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What Mitt Romney could be saying to “the Republican base” to seal the deal to victory over President Obama

Cross-posted at Unified Patriots.

I know many of you conservatives who have registered as Republican Party voters don’t believe I have any core conservative beliefs and believe I advocated for a federal individual mandate that all Americans buy health insurance or go to jail. I didn’t. And I don’t.

But here’s what I do know. And do advocate. Now.

First, we conservative Americans have to unite and organize to Get Out The Vote like never before if we are going to defeat President Obama in November.

Second, the best way for we conservatives to unite and organize to Get Out The Vote like never before to defeat President Obama and the other Democrat candidates in all of the partisan races in November is to unite and organize inside a political party. And that political party is, obviously, the Republican Party. And I don’t just mean registering to vote as a Republican. I mean more than that. I mean finding your local Republican Party committee — they usually meet monthly — and going to its meeting and finding out how you can volunteer to become a voting member of the Party. In most states, that’s called becoming a “precinct committeeman.” Regardless of the name, by becoming one — and it’s pretty easy — you get to not only vote for the local and county Party officers, but you might also be able to vote to endorse candidates in the all-important, traditionally-very-low-turnout primary elections.

Anyone from the Party ever told you about this? Any other candidates in the presidential primary told you about this? Well, it’s about time somebody did, and I’m telling you now.

About half of these “voting slots” in the Party, nationwide, are vacant right now. And about one-third of the voting precincts in America have not even one Republican Party precinct committeeman slot filled. Not one. In about one third of the voting precincts in America, not one of these vital volunteer slots to help Get Out The Vote and to be a liaison between the Republican voters in their precinct and the Party is filled with a warm body. In other words, we conservative Americans are going into battle against the Democrat Party, in our local precincts, at about half strength and with fully one third of our precincts having not even one Republican Party “boots on the ground” volunteer going door-to-door or making Get Out The Vote phone calls for our candidates.

As I said, our Republican Party is at half-strength. It’s at its weakest where it needs to be strongest. At the neighborhood level. The precinct level. We conservative Republicans must change that. Will you please attend your next local Republican Party committee meeting? To learn how to volunteer to get involved as a precinct committeeman? It only takes a couple of hours a month. Will you attend your meeting and learn how to help Get Out The Vote? Did you know that about 35% of registered Republicans did not bother to vote in the 2008 election that John McCain lost to President Obama by just 53 to 47 per cent?

I want to win the presidency. For you. For America. To get our country back on track. And to keep it on the track of less government spending, less government regulation, and lower taxation, “we the conservative people” need to re-energize the Republican Party with conservatives inside it. Won’t you help me? And help your country?

Please go to PrecinctProject.us to learn more. Then find your local committee and attend its meetings. You won’t be disappointed.

Thank you. And God bless America.

Mitt Romney

Thank you.

ColdWarrior
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COMMENTS

  • texastaxpayer

    Let’s face it Romney is in no position to lecture Obama on economics with his 47th out of 50 rating as governor.
    He is in no position to lecture Obama on government over reach with Romneycare being the foundation of obamacare.
    He is in no position to lecture Obama on energy policy with his carbon cap legislation being the foundation of Obama’s cap and trade bill.
    He is no position to lecture Obama on tax policy as he raised taxes and fees by nearly a billion dollars annually on his citizens.
    He is in no position to lecture Obama on deficit reduction as his healthcare policy alone has created billions in deficit spending for Massachusetts.
    He is no position to lecture Obama on job creation as his policies both social and environmental have cost tens of thousands of jobs in Massachusetts.
    He is in no position to lecture Obama on judical appointments as he appointed nearly three times as many liberal and “independent” judges as conservatives.
    He is in no position to lecture Obama over picking winners and losers in industry as he advocated the exact “green energy” subsidy as governor Obama has implemented with companies like solendra.

    I guess he can give him a scathing lecture on proper parking lot construction methods he learned from “saving the Olympics”. Other than that what would these two debate? They agree on everything….

    • APA Guy

      If you can say with a straight face that Mitt Romney would be no different as president than Barack Obama, then you are talking out of your arse. Romney, at minimum, will be far more pro-business than Obama…and I can’t imagine he will last long in office allowing gas to hover at $4-5/gallon.

      Plus, he will, in all reality, be dealing with a Republican congress. Do you imagine Romney could govern any way contrary?

