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 end is near

What’s New Today

Story # 1 tells of a Colorado Polysci Prof who has correctly predicted the 8 presidential elections.  Obama will lose according to him.  #2 is an ad for Mia Love, a rising star in the Republican party.  #3 tells of a new CBO report on a disaster looming.  #4 also relates to the problem.  It seems the Democrats are willing to live with your pain.  #5 is about the Paul Ryan difference.  #6 tells the story of how the election is slipping away from Obama. #7 points out the difference between the Democrats and the Republicans. 

Today’s Thoughts

Obama’s campaign has spent $325 million so far in his bid for reelection.  At this point in 2004 W. had spent $204 million.  The Romney campaign has spent 165 million.  It’s no wonder the Obama campaign is in Panic mode.  They’ve spent twice as much as Romney and Romney now has over $50 million more than Obama does in the bank.  What happens when Romney starts to outspend him? 

 

“An Oklahoma City kindergartner was forced to turn his University of Michigan shirt inside out last week because it violated a city ban on any apparel not supportive of the state’s college teams.” This is a simple example of government tyranny.  It’s petty and stupid, but it’s the law.

Joe Biden:  “I’ve known eight presidents and three of them intimately.”  Well he did call for gay marriage before Obama had evolved enough.

Sandra Fluke is going to be a speaker at the Democratic National Convention.  As far as I can tell her main qualification for this is that she has a uterus. 

Lie of the Day

Obama Campaign Manager Stephanie Cutter:  "Over the past, you know, 27 months, we've created 4.5 million private sector jobs; that's more jobs than in the Bush recovery, in the Reagan recovery..."

The problem with this claim is that during that same time period, Reagan created 9.8 million jobs with a smaller population and economy.  If you correct for that it would be approximately 12 million jobs.  And Bush created 4.8 million jobs. 

1.  Signs of Desperation—Political Scientist sees Obama loss

 An analysis from the University of Colorado that has correctly predicted the outcome of presidential elections since 1980 is forecasting Mitt Romney as the frontrunner, with voters in Colorado helping the presumptive Republican nominee unseat President Barack Obama. 

Political science professors Kenneth Bickers, of CU's Boulder campus, and Michael Berry, of CU's Denver campus, found that the ailing economy spells trouble for the president's re-election bid. The professors conduct a state-by-state analysis, incorporating economic data such as unemployment figures.

The results of their analysis show that Obama will win 218 votes in the electoral college, short of the 270 that he would need to be re-elected. 

While their study focuses on the electoral college, the political scientists predict Romney will win 52.9 percent of the popular vote compared to 47.1 for Obama when considering only the two major political parties. 

The economy is a main driver in elections, said Bickers, who also runs the "CU in DC" internship program.

"If the economy were just average, we would be forecasting Obama to win," Bickers said. "But the economy is below average, and he is struggling." 

Bickers said this election cycle has some parallels with 1980 -- a period when the economy was slumping and inflation was skyrocketing -- and voters chose Republican Ronald Reagan over Democratic incumbent President Jimmy Carter. 

In Colorado, which turned blue for Obama in 2008, the model predicts that Romney will receive 51.9 percent of the vote to Obama's 48.1 percent, again with only the two major parties considered. 

http://www.dailycamera.com/news/ci_21372873/cu-boulder-study-predicts-win-mitt-romney-general

This shouldn’t be a surprise if you read history.  I think Ryan is a boost to Romney, but the economy dictates a Romney win regardless.    

2. Mia Love:   A Republican Young Gun’s Ad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3zPyVe5rjY&feature=player_embedded

She’s a candidate for the House and a rising star in the Republican Party.  It seems our women politicians have an actual record of success as they climb the ladder.

3.   CBO:  Disaster Ahead—Obama refuses to do anything

The nation would be plunged into a deep recession during the first half of next year if Congress fails to avert nearly $500 billion in tax hikes and spending cuts set to hit in January, congressional budget analysts said Wednesday.

