The Other McCain

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

‘No, Really. I Mean That.’

Posted on | August 30, 2012 | 12 Comments

“Send me your links and tips! No really, I mean that. If you’re in Tampa and reporting on the convention, I’d love to link your stuff. Tweet it to me @tabithahale, or shoot me an email at [email protected].”
— Tabitha Hale, “Convention Watch”

Category: Fear and Loathing at the Republican National Convention, Tabitha Hale

Pecksniff Matthews: “I don’t think Ryan spoke to the whole country tonight”

Posted on | August 30, 2012 | 16 Comments

by Smitty

What a ludicrous standard! Matthews, how is it possible to speak to the ‘whole’ country? With ‘whole’ for a quantifier, it only takes one to require another pass. Pass, ‘whole’.
Newsbusters:

Minutes after Paul Ryan finished his RNC speech on Wednesday, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews slammed the Republican vice presidential candidate for supposedly ignoring blacks during his “very constricted, very negative, very nasty speech,” and suggested that he was directing the address to racists: “It’s clear that Paul Ryan was talking to people who think about rights as something…produced by Thomas Jefferson, ignoring the people for whom the rights only came in the 1960s.”

For a nominal Roman Catholic, Matthews cleaves to an obtuse, secular weltanschauung. Or one that only looks a certain direction:
Probably, by the time 2020 rolls around, and Paul Ryan is running for POTUS, Matthews shall have departed the scene in the I-love-me jacket.

Category: Media Bias, NBC, Paul Ryan

DNC Executive Director Begs for $3 Donations to Fight GOP ‘False Attack’

Posted on | August 30, 2012 | 18 Comments

TAMPA, Florida
Years ago, I signed up for a Democrat e-mail list and this means I still get their fundraising e-mails — an endless source of amusement, getting a glimpse inside the rhetoric being spoonfed to the Democrat Party’s activist grassroots. We should not hate Patrick Gaspard, but rather pity him because, after all, he works for Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, the worst DNC chairman ever:

Friend —
Rep. Paul Ryan’s speech to the Republican Convention tonight wasn’t grounded in reality.
He leveled false attack after false attack against the President, while neglecting to give a single idea for how to move our country forward.
He also didn’t mention that the Romney-Ryan plan would turn Medicare into a voucher program to pay for tax cuts for millionaires, or that their promise to repeal Obamacare would take away access to health care for 32 million Americans. And don’t even get me started on how they want to end a woman’s right to make her own health care decisions.
If this extreme Republican vision for our country scares you as much as it does me, donate $3 or more now to help Democrats fight back before tomorrow’s fundraising deadline.
There are only 68 days left until Election Day — we’re in the home stretch, and every day between now and then is critically important.
What’s more — we have our most important fundraising deadline yet tomorrow at midnight. And how much we raise before then will determine whether or not Democrats have the resources to beat Romney, Ryan, and Republicans across the country.
It’s time for us to put our money where our mouths are and call Romney and Ryan out on their blatant lies and misrepresentations. But we need your help to do that.
Donate $3 or more today:
https://my.democrats.org/August-Deadline
Thanks,
Patrick
Patrick Gaspard
Executive Director
Democratic National Committee

P.S. — I’m serious — it’s game time. Donate now.

It’s pathetic, isn’t it? Maybe I should try this Democrat “just gimme $3 pretty please” fundraising gimmick. Or maybe not, because the expenses here in Tampa are outrageous: $10 for a cab ride here, a $10 sandwich there, and pretty soon it adds up to real money.

So go ahead and hit the tip jar for $20 or $50 or $100, just to piss off those poor idiot Democrats who — confused by their party’s fundraising rhetoric — are under the impression that all Republicans are greedy rich fat cats. Five or ten bucks would be appreciated if that’s all you can afford, but whatever you give, I promise in return to do all I can ” to end a woman’s right to make her own health care decisions,” because I’m just an evil woman-hating Republican that way.

 





Category: Democrats, Election 2012, Fear and Loathing at the Republican National Convention

LIVE AT FIVESIX: 08.30.12

Posted on | August 30, 2012 | 5 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Paul Ryan’s Urgent Message: America Needs A Turnaround

Your next President (of the Senate) Paul Ryan

“College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life.”



