The Other McCain

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THE CHILLICOTHE ADDRESS: Romney’s Best Speech of the Campaign

REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio — Folks, Mitt Romney’s event tonight in Chillicothe was the best I’ve seen of this campaign. The crowd was huge — estimated between 5,000 and 6,000 — and the setting was awesome: In front of the beautiful courthouse downtown, with the sun just setting behind the courthouse and the sky glowing golden. The […]

Aye, The Economy. Also: The Tempo

by Smitty We have 84 days to go. Mataconis, emphasis mine: As I noted on Sunday, it strikes me that Romney’s campaign will be making a serious error if they allow this election to be about anything other than the economy. If it’s about Medicare, for example, then the campaign runs about against the fact […]

Romney Aide: Biden ‘Chains’ Remark Shows ‘Desperate’ Obama Campaign

LANCASTER, Ohio A top strategist for the Mitt Romney campaign denounced as “outrageous” Vice President Joe Biden’s assertion that the Republicans would put black people “back in chains.” “It just goes to show you that when the Obama campaign gets in a scrape, they scrape the bottom,” Romney aide Eric Fehrnstrom said Tuesday afternoon while […]

Ohio-Bound: Hitting the Road With Mitt

By the time you read this, I’ll be about halfway to Beallsville, Ohio, where Mitt Romney has the first of his three campaign stops today: 12:30 p.m. ET: American Energy Corporation 43521 Mayhugh Road Beallsville, Ohio 3:30 p.m. ET: Tom’s Ice Cream Bowl 532 Mcintire Avenue Zanesville, Ohio 7:00 p.m. ET: Ross County Court House […]

The Onion: “Don’t Even Try To Pretend You Haven’t Imagined Me Being Elected President One Day.’

by Smitty Your NSFW potty mouth of the day, via AllahPundit on Twitter, is a faux Paul Ryan in the Onion: Admit It, I Scare The Ever-Loving S**t Out Of You [Lefties], Don’t I? This is one of the key aspects of Ryan: he’s young enough that, after 8 years of executive tutelage under Romney, […]

Iowa Flashback: August 2011

Intersection in a cornfield near Roland, Iowa Paul Ryan is campaigning — and getting heckled — today in Iowa and I don’t know how many readers realize that today is the one-year anniversary of the Iowa GOP Straw Poll at Ames, which I covered under the headline, “Fear and Loathing at the Hilton Coliseum.” In case you’ve […]

Paul Ryan in the American Spectator

When you think about qualifications as vice president, the first thing you have to ask is, “Have they written for the American Spectator?” Paul Ryan’s byline first appeared in the American Spectator in July 2009, and today he’s back with a column slamming Obama’s “you didn’t build that” rhetoric: President Obama recently made a stunning remark […]

#RomneyRyan Ohio: Shout It Out Loud!

“These are the biggest crowds, some of the biggest enthusiasm that we’ve seen at Romney campaign events . . . This is as loud as I have heard a Romney campaign rally . . . This crowd is fired up. This campaign is fired up right now.” — Jim Acosta, CNN, Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012 […]

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