A Stunning Debate Knockout: Mitt Romney Over Barack Obama

The excuses started coming in "fast and furious" as soon as the first Presidential Debate between President Barack Obama and former Governor Mitt Romney was over this past Wednesday (Oct. 3rd).  "President Barack Obama needs his teleprompter."  "It was attitude sickness."  "Gee, it was his anniversary, he didn't want to be there."  "President Obama was looking down."  "Governor Romney was looking Presidential."

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney easily defeated President Barack Obama in the first presidential debate broadcast from the University of Denver by the Commission on Presidential Debates and moderated by PBS host Jim Lehrer and in which four million Tweets were posted.

Governor Romney outlined a five-point plan he would bring to Washington:

1. Make America energy independent
2. Open up trade to Latin America
3. Create schools that succeed
4. Fight for a balanced national budget
5. Champion small business:  Create jobs for America

While President Barack Obama was calling Americans to "embrace a new economic patriotism," Governor Romney was championing a charge to "restore the vitality that gets America working again."  Romney called Americans to "look at the evidence of the last four years:  23 million people out of work or have stopped working, 32 million Americans on food stamps...49 percent of our college grads cannot find work."

Governor Romney called for Americans to embrace the constitution and return to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" and to the understanding that "we are endowed by our Creator" that we need to have "religious tolerance and freedom" and that "we have the right to pursue happiness as we choose, the right to pursue our dreams."  Governor Romney spoke against crushing the middle class--which would inevitably happen as taxes are raised to pay for new government programs.

Governor Romney spoke that citizens must decide "what kind of America they want to have" and this choice is between "two paths" that will "lead in quite different directions."

I choose the path that Governor Romney is taking!  Do you agree?