Mitt Romney sells self as creator of jobs

TAMPA (FLORIDA): Republican candidate Mitt Romney presented himself to Americans on Thursday night as a business leader whose market acumen could rescue them from economic hardship caused by President Barack Obama's disappointing leadership, rather than merely promising them what he said were grandiose planet saving vision offered by the incumbent.

In a late-night acceptance speech watched by millions on TV and cheered enthusiastically by party faithful at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida , Romney pared down his campaign message to this: "President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet. My promise is to help you and your family".

A roadmap of how he would do this remained largely fuzzy, but Romney pressed his credentials as a successful businessman to promise he would galvanize the economy and create millions more jobs by reversing Obama's policies involving, in Republican eyes, greater government intervention and regulations.

"Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving," Romney said, outlining the fundamental difference between his party and Obama's. "It's the genius of the American free enterprise system ? to harness the extraordinary creativity and talent and industry of the American people with a system that is dedicated to creating tomorrow's prosperity rather than trying to redistribute today's."

The Obama camp ripped into the speech, saying it, "offered many personal attacks and gauzy platitudes, but no tangible ideas to move the country forward".

For the foreign media, and the many ambassadors who came to Tampa to get a sense of the direction a Romney administration could take, the speech offered disquieting pointers to a potentially confrontational future. Romney made no mention of Afghanistan, Pakistan, or Iraq, but in a throwback to Cold War dynamics, he talked tough on Russia (Putin, he said, will see a little less flexibility and more backbone).

There was a grudging mention of Obama's success in taking out Osama bin Laden, "but on another front, every American is less secure today because he has failed to slow Iran's nuclear threat", and he "has thrown allies like Israel under the bus, even as he has relaxed sanctions on Castro's Cuba".

Nothing in his address indicated that his coming to White House will make any great difference to the already deep and sustained engagement between New Delhi and Washington.

The acceptance speech brought the curtain down on the four-day Republican jamboree that sought to present a united front -- Romney challengers such as Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum rallied behind him at the convention - and an alternate vision to four years of Democratic rule. Most political pundits were of the opinion that they had not succeeded in capitalizing on a simmering anti-incumbency mood.

Source: http://timesofindia.feedsportal.com/fy/8at2EtZ0dgPFs33I/story01.htm

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