Condoleezza Rice: “American Strength Begins At Home”
“Where does America stand?” When our friends and our foes, alike, do not know the answer to that question — clearly and unambiguously — the world is a chaotic and dangerous place.

Isaac Misses New Orleans, Continues To Soak Louisiana With Rain
Surrounding parishes could see two feet of rain and serious flooding



POLITICS
President Screws Around On Internet While Black People Drown

President Obama on Reddit

Obama answers ten questions on Reddit

NASA Launches Twin Satellites Into Van Allen Radiation Belts

McCain: America Can’t Afford Another Obama Term

Rob Portman: Being Cool Doesn’t Fix The Economy

Appeals Court Grants George Zimmerman New Judge

Pentagon Investigating SEAL’s Bin Laden Book For Classified Info



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Down Slightly As Isaac comes Ashore; NYMEX $95.33, Brent $112.54
US Economy Barely Moved In Second Quarter
German Unemployment Rises For Fifth Straight Month
Homeowner Aid From Banks Reported At $10.5 Billion
Asian Shares Retreat Ahead Of Bernanke’s Speech
Sears Booted From S&P Over Float Level
Citigroup Settles Shareholder Suit For $590 Million
Sales Of Foreclosed Properties Up In Second Quarter
US Farm Income Up As Drought Spurs Higher Prices
S&P Downgrades Illinois After Pension Reform Failure
Dell XPS 10 Windows RT Tablet Revealed; Has 20-Hour Battery
Samsung Updates Galaxy Note Phablet
Google Plus Launched Business-Savvy Networking Tools
Samsung Unveils Windows Devices
HP Tries Again With Envy X2 Convertible Tablet/Laptop Windows 8 Hybrid
Intel Adds Wireless Power Sharing For Laptops, Smartphones
Kojim Productions Announces Open World “Metal Gear Solid” Game



SPORTS
Clemens Slated for Second Sugar Land Start September 7

Roger Clemens pitching in the Atlantic League

Not thinking about major-league comeback; will be on Hall of Fame ballots this fall

Replacement Refs To Work NFL’s Week One

NHLPA May Table Counteroffer Today As Lockout Looms

Bullpen Delivers As Giants Beat Astros

Stewart Debut Ugly As Angels Rip Red Sox 10-3

Rocked By Rays: Harrison Allows Seven Runs In 5.1 Innings

Sabathia Struggles As Yanks Lose To Blue Jays 8-5

Harvey, Duda Help Mets Get Even With Phillies In 3-2 Win

Blanton, Ellis Lead Dodgers Over Rockies, 10-8

Harper Ends Nats’ Five Game Skid With Two Dingers, Ejection



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Courtney Stodden Turns 18

Courtney Stodden

Immediately bombarded with porn offers

LiLo Owes: Chateau Marmont Bill Tops $46K

Holly Madison Expecting First Child

John Travolta’s Former Gay Lover Tells All

Ryan Gosling To Make Directing Debut On “How To Catch A Monster” With Christina Hendricks

Eyewitness Claims Coke Used In Prince Hal’s Room During Naked Vegas Romp

Heidi Klum And Seal’s Divorce Battle Heating Up

Unspeakable Armenian Settles Lookalike Suit With Old Navy for $$$



FOREIGNERS
Up To 47 Dead In PRC Coal Mine Explosion
Syrian Emigres In US Seek Aid To Arm Rebels
Barak: Egypt Clearly Trying To Control Sinai Terror
Tehran Jumps To Assad’s Rescue
Ayatollah Khamenei Says Iran Has No Interest In The Bomb, Will Pursue Peaceful Nuclear Power
Rush Of Asylum-Seekers Before Australian Crackdown
Assange Case Forces Ecuador To Release Long-Jailed Dissident
Twin Typhoons Raise Fears For Disaster-Prone Norks
Ban Ki-Moon Condemns Iran For Israel Threats, Holocaust Denial At Non-Aligned Nations Conference



