“Values Voters” Still Love Romney
Fine article in Christianity Today If you are tempted to lump all Evangelicals together with the group that helped to derail Romney’s candidacy, please read the article below. There are many wonderful people who identify themselves as Evangelicals who voted for Romney and who will support him again in 2012 if that is the ways things work out.
~~John Cronin~~
http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctpolitics/2008/09/values_voters_s.html
September 12, 2008 6:21PM
Sarah Pulliam
The crowd at the Values Voter Summit still seemed to love Mitt Romney who drew many supporters last year during his run for president.
“Palin herself could put the lipstick on the pitbull,” Romney said to a cheering crowd.
The audience drew quieter as Romney focused most of his address on the foreign policy and the economy. When he began talking about religion, gay marriage, and abortion, the crowd became more energized.“Americans are God-fearing people. Even those who don’t believe in God, in this country, they really believe in something bigger than themselves, as Rick Warren called it, a purpose-driven life. We’re family oriented. We sacrifice everything we have for our spouse and our children. In my view, a family begins with commitment of marriage and marriage is a commitment between a man and a woman.”
The “values voters” began booing quietly when he mentioned Barack Obama’s remarks at the Saddleback forum in August.
“Americans respect the sanctity of human life. We value life from its very beginning to its very end. Rather than vigorously defending life, Barack Obama just a couple of weeks ago, dismissed an inquiry with a flippant response that it’s above his pay grade. Did you hear what he said would be the most important criteria for selecting a Supreme Court justice? Their empathy. How about respect for the law and the constitution?”
Romney came in first in a straw poll at last year’s summit when he was still running for president.
Posted by Sarah Pulliam on September 12, 2008 6:21PMComments
Romney is for families. He is for Mom and Dad and the kids. He is a true follower of Jesus Christ because he lives what he preaches. “By their fruit, ye shall know them”.
Go Mitt! And go conservatives!Posted by: Ron at September 12, 2008
I wish John McCain would ask Mitt Romney to do his ultra focused style audit of the Fed. Government once he’s President McCain. The cutting and the saving through efficiencies would likely be worth TRILLIONS!!Oh, you don’t know about how Mr. Romney’s research and company audits and analyzing as a venture capitalist made him a legend? He gets to the heart of things like no one ever has. Then he debates and problem solves until there is nothing left to discuss. His style,skill, and brains made him a legend in his industry and all his partners very wealthy. He took a process called the BAIN WAY (from a firm called Bain and Associates) and bettered it, then applied it to about 160 firms. Over the 14 years as founder and CEO of a spin off from Bain and Associates called Bain Capital, he averaged 113% return on investment PER YEAR!!!!! Amazing right? Never been done before, right? A problem solver extraordinaire. His solving the SLC Olympics mess is part of the cirriculum at Harvard MBA. Harvard where he earned an MBA and law degree similtaneously and graduated with honors in both–a year earlier than most. Story after story of accomplishments and high moral character in his work life and career. Even liberals that worked in his firm were amazed at his honesty and lack of personal pride–admitting out of the blue when he was wrong. He worked toward the best way to solve problems until he arrived at the truth. That’s why liberals who knew and worked with him said they’d follow him anywhere. He always sought the truth!
The media and the “left” were so afraid of him they did all in their power to defeat him. Christian conservatives like Hugh Hewitt and many others felt that a person such as Mitt Romney only comes around maybe every 20 years or so.
It took the dark side of a Huckabee to help the “left” defeat him.
Maybe, the next sterling talent won’t be so maligned by both sides next time around
September 13th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Thanks, John, for referencing Mitt’s Values Voter key-note speech given yesterday, Friday September 12, 2008. Not only is Mitt Romney right on domestic policy, he, more than any other candidate in the 2008 presidential race, understands the unique, oft-ignored marriage of foreign policy to economic policy.
Throughout Romney’s presidential campaign he frequently spoke of China as a “rising tiger.” During his withdrawal speech to the Conservative PAC on February 7, 2008, he reiterated: “The attack on our culture is not our sole challenge. We face economic competition unlike anything we have ever known before. China and Asia are emerging from centuries of poverty. Their people are plentiful, innovative, and ambitious. If we do not change course, Asia or China will pass us by as the economic superpower, just as we passed England and France during the last century. The prosperity and security of our children and grandchildren depend on us.”
At the Values Voters Summit yesterday, Romney also focused on foreign policy. Again, China was a featured topic. “China has begun a massive military build-up, and needs attention. Who can we trust to remain toughest on this front, and demand the renovation of our armed services? It won’t be the man who campaigned on ending new weapons projects. “The best ally peace has ever known,” Romney said, “is a strong America.”
