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It was exactly 34-years-ago today Republican presidential nominee Ronald Reagan launched his 1980 bid to replace President Jimmy Carter. In New York Harbor, with the Statue of Liberty in the background, Reagan gave an inspiring speech about freedom in what would be a campaign that ended in his landslide victory some 60-days later.
There are many pundits, frightened Democrats, even Mitt Romney himself, who scoff at the thought of him running a third time for president in 2016. But 34-years-ago today, it was the beginning of Ronald Reagan�s third try also. Last night in New York City, Mitt Romney could be heard in a roundtable radio discussion hosted by John Catsimatidis beginning his third attempt at the presidency.
Romney spoke with passion of Barack Obama's critical mistakes that have enabled the rise of the Islamic State (ISIS) and created the immigration crisis at the country's southern border. Not unlike Ronald Reagan�s style, he was soft-spoken as he said of his 2012 opponent, �Mistakes were made and now we have ISIS."
The two-time presidential contender argued with conviction that ISIS has only gained power because America did not listen to his plan to contain Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. He convincingly laid out the reality that a president cannot draw a line in the sand, as Obama did, and then relent when it is crossed.
With refreshing candor missing from any established presidential contenders thus far, Romney said, "If you go back a few years when Syria fell into revolution and tumult, when rebels were pushing against Assad, I laid out what I thought was a prudent course for us to see stability in Syria. Had we followed that course, there's a good chance you would not see an ISIS today."
He accused Obama of failing to heed American intelligence reports of the growing threat while he tended to domestic projects like Obamacare and redistribution of wealth. He said had proposed plan, which much of the mainstream press labeled �warmongering,� been done to back the revolutionaries in Syria, America wouldn�t be where it is today.
It was a very different, more forceful Romney many heard on the radio in New York City last night. Instead of his usual speech that is left unfinished, he finished his thoughts with a highly critical critique of President Obama�s handling of the Middle East crisis. He said, "We saw ISIS roll into Iraq and, instead of attacking them immediately and knocking them in their convoy when they would have been easy to knock down, relatively easy to knock down, the president again watched. And now we're in a position where ISIS has run throughout major portions of Iraq. There have been horrific human rights abuses, tragedies."
America is seeing the new Mitt Romney who would not have basically left the 2012 campaign two weeks before the job was completed. Hillary Clinton and others most certainly are watching this Mitt Romney with keen interest. He is indeed a candidate in 2016. Those who think otherwise are the most worried they are wrong.
dave
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Romney will run in 2016 and crush the opposition
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Biden didn't win the election.
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Sounds like you fellers think Obama was the better choice.
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He didn't have the guts to take on the Obamanation head to head when he had the chance. He's a pussy. Screw him.
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Mittsy isn't my A-#1 choice, but I'd happily vote for him over Hilary.
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Surely someone is dreaming.
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Sounds like you fellers think Obama was the better choice. on the contrary. He would have made obama look like the poser he is. We're past romney. We need a conservative who can bring out the base. Someone who isn't afraid to get mean.
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Sounds like you fellers think Obama was the better choice. on the contrary. He would have made obama look like the poser he is. We're past romney. We need a conservative who can bring out the base. Someone who isn't afraid to get mean. Good luck weighting for the Repub Party to back one
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Romney's toast - milk toast!
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well, he has the support of the campfire..(grin)
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I did not like voting for him but he was a better choice that Bam Bam.
I have a question for you to think about.
Who stopped Romney from attacking Bam Bam ? He got some pretty good hits in and then was told to stop by who?
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well, he has the support of the campfire..(grin) Maybe but he would have been far better than the current POS. hopefully there will be better choices this next go round. You must be happy with the current POS by your responses..
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I did not like voting for him but he was a better choice that Bam Bam the lesser of two evils. Fixed it for you.
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I did not like voting for him but he was a better choice that Bam Bam the lesser of two evils. Fixed it for you. Thank you for the fix.
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The end of democracy, and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.
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Up hills slow, Down hills fast Tonnage first and Safety last.
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Mittsy isn't my A-#1 choice, but I'd happily vote for him over Hilary. Ol' Mitt is going to have to grovel a lot to get me into his camp. I'm looking real hard at Ted Cruz, I don't think Mitt can change my mind. It's his move to convince me otherwise. kwg
For liberals and anarchists, power and control is opium, selling envy is the fastest and easiest way to get it. TRR. American conservative. Never trust a white liberal. Malcom X Current NRA member.
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