It’s Romney’s Race to Lose
With less than three weeks to go until the election, both camps are on edge, hoping not to make a fatal misstep while praying their opponent stumbles. At this point, gaffe recovery would be problematic and the unfortunate candidate who shoots himself in the foot may think seriously of finishing the job by aiming the gun to his head.
You can smell the desperation in the crazy attacks mounted by both campaigns and their thousands of surrogates on the web and social media in the last 72 hours. Romney’s “binder”comment was inexplicably seized upon by Obama and his twitterites and pushed as some kind of insensitive remark about women — or something. If someone ever figures out if there is anything anyone can ever say that doesn’t offend women, minorities, small animals, trolls, ogres, and other put upon members of society that liberals believe need protection, let me know.
Not to be outdone in the manufactured gaffe department, the Romney campaign and their internet acolytes have latched onto an inartful reference by the president on John Stewart’s Daily Show to the deaths of our diplomats in Libya not being “optimal.” Spoken like a true petty bureaucrat and certainly offensive to the families of the dead. But a game changer? Get out of town. Given the pixels already shed over this remark, one would think evidence had been uncovered that Obama approved of the killing of our ambassador and not that he simply uttered an inelegant description of the impact of the killings. No one outside of rabid partisans on the right actually believes the president was unmoved by the murder of Americans, and it is fallacious to suggest otherwise.
Forget the gaffes. Forget the debates. Forget the polls. Everyone knows the race is very close with the presidency probably to be decided in three or four states by just a few tens of thousands of voters, right? That’s the current conventional wisdom and no pundit or prognosticator worth their their salt will say anything differently. Any other prediction is illogical, unreasonable, and simply wishful thinking.
Except something is happening and it doesn’t fit the polls, or the predictions, or the conventional wisdom — which is really nothing more than commentators playing “follow the leader.” Don’t look now, but in the last three weeks millions of voters have switched allegiances from Obama to Romney. Not undecideds breaking for the Republican, but actual abandonment of the president by millions of supporters. Millions.
Nor does there appear to be an end of it — yet. Romney can certainly help matters by simply doing what he’s been doing; offering himself as a legitimate alternative to a failed president. He has done that by advocating semi-specific policies that sound reasonable. This, compared to the president who has offered nothing — no hint of what he would do in a second term.
If polls have any efficacy at all, at least they are able to discern trends over a period of time. And what they are telling us is that Romney is gaining, Obama is falling, and so far nothing has occurred to stop the direction of voter movement toward the Republican.
The movement to Romney actually started before the first debate after the Republican had experienced a couple of very bad weeks. Obama’s better than expected convention bounce, largely the result of the media going gaga over Bill Clinton’s speech, was augmented by Romney’s unfortunate “47%” comment that soured many voters on the candidate.
When it comes down to it, this blogger believes many will switch horses, albeit quietly, but will pull the lever for Romney in the polling booth.
The segment of Obamabots, including one of my sisters ( love her, but she has a blind spot!) will vote for him, regardless of all his ills. However, those on the fence, are no longer likely to sit still. It is their votes which will cross Romney over to the finish line, even if some are loathe to admit it publicly.
People are terrified at the state, therby the fate, of the nation. While economics rules, they see the mess The One created throughout the Middle East, most realizing it will eventually reach America’s shores.
Therefore, what they know terrifies them – http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/08/02/revealed-the-second-term-plans-of-an-obama-presidency-nothing-short-of-a-national-nightmare-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
This is a must read.
The Blago File
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/blago-file_655072.html
From your mouth to G-d’s ear.
This is going somewhere big!
Weekly Standard reviews Tribune reporters’ book on Blago
http://illinoispaytoplay.com/2012/10/20/weekly-standard-reviews-tribune-reporters-book-on-blago/
This story calls to mind another remark made after a simular
story where the simular remark was:
“Voters are not yammering (I paraphrase here) about how they going to vote for R or O… they are silent while grimly waiting to cast their vote for Romney.
As each day passes we get closer to the election – when we can show the world we do not willingly suffer a fool.
It’s “similar”.
Moran clearly has no moral compass in showing his utter indifference to Obama’s remark.
” Here is what I will say, if four Americans get killed, it’s not optimal. And we are going to fix it.”
How do you FIX a dead American, you imbecile?!?
Romney, of all people, has to do nothing to “close the sale” for worthless blowhard pundits, of all people. Stop trying to gather momentum from his coattails, and learn to think.
Sums it up well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KnvhxWhzT60
I feel certain that for each drone attack ordered, each and every American military killed in action, George W. Bush felt the loss keenly.
This guy? He reminds me more of the old French Nobility, playing chess on a grand scale, human lives as their pawns, and caring not one whit. Imperious and detached.
Ed
I am pleased to say I agree with you. Moran’s equivalency between the not optimal and the binders remarks is nauseatingly squishy, but par for the course for Moran.
Obama was so moved by Stevens death that he didn’t change his fundraising schedule on 9/12 and he then went out and lied about the cause of Stevens’ death.
A President who doesn’t attend his daily intelligence briefings, doesn’t provide security for diplomatic staff and then lies about the inevitable and natural consequences of his negligence is somehow likeable?
This election will be decided by turnout. One one side, millions would walk over hot coals to end the national nightmare. On the other side, millions who voted for this nightmare will sit this one out.
