Mitt Romney needs to do better for America. He is now every serious person’s candidate to stop Obama and keep America from not only the fiscal cliff, but cultural, constitutional, foreign policy precipices.
Our country needs to see Obamanism repudiated with a substantial win. Tonight’s debate we hope will be the start of a more aggressive demeanor from the Romney Ryan campaign. We think Mitt Romney has it in him and we pray that God’s extra grace will bring it out of him.
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal Opinion Page featured compelling advice along that line from Fred Barnes. Romney’s Dangerous Game of Playing It Safe: The Republican needs to tap into voters’ sense of urgency. Simply being Not Obama isn’t enough
Quoting Barnes: “He must make a forceful case that America’s survival as a prosperous and respected nation is at stake. In that context, the election becomes an urgent choice between a national turnaround and further decline. The Romney advertising has been especially sorry at drawing that distinction. The generally bland commercials feel like they could have run at any time in the past 40 years.”
And today from Mike McNally writing at PJ Media we see: 10 Attack Lines Romney Should Use in the Debates
1. Obama could not remember the size of the debt
Killer line: “Can you tell us that number tonight, Mr. President?”
2. Europe
Killer line. “When your liberal friends say they’d like America to be more like France, is this what they have in mind?”
3. Energy policy
Killer line: “You don’t make America energy-independent by wrecking the coal and gas industries, destroying thousands of jobs, and blowing billions of dollars on the pipe dreams of your Democrat cronies.”
4. Millionaires and billionaires
Killer line: “Just once, Mr. President, I’d like to hear you tell an audience of your multi-millionaire admirers in Hollywood that they’ve ‘made enough money’.”
5. The embassy attacks
Killer line: “Your secretary of State once questioned whether you could deal with a crisis phone call at 3:00 a.m., and now we know the answer: the phone was off the hook, and there was a Do Not Disturb sign on the door.”
6. Free speech
(Killer Line 1:) Romney should ask Obama if he really thinks that laying siege to embassies and burning the American flag are “natural” reactions to a third-rate YouTube video.
Killer line2 : “As president you swore to defend the First Amendment along with the rest of the Constitution, not to qualify it.”
7. The real unemployment rate
Killer line: “Your administration told Americans that if Congress passed your $700 billion stimulus, unemployment wouldn’t go above eight percent. They did pass it, and it’s never been below eight percent for 44 straight months.”
8. “Flexibility” for Russia
Killer line: “From Poland to Israel, Mr. President, your administration has turned its back on America’s allies while appeasing countries whose interests are inimical to our own.”
9. Fast and Furious
Killer line: “At least two Americans and hundreds of Mexican civilians are dead because of a gunrunning operation overseen at the highest levels of your Justice Department. Why won’t your administration tell us the truth?”
10. The “47 percent” remark
Killer line: “It’s Democrats who have written off millions of Americans by consigning them to a life on welfare, while still expecting them to turn out and vote for them every two years.”
“Romney needs to move the needle further, and playing safe in the debates won’t do it.”
And a theme we will emphasize more in the few remaining weeks . . . this is the first presidential debate and yet we have already had early voting for several days in Iowa. Our candidate has not been making the case as well as he might. We lose votes in an over-all aura of “early voting.” Pushing early voting as RPI and Scott County Republican operatives are doing it, inextricably pushes it for the general population. Our platform opposes it and it should not be encouraged.
