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Subscribe to RSSWhile stumping in Cincinnati, Ohio, GOP candidate Mitt Romney stressed that his campaign was about 'big things' and promised he was going to bring the 'big changes' that Americans want.
CINCINNATI, OH -- Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said he was the candidate of "big change" at the outset of three-event bus tour of battleground Ohio on Thursday.
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The former Massachusetts governor cast President Barack Obama as a figure of the "status quo," and made clear that the Republican ticket represented "big change" by contrast -- repeating that phrase throughout his speech.
"This is a critical time for our country and the choice of paths we chose will have an enormous impact. We have huge challenges," Romney said, ticking off issues ranging from job creation to education. "These challenges are big challenges. This election is therefore a big choice. And America wants to see big changes and we’re gonna bring big changes to get America stronger again.”
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Romney repeated his mantra of "big change" more than 10 times in his roughly 30 minute remarks, hammering the point home again and again and melding it into his broader critique of Obama.
"The Obama campaign doesn't have a plan," Romney said. "The Obama campaign is slipping because he's talking about smaller and smaller things despite the fact that America has such huge challenges and that this is such an opportunity for America, and that's why on November 6th I'm counting on Ohio to vote for big change!"
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign stop at Jet Machine, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012, in Cincinnati.
A senior Romney adviser said that the focus on "big change" would continue in the race's final days.
"Highlighting our campaign's focus on big issues and contrasting that with the smallness of President Obama's campaign will be something we make clear with voters today and through the rest of the campaign," Romney senior adviser Kevin Madden told NBC.
“Here’s the ‘big change’ Mitt Romney is offering: going back to the same failed policies that caused the economic crisis and empowering the extreme voices in his party like Richard Mourdock," Obama campaign spokeswoman Lis Smith said in a statement.
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Romney also continued to highlight how his policies might be better for individual families than Obama's,
Thursday's Deep Dive featured a look at Ohio's key counties and their election histories in 2004 and 2008. Which way will they vote this year? The Daily Rundown's Chuck Todd reports.
"This election is not about me. It’s not about the Republican party. It’s about America. And it’s about your family," Romney said after running through a series of scenarios like caring for an aging relative or getting a good education for a child, and how those experiences would differ under a second Obama term or a Romney presidency.
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The GOP standard-bearer also launched into an extended riff this morning about how a voter's hypothetical daughter -- a play toward prized women swing voters -- might suffer from Obama's proposals.
Interviews with female voters at Romney's event suggested this strategy could be part of the right prescription to close the gender gap with women in Ohio.
"I don't think that women are any different from any other voters in particular, and I think that what women are concerned about is they have a dual concern," explained Romney supporter Emilia Pater, a homemaker from Cincinnati who attended this morning's rally. "They're concerned about the economy and their families, because most women are caretakers of their families and they are the ones that are looking toward the future and saying what's going to be left for my children?"
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So "Big Change" is different from "Hope and Change" how? It does indeed look like Romney is leaning Obama...
Maybe Romney is one of those coveted swing voters?
Romney is spending $26.86 a second for your vote. Don't ya owe it to him to vote for him??
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Hey folks... I hope you see this comment is laden in Hypocrisy and double standards. Remember, Obama in 2008 spent almost 1 billion dollars. Do the math how much per vote it is. It's as much or greater than the amount provided here.
Obama's Paying even more. After the election, you will still be paying, as they add more to our debt and deficit.
Who can you trust?
This is from the article. The $26.86 is combined spending of both Campaigns.
It is a fact! Look it up! Your vote is worth $5.00. The math is real unlike Romney's Tax Math which does not add up.
Smell Hypocrisy? How about a shower??
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2008 Obama campaign spent $720 million, over a 1 billion spent on all presidential campaigns combined. Regardless of how $$ spent its a lot of money, however, it is what it is.
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Why weren't you complaining four years ago when Obama was buying votes? He outspent McCain four to one because he agreed to take public money, and then after McCain took public money, Obama reneged. Again speaks volumes on Obama's integrity.
Big change is what I'm afraid of.......Romney + Teabaggers = Corporate takeover for the next 2/4 years.
Then Teabag House of Reps. will be swept out again just like they did before.
Just hope Romney doesn't start 2 wars to go with his big tax reductions for the rich.