      I have my isues with Mitt Romney, but at some point reality must take hold. He will be our nominee…and he will be on a short leash from the start.

      • texastaxpayer

        Give me a single example of where I am wrong with anything I said?

        As far as your short leash, now who needs reality to set in? What is the congressional approval rating right now? Are you freaking blind? What guarantee do you know about that I apparently missed that ensures a republican majority? Notice how most if not all the states your “nominee” is winning has depressed turnout? Guess you think that bodes well for us down ticket huh? Really get a freaking clue. BTW if you had an ounce of confidence in Romney you wouldn’t need your “short leash” in the first place would you? So drop the hypocrisy..

        • APA Guy

          Simple enough? I could draw you a picture in crayon if it isn’t…

          Defend the indefensible (i.e. Obama’s economic record) and you’ll get whacked on this site…food for thought for you moving forward.

          • APA Guy

            nt

          • texastaxpayer

            So since you have your crayons all ready why don’t you draw that picture for me. To begin with you may have missed this it was subtle but I wasn’t defending Obama. Quite the opposite actually I was using him as a measuring stick for your great hope Mitt Romney. Notice how all you can respond with is platitudes? Anything begining to spark in that soggy mush you call a bain yet? Like perhaps “holy sh!t I can’t think of anything to say to a fellow conservative but uh eh your just wrong!!!” Now picture trying to convince an independent or a democrat. I mean I hate Obama and I can kick your guys a$$ with a single paragraph just comparing their records. You don’t see that as a problem? If your so blinded you can’t see the issues coming in the general with this guy you are truly lost. So by all means draw you freaking picture for me… Let’s see what you’ve got……

          • APA Guy

            “He is in no position to lecture Obama…”

            That is de facto defense of a terrible liberal president. You are trying to denegrate the likely GOP nominee by pointing to the record of…Barack Obama? You mean the same Barack Obama who has run this country’s economy into the toilet?

            Oh yes…and you seem intent upon calling him “your guy” or “your great hope, Mitt Romney”. Isn’t he OUR hope if he wins the nomination?

            You out yourself nicely…hope you enjoyed that picture, sparky.

          • texastaxpayer

            He is in no position to lecture Obama on any of the issues I pointed out for the reasons I stated. All your pathetic whining doesn’t change that one bit. Just imagine the tragedy of a Romney Obama debate. Romney has no chance of looking like anything more than a hypocritical, flip flopping fool.

            No he isn’t “our hope”. I am a conservative not a republican. Until recently I had no idea how much different those two groups are. As I will not support Obama for his social and economic policies. I will not support Romney and become a hypocrite like apparently you. If Obama is running this country into the ground with socialized healthcare, green energy, progressive tax policies, environmental regulations and government bailouts guess what? Romney used a nearly identical approach to his single term leading a government with similar results. He also advocated TARP and STIMULUS. So basically everything you claim to hate Obama for Romney has done or supported. How is that picture sparky?

          • APA Guy

            “I am a conservative, yet I defend a socialist president’s record”.

            Right.

            Sell crazy someplace else…like The Daily Kos. They buy your brand all day long.

          • texastaxpayer

            I know what I have and haven’t said so lying only makes you look more foolish…. Here is a hint…. Everything I have said is right up there ^ ^ ^

            You are a waste of digital ink. You remind me of a liberal actually. You have no clue what the facts are, debate emotionally and resort to name calling and lies when you lose….. Pathetic….

    • APA Guy

      when he added $6 trillion to the national debt, completely devalued our dollar (which has lost 33% of its value against the Euro…at a time when the EU is drowning in debt!!!), more than doubled gas prices, and with unemployment rate higher than when he was sworn in.

      Obama has been a disaster for this country’s economy. Romney will be exponentially better as president than this clown.

      • texastaxpayer

        How much debt did Romney add to Massachusetts with Romneycare, carbon caps, expanded tax / fees and the tens of thousands of jobs lost?

        You want to lecture me, get your facts straight.

        • APA Guy

          …and I will lecture you…whenever I feel like it…anytime some clown tells me a Republican “is in no position to lecture Obama” on ANYTHING economics related. Romney isn’t perfect, but not a single GOP candidate – including Ron Paul – is worse than Obama on economics…PERIOD.

          Here endeth the lesson…

          • lapert

            The dollar has not lost anything near 33% against the Euro since Obama became President (or from the peak in June of 2010). In fact, the exchange rate is almost the exact same as it was when he was sworn in. So that is one fact you got wrong.

