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Scenes From Ryan Rally in Lima, Ohio

Posted on | September 24, 2012 | 10 Comments

DAYTON, Ohio
On deadline for The American Spectator now, and just enough time to give a bit of news and some photos. First, here’s an account of Paul Ryan’s speech by Daniel Strauss of The Hill:

Paul Ryan delivered a blistering speech against President Obama on foreign policy Monday, saying because of the president’s policies, the Middle East looks like Tehran during the mob protests on the U.S. embassy in 1979.
Ryan, speaking in Lima, Ohio, was referencing Nov. 4, 1979, when Islamic revolutionaries in Iran attacked the U.S. embassy and took more than 50 Americans hostage. Ryan said that Obama has failed to fulfill promises to bring peace to the Middle East.
“I mean, turn on the TV and it reminds you of 1979 Tehran but they’re burning our flags in capitals all around the world. They’re storming our embassies,” Ryan said. . . .
“We’ve lost four of our diplomats. And what is the signal that our government is sending the rest of the world? We’re being equivocal on our values, we’re being slow to speak up for individual rights, for human rights, for democracy. We’re seeing countries stifle freedom in Iran, in Russia, and all these other areas. And we’re saying we’re going to gut our military — that projects weakness.”

Some photos from today’s event:

Update (Smitty): props to Ed Driscoll for the Instapundit linkage!

 





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Category: Election 2012, Fear. Loathing., Ohio, Paul Ryan

Tres Equis

Posted on | September 24, 2012 | 9 Comments

by Smitty

These fake ads, mooching off the Most Interesting Man in the World meme, are a hoot:

With a jolly conclusion:

Category: humor

The ‘Yute’ Vote Confronts The Empty Chair

Posted on | September 24, 2012 | 5 Comments

by Smitty


What can I say? I voted for Perot in ’92.

Category: Uncategorized

Rule 5 Monday

Posted on | September 24, 2012 | 11 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Standard disclaimer applies; reader discretion advised.


Fishersville Mike leads off this week with a recommendation of the new Amy Adams movie, and Randy’s Roundtable offers Andi Muise. Laughing Conservative has Keeley Hazell underboob, Senator Blutarsky has IDF girls with guns, and Three Beers Later has the Village People. Draw your own conclusions. 😉
Elsewhere, First Street Journal also likes them some heavily armed Israeli gals, while the Rio Norte Line gives the nod to Jessica Wright. Eye of Polyphemus goes with the sultry Emma Stone.


EBL gives Paris Hilton her propers before moving on to Amy Adams, Alison Pill, and Kirsten Powers. Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is A.J. Cook; his vintage babe is the incomparable Marlene Dietrich. Also, sex in advertising and 49ers cheerleaders! Dustbury notes gamer girl Aisha Tyler‘s 42nd birthday and the tragic Romy Schneider.


El Opinador Compulsivo returns after a two-week break with a portfolio of Russian babes, Brittney Palmer, Kate Upton, Krysten Ritter, Odette Annable, Malena Morgan, and a black & white gallery.


A View From The Beach has the girls of Leverage, the obligatory cave girl post, the Obama administration’s denial of plans to invade Canada, a PSA about stupidity and voting, asteroids are a girl’s best friend, more zombie planning, and a TV repair video. I don’t know how he does it either, folks.


Batting cleanup this week in the absence of the DaleyGator, Soylent Green takes a victory lap over my choice of words in last week’s Rule 5 roundup before moving on to Monday Motivationer Tiffany, Tuesday Titillation’s Angel, Amber the Humpday Hawt, Overnighty Ashlyn Rae, The Road To Corsetcare, AM Awesome Gracie, and wrapping up with Soylent Equinoxification.


Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Links for next week’s Rule 5 roundup will be due Saturday, September 29 at the  Rule 5 Wombat mailbox.

Category: Rule 5

GREETINGS FROM LIMA, OHIO

Posted on | September 24, 2012 | 34 Comments

LIMA, Ohio
The Veterans Memorial Civic and Convention Center is packed for this afternoon’s “Victory Town Hall” event with Republican vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan. The WiFi, unfortunately, is mercilessly slow. Will update as possible.

UPDATE: RNC Chairman Reince Priebus just held an impromptu press gaggle and said, “We’re going to outspend the DNC 10-to-1 for the next six weeks.” Asked about polls showing Romney-Ryan trailing in Ohio, Priebus said “we’re within a field goal and we’re going to crush [the Democrats] on the ground.”

Asked about Sunday’s appearances by Mitt Romney and Barack Obama on CBS 60 Minutes, Priebus said that Obama was “whistling past the graveyard, trying to re-write history” about the weak economy.

UPDATE II: A couple of Tweets to remember:

Paul Ryan just took the stage.

UPDATE III: Damn this slow WiFi. Can’t get photos to upload. Frustrating. Anyway, I’ll post some later. Here’s something that Paul Ryan said about Obama: “Since he’s admitted he can’t change Washington, we need to change presidents.”

Category: Election 2012, Fear. Loathing., Ohio, Paul Ryan

The Best Revenge: Ohio-Bound

Posted on | September 24, 2012 | 25 Comments

By the time you read this, I should be within a couple hours of Lima, Ohio, where Paul Ryan is due for a 2:30 p.m. rally. Right now — as I’m writing this — it’s about 2 a.m. and I’m awaiting my ride while laughing at the latest ridiculousness from Neal Rauhauser:

McCain has never filed for a peace order. McCain has never shown a police report. McCain has only misrepresented his change of address and sudden need for a much higher income as a threat from another victim of the fringe right’s obsession, rather than the inevitable outcome of his indecent behavior. He is defrauding the Tea Party masses with his act, a common tactic for the people he associates with, such as Ali Akbar.