Ed, you’re exactly correct. Here are a couple of other thoughts:
–”No one outside of rabid partisans on the right actually believes the president was unmoved by the murder of Americans, and it is fallacious to suggest otherwise.”–
No Mr. Moran, YOU are fallacious to believe otherwise. The president has made multiple statements to indicate he is quite indifferent. Have you forgotten that these deaths are likewise, just “bumps in the road” for this president? Obama doesn’t give one wit about the body count that inconveniently “bumps” his path toward re-election except of course his killing of bin Laden…..by the way did I mention that obama himself, killed bin Laden?
You said it, Ed!
Obama’s despicable “Here is what I will say, if four Americans get killed, it’s not optimal. And we are going to fix it” was infinitely worse Romney’s innocuous “binder” comment. IMO, that Moran dismisses both as irrelevant to the election and mere quibbling by the respective campaigns shows a serious lack of judgement. Romney’s comment was merely factual, while Obama’s tells us something very important about his character—or, rather, lack of it. He thinks that the brutal murder—on his watch (or lack)—of four Americans isn’t “optimal”: what an out of touch, narcissistic jerk.
It’s not optimal, by any means, to have such a colossally out of touch, narcissistic jerk in the WH. This comment of his has provided one more window into the dark and dangerous abyss of this moral pygmy’s mind. It’s time for him to GO—and his little (integrity-wise) wife too!
OK, I fisked the remark that Oblahblah made on the Jon Stewart show, and I agree with you, Ed Wallis, that what the president said is no small thing:
Here’s part of Oblamer’s cringe-making interview with Jon Stewart about the Benghazi murders and how hard it is, boo hoo, to run a big government:
Well, here’s what I’ll say: If four Americans get killed it’s not optimal, and we’re gonna fix it and, and — Jon Stewart interjects, “all of it” — all of it. And what happens during the course of a presidency is that — you know, the government is a big operation, [at] any given time somethin’ screws up.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/10/if-barack-obama-is-our-president-its-not-optimal.php
Look at how this scumbag distances himself from any responsibility (four examples in just 19 seconds):
* If four Americans get killed …
So, they just happened to “get killed,” no responsibility of the President, the White House, or the State Department, just a random act of “getting” themselves killed?
* … during the course of a presidency …
BO doesn’t say during the course of “my presidency”. It’s just during the course of any old presidency that things can go wrong?
* … you know, the government is a big operation
Like, we don’t know this, like he didn’t know this when he ran for POTUS?
* [at] any given time somethin’ screws up…
The time of the killings and the “screw up” had nothing to do with the lack of security in Benghazi and their happening on September 11 was merely coincidental?
If Obozo gets back in, the U.S. is totally screwed. Mitt Romney is looking increasingly presidential every time Oblahblah opens his smug, lying mouth.
Obama’s callous commentary about Stevens’ death is merely reflective of his concept of it as a “bump in the road” on Obama’s quest for extremist Islamic dominance in the ME.
I truly believe that the president could care less about the dead American soldiers. I say this based on how he responded to the Fort Hood massacre. Remember how he started that press conference? By giving shout-outs to Chief Medicine Bull and others from an earlier conference he enjoyed. He dismissed the massacre as “workplace violence” and continues to obfuscate the terror angle on that case. Meanwhile, the soldiers who peed on a dead Taliban, and the ones who disposed of Korans used by Taliban prisoners to send coded messages to each other will be “brought to justice” long before Hassan even gets convicted! So forgive me if I feel that Obama loses little sleep over dead soldiers. It’s just a minor inconvenience for him (“bump in the road”).
I don’t.
I don’t at all.
I believe he could NOT care less.
I believe his level of caring is at ZERO. He does NOT care.
Therefore, he could NOT care less than he does now. It’s not possible to care less than zero.
So, if you are correct (that he could care less), then he must care about it. Some, at least.
Please think about the meaning of the words you say, instead of just throwing sounds (or typed letters) out there and expecting everyone to just sort of figure out what you mean.
Words matter.
And you believe this means Moran has no moral compass? Who the hell do you think you are to be making this kind of judgement, anyway?
OBVIOUSLY Obama’s remark is tasteless and insensitive. But is it a game changer? Obviously not.
OBVIOUSLY it’s not equivalent to “binder”. But “47%”? I think so (as far as voter perception goes, anyway).
And did Moran say that Obama was right in saying “not optimal”? No he didn’t. He said it wouldn’t make much difference in the election.
Your comment and the nodding heads that followed are what I’d call nauseatingly sanctimonious. Leave the self-righteous bull to the liberals, thank you very much.
Oh please. Spare us your nauseatingly sanctimonious, self-righteous bull.
This isn’t the first time that Oblahblah has misspoke. It seems to be his stock in trade.
As to being a bobble-head, nope, ‘not by any stretch. You, on the other hand, seem to be having a problem straightening your head out … Whose side did you say you were on?
YOUR sanctimony makes YOU the HONORARY OFFENDED DEMOCRAT OF THE DAY, bub.
According to YOU, a “private” comment about people dependent-as-a-lifestyle on government handouts is equivalent to the President PUBLICALLY dismissing and belittling the avoidable murders of Americans on his watch.
YOU, bub, need to seek psychiatric help immediately.
No, Ed, in the minds (I use the term loosely)of the average Democrat, those two are NOT equivalent.
Romney’s comment was far worse to them.
There’s a distinct possibility that Obama doesn’t know what “optimal” means. His use of it was awkward at best, and that’s giving him a lot of “benefit of the doubt”. He’s not as bright as he’s been told.
