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Washington (CNN) -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney told a conservative audience what it wanted to hear Friday, accusing President Barack Obama of leading the country away from the founding fathers' vision and "toward limited freedom and limited opportunity."
In an address to the National Rifle Association's convention billed by Romney's advisers as a launch of his general election campaign, Romney said Obama's attack on freedom is to blame for the country's slow economic recovery from recession.
"The Obama administration's assault on our economic freedom is the principal reason why the recovery has been so tepid -- why it couldn't meet their projections, let alone our expectations," Romney said.
While Romney remains short of the delegates needed to claim the Republican presidential nomination, his closest pursuer -- conservative challenger Rick Santorum -- dropped out the race this week and the two other contenders -- former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Texas Rep. Ron Paul -- have no realistic chance of winning.
At this writing, it is April 2012. Both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions are not scheduled to take place until late summer.
Four months away, give or take.
Barring flood, famine or an act of God, the two major political party nominess for President of the United States have been determined.
The Democratic candidate for Vice President has been determined.
All that remains, in so far as major convention business is concerned, is for Mitt Romney to choose his running mate.
A little research on the matter of convention cost uncovered the following information....
The averate, ballpark cost of putting on a major political party nominating convention is somewhere in the neighborhood of one hundred million dollars.
A pretty pricey neighborhood, wouldn't you agree?
Any average person, possessed of any amount of common sense might be inclined to suggest that perhaps, given the obvious observation that the process, at least this time around, has made the need to have a convention academic, it might be worth considering forgoing that massive expense and doing the "offical" nominating and speechifying at , say, a nice ballroom at the Beltway Marriott, complete with balloons, streamers and, of course, those cool four sided cardboard things on a pole with the name of states on them.
And, of course, a nice spread could be put out.
Pigs in a blanket pretty much good for any occasion.
Then, the two parties would have between them, allowing for scaled down gathering expenses, even a few extra bucks thrown in the direction of the caterers (man, those pigs in a blanket were out of this world, don't you think?), somewhere in the neighborhood of a hundred and ninety nine million dollars and change left.
Then, that money could be put where it can do some absolutely awesome good work...perhaps, be used to, oh, let's splurge, what do you say....build some amazing new schools...fund some day care centers....find a way to help parents with their kids college tuitions....
...you know....like that.
What a wonderful feeling of sacrifice and good works would wash over every single member of every single delegation that would have gone to those conventions and used up every single dollar of that two hundred million.
Here's politics in plain english....
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