BLOGS & STUFF
EBL: Hey Girl, Paul Ryan Is Giving His Speech At The RNC
WyBlog: Why Your Next Car Will Be An Overpriced Golf Cart
Gateway Pundit: I Call BS As Lib Media Says GOP Delegates Threw Nuts At Black Camerawoman & Used Slurs – Where’s The Video, Audio, Or Names?
Pat Dollard: Clint Eastwood Believed To Be Today’s Mystery Speaker
Jim Geraghty: The Growing Inclination To Hype Or Trash Convention Speeches
Sacred Monkeys: Romney Gets 5% Bounce In Swing States Poll
Newsbusters: Gwen Ifill Stands Up For Disgraced David Chalian
Atlas Shrugs: Yahoo News Washington Bureau Chief Says “Republicans Happy To Party When Black People Drown”
Legal Insurrection: “Nor Can a Peace Be Brokered”
Riehl World News: Juan Williams, Stop Digging
NRO Media Blog: Brian Ross Beclowns Himself Again
Just One Minute: A New Judge For George Zimmerman
AmSpecBlog: Susanna Martinez – Obama Built The Deficit
Wizbang: Burned-Out Occupy Anarchists
Lonely conservative: Obama Sent Form Letters To Families Of The Fallen
Ed Driscoll: Wow, The GOP Turned Into Golf Digest So Slowly…
NRO Corner: On Those “Odd” Parts Of The GOP Platform

Category: Live at Five

COMPLETE TEXT: PAUL RYAN’S SPEECH TO THE GOP CONVENTION

Posted on | August 29, 2012 | 26 Comments

Provided by the Romney campaign:

Mr. Chairman, delegates, and fellow citizens: I am honored by the support of this convention for vice president of the United States.
I accept the duty to help lead our nation out of a jobs crisis and back to prosperity – and I know we can do this.
I accept the calling of my generation to give our children the America that was given to us, with opportunity for the young and security for the old – and I know that we are ready.
Our nominee is sure ready. His whole life has prepared him for this moment – to meet serious challenges in a serious way, without excuses and idle words. After four years of getting the run-around, America needs a turnaround, and the man for the job is Governor Mitt Romney.
I’m the newcomer to the campaign, so let me share a first impression. I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power.
They’ve run out of ideas. Their moment came and went. Fear and division are all they’ve got left.
With all their attack ads, the president is just throwing away money – and he’s pretty experienced at that. You see, some people can’t be dragged down by the usual cheap tactics, because their ability, character, and plain decency are so obvious – and ladies and gentlemen, that is Mitt Romney.
For my part, your nomination is an unexpected turn. It certainly came as news to my family, and I’d like you to meet them: My wife Janna, our daughter Liza, and our boys Charlie and Sam.
The kids are happy to see their grandma, who lives in Florida. There she is – my Mom, Betty.
My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle presence in my life. I like to think he’d be proud of me and my sister and brothers, because I’m sure proud of him and of where I come from, Janesville, Wisconsin.
I live on the same block where I grew up. We belong to the same parish where I was baptized. Janesville is that kind of place.
The people of Wisconsin have been good to me. I’ve tried to live up to their trust. And now I ask those hardworking men and women, and millions like them across America, to join our cause and get this country working again.
When Governor Romney asked me to join the ticket, I said, “Let’s get this done” – and that is exactly, what we’re going to do.
President Barack Obama came to office during an economic crisis, as he has reminded us a time or two. Those were very tough days, and any fair measure of his record has to take that into account. My home state voted for President Obama. When he talked about change, many people liked the sound of it, especially in Janesville, where we were about to lose a major factory.
A lot of guys I went to high school with worked at that GM plant. Right there at that plant, candidate Obama said: “I believe that if our government is there to support you … this plant will be here for another hundred years.” That’s what he said in 2008.
Well, as it turned out, that plant didn’t last another year. It is locked up and empty to this day. And that’s how it is in so many towns today, where the recovery that was promised is nowhere in sight.
Right now, 23 million men and women are struggling to find work. Twenty-three million people, unemployed or underemployed. Nearly one in six Americans is living in poverty. Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can’t find the work they studied for, or any work at all.
So here’s the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?
The first troubling sign came with the stimulus. It was President Obama’s first and best shot at fixing the economy, at a time when he got everything he wanted under one-party rule. It cost $831 billion – the largest one-time expenditure ever by our federal government.
It went to companies like Solyndra, with their gold-plated connections, subsidized jobs, and make-believe markets. The stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate welfare, and cronyism at their worst. You, the working men and women of this country, were cut out of the deal.
What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn’t just spent and wasted – it was borrowed, spent, and wasted.
Maybe the greatest waste of all was time. Here we were, faced with a massive job crisis – so deep that if everyone out of work stood in single file, that unemployment line would stretch the length of the entire American continent. You would think that any president, whatever his party, would make job creation, and nothing else, his first order of economic business.
But this president didn’t do that. Instead, we got a long, divisive, all-or-nothing attempt to put the federal government in charge of health care.
Obamacare comes to more than two thousand pages of rules, mandates, taxes, fees, and fines that have no place in a free country.
The president has declared that the debate over government-controlled health care is over. That will come as news to the millions of Americans who will elect Mitt Romney so we can repeal Obamacare.
And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly.
You see, even with all the hidden taxes to pay for the health care takeover, even with new taxes on nearly a million small businesses, the planners in Washington still didn’t have enough money. They needed more. They needed hundreds of billions more. So, they just took it all away from Medicare. Seven hundred and sixteen billion dollars, funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed, all to pay for a new entitlement we didn’t even ask for. The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we’re going to stop it.