While there are plenty of “low information” voters out there, you’ve got to wonder if it is finally occurring to folks that the most pressing issues facing this country in a dangerous world isn’t free birth control for grad students, nebulous green energy projects, easy college loans that only get sucked up into exploding tuition fed by . . . easy college loans, and more “investments” to shore up the public service unions?
Although I agree he isn’t as smart as he’s been told he is, I think Obama does know what he said, that he was trying to sound “cool” and as if he were a leader who could take an unemotional, hard-headed, “realistic” view of events.
He is not now and has never been a leader, except as a mob has a “leader”–he cannot take responsibility for anything his administration has done, except by mouthing “I am responsible.” What will the mob he’s gathered do when he is gone? The day after the election, won’t the mob continue to trash whatever they can reach? I’ve read elsewhere people saying winning the election is just the start; I believe it will be of a struggle to recover belief in an American-style democracy and that’s going to require dismantling a lot of bureaucratic institutions built up over the past 20 years, not just the past 4. Maybe more than 20 years.
I am not a Reagan admirer, though he was clearly a strong, principled man. He enabled citizens to believe that America could recover its strength and vision, but that was mostly done by smoke and mirrors. Romney is not a smoke and mirrors man, and whatever he does to ameliorate our current situation will have to be followed up in the years after him to really heal the awful chasm between our “ulema”, our “experts and law appliers” and the people who actually make our country, of whom they generally speak with such contempt.
We need to realize we made Obama possible in the first place, and to fix that, whatever “that” is.
I find it interesting that actions taken by foreigners (among other mitigating circumstances) on a USA embassy in the Middle East is once again swaying voters away from a once-popular Democratic President and to a Republican challenger the pundits in the MSM have charged mere months ago as being unlikely to unseat the incumbent. That the economy sucks badly – just as it did 32 years ago – unemployment’s real numbers are in the low teens – savings/retirement accounts being assaulted by inflation – fuel prices rising seemingly out of control – lethargy seems to rule the psyche of the nation just as it did 32 years ago. As some guy said many years ago – its Deja Vu all over again!
So – what have we to look forward to? If my crystal ball is serving me as it should I see about 32 years or more of Barack H. Obama playing the role of national gadfly – just like that other one-termer that got tossed 32 years ago. Seems like the numb-nutted are destined to repeat history!
One of my favorite jokes lately is about an old guy that walks up to the front gate of the White House every morning. He asks the guard if he can talk to Pres. Obama to which the guard replies “Mr. Obama is no longer the president” – to which the old man just smiles and walks off. After a week of this every morning questioning of the guard he is getting just a bit short with the old guy and asks him why he keeps asking the same question every day – the old guy says “I just like hearing you say Obama is not the president any longer”. The guard – with a sudden smile on his face tells the guy ” Obama is no longer president – see you tomorrow sir”.
Ah, but this time, there is at least the possibility that this particular one-termer (we hope!) will be spending time in Club Fed.
F&F involved quite a few felonies (including accessory to murder), and it’s faintly (faintly!) possible that Romney will have the intestinal fortitude to push through a just prosecution of those who are guilty.
In this, at least, he has outdone Carter.
“The movement to Romney actually started before the first debate after the Republican had experienced a couple of very bad weeks.”
IF true, it will be 50-60 years before it will be incorporated into the history of the moment. For decades the narrative about the South going Republican was that it was the angry white men resisting intergration that caused the loss of the Dems solid voting block. It wasn’t until the 80s and 90s that you started to get southern historians like the brothers Black tracing the beginning of the sea change to the late 30s and 40s, while Jim Crow was still living high. People will never believe that it wasn’t the first debate that boosted Romney from inevitable loser to viable candidate, even though he had been that all along.
Since Romney has no understanding of traditional conservative principles, he cannot argue from first causes but only from secondary effects. Thus on many issues his position differs little from Obama’s. Nonetheless, there is no choice in this election… either vote for Romney, or else continue to suffer as a vile anti-American tumor on the body politic irreparably trashes this country beyond recognition.
Largely I agree, except there is very, very little Romney has in common with Obama, either in character or in world-view. Romney may not have as deep conservative convictions as, say, Reagan espoused, but he at least has an idea of the value of capitalism versus some utterly ruinous, anti-colonialist, pay-back style of redistributionism that Obama soaked up in his tortured youth.
Reagan who was head of a union and once prochoice and Governor of a liberal state. Raised taxes and granted complete amnesty. Was far less conservative in real lfe than Romney. It is silly to pretend anyone including the current crop of so called Libertarins is any different. They have the advantage of never having to govern by the standards they pretend to set.
Libertarians are silly Utopians. The silly things they espouse quickly dissipate in full sunlite reality.
The whole movement is a way to get around taking responsibility for realife complexity. Grow up life isn’t pretending Red Dawn.
exactly
Libertarians remind me of people I work with who always suggest “great” ideas in meetings that have no chance whatsoever of ever being implemented given the real world situation we have to deal with.
Only if you are comparing Romney’s rhetoric to Reagan’s actions.
If you look at Romney’s track record, it’s that of a committed leftist, homosexual activism and all.
Romney does have traditional principals, many of them shared by the conservative movement. He also can make very good choices in his decisions. Is he a Red State righty, I also don’t think so. But he is far more discliplined than Bush I or W.
We have a huge amount of decisions to make on how to goose growth properly into the 4% or higher range, and how to cut some 20% from Gov’t spending. We need to cut our deficit as fast as we can to reach a balanced budget.
