Walter Patterson Herald ColumnistFor several months, I have been warning that the presidential race is going to get ugly.  If you follow the liberal media, it already has.  
A Yahoo News executive was heard saying this about Mitt Romney at the Republican Convention last week: “Romney’s happy to have a party when black people drown.”  David Chalian spoke these hateful words into an ABC open microphone. He was referring to hurricane Isaac and its track to hit New Orleans.
Yahoo fired him, as they should have, but the damage was done.  These are the types of reporters covering the Republican Convention for the mainstream press.  All are liberals.  Most of them have little are no journalistic training, and most of them have been educated at liberal northeastern schools.
The Democrat Party and their colleagues in the press all prayed that Isaac would force the Republicans to call off their convention.
If you noticed the weather forecasts, you noticed that this storm was made to sound much worse than it actually was.  Hurricanes have been hitting the Gulf Coast for thousands of years, yet Isaac was going to be the worst storm ever and the human suffering and deaths were going to be so great that no sensitive person, no humanitarian, no Christian could do anything but meekly submit to the weather.  One headline even read: “Has Isaac ruined the Republican Convention?
Most of us can readily see why the Democrats wanted Isaac to prevent the Republican Convention from happening.  
Even the most naïve among us know that if we stay on the present economic course, we are going to go over the “financial cliff.”  Paul Ryan addressed this point eloquently Wednesday night when he gave his acceptance speech for Vice-President of the United States.  “We don’t have much time,” he warned.  
Should the United States go over the “financial cliff,” the amount of suffering by our people will be unequaled in the history of our country.  There will be no entitlement programs like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, or food stamps. Banks will close.  Most businesses will shut down. Cities and towns will be unable to pay their employees.  
Things that we take for granted today will suddenly become luxuries. There will be  riots in America’s largest cities because there will not be enough food to feed the people.  Transportation will grind to a stop. Medical care will be non-existant.
The U. S. Government is presently training troops to deploy to urban areas to put down riots and control the masses of hungry people.
Agencies like Homeland Security and The Social Security Administration are buying huge amounts of ammunition, not for target practice or to train their officers, but to use against the populace when the ‘financial cliff’ finally consumes our economy.
The Republicans have a plan.  
Unlike Barack Obama whose plan is to give us more of the same, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have an economic plan that will save our country from certain economic collapse.  
Every week, new unemployment numbers come out, and each week, 375,000 of our fellow citizens lose their jobs.
Without a strong economy, this nation cannot reach its potential.  Without a strong economy, our citizens cannot reach their full potential.  Obama’s “big government” model will not work and cannot work.  Only free market capitalism can save America from the ‘financial cliff,’ and this is a point not understood by Mr. Obama or his fellow Democrats. The re-distribution of your wealth is their only rallying point.
The last four years have not been kind to Americans.  Obama and his socialists’ policies have steadily choked the economy down, and now, 23 million Americans are out of work.
With no accomplishment in his resume, Obama and his party must go negative – ugly, and lie.  Without immediate change, as Paul Ryan stated Wednesday night, our great country will become a reflection of Greece, Spain, Italy, and the United Kingdom.  “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?  Absolutely not.  
That is why it is time for a change in Washington. Romney and Ryan look like a good start.