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PATASKALA, OH -- Mitt Romney took his campaign's "closing argument" for a test drive in a Columbus, Ohio suburb on Friday, pledging bipartisan work toward "real change," and accusing President Barack Obama of failing to keep his promises.
"So this is a president who has promised a lot of things, but his record is very different than the promises," Romney said, abandoning the teleprompter he used during the speech -- but echoing the prepared remarks -- he delivered this morning in Wisconsin.
"Instead of building the bridges that we needed in America, he built a broader and broader divide. And I have a very different approach. I recognize that this president is again making new promises, and these are promises he can't keep, just like the last ones, because he says he's going to keep us on the same path we're on," Romney continued.
The closing argument, heavy on criticism of Obama's record and still wrapped largely around Romney's five-point plan for fixing the economy, also attempts to drive home the image of Romney as the "change" candidate this cycle.
“Accomplishing change is not just something I talk about, it is something I have actually done," Romney told a few thousand supporters gathered on a factory floor here, going on to cite his experiencing launching a business and turning around another as examples.
The Obama campaign brushed off Romney's claims of bringing about real change as simply "not true," arguing in a statement from spokesperson Lis Smith that Romney's version of change was to "bring back the failed policies of the past that crashed the economy and punished the middle class in the first place.
Romney will make one final campaign stop today at a rally outside Cincinnati, where he is expected to draw upwards of 10,000 supporters to an event where he'll be joined by 100 Republican leaders, who will then fan out across the state and the country on behalf of the Republican ticket.
Romney noted the importance of the Buckeye state, telling his audience they were "probably going to decide the next President of the United States." He made no mention, though, of the auto industry bailout nor his campaign's recent controversial ads about Jeep. Obama, also campaigning Friday in Ohio, used those points to pummel Romney on the stump.
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Romney will be crushed after Nov 6th. Ohio doesn't want a thief in the Oval Office. Ohio know Romney stole from the auto industry.
Frankly Speaking, MYTH Ohio is just not that into you. Ohio knows all you have is doom and gloom.
FORWARD>>> 4 MORE 4 44
Wow! His minions are going to be so proud of him! He uttered a few lines on his own!
Obama/Biden 2012
Willard the closer......the only thing he closes is his mouth concerning his tax filings and of course the doors on companies after he bankrupts them and leaves with millions.
Test Drive......we know how he loves cars....but let that whole thing go bankrupt!
Go away Willard!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/02/1154439/-Is-this-really-Mitt-Romney-s-closing-argument-or-is-he-moonlighting-as-a-standup-comedian
I don't have time to read this, but I thought I would send it along to you all.
The name of this Diary literally has me in stitches.
Here's to the beginning of the last weekend! Cheers everybody. Catch you later.
Is this really Mitt Romney's closing argument or is he moonlighting as a standup comedian?
You're all full of cr@p.
Romney is leading in Ohio, and he's probably going to win the election.....and you all know it.
Otherwise;
a) an incumbant wouldn't be struggling with such a close margin in the polls just four (4) days away from an election, and
b) you wouldn't be trying so hard to convince us that Obama is going to win.
Your lack of confidence in your own candidate is showing....and when you clowns respond (which you won't be able to resist doing) please remember I said lack of confidence.
Not, lack of bravado and bluster.
DEMOCRATS FOR ROMNEY 2012!!!!!!!!!!
I can't wait until Romney makes his concession speech and congratulates president Obama on being reelected!
4 more4 44!
Mr. Burns/Eddie Munster: For a Very Scary Tomorrow!
Mitt is a closer who can't save a game, instead he will be stuck with a blown save, because this Mitt doesn't Fitt.
Whoever wins this thing is going to have a HUGE mess to clean up, I sure hope they BLAME OBAMA!!!
sirie - I sure hope they BLAME OBAMA!!! They always do!!!
Obama/Biden 2012
TAKE IT TO THE BANK…ROMNEY WINS OHIO!!!
Ohio IS a Republican state PERIOD!
41 of the last 49 years Ohio has had a Republican Governor.
The Ohio House and Senate are overwhelmingly Republican.
Every ELECTED Ohio Supreme Court Judge is Republican, 1 D. Justice Brown was APPOINTED
In the 88 Counties of Ohio, has about 750 elected officials and 600 are Republican.
Since 1960 Ohio has voted correctly in every presidential election.
In 1992 Ohio voted for Bill Clinton running against a failing Bush, Ohio chose the more viable candidate.