The Teaparty realizes what the rest of you Liberals morons don't, we can't keep spending above our means and the Constitution was put in place by our forefathers for a very good reason. Go study the Constitution and see what the powers of government REALLY are. The Liberals are the ones who are trying to change this country into a Socialist, third world country. Shame on all of you Liberals.
Here's to Romnay! (yes, purposely spelled)
Character is a combination of traits that etch the outlines of a life, governing moral choices and infusing personal and professional conduct. It’s an elusive thing, easily cloaked or submerged by the theatrics of a presidential campaign, but unexpected moments can sometimes reveal the fibers from which it is woven.
Last week, Mitt Romney had just such a moment. His rash, crass and blatantly dishonest response to violent protests in Libya and Egypt exposed a feckless and contemptible character that places political advantage above patriotism and values winning at any cost over courage, honor and truth.
As mobs attacked U.S. embassies in the Middle East, Romney rushed to use the moment as a cudgel against his rival, President Obama. He might have waited to find out whether any diplomats had been injured or Marines attacked. He did not. He might have waited until a day of mourning in commemoration of national tragedy — 9/11 — was over. He did not.
Instead, as violence escalated and lives hung in the balance, Romney jarringly condemned the president, claiming that “the administration’s first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks.” Later, he stood by that lie, contending that Obama coddles and apologizes to the nation’s enemies. His shamelessness overshadowed his belated attempts to acknowledge the deaths of four courageous Americans — including Christopher Stevens, U.S. ambassador to Libya — who gave their lives in service to their country.
In a closely fought political campaign, candidates often exaggerate their rivals’ shortcomings, blame them for circumstances beyond their control and accuse them of recklessness or timidity (or both). That’s politics.
Indeed, by the end of the week, some leading Republicans were joining the criticism of the president’s foreign policy, hoping to help extricate the GOP nominee from the hole he’d dug for himself. John McCain, for example, claimed the Middle East protests — perhaps spurred by a despicable U.S.-made Web video slandering Islam’s founding prophet — could be attributed to “American weakness and the president’s inability to lead.”
But McCain and other prominent Republicans had the decency to wait until the nation had digested the news of the losses among the diplomatic corps. Romney had no such decency. In contrast, after President Carter’s botched raid to rescue hostages in Iran, Ronald Reagan, his rival, said, “This is the time for us as a nation and a people to stand united.”
In truth, Romney’s shamelessness and shallowness have been on display for years, evident in his falsehoods, his hypocrisy and his spinelessness. He has no apparent political principles that he will not jettison if circumstances seem to dictate a change in ideology.
And you don’t have to go back far to find Romney’s ever-present hypocrisy. He wants to enjoy the traditional GOP advantage on foreign policy, but Obama has seized and occupied that territory — killing more terrorists, including Osama bin Laden, in four years than George W. Bush did in eight years.
So Romney gripes and complains, even if that means taking two or three different positions on the same issue. Last year, he attacked the president for waiting to commit U.S. forces to the NATO effort to overthrow dictator Moammar Gadhafi. A few weeks later, he criticized Obama for allegedly going too far in committing forces in Libya. In between, he ran from reporters who were trying to pin him down on his position.
Most revealing of Romney’s character (or lack thereof), however, is his contentious relationship with truth. His criticism of Obama’s Middle East foreign policy is of a piece with his oft-repeated claim that the president has traveled the world on an “apology tour,” kowtowing before foreign leaders and paying penance for his nation’s sins. Never happened, as several independent fact-checkers have said.
Nor did the president react to the siege on U.S. embassies by “sympathizing” with violent mobs. Inside the Cairo embassy, diplomatic staffers did try to calm the growing anger by releasing a statement that condemned “continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims.” When Obama found out about the statement, he disavowed it. But he also noted that embassy personnel were in difficult circumstances, so “my tendency is to cut those folks a little bit of slack.”
Romney didn’t have the class to do that, either. His character is one that would not suit the Oval Office.
(Cynthia Tucker, winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, is a visiting professor at the University of Georgia. She can be reached at cynthia@cynthiatucker.com.)
Romney has class, Obama is classless.
Jersey, is that all you've got, sure Romney has money class, thats what he is. The President has the all important Human Class, the President doesn't set himself apart as our very arrogant Romney. Personally, I prefer a person with empathy and bleeds red instead of blue.
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Obama has proved he's a failed President with chump change and no hope. Romney, soon to to be President elect will show ex Prez Obama how to lead a nation, not destroy it.
