Day One for the Republican Convention

The Romney Clan

Ann Romney Speech

Ann Romney opened her heart last night and told the crowd, “Mitt doesn’t like to talk about how he has helped others because he sees it as a privilege, not a political talking point” --a far cry from the current officeholder.  

But the left couldn’t simply accept this gracious woman for who she was, as Juan William’s called her a  "Corporate wife." Is that a code word for “rich b%&*$?”  

And in the parallel universe that the New York Times exists in editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal painted an ugly picture of Ann Romney.  Rosenthal also managed to refer to mother-of-five Mrs. Romney as a "diva." Here's Rosenthal's most reprehensible line:

"The genius of Mrs. Romney’s diva performance was the way she smiled so warmly as she delicately slipped the knife into President Obama."

There certainly wasn’t any delicacy in Rosenthal’s comments.  But the more the MSM and the Democrats squeal the more effective the speech was.  

Romney gets a bump from Convention Day One

In battleground states preliminary polling shows Romney’s favorables going from 43/44 to 48/39.  

A Star is Born:  Mia Love’s speech

A new star was born at the Republican Convention when Mia Love knocked it out of the park in putting Utah voice in for Mitt Romney.  

In the meantime, liberals showed how fair and accepting they could be by updating Ms. Love’s Wikipedia’s entry. 

What is a bit confusing is how the racist’s tea party seems to be supporting people that according to the left they hate. 

But the left doesn’t let us down.  Here’s a woman of accomplishment and color and they see her as a token.  Sandra Fluke is a token. Mia Love is the real thing.

If you’re watching MSNBC you may wonder why there are no minority speakers

MSNBC has not broadcast any speeches by minority Republicans (including Mia Love’s speech featured above). 

Is that a dog whistle sign of racism by the most extreme network on cable?  

Who’s the extremist?  A New Ad

There is a new ad in Missouri which features Melissa Ohden who tells you how Barack Obama voted against giving aid to children born in a botched abortion.  The video is all the more poignant as Ms. Ohden who was just such a child, was born and discarded but was saved when a nurse heard her crying.  Melissa asks, “Is this the kind of leadership that will move us forward, that would discard the weakest among us?”  President Obama is the worst kind of extremist as he doesn’t even realize how inhumane his position is.  Nice guy?  Hardly.

Why the Conservative will win in November

The population sees itself overwhelmingly as conservatives and if that isn’t enough, the left is out of ideas. 

Apparently the Democrats aren’t serious

This election is a clear choice between the same old Democratic politics versus a Republican party that is willing to take on the real problems the country faces.  When Romney picked Paul Ryan as his running mate we saw this evolve.  The Democrats licked their lips and pulled out the old ad with someone looking like Paul Ryan throwing granny off the cliff while Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan started talking about solutions to the coming fiscal disaster.  

Obama’s Jobs Plan for his second term

  

Perhaps there hasn’t been a better kept secret since Nixon’s secret plan to end the Vietnam War.  “His "vision" includes ‘strengthening our education system, more cleaner [sic] energy, leading through innovation, building job creating infrastructure and fair, simple tax reform.’”  He seems to be trying to sell us “hope and change” again but it appears to be more smoke and mirrors.

Obama’s approval level

Looking at the Gallup poll, we find Obama’s approval level approaching the 30s.

Democrats are looking at Romney

Like 32 years ago, Democrats are looking elsewhere to cast their ballots.  “I have conducted my own straw polls in various U.S. cities and I’ve yet to find anyone who believes our government is well run, except for President Obama.”  And while the Democrats accuse Romney of being out of touch with the middle class, it appears Obama and his supporters who are out of touch with reality. 

In the meantime, Artur Davis spoke at the Republican Convention and as a former Democrat who seconded Obama’s nomination in 2008 explained why the Democrats were so enamored with President Obama.  He said they lead with their hearts and their dreams.  But added, “But dreams meet daybreak: the jobless know what I mean, so do the families who wonder how this Administration could wreck a recovery for three years and counting.  Obama has failed.  He knows that and so does the country.  

The Republican Convention non-story

Protesters in Tampa. 

Robert Gibbs Shocked by Convention

“I’m kind of flabbergasted at the whole night,” Gibbs said on MSNBC after Gov. Chris Christie’s keynote speech. “It seemed first and foremost like this was a very angry convention tonight full of insults.”  This statement reminds me of the old joke about how you can tell when a politician is lying….

