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@PaulRyanVP and Math Continue to Represent Obama’s Worst Nightmare

Posted on | August 17, 2012 | 18 Comments

BEAVERBROOK, Ohio
Liberals continue their Brer-Rabbit-and-the-Briar-Patch act about the selection of Paul Ryan as Mitt Romney’s running mate, endeavoring to convince Republicans that the 42-year-old Wisconsin congressman is somehow a liability to the GOP.

Don’t believe it for a minute. Having seen the massive crowds at the Romney-Ryan rally in Manassas, Virginia, having seen Mitt give a fired-up speech Tuesday in Chillicothe and having seen the huge turnout for Ryan’s homecoming at Miami (Ohio) University on Wednesday, I am an eyewitness to the power of The Ryan Factor.

Pick a swing state — any swing state — and the balance has now shifted toward the GOP. You can check the polls in Florida, but you don’t need polls to tell you Romney-Ryan is a winning ticket. Just use your own common sense: The conservative grassroots is fired up about a candidate who combines (a) serious policy-wonk gravitas, (b) the youthful energy of a 42-year-old, and (c) need we bother to mention his six-pack abs?

Don’t take my word for it. Just ask Becca Lower: “Ryan’s a rock star, even in the level-headed Midwest. We think fiscal sanity is sexy.”

Just in case any Republicans are still confused or fearful, Romney campaign manager Matt Rhoades shares some data in this memo:

Tomorrow marks a week since Mitt Romney announced his choice of Congressman Paul Ryan to join him on America’s Comeback Team, and it’s clear that his choice has reshaped the race in a positive way. The Obama team’s increasing vitriol is a sure sign that they’re rattled by the pick. Unable to engage in an elevated policy debate, they’ve spent the past few days drowning in their own venom.
Since the announcement in Norfolk, Virginia on Saturday:

  • Online Fundraising
    Donations: 124,800+
    Amount: $10,157,947
    Average Donation: $81
    % New Donors: 68%
  • Site Traffic
    Total: 2,000,000
    Desktop: 1,560,000
    Mobile: 440,000
  • Mitt Romney Social
    Facebook: +510,000 — Now 4,360,000
    Twitter: +54,000 — Now 861,000
  • Paul Ryan Social
    Facebook: +860,000
    Twitter: +118,500
  • Volunteers
    45,000+ sign up to volunteer online

President Obama is on defense over his $716 billion raid of current Medicare beneficiaries to pay for Obamacare, and allowing the hospital trust fund to go broke by the time those aged 50 or below are Medicare eligible. The political director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee warned this week that the issue could cost Democrats the election.
At the same, time, the Romney Plan for a Stronger Middle Class is gaining traction. Voters in the swing states believe that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have a better plan than Barack Obama and Joe Biden “to reduce the deficit, create jobs and get the economy moving.”
Polling data shows Romney gaining since the announcement. Both Gallup and Rasmussen show us leading Obama in national polling, and recent statewide polling shows us picking up ground in Ohio and Virginia.
While President Obama’s team continues its campaign of frustration and division to distract voters from his failed record, the Romney-Ryan team will continue offering solutions to the challenges facing our nation. America is ready for a comeback and if this past week is any indication, America’s comeback will begin on November 6th.

You should also take time to read what David Harsanyi says about the Democrats’ attempt to label Ryan “extreme”:

 If you happen to be attracted to some of the broader ideas in an Ayn Rand book, you, my friend, are an extremist for life. If, on the other hand, your ideological education was provided by an all-star lineup of leftist thinkers, you’re good. Certainly, no one is going to demand that you accept or repudiate the teachings of Frank Marshall Davis or Karl Marx in toto.

A week from today, I’m leaving on a road trip to the Republican National Convention in Tampa, and I hope readers will contribute to the Shoe Leather Fund to help make this the most successful road-trip ever. As a Republican lady in Ohio shouted out to Paul Ryan yesterday, “Good luck! Kick ass!”

Anyway, I’ve spent the past four hours blogging from this McDonald’s. My 13-year-old son Jefferson is getting antsy, so now it’s time for us to hit the road — and time for you hit the freaking tip jar!

Update (Smitty): thanks, Instapundit and Hogewash!
 




 

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

Witchy Woman: Did Christine O’Donnell Try to Hijack ‘Occupy vs. Tea Party’?

Posted on | August 17, 2012 | 26 Comments

BEAVERCREEK, Ohio
This is either (a) a serious trademark infringement or (b) a generous gesture of free publicity: We told you last month about Gordon Gebert’s proposed “Occupy vs. Tea Party” reality-TV show. A few days ago, I learned that Gordon got the funding to make it happen, and will begin with a debate at the Republican National Convention in Tampa.

