Recently, National Review published a list of 689 reasons to defeat Barack Obama. It was very good, but I wanted to give voters who were still on the fence as many good reasons as I could to not just vote against President Obama in 2012 but to vote for Mitt Romney, so I set about making a list. Admittedly some of the reasons on the NR's list are also reasons to vote for Romney, but I decided not to reuse any of those reasons. So, here now is my list of reasons to elect Mitt Romney president of the United States:
1. He’s actually balanced a budget.
2. He signed a balanced budget into law every year as governor.
3. His signature health-care reform law is popular.
4. His signature health-care reform law didn’t include over 20 different tax increases.
5. His signature health-care reform law didn’t include a single tax increase.
6. He read his signature health-care reform law.
7. He never disavowed his popular health-care reform law that didn’t raise taxes, despite numerous entreaties from the Right to do so.
8. Because he doesn’t kowtow to the Right.
9. Because the people who claim he kowtows to the Right need to be smacked upside the head with reality.
10. Because his health-care reform law was a constitutional exercise of the state government’s power to regulate commerce within the state, so he didn’t have to lie and tell people it wasn’t a tax, then send his solicitor general before the Supreme Court to argue that the individual mandate is constitutional because it is a tax.
11. “Corporations are people.”
12. The Left’s reaction to “Corporations are people.”
13. Because corporations are founded by, run by, owned by and employ people.
14. We’ve never had a bad president from Massachusetts.
15. Nobody else in this race is serious about balancing our budget. (No, Gary Johnson doesn’t count.)
16. Massachusetts’s credit rating was upgraded under his tutelage.
17. During his term as governor, household income in Massachusetts increased.
18. During his term as governor, Massachusetts’s unemployment rate dropped from 5.6% to 4.7%.
19. He cared enough about the family dog to bring him on vacation instead of dumping him in a kennel somewhere (or eating him. Let’s not forget Obama ate dog.)
20. Paul Ryan
21. Vice President Paul Ryan
22. President Paul Ryan
23. Because the next Supreme Court appointment should be made by a president who actually respects the Constitution.
24. Because he never said he likes firing people.
25. Because we like being able to fire our bank, our insurance company, our long-distance carrier etc. if we’re not satisfied with the services they’re providing us.
26. Because we ought to fire our president and hire someone who understands what it means to be accountable to people.
27. We need a president who understands the difference between outsourcing and offshoring.
28. He used money people chose to invest with him, knowing the risks they were taking, to help create jobs here in the U.S.
29. Barack Obama used taxpayer money to stimulate companies that expanded their overseas operations. (Union members: that means “companies that ship our jobs overseas.”)
30. He knew that GM and Chrysler would eventually have to go through bankruptcy before they could “come roaring back.”
31. Obama didn’t.
32. Planned Parenthood has spent millions slandering a man who stood by his wife through her battles with breast cancer and multiple sclerosis.
33. That wife donated $500 to Planned Parenthood.
34. Make Planned Parenthood regret their smear campaign even more than Ann Romney regrets that donation. (Ideally, their regret should be magnified by the ratio of their total ad spending this year to Ann Romney’s donation.)
35. Enough “Recovery Summers”; it’s time for a recovery presidency.
36. Forcing Lawrence O’Donnell to cover the defeat of President Obama by Mitt Romney is the second-most fitting just dessert for his vicious attack on Ann Romney. (A kick in the head from Rafalca would be the most fitting, for those of you who were wondering.)
37. Mitt Romney donated a greater share of his income to charity in 2011 than did President Obama.
38. Paul Ryan donated a greater share of his income to charity than Joe Biden, the man who said it’s “patriotic” for people to pay higher taxes.
39. Paul & Janna Ryan actually made less money in 2011 than Joe & Jill Biden but gave more to charity.
40. Because charity comes from the heart, not from the Dept. of Health & Human Services.
41. It’s time for Kathleen Sebelius to get rejected by Brookings and wind up teaching at some third-rate university.
42. Because nearly 47% of wage earners in this country pay no federal income taxes.
43. Because most of the people voting for President Obama really do consider themselves “victims” who are entitled to “free” stuff.
44. He gave an honest answer when asked about security concerns ahead of the London Olympics.
45. When it comes to being a leader, candor is more important than tact.
46. We shouldn’t reward voyeurism.
47. To teach Barack Obama that lying doesn’t pay.
48. To teach the mainstream media that they are not puppetmasters.
49. To teach Priorities USA that we’re not that gullible.
50. He’s the most experienced executive to be nominated for president by a major party since Dwight D. Eisenhower.
51. He was a success as the head of Bain Capital.
52. He was a success at running the Olympics.
53. He was a success as governor of Massachusetts.
54. Obama has been a failure as president.
55. If Obama’s presidency has been a success, then it would mean that he was trying to weaken us as a country, in which case we need a different president.
