President Obama is Re-Elected

I just finished typing the title to this blog, and I assure you, it was not easy.  In the past week, one part of my brain was telling me that President Obama would win--the polls in the battleground states primarily.  The other part of my brain--and maybe my heart--kept telling me that the margins of Democrat voters that were projected were just too darn high.  Republicans were going to be energized!  There was no way there would be the Dem turnout of 2008.  The polls had to be wrong.

Well, they weren't. The national polls that had Romney ahead were right--at least at the writing of this blog entry, Romney is ahead in the popular vote.  But that's not where we elect Presidents, and the swing states took a swing at Romney.  I was certain Florida and Virginia were ours--but again, as I write this, they still are not settled.

No other Presidential election has meant as much to me personally.  I do not believe that the President is leading the nation in the right direction, and I believe we have doubled down on decline with his victory.  I suspected that we had made a great mistake in 2008, and I am certain of it tonight.

I am so incredibly proud to have had the opportunity to help on Mitt Romney's campaign.  I started out supporting him because I thought he could beat the President, and I ended up hoping that he would be elected because I thought he would be a great President. I would do it all again without reservation.  He is an elementally good man, and our nation is worse off for not electing him.

I am also eternally grateful to everyone who contributed to my CW for Romney fundraising drive.  It felt so good to wake up each morning and see new donations that had come in over night, mostly from people I knew very well, but sometimes from folks I had never heard of.

I cannot bear to watch Mitt's concession speech or President Obama's victory speech.  My heart is in my stomach, and I suspect it might stay there for a few days.  I'm headed down the Shore to a resort spot for a few days to lick my wounds and be away from people I love--mostly because I think I might not be the most fun to be around while I reconcile all this.

The good news in all of this?  The blog will continue.  Had Mitt won, I likely would have had to put an end to it, if I had been asked to take a position in government.  There's no chance of that for a few years, and so I'd be happy if you kept coming round to the site every now and then to see if we've posted anything worth reading. 

Also, I'll have a little more time on my schedule....so I'm hoping to join Mudge in the not-too-distant future to sit in his tree stand and think about all the deer who pass by when I'm not sitting there.

Chin up, friends.  This is a great country, and one man's eight years will not be enough to change that.  We'll have to begin thinking about what this election means for the Republican Party, and hopefully we'll generate some answers here.

God Bless America. 

The Bradley Effect Gets Power-Tested

I was watching Hannity last night and Ann Coulter brought up the Bradley Effect, which I have thought of from time to time but haven't seen mentioned in this campaign. (by the way I have it on good authority CW writes Ann lascivious letters and signs them "Hunky Sailorboy")  What is the Bradley Effect you ask? It's a polling phenomenon where as white voters poll at X percent but vote at Y percent. In 1982 Tom Bradley polled about 5 points better among white voters than the actually vote count. Why? Some attribute it to racism some to political correctness but regardless it seems some folks are reluctant to give an honest opinion when race is a factor. The Bradley effect has been observed many times including Dinkins in New York City, Wilder in Virginia and Jesse Jackson in the primaries in Wisconsin. And it even showed up in much smaller percentages in  the Obama/McCain contest.

In 2008 the final vote was 52.9% Obama, McCain 45.7% or a spread of 7.2. The final polls were: Marist +9  Zogby +11  IBD/TIPP +8  Gallup +11  CBS +9  ABC +9. So last go round with a wave election when everybody in the country was so excited and there was virtually no societal pressure NOT to support a black man for president (quite the reverse as I recall) the Bradley Effect still accounted for 2-3 percent of the actual vote.

So what can we conclude? Considering race and class warfare have been focused on in this campaign, and considering the mood and tenor of the campaign run by Obama and backed up by the media, I would be surprised if the Bradley Effect didn't come into play; shocked in fact. Therefore I say some of the tied polls in some states are probably off from 3-5 points in Romney's favor. Time will tell.
                                         

Must Be Where West Point Holds Summer Training Camp

Hammer, what's up with this?  I thought North Carolinians used to be tough.

