Mitt gets kudos for standing his ground

Bert Atkinson Jr. at Independent Journal Review:

 

Mitt Romney made a very strong move by speaking before the NAACP today, and an even stronger move by not changing or avoiding his stance to repeal ObamaCare in front of that crowd.

 

 

“If our goal is jobs, we have to stop spending over a trillion dollars more than we take in every year. So to do that, I’m going to eliminate every non-essential, expensive program I can find. That includes ObamaCare,” Romney said before the crowd unleashed a cascade of boos.

Making a speech to an audience consisting of one of the most well-known and established civil rights groups that shows an overwhelming amount of support for the incumbent President Obama is no easy task, but Mitt Romney was up to it and showed that he is willing to reach out to those who disagree with him. He heard boos and the crowd jeered him as he explicitly voiced his opposition to many Obama policies on energy, trade, the size of government, education, and the economy, but he didn’t budge on his stances or cater to the crowd just for the sake of political pandering (like his opponent has been known to do.)

“The president will say he will do those things, but he will not, he cannot, and his record of the last four years proves it,” Romney told the booing crowd.

He added, “If you want a president who will make things better in the African American community, you are looking at him.”

 

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

The kudos are richly deserved. This was a presidential speech in the best sense of the term: one American talking to his fellow Americans with respect and candor -- and doing it without a whiff of demagoguery or dishonesty. Maybe we're about to get something better than a president who adores himself: a president who respects himself. That in itself -- I believe -- would give a huge boost to our country's morale.

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