To be an American was to assume that all things
were possible.  When President Kennedy challenged Americans to
go to the moon, the challenge was not whether we would get
there, it was only when we’d get there.

The soles of Neil Armstrong’s on the moon made permanent
impressions on our souls.  And I watched those steps together on her parents
sofa. Like all American is, we went to bed at night knowing we
lived in the greatest country in the history of the world.

God bless Neil Armstrong.

Tonight, that American flag is still there on the Moon.
and I don’t doubt for a second that Neil Armstrong’s spirit is
still with us.  That unique blend of optimism, humility, and the
utter confidence that, when the world needs someone to do that,
you need an American.

That was a excerpt from the soaring rhetoric from Mitt Romney’s speech last night from the RNC.  The libs think the last line is code directed at birthers, but rational people understand it’s about American exceptionalism.  The libs might be forgiven for thinking their way, because the older ones might have hated America back then and the younger ones don’t remember a time when we were enthusiastic about something besides electing a young president who seduces them with lines about hoping and changing stuff like the sea level.

Back then America had plenty of bad things going on, like political assassinations and Vietnam.  But there was also enthusiasm about progress and the future and where we were going.  That might have been a carryover from World War II, I don’t know, but somewhere along the line it fizzled out.  We didn’t go to Mars and we don’t have flying cars and robots to serve us.  We had moved from the first man in space to walking on the Moon in less than ten years, but we didn’t go any farther than that.

I blame the left, of course, and I’m right about that.  The left can suck the joy out a country more effectively than anything I can think of, but it takes time and it’s because we let them.  Enemies from outside can bring a people together, but rot from within is harder to deal with because it permeates our very being until the leftism is just there all the time, like a heartbeat we don’t notice.

The culmination is Barack Obama who has no faith in us as a nation.  When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a speech, he shows pride in his country.  Try to imagine that coming from BHO, or any member of the Democrat party these days.  You can’t, not like people used to.  Once that sinks in, a person starts to understand just how discouraged we’ve become and it’s reflected in who we send to Washington.  An optimistic people don’t send such people anywhere except out of our sight.

Mitt Romney told us we can recover our lost enthusiasm.  I suspect he can help get us moving in the right direction and believe he sincerely wants to, but we have to put him in office first.  BHO offers us nothing.