56. Lech Walesa endorsed him.
57. Hugo Chavez endorsed Obama.
58. Ann Romney won’t chide Olympic gold medalists for eating at McDonald’s.
59. He can tell the good components of Dodd-Frank from the bad parts.
60. He will approve the Keystone Pipeline.
61. He's a self-made (multi)millionaire.
62. The Left hates that fact.
63. Joe Soptic
64. He doesn’t want the United States to be a “major customer” of foreign oil.
65. He has a serious plan to wean us off foreign oil.
66. His plan to wean us off foreign oil doesn’t involve dumping billions of tax dollars into “green energy” scams.
67. Prove to the world that we can be counted on to choose style over substance.
68. Because economic policies based on principles of economic freedom, limited government and “rugged individualism” actually do work.
69. Because he understands that, and Obama apparently doesn’t.
70. For Gibson Guitar.
71. For the 90,000 U.S. troops currently serving in Afghanistan.
72. For the millions of seniors who will lose their Medicare Advantage plans if Obamacare is fully implemented.
73. For every policyholder who has seen his/her insurance premiums increase since Obamacare became law.
74. For every worker who has lost or is going to lose his/her health-care plan because of Obamacare.
75. For the children trapped in failing public schools.
76. He actually has a record of working across party lines to get things done.
77. Because he’s willing to work with a guy who stood on the Senate floor and told untenable lies about his taxes and said he’s “not the face of Mormonism”...
78. ...but we’re supposed to believe Obama can’t work with congressional Republicans because their floor leader in the Senate acknowledged that they want Obama to be “a one-term president.”
79. He’s actually saved and created jobs.
80. Because, while government can create jobs, it’s better to let the private sector do that.
81. Jack Black
82. His detractors claim he wants to “cut” education.
83. Even though he cut spending as governor, the Commonwealth’s schools were ranked first in the country.
84. People respect him enough to spend $50,000 to dine with him at a friend’s house; no appearances by George Clooney, Beyoncé or Jay-Z necessary.
85. Let the Obamas spend their next anniversary in the romantic seclusion of private life.
86. He won’t lambast you for going to Las Vegas.
87. So that our nation can begin to heal.
88. Because, while Osama bin Laden is dead, al Qaeda is very much alive.
89. He wants to sign the repeal of Obamacare.
90. He will grant waivers to all 50 states until Obamacare is repealed.
91. He won’t be distracted during important meetings by a recurring nicotine fix.
92. He’s willing to touch the third rail of American politics.
93. He’s offered specific reforms to save our entitlement programs from bankruptcy.
94. He keeps track of the promises he makes.
95. He’s never raised taxes.
96. Because it is possible to balance the budget without raising taxes...
97. ...which he did as governor of Massachusetts.
98. Nancy Pelosi said, "Mitt Romney is not going to be president of the United States. ... I think everybody knows that."
99. Sandra Fluke
100. He did more to create jobs as one man in the private sector than Barack Obama has done with all the power and resources of the presidency.
101. We need a president we can trust.
2. He signed a balanced budget into law every year as governor.
3. His signature health-care reform law is popular.
4. His signature health-care reform law didn’t include over 20 different tax increases.
5. His signature health-care reform law didn’t include a single tax increase.
6. He read his signature health-care reform law.
7. He never disavowed his popular health-care reform law that didn’t raise taxes, despite numerous entreaties from the Right to do so.
8. Because he doesn’t kowtow to the Right.
9. Because the people who claim he kowtows to the Right need to be smacked upside the head with reality.
10. Because his health-care reform law was a constitutional exercise of the state government’s power to regulate commerce within the state, so he didn’t have to lie and tell people it wasn’t a tax, then send his solicitor general before the Supreme Court to argue that the individual mandate is constitutional because it is a tax.
11. “Corporations are people.”
12. The Left’s reaction to “Corporations are people.”
13. Because corporations are founded by, run by, owned by and employ people.
14. We’ve never had a bad president from Massachusetts.
15. Nobody else in this race is serious about balancing our budget. (No, Gary Johnson doesn’t count.)
16. Massachusetts’s credit rating was upgraded under his tutelage.
17. During his term as governor, household income in Massachusetts increased.
18. During his term as governor, Massachusetts’s unemployment rate dropped from 5.6% to 4.7%.
19. He cared enough about the family dog to bring him on vacation instead of dumping him in a kennel somewhere (or eating him. Let’s not forget Obama ate dog.)
20. Paul Ryan
21. Vice President Paul Ryan
22. President Paul Ryan
23. Because the next Supreme Court appointment should be made by a president who actually respects the Constitution.
24. Because he never said he likes firing people.
25. Because we like being able to fire our bank, our insurance company, our long-distance carrier etc. if we’re not satisfied with the services they’re providing us.
26. Because we ought to fire our president and hire someone who understands what it means to be accountable to people.
27. We need a president who understands the difference between outsourcing and offshoring.
28. He used money people chose to invest with him, knowing the risks they were taking, to help create jobs here in the U.S.
29. Barack Obama used taxpayer money to stimulate companies that expanded their overseas operations. (Union members: that means “companies that ship our jobs overseas.”)
30. He knew that GM and Chrysler would eventually have to go through bankruptcy before they could “come roaring back.”
31. Obama didn’t.
32. Planned Parenthood has spent millions slandering a man who stood by his wife through her battles with breast cancer and multiple sclerosis.
