During his victory speech tonight in Schaumburg, Ill., Mitt Romney introduced a new line of attack against President Obama — as an aloof college professor who doesn’t truly understand the American economic system.
“Now, you know that yesterday I was giving a speech at the University of Chicago — not very far from here, not very far from where Professor Barack Obama taught law,” he said. “It was a speech on economic freedom. And as I was writing the speech, I thought to my lifetime of experiences.
“I’ve had a lot of opportunity to learn about the unique genius of America’s free enterprise system. It started, of course, with my dad. He didn’t graduate from college, and he would tell mea bout his dad, who was a contractor. And you know about construction – up and down years. He never quite made it — but he never gave up, and raised great kids. Later, I helped start companies, and those began with just an idea, and somehow they made it through the difficult times, and were able to create a good return for investors, and thousands of jobs.
“And those jobs helped families buy their first homes. Those jobs put kids through school. Those jobs helped people live better lives, dream a little bigger. for 25 years, I lived and breathed business, and the economy, and jobs. I had successes, and failures. But each step of the way, I learned a little bit more about what makes our American system so powerful. You can’t learn that teaching constitutional law and the University of Chicago, all right?”
After detailing a litany of government regulations that he said are harming business innovation and private initiative, he added: “You know, when we replace a law professor with a conservative businessman as president, that’s gonna end.”