Appears someone tried the ol' loose-some-goats-on-the-rivals'-football-field prank against Burns HS in Lawndale, NC and now that field is being closed for 5 months!

I really don't understand the problem with having goats on the football field...Navy does it all the time.



"Pssst.  Where's the little goat's room? I gotta go real ba-a-a-a-a-d"

 

Good advice for Burn HS and West Point

Anyway, we can send the good folks at Burns HS a couple boxes  of these pins to remind everyone there to stay off the field.  It always works when we send them to Army--they act like they're about to step onto a minefield whenever the Navy goats are there.  Can't really say I blame our lubberly rivals at the Point but I can't help but think it has  more to do with getting goat-stung than stepping in goat dung. 

Speaking of which, this year on December 8th, Army will meet Navy on the field for the 12th time since Army last won this contest.  In addition to my hope that Navy extends the streak, I'm even more hopeful that President-elect Romney can witness it in person...perhaps one of his top naval advisors could hook him up with some decent seats (even if he IS a Wahoo alum).  So, I guess all there remains to say here is,

"Beat Army"

(any wagers General Dan? Hammer?)

Legacy and Lunacy

Hey, while we're at it, do you think we'll get a federal holiday for Trayvon?

Service Employees International Union (SEIU), one of the many bands of thugs who exploit workers for dues they can then funnel to the left-most leaning candidates who once elected will funnel taxpayers' money back to them and so on and so on.  And did I mention, they are one of our President's biggest contributors?

Anyway, these parasites of the public trust have a new motivational poster for those who might otherwise remain uninspired about taking a few minutes on Tuesday to vote for another 4 years of government ineptitude, egregious spending, and Reverend Wright-channeling hollow speech giving.  You read it correctly.  The SEIU appears to believe that the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King was on a par with Malcom X and, wow, even more remarkably, Trayvon Martin. 

Now nevermind that Dr King and Malcolm X had little in common, save for the color of their skin--Mr. X was a criminal, a prostitute for men and the head of a subversive organization that sought to establish another nation, segregated by race within the borders of the United States of America (even those he left behind at the highly-esteemed Nation of Islam thought so little of X that they murdered him).  Those are just a few of the high points in the accomplishments of the owner of the legacy SEIU thinks we ought to preserve by re-electing Barack Obama. 

I can almost see why many would, and they certainly do, equate Dr King with Mr. X, but, I'm sorry, I just can't even fathom why a 17-year old punk who got kicked out of school and who jumped a guy and was beating the hell out of him when the guy defended himself would even remotely enter into a discussion of "legacy" and how even in the most severely fringed leftist's ganglia might form an equivalency to someone of the intellectual and moral stature of Dr. King.  Of course, our dear Trayvon shared skin color.  He also had "Martin" in his name so maybe that is the connection.  But of course even liberals would see the laughableness of such a comparison when it comes to something as benign as the name.  But when it comes to race, to skin color, then emotion kicks in and there is as much rational thought as a Walmart Black Friday sale. 

Frankly, were I a member of Dr. King's inner circle, as opposed to just an admirer, I would be highly-offended at the comparison.  For a man to have given to history the most eloquent thoughts on race with passages such as "...a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character..."  to be compared to others who lacked any semblance of character simply by the fact that the color of their skin was closer to one another than those collectively called "white" is particularly offensive.  Yet when it comes to the righteous indignation the left can muster at the drop of a conservative pin, they are like obedient lemmings even when the most flagrant of fouls emanates from their home court (Joe Biden and Harry Reid would have retired in shame had they been Republicans who uttered the words they did about Barack Obama). 