The massive round of New Year’s belt-tightening — variously known as the fiscal cliff or Taxmageddon — would disrupt recent economic progress, push the unemployment rate back up to 9.1 percent by the end of 2013 and cause economic conditions “that will probably be considered a recession,” the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/deeper-recession-imminent-if-congress-doesnt-act-on-fiscal-cliff-cbo-report/2012/08/22/0da7a07a-ec60-11e1-a80b-9f898562d010_story.html?hpid=z1

 

Obama is pushing on the accelerator as we speed toward the fiscal cliff.  I think he’s not only willing for this to happen, but if he’s going to lose wants it to happen. 

4.  Democrats willing to live with your pain

The Congressional Budget Office released its Update to the Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022 today, showing that if Congress and President Obama do nothing to stop Taxmageddon and the sequester unemployment will rise to 9/1 percent next year.  

Sounds bad right? But guess what? This is the preferred plan of a growing number of Democrats.
Former-Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, NY Times Executive Editor Bill Keller, former-Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chair Patty Murray have all advocated forcing the Unites States economy off the fiscal cliff just so Democrats can tell their constituents they raised taxes on the rich.

Even President Obama has expressed a willingness to take the fiscal jump. The New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza reports that unlike 2010 and 2011, Obama is prepared to follow through on his threat to let taxes go up after he no longer has to face voters ever again: “Several White House officials I talked to made it clear that if a deal, or at least the framework of a deal, is not reached before December 31st Obama would allow all the Bush tax cuts to expire – a tactic that would achieve huge deficit reduction, but in a particularly painful and ill-conceived fashion.”

http://washingtonexaminer.com/the-democrats-plan-for-9-percent-unemployment/article/2505638#.UDYsZqDfWSp

The Bush tax cuts removed about 22% of the electorate from paying income taxes.  Obama is willing to impose taxes on them so he can say he’s taxing the wealthy.  The Democrats apparently are reenacting the Biblical story of the Wisdom of Solomon sans the wisdom.  If you want to know who is really looking out for the middleclass see who is not willing to cut the baby in half.   

5.  Democrats target Ryan

The more voters learn about Congressman Paul Ryan's leadership style and his thoughtful and creative approach to solving problems, the more they will decide that the Romney-Ryan ticket looks presidential and electable. That's why there has been a coordinated effort in recent days to ramp up not just the "Mediscare" rhetoric against Mr. Ryan, but to depict him as a partisan ideologue who was instrumental in derailing a grand bargain on the deficit. This line of attack is cynical and, most of all, false.

First, Paul Ryan didn't force President Obama to abandon the budget recommendations of his own 2010 deficit commission, known as Bowles-Simpson. Mr. Obama's decision to punt on deficit reduction—and then to ridicule Mr. Ryan's plan to address the deficit—offended and disappointed Republicans and Democrats alike.

 

For example, Erskine Bowles, President Clinton's former chief of staff and the co-chairman of the Bowles-Simpson commission, described the Ryan budget that passed the House in March as "sensible, straightforward, honest, [and] serious." About President's Obama's budget, which failed in the Senate in May by a vote of 97 to zero, Mr. Bowles said, "I don't think anybody took that budget very seriously."

Second, even though I served on the president's debt commission and supported its recommendations, I recognize that we already have a debt commission. It's called Congress. No one in Congress has done more to offer specific solutions to our fiscal challenges than Paul Ryan. He also has demonstrated the rarest and most important trait in politics—moral courage… 

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444443504577599120307000312.html?mod=opinion_newsreel

With the federal government voting “present” over and over again regarding the looming financial disaster, Paul Ryan stands out as someone who actually would and could save us all.  The Democrats attack because they can’t defend.  They build themselves up by trying to tear others down.  They are the party of mudslinging, hate mongering, and lies.   