Well, it seems that Christine O’Donnell — whose Tea Party-backed GOP Senate campaign made national news in 2010 — has planned an event for Tampa that got headlined by ABC News, “Christine O’Donnell to Stage Tea Party vs. Occupy Debate in Tampa,” which provoked an outraged reaction from Gebert and his lawyers:

Former Delaware Tea Party candidate and “witch” Christine O’Donnell has issued a press release which has been picked up by ABC News, Yahoo News, DailyKos, et al… announcing Christine O’Donnell to Stage Tea Party vs. Occupy Debate in Tampa at Channelside Cinemas 10 IMAX Theater in Tampa, Florida just one block from the Tampa Bay Times Forum, site of the Republican National Convention. Problem is Christine O’Donnell was told in a conference call Thursday evening she could not use the Tea Party vs Occupy or the Occupy vs Tea Party name because both are trademarked and copy righted by Gordon G.G. Gebert, creator of the reality TV Show of the same name.
During the Thursday conference call O’Donnell was attempting to reach a broadcasting deal with The Young Turks while representing that she was the creator and owner of the trademark. Despite repeatedly being told by the Trademark & Copyright owner she could not use his brand in her Tampa event, O’Donnell decided she wanted to take her chances in litigation and told Gebert, “sue me.” According to spokesperson for Mr. Gebert after becoming aware of O’Donnell’s press release by email which was picked up by ABC News, Yahoo News, Huffington Post, and others; Attorney’s for Mr. Gebert will file the necessary documents to obtain a restraining order prohibiting O’Donnell from proceeding with the unauthorized use of his trademark brand to promote her event.

Read the whole thing. Is this a serious legal throw-down? Has O’Donnell attempted to rip off Gordon’s idea? Whatever it is, it has now added the vital element of controversy to the story and, in the news business, nothing is more valuable than controversy:

CONTROVERSIAL DEBATE
SCHEDULED IN TAMPA!

Get your money’s worth out of it, man.

Category: #Occupy, Christine O'Donnell, Tea Party

Rhode Island Neo-Nazis and Other Mysteries of 21st-Century Hate

Posted on | August 17, 2012 | 15 Comments

BEAVERCREEK, Ohio
Professor William Jacobson has spent two years wondering about the Neo-Nazi menace in Rhode Island, a threat that the Southern Poverty Law Center warns about in its annual “hate group” listing, but which it seems no one has ever actually documented:

SPLC’s hate map at the time listed a total of three hate groups in Rhode Island, but there was no information as to the other two supposed groups, reflecting how SPLC inflates the number of hate groups. SPLC also counts each supposed state branch of each hate group as a separate group, which again inflates the numbers. If some neo-Nazi website claims to have branches in all states, that would be 50 hate groups to SPLC.

This “inflate the hate” tactic explains why the SPLC added the Family Research Council to its “hate group” listings in 2010: By steadily expanding the categorical definition of “hate,” the SPLC can present “hate” as an ever-growing threat in the alarmist fundraising letters it sends to its donor base of elderly liberals.

For those who don’t know the history of the SPLC, it is necessary to explain that Morris Dees is a direct-mail fundraising genius who began his “civil rights” group with the mailing list of the 1972 George McGovern presidential campaign — a reliable group of wealthy liberals who have since funded the group to the tune of $200 million. And even though the SPLC’s ever-increasing endowment would enable the group to operate in perpetuity even if nobody ever gave them another penny, the fundraising letters still rake in millions more in tax-exempt dollars every year.

Liberal journalist Ken Silverstein long ago exposed the SPLC as ruthlessly cynical fundraising scam. Even if you are a liberal who shares the general beliefs of the SPLC, the group’s shameless dishonesty — as they encourage liberal donors to pour millions of dollars down a useless rathole of disinformation — should be offensive to you. (Media Matters for America has exploited a clever variation of the same 501(c) scam, showing once again that a fool and his tax-exempt money are soon parted.) It is demonstrable, I believe, that the SPLC irreversibly descended into hucksterism in the mid-1990s when they hired Mark Potok, who was responsible for making “right-wing militias” and other hyped-up threats a lucrative staple of the group’s fundraising appeals.

It was under Potok’s leadership that the SPLC began expanding the definition of “hate” to list groups that had never advocated violence including, inter alia, the Federation for American Immigration Reform and mainstream “traditional values” groups like the Family Research Council.