We need to recind Obamacare, but will probably need to backfill some holes to have a functioning healthcare market after the damage already done by Ocare. We need to kill Dodd-Frank but also probably backfill.
Much depends on the Senate and Congress, have the Conservatives and Tea Partiers done enough to make the proper gains there.
As always we need to select the most conservative candidate that can get elected.
Let me see. Who should I vote for?
An American hating Obamunist on the one hand, who hates everything this nation stands for. Who laughed when some school age child from Ohio recently read for his fourth grade class in front of Obama John Kennedy’s famous quote at Kennedy’s inauguration: “Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, fight any foe….
Incidentally, Obama had an excuse, saying the Kennedy speech was fine for its time but we were living in a new world.
The teacher (African American), when later asked by the local news people to comment on the President’s remark, said you have to be African American to know what the President meant
Later a spokesman for Obama said Obama was actually intending to praise Kennedy, but he made his point inartfully.
Or should I vote for Romney who didn’t desecrate old glory by selling a Romney version flag like Obama did? A Romney who has a handle on the economy having created jobs for 25 years in the private sector. And who is not afraid to offend a terrorist who murders Americans.
Actually, choosing who to vote for has never been easier. You see, I believe in freedom, liberty, good tasting nourishing lunches for schoolchildren, honesty, love of country, following all the laws, not just the ones one likes; and manners.
Call me crazy, but I’m voting for Mitt Romney Monday in the town square government building in Charleston, Illinois.
The choice is clear: a socialist tyrant vs a nice RINO.
Fine, then I will, without hesitation, choose the ‘nice rino’.
A reasonable choice, Bruce. I have no quarrel with it.
But pretending that Romney is anything other than a RINO is not reasonable.
We will need to be on our guard and holding his and Congress’ feet to the fire for the next 8 years, if he wins.
Thinking he’s a conservative is very dangerous.
The depressing thing is the damage done. The unidirectional ratchet of encroaching government has moved forward many notches. How do we correct this? History says we won’t. The politicians, even the wise ones, have no answer to this. Change will only come when the wheels fall off, when the excess plays out into chaos. My vote for the Romneys in this world is a vote for good men to be in charge when the wheels fall off.
“No one outside of rabid partisans on the right actually believes the president was unmoved by the murder of Americans, and it is fallacious to suggest otherwise.”
I am not a rabid partisan, and I am suggesting otherwise. When Obama got the literal 3:00 am call about the death of the ambassador, he went back to sleep. I remember clearly, about the Fort Hood killings, when after his shout out to his political buddies, he then used this phrase to introduce the tragedy: “You had this problem …”
Obama is a lot sicker puppy than you realize. Do you think the hundreds of dead Mexican citizens killed with guns run by Fast and Furious even show up on his radar?
yes. It’ hard to admit the reality that, ultimately, Obama is a sociopath. There is little else to explain his cavalier attitude toward the deaths of many people who have the misfortune of being associated with the decisions or lack thereof of his administration.
“Obama is a lot sicker puppy than you realize.”
Check out Hillbuzz, which has a lot to say about Obama and his pathologies and sicknesses:
Ten Important Things You Might Have Missed in the Second Presidential Debate — Hofstra’s Romney vs. Obama Debate on 10/16/2012
Read more http://hillbuzz.org/page/2
Obama was elected president because he was black and some white people thought it would be cool to have a black president to forever soothe their souls and purge their collective racism. Not to worry that he was a marxist community idealogue with a questionable past and questionable associations. OK we get it. However we as a nation must be crazy to elect a guy with this pathetic record and grand incompetence. He has been bad for this country and he needs to go. It is a horrible reflection on this country that people are too stupid and are lacking in such basic critical thinking skills to have this be a tough choice. Anyone who has not made up their mind by now is a moron. Having said that there may be millions of morons and their drones who like having a welfare president.
Tommy Gunn, we are a nation of idiots and “Honey BooBoo” look alikes and think alikes. We have lost our way within the past generation to understand even the concept of liberty and freedom. With the help of the illusion makers of Hollywood and the MSM, Barry will renew his lease on the White House for four more years. And many think that it will get better. Forget it. We will sink into something unimaginable that no one can predict. With gas prices to shoot out of reach, this healthcare bill that will force EVERYONE into some kind of gub-ment run healthcare by way of “exchanges” and the unmentioning of this debt debacle, the worst, not the best, is yet to come.
You’re overlooking the role McCain played in getting Obama elected. Obama offered Marxism, McCain offered nothing. McCain’s campaign theme was “it doesn’t matter who wins”, it was the old empty white suit versus the young empty black suit. No matter who won the country would lose. You’d be hard pressed to find two more useless and vapid Presidential candidates than we had in 2008. Not surprising since both hailed from the Senate, or the “Hall of Empty Suits” as it more correctly called.
Romney wins if he offers the voters an actual choice, he loses if he’s just another white Obama.
Beyond the “inartful” musing of the 0 this week I think the most startling and damning statistic I saw is the fact that we are now spending $700 billion a year on national defense but $1.03 trillion on welfare, plus another $900 billion on Social Security and Medicare/Medicaide. In other words, we are spending twice as much or more on social programs as we are on national defense. And this President and the Democratic Party want to cut defense and expand the welfare/social security/health budget. That is insanity!
If you want a more detailed look at the DoD budget, go here: http://comptroller.defense.gov/defbudget/fy2012/FY12_Green_Book.pdf
Are We really a nation of sociopaths? If Obama gets re-elected, that will prove We are.
