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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