Meanwhile if you actually watched the convention you know that no onedirectly attacked the President, because no one had to.  The economy, the deficit, and the debt speak for themselves. 

Crony Law Enforcement Obama Style

In Obama’s America a former Marine gets arrested for “ominous Facebook postings” by the Secret Service while an Occupy Wall Street protestor launches “a Kill Mitt Romney page earlier this month” and the Secret service simply monitors him.  

Obama’s chickens coming home to roost

 It’s almost comical how Obama is being attacked by his own words and promises.  In fact 2012 is almost a replay of 2008 with Obama playing thepart of George W. Bush. 

Hillary leaving the country next week

When the Democrats meet next week in Charlotte, Hillary Clinton will be in the Far East.  A wise move if you want a political future beyond this November.  http://www.jammiewf.com/2012/hillary-clinton-to-flee-the-country-during-dnc/

Navy Seals not Obama supporters

It seems the Navy Seals who took out UBL were not fans of Barack Obama.  In a new book out next week, “No Easy Day,” the author reveals Bin Laden was killed differently than the Administration’s account.  Joe Biden is described as being like “someone’s drunken uncle at Christmas dinner.”

Seen in Nashville TN

One of the changes I’m seeing this election is a lot more conservatives with anti-Obamabumper stickers. 

While this bumper sticker was seen in Aurora Colorado.  

When the Government is the employer

Things aren’t safer and better when the government is the employer.  Venezuela and Hugo Chavez show us that with the latest state run oil company disaster.  “Forty-eight people were killed and 500 houses were leveled.”

Socialized Medicine in the UK

Even though the NHS was lionized in the opening ceremony from the Olympics we still see a constant barrage of horror stories coming out about it.  The latest comes from the Daily Mail:  “A retired schoolmaster took his own pillows and duvet into a new £170million hospital wing because he was so shocked by the conditions in which his son was being treated.

The Choom President

This may explain a lot of about the Left

Researchers found persistent users of the drug, who started smoking it at school, had lower IQ scores as adults. 

They were also significantly more likely to have attention and memory problems in later life, than their peers who abstained. (this may explain why Obama needs his teleprompters to make a speech).   

Furthermore, those who started as teenagers and used it heavily, but quit as adults, did not regain their full mental powers, found academics at King’s College London and Duke University in the US. 

The Choom Gang strikes again.  

Who are the real extremist?

Obama calls Romney an extremist and suddenly, the idea that there should by any restraint on illegal immigration is "extreme."  The notion that there should be limits to abortion rights and to the requirement that taxpayers and religious institutions pay for abortion is "extreme."  The idea that seeking work should be a requirement for welfare is "extreme."  Any suggestion of balancing the federal budget or even of cutting the rate of growth in federal spending is "extreme."  In other words, any statement that conflicts with those of the most liberal administration in American history is "extreme."  

Remember how Chuck Shumer was caught on a Conference Call  on 3/29/11 saying “I always use the word extreme, that is what the caucus instructed me to do the other week.”

Dick Morris Poll:  Romney up by 7%

On Thursday, August 23rd, Dick Morris conducted a national survey of 500 likely voters through live telephone interviews. The poll finds Romney ahead of Obama by 50-43! — far, far different from the published polls.

(The sample was 33% Democrat, 31% Republican, 11% black, and 8% Latino).  This corresponds to what I see happening if you take the Democratic bias out of the other polls or at least minimize it.  

It this hope or change?

General Motors is halting, for a month, the manufacture of its well-known but seldom-sold Chevrolet Volt extended-range electric car, according to trade publication Automotive News.

It would be the second interruption in production for the Volt, which can go 38 miles on battery power before needing a recharge from its gasoline engine or via a plug-in.

Code Pink Protests

I think they came as the wrong side.

 

Democrats keep saying Isaac is a sign from the gods

Pump prices could jump as much as a quarter a gallon over the next week because of oil refinery shut downs ahead of Tropical Storm Isaac, analysts said. More than 1.1 million barrels of Gulf Coast refining capacity was offline or being shut down Monday because of Isaac’s march toward Louisiana. That amounts to around 6 percent of the nation’s gasoline production capacity.  Hmmm, now who do you suppose will get blamed for higher gas prices?  Perhaps the Democrats are correct.  

