A Future President of these United States

 Our national motto, “in God we  trust”, reminding us that faith in our creator is the most important  American value of them all.

Marco Rubio

Three predictions from this convention.  Mitt Romney will be President of the United States, Paul Ryan will be President of the United States and Marco Rubio will be President of the United States.  Here is the transcript of Senator Rubio’s introduction of Mitt Romney last evening:

RUBIO:  Thank you.     (APPLAUSE)     Thank you.  Thank you.     I think I  just drank Clint Eastwood’s water.  Thank you.     (LAUGHTER)     Thank you so much.   Thank you so much for having me here today and thank you so much for doing this convention here in Florida. Before I begin —     (APPLAUSE)     Thank you.     Before I begin this is such an important night for my country .

Thank you so much — thank you so much for having me here today, and thank you so much for doing this convention here in Florida.     You know, before I begin — yes, thank you — before I being, this is such an important night for my country.  I want to begin  — with your permission — 80 seconds, to talk about another country.  A  country located just a few hundred miles away from this city, the country of  my parents birth.     There is no freedom or liberty in Cuba,  and tonight, I ask for your prayers that soon freedom and liberty will be there as well.     (APPLAUSE)     It —  this is a big honor for me.  Not so long ago I was just a underdog  candidate.  The only people who thought I could win all live in my  house.     (LAUGHTER)     Four of them were  under the age of 10.     (LAUGHTER)     But  this is incredible when I was asked to introduce Governor Romney, who will  hear from in just a moment, he is backstage, ready to go.     (APPLAUSE)     So, I called a few people,  and asked them, “What should I say?” And they had a lot of different  opinions, but the one thing they all said was, “Don’t mess it up.”   So, I thought the best way to introduce Mitt Romney tonight, the next  president of the United States…     (APPLAUSE)     … is to talk about what this election is about.  And  I’m so honored to do this here in Florida at the Republican national convention in front of all you patriots.     (APPLAUSE)     I watched my first convention in 1980 with my  grandfather. My grandfather was born to a farming family in rural Cuba. Childhood polio left him permanently disabled.  Because he couldn’t work  the farm, his family sent him to school.  He was the only one in his  family that knew how to read.  He was a huge influence on the growing  up.  As a boy, I sat on the porch of my house and listen to his stories  about history and politics and baseball, as he would talk on one of its three  daily (inaudible) cigars. Now, I don’t remember, it has been three decades  since we last sat on that porch.  I don’t rember all the things he talked to me about.  But the one thing I rember is the one thing he  wanted me never to forget.  That the dreams he had when he was young  became impossible to achieve .  But there was no limit to how far I  could go, because I was an American.     (APPLAUSE)     Now for those of us — here’s why I say that — here’s  why I say that.  Because for those of us who were born and raised in this country, sometimes it becomes easy to forget how special America is. But  my grandfather understood how different America was from the rest of the  world because he knew life outside America.     Tonight,  you will hear from another man who understands what makes America  exceptional.     (APPLAUSE)     Mitt Romney  knows America’s prosperity did not happen because our government simply spent  more money.  It happened because our people use their own money to open  a business.  And when they succeed, they hire more people, who invest or  spend their money in the economy, helping others start a business or create jobs.     Now tonight, we have heard for a long time  now about Mitt Romney’s success in business.  It is well known.   But we’ve also learned he is so much more than that.  Mitt Romney  is a devoted husband, a father, a grandfather, a generous member of his community and church, a role model for younger Americans like myself.  Everywhere he has been, he has volunteered his time and talent to make things  better for those around him.  And we are blessed that a man like this  will soon be the president of these United States.     (APPLAUSE)     Now, let me be clear so that  no one misunderstands.  Our problem with President Obama is not he is a  bad person.  By all accounts, he too is a good husband, a good father,  and thanks to lots of practice, a good golfer.     (APPLAUSE)     Our problem is not that he  is a bad person.  Our problem is that he is a bad president.     (APPLAUSE)     Do you think he’s watching  tonight?  Because his new slogan is the word, forward.  Forward.   A government that spends $1 trillion more than it takes in?  An  $800 billion stimulus that treated more debt than jobs?  A government  intervention into healthcare paid for with higher taxes and cuts to  Medicare, scores of new rules and regulations.  These ideas to not move  us forward.  These ideas move us backwards.     (APPLAUSE)     These are tired and old big  government ideas that have failed every time and everywhere they have been  tried.  These are ideas that people come to America to get away  from.     (APPLAUSE)     These — these are  ideas that threaten to make America more like the rest of the world instead  of helping the rest of the world become more like America.     (APPLAUSE)     As for his old slogan, under  Barack Obama, the only change is that hope is hard to find.     (LAUGHTER)     Now, sadly, millions of  Americans are insecure about their future.  Instead of inspiring us by  reminding us of what makes a special, he divides us against each other.     He tells Americans that they’re worse off because others are better off, that richer people got rich by making other people poor. Hope  and change has become divide and conquer.     (APPLAUSE)     But in the end of this election, it doesn’t matter how  you feel about President Obama.  This election is about your future, not about his.     (APPLAUSE)     And — and  this election is not simply a choice between a Democrat and Republican.   It is a choice about what kind of country you want America to be.     (APPLAUSE)     And as we prepare to make  this choice, we should remember what made a special.  — remember what  made us special .  You see, for most of our human history, almost  everybody was poor. Power and wealth only belonged to a few.  Your  rights are whatever your rulers allowed you to have, your future was determined by your past.  If your parents were poor, so would you be.   If you were born without opportunities, so were your children.     