The Romney Surge
What Romney lacked in specific foreign policy proposals, he made up for in skewering President Obama for his retreat from the world and the unmitigated disaster of seeing the Muslim Brotherhood in power in Egypt and Islamic extremists running wild across the Middle East.
I want to be very clear: The blame for the murder of our people in Libya, and the attacks on our embassies in so many other countries, lies solely with those who carried them out—no one else. But it is the responsibility of our president to use America’s great power to shape history—not to lead from behind, leaving our destiny at the mercy of events. Unfortunately, that is exactly where we find ourselves in the Middle East under President Obama.
At times, Romney seemed to be channeling George Bush and his “freedom agenda”:
This is the struggle that is now shaking the entire Middle East to its foundation. It is the struggle of millions and millions of people—men and women, young and old, Muslims, Christians and non-believers—all of whom have had enough of the darkness. It is a struggle for the dignity that comes with freedom, and opportunity, and the right to live under laws of our own making. It is a struggle that has unfolded under green banners in the streets of Iran, in the public squares of Tunisia and Egypt and Yemen, and in the fights for liberty in Iraq, and Afghanistan, and Libya, and now Syria. In short, it is a struggle between liberty and tyranny, justice and oppression, hope and despair.
“Hope is not a strategy,’’ Romney said. But, as James Lindsay of the Council on Foreign Relations told Politico:
If Romney has a foreign policy strategy, he still has not told us what it is. The governor is very fond of saying hope is not a strategy, but that cuts both ways. He didn’t answer two key questions: what he would do differently and why we should expect what he would do to work.
Since the president’s pronouncements on foreign affairs have been filled with even more empty platitudes — “Osama is dead,” “the tide of war is receding” — it shouldn’t bother Romney that his lack of specifics is being criticized by people who don’t agree with him anyway.
If all Romney had to accomplish in his speech at VMI was appear presidential while reminding voters of what is going on in the Middle East with Obama’s failures significantly endangering our friends and American interests, he far exceeded expectations. As for the debate, the townhall format favors the president, but Obama will likely be on the defensive on Israel, Iran, and the revolt in Syria. And while the press has probably already written the “comeback kid” stories about Obama’s miraculous turnaround in the upcoming debate, Romney doesn’t have to “win” in any real sense. Occupying the same space with the president and talking knowledgeably about foreign affairs while avoiding a serious gaffe should be sufficient for the GOP candidate to hold his own.
Foreign policy has not been a major issue in a presidential campaign since 2004 and even then was not a big determinant in the campaign. One would have to go back to the Cold War to recall a time when the voter saw electing a president competent in foreign policy as literally a life-and-death decision and when a candidate like Barack Obama would have been laughed off the stage for his pretensions to foreign policy expertise. The voters never would have taken a chance on such a greenhorn.
But this is 2012 and we’ve had nearly four years of greenhorn management of our foreign affairs. To paraphrase the ultimate campaign question, is the world better off today than it was four years ago?
To millions who have been waiting for American leadership to help bring order out of chaos and light the way to peace through the current darkness, the answer is change can’t come soon enough.
Also read: Romney Jumps to Lead in Another Poll
Oh great, do I have to explain this one? If you look at all the polls on Real Clear Politics, Mitt Romney only had one good poll over President Obama on Monday and that is the general election poll done by Pew Research with Romney 49, Obama 45. Also on Monday, if you looked at the general election poll done by Gallup Tracking, it was Obama 50, Romney 45. Now, if you looked at the state by state polls on Monday done by various pollsters, it was all Obama. The Romney bounce on Real Clear Politics was only one day on October 5th on various pollsters.
This is the first time that Romney has taken the lead in a general election poll done by one pollster. One lead does not a guarantee make!
The general trajectory is that Obama in heap big trouble.
The current general trajectory is that Romney needs to win all 8 swing states to reach 270 electoral votes. Isn’t the odds pretty stacked up against him, FeralCat? I’ve been following up on this with all of the pollsters out there and this looks like a clearly conclusive trajectory.
Rick, you miss the point, again. It isn’t that we believe the polls, it’s that even with their easily proven left-slant, Romney is ahead!
