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Three Romney-Ryan Revolutions

Aug. 31, 2012 1:06pm

Monica Crowley, Ph.D., is a Fox News Contributor, host of the nationally syndicated “Monica Crowley Show,” and the author of What the (Bleep) Just […]

Monica Crowley, Ph.D., is a Fox News Contributor, host of the nationally syndicated “Monica Crowley Show,” and the author of What the (Bleep) Just Happened? The Happy Warrior’s Guide to the Great American Comeback.

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In 2008, Barack Obama and his team crafted three clever revolutions that set the stage for his victory…and for the “fundamental transformation” of the nation of which he often spoke.

The first revolution was built on the cult of his personality. The second revolution was built on his relative youth and the generational change he represented. The third revolution was built on the broader but deliberately ambiguous concepts of “hope and change.”

Last night—and throughout the week at the Republican National Convention—Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, and the major GOP speakers destroyed each one of those Obama revolutions…and replaced them with new revolutions that are, in many ways, even more powerful than the ones Obama originally set in motion four years ago.

Revolution #1. In 2008, Team Obama advanced a very childish version of hope. It was all about aggrandizing the leader, someone who exalted himself even as others exalted him. He suggested that he’d be able to save America—essentially from itself—by merely alighting on the scene. He positioned himself as a Messiah-like figure, never disabusing people of believing that he was—in the words of some of his supporters—a “black Jesus,” and implying that he was uniquely qualified to offer salvation by the color of his skin. In 2008, it was all about Obama. More significantly, it was all about having the people honor HIM.

Romney and Ryan have reversed that by placing the hope NOT in themselves, but in America. The theatrics were kept to a minimum. Yes, there was Clint Eastwood and a big balloon drop. But those moments paled in comparison to fake Greek columns, over-the-top “black Jesus” metaphors, and weeping movie stars. What we saw from Team Romney this week indicates a real maturing of the nation: we’re not about instant gratification and hero worship anymore. We’re about telling the truth, fixing our nation’s serious problems, and electing grown-ups to do it.

It’s no longer about having the people honor the leader. It’s now about our leaders honoring US: the American people. And about honoring the great nation we love and want to save.

Revolution #2. Suddenly, Obama isn’t the future; he’s the past. And just as suddenly, Romney and Ryan are the future.

Paul Ryan is 42 years old. He’s nearly a decade younger than Barack Obama. In his speech Wednesday night, Ryan was full of Generation X exuberance, name-checking AC/DC and Led Zeppelin while happily cheering us on: “We can do this!” (A very clever twist on “Yes, we can!”)

But Ryan did something else: by referring to the unemployed 20-somethings with the “faded Obama posters” on their walls and referring to Obama as sailing a ship “on yesterday’s wind,” he dissed Obama as an out-of-touch old fogey.

This was, perhaps, the biggest slam he could have delivered to Obama who seems to pride himself on being the hippest guy in the room. Four years ago, it was Obama who was the edgy, sexy, new guy on the scene. With a few choice words, Ryan cast Obama as yesterday’s newspaper. Must be tough for him to realize that he’s been replaced by a younger, hotter model. Paging Norma Desmond!

Revolution #3. Romney and Ryan now own the “hope and change” theme, because they spoke of—and represent—REAL hope and REAL change. Not wispy hope based on a cult of personality or phony change based on self-serving fictions, blame-casting, and smoke and mirrors. Romney and Ryan offer the real hope of real solutions based in real-world problems, and they offer real change based on restoring America to its great foundational principles: limited government, fiscal responsibility, economic liberty, and muscular national defense.

Within the space of a week, the three revolutions Obama launched in 2008 have been dispensed with and replaced by much more authentic revolutions. The revolutions Romney and Ryan are setting into motion will have greater staying power too, because they’re based not on the ambitions of men but on the power of the American idea.

Thanks to Romney and Ryan, and the way they’ve co-opted Obama’s strengths, the ground is now shifting. Call it a revolutionary earthquake. And it looks like an earthquake powerful enough to take down some styrofoam Greek columns. And maybe a presidency too.

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Comments (20)

ipeduto
Posted on September 4, 2012 at 1:10pm
Your connections for the three events is brilliant – now if cheating can be kept to a minimum, this ought to be a landslide election – retire the Greek columns to the realm of used-to-be’s.

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blair152
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 7:57pm
Foreign policy isn’t going to be the fulcrum on which this election turns. It’s going to be domestic issues.
To quote Mitt Romney, “It’s still the economy and we’re not stupid.”

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kimford
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 6:20pm
I love Monca and I wholeheartedly agree with this article. I am coming to realize that the only way someone could vote for Obama again would be because he/she are either, on welfare, a socialist/communist leaning thinker, or that they are totally ignorant as to what is happening in this country. Mitt romney is uniquely prepared to lead this country. The convention really showcased his brilliant career and his service oriented life. I actually blushed with embarrassment for Obama and his lack of any worthwhile skills other than the ability to speak and flash a huge smile – the culture of hollywood and celebrity. Go see Obama 2016 – a great flick – very professionally done.

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- siquijorisland
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 5:02am
  very enlighten comment
  
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- boyd9
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 3:20pm
  We are $16 trillion in debt, Federal Government spending is out of control and as a result we are collectively standing on the edge of a cliff and Obama is yelling FORWARD!!!!
  
  Do we really need to know anything else?
  
