ICYMI: GOP Chairman: The Case for a New President

Excerpts from The Des Moines Register
By Reince Priebus
January 3, 2012
 
“It begins tonight.
“The road to the White House, a cross-country journey that winds its way through every American home, will demand our attention and dominate our discourse from now until that pivotal Tuesday next November. To say that its outcome will have anything less than dramatic consequences for our country would be the most extreme of understatements.
“And it starts here in Iowa.
“It was exactly four years ago, on a cold Iowa night, that Barack Obama boldly promised, ‘Years from now, when we’ve made the changes we believe in … you’ll be able to look back with pride and say that this was the moment when it all began’…
“The president has made the changes he believes in, yet we look back not with pride, but with painful regret…
“America is adrift in a sea of economic uncertainty, no solid ground in sight. And as we sink beneath the waves of unemployment and debt, our president offers nothing but rudderless leadership. For three years, we’ve waited. We’ve waited for President Obama to deliver on the promises of his 2008 campaign.
“And now in 2012, those promises of recovery undeniably broken, our only solution is a new president. Our only hope is a dramatic change… 
“The president promised better health care; it’s more expensive. He promised low unemployment; it’s higher. He promised ethical government; yet he’s beholden to special interests. He promised optimism, order, and unity; he divided us. 
“Lately, the president has taken up the motto ‘We Can’t Wait.’ But that sense of urgency was conspicuously absent during the first two years of his administration — a time that his party, we cannot forget, controlled both chambers of Congress.
“After passing a stimulus whose price was as big as its failure, the president promptly ignored America’s economic needs — even as unemployment skyrocketed…
“Voters awoke to this recklessness in 2010 and elected Republicans to lead the House of Representatives, Republicans who prioritized job creation the way Democrats had prioritized progressive pipe dreams…
“On the biggest issue of his presidency, the struggling American economy, Barack Obama has failed his country…
“The president famously stated in early 2009 when asked about the economy, ‘If I don’t have this done in three years, then there’s going to be a one-term proposition.’
“That’s one promise the president can still keep. In 10 months, Americans must hold him to that, and, to paraphrase the president, tonight is the moment that it all begins.”
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