            The debt was 10.627 trillion the day he was sworn in. Today it is 15.499 trillion – so he hasn’t gotten to 6 trillion more yet. At the current rate he will get there before the next inauguration but after the election. In any case, another fact that isn’t right.

            According to the BLS, the average price per gallon of gasoline in January 2009 was 1.787 and in January 2012 was 3.399 – so that is close to double but not quite there and it is kind of misleading to use an economy driven low as your stating point. A more valid comparison would be to the 3.047 it cost in January of 2008. If you want to use the most recent number from Gas Buddy of 3.719 it will have double since Jan of ’09 – but not since Feb of ’09 which is a fairer date relative to inauguration, or Mar of ’09 which is more comparable from a seasonal perspective. So, for this fact I’ll give you partial credit.

            You are right for the moment about the unemployment rate if you go buy the month inauguration day was in but likely will be wrong in a month or so – and if we are being fair it is at the same rate now as it was in February of 09 so it is hard to count January as his first month. Finally, a fact you got right, if not entirely in a meaningful way.

            Obama certainly hasn’t been good for the economy but there is no reason to get all your facts wrong in making the case – and then being indignant about being called on it.

          • APA Guy

            As for the $16 trillion debt, it will be well beyond that point by the time Obama’s first term ends. We are not yet through FY 2012.

            Regarding the devalued dollar matched against the Euro, don’t take my word for it. Even the clods at MSNBC get it and understand how it has driven up oil and gas prices:

            Over the last five years, the dollar has fallen by 33 percent against the euro

            http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13862677/ns/business-answer_desk/t/whats-pushing-oil-prices-higher/

            By the way, I noticed you were chirping in another thread about opening the SPR as a short-term “solution” to high gas prices. Nice that you are now here defending Obama’s debt, employment and dollar handling when the rational and educated mind understands just how he has destroyed any meaningful recovery during his presidency. Were you planning on voting him in for another 4 years? You seem intent upon spinning his miserable record away during your entire stay at RedState?

            “Only” $15.5 trillion in debt,,,”only” $3.40/gal for gas…”only” 8.3% unemployment (when he said his “stimulus” wouldn’t allow us to go above 8%).

            Are you serious with this crap? Because you sure seem like you’re defending this sorry excuse for a president.

          • texastaxpayer

            ;)

          • lapert

            Let’s start with gas, that was the U.S. daily average in cities for regular unleaded in January per the BLS. It will definitely be higher in February which is why I also gave you the average price today from Gas Buddy.

            With the debt, you didn’t say that a year from now it will be up to six trillion (which is really dependent on tax receipts at this point, it could hit it in late December or early January but it might not). In any case, the fact is that unlike what you said the national debt has not increased 6 trillion dollars under Obama.

            For the dollar relative to the euro, when checking facts you are probably better off looking at the data yourself (it isn’t like it is hidden) than rely on a non-specific remark in an article. It may have saved you from citing an article from five years ago as if it was talking about today – I mean I wouldn’t want you to look like a complete fool suggesting that the weak dollar in Bush’s term is responsible for increasing price of oil today.

            Like I said, there is plenty of real facts to support a critique of Obama’s economic policies – that you need to resort to providing actual crap and calling facts says more about you than the argument you are trying to make.

          • texastaxpayer

            The only thing you have taught me so far is that your mentally disadvantaged. Your whole post was garbage. Can you actually provide a non emotionally based response? Any republican including Ron Paul? Really? Based on what? I know the problems with Romney do you? I doubt seriously you can even answer intelligently what Obama has done wrong based on your lesson above. So please don’t end it. Explain to me how Romney’s record is better than Obama’s? I doubt you even know…….

          • APA Guy

            The unemployment numbers don’t lie…the U6 numbers, anyway.

            The gas prices don’t lie…neither does the fact that a commodity priced in dollars, oil, is priced sky-high in large part because Obama’s spending has devalued our currency.

            Argue against the facts, if you dare. Obama has been a disaster and there is no reason to think that Mitt Romney wouldn’t be an improvement.

          • texastaxpayer

            Are you learning impaired? Where did I day Obama had a great or even good record? No where! I simply stated Romney had a host of issues he has no credibility attacking Obama on. You may not like that but its fact. So unless you want to point to an inaccuracy in my original post. Do yourself a favor and stop making a fool out of yourself, its just sad……

            Stick to the facts “if you dare”.. what a tool…

          • APA Guy

            Pitiful, but predictable.

