If you listen to Mitt Romney and listen to George Bush, you hear the preacher preaching to the choir. For all his rhetoric the two are born of the same ideology. Romney defends the Bush policies like a mother defends a her child. He was pretty irate with Governor Mike Huckabee when he said Bush had a bunker mentality. I listened to Romney's rebuttal and heard nothing new except the same old Republican patronizing gibberish. There wasn't even a new twist.
While Mitt Romney makes and attractive package, once we get the wrapping off and see inside the box, we find he offers no workable solutions to our country's current ills in Iraq, no real answers for the immigration problem, (Send them all back; out of sight, out of mind), certainly no substantial program for a National Heath Care. He likes to call the Democratic health care solutions "socialized medicine" to demonize the concept. The Republicans are quite good at demonizing programs they don't like, and trying to redefine Democratic programs according to the Republican's distorted thinking.
American has had laws on the books for years structured to punish companies and corporations that use undocumented workers (the Republicans like to call them "illegal aliens" to demean them.) Why haven't these laws been enforced? Why haven't an estimated two million undocumented aliens with criminal records residing in our prisons and jails been sent back to their home country by our government's Immigration Services? Why hasn't our government fined the corporations and businesses hiring undocumented workers to work their fields, factories, hotels, resorts and other places undocumented workers take needed jobs.
The laws have been there, but the Republicans only like to talk about doing something. Rarely in the past seven years has the Bush administration taken any action to resolve these problems. Republican rhetoric is very big, unfortunately, their solutions are nil, after all, they have big business to protect.
There is one thing to be said, about Mitt Romney . He is very slick package, and his slickness is what he used to flip from one position to another. He tells the people he a right to change his mind, perhaps, but only when it solidifies his position to court the Evangelicals, while not offering other candidates the same right without his taciturn criticism.
When Mitt Romney enters Michigan to campaigne against his bitter rival, Senator John McCain, he will be entering a part of our country that is hard hit economically and has severe job depression status. It is an area where health care, jobs being moved to China and India are important, as well as immigration and the constant drain on our treasure by the Iraq war and the status of the state of our economy are all critical problems.
Romney will try to live on his father's image and coat-tails, (former Michigan govenor). It may pull him along for a bit. He will eventually have to rise to the occasion. He will have to offer substance in viable solutions to the economic problems of Michigan, particularly Detroit. Romney, says he is for change, but still holds on to failed Bush policies, which in the eyes of many makes him a failure too. He may have a voice, but he doesn't have an ear for the people. The only change he is for, is the right to change his mind when it is very convenient.
Listen closely to Mitt Romney's rhetoric, hear what he really says. He criticizes others with great fanfare, however he offers very little except an infectious smile and the adulation for continuation of the abysmal Bush policies. Mitt Romney is a Bush clone. A vote for him, is a vote for continuation of the unctuous Bush Imperial presidency. The Republican Neocons know it, and are counting on it. Hasn't the American people had enough of playing political charades with our country's future?