But America was founded on the idea that every person has God given rights.     (APPLAUSE)     Founded  on the belief that power belongs to the people, that government exists to  protect our rights and serve our interests, and that no one should be trapped  in the circumstances of their birth.  We should be free to go as far  as our talents and our work can take us.     (APPLAUSE)     And we’re special — we’re special because we are united  — we’re united not as a common race or ethnicity, we are bound together  by common values.  The family is the most important institution in  society.     (APPLAUSE)     And that  almighty God is the source of all we have.     (APPLAUSE)     We are special.  We are special because we have never  made the mistake of believing we are so smart that we can rely solely on  our leaders or on our government.  Our national motto, “in God we  trust”, reminding us that faith in our creator is the most important  American value of them all.     (APPLAUSE)     And we are special — we’re special because we’ve always understood the scriptural admonition, that for everyone to whom much is  given, from him much will be required.     (APPLAUSE)     Well, my fellow Americans, we are a uniquely blessed people, and we have honored those blessings with the enduring example of an  exceptional America.     (APPLAUSE)     I  know for many of you watching at home tonight, the last few years have tested  your faith in the promise of America. Maybe you are at an age when you  thought you would be entering retirement, but now because your savings and  investments are wiped out your future is uncertain.     Maybe after years of hard work this was the time you expected to be your prime earnings years, but instead, you’ve been laid off  and your house is worth less than your mortgage.     Maybe you  did everything you were told to do to get ahead. You studied hard and  finished school, but now you owe thousands of dollars in student loans, you  can’t find a job in your field, and you’ve had to move back in with your  parents.  You want to believe we’re still that special place where  anything is possible.  You just do not seem — things not seen to be  getting any better, and you wonder if things will ever be the same again.     Yes, we live in a troubled time, but the story of  those who came before us reminds us that America has always been about  new beginnings, and Mitt Romney is running for president because he knows,  if we are willing to do for our children what our parents did for us, life in  America can be better than it has ever been.     (APPLAUSE)     My mother was one of seven  girls who parents often went to bed hungry so their children wouldn’t.   My father lost his mother when he was nine.  He had to leave  school and to go to work, and he would work for the next 70 years of his  life.  They immigrated to America with little more than the hope of a  better life.  My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a hotel maid, a stock clerk at Kmart.  They never made it big.  They were  never rich, and yet they were successful, because just a few decades removed  from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that have been  impossible for them.     Many nights growing up I would hear  my father’s keys at the door as he came home after another 16-hour day.   Many mornings, I woke up just as my mother got home from the overnight  shift at Kmart.  When you’re young and in a hurry, the meaning of  moments like this escape you.  Now, as my children get older, I understand it better.  My dad used to tell us — (SPEAKING IN SPANISH)  — in this country, you’ll be able to accomplish all the things we never  could.     A few years ago, I noticed a bartender behind the  portable bar in the back of the ballroom.  I remembered my father,  who worked as many years as a banquet bartender.  He was grateful for  the work he had, but that’s not like he wanted for us.  You see, he  stood behind the ball all those years so that one day I could stand   behind a podium, in the front of a room.     (APPLAUSE)     That journey — that  journey, from behind that bar to behind this podium, goes to the essence of  the American miracle. That we’re exceptional, not because we have more rich  people here.  We are special because dreams that are impossible anywhere else, they come true here.     (APPLAUSE)     But that is not just my story.  That’s your story.   That’s our story.  That’s the story of your mothers, who struggled  to give you what they never had.  That’s the story of your father who  worked two jobs so that the doors that had been closed to them will be open  for you.  That’s the story of that teacher or that coach who taught the  lessons that may do for you are today. And it’s the story of a man who was  born into an uncertain story in a foreign country, whose family came to  escape revolution.  They struggled through poverty and the Great Depression, and yet he rose to be an admired businessman and public servant.   And in November, his son Mitt Romney, will be elected president of  these United States.     (APPLAUSE)     In  America, we are all just a generation or two removed from somebody who made  our future the purpose of their lives.     RUBIO:   America is the story of everyday people who did extraordinary things, a  story woven deep into the fabric of our society.  Their stories may  never be famous, but in the lives they lived, you will find the essence of  America’s greatness.     And to make sure that America is  still a place where tomorrow is always better than yesterday, that is what  our politics should be about.  And that is what we are deciding in this election.     (APPLAUSE)     We decide,  do we want our children to inherit our hopes and dreams?  Or do we want  to inherit our problems?  Because if Mitt Romney believes, if we succeed  in changing the direction of our country, our children and grandchildren will  be the most prosperous generation ever, and their achievements will  astonish the world.     (APPLAUSE)     The story of our time will be written by Americans who haven’t yet even been born.  Let us make sure the right that we did our  part. That, in the early years of this new century, we lived in an uncertain  time, but we did not allow fear to make us abandon what made us special.     We chose more government instead of more freedom.  We  chose the principles of our founding to solve the challenges of our time.   We chose a special man to lead us In a special time.  We chose  Mitt Romney to lead our nation and, because we did, the American miracle  lived on for another generation to inherit.     (APPLAUSE)     My fellow Republicans, my fellow Americans, I am proud to introduce to you, the next president of the united states of America, Mitt  Romney.     (APPLAUSE)