2012
Election
There were many speakers supporting Mitt Romney. He is an American businessman and politician. During the election, he accepted the nominee for the Republican Party for President of the United States in the 2012 election. Many of the well-known supporters included, but not limited to, Nicki Haley, Ann Romney, Chris Christie, Condelezza Rice, Paul Ryan, Clint Eastwood, and Mitt Romney.
The
speeches were extremely motivating and ended similarly with god bless America.
Nicki Haley spoke about her family’s business and mentioned that the president
can’t tell her that her parents didn’t build their own business. She also said
that the president will do everything he can to stand in the way of people owning
businesses. She voiced how Mitt Romney took a failing Olympics and made it
prideful. She expressed that Ann Romney, his wife, was a silver bullet, had
strength and grace, and is an inspiration to her family and other women. She
expressed that we deserve better. Nicki Haley lastly declared that we need to
protect retirement and strengthen the military, not destabilize it. We also,
need to fight for American companies, not against them.
Ann
Romney asked everyone in the beginning of her speech to pray that during
hurricane Isaac all remained safe from destruction. She began by declaring that
her speech was not about politics or party, but from heart, our hearts. Her
speech was about love. It was about the love for her husband, children, parents
paying mortgage, single dads and their children, children longing to be like
other children, working mothers, and couples that can’t afford to have
children. She mentioned that women hold this country together and that they are
the best, the hope of America. She said that women aren’t dumb enough to accept
that there aren’t better answers. She expressed that tabloids say that they
have a storybook marriage. She stated that their days consisted of five boys
screaming all day, multiple sclerosis, breast cancer, etc. Ann Romney declared
that they had a real marriage. She believes that Mitt Romney will move heaven
and earth for America because he wasn’t handed success, he built it. I admired
when she said that her husband doesn’t like to talk about others he has helped,
he sees it as a privilege, not a political talking point. Her last statements
included, give and it shall be given unto you, dreams fulfilled help others
launch new dreams. She added that this man will not fail because he never
failed her, he will not let us down. She said that he will lift up America and
our future; we can trust Mitt will take us to a better place, give America that
chance.
Chris
Christie stated that he was proud of his state, party, and country. He spoke
about his mother being the stronghold of the family. She taught him the lesson
in life that there would be times in life when he would have to choose between
being loved or respected. On this election night he chose to be respected. He
articulated that history showed that we always stand when it counts. He said
today’s government ideas have failed America, we believe in being truthful and all
the math doesn’t add up. He spoke on the focus that we need to cut federal
spending and reduce the size of the government. He declared that our senior
citizens and teachers were being treated unjustly. He said that America needs
to send real leaders into the white house. He revealed that leadership is
missing today and that real leaders don’t follow polls, real leaders change
polls. He brought up that we have never been victims of destiny, but that we
are the masters of our own. He believed that our generation should read about a
strong economic growth. Chris Christie ended with we all must share in the
sacrifice and truth will bare when we finally answer the call, Mitt Romney, for
American greatness.
Condoleezza Rice stated that
people of conscience and faith have shown the soul of this country and that we
feel like we are carrying the burden. She mentioned that we cannot be reluctant
to lead and that we cannot lead from behind. She cited that peace comes from
strength. She pointed out that her mom was a teacher. She respects the profession and we need great
teachers, not poor ones and not mediocre ones.
She stated that we have to have high standards for our kids, because
self-esteem comes from achievement, not from tax standards and false praise. Sadly,
she declared, we are abandoning free and fair trade and it will come back to
haunt us, we shouldn’t let energy and dependence slip through our hands. She
revealed that greatness is built on mobilizing human potential and ambition,
plus people come to America because people from all over the world believe in
the American dream. She added that Americans have been successful too because
Americans have known that one's status of birth is not a permanent condition.
Americans have believed that you might not be able to control your circumstances
but you can control your response to your circumstances. She
ended lastly by saying, this is an election of consequence and the freest and
most compassionate country on the face of the earth will continue to be the
most powerful and a beacon for prosperity and liberty across the world.
