President Romney

Did Obama lose the first debate or did Romney win it?

Conventional wisdom holds that Barack Obama "lost" in Denver because he lacked intensity. He brought his A-game to Hofstra this week. There's still a problem.
The most significant event in the 2012 presidential election remains the Romney miracle bump after the first debate. If Mr. Romney wins the election, analysts and scholars will spend years picking apart the Denver debate the way they have the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon debate.
If the pundits do that, they will be wrong.  Obama’s record says he should lose and lose big in November.  History shows us that a bad economy makes for one term presidents.  Obama staked his reelection bid on the strategy that was reported as “kill Romney.”  He spent $220 million on smearing Romney trying to make him unacceptable and drive people who wouldn’t vote for Obama again to not vote at all.  It would then become a base election and Obama spent a lot of money setting up his ground game.  

The first debate destroyed this strategy.  It wasn’t Obama’s lackluster performance (although that didn’t help) but Romney’s excellent performance.  Romney took himself from unacceptable to acceptable and the voters Obama was trying to keep away from the polls saw that.  They will come out and will vote against Obama.  In the meantime, Romney performance in the debates has elevated him among his base from their voting against Obama into voting for Romney.  

It’s over.  The next debate will not move anyone.  This debate doesn’t matter.  The momentum is there and as I’ve said since Romney won the nomination back in April, he will win by at least as much as Obama won in 2008.  It won’t be close.  In fact the real issue is going to be how many seats will the Democrats lose down ticket.  

Another sign it is over

The latest Rasmussen poll has those who strongly approve of Obama performance at 30% and those who strongly disapprove at 44% which gives Obama a -14%.  But that isn’t the issue.  These voters will vote either for Obama (30%) or against Obama (44%).  Here’s Obama’s dilemma.  He must win 20% of the remaining 26% of voters who don’t feel strongly either way.  This amounts to 77% of the likely voters who aren’t strongly in favor or against Mr. Obama. 

Benghazi, Candy and the President

Did Romney make a political mistake in the second debate on the Benghazi question or did Obama?  It appears Obama opened the door for the next debate to be proven to be a liar on national TV.

Mr. President:  Were you lying then or are you lying now?

The President clearly misled the American people with this claim, because if Obama’s Rose Garden speech was indeed the White House position, it did not inform any subsequent statement by the White House press office — and was even directly contradicted by his own spokesman several days later.

On September 20 — eight days after Obama claims to have called the Benghazi attack an “act of terror” — Jay Carney affirmed to reporters that the White House had never called it “a terrorist attack.”

The Top Ten Lies Obama told on Tuesday Night

Here’s a list of the top ten lies Obama told at the second debate. 

Great new Ad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znVqyfxfbRQ&feature=player_embedded

Michelle Obama:  Barack didn’t point fingers

First lady Michelle Obama said Wednesday that President Obama did not look to blame others for the challenges he faced as president, an apparent rebuke of Republican accusations that the White House continues to point the finger at President George W. Bush for the lagging economy.

"See, but your president, he didn't point fingers," Michelle Obama said at a campaign fundraiser in New York. "He didn't place blame. Instead, he got to work, because he was thinking about folks like my dad and like his grandmother.

It appears more than just President Obama can tell untruths with a straight face. 

White Voters support Romney by a lot

Political analysts (including The Fix) spend a good bit of time these days talking about important voter groups — Latino voters and female voters, in particular.

But all of the focus on these groups has obfuscated one fact: Mitt Romney is performing very, very well among white voters. And in fact, most recent polls show him winning the white vote by more than any GOP presidential candidate since Ronald Reagan.

Desperate Obama Campaign invents Bindergate

Women who worked under Mitt Romney when he was Governor of Massachusetts are speaking out against the latest "binders full of women" faux controversy. As Romney said during the presidential debate Tuesday night, he had more women in high power positions during his time as governor than any other governor in the country, yet liberals are desperately trying to continue their pathetic "war on women" meme.

“He totally gets working women, especially working women like myself who had two young kids,” Ellen Roy Herzfelder, a former state secretary of environmental affairs, says in the 30-second ad.

Kerry Healey, Romney’s former lieutenant governor, said 10 of the 20 top positions in the administration were filled by women -- more than any other state in the nation.

October 16:  The Day the Media was completely exposed

The second presidential debate confirmed to the world that the press is completely in bed with President Obama and the Democratic Party and cannot be counted on as a fair arbiter of the truth.