33. That wife donated $500 to Planned Parenthood.
34. Make Planned Parenthood regret their smear campaign even more than Ann Romney regrets that donation. (Ideally, their regret should be magnified by the ratio of their total ad spending this year to Ann Romney’s donation.)
35. Enough “Recovery Summers”; it’s time for a recovery presidency.
36. Forcing Lawrence O’Donnell to cover the defeat of President Obama by Mitt Romney is the second-most fitting just dessert for his vicious attack on Ann Romney. (A kick in the head from Rafalca would be the most fitting, for those of you who were wondering.)
37. Mitt Romney donated a greater share of his income to charity in 2011 than did President Obama.
38. Paul Ryan donated a greater share of his income to charity than Joe Biden, the man who said it’s “patriotic” for people to pay higher taxes.
39. Paul & Janna Ryan actually made less money in 2011 than Joe & Jill Biden but gave more to charity.
40. Because charity comes from the heart, not from the Dept. of Health & Human Services.
41. It’s time for Kathleen Sebelius to get rejected by Brookings and wind up teaching at some third-rate university.
42. Because nearly 47% of wage earners in this country pay no federal income taxes.
43. Because most of the people voting for President Obama really do consider themselves “victims” who are entitled to “free” stuff.
44. He gave an honest answer when asked about security concerns ahead of the London Olympics.
45. When it comes to being a leader, candor is more important than tact.
46. We shouldn’t reward voyeurism.
47. To teach Barack Obama that lying doesn’t pay.
48. To teach the mainstream media that they are not puppetmasters.
49. To teach Priorities USA that we’re not that gullible.
50. He’s the most experienced executive to be nominated for president by a major party since Dwight D. Eisenhower.
51. He was a success as the head of Bain Capital.
52. He was a success at running the Olympics.
53. He was a success as governor of Massachusetts.
54. Obama has been a failure as president.
55. If Obama’s presidency has been a success, then it would mean that he was trying to weaken us as a country, in which case we need a different president.
56. Lech Walesa endorsed him.
57. Hugo Chavez endorsed Obama.
58. Ann Romney won’t chide Olympic gold medalists for eating at McDonald’s.
59. He can tell the good components of Dodd-Frank from the bad parts.
60. He will approve the Keystone Pipeline.
61. He's a self-made (multi)millionaire.
62. The Left hates that fact.
63. Joe Soptic
64. He doesn’t want the United States to be a “major customer” of foreign oil.
65. He has a serious plan to wean us off foreign oil.
66. His plan to wean us off foreign oil doesn’t involve dumping billions of tax dollars into “green energy” scams.
67. Prove to the world that we can be counted on to choose style over substance.
68. Because economic policies based on principles of economic freedom, limited government and “rugged individualism” actually do work.
69. Because he understands that, and Obama apparently doesn’t.
70. For Gibson Guitar.
71. For the 90,000 U.S. troops currently serving in Afghanistan.
72. For the millions of seniors who will lose their Medicare Advantage plans if Obamacare is fully implemented.
73. For every policyholder who has seen his/her insurance premiums increase since Obamacare became law.
74. For every worker who has lost or is going to lose his/her health-care plan because of Obamacare.
75. For the children trapped in failing public schools.
76. He actually has a record of working across party lines to get things done.
77. Because he’s willing to work with a guy who stood on the Senate floor and told untenable lies about his taxes and said he’s “not the face of Mormonism”...
78. ...but we’re supposed to believe Obama can’t work with congressional Republicans because their floor leader in the Senate acknowledged that they want Obama to be “a one-term president.”
79. He’s actually saved and created jobs.
80. Because, while government can create jobs, it’s better to let the private sector do that.
81. Jack Black
82. His detractors claim he wants to “cut” education.
83. Even though he cut spending as governor, the Commonwealth’s schools were ranked first in the country.
84. People respect him enough to spend $50,000 to dine with him at a friend’s house; no appearances by George Clooney, Beyoncé or Jay-Z necessary.
85. Let the Obamas spend their next anniversary in the romantic seclusion of private life.
86. He won’t lambast you for going to Las Vegas.
87. So that our nation can begin to heal.
88. Because, while Osama bin Laden is dead, al Qaeda is very much alive.
89. He wants to sign the repeal of Obamacare.
90. He will grant waivers to all 50 states until Obamacare is repealed.
91. He won’t be distracted during important meetings by a recurring nicotine fix.
92. He’s willing to touch the third rail of American politics.
93. He’s offered specific reforms to save our entitlement programs from bankruptcy.
94. He keeps track of the promises he makes.
95. He’s never raised taxes.
96. Because it is possible to balance the budget without raising taxes...
97. ...which he did as governor of Massachusetts.
98. Nancy Pelosi said, "Mitt Romney is not going to be president of the United States. ... I think everybody knows that."
99. Sandra Fluke
100. He did more to create jobs as one man in the private sector than Barack Obama has done with all the power and resources of the presidency.
101. We need a president we can trust.
This list may grow as time passes, but with only a month to go before Election Day and early voting already underway in most states, I decided to go ahead and post what I had. Check back often!
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