Some of the quote highlights of Paul Ryan’s Republican convention speech, and there were many, are listed below. Can’t wait for this guy to debate Joe Biden.
“I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power. They’ve run out of ideas. Their moment came and went. Fear and division are all they’ve got left.
Right now, 23 million men and women are struggling to find work. Twenty-three million people, unemployed or underemployed. Nearly one in six Americans is living in poverty.
So here’s the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?
What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn’t just spent and wasted – it was borrowed, spent, and wasted.
Seven hundred and sixteen billion dollars, funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we’re going to stop it.
Ladies and gentlemen, these past four years we have suffered no shortage of words in the White House. What’s missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years ago – isn’t it about time he assumed responsibility?
So here we are, $16 trillion in debt and still he does nothing. In Europe, massive debts have put entire governments at risk of collapse, and still he does nothing. And all we have heard from this president and his team are attacks on anyone who dares to point out the obvious.
They have no answer to this simple reality: We need to stop spending money we don’t have.
After four years of government trying to divide up the wealth, we will get America creating wealth again. With tax fairness and regulatory reform, we’ll put government back on the side of the men and women who create jobs, and the men and women who need jobs.
And in our dealings with other nations, a Romney-Ryan administration will speak with confidence and clarity. Wherever men and women rise up for their own freedom, they will know that the American president is on their side.
Instead of managing American decline, leaving allies to doubt us and adversaries to test us, we will act in the conviction that the United States is still the greatest force for peace and liberty that this world has ever known.
President Obama is the kind of politician who puts promises on the record, and then calls that the record. But we are four years into this presidency. The issue is not the economy as Barack Obama inherited it, not the economy as he envisions it, but this economy as we are living it.
College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life.
None of us have to settle for the best this administration offers – a dull, adventureless journey from one entitlement to the next, a government-planned life, a country where everything is free but us.
Listen to the way we’re spoken to already, as if everyone is stuck in some class or station in life, victims of circumstances beyond our control, with government there to help us cope with our fate.
I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself. That’s what we do in this country. That’s the American Dream. That’s freedom, and I’ll take it any day over the supervision and sanctimony of the central planners.
We will not spend four years blaming others, we will take responsibility.
We will not try to replace our founding principles, we will reapply our founding principles.”
Ryan’s speech was very pointed concerning president’ Obama’s leading the lowest common denominator of society by diminishing exceptionalism in our country and abroad, where government, not the individual, plans your life like they do in socialists countries. Ryan did a great job!
I expected to see the Highlights mof Mitt Romney’s convention speech by now, but all I have seen is silence. Guess that says a lot!
azguy,
I am in the top tax bracket now, but would also have no problem paying more in taxes, even letting the Bush tax cuts expire if it was part of a package that included REAL spending cuts (not decreases in the rate of growth) at the federal level as well as meaningful entitlement reform.
Have great holiday weekend.
JRM here are your highlights:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/frame_game/2012/08/romney_s_convention_speech_class_warfare_the_obama_economy_and_other_messages_for_the_fall_campaign_.html
……4. Business experience. Romney won the Republican primaries by running as a businessman, not a governor. Obama punished Romney for that approach, damaging him in polls by painting him as a rich, ruthless capitalist. In the general election, Romney had another option: He could contrast himself with Obama not as a businessman but as an executive, since Romney had been a governor while Obama, prior to his election as president, was never more than a legislator. Running as a successful state executive might broaden Romney’s image, highlighting his ability to help people, not just make money.
Four weeks ago, Romney showed signs of switching to the governor message. But his convention speech signaled that he’s doubling down instead on the businessman message. Obama “took office without the basic qualification that most Americans have and one that was essential to his task,” said Romney. “He had almost no experience working in a business. Jobs to him are about government.” By contrast, Romney argued,
I learned the real lessons about how America works from experience. … 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 cornfield in Indiana. Today Steel Dynamics is one of the largest steel producers in the United States. These are American success stories.
Romney is betting that the success stories he can tell from his years at Bain Capital will outweigh the failed investments and tragic layoffs that were hammered by Democratic ads. The political rationale for making this bet is that Romney can heavily outspend Obama on TV ads for the next two months. The risk is that the stories of failure, outsourcing, and layoffs may have sunk into voters’ conscience in a way that no success stories can undo.
5. Class warfare kills jobs. This is Romney’s most creative message, and it might be his most crucial. Here’s how he put it last night:
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. … 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 …
The message isn’t just that taxes and regulations hurt the economy. The message is that even Obama’s rhetoric hurts the economy. The phrase “attacks success” conflates Obama’s words with his deeds. It implies that every time Obama complains about offshoring, portrays Romney as a cold-hearted capitalist, or suggests that rich people should pay more taxes, he’s discouraging business and slowing the recovery. Persuadable voters are unhappy with the lousy economy but aren’t sure what, if anything, Obama has done to cause it. At worst, they see his failure as incompetence. The “attacking success” message gives them a sharper answer. It attributes the weakness of the recovery not to bad luck or incompetence but to Obama’s ideology. And it creates a possibility that Romney can jujitsu Obama’s main pitch—that he’s the president of the middle class against the rich.
