LIVE AT FIVE: 10.05.12

Stacy, Wombat and I have birthdays within a for or five day span. So I got this ‘Tequila Terry’ card, which I can’t seem to locate online. Time for the World’s Youngest Blogger (whose birthday is actually in July) and me to do a little happy dance:

The WYB is all: “Will the humiliations never cease?”

Update: heh!

Category: Blogging

I Have Previously Japed About The Mitt Romney/Bruce Campbell Connection. Unexpectedly, Travolta Is In Play.

Posted on | October 4, 2012 | 4 Comments

by Smitty

Before, I was all on about how the Romney could do with a little Rule 5:

But who could anticipate this sort of development?

Romney channeling an inner John Travolta?

via Daily Pundit

Category: Mitt Romney, Rule 5

Sean Bielat Trifecta

Posted on | October 4, 2012 | 4 Comments

by Smitty

Sean continues to rock MA-4, with this new TV spot:

and also with this debate with Joe Kennedy III in two installments:

finally:

Even the Boston Globe figures Joe Kennedy III is phoning it in just a tad too much.

Sean Bielat for Congress, MA-4?

Sorry, Joe: BHO used up this century’s No-Talent Hack quota in full.

Category: Massachusetts, Sean Bielat

It’s Morning in Vanuatu Again

Posted on | October 4, 2012 | 47 Comments

“How long, O Lord, how long? Where will it end?
“All I ever wanted out of this campaign was enough money to get out of the country and live for a year or two in peaceful squalor in a house with a big screen porch looking down on an empty white beach, with a good rich coral reef a few hundred yards out in the surf and no neighbors. . . .
“What worries me now . . . is the strong possibility that my involvement in politics has become so deep and twisted that I can no longer think rationally about that big screen porch above the beach except in terms of an appointment as Governor of American Samoa.”
– Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72

Savor the moment. I’ve been up all night doing the Snoopy dance in the Gloat Zone. Ace says we should worry: The MSM’s already preparing the “Obama Comeback” narrative.

But I’m too grateful and happy to worry now. There is deliciousness everywhere this morning. Byron York serves it up:

Just seconds after the presidential debate ended here at the University of Denver Wednesday night, Mitt Romney’s advisers and surrogates rushed to the press room to take reporters’ questions and tout their man’s performance. They were eager, happy, and ready to talk because they believed their man scored a clear win in his first face-off with President Obama.
After a few minutes of interviews, and the arrival of still more Romney surrogates, some reporters looked around and asked: Are there any Democrats here? Where are the Obama advisers and surrogates eager to speak for the president?
It took a while for them to show up. And when they arrived, they were on the defensive from the get-go about the president’s performance. . . .

Read the whole thing. Last time I saw Byron was in Toledo, when the polls had Obama up 10 points in Ohio and everybody was on the verge of abandoning hope. This evening, I expect to see him in Fisherville, Virginia — 6 p.m., doors open at 4 p.m. — and imagine what a complete change in mood we’ll see! Imagine how everybody will be laughing about how Chris Matthews melted down:

Nobody — and I mean, nobody — expected such a one-sided ass-whupping. And let’s sober up enough to say, “Answered prayer”:

AWESOME @mittromney PHOTO -> lowertheboom.wordpress.com/2012/10/03/fir… via @beccajlower We still have 49 minutes left to PRAY HARD, everybody! #tcot

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 4, 2012

Really, when you see this kind of unanticipated miracle, it’s necessary to consider the possibility that this was not coincidental. With 33 days to go until Nov. 6, suddenly the sun is shining. My American Spectator column today:

How decisively did Mitt Romney win Wednesday night’s debate? All you had to do was watch the most pro-Obama network to see it. “I personally do not know who won this debate,” MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow said as soon as the debate ended. She was obviously the only one who didn’t know.
When Maddow brought on her colleague Ed Schultz, he moaned that President Obama “created a problem for himself tonight on Social Security. He agreed with Mitt Romney.… I thought he was off his game.” Nor did the president’s performance send a thrill up the leg of Chris Matthews. “I don’t know what he was doing out there,” Matthews complained. “He had his head down. He was enduring the debate rather than fighting it.”
If ever there were a night when conservatives wanted to watch MSNBC, this was it — an all-you-can-eat buffet of schadenfreude, as one after another of the liberal network’s personalities tried to come to grips with what was perhaps the most one-sided presidential debate since JFK beat a shifty-looking Richard Nixon in 1960. “In terms of debate tactics, Romney was on the offense most of the night,” a glum Howard Fineman acknowledged, while a shell-shocked Chuck Todd admitted that the result “automatically elevates Romney as a credible alternative” and later added, in reference to the Obama camp’s post-debate mood: “They know they lost tonight.”
Everybody knew it. . . .

