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Tweet One of the things that made Reagan such a winner in 1980 was the fact that he was a happy warrior.  Voters had a real choice between Jimmy Carter’s dour malaise (“it’ll be this way forever”) and Reagan’s ebullient optimism in America (“morning in America”). This year, voters have that same choice.  Please share [...]

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Tweet Glenn Reynolds says that the 2012 election has the possibility to be a “ground glass” election for conservatives: Last week, I noticed this blog comment: “Romney was not my first, second, or third choice, but I will crawl over ground glass to vote for him.” A lot of Republicans — and, judging from polls, [...]

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Tweet I honestly think this is Romney’s best ad: Incidentally, regarding Obama’s revenge remark, Jonah Goldberg had exactly the same thought I did: Revenge against whom? If you watch the clip itself, it’s not clear at all what Obama’s supporters are supposed to want revenge for. Obama mentions Romney’s name in the context of his [...]

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Tweet On Monday, November 5, an ad will run in the Washington Times with the names of almost 500 retired military officers from all of the different forces who support Mitt Romney.  I was lucky enough to get an advanced copy of the ad.  The same email forwarding the ad asked that it be shared [...]

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Tweet Bill Whittle explains very clearly why it’s a mistake in this election for those who dislike Obama to a protest vote for a third party, or not vote at all, in order to protest the fact that Republicans are so far from perfect.  It’s a principled stand, certainly, but it is also one that [...]

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Tweet The Ohio Democratic Party Chairman, knowing that Mitt Romney is a wealthy man, who might have some extra millions lying around, has suggested that Romney give those dollars to a charity that helps Hurricane Sandy victims: Mitt Romney should have donated $10 million to the Red Cross instead of ‘taking advantage of a tragedy’, [...]

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Tweet Here’s today’s Progressive Facebook offering: Point by point, let me show why this poster is really, really stupid: His support of the middle class by encouraging the auto-industry to go bankrupt?  If you’re not living in Victorian England, when bankruptcy meant that the man of the family ended up in debtor’s prison, while his [...]

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Tweet A picture is making the rounds amongst my liberal Facebook friends, complete with the caption that “This says it all to me.” I’m actually not sure what “all” the picture says. That Romney smiles at people performing a service for him while Obama gives them a fist bump? If the Obama picture had shown [...]

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Tweet We all know crazy people.  I don’t mean the kind of crazy people who believe that cats rule the world and that Satan is living in the begonia.  I mean the people with personality disorders who assiduously work to shape reality so that it matches their own warped and damaged inner world.  Many of [...]

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Tweet When it became obvious that Mitt was going to be the Republican nominee for President, I started doodling around with my strong sense that the November match-up would look very much like a contest between Ward Cleaver and Eddie Haskell, of Leave it to Beaver fame.  In May, I put up a post, which [...]

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Tweet What one can say with certainty about the last presidential debate is that it is not a game-changer — which is good for Romney, because the game is currently scoring in his favor.  In that way, it was a nothing of a debate.  Nevertheless, there were aspects of the debate that were fascinating. Fascinating [...]

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Tweet If this election was a romance novel, Barack Obama would be the bad boy who promises that, if you just let him have his way with you, you won’t get pregnant (honest!).  He then tells you that his friend Eddie will pay for your birth control.  Eddie doesn’t follow through, but Barry’s persuasive.  After [...]

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Tweet Sometimes my liberal friends surprise me.  Buried amongst the snarky, ill-informed pictures they routinely post, I’ll occasionally find something thoughtful and important.  Very, very important — such as this short video explaining precisely why Iran poses such a threat, not just within the Middle East, but to the whole world, America included: The question [...]

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Tweet If you’ve been hearing good buzz about Romney’s performance at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation dinner, that’s because he did a stellar job.  Here is his star turn: Obama wasn’t bad either. I just don’t like him, which makes it harder for me to laugh at his jokes:

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Tweet Here’s today’s Facebook find: This poster, of course, comes from a liberal.  What the liberal doesn’t realize is that Mitt was riffing right off the liberals’ own beloved New York Times when he said that the best way to deal with gun violence is to promote marriage.  Just this July, the Times ran an [...]

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Tweet I continue to be fascinated with the things that my Progressive friends post on Facebook.  I feel like a cultural archaeologist.  Here’s today’s offering: For once, my commentary can be summed up in a single sentence: We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. — Barack Obama, September 12, 2012  

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Tweet Romney’s main problem is a chronic one.  While he intuitively understands what Bush Sr. used to call “the vision thing,” he can’t articulate it. He’ll spell out all the details, but he’s incapable of explaining to Americans that, if the government takes all their money, not only does it mean they don’t have it, [...]

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So, how would Crowley happened to have read and “memorized” that particular Rose Garden transcript in advance of the Town Hall debate unless she had been prepared in advance for a) the question and b) for Obama’s response?

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Tweet One of my old high school classmates, who is gay and Progressive, posted a heartfelt plea today that all of his Facebook friends do whatever is necessary to keep the “evil” Romney out of office.  Evil?  That’s an awfully strong word.  Hitler was evil.  Mao was evil.  Stalin was evil.  Pol Pot was evil.  [...]

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Tweet Many of Obama’s most educated supporters believe in him because they believe in Keynesian economics.  Central to that belief is the theory that government itself can be an economic engine.  If people aren’t working, have them work for the government or at least have the government fund their ostensibly “private sector” jobs.  This theory [...]

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Tweet The GOP instantly produced a video focusing on Obama’s face during the debate.  It’s called “The Smirk.”  I don’t know.  To me, it looks as if Obama’s trying not to cry. I’m watching the debate now, and I would characterize it as a bloodless, but total, massacre. Obama wearily pretends the last four years [...]

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Tweet What do you think? I am coming to the conclusion that it’s really hard to sell such an important message in just 25 seconds.

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Tweet There’s an old joke:  “How can you tell when a politician is lying?  His lips are moving.” During this presidential campaign season, that joke is almost accurate when it comes to Obama.  It’s not 100% accurate, though, because he does say occasionally things that are true.  For example, when he showed up on The [...]

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Tweet We all remember Obama meeting Bibi.  Obama managed to look as if he was sucking on a lemon while having a poker shoved up his derriere.  The Anchoress caught quite different body language when Bibi and Mitt met.

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Tweet Well, Romney nicely pulled the rug out from under the Progressives/Democrats when he released all of his tax information.  This is a relief to me, because I was getting sick and tired of seeing my liberal Facebook friends repeat ad nauseum nasty statements about those missing (per Harry Reid, “unpaid”) taxes.  Turns out that, [...]

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