But since the SEIU brought it up, I would like to see the President confronted with the legacies of Mssrs X and Martin (leave Dr King and his legacy out of it--there is zero connection to the other two) and hear  how he intends to further them in our society.  Maybe his old pal Louis Farrakan or mentor Reverend Wright, or, if he wants to get post-racial on our asses, maybe even his uber-mentor, Bill Ayres, could lend him some well-thought prose on preserving those legacies.  But from what I've witnessed over the last 6 years of reading and listening to the man himself, Barack Obama no longer needs their help.  He is a fully-matured leftist of the first order who not only knows but, I dare say, admires those legacies.  Hey, even the WaPost seems to think they are hard to tell apart:

 

And finally, from the horse's mouth (even if from Bill Ayres' pen):

 

“Only Malcolm X's autobiography seemed to offer something different. His repeated acts of self-creation spoke to me; the blunt poetry of his words, his unadorned insistence on respect, promised a new and uncompromising order, martial in its discipline, forged through sheer force of will. All the other stuff, the talk of blue-eyed devils and apocalypse, was incidental to that program, I decided, religious baggage that Malcolm himself seemed to have safely abandoned toward the end of his life. And yet, even as I imagined myself following Malcolm's call, one line in the book stayed me. He spoke of a wish he'd once had, the wish that the white blood that tan through him, there by an act of violence, might somehow be expunged. I knew that, for Malcolm, that wish would never be incidental. I knew as well that traveling down the road to self-respect my own white blood would never recede into mere abstraction. I was left to wonder what else I would be severing if and when I left my mother and my grandparents at some uncharted border.” [p.86, Dreams of my father]"

 

 

Hey, don't forget to vote on Tuesday.  Hope, change, progressive, forward, legacy of X &c.

 

Good stuff man.  Good stuff.  Eat up America. 

College Football Review, Week 10: The Hammer Eats Crow

I guess I had it coming. The first rule in sports is you don't tempt the Gods and when it came to the University of Virginia Cavaliers I have been merciless. CW's Alma Mater gave my beloved Wofpack a thrashing for the ages. The Wahoos came out in a previously unseen cover-4 defense designed to take away the long ball and the sidelines but is vulnerable to the run. Not to worry, obviously State can't run the ball finishing with just 19 yards on the ground. This result was very disconcerting considering UVA has been easier to score on than a Florida State coed giving up 56 points to Georgia Tech and 44 points to Duke. But State would be having none of that contributing 5 turnovers, 5 sacks and 8 dropped balls to UVA's balanced effort of 198 yards passing and 248 on the ground. All in all a well played football game by the Wahoos and a pathetic display by the Pack.  

Of course the big game was Alabama traveling down to Tigerland to take on LSU. The history of these two schools especially in the last couple of years has been, how will I put this(?) Ali-Frazieresque. And last night's game did not disappoint. Alabama won a National Championship last year after losing to LSU in the regular season and beating them in post season, and you know LSU was looking to return the favor. In my pre-game analysis I gave LSU the psychological edge but unfortunately for the Tigers the game isn't played on Sigmund Freud's couch. But this game was a classic the Bear would be proud of. Alabama blew a 14-3 halftime lead and had to stage a 90 second length of the field drive to secure the 21-17 win. What a game! They both deserved to win but Alabama performing in undeniably the toughest stadium in the country against a championship caliber football team and getting the W like they did, all I can say is WOW!

In other games Notre Dame got by Pitt (they always play the Irish tough), K-State won again but they lost their QB to injury, Oregon beat Lane "The Wonderboy" Kiffin's USC squad (this guy is much better at self-promotion than coaching, he's the Barack Obama of college football) and my favorite team out west, Boise State lost to San Diego State.

I want to briefly mention an undefeated school that's coming in under the radar, the Louisville Cardinals. They went 9-0 yesterday defeating Temple 45-17. Now I know they play in the Big East and their schedule ain't exactly big time, but they have beaten Carolina, Pitt and South Florida. And even if they go undefeated they're not getting anywhere near a big bowl game, but this is a good football team and well worth keeping an eye on.

Well that's it. Oh, a personal note. Congratulations to CW's sister who ran her first half-marathon this morning for cancer research. It's good to know somebody in that family has a little quality to them.