The reason many of us are calling for a Romney landslide is that he is ahead even in biased polls. I suspect the real margin is more like 10+ percent.
That was exactly my reaction after reading that. I still believe the polls are understating Romney’s actual position. They’re still rigged but no amount of rigging can hide the apparent reality.
I try to be more charitable and say that they’re using old algorithms that overstate both the number of Democrats and their likelihood of voting, rather than say they’re rigged.
But, they’re probably rigged.
Either way, they’re not an accurate representation of reality, which we’re going to find out on Nov. 6.
Post Debate Polling: FL Romney +2 & +3 VA Romney +1 & +3 OH Romney -1 & +1
IA Romney -2 CO Romney -1 & -4
Rob, time to recalibrate your thinking.
I never said America was intelligent. Not once did anybody in the public caught Mitt Romney completely abandoning his entire previous convictions and core values. At the debate, he had a completely different platform and set of talking points altogether. If you guys think this is integrity and worth voting for a “chameleon” than I say good luck to America if he wins. Will he be the next president to dupe us into another unnecessary war? I know that is completely possible if he wins. This guy is not only a chameleon but he has a strong way of changing clothes, if you know what I mean, yet able to sway people.
Who is Frank Marshall Davis?
Frank Marshall Davis is a complete talking point and a conspiracy theory. To even bring this up is borderline embarrassing to any nature of an intellectual discussion.
Rob, you wrote, “Frank Marshall Davis is a complete talking point and a conspiracy theory. To even bring this up is borderline embarrassing to any nature of an intellectual discussion.” Really? A talking point? Do you know what a talking point is? Doesn’t seem like you do. You can say it’s in the vein of a conspiracy theory, but so what? You say it’s not intellectual and a conspiracy so it’s off the table? Who the frig are you?
I DO think that FMD is Obama’s father. I actually have sympathy for him in only this, because it is one thing he didn’t bring upon himself. It would have little impact on perceptions of him (really, the reason people vehemently dislike Obama is not because of his past – it’s because of his career), in my opinion, if it could be shown to be true. It is just my non-intellect, intuition/instinct/gumption, that tells me it is the case. So sorry.
He looks like him, and FMD wasn’t exactly on the other side of the globe with no knowledge of the boy Obama. There is also a photo of Obama as a boy with his mother photoshopped in – her hand, under boy Obama’s arm, was overlooked and remains the black hand of the original person. Who has anything like that in their personal archives? Do you? Do you have photoshopped pictures of yourself when you were ten that covers up someone with your mother’s image? Yes, you probably do. So, nothing to see here. Just a bunch of crazy talk.
Had Mitt Romney had as mentor an old-time KKK member, would it be major campaign news? For days on end? The questions answer themselves.
Frank Marshall Davis was a committed communist. He was mentor to Barack Hussein Obama. Deal with it.
So this is not a talking point or conspiracy theory? You guys came to this conclusion based on a name “Frank” being mentioned in Obama’s book, “Dreams From My Father”? A name “Frank” being mentioned in America, a country of over 300 million in population? Could it possibly be that America can have more than one “Frank”? Or are you guys certain that it was this “Frank” and you can prove it all the way up to the Supreme Court?
Oh God, this reminds me, what if another “Rob” in America commit a heinous crime and all the local news medias were broadcasting that the authorities were looking for a “Rob”. Oh yikes, you guys have made a great point. I hope I never turn on the news and the broacast for the night is that the authorities are looking for a “Rob”.
Come on, Rob, that’s spurious at best. Have you ever read up on the “conspiracy”? The link to FMD is not entirely derived from “Dreams”. Why don’t you look into it? I agree, it’s sketchy, but what makes me lean toward believing it is the case is the resemblence. He has the same mouth. Compared to Obama Sr I think Frank Marshal Davis simply looks more like Obama. And from the photos I’ve seen he doesn’t resemble his family in Kenya at all. His father looks like an African black, but Obama does not. And, no, having a white mother doesn’t mean detecting any resemblence is impossible. And like I said, there is no controversy, there is no harm in me or anyone else thinking it’s the case. Conservatives don’t punish people for the sins of their parents. It doesn’t matter if it’s true, and I think it probably is.
