Brilliant Quote From P. J. O'Rourke...Liberals, the KKK...


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Fascinating.... that sounds like the real Mitt, businesslike, a little impatient, as if he's giving orders in a staff meeting that's running late.

But from what I have read there are very few independent voters left...are they worth wooing? Maybe Adam is right and to hit the Stop Spending/Stop Taxing buttons would be more effective in swaying voters.

Here is Mitt-in-the-Headlights, grinning and scuttling away from the fourth question at his impromptu media-availability at 10 PM last night. I am no expert in body language, but this was not a strong performance at first glance.

I note that the stupefied-by-abundance US Media corps has found a plaything for the week, new cat-treats for the politicos, a new bird to stalk and toy with. In the lounges where pundits scuffle and bark, on news cable, on page ones across the world, on blogs, and inside the mad scrum of internet commentariat, there is no other story today but Mitt's Secret Tape.

Not a good day for Magic Underpants. The tape was the signal for Dogpile on Milton, and he looked a bit staggered in his first attempt to counter the shitstorm. He is also expected to address the storm in another media-availability in a few hours. He may knock this out of the park and get the week back, feeding frenzy nothwithstanding.

Mitt Romney Responds to Leaked Private Fundraiser Video; Comments on Low Income Obama Supporters

If Romney had a single living political brain cell in his pretty little head, he would hammer this incompetent and take him head on.

What do your remarks portend? A lot of anger for Romney (or his campaign strategy/staff?) and a bleak prognosis, or a conviction that 'things can change' like Brant's? I think maybe you have joined PDS and Ghs and me in expectation of defeat.

I see PA, VA and NV as possible for Romney. Maybe even OH. [ . . . ] some of your blue states do seem soft--not the red states

Obama has been well ahead in PA for months, currently up 9 points on Romney, and the Romney campaign has shifted its focus elsewhere. Virginia, Obama up 8 points. I grant you Nevada and Ohio are more in play. It would be interesting to see your crack at the electoral college numbers.

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Ah, the real Mitt. The Man Nobody Wanted. The Parisiens probably didn't want him beaming the Light of Truth into their dingy hallways, the Republicans mostly didn't want him but the other candidates were so palpably unelectable that he was the best Anybody but Obama they could settle for.

It is not about his personality whatever it is, so much as the one political skill he has failed or refused to learn: the art of persuasion. Probably he quit trying to learn it after he gained 3 converts in his year as a missionary. Thereafter he has simply told people what he wanted them to do, and now he is telling them, underneath everything he says, why they should do it:

"Because it's obvious, I am more suitable as a president than that Marxist Kenyan!

And I deserve it! I've worked hard all my life and I've never cheated on Ann and I wanna be President, darnit!"

I'm entitled to be President!"

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Fascinating.... that sounds like the real Mitt, businesslike, a little impatient, as if he's giving orders in a staff meeting that's running late.

But from what I have read there are very few independent voters left...are they worth wooing? Maybe Adam is right and to hit the Stop Spending/Stop Taxing buttons would be more effective in swaying voters.

Here is Mitt-in-the-Headlights, grinning and scuttling away from the fourth question at his impromptu media-availability at 10 PM last night. I am no expert in body language, but this was not a strong performance at first glance.

I note that the stupefied-by-abundance US Media corps has found a plaything for the week, new cat-treats for the politicos, a new bird to stalk and toy with. In the lounges where pundits scuffle and bark, on news cable, on page ones across the world, on blogs, and inside the mad scrum of internet commentariat, there is no other story today but Mitt's Secret Tape.

Not a good day for Magic Underpants. The tape was the signal for Dogpile on Milton, and he looked a bit staggered in his first attempt to counter the shitstorm. He is also expected to address the storm in another media-availability in a few hours. He may knock this out of the park and get the week back, feeding frenzy nothwithstanding.

Mitt Romney Responds to Leaked Private Fundraiser Video; Comments on Low Income Obama Supporters

If Romney had a single living political brain cell in his pretty little head, he would hammer this incompetent and take him head on.

What do your remarks portend? A lot of anger for Romney (or his campaign strategy/staff?) and a bleak prognosis, or a conviction that 'things can change' like Brant's? I think maybe you have joined PDS and Ghs and me in expectation of defeat.

I see PA, VA and NV as possible for Romney. Maybe even OH. [ . . . ] some of your blue states do seem soft--not the red states

Obama has been well ahead in PA for months, currently up 9 points on Romney, and the Romney campaign has shifted its focus elsewhere. Virginia, Obama up 8 points. I grant you Nevada and Ohio are more in play. It would be interesting to see your crack at the electoral college numbers.

I'm not up to that. I don't know enough. You've been following this better than I have. I do believe there is a potential for a Romney landslide, but if it happens everyone is going to be bitch-slapped by it including me. The two big unknowns are the effect of Big Media distortions and voter motivations--who is up the most to going out and voting.

--Brant

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The marxist in chief is encouraging the mob to take what they want...

LIBYA COMMEMORATES 9/11

September 12, 2012

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When President Obama intervened in Libya last year, he claimed that "it's in our national interest to act" to remove a tyrant who -- in response to Bush's invasion of Iraq -- had just given up his weapons of mass destruction and pledged to be America's BFF.

Apparently Gadhafi neglected to also tell Obama, "I've got your back."

Obama said: "We must stand alongside those who believe in the same core principles that have guided us through many storms ... our support for a set of universal rights, including the freedom for people to express themselves and choose their leaders; our support for the governments that are ultimately responsive to the aspirations of the people."

The Libyan mob was the equivalent of our founding fathers! (If you overlook the part about it being a murderous Islamic mob.)