On Benghazi

As the great contest for the nation's Chief Executive draws to a close, the murder of our Ambassador to Libya and three other men remains largely outside the political dialogue, thanks largely to the tacit conspiracy between the Obama Campaign and its supporters within the Bought and Paid For Media (BPFM).  The exact timeline of events remains muddled; what request were made or denied, what orders were given, who knew what and when--all of these questions are largely beyond our ability to know without access to highly classified materials yet to be widely shared. 

The Administration responsible for the deaths of these men--not my words, theirs--assures us that a thorough investigation is under way, one that of course, will produce no results until long after the election.  The Senate committee charged with these matters has refused to hold even a single hearing, as its Chairwoman was involved in a tooth and nail campaign in California with an opponent she is so threatened by that she has not even seen fit to debate her.  The House did in fact hold hearings, and it was through this process that we came to learn much of what we DO know about the events of September 11, 2012. 

The media--with the exception of Fox News and some others (Eli Lake and Sharyl Atkisson to name two)--seem quite content to let this story sit, uncomfortable as it is to the man they installed in office and in whom they continue to place their trust and confidence.  It is disquieting to watch what is supposed to be a bulwark of our democracy supine in complicity with the government it is nominally supposed to challenge.  Worse, they treat the story as if it is some weird conspiracy born of the marriage of Fox News and the Tea Party, confronted as they are with the inconvenient reality of the aforementioned murders and the ridiculous, orchestrated reaction of the Administration.

Here is a small taste of the sneer with which the BAPF media treats the story, tucked into an Atlantic blog ostensibly designed to warn Democrats about what they should worry: " 4. Benghazi. Actually, even a worrier like me can't find much to worry about here. The conspiracy theory suggested by Fox News -- that someone somewhere in the federal government ordered American security forces not to come to the rescue of Ambassador Chris Stevens and others in the Benghazi consulate -- hasn't held up. Romneyites have flogged the hell out of the Benghazi story, but I think that what little mileage they can get out of it they've already gotten"

There it is, friends.  There really isn't a story --just the conspiratorial rantings of Fox News (and of course, the bodies of four brave men).  What I find interesting about the above paragraph is what it identifies as the nub of the issue--that somewhere in the federal government, an order was given to security forces not to respond to the situation at the consulate.  This is of course, an important point, and it is of course, NOT undercut by the link to the Roger Simon piece in Politico, a work of political hackery that should make even Politico blush.  The truth or fiction of the charge is exactly what would be uncovered by Congressional hearings and or the glacially paced investigation being carried out by the Administration.  The Senate and the President, having chosen to forestall such answers, are immunized from their impact.  But we do not need those answers to justifiably accuse the Administration of  lying and incompetence.  THIS is the story that the BAPF media ignores, this is the threat to the comfortable narrative put forward by the President's campaign that "Bin Laden is dead and AQ is on the run".

We KNOW now that the Administration was informed that the attack at the consulate was a military-style attack conducted by terrorists HOURS after it began.  As to motive, identity and impact, the Administration was RIGHT in taking its time to mull over the intelligence.  In events such as that, there are bad reports, there is emotion, there is little real analysis and one can draw incorrect inferences from events witnessed without surrounding context.  THIS would have been an appropriate response.  They could have said "we don't have good information yet.  We don't have answers.  We are aggressively pursuing this."   But that isn't what they did. In fact, as the truth came out and we came to realize that this was in fact, a terrorist operation--well planned and executed, the Administration told us that the fog of war kept them from making that call, and that was something we all should assuredly understand. 

They blamed the attack on a spontaneous outburst of protest from people presumably upset by the presence of a video on Youtube.  I ask you, dear reader--if they hesitated on calling it a terror attack, waiting on additional information, WHAT WAS SO GOOD about the information they had on the attack that they could blame it on a video, send our UN Ambassador on the Sunday shows to claim it was a videotape and then have the President go before the UN and point to a video SIX TIMES?  Why are they not held to a common standard?  This is where the media is failing, failing horribly, and worst of all, failing by preference.

