The Closing Argument of the 2012 Campaign-Most Effective Final Argument for the Re-Election of Obama
[link:http://jeffwartman.com/my-closing-argument-of-the-2012-presidential-election/|MY CLOSING ARGUMENT OF THE 2012 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
by: Jeff Wartman
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This campaign has been the longest of our lifetime. Essentially starting after the midterms, we’ve been at this for a long two years.
Two years is a long time. Two years ago I was an elected Republican Party committeeman in Frankfort Township. A moderate-to-liberal Republican, I often felt out of place in the party but felt comfort in the progressive history of the Republican Party, from Robert LaFollette and Teddy Roosevelt to Nelson Rockefeller and Arlen Specter. However, when the day officially came that I felt that history was gone from the future of the Republican Party, I wrote an article announcing that I was leaving the party and endorsing President Obama. I still feel as strongly as I did that day about the need to re-elect the President. It’s not just about the next four years, it’s about the future of the United States of America. This is my closing argument on the 2012 Presidential campaign, and why we need to re-elect President Obama.
This long campaign season has given a clear contrast between the two major party candidates, President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.
The Romney vision for the future involves a transfer of wealth from the middle class to the wealthy. It involves a commitment to allow insurance companies to discriminate based your past medical history. It involves crumbling roads and bridges. It allows for a lack of full rights for women. The vision does not treat minorities like human beings. It regulates gay people to being second class members of society.
The Republican convention was filled with hypocrisy. They tout Romney’s business experience and fault President Obama for his years of government service but fail to understand that their favorite policy wonk, VP nominee Paul Ryan, has never had an actual job in the private sector and spend his entire government life as a government employee. I personally believe that government service is something to be proud of, but if you believe Romney’s rhetoric that government employees do not know how to create jobs, that logic would extend to lifelong government employee Paul Ryan.
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