Mitt Romney vs Hillary Clinton - No Contest if Character and Achievement Mean Anything

The extremely important congressional elections in the United States are just 47 days away -- please support and vote for Republicans who promise to repeal Obamacare, reduce the national debt without handcuffing the military, and lower taxes and help business create jobs and get the economy moving. But, it is the 2016 presidential election that is increasing its grip daily on the American public and media. There are two cases in point today - aimed at 2016 frontrunners - although neither Mitt Romney nor Hillary Clinton has thus far announced their candidacy. ~~~~~ Mitt Romney has consistently said he will not be a presidential candidate in 2016, although a month ago he did admit that circumstances can change. And today, Pat Buchanan - a veteran conservative political commentator, former GOP presidential candidate and senior adviser to Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan - gave some practical advice to Mitt Romney on the 2016 Republican presidential nomination -- "Go for it." Buchanan told Newsmax : "It's very hard for me to see how someone could look at the fact that he's got a real shot at the nomination and then walk away from it when the man believes he ought to be President." Buchanan said on the Steve Malzberg Show on Newsmax TV : "If it were me and I looked at those kinds of numbers, I'd be on the next flight to Manchester [New Hampshire, the critically important second GOP presidential primary]." When Romney acknowledged that "circumstances can change," the next day, a USA Today/Suffolk University poll found 35% of likely GOP caucus voters would vote for the former Massachusetts governor in 2016. "You saw the poll : in New Hampshire, Rand Paul's at 15%, I think, 5% ahead of anybody," he said. "But nobody's got any real support, except Romney, who was not in the poll, which is very interesting." Buchanan - author of "The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority" - said Hillary Clinton, if she runs for the Democratic presidential nomination, will have some major explaining to do about her time in the Senate : "She said the worst mistake of her Senate career - and it was a most important vote - was voting to authorize war in Iraq," Buchanan said. "She said her most important vote was a mistake. Then she said she voted against the surge, even though she believed it was a good idea, to maintain her political viability in Iowa. She's going to have to answer for all this." ~~~~~ Pat Buchanan didn't comment on Mrs. Clinton's role in the Benghazi attack, but Dick Morris made up for Buchanan's omission. Morris told Newsmax that the House Select Committee on Benghazi that has started its hearings will make the "Benghazi problem" hit former secretary of State Hillary Clinton. "She hasn't hit that bump in the road yet really," Morris told J.D.Hayworth and John Bachman on "America's Forum on Newsmax TV Wednesday. "She's about to hit big time the Benghazi problem. First of all, you have the hearings," he explained. "You have the report that there was a document dump going on before the hearings in the basement of the State Department overseen by her chief counsel, Cheryl Mills.Then, in addition, you have the televised testimony, not a testimony but appearances of the three Benghazi guards, on Bret Baier's [Fox News] interview, where they say clearly that the commander told them to stand down, stay put and not go to the aid of the consulate," Morris said. "When they finally got there -- disobeying orders, and went there -- it was half an hour after the raid started and the Ambassador was dead." Morris explained that there are other Benghazi issues -- "whether there was air support, why there wasn't, and then the core question, which is why did she spend two weeks lying to the American people telling them this was about a video that everybody now dismisses as just ridiculous." South Carolina Representative Trey Gowdy, who is chair of the Benghazi Committee, said that the committee will take a very thorough approach, even if means asking "the same question twice." Morris, former political consultant to former President Bill Clinton, explained "that the hearings ultimately are going to be involving one person, Hillary Clinton." However, "before you call her as a witness, you've got to prep the ground by getting all sorts of basic information on the record. The committee needs to lay the basis for what is the standard procedure in diplomatic protocol and all kinds of basic elements so that when Hillary testifies there's a body of evidence to hold her to the truth," he added. Ultimately, Morris believes that Gowdy will accomplish what needs to be done : "The very nature of Hillary's fabrication in saying that this was the tape is so outrageous that I don't think anything would be seen as overzealous," he contends. "Let's remember about Trey Gowdy, he may end up benefitting from this politically, but he's not running for President and he can be a true prosecutor...without worrying too much about his personal image." ~~~~~ Dear readers, there couldn't be a more stark difference between two people than that between Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney. Hillary Clinton -- self-important wife of a former President, whose whole life seems to be dedicated to aggrandizing herself and her meager achievements while downplaying her lack of positive results, her insistence on her credentials, her refusal to acknowledge any fault, her questionable character and demeanor both as a lawyer and a First Lady. Mitt Romney -- self-effacing man of moral and religious principles whose achievements in business, politics and family may be unmatched in his generation of Americans, whose understanding of the problems facing America have been proven vastly superior to that of the President who defeated him in 2012 by belittling his positions. If the decision in 2016 comes down to Hillary Clinton or Mitt Romney, there will be no contest as to character, morality or political acumen.