Please read the whole thing — and hit the freaking tip jar!

UPDATE: “Ride right through them, they’re demoralized as hell!”

Category: Barack Obama, Debates, Election 2012, Mitt Romney, Vanuatu

LIVE AT FIVE: 10.04.12 [DEBATE HANGOVER EDITION]

Posted on | October 4, 2012 | 5 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

TOP NEWS
ROMNEY ADMINISTERS EPIC BEATDOWN TO OBAMA ON NATIONAL TV

Candid shot of Obama after debate (props to Bob Owens for this)

MSM, Secret Service helpless to stop thrashing as President stumbles through first debate
Even MSDNC, Democrat Party leaders know it

Turkey Strikes Back After Syrian Mortar Attack Kills Five
Loyalist positions shelled by Turkish Army, NATO ministers meeting: is intervention in the offing?

Commonwealth Edison Threatens To Pull Plug On Smart Grid
Fight with Illinois Commerce Commission threatens thousands of jobs, badly needed electrical upgrades

POLITICS
Romney Barrels Out Of First Debate On Offense

Obama and Romney meet for the first time at debate

Romney & Ryan heading for Virginia today, Florida later

House Panel: State Department Confirmed Libya Threats
Sensitive US Files Abandoned In Libya

Induction Of San Francisco’s New Catholic Archbishop Draws Cheers, Rebukes

FBI Using Social Media To Seek Massachusetts Terror Suspect

Is Joe Biden The GOP’s New Secret Weapon?

Detroit’s Top Cop Suspended Over Sex Scandal, Expected To Resign

Woman Busted For Riding Manatee In Florida

Military Absentee Ballot Requests Plummet From 2008

Miffed At Brown, Black Ministers Back Warren

THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Brent Lurches Toward $109 After Steep Fall; Global Economy Still Crappy: NYMEX $88.37, Brent $108.57
3M Abandons Office Supplies Deal, Leaving Avery Looking For Buyer
Wall Street Edges Up Over ADP Job Numbers
HP Tanks As Whitman Sees More Pain Ahead
Draghi Awaits Call From Spain As Brinksmanship Keeps ECB Guessing
Houston Man Arrested, Charged With Selling Electronics To Russians
Monsanto Posts 4Q Loss On Reduced Seed Sales
Facebook To Charge For Promoting User Posts
Global Action Takes Down Tech Support Scam
Google Buying Face Recognition Firm Viewdle
Samsung Galaxy S III Sales Helped By iPhone 5, Patent Trial News
DIY Gun Project Misfires After 3D Printer Seized
Oracle On Track To Become Apple Of The Enterprise
Big Data Skills Gap Needs Filling, Says Tech Industry Commission

SPORTS
Tigers’ Miguel Cabrera Wins Triple Crown

Miguel Cabrera

First man to lead AL in batting average, home runs, and RBI since Red Sox’ Carl Yazstrzemski in 1967

A’s Trump Rangers To Win AL West

Gritty Yanks Avoid Collapse, Hang On To Win AL East

NBA Sets Anti-Flopping Rules, Union To File Grievance

Red Sox GM Cherington Plays Blame Game

Orioles Settle For Wild Card After Losing To Rays

Schumacher To Retire From Formula 1 Racing

Teddy Finally Wins, Ending 538-Game Losing Streak; Oh Yeah, Nats Beat Phillies 5-1

FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Cruise/Holmes Divorce Details Leaked