You see? It is absolutely true that I’ve never filed for a peace order, I’m neither a plaintiff nor a defendant in anyone’s lawsuit, and there is no police report — why would there be?

This whole sue-me, sue-you game may be fun for civilians, but I’m a professional journalist and it would be impossible for me to report on a story while simultaneously suing (or pressing criminal charges against) the subject of the story. One of the reasons my location remains undisclosed is to prevent any sort of incident that might involve me in such legal hassles and interfere with my continuing coverage of The Kimberlin Files.

My “indecent behavior … defrauding the Tea Party masses”! These heinous slurs are outright lies fabricated from whole cloth, a classic example of the “accuse the accusers” tactic that Rauhauser and his client Brett Kimberlin have been using for months.

You know the Miranda warning? Well, whenever you’re targeted by the Kimberlin-Rauhauser Axis, everything you say can and will be used against you in their next vicious smear. They accuse, accuse, accuse, expecting their targets to deny, deny, deny — or to explain, explain, explain — so that they can then twist the target’s denials and explanations as “evidence” for their next accusation.

Screw that. I’ve been very careful not to play that game (also not to sue anybody or to file any criminal complaint), leaving them with nothing else to do except recycle old smears. And my “much higher income”? Yeah, armagnac and decolletage!

What I am paid to do is cover the news. These distractions from Rauhauser aren’t going to stop me from earning my pay, and so I’m off to Ohio to cover the Romney-Ryan bus tour, thanks to those who’ve contributed generously to the Shoe Leather Fund: Charles in Georgia, Jackie in Salisbury, William in Dallas, Mike in El Segundo, Jeff in Chesapeake, Jack in Oklahoma, Geoffrey in Washington State, Sean in Connecticut, Richard in Hollywood, Diana in San Francisco, and Jeff in Walla Walla.

Do any of you guys feel “defrauded” by my “indecent behavior”? I think not. And here’s my latest American Spectator column:

The Romney-Ryan campaign kicks off a three-day bus tour through the key swing state of Ohio today. Folks arriving early at the Republican rallies who pay attention to the warm-up music played before the events may hear an old blues-rock tune that has become a staple in the rotation, the first verse of which proclaims, “I was born lonely, down by the riverside. Learned to spin fortune wheels and throw dice.”
“Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man” was the title track of Bob Seger’s 1969 debut album. It was incorporated into Mitt Romney’s campaign-rally music back in February when the candidate was fighting a GOP primary battle against rival Rick Santorum in Michigan, home state of both Romney and Seger. No one has ever confused the Republican presidential nominee with the rock singer, but Seger’s lyrics might offer some valuable inspiration to Romney as he rambles across the Buckeye State this week, trying to beat the increasingly long odds in his campaign to defeat Barack Obama.
To listen to some people, in fact, you might get the idea that the campaign is already over. Last week’s Romney “gaffe” — the secret video that was, in fact, recorded in May — was supposedly the fatal blow to the GOP challenger. The liberal media said so, as did certain Republican commentators who were vehemently denounced by Rush Limbaugh. “The glitterati, the intelligentsia, the stars inside the Beltway think Romney lost the election yesterday — they really do,” Limbaugh told his nationwide radio audience Wednesday. “I never met a bunch of quitters like these in my life. I never met a bigger bunch of defeatists! We haven’t even had the debates. It’s not even October yet.”
Indeed not, but the time is getting short. Election Day is six weeks from Tuesday, early voting has already begun in half the states and, after a month of non-stop negativity from the media, Romney needs to recapture the excitement generated by his Aug. 11 announcement of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his vice-presidential running mate. . . .

Read the whole thing. Me? Babe, I gotta ramble . . .


Category: American Spectator, Election 2012, Fear. Loathing., Ohio, The Kimberlin Files

Separated At Birth: Dick Tracy / Robert Gibbs Edition

Posted on | September 24, 2012 | 10 Comments

by Smitty

I’m probably being unfair to Dick Tracy here, as he’s at least an honorable cartoon character, juxtaposing him with a cretin like Gibbs.

Keep lying, Gibbs. The more you urinate down the back of the American public and call it rain, the more it motivates honest Americans to make sure that you and your lying masters are separated from levers of power on a permanent basis.


What a godforsaken tool.

Both via Breitbart

Category: Barack Obama

So, Other Than All That, Mr. Levin, What Did You Think Of Conor’s Article?

Posted on | September 24, 2012 | 5 Comments

by Smitty

A friend of the blog points to a carpet bombing of Wee Conor’s article the other day. Levin on FaceBook:

A mind is a terrible thing to twist
This puny stalker writes and thinks like a Trotskyite, reading people in and out of the conservative and libertarian movements. He has accomplished nothing significant. He has written nothing intellectually compelling or coherent. He has built nothing. Yet his conceit knows no limits. Eric Hoffer said of such people that they are driven like the teenager going through puberty but never mature to adulthood.
. . .
There’s so much stupidity, incoherence, arrogance, and fascistic thinking in his column, I’ve already tired of commenting on it.
But I am generous to a fault. He wanted attention so here is his 10 seconds worth. Ladies and gentleman, I introduce you to a complete idiot.

RTWT. It’s probably more attention than Friedersdorf deserves.

Category: Mark Levin
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