Scene: Mitt Romney and family standing in front of a
very nice, large, expensive house with American flag waving in the
breeze.
I’m Mitt Romney and I’m a successful businessman. In fact,
while my Republican opponents and the left’s class warfare machine
want to hold it against me that I’ve earned more money than any of
the other candidates, it’s something I can’t and won’t apologize
for.
Those who focus on my tax returns, trying to figure out
how to turn my business success into political failure, completely
miss the point.
Speaker Gingrich’s earnings, much of which like our
current president’s earnings comes from book sales, are largely the
result of self-promotion. And while there’s nothing wrong with
that, the handful of people he employs hardly speaks to a broader
understanding of the real-world economy. Furthermore, Mr.
Gingrich’s past earnings have, also like our current president,
included more than a million dollars eventually taken from
taxpayers.
Cut to scene: A street of homes with foreclosure signs
in front of them
To be fair, Mr. Gingrich apparently did not recognize the
national disaster his “client” was about to inflict on homeowners
across the nation, (Cut to image: Newt Gingrich reading
something that looks like a history book) but then a
“historian” should have known the inevitable outcome of government
trying to buy homeowners’ votes without regard to economic
consequences.
Dissolve to sequence of images of happy-looking
employees of Staples and other companies in Romney’s investment
portfolio
But here’s the main point: If I am earning investment
returns as I am from my ownership of pieces of businesses, imagine
how much money is being made not only by the other owners – which
might include your very own pension plan – but also by those
holding the more than hundred thousand jobs our investment has
ended up creating?
Cut to unpleasant image of Speaker
Gingrich
Speaker Gingrich is selling his influence, whether to
Freddie Mac or health care companies.
Cut to picture of Jack Abramoff with Newt Gingrich (if
one can be found, otherwise just Abramoff, looking dark and
evil)
Even disgraced super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff said that Mr.
Gingrich is “engaging in the exact same kind of corruption that
America disdains.”
Dissolve to scene: Salt Lake City Winter Olympics ski
jumper launching into the air and making a perfect
landing
But when I served as Governor of Massachusetts, I took a
yearly salary of $1, so there would be money in the state budget
for me to retain key personnel. When I left Bain Capital for two
years to turn around the consulting firm I used to work for, I did
it successfully — again taking an annual salary of just $1. And
when I took over management of the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics
in 2002 after the worst corruption in Olympic history had nearly
destroyed the Games, I took a salary of $1 and turned a potential
loss of nearly $400 million into a $100 million profit for the
organization, the state, and the Utah Athletic
Foundation.
Cut to image of successful-looking
Romney
In other words, the fact that I’ve been a successful
businessman means I can put my mind to doing what needs to be done
without worrying about how I’m going to turn my position into a
lobbying contract later in life.
Cut to same image of Gingrich with Abramoff, or side
by sides
I won’t be worried about offending some politician,
bureaucrat, or K Street influence peddler who might hold a grudge
when I’m looking for a job later because, as much as President
Obama and his friends in Occupy Wall Street don’t like
it…
Fade to first scene of Romney and family in front of
nice, big, expensive house.
…I won’t need a job later.
I won’t need to focus on anything but the absolutely
critical jobs at hand, whether undoing the tremendous economic
damage caused by the Obama Administration or reminding Iran that
the United States will not be pushed around by terrorism-supporting
radicals and won’t apologize for standing up for our
allies.
Zoom in to Romney’s face, though not too tight a shot,
still showing American flag flying near house.
Unlike our current president who spends more time golfing
than leading, and unlike our former Speaker of the House who looks
at every opportunity to serve as an opportunity to profit, I give
you my solemn word that I will focus on nothing else but the most
important issues facing our nation, to returning prosperity and
safety to our and our children’s future.