Tom and Katie in happier days

Marriage was apparently over six months before the split

No Blood Today On “American Idol” Set

Lark Voorhies’ Mom Says She’s Battling Bipolar Disorder

Heidi Montag Headlining At Strip Club For $25K

Richard Belzer’s Trainwreck Interview: Molestation, Sodomy And Hitler

Jennie Garth: This Year Has Been A Rebirth

Kate Gosselin Says Her Marriage Would Have Ended Even Without The Reality Show

Reband Of Brothers: Jonas Brothers Reunite

FOREIGNERS
Iran Cracks Down On Moneychangers As Rial Continues To Fall
Riot Police Clash With Protesters As Iranians’ Discontent Grows
Landslide Buries 19 In PRC’s Yunnan Province
Top UK Universities Fall In Rankings
Brazilian MP Claims On Visit That Iranian Ties Don’t Mean Brazil Is Enemy To Israel
Nigerian Police Make Arrests In Mubi Student Massacre
Philippine Court Orders Arrest Of Former President Arroyo
Kayani Backs Any Baluchistan Solution “Within Constitution”
Activists Claim New Philippine Law Gags Netizens

BLOGS & STUFF
WyBlog: Why Does Obama Need His Own Illinois Lubyanka?
Power Line: It’s Over
Lonely Conservative: Presidential Debate 1 Wrapup – Romney Won
Legal Insurrection: Best Tweets Of The First Presidential Debate
Jim Geraghty: B.O. K-O’d
Allahpundit: Romney Wins – CBS, CNN Instapolls Show Crushing Obama Defeat
Breitbart: Politico Says Romney Up 4 In Tossup States
Twitchy: Undecided Voters In Focus Group Swing Sharply Toward Romney
AmSpecBlog: Stephanie Cutter Says Romney Must Apologize For Obama Race Tape
Villainous Company: In Libya, Press Doing Job “Too Hazardous” For Obama Administration
Weasel Zippers: Philadelphia Teacher Compares Romney T-Shirt To KKK White Sheet
Atlas Shrugs: Arson Jihad – Muslim Group Setting Europe’s Forests Ablaze
The Daily: Chipotle Manager Wide-Eyed For Mitt

SOTD: U Can’t Touch This

Category: Live at Five

MITT ROMNEY WINS FIRST DEBATE

Posted on | October 3, 2012 | 78 Comments

UPDATE 10:32 p.m. ET: Damn. Mitt won it straight-up. I’ve turned my TV to MSNBC to watch their reaction.

Rachel Maddow: “I personally do not know who won this debate.” This means . . . yeah, Mitt won. He beat the hell out of Obama.

Ed Schultz: “[Obama] created a problem for himself tonight on Social Security. He agreed with Mitt Romney. . . . I thought he was off his game.”

UPDATE 10:25 p.m. ET: Jim Lehrer babbling like an idiot about time running out. He wants Obama to get re-elected so ObamaCare will cover treatment for his senility.

UPDATE 10:22 p.m. ET: “Mr. President, you’re entitled to your own house and your own plane, but not your own facts.” Zing!

UPDATE 10:06 p.m. ET: They’ve been going back and forth about ObamaCare for 10 minutes. If you believe what Obama says — as opposed to the actual facts — then you’ll probably think he won this part of the debate. But if you believe what Obama says, you’re probably too stupid to read this anyway.

UPDATE 9:55 p.m. ET: More Twitter:

SHORTER OBAMA: “Vouchers! Republican vouchers! Run for your life, Granny, the vouchers are comin’ to get you!”

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 4, 2012

Instapundit is blogging a bit of the debate, and also links to the classic Vodkapundit drunkblogging.

UPDATE 9:45 p.m. ET: Been watching and Tweeting, so let me stick some of the Tweets in here:

Just want to point out: Mitt looks really handsome, doesn’t he?

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 4, 2012

#p2 Question: Any of you guys actually think Obama’s winning at this point? Because, frankly, he seems to be kinda stinkin’ it up so far.

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 4, 2012

Jim Lehrer’s last question was like, “Here, let me set it up on the tee for you, Mr. President.”

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) October 4, 2012

Mitt just hit Obama on the Medicare issue. Obama hit back. Score it a draw, I think.

UPDATE 9:31 p.m. ET: Now they’re talking debts and deficits, and Obama’s worst broken promise: He claimed he’d cut the deficit in half and, instead, has doubled it.

UPDATE 9:20 p.m. ET: Obama and Romney are going back and forth on taxes. This is getting so good, I’m going to stop the frequent updates for a few minutes and just watch a while.

UPDATE 9:16 p.m. ET: Damn it, Obama keeps claiming to have given a “tax cut” to the middle class, but there was no rate reduction. Instead, he’s put in a series of tax credits, which are not the same as tax cuts.

UPDATE 9:13 p.m. ET: Romney gets a chance to hit back at Obama. Does pretty good, but gets a bit too “into the weeds” for my tastes.

