From Omina21, a friend and associate on today's elections:
TO THOSE VOTING ON SUPER TUESDAY IN REPUBLICAN PRIMARIES, PLEASE CONSIDER VOTING FOR MITT ROMNEY
Republicans have the opportunity to nominate an extraordinary person for President of the United States -- Mitt Romney.
He is brilliant, extremely well-educated, has been immensely successful in the private sector and won election in a blue state and governed (with difficulty, to be sure) with a Democratic legislature having more than a two-thirds majority in both houses. He is a leader who gets things done. It is remarkable that he authored the first state health care plan in America that seeks to insure almost all uninsured by imaginatively using the dollars the state already gets from the federal government to fund aid programs. And it's built around competing private insurance.
Romney has the best understanding of the global jihad being waged against the civilized world by Islamic true believers and how to combat it. This global war is far more than Iraq and Afghanistan that the other leading Republican candidate John McCain only talks about. Romney knows that our enemy has Israel in its sights first to test the will of the West to resist jihad. Romney recognizes the magnitude of the threat and will make it a priority to rouse the nation to defeat it. This will require imagination and creativity of a high order. Mitt Romney has those qualities.
Romney rescued a corrupt Olympics and made it a national and financial success -- for no pay for the years it took.
Romney rescued his former consulting firm by going back and taking over and getting it back on track -- all at the request of former partners, who said he was the only one who could do it -- and he did it. Everyone who has worked with Romney or dealt with him in private life praises him. No former colleague has been found who speaks ill of him.
Romney is naturally optimistic, upbeat, enthusiastic, full of energy and good health.
Romney is not known as being hot-headed, mean-spirited, nasty, sleazy and ill-tempered. Romney does not bend the facts to suit his personal ambition. He most certainly has not been called a liar by any nationally syndicated columnist such as George Will did this past week (which others called a "smear" on Romney).
At a time of economic uncertainty, Romney has skills that McCain totally lacks; even McCain said so.
On all of the issues that most Republicans care about, Romney is on the right side.
He is for free speech in campaigns as well as elsewhere.
He is for immigration reform: An essential part of that reform is gaining control over national borders and inviting in those immigrants who would be assets to the UNited States those who have applied for immigration legally would not be bumped by those who entered the country illegally.
He is for judges who will follow the Constitution, not indulge their own ideas of what the law should be.
Romney is a man of vision and a man of action, just what the country needs.
Senator McCain deserves thanks for his courageous service during Viet Nam. As a veteran myself, I do not believe his service, however laudatory, entitles him or anyone else to be elected president or gives him any more capability to lead. McCain has never run anything bigger than his Senate office and political campaigns.
As one neutral commentator said who watched the last Republican debate, not having watched any before, it was no contest -- Romney won by a mile. His knowledge of issues, his ability to communicate far exceeded those of all others on the platform. The editors of the National Review saw this early on when they endorsed him for the Republican nomination.
It is important that each party put forward the person who can best run the country. Who is best qualified Republican to lead in making the changes that must take place for the UNited States to remain competitive and strong militarily while solving the problems of overcommitments in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid? As a Washinton insider of many years, John McCain doesn't fit the bill as an agent of change. Mitt Romney does. Improving and fixing things has been his life's work.
The only two things his opponents say -- out loud or in whispers -- is he's a flip-flopper (McCain's way to avoid discussing issues) and he's a Mormon. Romney may have been a late-comer to some positions, but that is not unusual. Speaking for myself, I did give up on the Democratic Party, for which I had worked actively throughout my adult life, until I was 47, to vote for Ronald Reagan, economic competence, free enterprise and a strong military. Yes, Mitt's a Mormon, a Mormon of demonstrable character, strong family values and faith. All in all, an admirable person.
Another point has been raised: Electability. Who can best stand up to Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama in debates, McCain or Romney? On experience, intelligence, knowledge, articulateness, civility and persuasiveness, it's Romney by a mile. Over the several months of a general election campaign, Romney will shine.
Romney is behind at the moment, having been ahead until his narrow loss in Florida, but he can still win the nomination. Votes this coming Super Tuesday will be of immense importance.
I hope you will decide to vote for Romney as the best Republican to lead America. This is an opportunity we should not pass up, for the country's sake. He is a candidate every Republican can be proud of.
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