And if the next “debate” is stacked as well as the last one, Romney could get smeared like an unprepared school child.
There is a massive movement of covert sociopaths entrenched in Our government that needs to be evicted. And the sociopath media is conspiring to enhance them.
Take a review of the last “debate” for proof. It was set up for Obama. He was certainly given advance notice of the questions. Crowley even admitted she would “direct” where needed to help Obama, and actually followed through with that threat.
Romney is up against the most malicious enemy America has at this time, and he better show he is ready to defend against it at every opportunity.
Rick: We’re not saying the President was “unmoved” by the killing of Americans. We’re saying he didn’t grant it the seriousness that it deserves. Thus, he jetted off to fundraise.
Obama’s approach to mideast policy is characterized by the following: (1) America is the cause of the jihadists’ animosity toward the West; (2) the savage hearts of the mideast can be tamed by exposure to Obama’s awesome personality and the arc of his life’s story; and (3) whatever problems exist in the mideast, they aren’t as interesting as domestic policy.
So, yeah, the killing of the Ambassador and others on sovereign US territory was tragic for the families of the deceased, but it in the broad scope of things, it was not that big of a deal. It was a mere “bump” in the road. Now, exposure of the folly of Obama’s policy…THAT was a big deal. That’s why Susan Rice was made to play the court jester.
“It was a mere ‘bump’ in the road,” a mere “screw up” which could have happened “at any given time.”
Uh huh.
‘Nothing to see here, folks, just move along. ‘Show some sorrow at the photo op and then off to ‘Vegas for more fun and games and adulation.
What’s missing here? What’s wrong with this photo op? Obama displays a distinct lack of sincerity or gravitas which is utterly unbecoming, not to mention unacceptable and unpresidential. (Obama’s never been comfortable in the role of President; the White House is a gig that Soros, Ayers, Jackson and co. thrust upon him as their best shot at rigging the government. Barry’s finding the job onerous and, IMO, he’s looking forward to Oahu and the $35-million house his pals are buying for him and unlimited tee time. He’s distinctly disengaged, which may be part of his game plan to get the Hell outta the Beltway …)
Folks,
Mitt Romney cannot let go of the Obama/Crowley (debate II) rose garden lies about Benghazi.
He’s got to shove those lies down their throats and make it clear to the 80 million Debate III viewers that Obama and Crowley weren’t just wrong; they were lying.
If he lets them off the hook, Romney loses.
The fact is, in the rose garden on Sept. 12, Obama did not so much as come close to calling the attack at Benghazi an act of terror. Are people like Obama and Crowley unable to understand English?
If I said,”The attack at Benghazi was an act of terror,” would my meaning be clear?
Of course, it would.
A declarative sentence makes a definite statement. It’s time Obama and Crowley and the rest of the Democratic party were made to acknowledge that words have definite meanings.
Obama said, “No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation,
alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand
for.”
People, this language does not call the Benghazi attack an act of terror. It sheds no light on our question. In fact, it was likely referring to the 9/11 attack of 2001. This language in no way, shape or form mentions Benghazi.
In the rose garden, Obama never called the attack on Benghazi an act of terror. When Sue Rice was prepared to appear on all the Sunday news later that week, nobody told Sue the attack at Benghazi was an act of terror. How do I know that? Rice never said it.
On Letterman. On the View. At the UN two weeks later. All Obama did was blame the youtube video in the hope of deflecting blame from himself. Never once did Obama call the attack at Benghazi an act of terror or terrorist act. Logic tells us this makes no sense.
What does Obama and Crowley need to tell the truth?
My view is they will pile on lie after lie about this until somebody comes up with a blue stained dress a la Bill Clinton.
Obama is a serial, pathological liar. And Crowley bought into the conspiracy of lies.
Obama hardly qualifies as a President. What Obama is, is a corrupt miscreant.
Because Obama wanted to be obtuse about his meaning in the rose garden, he made a statement with no identifying language. He appeared to be trying to say something like, “If attacked, there will be a response.”
Trying to infer what words mean; Playing that game gives the disingenuous liar operating room; room to argue about possible meanings. It also gives people as disingenuous as Obama and Candy Crowley the opportunity to lie through their teeth because the meaning isn’t clear.
Like a bulldog, Romney has to grab on to Obama’s disingenuous statements and not let go until Obama says Uncle.
It’s the only way to win the election. Failure to pin Obama down snatches victory from the jaws of defeat.
Obama is unfit to be President. Millions of voters who will vote to re-elect him are unfit to be citizens.
rachel, Barry will renew his lease for four more years. Just take a look at who “Honey BooBoo”‘s mother is voting for. And many not only look like her, but think like her also. And will follow along with her indorsment and vote like her. All you have to do is stand at the entrance of your local WalMart and you’ll get the picture that Barry will get another four years.
IF they vote.
“Mitt Romney cannot let go of the Obama/Crowley (debate II) rose garden lies about Benghazi.”
I agree. Romney had Obama on the ropes in the debate and Crowley saved him with her partisan intervention and perhaps his presidency. For a week. Romney needs to hit back hard in the next debate to set the record straight and tie it in to Obama’s overall failure in the middle east.
“Mitt Romney cannot let go of the Obama/Crowley (debate II) rose garden lies about Benghazi.”
I agree. Romney had Obama on the ropes in the debate and Crowley saved him with her partisan intervention and perhaps his presidency. For a week. Romney needs to hit back hard on Obama in the next debate to set the record straight and tie it in to Obama’s overall failure in the middle east.