If that possibility pans out—if Romney can make Obama’s message self-destructive by chaining it to the economy’s struggles as a causal factor—Romney will win the election. And this, in turn, could explain why Romney is doubling down on his decision to run as a businessman. The businessman image and the class warfare argument work together. They form a coherent narrative about how Obama harmed the economy, how he would continue to impede it, and why Romney can be expected to make things better.
6. Freedom. This is a familiar Republican refrain, but Romney put his own spin on it:
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.
That’s a very well-constructed appeal. It links the interests of poor strivers to the interests of thriving industrialists. It links social conservatives not just to economic conservatives but to libertarians. It broadens the GOP demographically, welcoming immigrants of all nationalities to the party’s worldview. And it weaves these groups together to form a definition of America that’s cultural and conservative without being ethnic.
7. Selective socialism. Despite his paeans to freedom, Romney underscored his intention to defend two enormous areas of government spending. Obama’s “trillion-dollar cuts to our military will eliminate hundreds of thousands of jobs,” said Romney. “His $716 billion cut to Medicare to finance Obamacare will both hurt today’s seniors and depress innovation—and jobs—in medicine.”
Those are the highlight? Wow, sounds like just some more of that “Hope and Change” crap; only from the opposite side of the fence. I guess that makes sense through; they are all politicians and have found that they can get elected by platitudes rather than actual facts!
Rather than actual facts? Romney “actually” took failing businesses, and made 80% of them profitable. He “actually” took an Olympics that was deep in debt, and made it both successful AND profitable. He has REAL executive experience in both government AND private enterprise.
Compare that with the “actual” record of B. Hussein Obama:
Our debt will surpass $16 trillion during the DNC convention, growing faster than with ANY president in history.
According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, also known as Porkulus, bought us between 1.3 and 3.5 million “saved or created” jobs for about $229,000 to $586,000 each.
The latest CBO scoring of Obamacare, in the wake of the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision upholding the overhaul’s individual mandate as an allowable (although seemingly unprecedented) tax on inactivity, shows that President Obama’s centerpiece legislation would cost about $2 trillion over its real first decade (2014 through 2023). The CBO also says that — despite its colossal cost and its unprecedented expansion of power and control over Americans’ lives — Obamacare would, as of a decade from now, leave 30 million people uninsured.
Of course, even with all the issues facing him, Obama “actually” found time to play over 100 rounds of golf. When you add in the motorcade time to and from the golf course, it is accurate to say that Obama has spent more than three months of his presidency golfing.
Enough “actual facts” for you?
As Gov. Romney opined: “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,”
You still forgot to give us any actual facts about all of the headlines that Romney/Ryan claim they are going to do.
For instance, one of the headlines is that they are going to create 12 million j0bs in the first 4 years through more domestic energy production, more free trade agreements, more skills development, more deficit reduction, and cutting taxes and regulation. None of these are short term changes even if the Republican Party gains total control of the federal government, and some of them are dependent on private sector companies which Romney/Ryan will probably have to nationalize in order to force them to comply with the dictatorship’s demands.
I sure hope that all these actions will not cost us a dime because the Romney/Ryan target of 12 million jobs over the next four years happens to be the same number of jobs the economic forecasting firm Moody’s Analytics expects us to add even without any major governmental policy changes. How can the possibly fail if they don’t have to do anything at all to meet a forcast based on them doing nothing at all. Neat!
Oh, in case you haven’t heard, Paul Ryan has spent even less time than Obama working in private sector jobs.
I also wonder how fast the Republicans are going to be able to shut off the mandatory budget cuts effective January 1st, that they signed up for, but now can’t seem to accept.
Oh, I could go on and on about the kind of facts about what they are going to do that the voters would like to know. When the only answers they get are ones like yours about useless facts that supposedly happened in the past, we will see how many votes they get in the election.
If you compare Paul Ryan to “Plugs” Biden, the result is a battle of wits in which one side has almost no ammunition.
Reducing corporate tax rates and eliminating regulatory loopholes will not “cost us a dime”, because, as has been proven time and time again, such actions INCREASE tax revenues, due to encouragement of business growth. Simplifying bureaucratic red tape will reduce enforcement costs, reduce business compliance costs (especially important for small businesses), and stimulate business growth. This includes repealing ObamaCare, and replacing it with with a simpler, more cost-effective, mostly private system.
If nothing else, the bills for Presidential vacation travel by Romney should be significantly lower.
JRM NO-SENSE,
“Now you can call me NO-SENSE again and prove what I am saying is true.”
Go back read your first response to me and tell me how you addressed me in that response. Then go on back your non-sense, NO=SENSE.
You bore me and are no longer worthy of my time.
I called you two-faced becauswe you did the very same thing that you claimed someone else does. Sorry if that upset you to the point where you used that ” You bore me and are no longer worthy of my time” third grade excuse for running away. Gives whole new meaning to Navy FLIER!
