Why Romney needs to win

Some thoughts about the election as we only have a few days, a few fleeting
hours remaining, before we choose the person who will be the President of the
United States for the next four years.

Putting Mitt Romney in the White House will be a good hire for we
Americans. Get him on the job, put him to work and let's get to work,
Americans.

I have gathered a few nearly-final thoughts as the 2012 Election Day looms.

Remember when President Obama, in a campaign speech during the 2010 election season, told a group to use their votes to "punish the enemy," meaning their political opponents? Then, just the other day, he was quoted as calling on voters to take out their "revenge" on Mitt Romney through their votes. What kind of man is this that would use such hateful terms regarding political opponents?

I don't care what others have said, on either side, when it comes to this question. What matters that the man who is supposed to bring some dignity to his position as United States President, our nation's resident of our White House, would stoop to language like that.

On Tuesday we can take that step, through our votes for Mitt Romney and other Republicans, which will be the beginning of the end of this terribly flawed Presidency. Then, it will be "hold our breath" time between Wednesday and January when we can begin a new era in the White House.

Meanwhile, Rudy Giuliani's name has been tossed about as the possible new Attorney General in the Romney Administration. Sounds like he would be a kick butt AG to me. That's what he did for a living before he became New York City's last stand-up mayor, perhaps one of New York City's greatest mayors.

He would bring a no-nonsense, law and order, let the pieces fall where they may U.S. Attorney General. This is another reason to strongly consider Mitt Romney on Nov. 6.

By the way, Condi Rice has been mentioned as a possible Romney Chief of Staff. That would also be an excellent choice. How about John Bolton as Secretary of State? How about Ted Olson as a U.S. Supreme Court justice?

What about Newt Gingrich as Press Secretary? The last one is a joke, but those press conferences would be a lot more interesting.

Gingrich should get a cabinet post that requires that things get done. He can and will get things done, and make the President look good in the process. Look what his ability to get things done when he was Speaker of the House did for Bill Clinton.

As contrast, consider what Nancy Pelosi's ability to get the wrong things done as Speaker of the House did for George W. Bush his last two years in office and Barack Obama's first two years in office.

Regarding third party candidates, it is a child who wants a perfect world but it
is an adult who takes the tools he has before him/her and uses those tools to
make the best world, a better world, he or she can make at that moment.

A vote for Mitt Romney will result in a better America, an America without Barrack
Obama as its President. A vote for Libertarian Gary Johnson is a vote for
Obama. Libertarians, in their child-like gusto for a utopian world, are
seemingly willing to let the very bad guys win (Obama with his far left wing
liberal/progressive agenda) while rejecting a guy (Romney) who would do far
more to advance many of the goals of the Libertarians.

I subscribe to many Libertarian ideals, but I know full well that Romney
will take us much further towards those ideal than any Democrat.

This is not a perfect world and we need to vote for people who have a chance at least to make this world, and especially this nation, a better place.

A vote for Gary Johnson is in effect a vote for Barack Obama. If Obama wins, Libertarians who voted for Johnson will be among those responsible. The nation that is the result of an Obama re-election will be one that the Libertarians have played a role in creating.

Just look at the Minnesota U.S. Senate election of 2008. There were two
"third party" candidates on the same ballot as the Republican and
Democrat Al Franken.

Both of the "other" party candidates were far closer in ideology to the Republican than Franken. If their voters had voted for the Republican, he would have won, rather than Franken, who won by a couple of hundred votes. Every vote matters. William F. Buckley once wrote "vote for the best candidate who has a chance of winning." Those were good words.

I liked Romney in 2008. I heard a speech he gave on religious tolerance
that blew me away. I wound up with little passion for McCain. I remember he was
involved in the savings and loan scandal, was one of the Keating Five.

Part of me in 2008 didn't mind all that much, considering my lack of passion for
McCain, that we elected Obama.

It made me feel good in a way to know that our nation had come far enough that we could elect a black man as President.

It said something about how far we had become. But after the election, reality sank in and it didn't matter the new President's skin tone, but what did matter was his politics and his academic elitism that I just couldn't stand.

He was like so many I had encountered in academia; folks who thought their paper trail of college degrees made them smarter and better than most. It is time for a change and I agree that Mitt Romney is the person for this moment.

I hope enough Americans agree with me to get the job done on Nov. 6 so that
Romney can start getting the job done -- he has to be able to do a better than
the job has been done the past four years and make that six years to include
the last two terrible years of George W. Bush -- in January.

I know I will feel a great relief if Romney wins. He doesn't have all the answers, but he has a much better chance of making things better than Barack Obama, who had his chance and didn't have it in him to do the job.

On another note, When American Jews are making up their minds about their Presidential voting choices on Nov. 6, they might want to check into how Jews in Israel feel about our two candidates and which one the Jews in Israel believe have Israel's best interests at heart. By more than a 3-1 margin, around 4-1, Jews in Israel support Mitt Romney. Keep that in mind, all of us, not just American Jews.

Read an excellent question on a website recently: "If California elites know what is best for the country and best for society, how come they do such a bad job running their state?

Their public school system is a disaster; their state finances are a disaster; and on and on. If anyone can give him a good answer, I am all ears."

This is a question I often ask. Anyone who wants to see how an unfettered Obama Presidency would do -- if the first two years of his Presidency when he and the Democrats held overwhelming majorities in both the US House of Representatives and the US Senate aren't enough of an example -- look at California.

This state, my state, is a perfect example of liberal/progressive ideology at work. We are totally run by liberals. No Republican holds a major statewide office. How's that working out, folks.

The most important message I would like to send is to get out and vote. Don't take positive polls for granted and don't believe, certainly don't believe, what the media is reporting when it comes to polls and evaluation of polls. Get out and vote, encourage all to get out and vote. Study the candidates and the propositions/measures and on the ones which you have reached an opinion, vote.

Putting Mitt Romney in the White House, and in general electing Republicans,
will be a good hire for we Americans. Get him on the job, put him to work and
let's get to work, Americans.