A well-planned and organized terror attack, carried out on the anniversary of the nation's great wound, completely undercuts the campaign narrative that Obama was pushing--that "Bin Laden is dead and AQ is on the run" and raises serious and important questions about the readiness of our diplomatic outposts.   AQ is NOT on the run in North Africa--it is in fact, gaining influence.  This too is inconvenient to the narrative.  By blaming the attack on a video, the Administration went for the easy call, knowing that we've all been treated to the spectacle of the "Arab Street" exploding in rage at whatever slight it perceives.  Why not this time?

I am proud of Fox News and the other journalists who continue to follow this story.  It is inconceivable that a President McCain would be getting the free ride from the BAPF media that Mr. Obama is currently receiving on this issue.  This is not unimportant stuff; the country's representative was murdered, and the Administration at best, bungled its response and at worst, covered it up.  It is a story worthy of press interest, even if the press is uninterested. 

A Tale of Two Men

A great closing ad from Mitt.   Listen to the roar of the crowd.

CW for Romney Breaks $27K!!!

Thanks to three recent donations, one from my longest standing shipmate from the Navy, one from my favorite Swaziland travel companion and one from a great South Jersey woman and friend since second grade, we have broken through $27K.  My gratitude goes out to them and everyone else who has stepped up in this election.  This little blog has punched way above its weight in this campaign, both in the quality of its writing (thanks to Hammer, Sally and Mudge) and in the money we helped raise. 

I am confident for Tuesday.  Not certain, but confident.  Republicans will come out in numbers, and they will vote overwhelmingly for Romney.  Independents will choose Romney by double digits.  Democrats will not produce the turnout they did in 2008.  The polls showing Obama leads--especially in key states--tend to overstate Democrat turnout to an illogical degree.  All of this points to a Romney victory.

On Tuesday, the experiment will end.  The country turned to a bright, optimistic face in 2008, knowing he had demonstrated little capacity for the job but choosing to ignore that inconvenient fact in favor of his narrative and his rhetoric.  Four years later we realize the mistake that was.  The Presidency is no place for OJT.  One must have been tested elsewhere, preferably several times, before the complexity and pressure of the Presidency is even conceivable.  We picked an amateur and we got an amateur.  Now we will turn to a professional.

I admit to being nervous.  I awoke this morning (as I usually do without alarm) at 0530, but planned on going back to sleep.  This was of course, impossible, as my mind raced with "what ifs" as I lay in bed.  This is going to a tight election.  I don't think my normal 2200 hrs bedtime is in the offing Tuesday night, as Ohio will go long into the night.  If things go well, if the East comes through--say NH and PA break our way....after VA, FL and NC fall.....then we can breathe easier, as Ohio will then essentially cease to matter.  If any of those three--VA, FL or NC go to Obama--I think we will be in for a long, sad night.  But I don't think any of those states WILL go for Obama.

Be of good cheer, friends.  Competence is on the way.

How to Turn New York Red

Take two million RNC dollars and send generators to residents of Staten Island.  Boom! 

Party Leader Vows Not to Work with President, Media Appalled

Much ado was made about Mitch McConnell's statement that his goal was to make O a one-term president.  This statement, of course, was made after the 2010 midterms and in his 'vow' he specifically said 'I don't want him to fail, I want him to change.'    Buy why look at the whole statement in context when the cannibalized version of the quote was so much better?  The press wailed and carried on, it became a standard line for the President to use, and fit well into the 'obstructionist Republican' story line. 

Enter Harry Reid.  Today he comes out with the statement that he'll refuse to work with Mitt Romney.  “Mitt Romney’s fantasy that Senate Democrats will work with him to pass his ‘severely conservative’ agenda is laughable.  Mitt Romney has demonstrated that he lacks the courage to stand up to the tea party, kowtowing to their demands time and again. There is nothing in Mitt Romney’s record to suggest he would act any differently as president.”

(Yes, that record of being the governor of Massachusetts proves he has no ability to work across the aisle.)  

On the long list of reasons why a Romney victory would be so great, somewhere in the top 10 would be watching Mitt ignore Harry Reid and reach out to red state Democrats instead.    But will the press recoil in horror at Reid's comment? 

