Besides returning sanity back to the country by flipping the House and stalling the Senate, you know what I’m most excited about this year? Mitt Romney about to start showing some more face than he’s been giving us lately, thanks to that looming year ahead, 2-0-1-2.

Right now, he’s camping in New Hampshire, and his recent appearance at the New Hampshire Republican State Committee will definitely give you a taste of what his you-know-it’s-coming presidential bid is going to bring. And boy do we need it now.

After this primary season, Romney’s uniting leadership could certainly heal many wounds and bring us back together. If we can get him to the general election, I’d certainly bet on a landslide win followed by a victory and a presidency the GOP can put into its Reagan Hall of Fame.

What did he say? What did he do?

This man has Reagan down. He’s got the witty little stories with the funny lines. Some of the humor is self-deprecating, as appropriate Reagan-ness would proscribe. He’s very incorporative of his family in his stories, appearances and the like. And bonus, his message is very “we” the people, “we” the Republicans, “we” the future.

He can talk about the character of our country, relate it to something he’s an expert at, i.e., business (which could be a snore if he wasn’t so damn good at speaking), and turn it into a moment of inspiration for Americans.

This man has the economy down. He’s got the right stuff and the proof to vouch for it. But more importantly for today’s environment, he can point-by-point nail what it is Obama has done, what it is Obama should have done, and what it is Obama needs to do, which of course means what the Republicans are going to have to do since Obama has no interest in actually seeing this country succeed on terms acceptable to its founding.

Details? The message is that Obama is anti-growth, anti-investment and anti-jobs – and has declared war on private enterprise. Obama should have focused on the economy, created incentives for the private sector to grow and showed leadership that understands how the economy works. To turn it around, Obama needs to understand what it is that makes America . . . America.

Mitt makes the connection that businesses reflect their founder, and points out that this is also true of countries. Who we are as a nation reflects the character of the people who founded it. The idea of “fundamentally transforming” America is the very reason Obama has failed and will continue to fail. He just doesn’t get it. Quoting Reagan, Romney reminds us that it’s not that liberals are ignorant, it’s that they know so much that isn’t true.

In Mitt’s words, who would have thought that we’d be thinking of the Carter years as “the good old days”?

Mitt Romney has America down. He gets it. He knows who we are, what we stand for, and what we want. “There is no reason to apologize for the United States of America.” He’s not shy about that statement. He understands our hearts, our confidence, our commitments, our energy, our spirits and our dreams. He’s embraced the American dream and is living proof that it works, using his success as a platform to inspire others and his personality to help lift those who believe in America as he does, or rather, as we all do.

My apologies for being so non-objective on this, or most pieces on Romney. Well actually, no apologies. We need leadership. We need inspirational, “yes we are Americans” type leadership. The primary election battle wounds are still fresh going into November, and more blood will fly November 2 passes.

But on November 3rd, Mitt Romney’s message, and all others who will carry it, needs to prevail so we can stand together as Americans, proud, inspired and committed to taking our country back.

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