Sunday, November 4, 2012

Mitt Romney “rallies” at Virginia Beach on Thursday to give his “election of consequence” speech


The Janus-faced politician strikes in Virginia again! Disregarding his previous plans to scrap East Coast campaign rallies altogether in the final days before the general election due to Hurricane Sandy and the destruction it left behind, Mitt Romney “rallied” on Thursday night in Virginia Beach in front of 6,000 supporters to deliver a speech he has given countless times.

Romney  delivered his “I have a dream…”. Kidding, Romney delivered his “This is an election of consequence…” sermon at the Farm Bureau Live in Virginia, the last stop of a tri-city tour in the commonwealth state.[1] But here’s my question, when was the last presidential election in the U.S. not of consequence?! As the most powerful country in the world, every presidential election is kind of a big deal.

Just as unsurprisingly, however, was Romney’s attempts to paint President Obama as somehow anti-business by perverting the president’s words and intentions. Romney derided, “Of course, we already have a Department of Commerce. Commerce and business do mean the same thing, after all.”[2] It was like giving candy to a baby; the audience ate this felonious rhetoric up like it was on flash sale.

But you have to admire Romney’s reasoning skills overall.

Here’s a good line: “We will win. We can’t lose.”[3]  So Romney’s arguing we will win because we can’t lose. This doesn’t sound like a confident statement or the statement of a man unused to throwing fallacious statements out to the public on a whim. Perhaps it’s my own prejudice and dislike of a man who knows about as much of middle-class living as the Saudi Arabian royal family.

Virginia, please wake up. Regardless of whether or not you like President Obama, you cannot seriously think that Mitt Romney is a more worthy presidential candidate, can you? You may have your differences with President Obama, but it’s almost always better to go with the devil you know than with the devil you definitely don’t![4] It’s doubtful even Mitt Romney knows who he is anymore, let alone the American electorate.

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