UPDATE 9:11 p.m. ET: Obama comes back talking a lot of details, claiming Romney’s plan will “cost” money and have to be “paid for.” The government-centric point of view.

UPDATE 9:09 p.m. ET: Mitt opens with humorous anniversary congratulations, then goes into his 5-Point Plan for economic recovery. Having followed Mitt on the trail, I’ve heard this a zillion times, but for many of the 50 million people watching, it’s new.

UPDATE 9:07 p.m. ET: Obama opens with anniversary shout-out to Michelle. Then gets all into class warfare, blaming Bush, etc. He sucks.

EXPECT FURTHER UPDATES . . .

* * * PREVIOUSLY (8 p.m. ET) * * *

This verdict may shock some readers, seeing as how I’m publishing it a full hour before the debate actually begins.

Everybody’s playing the “expectations game” (notice Nate Silver trying to raise the ante for Romney) which, like a lot of what goes on in politics, is transparent bulls–t. Once you realize they’re trying to manipulate your perceptions, you should not be deceived, e.g.:

ABC’s George Stephanopoulos is doing his part for team Obama to make sure that Mitt Romney’s performance at Wednesday evening’s debate is a disappointment, one that will surely lead to his losing the election in November.
On Tuesday morning’s Good Morning America, the former Clinton Administration staffer sternly warned that if Romney doesn’t exceed expectations in the debates, he’s finished.
Why? Because Romney is under “huge, huge” pressure, Stephanopoulos says. And “he’s behind right now,” so if he doesn’t overperform, he’ll be considered a failure.

Give that everyone else is at it, therefore, I’m getting out ahead of this psychological gamesmanship with the pre-emptive declaration of Romney’s unquestional triumph.

And so this is your official “Debate Thread.”

Bite me, Nate. And bite me, George.

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!

UPDATE II: Linked by the Lonely Conservative — thanks!

Category: Barack Obama, Debates, Election 2012, Mitt Romney

Shock Galeuters Poll: BHO Has 113% Of The Vote Going Into The Debate

Posted on | October 3, 2012 | 1 Comment

by Sissypuss the Blog Kitty

Sissypuss caught up with Galeuters pollster Baxter Thurston Corzineowski

Q: Can you help us get to the bottom of these incredible results?

A. Well, we asked David Axelrod what percentage of the vote he felt Obama had,” said Baxter “and Axelrod calmly said ‘Oh, about 90%’. See, it’s not lying if you feel like you’re passing on good information.

Q: What of the rest, then?

A: Given our dedication to fairness, we posed the same question to Matt Rhoades, Mitt’s campaign manager. Matt was on another call, too. We thought we heard somebody in the background ask ‘Is it true that Romney has been in 30 states in the last month?’. Rhoades said ‘Negative. 23. Hey, look, I gotta go.’

Q: That’s kinda far out.

A: Right, but it’s a straight shot from there. 90% – -23%= 113%.

Q: There is no escaping the bear-trap nature of your logic.

A: Hey, I thought it an odd number, too, but you have to go where the math takes you.

Q: With that grasp of figures, you should be doing budgeting for Reid, or managing QE3 or something.

A: Do you really think so? Thanks!

Q: Wasn’t a complement.

Category: Barack Obama

« go back — keep looking »

About

This is an area on your website where you can add text. This will serve as an informative location on your website, where you can talk about your site.

The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

LIVE AT FIVE: 10.05.12

Happy Birthday To Us!

I Have Previously Japed About The Mitt Romney/Bruce Campbell Connection. Unexpectedly, Travolta Is In Play.

Sean Bielat Trifecta

Sean Bielat for Congress, MA-4?

It’s Morning in Vanuatu Again

LIVE AT FIVE: 10.04.12 [DEBATE HANGOVER EDITION]

MITT ROMNEY WINS FIRST DEBATE

Shock Galeuters Poll: BHO Has 113% Of The Vote Going Into The Debate

THE FULL METAL JACKET REACH-AROUND AWARD

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!

Search

Recent Posts

RSS reader subscription

MEMEORANDUM

Recent Comments

THE AMAZING GONZO FEED

Major Leagues

Archives

Free Agents

SHAMELESS CAPITALISM

Triple-A Franchises

Blogroll

About

Subscribe to our feed

Search

Admin