Mitt's Closing Argument

Take a listen, folks.  Easily his best speech.

                                                                                                                                                                            

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One More Weekend Until President Romney!

Folks--we are in the final weekend of this election season.  It is imperative that you do two things:  the firs is to call a few right-leaning friends and make damn sure they are going to the polls on Tuesday, or early voting or absentee voting or whatever it is they do to render their judgment in our democracy.  Romney is going to win this election because of one thing and one thing only.  Our people show up.

Secondly, this is the last weekend you have to donate to the Romney Campaign.  He is blistering the airwaves in all the battleground states and has opened up media buys in Minnesota and Pennsylvania.  The "preference cascade" is underway, but we need some more help to get over the finish line. 

I assure you--money you contribute in the last week of the campaign WILL NOT GO TO WASTE. 

Please click this link to donate...to the CW for Romney Fund.  It is essential that you check the box that says you know your referrer, and that when you do so, it brings up two boxes, one with "INT 2012" in it, and the other with the number "4847" in it.  If they aren't there, please type them in.  That's how the blog gets credit.

Big Fat Friday Free For All

Got a problem, Bub?  No power after the storm?  In-laws camping out for a week?  About to lose an election?  Share, friend.  Share!

Never Trust a Fat Bastard

This is a line for gasoline in Northern New Jersey just off the turnpike. There are concerns about shortages for gasoline, hotel rooms, generators and presumably pizzas by the Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie (aka "Uranus" as he is a large, round, gaseous asshole). He has warned price gougers: "We will not hesitate to impose the strictest penalties on profiteers who, in direct violation of our consumer protection laws, seek to capitalize on the misfortune of others in the midst of a crisis and recovery period.” I guess the term "profiteer" is in the eye of the beholder because I would refer to them as entrepreneurs meeting a demand, but let's continue.

Governor Christie must have failed Econ 101 so we can't ask him, but what is price gouging exactly?  The Governor thinks it's taking advantage of people in a crisis by jacking up the price. But is it really? I think it's getting goods and services to people in desperate need at a price set by market conditions. I think the cost of meeting that demand can be astronomical in these circumstances otherwise there would be no shortage. I think if the state artificially imposes unrealistic prices for those needed goods and services when it costs the provider more, then what will inevitable occur is shortages. Why should the seller lose money because conditions have increased his costs and not be able to pass that cost along to the end user? He won't.

During Katrina a father and son from Kentucky went down to the local Home Depot and bought up every generator they could get their hands on. They then hauled said generators down to Mississippi and sold each unit for three, four grand. "OMG! No they didn't!" said the idiot. Yes they did and they were promptly exposed by CNN and arrested. Their inventory was confiscated of course and the good people of the Delta couldn't get a generator for love nor money, but by God at least they didn't get ripped off. Tell that to the guy who's medication must stay cold in the fridge or the new mother with a three day old infant. And what's the bet those generators ended up being used by some bureaucrat?

The Hurricane that occurred in the Northeast was not a surprise. Folks had time to prepare. But if one wants or needs certain commodities under these circumstances, you can expect to either pay more or to do without. I want the choice, and I don't want that choice taken from me by some bureaucrat or politician because they or their constituents don't understand the rudiments of market economics. Governor Christie obviously doesn't understand and he showed us his colors these past few days, and as far as I'm concerned he's finished as a national politician. He can stay in New Jersey.   

Happy Halloween

Cows aren't just for Christmas cards.

Yes, Please!

Joe Biden, talking to a voter in Sarasota today: 

"I’m not trying to talk you into voting for me, I just wanted to say hi to you. And after its all over when your insurance rates go down, then you’ll vote for me in 2016. I’ll talk to you later.”

The race for the 2016 Democratic nomination begins next Wednesday.  Sure hope Joey McMensa is in the mix. 

Here Come the Climate Change Windbags

The Lead Windbag

A Sandy-esque storm will probably be an annual event now thanks to climate change and dirty energy, says Al Gore.

