Mitt: Good for the Family, Good for America

The offices of the White House, the halls of Congress, the chambers of the Supreme Court--these are not the places of most significance, the places of greatest influence on this country, as important and influential as they may be. Likewise, state capitols, town halls, and even classroom do not stand supreme in determining the direction and success of this country. The place, more than any other, that influences this nation, for good or bad, is the home because it houses this country's greatest resource and most powerful and fundamental institution--the family. In the end, America is a reflection of America's families; as goes the family, so, eventually, goes the nation.

We need leaders who understand this, and thus do not attempt to usurp the family's preeminence, nor undermine its influence for good. We need leaders who will use their office and power to advance programs and policies and laws that protect the family, and strengthen it. We need leaders who will create family-friendly government. We need leaders like Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney.

Mitt Romney has stood against popular opinion in the Bay State, unflinchingly becoming this nation's most prominent and vocal defender of the sanctity of marriage and the need for American children to have both a mother and a father. He unhesitatingly opposed a bill that would have further reduced both the rights of parents and unborn children by allowing girls to obtain the "morning-after-pill" (a contraceptive that aborts an impregnated egg) starting as young as sixteen years old, without parental permission. He has taken a stand against the harvesting of human embryos in the debate on stem cell research. He has lifted the burden of heavy taxes and irresponsible government spending on the taxpaying families of Massachusetts, by turning a three billion dollar state deficit into a seven hundred million dollar surplus in just two years--without raising taxes. He has helped children have greater access to the education they need, through his laptop initiative and other programs, in order to be competitive in an increasingly global marketplace.

In short, Mitt Romney understands the concept of family-friendly government. He understands that the family must be placed before all other institutions and organizations in this nation if America is to remain the bastion of strength and freedom that it has become the last two centuries. He understands family, and we need more like him at every level of government in this country. Only then will the family be safe; only then will the family flourish, with the nation right on its heels.