MOSS MESSAGE
2012 . It Can Be Better!!
So welcome 2012! Fasten your seat belts; it’s going to be a heck of a ride. We have a long march until we sit next at ease next New Year’s Day. Everybody makes predictions, but mine are mostly off. In 1992 I said on record that “America would never elect a man whose wife hates country music.” They not only elected him twice, but almost elected her, as well. Still might.
But I’m going to crawl out on a limb right now. I think Mitt Romney won the Presidency last week. Huh, you say? He hasn’t even got the nomination. Yup, that’s true. But if you can say something that sinks your candidacy in a single gaffe, sometimes you make one statement that shoots you up and over. It’s often off-the-cuff, like Reagan’s “I paid for this microphone, Mr. Breen.”
I say Romney made his Quote in Ames Iowa on December 29th. What was it? Here, from NBC’s Garrett Hake: Romney speaking:
"I watch the president,” he says, ‘well, it could have been worse.’ That goes down there with 'Let them eat cake.' That's not the right," Romney said. "Americans believe it can be better, and I have confidence in the future.”
There you have it:”It can be better.” If I was Romney, that would be the campaign. From now until November, I’d lead off every speech and make my slogan “It Can Be Better.” And I’d spend the rest of the time telling everyone how I’d do it.
“It can be better.” If ever there was a motto America lives by, that’s it. We believe that tomorrow can be better. Note, I didn’t say “WILL be better.” There are no certainties, only opportunities. There are would-be leaders who say they can give you guarantees. We’ve got one in the White House right now. You see how well that’s worked out.
But it’s not my fault, the President says. I’m doing a great job and don’t blame me! Everything’s the fault of certain devils, who I’ll pint out to you: the greedy businessmen, the “1%-ers”, the banksters (not including the ones in my administration,) the Tea Party, G.W. Bush, the Republicans—enemies of the people! If not for me and my policies, things would be worse…
That’s the President’s slogan: “It can always be worse!” He says that without him and his socialist party to protect us, things could be worse.
To that, we say: It Can Be Better!”
How? Answer: I don’t know, exactly. What I do have is trust in the American people to make it better. I believe you can’t go wrong trusting the American people. Sure, we’ll make a mistake here and there, but by and large, Americans are smart, honest, generous and trustworthy. Left to our own devices, we’ll figure out a solution. We’ll make it better.
My example is from the Jimmy Carter days. Ole President Jimmy told us Americans had to accept a declining standard of living that out kids’ lives would be worse than our own. He said it was all our fault, that we had “malaise.” Little did he know that the very moment he said those words, there was a guy in a California garage named Steve Jobs who was about to totally transform the world. The bright future was right under President Jimmy’s nose, but he couldn’t trust Americans to make it.
Today, President Obama doesn’t even trust us to choose our own damn light bulbs. His world is a dank, Euro-socialist, Social Democracy, a stagnant economy tied down by a million regulations and run by a transnational elite—which he and his wife and family belong to, of course. Our once-proudly independent media and colleges have eagerly chosen to be that state’s new nomenklatura.
That’s a bad present and a worse future. But, the President says, reelect me! It could be worse.
Our reply: IT CAN BE BETTER!!
That’s my slogan now, for this year and moving forward. It Can Be Better. I hope Romney will embrace it, but even if he doesn’t, I do.
So Happy 2012!! This is the year America chooses between “it can always be worse,” and “it can be better.” I know which way America and Americans have always chosen before.
Happy 2012: the year we start to make it better.
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