Story #1tells of Tuesday’s victory by Mitt Romney. #2 is
an article by Hugh Hewett and his assessment of Romney. #3 speculates on who a President Romney might
put on the Supreme Court. #4 looks at
the parallels between the rise of Fascism and today. #5 reveals an attack on the family farm by
the Obama Labor Department. #6 is about
Jon Corzine while #7 reveals the hypocrisy in the Obama’s current attacks on
the Republicans.
Today’s thoughts
Watching
Romney’s speech last night I was struck at how upbeat it was. Contrasting that to the
negative messages of the Democrats tells me the Dems are in for a thumping in
November.
There are rules of thumb you can often
use to see what is happening. Here’s one
for this election. With more than six months to go, the rhetoric on the left is shrill as
sure sign of big trouble for them.
From Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s the Republicans want to take away women
healthcare, to David Axelrod’s Republicans campaign of terror we are seeing the
left realize how much trouble they are in and are reacting exactly the wrong way.
Six months of negativity will
drive down their numbers, not the Republicans.
Now that the war on terror is over, does that mean we can privatize TSA again?
Bob Kerrey has just released a video
condemning going to war with Iran. A
good move except no one is proposing we go to war with Iran. It
appears 2012 will have the Democrats condemning things the Republicans aren’t
proposing (ie. banning contraception, poisoning the air and water, etc.)
1.
Romney wins: A Better America Begins Tonight
Mitt Romney, whose first run for the White House ended in
failure and disappointment, prepared to lay claim to the Republican presidential
nomination Tuesday night and turn his full focus to what will likely be a
competitive and intensely fought general election contest with President Obama….
“To all of the
thousands of good and decent Americans I’ve met who want nothing more than a
better chance, a fighting chance, to all of you, I have a simple message,”
Romney said, according to excerpts of the speech released early by the campaign. “Hold on a little longer. A better
America begins tonight.”
Arguing that
Obama has failed in office, he added, “Because
he has failed, he will run a campaign of diversions, distractions and
distortions. That kind of campaign may have worked at another place and in
a different time — but not here and not now.” Then, in a twist on former
President Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign message, he added, “It’s still about the economy, and we’re not stupid…
The
contrast between Romney’s message and the Democrats is stark. Today he showed he was the candidate of hope
and change and that change isn’t to fundamentally change America, but to become
a better America.
2.
Hugh Hewitt: A very strong candidate
The zombie narrative of a brokered convention is
dead, and Politico is having to lay off the brokered convention team.
Romney is the GOP nominee and a very strong one who has emerged from the primary process
focused on the economy and in a dead heat with the president.
Romney's speech last night was the best he has
given, and it must reflect
the investment of time available to such efforts when the nominee can focus and
practice.
When
former McCain Campaign manager Steve Schmidt appeared on my program on April
27, 2009 to discuss the 2008 campaign, he made a memorable comment about
Romney.
"I thought he was a very scary opponent
looking from the other side of the table in that he was almost like a learning
organism at the end,"
Schmidt said about the former Massachusetts governor. "He just kept getting better week by week by week, and kept
becoming stronger."
That
capacity to grow in the role was on display last night and it must have opened some eyes even wider in Chicago and inside the
Beltway. And a hat tip to whomever helped the candidate polish the draft,
as it was a very good speech…
As you read this blog you will see how delighted
I am by having Mitt Romney as the Republican nominee. He is
smart, smooth and will be just what the country needs after four years of
Barack Obama. He will actually focus on
the economy and things will get better.
I don’t expect him to do much regarding social issues, but this election
shouldn’t be about social issues.
3.
Who would Romney put on the Supreme
Court?
Now that Mitt Romney is the presumptive
Republican nominee for president, the
names of people he might appoint to SCOTUS are starting to roll off the tongues
of conservative activists, lawyers and former Republican administration
aides.
While conservatives caution that talk is mere guesswork, an examination of
Romney's record as Massachusetts governor and statements he made on the
presidential campaign trail can help shape an early list of frontrunners should
he defeat President Barack Obama in the November 6 election, and should he be
given the chance to fill a vacancy on the nine-member bench…
CLEMENT A FAVORITE
Paul Clement, who served as U.S. solicitor general under President George W. Bush and is now a lawyer in private practice, is the favorite of many conservatives. Clement argued last month for the Supreme Court to strike down Obama's 2010 healthcare law, and he is defending laws that ban same-sex marriage and that target illegal immigrants. Clement, 45, would be "at the top of any short list right now," said Curt Levey, executive director of the Committee for Justice, a group that advocates for conservative nominees….