Paul
Ryan accepted his nomination for vice president. He stated that the nation
needed a turnaround. He spoke on how the president is just throwing away money
with all his attack ads and that he is pretty experience at that. He revealed
that Obama came to office during an economic crisis, we voted, people loved the
sound of it. Obama promised recovery to many towns, many are unemployed. Nearly
1 in 6 Americans are in poverty. Half of the educated people today can’t find
any work. Why will the next four years be any different from the last four
years? Half of the American continent could stretch a long line of people unemployed
in America. The greatest threat to Medicare is Obama care and America is going
to stop it. He said that our nation needs this debate, we want this debate, and
we will win this debate. He stated that many are grasping on a moment that’s
already passed, like a ship trying to sail on yesterday’s wind. Obama needs to
stop spending money he doesn’t have, 16 trillion in debt and the president is still
doing nothing and when the obvious is pointed out to him, we are attacked. I
admired when he spoke about his mother starting a small business. He stated
that his mom started a small business, and he’s seen what it takes. His mother
was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a
bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She
earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life. And it transformed his Mom from a widow in
grief to a small businesswoman whose happiness wasn't just in the past. Her
work gave her hope. It made their family
proud. And to this day, his Mom is his role model. He ended with a pledge that
they will not duck the tough issues, they will lead. They will not spend the
next four years blaming others, they will take responsibility. They will not try
to replace our founding principles; they will reapply our founding principles.
Clint
Eastwood was endearing, amusing, and an unexpected guest. He said funny words
like, “hot dogging it” and he had the audience finish and he started a known
quote from one of his movies “Go ahead, make my day.” He mentioned the last
election that it was very Hollywood by having a fog machine and lights, Oprah
and everyone was crying, including him. He said that he hasn’t cried that hard
since, he heard that there were 23 million people unemployed in this country.
It is a national disgrace. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the invisible Obama
skit. He asked Obama a few questions and the times when he mentioned issues
that weren’t to be mentioned, Clint Eastwood would say, “No I’m not going to do
that to myself” and no, “I not going to tell Mr. Romney to do that to himself.”
Last,
but not least, Mitt Romney came out and on the way to the podium he shook
everyone’s hands. One man tried to take a picture and security stood in front
of him, I laughed. Romney stated that he will create 12 million new jobs by
expanding domestic energy production, improving education and training, forging
new trade agreements with other countries, balancing the budget, and helping
businesses grow. “What America needs is jobs,” Romney stated. “Lots of jobs.”
Romney said he will not increase taxes on the middle class. The United States
will be independent from energy suppliers outside of North America by 2020,
Romney said. Romney said he would “preserve a military that is so strong, no
nation would ever dare to test it.” “Under my administration, our friends will
see more loyalty, and Mr. Putin will see a little less flexibility and more
backbone,” Romney said. Romney said he would be a defender of small businesses,
which he described as “America’s engine of job growth.” Taxes on businesses
would be cut, not increased, under a Romney administration, he said. He would
also abolish President Barack Obama’s health care law in order to “rein in the
skyrocketing cost of healthcare.” Romney made a blunt appeal to this critical demographic
by noting that women held significant positions during his term as
Massachusetts governor. He listed several of the women, including former
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who addressed the Republican National
Convention, and he also mentioned that his mother, Lenore Romney, had once run
for the U.S. Senate. Romney stressed that his business background at Bain
Capital, a private equity firm he helped start in 1984, makes him better
qualified than Obama to turn around a struggling American economy. Among the
successful companies Bain helped start, Romney said, are Staples, The Sports
Authority, and Steel Dynamics, a steel mill in Indiana. Romney tied his Mormon
faith to the American experience. His family originated community and kinship
with “remarkably vibrant and diverse congregations” that prayed together and
were quick to help each other out. He said that growing up Mormon in Michigan
may have appeared out of place, but his friends cared more about the sports
teams they followed, than what church he and his household went to.
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