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SCENES FROM OHIO ‘ALL-STAR’ RALLY

Posted on | November 3, 2012 | 17 Comments

A Romney supporter in West Chester, Ohio, Nov. 2, 2012 (Photo by Ali Akbar)

BLUE ASH, Ohio
Friday night’s event at Union Centre in West Chester has been called a Republican “all-star” rally, the largest so far for the Romney campaign, as the Cincinnati Enquirer reports:

The presidential race returned to Ohio for the final push Friday as GOP challenger Mitt Romney held a massive rally in the Republican heartland north of Cincinnati and President Barack Obama cut a swath through central Ohio.
“The question of the election comes down to this: Do you want more of the same or do you want real change?” Romney said Friday night in West Chester Township. “I promise change, and I actually have a record of achieving it.”
Romney spoke to a crowd of 30,000, according to West Chester Fire Chief Tony Goller – making it the largest rally of the campaign, said Romney spokesman Chris Maloney.

The fire chief is cited by name, whereas I have not yet seen any official’s name attached to the false claim that the crowd was only 18,000, promoted by Associated Press’s DNC operative, Steve Peoples, among other lying swine in the press corps. But enough about that, for now. Unquestionably, the highlight of the evening was what CNN called a “fiery” speech by former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani:

With new numbers showing the unemployment rate had ticked up to 7.9%, Giuliani said the Obama administration should be “ashamed of themselves” for framing the figure as a positive sign. . . .
“He should resign! He told us he would resign if he did this poorly,” Giuliani said, referring to a 2009 interview in which Obama vowed to turn the economy around in three years, otherwise there would be a “one-term proposition.”
Giuliani continued to fire off: “He lied. He has been a disaster. The worst president for our economy in our lifetime. He doesn’t want a second term. He wants a second chance, because he screwed it up the first time.”
The former mayor, who also ran for president in 2008, pivoted to Romney’s business experience, saying it should be considered a strength and blasted Democrats for making it a target on the campaign trail.
“They tried to humiliate him because of that. You know something, if Governor Romney can have the success for America that he had for Bain Capital, Thank God! Our people would be working again,” Giuliani said . . .
Giuliani received perhaps his biggest applause of the night when he focused on the Benghazi consulate attacks, which killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya, in September. . . .
“Maybe if we had a president who was paying attention, we wouldn’t be going through all this investigation of what’s being covered up about Libya,” he said.

Here are more photos from the rally by Ali Akbar (click on any photo to see full-size):

The Next President of the United States, Mitt Romney.

America’s Comeback Team takes the stage in West Chester.

Mitt Romney greets the cheering crowd.

Supporters wave Ohio and U.S. flags over the crowd-control railing.

America’s Mayor, Rudy Giuliani, slams into Obama’s record of failure.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.

Dave Weigel of Slate amid the crowd, interviewing a Romney supporter.

House Speaker John Boehner speaks at the rally in his home district. Butler County just happens to be the largest Republican county in Ohio.

The next Vice President of the United States, Paul Ryan.

Myself and Ali Akbar with Michael Zak, who blogs at Grand Old Partisan and is author of Back to Basics for the Republican Party. Zak is in Ohio as a volunteer with the RNC’s get-out-the-vote operation, and has been walking precincts and knocking on doors for the GOP.




 

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Category: Election 2012, Mitt Romney, Ohio, Paul Ryan

Words Matter, But The Motive Behind Them Drives The Deed

Posted on | November 3, 2012 | 14 Comments

by Smitty

#OccupyResoluteDesk is so, so thoroughly spent. Maybe this remark was a tell about why he hung Woods and Doherty out to dry?

via RBPundit

Category: Barack Obama, Election 2012

Ben & Jerry’s Are To Ice Cream What Clooney Is To Acting

Posted on | November 3, 2012 | 10 Comments

by Smitty

That is, good at their vocation, but full of hooey when they inject politics:

There isn’t much to dislike about Ben & Jerry’s. But when co-founder Ben Cohen publicly decries “money in politics,” he transforms from hip, counter-cultural icon into hypocritical censorship advocate. You can bet that Cohen will blame “money in politics” if Mitt Romney wins the election. If you care about your right to persuade your fellow citizens to vote for your candidate, or your right to be persuaded, you should be highly suspicious of Ben & Jerry’s latest gimmick.