In 1996 Ohio voted for Bill Clinton running against Bob Dole, Ohio chose the more viable candidate.
In 2008 Ohio voted for Barack Obama because John McCain would not work with local Republicans, Ohio voted for the more viable candidate.
When you give Ohio NO option, Ohio will vote Democrat.
October 3rd 2012 Mitt Romney proved he was the ONLY option for Ohio in 2012!
Absentee votes: Comparing 5 days before the election in 2008 and 5 days before election in 2012. Democrat absentee votes are 230,000 short of 2008 and Republican absentee votes are plus 30,000.
Independent votes: All polls conducted for Independent voters show no less than a 10% advantage to Romney.
ROMNEY/RYAN 2012
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The (5) point plan loaded with hollow "points"?
4 more days and we will no longer being subjected to this hyperventilating, lying, sociopath!
Him & Queen Ann can ride off into the sunset on her dancing horsey!
He's not kidding. He changes his positions on issues daily.
From Washington Post:
The Post's View
Mitt Romney's campaign insults voters
By Editorial Board, Updated: Friday, November 2, 12:34 PM
THROUGH ALL THE flip-flops, there has been one consistency in the campaign of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney: a contempt for the electorate.
How else to explain his refusal to disclose essential information? Defying recent bipartisan tradition, he failed to release the names of his bundlers — the high rollers who collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations. He never providedsufficient tax returns to show voters how he became rich.
How, other than an assumption that voters are too dim to remember what Mr. Romney has said across the years and months, to account for his breathtaking ideological shifts? He was a friend of immigrants, then a scourge of immigrants, then again a friend. He was a Kissingerian foreign policy realist, then a McCain-like hawk, then a purveyor of peace. He pioneered Obamacare, he detested Obamacare, then he found elements in it to cherish. Assault weapons were bad, then good. Abortion was okay, then bad. Climate change was an urgent problem; then, not so much. Hurricane cleanup was a job for the states, until it was once again a job for the feds.
The same presumption of gullibility has infused his misleading commercials (see:Jeep jobs to China) and his refusal to lay out an agenda. Mr. Romney promised to replace the Affordable Care Act but never said with what. He promised an alternative to President Obama's lifeline to young undocumented immigrants but never deigned to describe it.
And then there has been his chronic, baldly dishonest defense of mathematically impossible budget proposals. He promised to cut income tax rates without exploding the deficit or tilting the tax code toward the rich — but he refused to say how he could bring that off. When challenged, he cited "studies" that he maintained proved him right. But the studies were a mix of rhetoric, unrealistic growth projections and more serious economics that actually proved him wrong.
This last is important — maybe the crux of the next four years. History has shown that it's a lot easier to cut taxes than to reduce spending. Republican presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush promised to do both, managed to do only the first and (with plenty of help from Congress) greatly increased the national debt.
Now Mr. Romney promises to reduce income tax rates by one-fifth — for the rich, that means from 35 percent to 28 percent — and to raise defense spending while balancing the budget. To do so, he would reduce other spending — unspecified — and take away deductions — unspecified. One of the studies he cited, by Harvard economist Martin Feldstein, said Mr. Romney could make the tax math work by depriving every household earning $100,000 or more of all of its charitable deductions, mortgage-interest deductions and deductions for state and local income taxes.
Does Mr. Romney favor ending those popular tax breaks? He won't say. But he did take issue with Mr. Feldstein's definition of the middle class: Mr. Romney said he would protect households earning $250,000 or less. In which case the Feldstein study did not vindicate the Romney arithmetic — it refuted it. Yet the candidate has continued to cite the study.
Within limits, all candidates say and do what they have to say and do to win. Mr. Obama also has dodged serious interviews and news conferences. He has offered few specifics for a second-term agenda. He, too, aired commercials that distorted his opponent's statements.
But Mr. Obama has a record; voters know his priorities. His budget plan is inadequate, but it wouldn't make things worse.
Mr. Romney, by contrast, seems to be betting that voters have no memories, poor arithmetic skills and a general inability to look behind the curtain. We hope the results Tuesday prove him wrong.
(emphasis mine)
Actually Willard is taking his"closing lies" to Ohio.
This is from HuffPost:
Willard is toast!
Awww, you should have a little more faith in your candidate, Feisty.
It's still close, Obama could win.