Rob, It never fails to amaze and amuse me how hypocrisy is the driving force behind so-called progressive politics. Being blind to the prevarications of Obama while emoting umbrage in response to Romney’s measured comments occurs without the slightest feeling of inconsistency. Why do I remember Obama’s promise to halve the deficit, or that I could keep my insurance, or that premiums under Obamacare would go down by $2,500, and on and on. Politicians make promises without intending to keep them and change their positions as the political winds change. Obama is at least as guilty of such conduct as any other politician. The issue before us is not whether one candidate or another plays the political game better than the other. It is simply and plainly whether what has occurred over the last four years could possibly justify giving Obama four more years and the American people more of the same. What Americans saw at the debate was a confident and well informed Romney, and a pusillanimous Obama who had difficulty stringing two sentences together in a coherent fashion. Obama revealed himself to be a creature of hope and change and a construct that the media created, much like Brittany Spears, but who, also like Brittany Spears, had no clothes. What we are now seeing is a major case of buyer’s remorse. Obama’s relentless and scurrilous attacks on Romney’s character and persona were revealed as flat and without substance. And, Obama was revealed as teleprompter challenged and simply unable to discuss the issues without that crutch. You can hope that Obama will rehabilitate himself, but the chances are quite slim. I suspect that the Ryan/Biden debate will cement the deal as Biden has the same deficiency of being unable to either discuss or understand the driving issues without finding his foot in his mouth.
Disturber
Disturber, I doubt that the president was pusillanimous, as you have creatively described. What I believe occurred was the fact that he was completely caught off guard. He came into that debate with the sole intention of exchanging his viewpoints from Romney’s viewpoints. He was hoping to establish his contrast in his ideas and vision from Romney. What he did not expect was for Romney to completely walk away from the previous platform that he stood by. How can you debate someone that flat out denies his previous core convictions? How can you debate someone that completely walks away from what his previous vision for America was? Have you ever debated a compulsive liar? Have you ever debated someone with ever changing viewpoints? My conclusion is that, in this type of scenario, you cannot win unless you are willing to stoop down to doing the exact same thing. I believe the president wasn’t ready to stoop that far down so he froze.
Rob, the thing with the 5 trillion tax cut “core conviction” is this. If that was Obama’s stake-through-the-heart why didn’t he have any reference, anything to back up his own attack? All he proffered was hear-say: inline with, “this is what you’ve been saying”. Really? When, where. What a great debater. He was not prepared, and deserves the consequences. Furthermore, that number, 5 trillion, is derived from stuff Romney had said about what he intends to do. So, why wasn’t Obama prepared to explain his accusation, how it was derived? Was it so unambiguous? Is there a video where Romney says ANYTHING about a 5 trillion tax cut? Did Obama expect everyone to know what he was talking about, because we are all simply on the edge of our seats beholden to his narrative?
kgb, most independent economists have dissected Mitt Romney’s plan and stated that if he took a 20% across the board tax cut for everybody, it would cost $5 trillion over the span of 10 years. They took a national annual average of the total from corporate incomes, payroll incomes, individual incomes, excises, estate, and gift, then applied the U.S. income tax code to this and came up with that final total amount if 20% across the board tax cut for everybody was implemented. It’s in the same math that Paul Ryan couldn’t explain on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, of all places, on how they were going to pay for this massive tax plan.
Mitt Romney stated in the debate that he would also lower deductions, exemptions, and credits being claimed to fully pay for this massive tax plan. Let’s take a closer look – if he did all of that, there is not nearly enough revenues to cover for that $5 trillion because the federal government’s total take on corporate income taxes, payroll taxes, individual income taxes, excises taxes, estate taxes, and gift taxes would be less on each annual basis. No amount of lowered deductions, exemptions, and credits will make up for that unless it is removed altogether. The downside to this lowering of deductions, exemptions, and credits being claimed is that the income tax returns for the middle class will be much less annually. So the middle class will still be footing the bill to pay this with lesser income tax returns annually.