I’ll restate something I had on Twitter recently.

IRONY

Those craving political solutions

to everything, costing money,

whine much about money in politics.

 

When these Lefties start agitating for returning to a Constitutionally limited form of government, this infantile mewling about the cash flows in politics will such much less, he said, reaching for his Cherry Garcia.

Category: Politics

WEST CHESTER, OHIO: MASSIVE CROWD FOR ROMNEY-RYAN RALLY

Posted on | November 2, 2012 | 50 Comments

That tiny speck on the stage? Rudy Giuliani.

BLUE ASH, Ohio
I’ll have more photos later, but right now I just want to tell you how awesome tonight’s rally was. Rudy Giuliani’s speech was off the hook — the best takedown of the Obama administration I’ve heard this entire cycle, bar none. What Rudy said about Benghazi was particularly brutal.

We left early to beat the traffic out of the rally, stopped by the Double Tree Hotel to see some people, and Ali Akbar discovered an Associated Press reporter on Twitter trying to deliberately lowball the crowd estimate and claim there was “low energy” among Republican voters here.

Three words: BULL FUCKING SHIT.

That crowd was at least — at least — 25,000 and probably more like 35,000. No one could honestly claim it was less than 20,000, and they were fired up.

The AP reporter? Steve Peoples, a lying hack who has been previously busted for trying the same dishonest partisan trick in August.

If a Democrat Party propagandist wants a paycheck, let him collect it from OFA or the DNC, not AP.

UPDATE: You know why I was so angry about this?

Because last night I watched a video.

Andrew’s not here. He’s everywhere. “Fuck you. War.”

UPDATE II: Welcome, Instapundit readers. Ed Driscoll points out that the Cincinnati Enquirer, hardly a bastion of right-wing fanaticism, estimated Friday’s crowd at 30,000. Yet Steve Peoples reports 18,000?

Like I said, three words.

UPDATE III: I love this photo:

Young. Female. Republican. I know lots of young female Republicans, and yet the MSM wants to pretend they don’t exist. Just like Steve Peoples wishes out of existence more than 10,000 people.

UPDATE IV: Steve Peoples last tried to lowball the crowd estimate — and got caught by Tom Blumer of Newsbusters — when Paul Ryan came to Miami (Ohio) University in August. Guess what?

I was at that rally, too: “Math.”

UPDATE V: Video via Ace of Spades:

UPDATE VI (Smitty): Gay Patriot links. Thanks!




 

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Category: Election 2012, Fear. Loathing., Media Bias, Ohio

‘Red Blog Needs Food Badly’ #GauntletRef RT @BarackObama: What’s your reason for voting Obama-Biden?

Posted on | November 2, 2012 | 6 Comments

by Smitty

So, yeah, I’ll be off to Room 101 for this. . .

Category: Barack Obama

FOUR MORE DAYS: Kid Rock Tonight in the Only County That Matters

Posted on | November 2, 2012 | 12 Comments

The National Affairs Desk, Blue Ash, Ohio, Nov. 2, 2012

BLUE ASH, Ohio
Six days since Ali Akbar and I arrived in Ohio, four days until Election Day, and we are right now at the epicenter of the political universe:

Butler County may prove to be the key to the entire 2012 election, Ground Zero of the battle for the White House and essential to Mitt Romney’s hopes for victory. That explains why, when the Romney campaign scheduled Friday’s massive “Victory Rally” to kick off a four-day final pre-Election Day tour, they chose Butler County as the site.
An all-star cast of Republicans — including Rudy Giuliani, House Speaker John Boehner, Condoleezza Rice and Marco Rubio — will join Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan at an event in West Chester featuring Kid Rock as musical entertainment. The rally is expected to draw greater attendance than the Republican National Convention — some have dubbed it “RNC II” — and such a crowd is expected that the doors will open four hours ahead of the 7:30 p.m. start of the rally.
To understand why this suburb of Cincinnati is so essential to Republican success, it is necessary to look at the past two elections. In 2004, when George W. Bush carried Ohio by more than 100,000 votes, approximately half his margin of victory came from Butler County, where he defeated Democrat John Kerry by about 53,000 votes. In 2008, however, when Barack Obama won Ohio by a margin of 250,000 votes, the GOP margin for John McCain in Butler County was less than 40,000 votes — roughly a 4,500-vote decline for the Republicans and nearly a 10,000-vote increase for Democrats.
With this year’s fight for Ohio’s crucial 18 Electoral College votes expected to be extremely close, the difference of a few thousand extra votes for Romney in Butler County might be the difference between victory and defeat. On Election Night, then, analysts will be watching returns from this county very closely. If early returns show Romney near 65 percent here, he’ll likely be the next President of the United States. If not …