And you are on Santa's Good Kid List
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He's not a leader, he's a thug!
How is Romney going to lead, when he doesn't know who the American people really are? What is he going to lead with, his principles, his back-bone, his military expertize, his common sense, his deep down core values and knowing the difference between right and wrong? America is not a Company my friend.
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Ha, ha, ha, love to watch them libs get their dander up and heads explode..............................
I seriously doubt any Liberal understands the value of family the LDS church has. I don't believe in all their doctrines, but they believe in the same God as I do. Many people condemn the Mormon church, but until you have lived among Mormon families, and dealt with them, you cannot appreciate what they stand for. When a young Mormon goes on a mission for their church, they pretty much live at the same standard as the people who they are among. There families cannot send any extra money to support them and they have no visits from their families during that time. More than any other religion, Mormons care about their community and their families. They practice what they preach.
Oh trust me Jersey, understand very well the LDS and their genealogy centered cult. I also understand quite well the status of Women in their tenets. Magic underwear and the planet Kobal are very real in LDS core beliefs. Get educated, won't hurt. LDS of course care for their families and communities, the optimum word is THEIR, LDS goal domination of the US, google the Mormon faith, you'll be surprised or maybe not, but Romney very active in Church.
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The LDS will be happy to know that you support them and I'm sure they'll be happy to do a post-mortem baptism on you. That's what they do.
So many republicans refer to Obama's policies as "wealth distribution", but yet they want to keep their portion of the tax cuts. Hmmmmmm.........
Republicans sit there and criticize Obama on "jobs", and suggest that to grow jobs, you must first provide the $$$ to the top earners so that they can invest that money to be able to create jobs.
So I ask, why is it that they have not yet created these jobs themselves considering they have had these tax cuts since the early Bush days......once again I say.....Hmmmmmmm........
Obama said himself in the 2008 campaign he wanted wealth redistribution.
Jersey, defense contracts=Tax payer redistribution of wealth. All governments redistribute wealth, businesses and individuals redistribute wealth. Your point trying to mock didn't quite make it. Military of course still use Bayonets, I believe the Presidents words were FEW Bayonets. Use some common sense and educate yourself.
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Polls that included cell phone users are turning against Romney as the 3rd debate is sinking in.
People are talking about how bad Romney was sweating and that he made a huge blunder in mentioning people he met, but couldn't remember their names or their stories. That was a self inflicted wound that reminded everyone that Romney uses people and then discards them.
Everything we learned over the summer was proven in the third debate when Romney put his own foot in his mouth.
It's the reason Romney sends out others to do his speaking. Romney avoids the media's questions.
Romney made NO blunders and looked presidential. Marines still use bayonets. it the President who was acting childish and unpresidential.
Jersy girl - did you happen to watch the other debates? did you happen to notice the rude. bully called Mitt Romney, full of lies, changed positions, sticking his finger in the face of the President of the United States. Did you happen to catch Mr. Romney acting - 1st debate he could not shut up - 2nd debate he tried to be as rude as he was in the first debate and 3rd debate - he was all over the President agreeing with every foreign policy the President had. oh that's right, Mr. Romney has not foreign policy of his own
the last thing this President ever does is act childish
The President said we use FEWER bayonets, not none. Look at the transcript.
But the serious issue here is that Romney has continued to vacillate on his foreign policy positions. That doesn't show strength. That shows an America that has no rudder and which is willing to be sold to the highest bidder. That is freaking frightening.
So let Romney go do what he does best -- run a business. The Government is not business. It is more complex that that, and way too complicated for a man with simple one-line messages and no core values.
Cell phone users turning against Romney? Must be all Dem free Obama phone users who want more government cheese.
"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government cannot pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America 's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that, "the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better."
~ Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006
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I'm sure whatever you were going to say Seeking, is inconsequential.
The economy does better under Democrats than under Republicans, based on data from the Truman Administration through the second quarter of 2008, ending just before the financial meltdown of the Bush administration (American Institute for Economic Research, Research Reports, Vol. LXXV, No. 17, Oct. 6, 2008).
For example, employment increases an average of 2.8% annually under Democrats and only 1.3% annually under Republicans. The federal deficit as a percent of GDP increases less under Democrats (37.3%) than under Republicans (38.9%). Democrats best Republicans in nine of ten categories.
