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Conservatives don’t like John McCain and they tend to agree with Mitt Romney on just about every issue. We’ve established that, but so what? My Uncle Bob agrees with conservatives on many issues, but that doesn’t mean he’d be a good president. With all of the anti-McCain talk that’s out there, there is one thing that many people seem to be overlooking: Mitt Romney is uniquely qualified to lead this country at a time when we so desperately need someone to fix Washington. This isn’t campaign rhetoric or a stump speech; this is a fact. I don’t know if it’s because it doesn’t make for a good sound bite or if it’s because he’s really just that humble, but Mitt Romney has spent very little time emphasizing his remarkable resume – so I’d like to do just that for a minute in an effort to point out why the title of this entry is so true.
Mitt Romney graduated with highest honors as the Valedictorian from BYU, which was at the time the largest private university in the country. He then went on to Harvard where he graduated with honors from Harvard Law School and in the top 5% of his class at Harvard Business School. You don’t accomplish these things unless two things are true: a) you’re a certifiable genius, and b) you’re willing to work your butt off day in and day out over, coincidentally, 8 years of your life.
Just three years after graduating, Mitt became the vice president of Bain & Company and just 6 years later he became an entrepreneur. After building his own business with huge success over the years, he was asked to come back to Bain & Company to be the CEO. Mitt took the company from one that was facing financial meltdown and turned it into what is now the number one consulting firm in the country. In fact, his entire career in the private sector was spent turning failing businesses into successful ones and successful businesses into great ones. McCain and others have frequently attacked him for his wealth. Is he filthy rich? Yes. The better question is “why is he filthy rich?” The answer is because he’s really really good at coming in as an outsider into disaster situations and fixing them.
Jim Cramer recently spoke of his experience in being interviewed by Mitt when seeking a job at Bain. Cramer said that he decided to go elsewhere for work because Mitt was “just too darn smart and demanding.” Could there be any qualities in our leader that we’d rather have than these at this difficult crossroads in our nation’s history? Cramer went on to state that he was “in a word, intimidated” and that Mitt is “perhaps the best businessman in the country.”
In 1999 Mitt was asked to head up the Olympics in Salt Lake City. At the time there was a huge bribery scandal and the games were running $379 million dollars short of their budget. Mitt went in and transformed them into some of the most successful games in the history of the Olympics. In addition to being overwhelmingly popular, the games ended up with a $100 million profit. He then went on to Massachusetts, where he was elected Governor of what many consider to be the most liberal state in the union (talk about electability). He was elected because the state was in crisis and faced a $3 Billion budget deficit. Mitt Romney turned the state around and, without raising taxes, left the state with a $700 Million surplus.
Has Mitt Romney been successful? Yes – extremely so. Lots of people are successful, though. What makes Mitt uniquely qualified to run our country is that when he steps foot in the White House, he’ll be doing exactly what he’s done his entire life: fixing things. The economy is shaky at best, with some even speculating that we’re living through 1928 all over again right now. The dollar is falling fast and the national debt is piling on. With the impending retirement of baby boomers, it’s estimated that within a few short decades our debt will be so significant that we will only have enough money to pay the interest on it. In times like these, we need someone who has time and again proven that he knows how to fix things when they are at their worst. We need someone who can take a failing organization and turn it into a hugely successful one. We need Mitt Romney.
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