Sorry.
Typo: should have written: “snatches defeat from the jaws of victory.”
Words do have meaning.
What I am seeing since the polls broke for Romney is a determination to get policies in place so that the collectivist political coup and ultimate reorganization of the economy away from free markets and economic freedom will continue in the name of education even if Obama loses.
http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/squelching-climate-skepticism-while-employing-operant-conditioning-tactics-against-schoolchildren/ is a post on two such attempts just this week to remain in place and largely out of sight whatever happens on November 6 at the federal, state, and local levels.
The only real way to prevail is to make November 6 an undeniable statement against statism from either party. Then we need to begin to appreciate the nature of the Transformative poltical, social, and economic coup that has been building for a long time.
It’s time for a complete autopsy of the recurring ideology so that a simple name change will no longer be enough to keep coming at our freedoms and personal liberties.
I’d like to thank you for posting about what’s happening in education. A few years ago, several of us battled, successfully, against some of this nonsense. We got rid of one such program only to have another weed sprout in its place.
Please explain further on your baseless assertion that Obama did not mean exactly what he said on The Daily Show. He already called them “bumps in the road.”
I watched the special on Libya last night on Fox News. They laid out the details of the attack very clearly. The interview with the security team leader that was taken out before the attack was shocking. This administration left the ambassador a sitting duck.
Everything else aside, I do not know how anyone could watch that special and vote Obama. I’m sure it will be aired a few more times this weekend. If you watch, be prepared to get very angry.
But I doubt many will watch who are not already voting Romney. Well, since it was laid out so clearly it may assist in explaining what happened to undecided voters.
FOX’s account of what and how the attack in Bengazi went down is chilling.
And, it raises more questions; WHY did the State Department remove the security team leaving only 6 or 7 men left to defend themselves against an impending terrorist attack?
Also, why did the terrorists quit the assult when they outnumbered the American defenders, why did the Libyans take the Ambassodor to the hospital and why did someone at the compound issue an apology for the u-tube video hours before the attack happened?
If I understood correctly the security left were only armed with pistols?
The security chief they interviewed exhibited a level of professionalism and control that I truly admire. You know this must be tearing him up inside. This team were forced to leave their post when they knew they were still needed.
Mr. Moran, you should be ghostwriting for Mr. Krugman et al.
Sad, very sad that you can hold such an opinion and publish it with a straight face. I am beginning to think you are a Moby.
“Sad, very sad that you can hold such an opinion and publish it with a straight face. I am beginning to think you are a Moby.”
He’s saying Romney is winning. How is that Moby?
Because, as usual, he sneers at the Conservative base of the right, and carries water for the media and the left. “No one outside of rabid partisans on the right actually believes the president was unmoved by the murder of Americans, and it is fallacious to suggest otherwise.” I’m sorry but there only a blind fool would think he actually was moved by these murders. He did nothing to prevent it when he could, then lied about it to save his own butt, all the while his only concern seems to be how it damaged his image.
“You can smell the desperation in the crazy attacks mounted by both campaigns and their thousands of surrogates on the web and social media in the last 72 hours.” Ah yes the good ol’ RINO argument that assumes moral equivalency between the left and right, despite all evidence to the contrary. I’m sorry but Obama jumping on Romney’s comment is crazy and desperate. Romney’s counter attack is right on the money; Obama is cold, distant, and like most power hungry narcissists, it’s doubtful that he actually does care about any amount of suffering that happens to anyone who isn’t himself. To think otherwise is to be naive.
Calm down, for Christ’s sake. Calling Moran a lefty because he made an observation you don’t agree with is ludicrous. The closer we get to the election, the more people (on both sides, but mostly theirs) are losing it.
Hey, watch your language. Would you like it if I used your father’s name with an expletive attached, which would be the equivalent of what you’ve done with the name of the God I and millions of others worship?
Try using Allah’s name like that.
Oh. You wouldn’t do that? Why not? …
Moran is exactly the type of moderate centrist who is more concerned with being popular amongst the Left than the Right. The kind of guy who refuses to call out the left for their radicalism but is perfectly OK jumping all over his own people for whatever they do. Almost every one of Moran’s articles is the blogging equivalent of the McCain campaign and is not only useless, but counterproductive as he spends more time attacking the Right than the Left.
Also need to post to point out the irony of you swearing at me and getting much more riled up than I did in my initial post because you disagree with me. How bout this; take your wishy washy, moderate conservatism and cram it.
I’ve wondered for some time why PJ Media bothers with Moran. Change the “a” to an “o” in his name and that’s about what I think of this sorry excuse for a principled commentator. Is this an ad hominem? Yes, but Moran’s already suggested that I’m a “rabid partisan on the right” because, in fact, with verifiable reason, I “actually believe . . . the president was unmoved by the murder of Americans. . .”
I’d suggest that, using Moran’s own weasel words, “. . . it is fallacious to suggest” that the president gave or gives a hoot about the altogether avoidable Libya murders, on his watch (but he wasn’t watching was he?). This narcissist has shown very consistently, for most of his life, that the only person who really counts is—wait for it—Himself.
Wise up, Mr. “Moron”!
This election is turning on the truth. Gaffes are part of that truth. Romney’s alleged gaffes were, for the most part, inconvenient administration truths or manufactured by the Lame Scream Media (LSM). Obama’s gaffes were glimpses of how he really thinks. Obama’s gaffes in context and out conveyed the same meaning. You can do that only so many time before even the least involved begin to notice. The LSM can walk the dog backward or backfill for Obama only so many times before even the least involved begin to notice. They are taking notice.