The economic record is contrary to the talking points put in the mouths of Republican partisans by the propagandists for the greedy oligarchs.
Democratic policies tend to grow the revenues of small businesses and the incomes of the middle class more than taxes take from those increases in revenues and incomes.
Facts? We don't need no stinkin facts!
Just Trust in the Mitt!
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May I remind all you Liberals, it was the Democrats who got us into the Viet Nam war. I lost some dear friends in that war. May I also remind you that under Jimmy Carter we had runaway inflation, that was curbed until two years after Reagan was elected and his policies were put in place. So yes you do need some stinkin facts,
Price inflation is marginally less under Democrats (3.8%) than under Republicans (3.9%).
Yup, JFK started the Vietnam debacle, LBJ exacerbated the misery, Nixon declared victory. Get this stinkin fact, while my husband was being shot up in Vietnam, Romney was enjoying escargot and writing Ann graffiti in France. Another stinkin fact, Desert Storm, Desert Shield, Iraq, and Afghanistan all Republican testaments to war along with Reagan and Grenada and Iran Contra and Beirut Bombing. Jimmy Carter left a great legacy, the Camp David Accords, Treaty still holding today, Anwar Sadat and Menachim Begin.
Here's another stinkin fact, neither Syria nor Iran are in need of a pathway to the sea as Romney stated, geographical whiz our Romney.
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Romney we are for "big change" please don't remember that these are the same Failed Bush policies! LOL
First Ryan, Akin now Murdoch with pregnancies from Rape is what God wants? WTH?
But R/R don't want to even talk about this, no big deal to them it isn't even a real issue, except when they are introducing person hood bills, talking about taking away PP, and overturning RoevWade.
The GOP don't support the Violence against Women Act, the Lilly Ledbetter fair pay act, and Women are suppose to support these jokers.
O&JOE Forward not back to the 1950's!
Bush hasn't been President since 2008. The policies in place now all belong to Obama, and his policies have failed us. We need REAL leadership and confidence in our leader. Romney and Ryan can and will provide that leadership.
ROMNEY RYAN 2012 TIME FOR REAL CHANGE.
Jersey, tell that to the families of the nearly 5,000 Americans fitted for body bags, I'm sure 2008 seems like yesterday, as does the 9/11 tragedy. economies like people do not heal overnight no matter how much we want them to.
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Still beating the Bush Drum four years later because Obama's indefensible Benghazi Failure will be his political demise. No escape from this fatal and totally disastrous failure. The victim's families are still waiting for a written explanation from this Prez as to how and why.
New jobs to be created in RomneyWorld:
Prison Guards, Private Security Militias, Corporate Enforcers, Bodyguards, Chauffeurs, Grounds Keepers, Maids, etc. and so on.
The Tea Party flunkies will be set in little piggy heaven. During the transition there will have to be some weeding out of the team players who don't take orders very well. The old school Mafia had the same problem with its 'loose canons' getting out of control.
I don't think Romney has ever seen real change, not unless it was on the floor of his car elevator. Someone should probably tell Romney that for him to use the word "change" would be both an oxymoron and a reminder to voters that Romney and change go hand in hand. Cue the "if I said it" speech.
"Big changes" like from being extremely conservative to now being a moderate.... ;-)
Or really Liberal to really Moderate? Obama has never gone to Center on anything.
@ Jersey,
Democrats have always been willing to compromise - how about the Republicans??? Anybody remember - $10 in cuts to $1 of tax hikes...
Romney's Plan is Guaranteed to Grow Hair!!
Ask Trump
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And yet another "news?" report from the self-proclaimed unbiased ("we'll need more of that stealth techy stuff on the left wing of this flying contraption if we plan on getting it off the ground") stealth MSNBC.
DMC, now that made no sense, MSN says its the place for Politics where as Fox calls itself Fair and Balance News Organization, kindly clarify opinion.
I stand corrected; MSNBC is of courese not "fair" or "balanced". N.B., I used neither of those words in my comment. You may want to consult a psychologist and/or neurologist, or, perhaps an opthamologist, regarding your ocular misapprehension problem.
DMC, I put on my cheaters and still your post made no sense, I thought your point was about unbiased, MSN never pretended to be but Fox does, and I am not apprehensive about anything other than Romney and Ryan as any rational person would be or should be.