Meanwhile, Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIA's Bin Laden unit, said: "The people we are fighting for in Libya, the backbone of that movement, are former mujahedeen from around the world." We are "enabling people who may not be formally aligned with al-Qaida but who want the same things to grasp ever closer to power."

Scheuer said the media had taken "a few English-speaking Arabs who are pro-democracy and a few Facebook pages out of the Middle East and extrapolated that to a region-wide love of secular democracy," adding, "It is as insane a situation as I've ever encountered in my life."

No wonder Obama's running for re-election on his foreign policy expertise!

Among Republicans, Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum all called for aggressive action against Gadhafi, including enforcement of a no-fly zone.

Santorum cited Reagan's 1986 bombing of Libya (after Gadhafi had killed American servicemen in Berlin), saying, "If you want to be Reaganesque, it seems the path is pretty clear."

Gingrich took all sides, first demanding: "Exercise a no-fly zone this evening. We don't need to have the United Nations. All we have to say is that we think that slaughtering your own citizens is unacceptable and that we're intervening. This is a moment to get rid of him. Do it. Get it over with."

Then, two weeks later, he said: "I would not have intervened."

Only Mitt Romney and Haley Barbour resisted calling for aggressive action against Gadhafi, with Romney merely criticizing Obama's deer-in-the-headlights response, and Barbour stating more directly, "I don't think it's our mission to make Libya look like Luxembourg." No offense, he said, "but it is not ever going to look like what we'd like."

The New York Times' Thomas Friedman exulted that the Arab peoples "have come up with their own answer to violent extremism and the abusive regimes we've been propping up. ... It's called democracy."

The Washington Post's David Ignatius praised Obama's major shift in strategy in seeing the Libyan uprising as a "positive development" and refusing to provide aid to the embattled dictator. "My own instinct," he said, "is that Obama is right."

French liberal blowhard Bernard-Henri Levy announced that "Libya will go down in history as the anti-Iraq. Iraq was a democracy parachuted in by a foreign power in a country which hadn't asked for it. Libya was a rebellion which demanded help from an international coalition."

The Charleston (W.Va.) Gazette editorialized: "Most of the world is rejoicing because of the historic success in Libya. We're glad it was accomplished by Libya's people, not by a U.S. invasion ordered by right-wing American politicians."

I note that the American ambassador in Iraq has not been murdered and his corpse dragged through the streets. I also recall that, a few years ago, when Muslims around the globe erupted in rioting over some Dutch cartoons, one Muslim country remained utterly pacific: George W. Bush's Iraq.

Apparently U.S. invasions ordered by right-wing American politicians are the only ones that work in the Middle East. Fake uprisings orchestrated by Muslim fanatics are less propitious.

Learn your history, Americans. The American Revolution was not the revolt of a mob. It was a carefully thought-out plan for a republic, based on ideas painstakingly argued by serious men in the process of creating what would become the freest, most prosperous nation in world history.

The much-ballyhooed "Arab Spring," with mobs of men gang-raping American reporters, firing guns in the air and murdering their erstwhile dictators, is more akin to the pointless bloodletting of the French Revolution.

That godless antithesis to the founding of America is the primogenitor of the horrors of the Bolshevik Revolution, Hitler's Nazi Party, Mao's Cultural Revolution, Pol Pot's slaughter and America's periodic mob uprisings, from Shays' Rebellion to today's union thugs in Madison, Wis., and Occupy Wall Street.

Americans did win freedom and greater individual rights with their revolution. By contrast, the French Revolution resulted in bestial savagery, a slaughter of all the revolution's leaders, followed by Napoleon's dictatorship, followed by another monarchy, and then finally something resembling an actual republic 80 years later.

Violent mob uprisings have never led to a functioning democratic republic.

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WSS,

I don't doubt that Mitt has lousy advisors. But even much better advisors won't make up for his deficiencies as a retail politician.

In any event, Politico is not a source that anyone in the Romney campaign should spend one minute reading. Politico's aim is to make sure their guy wins (hint: their guy isn't named Willard Milton). I hope Romney's operatives have at least enough intelligence to realize that.

The legacy media keep looking for a Lehman Brothers moment. (You should check back on the 2008 polls—McCain was ahead of Obama when Lehman Brothers went belly-up. He was well behind from then on.) They don't seem to realize that they couldn't make Lehman Brothers go broke, nor could they script John McCain's deer-in-the-headlights response to Lehman's going broke.

So now they exclaim over other media people exclaiming over... Romney's remarks about the attacks in Egypt and Libya. (Uh well, maybe the attacks weren't all the fault of some Coptic exile lowlife after all... Never mind, Mitt Romney is still the real menace.)

Then they exclaim over other media people exclaiming over... Romney's "47%" remarks (using a video that's missing 2 minutes right around that portion of Romney's pitch to the donors—I wonder why).

You even see deliberate frying of poll numbers. All of a sudden Marquette University has Obama way ahead in Wisconsin, not just within the margin of error. All of a sudden, their sample is D+11. All of a sudden, they have Tammy Baldwin (a Congresswoman well on the left side of the Democratic Party whom Wisonsinites indelibly associate with Dane County, i.e., Madison) ahead of Tommy Thompson (former Governor, not terribly conservative). Thompson was well ahead in their last poll and nothing newsworthy has come out of that campaign in the interim.

I don't doubt that Romney knows how to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

But if the legacy media were so certain their guy was going to win, they wouldn't be going all-out in the ways we've been witnessing—and whatever is still to be produced from their bag of tricks.

Were any of these tactics applied against Bob Dole in 1996?

Robert Campbell

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