          • texastaxpayer

            The mud on my boots is more conservative than you Nancy….

          • lapert

            The dollar was ~$0.77 to the Euro on inauguration day and is ~$0.76 today. Where is the devaluation – it is hard for someone to argue against the facts when speaking to you since you don’t use facts to argue.

  • Martin Knight

    So there is really nothing he can say that will make any of them come on side. There’s an emotional investment in seeing Romney lose now that will be hard to overcome for many people.

    • texastaxpayer

      It’s like driving a car 100mph past signs reading STOP, DO NOT ENTER and BRIDGE OUT. When the car crashes whose to blame? The 70% of the base that said emphatically “NO” or the 30% who said “GET OVER IT!!” ?

    • joereagan

      Very few will vote for Obama. The only instance we’ve seen in this entire primary campaign that looked anything like 2010 was South Carolina. Gingrich was the only candidate who could have united the party and mounted a real challenge to Obama. He’s pretty much roadkill now, because Romney wanted the nomination and had the money to buy it, and because the GOP elite wanted to kill the Tea Party.

      You get what you ask for. You wanted Romney bad enough to force him through at all costs, now you get what you deserve, The Republican Party of 2006-2008 is back in full effect, ready to mount another resounding loss.

      • Martin Knight

        If Obama wins because you decided to stay home, you have no business going back to point the finger at Romney for having made you do it.

        PS: The GOP elite do not have access to mind-control rays that led so many more people to vote for Romney than for the other guys.

      • tnguy

        Conservatives have been apathetic. I know many who did not vote yesterday, even though I asked (or begged) them to vote for Gingrich, or if they couldn’t hold their nose tight enough, Perry.

        People are just too uninterested and disconnected from the political process.

        That a conservative like Rick Perry was bounced from the race early and a northeastern liberal is probably going to be the nominee tells us that conservatives are either asleep, their numbers sadly overstated, or they have become embarrassingly ignorant.

        Of course, part of that is our own fault. Republicans put moderates on the ticket, who, when they win, often govern from the left, so really, we can’t expect people to discern much of a difference between one party or the other. Who cares if Obama is taking us to oblivion at 100 mph, if Romney is going to go down the same road at 70 mph? After all, George Bush had us traveling down it at a fast pace when he was in office. I had such high hopes that someone like Rick Perry would come along this year with a transformational conservative message, but it wasn’t to be.

      • lineholder

        I understand that many of us, including myself, were hoping for someone other than Romney. We’re all disappointed in the direction that things are going in right now, to the point of it being bitter to consider pulling the lever for Romney.

        But this is our nation’s future we’re talking about here. There’s too much at stake to sit this one out! It’s going to be tough enough without people nay-saying a defeatist attitude all the time. We HAVE to stay as far away from this kind of mindset as we can get.

        I’m not looking forward to it, because I already have a pretty good idea of how things are going to go. Romney has shades of gray in his general attitude about Conservatives. And I’m not talking his flop-flips and the way he just blows where the political winds blow him. I’m talking about reflections of the same kind of attitude towards Conservatives that we’ve seen in John “What-are-they-going-to-do….vote-for-Obama” Boehner and John “Hobbits” McCain. When you know that is the context in which someone views you, it’s hard to find the strength of will to overcome what feelings of resentment you might have to fight on their side on things.

        But for Conservatives…this is where we find out what we’re really made of. If we can’t come through for the sake of preserving and protecting this nation NOW where so much is at stake, then we aren’t worth our weight in salt. We truly aren’t.

        We do have opportunities here, especially if we can keep our wits about us and evaluate every possible Congressional race in the light of gaining an advantage for Conservatives that would serve us well during the electoral term.

        • Scope

          and it really is a conundrum. Obama really really has to go, but, at the same time if we elect Romney, with his elitist support, where does that gets us? One big thing for me is that he appointed liberal judges, he passed Romneycare, he was weak on immigration, he has flopped around on so many issues no one has the slightests clue on what side he would come down on once in control? He supported man made global warming, he supported the Log Cabin Republicans to win nomination in Mass for his Gov. seat. Romney has to be the one that the electorate has the least amount of info on as to what he may do. He is far to close to Nancy Pelosi when she said that you have to pass Obamacare to find out what is in it. Dang, Romney said today that no one can price his economic plan because there weren’t enough details to be able to price his plan. The guy is just a book with a whole lot of empty pages.