Read the whole thing at The American Spectator, and keep in mind something I said last night on Twitter:

All the polls in the world are moot now, because this election is within a range where the winner will be the team with superior turnout. The three most important factors now are:

  1. Turnout;
  2. Turnout; and
  3. Turnout.

If Romney can’t get the numbers he needs in Butler County, Romney won’t win Ohio, and if Romney doesn’t win Ohio, it’s another four years for Obama. Period. It is therefore no exaggeration at all to call this the make-or-break point for the entire election. So now . . .

 

Yeah, OK, let’s talk polls, but anybody can talk polls, and I feel slightly guilty talking polls when the tip-jar hitters are paying me to be in Ohio, and I could be talking polls at home in my pajamas. Nate Silver gets paid six figures by the New York Times and never has to leave his Brooklyn apartment while telling the whole world that it is now a scientific certainty that Obama has a 80.9 percent likelihood of re-election.

Let me tell you something: As much as I want to defeat Obama, I want to destroy Nate Silver.

And I’m sure you do, too, which should be all the motivation anyone needs to go all-out for the next four days, to ensure that Nate’s a laughingstock on Nov. 7. Please hit the tip-jar.




 

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Category: Election 2012, Fear. Loathing., Ohio, Polls

E-MAIL TO LARRY SINCLAIR

Posted on | November 2, 2012 | 12 Comments

Readers will pardon this unfortunate necessity:

Larry:
Bill Schmalfeldt is jumping up and down yelling about a bunch of insanity you spouted on your show last night, which I don’t have time to sort through. I’m covering a presidential campaign, having traveled to Ohio at considerable expense, a trip I could not have made without the assistance of Ali Akbar.
Schmalfeldt’s motives for attacking me and Ali are obvious enough — Schmalfeldt is a liberal and an ally of Neal Rauhauser — but your motives in abetting this malicious defamation puzzle me. This is nothing more than a distraction, and I have no alternative but to suppose that its purpose is the same as its effect, that you (and Schmalfeldt, et al.) are deliberately endeavoring to distract Ali and me from the work we are doing.
And hey, Larry, “bloviating blowhard … Michelle Malkin“? Good luck with the rest of your life, sir.
As I told someone several weeks ago, if you think you’re going to throw Ali Akbar under your bus, I’ve got news for you: Your bus ain’t big enough. Ali’s valuable services to the conservative cause are so widely known, by so many estimable people in the conservative movement, that these vile falsehoods you are promoting cannot really harm him, even if they hurt him. Only a sadistic personality could take pleasure in smearing someone under such circumstances, and your wickedness is therefore self-evident.
In September, I reached out to you because I believed you were a good person who had somehow been manipulated into mistakenly attacking me. What you have done now convinces me that I must have misjudged the situation, and that you have become an active and willing agent of evil. Repent before it is too late.
— RSM

Everybody should hit the tip-jar. I don’t know what the hell Sinclair is talking about, but I’m covering a presidential election, and there are only four days to go. Starting Nov. 7, I’m going to have a lot more time to pay attention to this nonsense, but right now there is a job to do.





Category: Fear. Loathing., The Kimberlin Files

VIDEO: ‘It’s Time for the Truth’

Posted on | November 2, 2012 | 3 Comments

New ad from Women United PAC hits Obama on the Benghazi cover-up:

It’s a video. On the Internet. And the Muslim Brotherhood won’t like it. Meanwhile, the latest news:

Sources, emails point to communication breakdown
in Obama administration during Libya attack

Category: Election 2012, Libya, Uncategorized, Video
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