I don’t agree with you, but that’s not even the point. The point is YOU are making the argument. How long would it take to read your post out loud? A minute or less? Obama was not prepared for his first presidential debate, period. The fact that he follows up by focusing on Mitt’s Big Bird statement proves further how unserious he really is. I do think Obama is probably an intelligent guy, but I think his talent for his coveted mass appeal in politics has to do with facing all issues with a bold sense of naive childlike optimism. It’s feel good. It’s all rhetorical, boring, and says very little – and I realized it from the first. However, that is what got him into office, and he will not veer from it. It is a double-edged sword for him. He must necessarily believe that he has to stick with his childish rhetoric because that is what works with the large majority of the supporters he has. He made his bed.
Big Bird!
I understand that Obama does come across as sometimes having some level of childlike sarcasm and a bold sense of naive childlike optimism, but this exists in the best of us. Have you ever been countered in a heated argument and found the opposing viewpoints to be absolutely ridiculous? What was your first natural instinct – to comeback with some type of childlike type of sarcasm, right? Sort of like a quick snap remark. It’s all in innocent fun and even the best of us have done it. Or have you ever wanted something so badly for a long time, such as a physical product, and wanting to buy it knowing it was not worth the buy? Most people end up confidently buying it anyway even knowing that they were on a very tight budget, thinking nothing bad can go wrong for them. It happens to the best of us.
As far as Big Bird is concerned, by claiming that he was going to cut PBS funding and remove Big Bird from kids, Mitt Romney himself opened Pandora’s Box. Cutting Big Bird from kids to pay for the $5 trillion massive tax plan? That’s all he’s got so far to pay for this tax plan in specifics? Really? Neither he nor Paul Ryan have provided any specifics on how they will pay for this tax plan. Do they even have a concrete plan to pay this down? Does anyone in Americaknow what it is ?
Well I swear – it does sound like you’re describing Obama. Or do you not remember his running to the right of Hilary Clinton in 2008? Or his sudden lurch to the left after being elected? Or is your powers of recall (and thinking) that impaired?
Axelrod, is that you?
How’s the weather in Chicago?
Sorry Womba, no I am not but I’ll take this as a compliment.
“With the next presidential debate about foreign policy on October 16 (the Biden-Ryan debate will take place October 11), Romney decided it might be a good idea to burnish his credentials on foreign affairs while giving a few whacks to Obama in the process. To this end, the candidate gave what was billed as a “major foreign policy address” at the Virginia Military Institute.”
Mitt Romney: “I will evaluate conditions on the ground and weigh the best advice of our military commanders”.
Well Mitt, our military commanders, the generals, are worse than incompetent, far worse. What else should they fairly be called after 11 years and all the wasted lives and limbs of American troops and all the wasted hundreds of billions, that we don’t have to spare, and all the bowing and scraping and apologizing to Muslim they have done, on the utter failure that is Afcrapistan?
I can tell you what our military commanders, the worse than worthless generals, will say. They will say what they have been saying for years now, that we need more human sacrifices, I mean troops, in Afcrapistan and we need to stay long enough to “get the job done”. How many more American troops must lose life or limb for our generals hubris, career-uber-alles and willful blindness? There is nothing to “win” in Afcrapistan and past the few first weeks there never was.
Mitt, please apply the same thinking you used to make Bain so successful. If you had hired these idiot military commanders to run it for you, they would have run it into the ground as well as put you and your family in the poor house.
I have written about the polls and I’m not as much convinced that they are “rigged,” as much as they are merely wrong — based on methodology and the reticence of the polled to always be truthful.
The first poll cited in the article had a small Romney advantage in people polled, but the second had more than 11% more Obama supporters polled than Romney backers. I don’t think it is unreasonable to opine that this differential had a great deal to do with the results. Is this a deliberate tactic on the part of the pollers, to over sample the Obama minions? I’m not so sure, but it surely bares mentioning.
As far as the election is concerned, I don’t think this is a close race. I think Romney is going to win in a landslide. Obama is bleeding support, because he has no plan for the future and a disastrous record.
I think the proper way to look at the election is to take Obama’s total from 2008 and subtract out some portion of each group he has hurt economically, insulted or demonized, as well as those he has terrorized with his serial weakness and embarrassed with his lax work ethic, arrogance and narcissism.