6.  2012 slipping away from Obama

Liberal television networks and newspapers won’t tell you this, but the election is gradually slipping away from President Obama. As the latest Gallup poll reports this week, Republican challenger Mitt Romney has pulled ahead nationally by 2 points. According to the Associated Press, Mitt is ahead with the all-important independent voter by a sizable margin of 41 percent to 30 percent. In a year when the election is all about the economy, stupid, support for the president’s economic policies and handling of deficits is in the 30s. With high unemployment and the economy going nowhere, it would be historically unprecedented for Mr. Obama to be reelected in November.

The former Massachusetts governor got a boost after naming Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate, with the pair now leading in the congressman’s very blue home state of Wisconsin. In the 72 hours after Mr. Ryan was tapped, the GOP ticket raised an impressive $7.4 million. The Badger State has gone for Democrats in the last six presidential elections dating to 1988, and cheeseheads gave Mr. Obama a massive 14-point victory against Sen. John McCain in 2008. In the 2010 midterm, however, two statewide offices - governor and U.S. senator - went Republican, and conservative Gov. Scott Walker beat back a serious union-funded recall drive by a comfortable 7 points just two months ago.

Wisconsin going to the elephants is very bad news for Barack. It signals that blue-collar, Rustbelt states like Pennsylvania and Michigan are in play and is consistent with a gradual shift in momentum toward Mr. Romney in other key battlegrounds. Mr. Romney is winning in Florida and tied or within the margin of error in Colorado, Virginia and Ohio….

DECKER: Romney's advantage over Obama - Washington Times

 

Slipping perhaps is the wrong word.  I think the sentence “With high unemployment and the economy going nowhere, it would be historically unprecedented for Mr. Obama to be reelected in November” is much more telling.  History says Obama will lose.  Obama campaign is a scorched earth policy trying to build himself up by tearing others down.  The problem is that it won’t work.  It’s the economy stupid.  

7.  Difference between Democrats and Republicans

While obviously nothing good ever comes of a disturbing comment like Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri made on Sunday regarding rape with its abortion implications, the controversy surrounding his ill-spoken comment shows a stark and interesting contrast between the Republicans and Democrats in current – as well as in historical – times.

After Rep. Akin made his remarks on Sunday stating that there are “legitimate” rapes suggesting that there are different types of rape, the first of the strong denouncements came from fellow-Republicans who immediately called for the representative to remove his name from the upcoming election ballot in Missouri. These strong suggestions came from the likes of the currently-most-influential Republican in the land, GOP presidential nominee-to-be Mitt Romney.

The denouncements of Akin came swiftly, loudly, and with dramatic force from the Republicans. They want Akin and his ill-spoken words out of the upcoming senatorial race, out of their Party, and out of the nation’s politics all together.

Imagine that. A politician does something wrong and the “good ole boys” – and “girls” – in politics don’t try to “explain” what the politician meant, “re-explain” what the politician meant, or even apologize for what was said.

Politicians’ horrendous words and horrific actions have become much too common in American politics. Far too often, politicians – primarily Democratic politicians – line up to defend the wrongdoings of a politician who has done wrong.

The most extreme example of Democrats supporting a failed politician recently was in Chicago this past spring when Illinois and Chicago Democratic politicians continued to support a Democratic candidate, Rep. Derrick Smith, who ultimately won his Illinois state representative’s seat just days after allegedly being caught ‘red-handed’ in a recorded incident in which he accepted a bribe – though the representative still denies doing anything wrong and is running for office again. A Democrat who took $7,000 in bribes a week before an election was still supported by the Democratic politicians – and the supportive politicians then got the electorate to blindly vote for the alleged crook. Unbelievable….

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2012/08/23/akin-incident-shows-contrast-between-the-republicans-and-democrats/

 

And while that example is powerful, it isn’t the only one.  Look at Ted Kennedy, Joe Baca, Barney Frank, Jesse Jackson Jr., Alan B. Mollohan, John Murtha, Pete Visclosky, Charlie Rangel and Maxine Waters to name a few.