Approximately15,000 people gathered at Land O’ Lakes High School in Pasco County on Saturday night to see GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney speak.
From a podium in the middle of the football field, Romney rallied his supporters with his usual rhetoric of encouraging job growth and questioning the policies of the current administration.
The former Massachusetts governor said the Obama campaign is getting “smaller and smaller” as election day nears.
“They’ve been diminished by the greatness of the times. The president is talking about characters from Sesame Street, playing silly word games, attacking me day in and day out, even though he knows the attacks are not true. This is a president that is not standing up to the scale of the times.”
Romney stuck to his usual speaking points, including his “five point plan” that he thinks is necessary for the United States to prosper again economically. One interesting aspect of the candidate’s speech was his encouraging bi-partisanship, focusing less on bashing Democrats and more on what he believes is a failure by the Obama administration to work across party lines.
Romney cited his tenure as governor of the liberal Massachusetts as how he can accomplish progress with Democrats.
“This is a big job … and it can’t just be done by one person, or even one party. For us to get America back on track, it’s going to take us reaching across the aisle. The President said he was going to do that, he has not. His is the most partisan presidency I can remember in modern times.”
Romney joked that he’s had experience in a state that has a “few” Democrats and touted his state budget and lowering of taxes during his term.
“These are the kinds of things you can do by reaching across the aisle and not worrying about who gets the credit.”
This article appears in Oct 25-31, 2012.
