If I had been debating on the stage in Cleveland tonight, here is what I would have said in my closing statement:
Well over six years ago this country elected a President who promised "Hope and Change." Since then we have had a series of sad disappointments.
First, we have learned that hope is not a strategy. President Obama has allowed himself to be buffeted by inaction ... watching from the sidelines as our enemies have taken advantage of his timidity and our allies have wrung their hands in dismay.
Secondly, we have sadly discovered that the changes that this community organizer had in mind have ran counter to most of this nation's fundamental values and commitments. He has done his best to dilute our comity, our morality, our fiscal strength, our hegemony, our unity, and our destiny.
This political disaster cannot be repeated in 2016 with the next Democrat candidate who believes that, because she is a woman, she deserves to continue the puerile policies of her former boss. This country, born of individual liberty and sacrifice, may not survive four more years of such misguided ineptitude and moral corruption.
Thank you ... and I ask for your support to help me fix the morass in which we now find ourselves.
Afterward: Admittedly I am playing Walter Mitty here ... pocketa, pocketa!