In Congress, when they take out the heavy books and wall charts about Medicare, my thoughts go back to a house on Garfield Street in Janesville. My wonderful grandma, Janet, had Alzheimer’s and moved in with Mom and me. Though she felt lost at times, we did all the little things that made her feel loved.
We had help from Medicare, and it was there, just like it’s there for my Mom today. Medicare is a promise, and we will honor it. A Romney-Ryan administration will protect and strengthen Medicare, for my Mom’s generation, for my generation, and for my kids and yours.
So our opponents can consider themselves on notice. In this election, on this issue, the usual posturing on the Left isn’t going to work. Mitt Romney and I know the difference between protecting a program, and raiding it. Ladies and gentlemen, our nation needs this debate. We want this debate. We will win this debate.
Obamacare, as much as anything else, explains why a presidency that began with such anticipation now comes to such a disappointing close.
It began with a financial crisis; it ends with a job crisis.
It began with a housing crisis they alone didn’t cause; it ends with a housing crisis they didn’t correct.
It began with a perfect Triple-A credit rating for the United States; it ends with a downgraded America.
It all started off with stirring speeches, Greek columns, the thrill of something new. Now all that’s left is a presidency adrift, surviving on slogans that already seem tired, grasping at a moment that has already passed, like a ship trying to sail on yesterday’s wind.
President Obama was asked not long ago to reflect on any mistakes he might have made. He said, well, “I haven’t communicated enough.” He said his job is to “tell a story to the American people” – as if that’s the whole problem here? He needs to talk more, and we need to be better listeners?
Ladies and gentlemen, these past four years we have suffered no shortage of words in the White House. What’s missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years ago – isn’t it about time he assumed responsibility?
In this generation, a defining responsibility of government is to steer our nation clear of a debt crisis while there is still time. Back in 2008, candidate Obama called a $10 trillion national debt “unpatriotic” – serious talk from what looked to be a serious reformer.
Yet by his own decisions, President Obama has added more debt than any other president before him, and more than all the troubled governments of Europe combined. One president, one term, $5 trillion in new debt.
He created a bipartisan debt commission. They came back with an urgent report. He thanked them, sent them on their way, and then did exactly nothing.
Republicans stepped up with good-faith reforms and solutions equal to the problems. How did the president respond? By doing nothing – nothing except to dodge and demagogue the issue.
So here we are, $16 trillion in debt and still he does nothing. In Europe, massive debts have put entire governments at risk of collapse, and still he does nothing. And all we have heard from this president and his team are attacks on anyone who dares to point out the obvious.
They have no answer to this simple reality: We need to stop spending money we don’t have.
My Dad used to say to me: “Son. You have a choice: You can be part of the problem, or you can be part of the solution.” The present administration has made its choices. And Mitt Romney and I have made ours: Before the math and the momentum overwhelm us all, we are going to solve this nation’s economic problems.
And I’m going to level with you: We don’t have that much time. But if we are serious, and smart, and we lead, we can do this.
After four years of government trying to divide up the wealth, we will get America creating wealth again. With tax fairness and regulatory reform, we’ll put government back on the side of the men and women who create jobs, and the men and women who need jobs.
My Mom started a small business, and I’ve seen what it takes. Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn’t just a new livelihood. It was a new life. And it transformed my Mom from a widow in grief to a small businesswoman whose happiness wasn’t just in the past. Her work gave her hope. It made our family proud. And to this day, my Mom is my role model.
Behind every small business, there’s a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores – these didn’t come out of nowhere. A lot of heart goes into each one. And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them. After all that work, and in a bad economy, it sure doesn’t help to hear from their president that government gets the credit. What they deserve to hear is the truth: Yes, you did build that.
We have a plan for a stronger middle class, with the goal of generating 12 million new jobs over the next four years.
In a clean break from the Obama years, and frankly from the years before this president, we will keep federal spending at 20 percent of GDP, or less. That is enough. The choice is whether to put hard limits on economic growth, or hard limits on the size of government, and we choose to limit government.
I learned a good deal about economics, and about America, from the author of the Reagan tax reforms – the great Jack Kemp. What gave Jack that incredible enthusiasm was his belief in the possibilities of free people, in the power of free enterprise and strong communities to overcome poverty and despair. We need that same optimism right now.
