(By Michael Dorstewitz, Bizpac Review website, January 20,
2013)
Romney in
Boca Raton: “Mali has been taken over, the northern part of Mali, by
al-Qaida-type individuals.” The last two
weeks should go down as a period of vindication for former GOP presidential
nominee Mitt Romney and earn him the nickname, “soothsayer of the Western
World” — a modern-age Nostradamus. On
Jan. 14, Chrysler’s CEO acknowledged that Jeeps would be built in China,
confirming a statement that unfairly earned Romney the moniker “liar of the
year.”
Score one.
Then, when
forces linked to al-Qaida captured the government-held town of Konna, Mali, on
Jan. 10, they drove home a statement Romney made during the second presidential
debate in Boca Raton, nearly three months earlier. “With the Arab Spring came a great deal of
hope that there would be a change towards more moderation and opportunity for
greater participation on the part of women and — and public life and in
economic life in the Middle East,” he said then. “But instead we’ve seen in
nation after nation a number of disturbing events.”
Describing
violence in Syria and Libya, he added this kicker: “Mali has been taken over,
the northern part of Mali, by al-Qaida-type individuals.” This prompted, according to
TheCommentator.com, a Bill Maher tweet: “Mitt, you do know that most of America
thinks Mali is one of Obama’s daughters, right?” What far-left loon Maher
doesn’t seem to understand is that it doesn’t matter if he knows what Mali is, so
long as our president does.
Score two.
This week
saw another Romney prediction come to pass — that a re-elected Obama would
infringe on our Second Amendment rights.
“In a second term, he would be unrestrained by the demands of
re-election,” Romney said at an April 2012 National Rifle Association
convention in St. Louis, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “As he told
the Russian president last month when he thought no one else was listening,
after a re-election he’ll have a lot more, quote, ‘flexibility’ to do what he
wants. I’m not exactly sure what he meant by that, but looking at his first
three years, I have a very good idea.”
Referring to
the right to bear arms, Romney told convention-goers, “If we are going to
safeguard our Second Amendment, it is time to elect a president who will defend
the rights President Obama ignores or minimizes. I will.” The president’s signature on 23 executive
actions on gun control this week, as well as his acknowledged support for a ban
on certain weapons and magazines, show how right Romney was.
Score three.
Finally,
Romney was ridiculed for using “binders of women” to describe what a Romney
Cabinet would look like. Instead of mocking the poorly worded phrase, we should
have listened to the words themselves. The
president’s announcement of his second-term Cabinet prompted ABC’s George
Stephanopoulos to ask on Jan. 10, “Where are the women?” Apparently, they’re
all still in Romney’s binders.
Score four.
In
retrospect, this should come as no surprise to anyone. Romney is, after all, a
businessman — a very successful businessman. What separates success from
failure in the business world is an ability to assess a situation and to
predict what will happen next. This is
called reality. Obama’s hallmark is “hope.” See the difference?
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