The bay empties before the tsunami rolls in. Obama Bay is dry.
The gaffs the libs use against Romney are, for the most part, portions of statements taken out of context. The gaffs obama made are, for the most part, because he’s trying to look extremely sophisticated and “above it all”. The gaffs biden made are because he’s an idiot (I don’t care if he’s got a 4 digit IQ, he’s still an idiot).
Uh oh-we’re doomed! Romney’s doomed! Gloria Allred is riding to Obama’s rescue:
Republicans bracing for ‘October surprise’ as Gloria Allred ‘prepares for Romney revelation’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2220526/Republicans-bracing-October-surprise-Gloria-Allred-prepares-Romney-revelation.html
Since it appears “going negative” hasn’t really paid off for BHO to date, this may actually be good news…Guess we’ll know when the surprise is detonated.
She’d better hurry up then! She’s running out of October!
Perhaps, for many, it will be similar to a family having to put down the beloved family dog. He could be a rascal but he was a lovable scamp and even if he soiled the carpets and chewed up many a pair of shoes, he also provided much fun and frolic. But, sad to say, he’s grown fat and sick and is on his last legs and while we all hate to do it, it’s time to put him down. Besides, a new dog may actually scare away prowlers and he wouldn’t cost so much if we kept him to his diet. It’s for the best to end the suffering. We’ll miss ol’ Rover.
Lets put all issues aside, what type of President do you want, one who leads from behind or one that leads from the front. President Obama has already showed us what type of leader he is and I believe Romney has shown he will lead from the front. Thats the kind of leader we need.
Mr. Moran will you please give us a break!
Really now!
Stop and think and remember a month ago the election was over. Obama was going to win, all the polls said so! Every face on TV said so! Every person with a byline or blog said so!
People who were not backing Obama were becoming very concerned and worried. I know, I was and am very worried. I knew before the election day in 2008 that McCain was going to lose, yet I voted for him any way. You get the feeling that this time it is just more than an election. You begin to question yourself, “can Romney pull it off?”
Mr. Moran you are right to point out that the election can go against Romney. One word could end it all, remember George Allen. The Obama people are going to be looking for or trying to invent that word or incident. However, for right now, the polls and momentum seem show they are for Romney.
Can we not draw a breath and just savor the moment, if only for a little while?
Hold on. Remember it ain’t over til the fat lady sings.
Gloria Allred?
Because Drudge she’s got a woman lined up ready to make an accusation against Romney or Ryan when the time is right.
Agree. The more they are silent, the more votes are going to Romney. It’s just like the noticeable lack of Obama signs and stickers, this time.
It should be “say anything different” not “differently”. Different describes anything & besides, “say” is an intransitive verb anyway.
My online mantra for the closing weeks:
Americans are tired of excuses and word games instead of solutions and results.
Romney will win the election by a landslide.
Romney’s race to lose… how the Republican can close the sale… I was about to respond with “[Don't feed the] leftist troll” but then I realized this was the article writer, not some comments poster! Shame on you RIckNO and shame on PJ Media for diong a MSM imitation.
Ben Swann talks with Christina Tobin of Free and Equal Elections about the upcoming debate in Chicago for alternative Presidential Candidates including Gary Johnson with the Libertarian Party, Virgil Goode with the Constitution Party, Jill Stein with the Green Party and Rocky Anderson with the Justice Party. Larry King will moderate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IbD2nHsog8&feature=plcp
You are correct, I think, SP. Obama did not know what the word “optimal” meant. It’s similar to his “profit to earnings” ratio statement. He didn’t have a clue that the ratio is actually “(stock) price to earnings” ratio, or that profits ARE earnings in that ratio. Obama is a polished-up mediocrity who truly seems to think that he is brilliant. The gaping holes in his education/knowledge are scary. Pathetic (and dangerous for the country).
It’s almost the same as Carter / Reagan
The guns with no bullets
The bad moves by a clueless President
if you step back and look , the pattern is happening like it did back them
The media kept saying it will be a tie
It was a landslide
The News Talking Heads were spinning in disbelief
It will be nice to see that again
“Here’s how the Republican can close the sale…”
The one and ONLY way that we can lose 2012 is if the conservatives, who stayed home, by the millions, in 2008 (out of disgust and sheer exasperation with the McCain campaign) fail, again, to show up to toss Obama and support Romney.
It is truly as simple as that. This nation is right of center — Hollywood, the MSM, academia, all the various leftist organizations notwithstand). If we end up giving B. Hussein Obama another term in office? Then we deserve the tyranny we will absolutely receive. The American ideal: proud self-reliance, will be overwhelmed and cast aside. We will become Europe, Jr.
You don’t have to worry about the Right wing conservatives staying home and not voting. Romney lock up those votes when he chose Paul Ryan as his VP candidate, much to OBama’s displeasure.
I have to agree. In late October McCain was on Hannity’s radio show claiming we had to fight for our free speech rights because Democrats wanted to bring back the “equal time rule” for broadcasters. This from the man who sponsored McCain-Feingold, slapping down my free speech rights in many ways. The Libertarian party got my vote after that.
I would also add the GOP spent and legislated like Democrat-lite. They ALWAYS lose when they play Democrat-pretend.
If the GOP “rinses and repeats” they’ll experience 2008 in 2014. I hope they’ve learned.