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It depends if it is a Monday, Wednesday or Friday, as to which 'change' he is going to make because it is different if it is a Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday and he takes Sunday's to decide what the changes will be for the following week as he doesn't like to sound too repetitive from the prior week. Flipperty flop, flipperty flop Myth!
Romney will be real change. He's going to slash taxes, double military spending, leave medicare & social security intact, make us energy independent, provide 20 million new high paying jobs, pay off the National Debt. and win the trade war with China. And if you believe that load of garbage... You will also believe...There wont be any more crime after Romney is elected because everyone will be making too much money legally to waste their time on crime. There wont be any more drugs because everyone will be so happy with all the money they are making they wont want to take drugs. There wont be any more teen pregnancies if Romney is elected because teens wont have sex any more.
Some woman "business owner" spoke at today's Romney rally to complain that her taxes have been raised 21 times! Someone want to ask her which ones? Obama has only been president for 3 tax years, so 21 times seems just a bit high. And given that no, zero, tax policy has been written since the GOP took control of the House in 2010, I'm even a bit more skeptical about the 21 times number. Romney makes things up, and so do the people around him. He wants more international trade. Since when was that ever a problem? What Romney wants is better trade deals where our companies can exchange things with other countries free of our and their taxes and environmental protection laws. In fact, the trade deals they seeks are not to weaken our laws, BUT to prevent other countries from enforcing their own local laws. All hale the business owner. All hale Ozmandias!
Wow... Romney covered all the bases with her. A Business Owner suffering from all 21 times Obama raised her taxes... And she's a woman.
TO: Oscar Rules - the name Willard is used by some Liberals to connote preppy. Mr. Romney is a privileged prep rich boy he grew up in a world of entitlement. He believes he is entitled to the Presidency.
the name Hussein has been thrown about by tea party republicans who want to associate the name of our President with Saddam Hussein, terrorists, illegal, a person who is not American and has no right to be in their White House (emphasis on WHITE) there is a difference. and what pisses me of more than you using the name Hussein is your attempted manipulation of the underlying truth. something you folks do all the time. you pretend such innocence while you are making your vile statements - did that answer your question, Mr. Innocent ??
After reading these comments I'll just go back to watching Fox News. Even if it is not totally "balanced" it is not blind to the truth. Really people? Just watch once to clear your head.
I'm going to vote for Romney because FOX News says Obama is a Marxist terrorist Kenyan Nazi coke fiend who was the real mastermind behind 911. And Romney will capture Osama Bin Laden if he's elected.
Yeah, Fox and Rush Limbaugh. Puzzles me. Why is it you people continually listen to people who have been proven wrong time and again, and in and of themselves are such poor life examples who live lifestyles so contrary to your own stated beliefs? Makes me doubt your sanity.
I voting for Romney because he's going to win a war with Iran without even having a war.
OICY, ok, how do you think our Geographical whiz is going to do that (sarc,) your right the right numbies really believe the spew.
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Romney's Big Change: George W. Bush's economics and Obama's foreign policy? Of course, the Big Change could be that just wait a few days and those with flip-flop.
Mark think about what you said there are two choices for Iran War or sanctions guess you would like War?
David, I think Mark was being sarcastic, we all know another flip is just around the corner.
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Mitt Romney is the candidate of big change, in fact he changes minute by minute, day by day. He is changing as I type this. Today he will tell you one thing and tomorrow another thing. If you want change Mitt Romney can change to whatever you want him to be.
Back in 2009, Brian Williams literally bowed to Barack Obama. Today, he's telling like it is from the Obama campaign trail: the size of the crowds are way down from last time around, and the candidate is not the same man he was in '08.
CHUCK TODD: You know, everybody wants to know crowd size. What was it like? What kind of crowd did they get last night? What have you been seeing? Do you feel like there is enthusiasm on the trail from what you watched?
BRIAN WILLIAMS: What we're doing out here is basically devoting half of our "Rock Center" broadcast tonight to a minute by minute what-it's-like. We asked the Romney campaign for the same access, to do the same thing with them. And one of the points I'm going to make: palpably obvious to you, this is not '08. These are not the crowds, this is not the candidate.He's an incumbent looking for re-election. The country's been through a financial shock. And we're in kind of an outdoor park courtyard. It's hard to say any of this with clarity, with surety. but last time this could have been 50,000 people and today I think we're pushing five. So it's just a different time, a different campaign. They're slugging it out. It really will be hand-to-hand combat in the battlegrounds.