Another conservative Republican statement, JRM. Wait until November JRM and the Republican ticket better win or this country will go down the drain and if you are younger than 55 – Good Luck with your future.! My grandkids could run this country better than your golf buddy, Obama who spend more time on the course than in the oval office – who spends more time campaigning for the last three years despite the problems sinking the country – and again, all you worry about is that I didn’t comment on Romney? Jesus!
If Romney and Ryan are elected and show up in Washington and start to work the problems they will be more successful in the first month than your Campaigner-in-Chief has been during his first term.
George Orwell 2012.
Steve – You understand finances, right? How can America continue to spend more than it receives in revenue by 40% for very long until we all go down the tubes?
Even if you are a liberal on social issues, certainly you must see that the country is failing financially and Obama is pushing Americans down the European financial path?
What have been the results of overspending in all the Euro countries? Can’t you see that those countries are failing and if we continue to do the same thing they are, we will also fail?
Regardless of our compassion and feelings of social justice, and our capacity to help others when they are in trouble, we will not be able to do anything to help others until the country gets back on the proper fiscal path with growth and jobs and Obamanomics will not do that – you must be able to see that too?
Balancing the budget and paying off debt in a time of low GDP is ludicrous. It just can’t happen without dismantling governement and eliminating more jobs which trickles down to all of us.The real return on Treasuries is something like negative 1%. The US can borrow money right now at an interest rate of negative 1%. The US always borrows and pays back. Now is the time to borrow and spend to replace old infrastructure which creates immediate jobs and makes the investments we need for our future and minimizes additional borrowing in the future that will surely come with higher interest rates. I know what you’re going to say, we had a stimulas and it didn’t work. Well it did, it minimized the damage. It’s time for another round. Let’s build a new space shuttle. That would certainly employ a lot of engineers in Rockford. Let’s build new schools with federal dollars instead of local taxes. Let’s invest in Hospitals in anticipation of that industry growing, lets finance research, lets pull down all those old telephone lines and replace with fiber optic, let’s expand the Rockford Airport and bring commuter rail service back. All of these things have to be done anyways. Why not now when we need the paychecks? This is not Europe. Its not even a comparison worth makeing. And its not about Obama, its about Congress and their failure to get these things done.
And exactly how much time did the House of Representatives and the Senate spend in doing their jobs over the last 4 years? Look up how many days these supposedly busy, busy, busy people spent in session, in Washington, doing the people’s business over that time frame. Looking at the amount of significant legislation that has been passed over the last four years, the answer would have to be very little.
After all, John Boehner plays golf about 100 times a YEAR by his own admission.
Now tell me how the number of times a politician plays golf has any relavance to what he/she does in office!
Steve, like the Obama regime, seems to think that government spending is the answer to all economic woes. Government jobs are nothing more than counting your children’s allowance towards your family income- there is no real growth.
In fact, private businesses are the TRUE economic engines of our economy, because they add value to the raw materials of products that they make. They add to the GDP, and the taxes that they, and their employees pay, are what really supports this Country, and pays for those “government jobs”.
That is why the oppressive regulatory and financial burdens on businesses need to be reduced to the minimum level needed to provide safe products, and to protect workers.
If that is done, our economy will grow, unemployment will drop, and we can work towards reducing our debt.
And SNuss as ususal reveals his hatred for things he doesn’t understand.
Hatred? What hatred? Oh, sorry, I forgot that rejecting the Obama regime’s failed policies for fact-based reasons is considered “racist”, by you Leftist drones. In fact, unless you are in blind lock-step with “The Messiah’s” policies, you are considered a racist. BTW, I believe there is a post about that kind of Leftist idiocy, somewhere on the RRStar blog.
Well, JRM NO SENSE.
“There you go again.”
“I know common sense, and you are no common sense,” NO SENSE.
You give a whole new meaning to NO SENSE.
Now you just mosey on along and meander through your senseless life, NO SENSE.
I really thought you had promise with some of your postings. However, when someone is senseless “And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.”
So you’re GONE, NO SENSE!!
Typical Navyflier, zips in, drops a few two-faced bombs, denegrates anyone who tries to fight back, and then runs back to base. I wish I could say that I thought you had promise, but I can’t. You wouldn’t know common sense if it bit you on your assets. You remain true to your training!
That would STILL put NAVYFLIER10′s common sense quotient at at least triple (or higher) of yours.
And, given your personality, the family dog probably wouldn’t play with you, even if they tied a sirloin steak around your neck. The dog might just bury you (deep) in the back yard.
Oh Snuss, you are so funny! First time I heard that joke I kicked the sides out of my crib. Unfortunately we were so poor we couldn’t afford either a dog or a sirloin steak.
I am surprised that you didn’t pull out your examples of the rear end fetish you have like you have done in several previous posts on this site. Or have you switched to dogs and sirloin steak now? Wouldn’t surprise me a bit!
If his commone sense quotient is “at least triple mine”, then yours is obviously 100 times less than his. Probably explains the rear end, dog, and steak fetishes you seem so proud of. Glad to see that you are finally out. But be careful, the real world is much less forgiving that the cyber world. You can end up in jail wihen you say these things to people face to face, or worse! That opinion is based on significant “unreported” data.
Same here – Let’s stick with the issues, guys and leave the negative comments for someone else, Ok?