Ha HAAAAAAAAA
DEMOCRATS FOR ROMNEY 2012!!!!!!!!!!
I KNOW!!!....It'll be GREAT to get rid of OBAMA after the worst 4 years EVER!!!
AND Fiesty too!!!
ROMNEY FTW!!!
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You're right...crushed with the work he will need to do to repair the damage Barry Hollywood did! One and Out.
izzyserious
You're right...crushed with the work he will need to do to repair the damage Barry Hollywood did! One and Out.
LOOK izzyserious;
Romney doesn't work. Hell, he can't even answer questions to the press. But it's so easy to LIE!!!
Have you forgotten MYTH is on corporate welfare? He can't work.
FIRE IT UP; VOTE THE CRAZY TEA BAGGERS OUT. VOTAR straight Democratic
4 more 4 44
Obama/Biden 2012
Talk is cheap.....records are real - Barry has no record of worthwhile accomplishments
Vote ROMNEY/RYAN.....proved records of accomplishments
Why did Governor Christie turn down the #2 slot on the Republican ticket? How many others also declined before Governor Romney selected Rep. Ryan?
Probably because he doesn't have any ambition to become President
Why didn't McCain take Romney when he had the chance instead picked an unknown loon that can see Russia from her backyard?
Obama 2012
Well, I can't answer your question...only mine...
Right you are Willard, you have changed your position on every possible issue at least 8 times.
BTW Willard, if you are such a great businessman, why are the leaders of GM and Chrysler calling you out as the baldfaced liar that you are? Why does Mayor Bloomberg, who built a multibillion dollar business and has the most respected financial network on cable endorsing your opponent. Just like Bush, when it comes to job creation, you are all hat and no cattle as you have never built anything. You just stripped out the assets of the companies you bought and left them on the side of the road!
Mitt should talk about how he "changed" the Olympics by saving them at U.S. taxpayer expense.
Or how he changed things for the worse in Mass.
Who knows what message he'll be delivering tomorrow?
Wednesday Mitt and Ann will be sitting at their table when the butler will bring the coffee. Ann will, of course, complain that it is too hot or something like it is not their usual specially made blend and Mitt will be sobbing uncontrollably saying "but it was my turn". Ann will turn to him and say "I know dear, those people, they did this to you. Don't they understand it was your turn?" And then Ann joinse her hubby as they complete the day whining and crying and yelling "it isn't fair, it was our turn". To comfort their parents the Romney brothers will come over and offer condolences and vow to get those middle class 47%ers who are on the dole and we'll get their money for daddy's bank accounts. More, more, we must have more to inherit.
Mr. Romney, i work in Information Technology Management. I work with plans all the time. There are dates, deliverables, resources, budgets...DETAILS...that constitute a plan. You know how we generate those plans? They start with a "Vision" Statement. You know that thingy where the business tells us their goals and where they want to be in 3-5 years? That is what you have - a vision statement (if you can call it that). There is no PLAN anywhere to be found. 0 details. None. So stop talking like you've got a clue what to do. You don't.
I wouldn't vote for Mitt Romney with a gun held to my head. I care too much about this country and it's future.
Happy voting there FR!
xoxo
The first thing they will do Wed. morning is file their amended 2011 tax return to claim the deductions they omitted back when they were manipulating their effective tax rate.
The only position Mitt didn't change on was that he would not release his tax returns.
Obama is such a loser.
He has blamed everyone in the country for all of his mistakes and now he wants us to give him 4 more year to continue tom screw up this country. He is the devil and everything he says is a lie.
feisty and bev -- if romney wins next week will you stop visiting here or will you just continue your personal attacks on the man for the next 8 years?
i plan to tune in wednesday if we have a winner then just to see.
Obama
Is such a sad excuse for a President. He has no idea what that title means and he simply has become the laughing stock of the world. All who vote for him must be blind and stupid.
All who vote for Romney ARE blind and stupid.
There may be more blind and stupid people voting this election than you think!
Many who voted for Obama in the last election may not vote for him this election.
But have no fear, those union votes and the votes of the uninformed will still have no force in re-electing him in this election.
Yep, his foreign policy, domestic policy, and so far the Hurrican policy just doesn't seem to be working for him in the minds of the majority.
If he didn't support those who died in Benghazi, let him go to jail.