And Mike Bloomberg says that due to the storms of recent years, we have to address these issues.   (Haven't we always had storms?) 

Off topic:  Al Gore's getting a little hefty.

Cue the Violins for San Francisco Liberals

Poor Kay Edelman.  The election has her so stressed out that it's really starting to affect every part of her life.  Since the first debate, she's been suffering from fear of defeat, to the point where she gets up in the middle of the night to check the latest polls.  Some days she's so distraught that she can't exercise.

Poor Kay.  Hope she'll be okay!

And this affliction is spreading across the Bay Area.  A telethon is clearly in order.

This Man Writes with a Scalpel

This is a must read by Mark Steyn (I omitted the usual prefix, "The Incomparable" feeling it to be redundant) about Benghazi, or Benghazigate, as it is being called.  Don't look for anything about Benghazi in any of the MSM outlets, unless it is some remnant critique of Romney's 'hair trigger politicization of an unfortunate, isolated incident in response to Islamaphobic videos on YouTube.'

One of my favorite eviscerations:

"At the photo-op staged for the returning caskets, Obama et al seem to have been too focused on their campaign needs to observe even the minimal courtesies. Charles Woods [father of slain former SEAL, Ty Woods] says that, at the ceremony, Joe Biden strolled over to him and by way of condolence said in a "loud and boisterous" voice, "Did your son always have balls the size of cue balls?" One assumes charitably that the vice president is acknowledging in his own inept and blundering way the remarkable courage of a man called upon to die for his country on some worthless sod halfway across the planet. But the near-parodic locker-room coarseness is grotesque both in its inaptness and in its lack of basic human feeling for a bereaved family forced to grieve in public and as crowd-scene extras to the political big shot. Just about the only formal responsibility a vice president has is to attend funerals without embarrassing his country. And this preening buffoon of pseudo-blue-collar faux-machismo couldn't even manage that."

There is enough in this incident to make Hillary, Joe and Barak the Lance Armstrongs of American politics forever.  They should be banned forever from practicing politics (one can argue they keep practicing because they have yet to get any of it right). 

In any case, were our media outlets not constrained by their Obama Campaign Information Bureau charters (case in point: MSNBC's logo "Leaning FORWARD."), they might be able to partake in a feeding frenzy over the decaying carcass of this Administration's inexplicable and unforgivable mishandling of the Benghazi massacre.

Fellow Americans, on November 6th, just voting for Mitt Romney to win is not enough.  We need to vote resoundingly to repudiate the poison, the cancer, of Progressivism for another generation.  Put it back in the dark recesses of society where it belongs for another thirty years just was we did with Carter.  We need to put Harry Reid on the list of the unemployed along with every single polictical appointee of this Administration.  If we can do that, I will hopefully be dead the next time it rears it's malfunctioning head.   Progressive. Forward.  Hardly--as Calvin Coolidge stated so eloquently regarding Progressives:

“About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning cannot be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction cannot lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.”

Amen and Amen.

CW for Romney Crushes $26K--Up Next--$27K!!!

The bad weather has brought out some new donations, and I couldn't be more grateful!  Alabama's most famous helicopter pilot chipped in, as did a stalwart conservative defense contractor from Northern Virginia and my favorite woman in the entire state of Wyoming!

Can you feel it, folks?  Can you begin to feel that SOMETHING IS HAPPENING?  The polls suggest it, but trust what you know.  No one who voted for McCain is voting for Obama--but TONS of people--people you know--who voted for Obama are now voting for Romney.  Where are the yard signs for Obama?  Where are the bumper stickers?

President Obama's message of Hope and Change has been replaced by one of bitterness and recrimination--while Mitt Romney assures us that help is on the way in the form of a guy who knows what he is doing.

I assure you--money you contribute in the last week of the campaign WILL NOT GO TO WASTE.  The campaign is widening its focus to places like Pennsylvania and Minnesota, while the relentless concentration on the swing states continues.  This takes money--and it takes YOUR SUPPORT.

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