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vilma
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 6:17pm
I disagree with you people that think that the past has gotten us here. Maybe last 10 to 20 years while the progressives have slowly been distroying this country. But the past is what made this country the envey of the world. It has been the new ideas that has gotten us near collapse. The lawyers, environmentalist, the do gooders and polictically correct jerks that have ruined this great country. This is the USA, we speak English, have guns, can speake our minds, believe marriage is between a man and women, we donate to the poor and disadvantaged and we work hard every day to support our families.

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- siquijorisland
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 5:05am
  yes i agree
  
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Mustang65
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 4:40pm
I love Monica is she married? Fox has the most beautiful and intelligent women on all their shows: but I digress since, the offerings of MSNBC and CNN and Gores Folly are sad Liberal Women.

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jgirvin
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 2:57pm
Your simplistic and superficial analysis belies your blind allegiance to ideological rhetoric…Romney and Ryan are just presenting a vacuous rebuttal and advocating the very policies that created the problem in the first place…Ryan’s budget is a canard and cannot be considered legitimate given its lack of balance vis a vis cuts and tax increases which would actually be fair, reasonable and responsible…image, Ryan, the so-called “policy wonk” can’t provide details, he’s more of a ‘wanker’ than a ‘wonk’…

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- WHATAMIDOENHERE
  Posted on September 2, 2012 at 3:43pm
  Eloquently said BUT! We need jobs. Raising taxes will not create jobs. Jobs will be created if the government gets out of the way. I’ve been a contractor for 40 years I’ve nearly lost everything because of the housing bubble created by government intervention in the housing market. The private sector generally can keep it’s self in line. When you are bad, people will not buy your products or your services. It’s when the government steps in with power they don’t have to pick winners that create unfair practices and corruption. As far as Ryan is concerned he knows more about the budget than Obama who can’t get one vote from the demarcates on his budget.
  
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- SELECT
  Posted on September 2, 2012 at 5:22pm
  Your words sound good but lack substance. The entire week was designed to show how the republican governors have revived their state’s economic balance sheets. Why don’t you compare the democratic governors balance sheets with those of the republicans? This, of course, was done to show some of you slow thinkers that progress can be made on reversing the federal boondoggle by the same basic economic actions.
  
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- testandverify
  Posted on September 3, 2012 at 7:52am
  As SELECT says “Your words sound good but lack substance.” You only attempt to use the Gauzy window dressing with some name calling thrown in. Which is exactly what Obama’s campaign is. Obama’s Campaign has no substance; it won’t take credit for the one thing he spent most of his 4 years on. He actually wants to give Romney credit for his Obamacare, which is nothing more than “it is Bush’s fault” in reverse. Obama is so Transparent that he is a ghost; likely was in Clint’s chair.
  
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WHATAMIDOENHERE
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 2:33pm
Obama fails to see that energy is the only hope for our recovery. Solar and wind are great but do you think? If all energy is promoted that in it’s self will bring home industry. cheap energy = JOBS. The energy sector is willing to to pay for it. Government get out of the way and collect your tax from it.

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Mark Thoele
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 1:56pm
I’ve always admired Monica. Nicely done.

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Tracy Y. Andersen
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 12:07pm
And Glenn Beck recognized the Third Great Awakening. In this case, I’m afraid that it was Obama himself that triggered that Great Awakening of the American spirit, that may well sweep him aside in a tsunami of patriotism — or so we may hope. …Ooops, did I use that “h” word?

Yeah, we have hope and change in mind, but just not as Obama envisioned it.

Two scenarios — R&R get in, and turn us around, and we then have at least four to eight years of growth and prosperity, before the onset of events leading up to Armageddon.

OR — second scenario, Obama gets in, via graveyards voting, illegal aliens voting multiple times, or simple Executive Order declaring martial law, and declaring himself Dictator-in Chief for life. Oh, I’m sorry I go on so, but it just feels like it has such a strong possibility of happening that way. Anyway, to continue the scenario, he gets in again, and the events of Armageddon begin fairly immediately.

Personally, I don’t think we are quite ripe for Armageddon yet, but we know it WILL happen. So, we must prepare. Stock up. Get right with the Lord. Help others.

Romney and Ryan will certainly revitalize the American way of life, and turn around the damage done in the last four years. Now, of course, we need a Congress that will aid them in this endeavor. Let’s hope.

Laus Deo

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- AmericanPatriot
  Posted on September 2, 2012 at 12:54pm
  EXCELLENT post!
  
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- MykidsDad68
  Posted on September 2, 2012 at 5:14pm
  My feelings exactly. But I have hope that Mitt can win this, but if not, the end is close.
  
  R2 – O = Restoring America
  
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- greatgrandma
  Posted on September 4, 2012 at 7:56am
  I can’t agree more. I’m scheduled to go on a cruise in Dec. I’m wondering if I can make it back home or even want to come back if Obama does something stupid, like Martial Law.
  
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carlomagno
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 11:35am
Obama constantly says that Romney-Ryan want to take America to the past. He misses the fact that there is no future without understanding the past. Unfortunately for him most Americans are proud of our achievements in the past. Obama is over.

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carlomagno
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 11:27am
The rejection of the past creates the germs of revolution. It is very obvious the will of the Obama administration to create a socialist society. The Occupy Movement, the 99 slogan, the numerous officials that expressed admiration for Mao, all that government supported narrative is enough revealing. They reject America. Now average Americans are opening their eyes and see the naked truth. Obama just mentioned that Romney-Ryan want to take America back in the past. It is time for a renewed American Revolution and Romney-Ryan are the leaders!

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