Ok, first why doesn't The Hague indict Bush and Cheney on War Crimes against Humanity in Iraq? Why don't the survivors of 9/11 sue for Wrongful Death due to 48 warnings ignored by Bust and Company, why doesn't New Orleans sue Bush, Brownie for incompetence when 1800 + people drowned during and in the aftermath of Katrina?
Don't worry Issa will issue his report and all unanswered questions will be answered...wonder why Issa is being quiet on the Libya matter?
Obama 2012
OK skyparrot,
Why don't you tell us all why?
You talk about Issa. Why isn't the liberal media blowing this up as they do when a Republican is involved in anything?
Tell us o informed skyparrot.
You have a lot of questions but 1funnygirl has just one - for you to answer your own questions....yet you are silent, what's the matter cat got your tongue? Or are you just good at obfuscation - the prime weapon of the left.
On a slightly different vain,
I happened to find a compilation of clips from Barry's campaign speeches in 2008 that were compared to his current campaign speeches.....funny thing they were almost word for word the same speeches and - you would think that after 4 years he'd have some new plans, wouldn't you, I mean after he'd accomplished what he said he would the first time. So, that leads me to think that he really didn't accomplish anything, but he wants a second chance to do nothing......again! Can you tell me how can that be??? Beep...the answer is - he has no record to stand on.
You see, talk is cheap, records are for real!
VOTE ROMNEY/RYAN 2012
Closing argument? I think not. The Bishop and his surrogates will still be at it, telling whoppers tomorrow, Sunday, and Monday. After that, it will only be excuses why he lost.
Hey Ohio! Read about the meeting that took place at the Caucus Restaurant in Washington D.C on Janruary 20, 2009. The "Fourteen Felon's" of the GOP/Tea Beggers met in another quiet room of the Caucus Room Restaurant. On that night the GOP/RNC "Fourteen Felon's" met to take a blood oath to destroy the US Economy at all costs. Their true goal is to destroy the President Of The United States. This is treason America! Research this backroom meeting of the GOP/RNC "Fourteen Felon's." Hey Ohio! "Mickey Mouse Mitch McConnell" and his "Mickey Mouse Senate Club" made it clear in 2009. The goal of the GOP/RNC Tea Beggers is too destroy an American President at all costs. The the GOP/RNC Tea Beggers took their "Goofy Grover Tax Pledge." Which will pass the "Richie Rich" Ryan Economic Plan. No taxes will be increased on the top 1% of those Americans that do belong in thier 'bloody eyes' of greed. "Goofy Grover" made it clear that he does not want a President. The "Crazy Conservative Clown" wants a mindless "Zombie." Hey Ohio! Go to Bainport.com and see the GOP/RNC "Outsourcer and Chief's" Economic Policy in action. He is still 'leading from behind' at Bain Capital, and in his many quiet rooms/elevators. "Lunatic Limbaugh" the "Moron With A Mic" likes to smoke the "Romulian Romney 'cigar.' Hey Ohio! Talk to an out of work Sensata Worker in Freeport Illinois. In the eyes of the GOP/RNC "Outsourcer and Chief." Real 'change' is the gold and silver change in his "Tax Cheating Pockets." Then the GOP/RNC "Intervert and Chief" is out to destroy all rights for women. Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! The Party of NO has got to go!!
Someone should tell Romney that he is running for President, not dictator. Obama can propose anything he chooses, but it is Congress that passes laws - and the Republicans will have made a decision that nothing the President proposes will pass the House and the Republicans in the Senate will filibuster everything the President wants in that chamber.
ROMNEY hates all people who are not white !!!!!!!!!!!!!! he lies, lies lies, ... FLIP FLOPPER IDIOT
OBAMA 2012 GET OUT THERE AND VOTE ! WE NEED A PRESIDENT WHO WALKS THE WALK !
.... every NDN needs to vote OBAMA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Vote for Romney=Norquist, along with Koch Bros., Adelson etal. Vote for Romney and you get the RNC Agenda stated at the Convention. Vote for Romney and get 1-3 new SCOTUS nominees, Vote for Romney and bet on the Middle East Exploding because Bibi say the US needs to be preemptive, Vote for Romney and the Personhood Amendment will become law of the land, Vote for Romney and Granny really will go over the cliff with Medicaid cuts, Vote for Romney and Haliburton gets richer, Vote for Romney get more arsenic and mercury in your water, more coal dust in your air. Up to you America, Romney Ryan bad for ones health as well as ones pocketbook.
Obama 2012
skyparrot,
Waiting for your answer to my post re above. No solid response?