Certainly, fewer people support him this election than last, whatever the polls say.
One poll I took didn’t even ask if I was registered. In this same poll they asked if I thought my views were closer to the Republican or Democrat views, or independent. Say for example I was a not registered and I formed my opinion of Republican views from the MSM. How on earth would my expressed preference mean a thing? From taking polls and paying attention to the wording of questions asked, I know that all polls are not equal in the quality of of data they are likely to compile. Some are so badly executed as to be meaningless.
My opinion of polls have not changed.
My belief that enthusiasm for Romney is increasing can only be anecdotal.
…”it shouldn’t bother Romney that his lack of specifics is being criticized by people who don’t agree with him anyway.”
Actually having a framework of principles to guide your strategy can show a voter what he would do in many scenarios. The problem is the lack of political knowledge and interest of so many citizens who live on sound bites, and have little sense of history or the course of civilization. Educating them is a monumental task.
YAY!!! now we love the polls. YAY!!! our guy lied his way to victory in a debate. YAY!!! our guy hypes up a BIG foreign policy speech and gives NO specifics, just like his plan to close ‘loop holes’ YAAAAAAY! I’m a delusional conservative (forgive the redundancy)
In chess you don’t think in terms of specifics, ever. It’s not “I move here and you do X to counter” type of thing. The name given to that is LOSING. Rather, the idea is vector: e.g. at the game beginning you want to exercise control over the 4 centre squares.
What Romney discusses thus far is vector based and for the same reason.
You, meanwhile, are nattering about specifics. It’s not surprising that intellects like yours perceive Romney (vector, which always wins) as losing to Obama (specifics, which always lose.)
I see Obama as the chess mind – most think he is a ‘long game’ player- Romney might be up to checkers – hard to tell – his story keeps changing
Perhaps time to lay off of the drugs, yes?
specifically right NOW or just in general?
No, we still distrust the polls. We’re happy because that simply means his lead “in the real world” is even bigger.
Go back a few pages and read the thoughts and opinions of the writers and readers on PJM over the past 2 months. Read the thoughts and opinions of other pundits like Dick Morris who called this from the start. I think you’ll find more than a little mistrust in the veracity of the polls going forward to this week. The polls are beginning to reflect reality (finally!) and put people like you on edge. Don’t let the fact that an adult will soon be in charge of this (once) great nation (and will be again) trouble you too much.
Now go find a job. No more handouts for OWS.
Note: Its nice to see you can remain cheerful in the wake of the news that Romney is going to trounce your Messiah.
Romney/Ryan by +6 popular – 330+ electoral votes. You may begin crying…
The key is going to be turnout and independents. If there is a huge turnout of the base for Romney and if independents keep swinging Romney’s way, he’s going to win. All Romney needs to do is keep up the pressure on Obama in the debate. Obama has no major accomplishments in foreign policy and the scandal over the consulate in Libya is getting bigger and bigger. Somebody screwed up big time in Libya, and the only question is who that “somebody” is. And let’s not forget Fast and Furious, either. That was very much a foreign policy decision since it involved running guns into Mexico. And we all saw how “well” that turned out. All Romney needs to do is keep throwing all of this in Obama’s face and Obama will fold like a cheap tent. Obama doesn’t take criticism very well and he will be on the defensive, which is where he should be.
I think the best Romney can hope for is an adequate turnout of the base.
Turnout: The dems had the best turnout ever for Oby last time. A big percentage of conservatives and pubbies did not vote. It is estimated that as high as 30% of ‘christian’ women do not vote. I think this election will be different. People are waking up. At least a bit. I’m guessing the conservative turnout will be record. The independents will also vote in record numbers and to a high degree for Mittens. Oby’s minions will be depressed and not vote at all like ’08. However the potential for rigging/cheating is very high this year for the rats. It could be ugly.
Adequate? In what universe, Mark? Most of the “base” I know would crawl naked over broken glass on their bellies to pull the lever for Romney and against Obama. In fact, I can’t think of a single member of “the base” (and I know many) who isn’t eagerly awaiting the day they can walk into the voting booth and vote for Romney. But, hey, keep thinking Obama’s got this one in the bag. Works for me.