I need an air sickness bag I’m so sick of Moran doing the pro Obama dance time after time. This is the last time I’m commenting on his trash. I suggest the rest of you take my lead. No comments anymore for Moran. The Obama spin, for me, has spun its last.
I’m with you. Expect that I couldn’t help but react
I get so tired of these easy, poll-driven, psuedo-journalistic, postings, especially from the supposed conservative side. We are coming down to the two week mark. And we are receiving merciless incoming missile fire to dissuade us from fighting full-bore *against* The One, FOR, his slayer, Mitt Romney.
We are talking about the very survival of America as we have known, and grown up with.
– ed.
INSERT: (out of disgust and sheer exasperation with the McCain campaign, AND THE BIG SPENDING, ILLEGAL-IMMIGRATION-PROMOTING, TERROR-WAFFLING second term of GWB — I’m sorry, I hate to say it, but it is what it is … )
Rick!As a foreigner I see the great weakness of the conervatives media that makes any reasonable reader to become the Obama-hater,but can`t turn half of the American voters on it`s side.
If voters are looking for safety and security, they definitely should not vote for Obama. In less than 4 years of this man being in office, we’ve had an horrific terrorist attack which killed and injured many of our brave at Ft. Hood, Texas, despite his administration calling it simply violence in the workplace. Additionally, under Obama, we’ve had a distinguished Ambassador and 3 other Americans killed in another terrorist attack which the administration refused to admit was a terrorist attack and which it and Obama himself blamed for days and even embarrassingly at the UN, on a 14-minute video that the majority of the Arab world, as well as the rest of the world, did not even know existed until the administration pushed the idea to the media who helped further his lame excuse for the despicable murders. His administration’s constant lies and distortions of fact on everything from the $500 MILLION taxpayer dollars lost in Solyndra, the dodging of truth surrounding the ‘Fast and Furious’ murder of Border Patrol Terry and hundreds if not thousands of innocent Mexicans, to now Libya, not only are not in keeping with his pledge to America that his administration will be the most open and transparent, it is also unpresidential, highly partisan and uncaring. He also has offered NO PLAN for how to fix America economically, financially, strategically, militarily, internationally.
Contrast that with Mitt Romney who has been consistently discussing his 5-point plan for America’s path to prosperity, security and growth for months now since he became the GOP nominee. Romney is passionate about creating jobs for an America that’s just sputtering along, and he’s also compassionate towards the poor, the veterans and the disadvantaged (look at the millions he himself gives to charities and to his church who also has given to the poor and disadvantaged worldwide for decades). Romney is for a strong homeland security, a true comprehensive immigration reform program, a second to none military/defense and intelligence establishment and a strong America internationally, financially and economically.
For 4 years, Obama blamed everything that was wrong with America and the world on George W. Bush, but George W. Bush kept the homeland safe after 9/11 for 7 consecutive years. Obama is a failure, and we don’t need another 4 more years of stagnation, uncertainty, homeland insecurity, bowing to other world leaders, being friendly with the likes of Venezuela’s Chavez while ignoring our long-held allies like Israel’s Netanyahu. Vote for Romney for a change America
and the world can truly believe in.
888!Thanks not 88 88.You` ve brilliantly explaned why the half of the Americans votes for Obama!
Newsflash, Mitt IS losing.
Obama is twice as likely to win as Romney is.
Check out the 538 blog on NYT.
Now just what makes you believe we should pay attention to the inane ramblings of a Desperate Left wing Liberal Hack???
IT’S OVER. DONE. NO, YOU CAN’T POS. YOU CUT CORNERS. ROVE AND ROMNEY HAVE THE INTERNAL NUMBERS IE STATES, COUNTIES, PRICINTS AND DEMOGRAPHICS. NOT EVEN RASMUSSEN OR GALLUP HAVE THOSE. SILENT MAJORITY. GO MITT!
Funny… the post focuses on how the small “gaffes” are not really an issue, yet so many comments focus on them lol.
Anyhow… look at the polls and specifically their averages…
Romney’s bounce from debate 1 has ended and has begun to reverse course, albiet very slowly.
This race will be decided in Ohio by get out the vote operations…
My guess is this is a repeat of 2004. Mitt may even win the popular vote, but not the electoral college vote. Whether you hate Obama or not, this is reality.
Reality???? Not at all!
I disagree.
If Romney were a good candidate (or even a halfway decent/acceptable candidate) I would have to agree with all of you but the fact of the matter is, like it or not, Romney is a TERRIBLE candidate.
Americans don’t like flip floppers. They don’t like royalty (people who are given piles of cash and a political career by birth right) and they don’t like Willard Romney.
I mean half of the people planning on voting for him don’t even know his real name is Willard not “Mitt”.
A lot fo real conservatives are voting Gary Johnson.
I mean how can you trust a guy who has been on all sides of almost every issue?
And the idea that a good businessman (not saying Willard was) makes a good government leader is a flawed premise.
The two have different goals.
CEOs job is to make their share holders (mostly old white conservatives) richer everything else be dammed.
The goal of the government is to defend the nation and provide for the common welfare.
I am not sweating this election too much.
They are pretty much just pepsi/coke.
I live in NC and Romney is up by 6 points now here, I drive around my city and I see 7 Obama signs in yards to 2 Romney signs in yards, Are people scared of what can happen on Nov 6th which I see happening, A Romney win, I think, then Blacks to mount chaos and start destroying things all around, which I believe could happen. Anyone?