          • lineholder

            My argument really isn’t for support of Romney, per se…it’s against this sentiment of sitting it out! IMO, that’s the worst choice we could make, even if it turns out that Romney is the nominee.

            Suppose Conservatives pre-determined that if Romney is the nominee they will sit this one out. What happens to down-ticket Congressional elections?

            Suppose Romney wins the nomination, Conservatives sit this one out, and then Romney loses the general election?

            Romney may have a lot of blank pages. Obama doesn’t. Second term, with nothing to hinder him from taking a much harder stance in moving our nation in the direction of becoming a socialistic society than what we’ve already seen so far…we’re going to need any and all the help we can get in Congress.

          • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

            Then we can talk further.

          • westcoastpatriette

            If he would humble himself in that one area and admit that Romneycare was a huge mistake he might be able to establish a tiny bit of trust from conservatives. But his stubborn insistence that it was good for MA reinforces everyones’ belief that he is a big gov statist. That he cannot see that is frightening and shows his true colors with respect to the role gov should play in our lives.

          • lineholder

            “if wishes were horses then pigs could fly”. We can wish for it as much as we like, and it could come to nothing, as far as wishes go. The question will end up being what will we choose if he DOESN’T back away from it?

            I’m not enthusiastic about the idea of supporting Romney. I’ve never pretended that I would be. And I’ve made more than enough comments on these pages to let it be known that one of the biggest reasons for my lack of enthusiasm would be his continuing support of socialized health care. Very few people who have read my comments can have any doubt about how great my dislike is for the socialized health care model.

            But I love this country all the same. More so with each day that goes by.

            It’s strange, isn’t it? It’s almost like the kind of scenario a person faces when the reality hits home on them that someone they love might be dying. Suddenly, how much you do love them stands out very plainly. To what lengths would you go to have more time?

            So which of the two is greater…my dislike of Romney’s positions or my love for this nation of ours? It’s a choice, Mike. We have to choose. That’s why I said above that this is where we find out what we’re made of. For me, my choice has already been made…my love for this nation of ours is the greater of the two.

            I may not be able to be enthusiastic supporter of Romney if he wins the nomination. But I CAN and WILL enthusiastically and passionately support other things that might buy us more time and give us a chance of altering the direction our country is going in. I CAN adamantly support doing what it might be within my own means to do to try to ensure that Obama is a one term President.

          • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

            for when I would wax about wants at times…people in jail want out!

            God bless America

          • Melody Warbington (rwm52)

            From a story about his rally in AL yesterday (here):

            Romney promised to end health care changes passed under the president, which drew loud and sustained cheers. He did not address the issue that Obama’s health care changes were modeled after ones that were passed in Massachusetts and championed by Romney when he was governor.

            If only he would take your advice.

          • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

            which is one of the main reasons he is my #3 choice…as if

          • jamesm

            honest, interesting and relates to the working guy. Unfortunately none of these describe Willard. He will not generate conservative enthusiasm. Only Obama will generate consevative enthusiasm to vote against him. Romney will move to the squish middle in the general. Economy will be portrayed as getting better by November. It’s already started in the MSM. Romney cannot be allowed to get out of the primary.

          • Vegas_Rick

            In January, he was asked by a reporter if he still supported automatic raises to the minimum wage. Romney: Of course I do, why would I change on that?

            Apparently if enough real conservatives make enough noise about it you will. Because on Thursday he said he no longer felt that automatic increases were a good idea.

            This man is despicable.

  • westcoastpatriette

    Although I would have preferred the faux letter coming from Newt! :)

    But, let’s hope your diary shows that you are listening to constructive criticism and attempting to restore good relations with the powers that be here at RS. I want to see you stay in good standing here because I am continuing to learn from you. Thanks for all you do.

  • superpatriot

    We all want Obama outta office.

    Gingirch won’t be our nominee.

    Santorum won’t be our nominee.

    Those of you who want Obama to be a one term president, get behind Romney, or get ready for America being converted into a Greece-like socialistic state.

    • garfieldjl

      Anywhere else in the country Romney would be defined as a far left liberal.

      Someone whom is considered a liberal in massachusetts would be considered clinically insane just about everywhere else in this country.

      If Romney is the nominee, I think Obama wins. A lawn gnome would be a better choice that “Say and do anything to get elected” Romney.

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