I don’t think Obama has this in the bag. I sure hope he doesn’t.
Neither does Romney.
Plenty of the base is hugely unimpressed with Romney, and may not vote at all. I don’t like that, but it’s reality. If the base were fired up, this race wouldn’t be close at all.
It is close. It’s much too close for comfort. It’s close enough for fraud to swing it to Obama. Why? Because Romney isn’t a good candidate.
Cockiness doesn’t impress me. Cockiness impresses children, even the ones with gray hair.
Adults know better.
The fat lady hasn’t even gotten gotten out of bed yet.
“Somebody screwed up big time in Libya, and the only question is who that “somebody” is.”
No guessing required. Shrillery has gotten her revenge. Thats all she’s gonna get though. You’re finished you old ****diver.
And her actions cost lives – but then she’s used to that. Think Vince Foster.
Where is our resident left-wing troll, “Cynical Wonder”?
Until the night of the debate, he used to post here every day, telling us how Obama was a shoo-in to win and we should just give up trying to defeat Obama.
“Cynical Wonder”: If you’re reading this:
Come back here and debate the issues sincerely, when you can no longer hide behind your smugness.
I’m going to continue to Google-search for you.
– just under new names:
Father Damien Karras: I think it might be helpful if I gave you some background on the different personalities it has manifested. So far, I’d say there seem to be three…
Father Merrin: There is only one.
BUT;
Obama hasn’t played the RACE card yet! That’s his (r)ace in the hole.
As this is my first blog attempt, I’m a little nervous exposing my views to a mass audience. A slight case of stage freight perhaps. A blot of mustard. A bit of undigested beef. Or maybe a fragment of overdone potato. I do sense some stomach queasiness, though. But here goes nothin’.
Mr. Moran, you write about the Romney surge, post debate and all that.
Well, have you considered an apparent contradiction?
The fact is, Obama’s bewildering decisions since day one have hurt, embarrassed, and weakened the United States, but haven’t hurt Obama? Although Obama has made plenty huge reckless, expensive, tax draining, job killing patently wrong headed decisions, he hasn’t been hurt by them in the polling. Teflon in his closet? Or something else?
Then came the debate where a weak, stammering, tottering, a sometimes incoherent Obama messed up just like he’s been doing for four years, yet the polls (voila) finally reflected it. Why the difference?
With the debate something was different. Somehow, Obama’s ineptness and wrongheadedness got through to even the hard headed Obama supporting thug labor unions. The lap dogs at MSNBC screamed about it on air, thin as the Denver air was purported to be.
What let the American public start smelling the stinking job Obama did that night?
And like the job Mitt did. Factual. Stylish. Very very coherent.
To my way of thinking, all the pundits have missed the target, have been uniquely unable to cite the reason why Obama’s fatal fecklessness and ineptitude finally caught up with him.
The explanation bulls eye is still an untouched virgin. Which maybe isn’t that surprising. The folks at MSNBC aren’t honest enough to figure it out. Hannity’s not smart enough. My boyfriend isn’t interested enough.
First, my tease.
A look back over the past four ObamaYears.
There have been hundreds of huge Obaminations.
From killing Keystone, to looting the national treasury with camouflaged reparations in the form of economic stimulants, to killing the request for security that got four Americans in Libya killed; then lying about it, saying it was all caused not by Obama’s non-action, but by a movie trailer that appeared on youtube last July.
Dunderheads, the embassy massacres occurred on Sept. 11. “No dot connecting allowed in this White House.” The invisible sign hangs over the door; only people’s attitudes in the White House tell you it’s there. Does this have anything to do with Ambassador Susan Rice’s post Egypt, Libya consulate burnings idiotic TV explanations? A video the cause? This has everything to with them. Rice lies like she were a true Obama pupil: Disingenuousnes 101.
Hello. Anybody feel like knocking on Susan Rice’s head and asking if anybody’s home in there as she stated the patent untruths about the Middle East massacres? I did.
