushed for and signed into law a mandatory health care law that included taxpayer funded abortion.
President Obama pushed for and passed a mandatory health insurance bill that provides essentially the same thing for all states.
So, what’s to debate? Romney will squirm and twist in ways that most of the audience is not likely to understand arguing his mandatory health care plan is OK but that Obama’s is not. That is like arguing that my skunk doesn’t stink as bad as his skunk. It will be a disaster for Romney.
Jobs Plan: Romney will argue his work at Bain Capital makes him uniquely qualified to create jobs.
Obama will likely say, “Mitt, in 1994 you claimed 10,000 jobs created; now you claim 100,000 while working for Bain. Where is the proof that 100,000 or even 10,000 were created?”
Romney’s defense so far is that he was doing the same thing at Bain that President Obama was doing with GM—cutting some and creating some.
Obama is likely to say, “If you were just doing what I’ve been doing (by the way we got advice from Bain on cutting jobs) what are you complaining about?
There are other things that Romney will be unable to successfully debate with Obama, such as taxes, socialism, and Obama’s association with Jeremiah Wright.
There is one man who can stand in those shoes against President Obama and that man is Newt Gingrich. No matter what the “experts, pundits, and political elites” say you are the one who gets to choose who will wear the shoes. Choose wisely.