It’s early to talk about this, but interesting
nonetheless.
4.
Vigilante President, Liberal Fascist
On the heels of such paeans to vigilante governance as this and this, and various cris de coeur that democracy is standing in the way of what was indeed sold, in the closing days of the 2008 campaign, as “fundamental transformation” of said democracy, I was struck by a passage while reading a book last night otherwise unrelated in any way to current politics. But it led to a very disturbing conclusion.
The book is Tobruk by Peter Fitzsimons. Explaining the rise of fascism, Fitzsimons wrote, “there was a growing belief that ordinary democracy could not work anymore — because no one could achieve a majority of popular support.” This was startling. It sounded so…familiar.
From Thomas Friedman and Barack Obama we hear the same thing: those other people voted into office in an historic sweep, on a campaign promising to obstruct our plans, why, they’re obstructing our plans! We can’t get a majority for anything (…that we want and the majority don’t). Time to tinker with the system, test its limits, legislate through rules and bully citizens and of course judges deciding cases where people are calling us on it all dared sue.
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/04/25/vigilante-president-liberal-fascist/
Obama and the Democrats are certainly doing this. From recess appointments when the Senate wasn’t in recess, to EPA regulations that are passed based on studies that don’t pass the EPA’s guidelines, the Democrats are stretching the rules to the limits.
5.
Obama’s Labor Department Attacks Family
Farms
A proposal from the Obama administration to prevent
children from doing farm chores has drawn plenty of criticism from rural-district
member of Congress. But now it’s
attracting barbs from farm kids themselves.
The Department of Labor
is poised to put the finishing touches on a
rule that would apply child-labor laws to children working on family farms,
prohibiting them from performing a list of jobs on their own families’ land.
Under the rules, children
under 18 could no longer work “in the storing, marketing and transporting of
farm product raw materials.”
“Prohibited places of employment,” a Department press release read, “would include country grain elevators, grain bins, silos, feed
lots, stockyards, livestock exchanges and livestock auctions.”
The new regulations,
first proposed August 31 by Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, would also revoke the government’s approval of safety
training and certification taught by independent groups like 4-H and FFA,
replacing them instead with a 90-hour federal government training course….
Why
liberals tell you that the Republicans want to poison the air because they talk
about reducing government regulations, remember this. This government seem intent on destroying the
small family farm.
6.
Obama’s Tainted Bundler
…Under Corzine, MF Global
lost well over $1 billion, and I don’t mean in the profit/loss sense. I mean it
was physically misplaced and Corzine cannot account for where it went. The
Justice Department is investigating, and news-media accounts suggest a criminal
prosecution is likely. Somewhat better late than never, Gensler recused himself
after MF Global went bankrupt.So, why the trip down memory lane? Because the
Obama campaign just announced that Corzine is still on the list of top-tier
bundlers for the Obama reelection campaign. Corzine has raised more than half a million dollars for Obama.
Obama is constantly denouncing “millionaires and billionaires” for
playing by their own rules. It’s true
that the campaign told one reporter in February that it wouldn’t take more
money from Corzine himself, but it’s been happy to let the man solicit
donations for Obama even as Corzine is under investigation by Obama’s own
Justice Department. How cozy. Tell me, what’s the point of the Occupy Wall
Street movement, and its countless sympathizers in the Democratic party and the
media, if that’s good enough? Whatever happened to changing how Washington
works?
We’re about to enter a very long campaign in
which an apparently squeaky-clean Mitt Romney is going to be demonized for his
success and dragged through the gutter. Meanwhile,
Obama took cash from a true denizen of the gutter.
How
do you spell Democrat? H-y-p-o-c-r-i-s-y.
7.
And some more Hypocrisy regarding
campaign tactics
Watch
what Obama said last year and compare it to what appears to be the democrats’
tactics for this campaign (the president’s remarks begins at 1 minute 26 seconds).