The SPLC’s demonization of traditional values groups has been implicated in gay terrorist Floyd Lee Corkins’s violent attack on the FRC office Wednesday. Donald Douglas asks if the SPLC should be labeled a “hate group,” and it is a serious question.

There is no question at all, however, that Mark Potok is an dishonest and irresponsible demagogue who should be ashamed of his poisonous contribution to public discourse.

Category: Gays

Advertising Your Wares On The Back Of Another’s Hypocrisy

Posted on | August 17, 2012 | 14 Comments

by Smitty via (Insty)

I’ll give D’Souza 8 out of 10 here. He loses points for (a) not helping in the sense of a ‘random act’, and (b) announcing the act. To be clear: he’s got a movie to peddle. Having said all that, George Obama offers a nice window (or maybe a microscope’s aperture) into the soul of Barack Obama:

One of Obama’s favorite phrases comes right out of the Bible: “We are our brother’s keeper.” Yet he has not contributed a penny to help his own brother. And evidently George does not believe, even in times of emergency, that he can turn to his brother in the White House for help.

So much for spreading the wealth around.

Obama’s refusal to help George is especially surprising because George doesn’t just live in American-style poverty but rather in Third World poverty. He lives in a shanty in the Huruma slum in Nairobi. He gets by on a few dollars a month. Obama also has an aunt named Hawa Auma, his father’s sister, who ekes out a living selling coal on the streets of a small village in Kenya. She says she would like to have her teeth fixed, but she cannot afford it. Obama hasn’t offered to help her either.

And here is D’Souza’s flick:
Obama might be many things, but a ‘nice guy’ is not among them.

More at Liberty News Network.

Category: Barack Obama

Veterans: A Mesothelioma Announcement

Posted on | August 17, 2012 | 9 Comments

by Smitty

My father is recovering from prostate surgery. He served as an engineer, mostly on amphibious assault ships, back before the dangers of materials like asbestos was widely known. Thus, I amy sympathetic to the need to take care of old duffers wherever you find them, and present this post as a public service announcement:

The Financial Hardships of a Veteran with Mesothelioma

by Douglas Karr

Veterans are people who have served our country and put their lives on the line for other people.  This is why it is unfortunate that veterans are the most likely to get mesothelioma.  Mesothelioma is a very fatal cancer that happens if a person is overly exposed to asbestos.  Asbestos can be found in old walls and construction materials, and being exposed to it for a very long time can be a major problem.  Mesothelioma is often deadly because it is not normally caught until it is in its late stages. Read more

Category: Military

LIVE AT FIVE: 08.17.12

Posted on | August 17, 2012 | 5 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
At Least 35 Dead As South African Police Gun Down Machete-Wielding Miners

Police surround the bodies of slain miners at the Lonmin mine


New union clashing violently with government-aligned National Union of Mineworkers

Verdict, Protests Loom For Pussy Riot
Put your undies on your hair like you just don’t care

Ecuador’s President Claims Moral Superiority In Granting Asylum To Assange
UK vows not to allow rapist out of the country; critics say Correa using Assange as smokescreen for domestic persecution of press



POLITICS
Beer But No Bumper Cars As Obama Magic Slips In Iowa

President, First Lady speak to small crowd in Davenport


Independents, liberal Republicans not buying the BS this year

Shooting At Family Research Center Sets Off War Of Words

Air Marshals Face Assault Charges After Drunken Brawl In Michigan Bar

Poll: New Yorkers Biased Against Atheists, Born-Again Christians In Politics

Inside The Beltway, The Answer-Free White House Continues

Retired President Of Border Patrol Union Indicted On Fraud Charges

US Chamber Of Commerce Calls Elizabeth Warren Threat To Free Enterprise



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil At Three-Month Peak On Stimulus Hope, Middle East Worries; NYMEX $95.60, Brent $114.23
Merkel Says Germany Backs Draghi’s Conditions For ECB Help
Facebook Stock Slides 6% As Insiders Finally Allowed To Sell
Best Buy, Founder Disagree On LBO
Walmart Slows International Expansion
Who’d’a Thunk It? Tech Stocks The New Dividend Leaders
NOAA Predicts Drought Will Linger But Won’t Get Worse
Apple In Talks With Cable Industry About TV Project?
Verizon, Comcast Agree To FCC Airwave Demands
Twitter Clamps Down On Developers With Restrictive API Rules
Five Ways Windows 8 Overhauls The PC
Apple Accused Of Overstating Damages In Samsung Case
State Department Cancels $16.5 Million Kindle Touch Order
Blizzard Unveils “Mists Of Pandaria”
Nokia/Zynga Partnership Brings Blockbuster Games To Nokia Asha Touch Phones