And in our dealings with other nations, a Romney-Ryan administration will speak with confidence and clarity. Wherever men and women rise up for their own freedom, they will know that the American president is on their side. Instead of managing American decline, leaving allies to doubt us and adversaries to test us, we will act in the conviction that the United States is still the greatest force for peace and liberty that this world has ever known.
President Obama is the kind of politician who puts promises on the record, and then calls that the record. But we are four years into this presidency. The issue is not the economy as Barack Obama inherited it, not the economy as he envisions it, but this economy as we are living it.
College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life. Everyone who feels stuck in the Obama economy is right to focus on the here and now. And I hope you understand this too, if you’re feeling left out or passed by: You have not failed, your leaders have failed you.
None of us have to settle for the best this administration offers – a dull, adventureless journey from one entitlement to the next, a government-planned life, a country where everything is free but us.
Listen to the way we’re spoken to already, as if everyone is stuck in some class or station in life, victims of circumstances beyond our control, with government there to help us cope with our fate.
It’s the exact opposite of everything I learned growing up in Wisconsin, or at college in Ohio. When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself. That’s what we do in this country. That’s the American Dream. That’s freedom, and I’ll take it any day over the supervision and sanctimony of the central planners.
By themselves, the failures of one administration are not a mandate for a new administration. A challenger must stand on his own merits. He must be ready and worthy to serve in the office of president.
We’re a full generation apart, Governor Romney and I. And, in some ways, we’re a little different. There are the songs on his iPod, which I’ve heard on the campaign bus and on many hotel elevators. He actually urged me to play some of these songs at campaign rallies. I said, I hope it’s not a deal-breaker Mitt, but my playlist starts with AC/DC, and ends with Zeppelin.
A generation apart. That makes us different, but not in any of the things that matter. Mitt Romney and I both grew up in the heartland, and we know what places like Wisconsin and Michigan look like when times are good, when people are working, when families are doing more than just getting by. And we both know it can be that way again.
We’ve had very different careers – mine mainly in public service, his mostly in the private sector. He helped start businesses and turn around failing ones. By the way, being successful in business – that’s a good thing.
Mitt has not only succeeded, but succeeded where others could not. He turned around the Olympics at a time when a great institution was collapsing under the weight of bad management, overspending, and corruption – sounds familiar, doesn’t it?
He was the Republican governor of a state where almost nine in ten legislators are Democrats, and yet he balanced the budget without raising taxes. Unemployment went down, household incomes went up, and Massachusetts, under Mitt Romney, saw its credit rating upgraded.
Mitt and I also go to different churches. But in any church, the best kind of preaching is done by example. And I’ve been watching that example. The man who will accept your nomination tomorrow is prayerful and faithful and honorable. Not only a defender of marriage, he offers an example of marriage at its best. Not only a fine businessman, he’s a fine man, worthy of leading this optimistic and good-hearted country.
Our different faiths come together in the same moral creed. We believe that in every life there is goodness; for every person, there is hope. Each one of us was made for a reason, bearing the image and likeness of the Lord of Life.
We have responsibilities, one to another – we do not each face the world alone. And the greatest of all responsibilities, is that of the strong to protect the weak. The truest measure of any society is how it treats those who cannot defend or care for themselves.
Each of these great moral ideas is essential to democratic government – to the rule of law, to life in a humane and decent society. They are the moral creed of our country, as powerful in our time, as on the day of America’s founding. They are self-evident and unchanging, and sometimes, even presidents need reminding, that our rights come from nature and God, not from government.
The founding generation secured those rights for us, and in every generation since, the best among us have defended our freedoms. They are protecting us right now. We honor them and all our veterans, and we thank them.
The right that makes all the difference now, is the right to choose our own leaders. And you are entitled to the clearest possible choice, because the time for choosing is drawing near. So here is our pledge.
We will not duck the tough issues, we will lead.
We will not spend four years blaming others, we will take responsibility.
We will not try to replace our founding principles, we will reapply our founding principles.
The work ahead will be hard. These times demand the best of us – all of us, but we can do this. Together, we can do this.
We can get this country working again. We can get this economy growing again. We can make the safety net safe again. We can do this.
Whatever your political party, let’s come together for the sake of our country. Join Mitt Romney and me. Let’s give this effort everything we have. Let’s see this through all the way. Let’s get this done.
Thank you, and God bless.