13 Citizen from Cedar Rapids apologize for voting for Barack Obama in 2008

They promise they won’t make that mistake again in a front page ad the put in the Cedar Rapids Gazette.

Actually there are a lot more Americans who owe us an apology.

First time unemployment applications soar by 46,000

Weekly applications for U.S. unemployment benefits jumped 46,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 388,000, the highest in four months.

This probably isn’t fair since last week’s applications were obviously understated. 

Brit Hume:  ‘I thought I was seeing the face of God.’

Brit Hume talks about the death of his son in a very uplifting interview.

Obama’s chief complaint against John Roberts

This one will floor you:  

I think that he has been a little bit too willing and eager to give an administration, whether it's mine or George Bush's, more power than I think the Constitution originally intended.

Why the election is basically over

Obama’s campaign:  Why the election is really over

Everyone seems to be saying that this election is too close to call and right now Obama is slightly ahead.  Nonsense.  First, Obama is not slightly ahead.  The polls that show Obama with a slight lead, over sample Democrats.  In 2008, 6% more Democrats voted than Republicans and independents voted for Obama with a 7% edge. 

In today’s polls we find the Republicans with an 10% lead among independents (a 17% swing) which means the oversampling of Democrats is significant.  

In 2010, the number of Democrats and Republicans who voted was even.  It was the lead among independents that swept the Republicans into control of the House and the Republicans actually won a greater percentage of the Senate races than they did the House.  Obama desperately needs his base to turn out and to somehow turn the independents his way.  

Obama knows he can’t win on his record.  His strategy comes down to “kill Romney.”  After three months of heavy advertisement, that plan hasn’t worked.  Romney isn’t dead and in fact if you correct for the oversampling of Democrats he’s ahead by about 5%.  

Obama will continue to barrage the airwaves with negative ads.  Why will he do this when it hasn’t worked so far?  If you’ve ever seen the movie “An Officer and a Gentleman,” you may remember the scene where the gunnery sergeant is trying to get Zack Mayo to DOR (drop on request).  He spends the weekend hazing Richard Gere’s character and keeps telling him he wants his DOR.  Zack keeps saying “No.”  Finally he asks why he doesn’t take the easy way out and Maya says, “I’ve got nowhere else to go.”  Obama and the Democrats are in the same position that Zack Mayo was in.  They have nowhere else to go but negative.  

But the Democrats won’t have the airwaves to themselves like they did in 2008.  Romney has more money than Obama has and the SuperPacs for the Republicans have much more money than the SuperPaks and the Unions do for the Democrats. 

It won’t work.  Basically history shows you that economics in politics is destiny.  Carter was bound to lose because of the inflation, unemployment (7.5%), etc.  Bush 41 also lost because unemployment was 7.4 percent at the time of the 1992 election.  In addition to 8.3% unemployment, Obama has had nothing but trillion dollar deficits since coming into office, huge losses in family wealth, and enormous increases of people on food stamps and welfare. 

The War on Women

The Democrats are trying to highlight what they call the "Republican war on women"  at their convention.  Having Sandra Fluke talk to remind women their greatest achievement, requiring even religious institutions to provide free birth control thus saving women $9 per month.  But the Democrats are hoping that the fact that over 90% of the jobs lost during Obama’s term were women’s jobs and having Bill Clinton and Caroline Kennedy talk doesn’t remind the women how the Kennedy men and President Clinton treated women.  And of course defending abortion with no restrictions defends abortion for sex selection with baby girls being the target of most of those abortions.   

Neil Armstrong dies

Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, died Saturday, weeks after heart surgery and days after his 82nd birthday.  I remember watching him step on the moon. 

 

Obama’s Plans for a Second Term

Barack Obama has great plans for his second term: to bring his golf handicap down to single digits and finally beat the pants off John Boehner. Obama loves to delegate the more tedious components of his duties (i.e., work)

The Democratic Playbook

Isn't it straight out of the Democratic playbook to start with a kernel of truth about an opponent's views on economics and go off on a riff, extrapolating wildly and conjuring up an insinuation that Republicans want to bring back slavery?

Obama’s new Normal

Many of those at Obama's events - like many people across the country - are not listening to him…. A number of those attending seemed only to want to get a picture of themselves with Obama speaking in the background.  Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

Has Obama given up?

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney accused President Obama on Saturday of giving up on trying to fix the economy, saying he had "admitted defeat."  Romney went on to say a real leader finds a way to try even harder when things look bad.