Last week my husband took me to a Peter Gabriel
concert. It was great. It was fun. It was loud. It was rocking. It made me feel young,
except when I’d see people putting on their reading glasses to see which seat
their tickets said, and when part way through the concert I thought, “Wow—I
wonder how late it will be when Peter finally gets to sleep? Poor guy.”
Now, you may be wondering what Peter Gabriel has to do with
voting for Mitt Romney. Well, one
of the crowd favorites was a song called “Don’t Give Up.” I have always liked that song, but it
meant a bit more to me now, and here’s why:
My teenage son come home from school totally despondent last
week. When we sat down to talk
about what was wrong, I was surprised by his response:
“I’m really worried about our country and my future. The way it looks, people are going to
be voting for a president whose actions are going to have a huge impact on me,
and I have no say in it! Now I may never be able to do the things I’ve always
wanted and hoped for.”
He was sincerely concerned.
I’m pretty sure that when I was his age, I worried more
about the next dance, or next test, or possibly the Cold War, and probably the
latest Duran Duran hit (I totally just dated myself). But I was pretty confident about my
future and about our nation always being the greatest nation in the world.
I wasn’t quite certain how to respond to my son. I didn’t really know how to make him
feel better, how to not give up on the older generations or on America.
Well, Mitt Romney did a pretty good job of taking care of
that for me. My son was watching that
same night when Romney knocked the presidential debate out of the park.
In one night, Mitt restored my son’s hope in the nation, and
in his own future. Through Mitt’s
resolution, ideas, confidence, and knowledge, my son recognized that there are
still great leaders out there who will do all they can to keep America the
strongest and brightest nation in this world. Mitt lifted my son’s hopes on a very personal level. And lifted mine too. I fully believe he will once again reassure us all tonight, too, because of his ideas, his leadership, and his belief in America's greatness.
That is the kind of person we need leading this country—one
we can believe in, who can encourage us, and is an example of the kind of
person our kids can look to and hook their own hopes and dreams. One who inspires us not to give up,
because we know he never will until he has done everything humanly possible to
secure our personal liberties and our nation’s place as the greatest on earth.
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