This past weekend, I participated with some fellow students for the Romney campaign. We phone banked registered Republican voters in Florida. It was my first time phone banking and I found it really interesting. A script is provided and you enter all the information online through Romney's campaign website. Everyone experienced a disgruntled phone call or two, but my experience was generally positive. One phone call in particular stood out in my mind. A genuinely sweet old lady answered my call and when I asked her which Republican candidate she supported, she honestly told me that she had no idea. The internal division between the candidates had driven her away from making any decision at all. Personally, I couldn't agree more. For a long time, I avoided politics like the plague. It's not a realm for everyone. It's full of small covert jabs that only the politically-savy catch (let alone understand); but as the elections draw near, it's the particularly open and vicious attacks that grab our attention. Romney and President Obama's One-Term vs. Two-Term funds are prime examples. (Log onto Twitter if you don't know what I'm talking about). Beyond the specific turnoffs, the idea of how people should be governed is an odd one to begin with. As a democracy, we get to pick our poison, so to speak. A lot of people don't want to have anything to do with that choice as a whole. Like the old lady I spoke to, I am one of those people. That is why I'm conservative and voting for Romney should he win the Republican candidate position.
Romney is dedicated to limiting the government's expansion into our private lives. A lot of people freak out when this idea is brought up. If the government currently provides people with healthcare, education, and employment, what will happen to these people once those facilities are taken away? My answer to that is the private sector. The private sector thrives on competition. Entrepreneurs are waiting for the opportunity to build the next great company. However, the government has taken some of that away by over-encompassing the market.
I think of it like this...The Internet is an expansive system of websites. Let's say that you want to create a blog. You have many free options: Blogspot, Wordpress, Blogster, Tumblr, Windows Live Spaces, etc. Beyond that, there are also more fancy options for those willing to pay for them. But, what if Facebook decided to start a blog-centered site using the Facebook name brand. As people began to transfer to the Facebook blog, many of the smaller sites would get gobbled up by the larger ones until, in the end, only the strongest survived. Now, your only options for a blog would be Facebook and (maybe) Blogspot. Wouldn't you rather have a variety of options to choose from? Maybe you wanted a photoblog, in which case Tumblr would have better suited your needs much better than this hypothetical Facebook blog website (because, let's be honest, Facebook photo uploading and arrangement is NOT the best layout in the world). This basic analogy is my reasoning for limited government. I want choices; I want a free market. If the government were to back out of healthcare, the private sector will close that gap. I promise. More private companies also means more options for healthcare plans. Car insurance companies always talk about comparing each other because their customers (aka: you) have a choice. It's the same idea. Healthcare and education could be the same way, and as those companies grow, so does the job market, providing places for the former government workers.
All of this privatization is a drastic change, but it's one I think Romney can handle. Coming from the private sector, Romney has extensive experience in handling the financial and logistical issues and benefits that come with it. A lot of his critics use his private sector background in a negative way, but I think it's quite the contrary. During his time at Birm Capital, Romney helped rebuild multiple big-name companies. As CEO of Bain & Company, he worked hard to turn around a financial disaster and succeeded. That's the type of person I want in office. It's time to stop looking at the politics of the situation and start looking at the resumes. Elections should be an interview, not a lecture. These people are, after all, your choice.
If there's one thing I've learned through Cal in the Capital, it's relevant experience makes or breaks your application. For me, Romney is the ideal candidate to fix our economy due to his successful private sector management background.
Romney 2012.
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