Posted by
HorizonScanner on Thursday, December 06, 2007 11:42:57 PM
We Americans are hungry to reconnect to our history, hence, the popularity of Oliver North's, "War Stories." Regardless of the ostensible political reason for the speech, everything Romney demonstrated cast him in a light that is distinguished deeply from the other candidates, in particular, Mrs. Clinton. Can anyone reading this post IMAGINE her delivering such an address on any topic? If a crisis were to befall the nation and the President had to go before 300 million eyes, can we imagine President Romney in that ultimate moment? Answer, yes.
Now, in that same moment, we all know that Mrs. Clinton would be a disaster, and, in fact, would likely to be preempted by her husband.
But, moreover, and more importantly, Mitt Romney has enabled us to see what a President is and can be. Were he to address each of our contemporary challenges with new speeches of equal quality rooted in history and the theory of America he could turn into the President before our very eyes. I suggest he craft an address that deals with the origins of the conflict with an ancient foe first faced by President Jefferson: the Islamist Barbary Pirates. A nice touch would be to cite the fact that the Vatican thanked us! We need to feel our history in our bones as fellow countrymen in order to face the future with confidence and to face it as AMERICANS, not as taxpayers in some UN Utopia run by the Clintons. This is what Reagan gifted our nation, and Mitt Romney, if he just lets it roll, can do the same at this station on the way.