 


Category: Election 2012, Fear and Loathing at the Republican National Convention, Paul Ryan

COMPLETE TEXT: ROB PORTMAN’S SPEECH TO THE GOP CONVENTION

Posted on | August 29, 2012 | 6 Comments

TAMPA, Florida
Provided by the Republican National Committee:

Good evening America, and hello to the fired-up delegation from the Buckeye State right in front of me.
My name is Rob Portman and they say I was on Governor Romney’s short list of vice presidential candidates.
Apparently, it wasn’t short enough.
But it’s been a great convention and I am delighted to be here tonight to talk about the fundamental differences between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama when it comes to understanding our economy.
Let’s begin by talking about something the Democrats love to demonize – Mitt Romney’s success in the private sector. He built a company from the ground up, created lots of jobs, and yes, he made money.
He made it the old fashioned way . . . He earned it.
Then you have Barack Obama, who has never started a business-never even worked in business. And he claims those who have should give credit to the government or someone else for their success.
So, you have one candidate who understands that success comes from working hard, competing and taking risks.
And you have another candidate who believes success comes from government.
Which one do you think knows how to turn this economy around?
Which one would you choose to invest your life’s savings?
Should it be any different for safeguarding our nation’s economy?
Or let’s say you don’t have any savings. Let’s say you’re worried about how to pay September’s rent or mortgage.
Let’s say you are one of the millions of Americans out of work or the millions more who have given up looking.
You’ve gotta be running out of patience – and hope. You have to be tired, looking for a new start.
Well, you don’t have to be patient any longer. Through your vote this fall you can change the leadership of this country and the opportunities for you and your family.
America, it has been nearly four years of over eight percent unemployment – and double digit unemployment for young people, Hispanics and African-Americans.
Four years. FDR and Truman won an entire world war in four years.
America is tired of waiting.
In business, if you don’t move rapidly, you are out of business. You are finished.
We want a president who operates at business speed not government speed.
President Obama says he deserves reelection because his economic policies have worked.
Not in this universe they haven’t.
In fact, the experts tell us that if we don’t change our policies we are going back into recession next year.
Tens of millions of Americans are not out of the last recession!
Governor Romney had a plan to build his business. He now has a detailed plan to restore our economy and strengthen the middle class.
I ask you: Where is the president’s economic plan?
Blaming others does not qualify as a plan. Now the president did submit a budget. It was so bad that not a single Republican or a single Democrat in the entire United States Congress would vote for it.
He got zero votes. That is a failure of leadership.
President Obama has been right about at least one prediction he’s made about the economy. He said, “If I don’t have this done in three years, then there’s going to be a one-term proposition.”
I think you are right about that, Mr. President.
It hasn’t worked, because you cannot spend your way, regulate your way, tax your way or blame your way out of the economic mess we are in.
You have to liberate the productive power of the American people through policies that encourage innovation, risk taking, investment and jobs.
And you have to compete and win in the global economy. Governor Romney understands this.
In contrast, President Obama is the first president in 75 years-Democrat or Republican-who hasn’t even sought the ability to negotiate export agreements and open markets overseas. Now why is this important?
Because 95 percent of the world’s consumers live outside our borders. And to create jobs, our workers and our farmers need to sell more of what we make to those people.
While this administration has been dragging its feet, other countries have been busy negotiating hundreds of new trade agreements to benefit their workers and their farmers, taking away our opportunities.
President Obama has been so driven to advance his big government ideology that he has abandoned the daily economic work that a government must do to open markets, restore business confidence and create the climate for job growth.
This is the work President Romney would begin on day one.
Take trade with China. China manipulates its currency giving it an unfair trade advantage. So why doesn’t the president do something about it?
I’ll tell you one reason – President Obama could not run up his record trillion dollar deficits if the Chinese did not buy our bonds to finance them.
We are as beholden to China for bonds as we are to the Middle East for oil.
This will end under Mitt Romney.
We need to knock down these trade barriers abroad, but we also need to knock down the self-imposed barriers to success right here at home.
We need to reform our outdated and complicated tax code. We need to fix our burdensome regulatory system and we need an energy policy that encourages development of our resources right here, in the ground, in America.
America has a choice between Mitt Romney, who seeks to grow the economy, and Barack Obama who seeks to redistribute it.
Which one do you think will liberate America’s entrepreneurial spirit?
At the other party’s convention, you will hear the chant, “Four more years. Four more years.”
Folks – we can’t afford four more years. How about no more years?
Governor Romney chose a terrific partner in Paul Ryan of Wisconsin – Paul is a close friend with a great family and a reformer’s heart.
Vice President Biden has told people out of work to just, “hang in there.” So much for hope and change.
Paul Ryan is not asking America to continue to hang in there. He is proposing new policies that will give poor and middle class families opportunities and hope for the future.
Mitt Romney made his mark turning around businesses and solving problems.
Paul Ryan made his mark as a respected reformer focused on results.
Together they will do what President Obama has not done: They will lead in breaking through the partisan gridlock in Washington, D.C.
America, give them the chance to restore America’s economy and restore the American dream.
I have seen that dream up close. When I was a kid, my dad left his job as a salesman and started his own business selling forklift trucks. My Mom was the bookkeeper. He had to borrow money from her uncle because the bank wouldn’t give him a loan. He lost money for the first few years, but he never lost his dream.
And by the time he retired and my brother took over, the business had 200 employees – supporting 200 families in Southwest Ohio.
This is the classic American story – not of government telling us what to do – but of free men and free women willing to work hard and take a risk to build something of value for themselves, their families and their community.
About a year into the Obama Administration – I asked my dad whether he would do it again. He said, “Rob – with all the uncertainty out there today – I don’t know if I would take the risk.”
In that one sentence, he summed up what I’ve heard from hundreds of small business owners across Ohio and around this great country. They’re afraid to make the investment and jobs are the casualty.
Ladies and gentlemen, we need new leadership and new policies to bring back the dream and renew America’s promise.
No more excuses, no more blaming others, no more waiting.
We need Romney/Ryan and we need them now! And with your help, it will happen.
Thank you and God bless our great country.

Category: Election 2012, Fear and Loathing at the Republican National Convention

@DavidChalian Got Breitbarted
UPDATE: Video Interview With ‘Hating Breitbart’ Director Andrew Marcus

Posted on | August 29, 2012 | 14 Comments

TAMPA, Florida
This morning while I was on my way to the Media Filing Center here at the Republican National Convention, the story went viral that David Chalian, Washington bureau chief of Yahoo News, had been caught on an open microphone saying — in regard to the coincidence of the GOP convention and Hurricane Isaac — “They aren’t concerned at all . . . They are happy to have a party with black people drowning.”

