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Updated: Feb. 2, 2012 | 7:53 p.m.
RENO -- An exuberant Mitt Romney recited "America the Beautiful" and spoke of returning the nation to the greatness envisioned by the founding fathers in addressing 600 supporters crammed into a tiny events center Thursday.
The Republican presidential candidate made no mention of his GOP challengers or his endorsement earlier in the day by Donald Trump, but he clearly was upbeat about his chances in Saturday's Nevada Republican caucus.
He drew constant cheering during an 18-minute address as he spoke about how he would lead the economic recovery.
"This president we elected to lead," Romney said about President Barack Obama. "He chose to follow. Now it is time for him to get out of the way."
Romney called Obama "extraordinarily naive" for the administration's new proposal to send five Guantanamo Bay detainees abroad to appease the Taliban in advance of Afghanistan peace talks. Romney said Obama was taking this step "as a sign of good faith to the Taliban," and that he as president would never appease the Taliban.
"I'm anxious to get him out of office," said Romney about Obama. "And anxious to get people working again. I don't want to go to war, but it makes no sense for him to tell the Taliban when we will get out of Afghanistan (in 2014)."
He accused Obama of being a "crony capitalist" who "takes your money and invests it in the businesses of his friends."
Before he spoke inside the Grove events center, Romney chatted outside with about 200 supporters who were gathered in 40-degree temperatures. He even autographed a yearbook from Cranbrock High School in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., that was handed to him by Tom Ball, a man who was a sophomore when Romney was a senior at the school.
At the time in 1965, Romney's father, George, was governor of Michigan.
Rather than talking politics, Romney spent much of the address waxing philosophic about his love for America, for hymns and mountains and recalling a long-ago trip west he took his family in their Rambler. Not only did he recite the familiar first verse of "America the Beautiful" but several other verses. He joked he lost the Iowa primary by a few votes because he tried to sing the song.
Unlike a Wednesday appearance in Reno by Newt Gingrich which attracted a predominantly older crowd, the people cheering Romney were of all ages, including many children.
"He has good family values, good moral values," said Stead resident Clinton Jamison about Romey. "That's how a president should be. He also is a businessman and we need a businessman to get things right in America."
Jamison came with his wife, Andrea, and their 1-year-old son.
"Romney is the answer," added Rick Worlton, a Reno man who came with his 15-year-old son, Jay. "He will be a great leader. Anybody is better than Obama."
Contact Capital Bureau Chief Ed Vogel at evogel@reviewjournal.com or 775-687-3901.
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Romney is a family man along with being a successful business man and a successful politician as Governor. Gingrich is the direct opposite, not a family man, no record of being a successful businessman, and thrown out of office by his own peers as a politician. He's going down and unfortunately all of the good things the Tea Party has done, will be diminished with this guy as their spokesman.
No Mitt, Mitt can't oppose Obama because he is more of the same!!!!
He is a Bank puppet! Why would we elect him to run our economy further into the ground. Don't people realize the abuses Goldman has perpetrated on our country and how they are still doing it and want to continue?!!
Goldman is Mitts largest donor, and 90% of his support is corporate. This is not a man for the prople, he is in it for himself and will complete the corporate takeover of the US that Bush started and Obama has continued.
The only guy looking out for US is Ron Paul!!
Only Ron Paul!!!!
Mitt cannot beat Obama, because he is Obama in a different suit. Even if he did, we would be Obama part II.
Check out this video on YouTube, this is a president for the people!!!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rYP6mmk2QE&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Myself and many others I know will be voting for Ron Paul. We are sick of the cronyism, the flip-flopping, the lying and distortions.
There are so many hurting people today. Yet the GOP and the news media continue to play at party politics while the economy continues to crash around us (with the help of the crony GOP apparently) people lose their homes, their life savings, and work at whatever job they can find just to eat.
Its time for a change. "We the People" deserve more than more of the same. I will only vote for Ron Paul. I will write him in if necessary.
Nobama blows. He has to go.
I never was bothered by bad dreams
They never made me afraid
But then I never did dream I'd wake up
And find me in the freak parade.
I guess I had to find out the hard way
I shouldn't have been so proud
'Cause here I'm the main attraction
Of every giggle in the crowd.
So I gotta
Take my place in the freak parade
See my face in the freak parade.
In a world full of freaks
You can creep, you can crawl
But the world's biggest freak
Is the one with no balls.
You know you shouldn't poke fun at strangers
Or pity their case at all
'Cause there are lots of friends and lovers
That take it kind of personal.
You might appreciate our position
Don't laugh at our freaky ways
You might find yourself tomorrow
Marching in the freak parade.
You better
Take your place in the freak parade
See your face in the freak parade
Get of the sidewalk!
You gotta feel for Romney, having to except an endorsement from a guy who suggested he was everything but a piece of #$%$ Mitts a guy you could hardly trust if he could willingly except such an endorsement, he should be singing in a the Mormon Tabernacle Choir!
Mitt is an eliteist nitwitt
Libertarians....the ultimate elitists....they are smarter than 99% of the population....arrogance defined
And you got a tree stump in the white house....proud dumbocrat!
Just shows the level of intelligence of the 99% ers eh?