SPORTS
Backed By Five Homers, Ex-Twin Liriano Notches First Win For Pale Hose

Francisco Liriano making the pitches


White Sox match season record in homers with 7-2 win over Toronto

Rangers Rally, Outslug Yankees To Avoid Sweep

Price Notches 16th Win As Rays Blank Angels 7-0



Red Sox Beat O’s 6-3 To Avoid Sweep

Harvey Drives In Two, Holds Reds To One Run In Mets 8-4 Win

Crisp, Cespedes Homer As A’s Blank Royals 3-0

Yes, The WNBA Is Still Playing



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Jenny McCarthy, Brian Urlacher Split Up

McCarthy & Urlacher


Chicago Bears linebacker officially friendzoned

Did Al Roker Just Call Out Matt Lauer?

Jennie Garth Holds Hands With New BF Noah Abrams



Pattinson Clams Up When NYT Press Drone Compares His Troubles To Those Of British Royal Family

Jen Aniston Hunting Leakers Among Acquaintances By Spreading Disinformation

Katie Holmes Decamps From Beverly Hills Mansion She Shared With Tom Cruise



FOREIGNERS
Pussy Riot Member Claims Victory In Letter To Supporters
Japan To Deport 14 PRC Activists Who Landed On Senkaku Island
Syrian Civil War Spreading To Lebanon?
PRC Court To Announce Verdict In Heywood Murder Case On Monday
Wave Of Attacks Kills Dozens Across Iraq – Yeah, It’s The End Of Ramadan, How’d You Guess?
Indian PM Moves To Cool Panic As Thousands Flee Northeast Cities, Fear Of Muslim Backlash
A Saudi Overture To Iran



BLOGS & STUFF
Riehl World View: Wisconsin Moves To True “Toss Up” Status
John McCormick: Ryan Says “Your Payroll Taxes Should Go To Medicare And Social Security, Not Obamacare”
Breitbart.com: MSNBC’s Toure Claims Romney Engaged In “Niggerization” Of Obama
Power Line: Are Democrats Starting To Lose It Already?
Neo-neocon: White House Announces We Will Have Joe Biden To Kick Around Some More
Weekly Standard Blog: Axelrod Won’t Rule Out Biden Being Dropped, Cracks Joke Instead
Wake Up America: Business Owners Posting Notice – They Built Their Businesses, Not Obama
Duffel Blog: NBC Cancels “Stars Earn Stripes” After Entire Cast Killed In Afghanistan
Lonely Conservative: Small Biz Owner Says No To Joe
Weasel Zippers: Jesse Jackson Says Biden’s “Chains” Rhetoric “Not Helpful”
Legal Insurrection: SPLC’s Hatewatch Gives Cover To Hate
Allahpundit: Oh My! Romney Busts Out The Whiteboard On Medicare
Deroy Murdock: Physician, Heal Thyself
Jawa Report: Obama Is Literally Not His Brother’s Keeper
John Fund: Serial Fraud Kept Congressman In Office
Artur Davis: Obama’s Hidden-Hand Politics

Category: Live at Five

Creepiest Thing You’ll Read All Month

Posted on | August 16, 2012 | 8 Comments

by Smitty

ACRP Wire:

A new paper in the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry uses extensive Freedom of Information Act findings to detail what its authors call an extremely troubling off-label medical intervention employed in the U.S. on pregnant women to intentionally engineer the development of their fetuses for sex normalization purposes.

The paper is coauthored by Alice Dreger, professor of clinical medical humanities and bioethics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Ellen Feder, associate professor of philosophy and religion at American University, and Anne Tamar-Mattis, executive director of Advocates for Informed Choice.

The pregnant women targeted are at risk for having a child born with the condition congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), an endocrinological condition that can result in female fetuses being born with intersex, or more male-typical, genitals and brains.

RTWT. It goes downhill from there. *shudder* The horror movies write themselves.

Category: Culture

Tapper Makes Carney Eat BHO’s Remarks About Romney’s Dog

Posted on | August 16, 2012 | 28 Comments

by Smitty

Props to Jake Tapper for playing the Seamus card on über-tool Jay Carney:This is a Mark-1, Mod-0 interaction with a Progressive munch:

  1. Progressive makes some high-minded claim,
  2. Progressive confronted with the reality that facts belie the high-minded claim,
  3. Progressive does one of:
    • posit some artificial distinction
    • whine about context
    • changes the subject
    • play the ‘everybody is guilty‘ card

If all you’re going to be in life is a sad little munch, Carney, please consider falling off the planet.

via CuffyMeh

Update: thanks, Instapundit!

Category: Democrats
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