There was no time for me to blog about that, because I had to rush to the world premiere screening of Hating Breitbart, the new documentary film directed by Andrew Marcus. And while I was watching that movie, Yahoo News fired David Chalian.

Adios, douchebag.

This is strictly a coincidence, of course, just as it is strictly a coincidence that the guy who exposed Chalian is Newsbusters founder Matthew Sheffield, who is featured prominently in Hating Breitbart.

An awful lot of coincidences happened in Andrew Breitbart’s life.

I mean, if you believe in “coincidences,” which I don’t.

UPDATE: My video interview with Hating Breitbart director Andrew Marcus:

Category: Andrew Breitbart, Fear and Loathing at the Republican National Convention, Media Bias

RNC Rule 5 With Ann Romney and Other Smokin’ Hot Republican Party Babes

Posted on | August 29, 2012 | 25 Comments

TAMPA, Florida
Before our wolfish readers start getting all hubba-hubba about this photo of Dana Loesch and Lauren Luxemburg, permit me to point out that the photo was taken at Tuesday night’s “Homocon” party sponsored by GOProud, held at an Ybor City gay bar called The Honey Pot. As a matter of fact, if you’ll notice in the background, there is what would appear to be some evidence of the general orientation of the soireé.

Considering that it was well past 1 a.m. when I got there — after hitting deadline for The American Spectator — the guys in the background might be closing the deal, so to speak. NTTAWWT.

Isn’t that cruel of me, to lure in you lust-crazed freaks with the babe picture, and then spoil it like that by pushing your homophobia buttons? Just to make the buzzkill complete, I’ll point out that Dana is married and her husband Chris could probably beat you up.

Pouring cold water on your concupiscent interests is necessary, because this blog is all about family values, and it would be unseemly — disrepectful, even — for you to be in a tumescent condition when the topic at hand involves the next First Lady of the United States:

At 5:40 p.m. Tuesday, when the New Jersey delegation cast all 50 of their votes for Mitt Romney, it gave the former governor of Massachusetts 1,150 votes — six more than the 1,144 necessary for a majority — and he at last became officially the presidential nominee of the Republican Party. Choosing a nominee is, after all, the actual purpose of the convention, but the roll call that marked the culmination of Romney’s long campaign (which has been effectively continuous since 2006) was not a primetime event. Instead, TV viewers saw a night of speeches that culminated with back-to-back speeches by the candidate’s wife, Ann Romney, and the keynote speaker, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
It was a powerful one-two punch to cap the opening night of the Republican National Convention, which saw its first day’s schedule cancelled by fears of Hurricane Isaac, the storm that turned away from Tampa and instead headed west across the Gulf of Mexico. The delayed beginning did not lessen the power of the speech by Ann Romney, who told a story of her husband’s success that contradicted the narrative the liberal media have constructed about him.
“Tonight I want to talk to you about love,” Mrs. Romney told the thousands of GOP delegates gathered inside the Tampa Bay Times Forum. “I want to talk to you about the deep and abiding love I have for a man I met at a dance many years ago.”
Republicans in love? Whoever heard of such a thing? The media would have us believe that Republicans are soulless automatons incapable of love. At certain points during Mrs. Romney’s speech, one could hear a few reporters in the Media Filing Center sarcastically mocking her words. The liberal media have spent months pushing the Obama campaign’s message that the GOP is the Anti-Woman Party, but liberal journalists are scarcely able to conceal their contempt for Republican women like Ann Romney, who used her speech as an opportunity to appeal directly to women without the media filter.
“It’s the moms of this nation — single, married, widowed — who really hold this country together,” Mrs. Romney said. “We’re the mothers, we’re the wives, we’re the grandmothers, we’re the big sisters, we’re the little sisters, we’re the daughters.” Mothers “are the best of America. You are the hope of America. There would not be an America without you.” . . .

Read the whole thing at The American Spectator — you sick freaks!

 

 

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