Record amount of money being spent on schools

Students headed back to school this fall will have historically high levels of dollars spent on them in the public school system. Nationally, average per-pupil spending exceeds $11,400 this year, meaning a child entering kindergarten today can expect to have no less than $148,000 spent on his or her education by the time the child graduates high school. In all, more than $570 billion will be spent on public K-12 education this year.

All that money and our kids still can’t speel.  

What Your Bumper Sticker Says about You

A Bumper Sticker that describes what this election is all about.

Swingers

I’ve got a new piece on the homepage about a Frank Luntz swing-voter focus group I sat in on in Tampa yesterday. The bad news is, America’s swing voters are mushy-minded schizos. The good news is they are breaking for Romney. 

“If Luntz picks his swing-voter focus groups as carefully as he claims, Romney/Ryan has this whole thing sewn up.”

Switchers--Democrats not supporting Obama 

RNC ad highlights Obama voters who are switching—and they are really Democrats unlike the Democrats ad on Republican women switching to BHO. 

First they came for the 1%

“First they came…” is a famous statement attributed to pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) about the inactivity of German intellectuals following the Nazi rise to power.  This write up parallels what happened there with what the Democrats are trying to do in demonizing the rich.

If the Democrats want to end the deficit on tax increases they are coming for themiddle class. 

Citizens United Strikes again

The left goes crazy about the effect of Citizens United allowing unlimited corporate and union independent political expenditures.  But the real Citizens United case was about wanting to air a film critical of Hillary Clinton and to advertise the film during television broadcasts in apparent violation of the 2002 Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (commonly known as the McCain–Feingold Act or "BCRA").  In a 5–4 decision, the Court held that portions of BCRA §203 violated the First Amendment.  This year we’ve already seen one conservative documentary 2016 and are about to see a second one “Runaway Slave.” 

Former presidential hopeful Herman Cain and other black conservatives appear in the new documentary ‘Runaway Slave,’ which digs deeper into whether America’s growth in entitlement programs has harmed and even “enslaved” African Americans to a permanent welfare state.

Consumer Confidence Drops—Unexpectedly if you are a liberal

The Conference Board, an industry group, said its index of consumer attitudes fell to 60.6 from a downwardly revised 65.4 the month before. Economists had expected an increase to 66, according to a Reuters poll. 

It was the lowest level since November. July was originally reported as 65.9.  Of course if you are in the mainstream media this is unexpected.

  

PolitiFact?  Hardly.

Its recent rulings on Medicare have demonstrated the point thrice over. PolitiFact said that Romney’s comment that Obama had “robbed” Medicare of $716 billion to pay for Obamacare was “mostly false.” Among its reasons: “The money was not robbed in any literal sense of the word.” So if Romney led anyone to believe that Obama had held Medicare at gunpoint and ordered it to hand over its wallet, they can now rest easy, because PolitiFact is on the case.  

My feeling is that although PolitiFact gives “ratings” on a Truth-o-meter, PolitiFact doesn’t really have a Truth-o-meter in “any literal sense of the word” so I have to give that name a “mostly false” rating. 

Obama Breaks Tradition again

Buckingtradition, President Obama set out on a two-day campaign swing on Tuesday, aiming to steal just a bit of the spotlight from Republicans rallying in Tampa, Fla.  He was the first President in the post-Watergate era to turn down government funding for his 2008 campaign after agreeing with John McCain not to do so.  Obama only seems to follow the rules when they are stacked in his favor.  

Mystery Speaker at Republican Convention

Supposedly she either turned down a chance to speak or was snubbed (depends on your sources), but what would be a more electrifying than having Sarah Palin come out, given a barn burner of a speech and hold up the arms of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan: united, focused and ready to beat Barack Obama.  I’d put my money on that one.  And in her honor, I give you one of my favorite Sarah Palin quotes: “Folks, this government isn't too big to fail; it's too big to succeed. 

Ellen Barkin—Bigot

Sunday night, the actress took some time off from Mormon bashing to retweet a follower rooting for Tropical Storm Isaac to “wash every pro-life, anti-education, anti-woman, xenophobic, gay-bashing, racist SOB right into the ocean!” Or as Barkin would call them, conservatives.  

Kind of a shame she’s such a bigot.  I always used to like her films.