Leadership isn’t guaranteed in the histories of nations. For the past few centuries, Britain ruled the waves. Now we do, but that won’t remain the case unless we have leadership that values strength. We need people willing to invest in military infrastructure to extend our strength into the new century.
In order to do that, we need a strong economy in the long term. We leverage free enterprise, combined with freedom, in order to generate a dynamic, strong economy. China likes free enterprise, too, but don’t combine it with freedom; they couch it in totalitarianism. Russia uses a state-run model more than before, while the jihadists want to collapse all of the above.
McCain and Palin would strengthen the economy through leveraging free enterprise and a low-taxes strategy. They would also keep the government from nationalizing health care, and access America’s energy resources. Obama, on the other hand, would raise taxes, push for greater government interference, and allow America to lose ground in the global marketplace.
Romney noted that some people think he should be home, pouting, after his loss in the primaries. He said that the future of his children and their children hinge on this election. He has no intention of sitting on the sidelines; he’s going to work for McCain, work for national strength, and exhorted the audience that “we have a lot of work to do”.
“Barack Obama is not ready to be President, and what’s more, he’s not right to be President.”
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/12/frc-action-summit-mitt-romney/
September 13th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
2thePoint - nice post, thank you, Mitt is still being a leader. Let’s follow his lead.
September 13th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
2thePoint,
Great post. Thanks.
September 13th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Isn’t it interesting that people judge others by their own behaviours??? They naturally assume Mitt would pout because that is what they would do!!!!
This was a great talk and truly shows the integrity and multiple strengths of the man we all know should be the nominee.
September 13th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
Karen
yes, it does speak to how good a man he is. But I’m not Mitt. I can’t vote for this ticket. I can’t do it For my kids. It’s time to get those that destoryed us the party, ou of the party. It’s time to find our rudder again. We elect this ticket -and we LDS may as well kiss it all goodbye. My kids will always be second class. Never picked first, because of the religious tests that some feel necessary to have. And keep in mind, McCAin came very close to jumping the GOP ship and running with Kerry. He also came close to choosing Leiberman. Who is excellent choice, if your a democrate. McCain is also top of the ticket, not madame Palin. Thus, it’s his lack of policies and controls that I have to judge mostly.
I seriously doubt McCain will do anything for the economy.
By his own admission, he has little knowledge of the economy. Palin left her fair city with a huge deficit, telling me she also knows little about it. I wish Romney would just put in mission papers and go out of the limelight for a few years while we regroup.
September 13th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
2thepoint - Great post and thank you so much!! I always enjoy your thoughts and insights here along with John Cronin, SteveAndrew, Karen, Paulee and so many others. (I shouldn’t start naming names cuz I know I forget someone)
I’ve always enjoyed coming here and I still peek in daily but it’s getting harder and harder for me to remember that this site is a COMMITTED TO ROMNEY site and not a PRO-OBAMA site because of several negative posts I have to muddle through each time I’m trying to find positive stuff on Mitt, Conservatism and the Republican party.
I’m just so so on Palin. I don’t like her and I don’t dislike her but the McCain/Palin ticket is still OVERWHELMINGLY better than an Obama/Biden presidency!
September 14th, 2008 at 1:10 am
Thanks for the kind words. I’ve been and continue to be inspired, encouraged, enlightened, amused, (and occasionally perplexed :)) by the contributions of everyone here. It’s a marvelous place for all of us to assemble in cyber-space and voice our thoughts.
Since the Palin announcement, ComMITTed to Romney has become the proverbial “box of chocolates.” You never know what you’re gonna get when you click on the site! And that’s how it should be. We are privileged to live in the greatest nation in the world, with the freedom of expression a right we exercise daily. That freedom manifests itself very powerfully in the voting booth.
No matter how the election turns out, I believe America, in days to come, will value the wisdom of Romney as much as we do.
September 15th, 2008 at 8:10 am
I’ll choose Obama/Biden, thank-you. McCain is practically dead, a walking corpse, and Palin is a symbol for everything republicans hold dear, but lacks any substance. Let’s let the republicans regroup for the next four years and see what they come up with in 2012.
September 15th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
Leslie, with the econ doing what it’s doing, I really don’t want Mitt near this one! He’s got the answers, but MCCain choose to go for someone with little experience and it appears, a little bit of ‘baggage’.
Well, you and I will wander together!