Yet, Susans’s assertions were taken at face value; as truth in stone, without question, by the mainstream media. Another example of Obama surrogate flat out lies that was swallowed by the media and swallowed by Obama’s adoring public. Another example, this time, an atrocious one where Obama seemed to get off scot free; emerge blameless for U.S. Ambassador non security given but begged for before the massacre.
So what was the difference between the four years of Obama Presidential Misfeasances, and the debate performance that broke the back of the Democratic Party, but, strangely enough, not any state or federal law? As it Obama’s usual modus operandi.
Well, peanut gallery, who wants the gold star and the winning role of duct tape to be used to clamp Michelle Obama’s mouth shut before she makes high school students eat two tomatoes between every class and floss after brushing?
The gold star answer:
The mainstream media, the tallest tree in a forest of biased corruption, couldn’t cover up for Obama this time. 67 million Americans saw with their own eyes that the king has no clothes, doesn’t even wear a jock strap.
The tradition of America is to believe the press and disbelieve commercials. Which works for the President who doesn’t.
That’s the reason Obama’s goose finally got cooked.
The New York Times tried to initiate a coverup three hours after covering the Obama debate with the headline, “Obama and Romney spar during tense debate.” But this BS didn’t take. It reminded me of the NY Times headline the day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor: “America’s Chickens Come Home To Roost.”
Fact is, The American people, with their own eyes, saw the Denver Demolition Derby ObamaStyle.
My bet is, that evening, on their anniversary night, Michelle came down with a splitting headache. And dreamed of something more salacious than knitting.
Mitting from her knees.
Pretty good for your first blog attempt Helen!
Love it love it love it. And you didn’t make big hard to read paragraphs either. Good work!
Can’t wait for the next debate. I warrant over 80 million will watch this one. Here comes Oby … all ready to play catch-up. Fired up and well coached. Only he got nothin to say. He got squat. Mitt won’t even have to try hard. He can just calmly and quietly chew Oby up and crap chunks.
I applaud you for summoning up the courage to click the “Submit Comment” button on your inaugural post. In my opinion, you are representative of hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people who are fed up with this charade and are finally ginning up the courage to say so. Keep it up! May your action and you post inspire many more.
Your references to poor Ebeneezer’s digestive problems did not go unappreciated. Well done! If the problem were only as simple as a blot of mustard!
Way to go! Helen, good stuff. I’m better off for reading your essay.
The tallest trees of the main stream media will not stop wafting their allergens upon the nation’s air until we make them stop it. There’re tea parties for primary-ing the old guard republicans and this blogoshere where we inform and explain for our(plural)selves. During the Romney presidency we need to counterattack against the MSM DemParty neo-com axis every time they do bad, biased and spiteful journalism.
Ya got a good sense of humor, Helen. Next time tell us some of where you grew up and how you came to turn phrases.
Moran’s snark about the polls is as silly as most of the stuff he writes. Apparently, he thinks that people now accept the polls as gospel. Of course, he neglects to mention that the polls could hardly NOT show a Romney surge, after even democrat pundits awarded him an overwhelming victory. And he disingenuously fails to point out the the voting model in many of the key polls has now been changed, dramatically in some instances. Who knows why. Perhaps because the have to switch over to registered and likely voters at some point, why not when Romney is clearly surging so they can make the case for an obama comeback when the surge phenomenon subsides.
Other than Rasmussen, all of the polls are as dishonest now as they were two weeks ago. Maybe they better reflect the current state of the election, but if they do, it certainly isn’t due to the integrity of the pollsters. And even Rasmussen, btw, should be viewed sceptically.
The only poll I put any faith in was the one the media couldn’t hide or distort…the poll of horror in the eyes of the liberal media when they realized the horse they had protected for five years was finally exposed as an absolute failure.
And it certainly isn’t over. Now comes the geometrically increased media efforts, the hall of mirrors on steroids, the voter fraud, and the “surprises”.
But it’s good to know for an absolute fact that the Emperor at last has been exposed as a clueless demagogue.
Proof that the left couldn’t pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel:
Obama’s performance gave Romney a 12 point swing! I repeat: a 12 point swing.
Naw – couldn’t have been anything Romney did could it?
Just like they couldn’t fathom Clint Eastwood’s empty chair performance (IMO should have been an empty suit) they failed to recognize that Obama got his ass handed to him in that debate.
My question – why are all the polls ‘suddenly’ swinging to Romney? Maybe those liberal polls suddenly recognize what we’ve known for many months – Zero their Hero is a loser!
It occurs to me that this is just the pollsters new tactic. Oby let them down and now they want to scare him into working harder for them. Can’t have their boy laying down on the job. Plus its the reverse tactic to lulling the pubbie vote into acquiescence to Oby supremacy. “Let’s get em all cocky so they think they don’t even need to vote or work to get out the vote on election day.”
Friends, the Chicago machine is going to pull out all the stops, implement every dirty trick and illegal election tactic in November. Work like you have a nuclear tipped missile aimed at your house. Cause if Oby gets back in you may have.
Given that we knew all along that he wanted the job but not the work, who here thinks that his enthusiasm for reelection is waning?
If it was me, Diamond Head’s call would be pretty loud in my ears at this point, having gone through an undoubtedly hellish four years.
As a liberal, he values titles and labels rather than fixing problems. I don’t think that he would see four more years as anything other than a necessary evil to avoid being tarred as as a one-termer. The pressure on him now must be titanic compared to his own enthusiasm for continuing.
I agree. On his tropical paradise island he can golf every day if he wants. Soon the girls will be out of the house and he can get himself a boyfriend and just have a gay ole time. 8 or 10 speeches a year to rake in his 3 or 4 mil and he’s set for life.
I do not believe that he will be asked to give any speeches to any group after he get’s booted from office…he is a total failure, just have to make do with whatever the president gets after leaving office, and there should be investigations that could put him in prison then take all his monies!
Mr. Moran:
Forgive my skepticism but you can’t deny, disprove and ridicule the polls one day and then shout: Romney’s ahead…. polls accurate the next day!
Don’t the polls still represent only the 9%? Aren’t the polls still skewed?
The polls may have always been skewed, but it was not obvious until after the DOJ went after Gallup. That is the point in time when we started to see Romney suddenly down double-digits in the tossup states. I think that now they can use Barry’s no-show in last week’s debate as a shield, they feel safe in no longer fudging the numbers and can show Team Obama and the Merry Band of Chicago Thugs that their reign of terror is ending.
Dear Barry: The Nobel Committee phoned; they want their prize back.
I find this article hard to believe.
NBC the #1 network? Can’t be. They only have one show worth watching (Grimm).
We are where we should be. It is October, voting day approaches. A day before the debates, pollsters pontificated that this year, all minds were made up, and only 3 % of voters were undecided. A few days later, some 10 % to 20 % had shifted.
It is time for the October surprise. Some one will produce Obama’s birth certificate, from Mars.
The political talking heads are melting down into obvious insanity in one tank, or the other, mostly Democratic.
AP wired a photo of Romney bending over as some teen behind him apparently grimaced in horror. Turns out she was looking at something other than his back side, but AP’s journalist standards plummeted lower than Obama’s debate performance.
As usual, no poll taken before the World Series means dilly.
The law of money and sleazy campaigning will, once again, hold true, a billion spent in the sleaziest campaign in history.
The day after voting day, righteous outcries about liar, and massive election fraud will be made, particularly if Romney wins.
It is a tight race, razor thin, which surprises me.
We enter the 12 th year of undeclared war. It costs some 6,000 plus KIA, > 50,000 came home in pieces, $1 Trillion, and a million served. But we are not winning.
Our economy is sick, very sick. Every American owes $45,000 due to decisions made in Washington D. C., and most people do not have this much money. 50% of last years college grads are unemployed, along with 50% of this year’s graduating class. Two, with good grades told me of their offers: 1.) Work for us, for free, for one year, and we will consider making you an offer. 2.) A Summa Cum Laude, with a double major, was offered $11.30/ hour.
Romney may be no good, but Obama is obviously incompetent, way over his head. We desperately need change, for one new reason. Very talented, encyclopedic American executives, privately discuss the end of the USA. I have never heard this in my long life time.