The Founding Father's Real Reason for the Second Amendment
And remember the words of Thomas Jefferson "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." See Video of Suzanna Gratia-Hupp’s Congressional Testimony: What the Second Amendment is REALLY For, below (u-tube HERE).
The Leaders Are Here... Palin, Cruz, Lee, Paul, Chaffetz....
T'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
Can You Really Still Believe That None of These People Would Have Done a Better Job???
By DICK MORRIS - Published on TheHill.com on May 15, 2012 From May 5-11, 2012, I conducted a survey of 6,000 likely voters. On such a mammoth sample, the margin of error is less than 1 percent. I found that Romney has amassed a sizable lead over Obama of 51-42, far in excess of what published polling and surveys of registered -- as opposed to likely -- voters are indicating.
If Romney were to win 51 percent of the vote, the election would, of course, be very close. But if he could hold Obama to 42 percent, it would be a landslide. So the obvious question is how Romney should go about winning the voters in between.
To answer this question, I drilled down in my sample to these undecided voters, none of whom voted for Romney in the survey. I added to their ranks those who voted for Obama but indicated that they only "somewhat" approved of his performance in office. This left me with a sample of 1,500 likely voters who are in play. The data in this column reflects their views. If Romney can win a quarter or a third of their votes, he will win by a landslide margin of 10 points.
On the economy, 46 percent of these swing voters do not believe that there is any recovery. Twenty-three percent say the economy is the same as when Obama took office and an additional 23 percent say it is worse. Thirty-nine percent say the jobs situation has not improved. Twenty-five percent say it is the same and 14 percent say it is worse. And 37 percent agree with the statement that "if we look around, there isn't real evidence that we are actually making progress."
Specifically, swing voters do not believe that the unemployment rate drop Obama heralds is real. Forty-nine percent agree that "the only reason it goes down is that each month more people give up even looking for work."
So Obama's claims that we are climbing out of the recession fall short with almost half of the swing vote. Indeed, 31 percent of swing voters say that "Obama's policies have made the recession worse."
About a third of swing voters squarely blame Obama's borrowing and spending as the culprit for the failure of the economy. Thirty-six percent agree that "the deficit and debt Obama's program caused did more harm that the spending did good. His cure was worse than the disease."
Forty-four percent of swing voters believe that "if we cut government spending and borrowing, we could recover much more quickly."
A third of swing voters -- 31 percent -- reject the president's argument that "if it were not for Obama's policies, things might have been even worse."
Finally, 44 percent of swing voters agree that "if we reelect Obama, he'll just do more of the same."
Romney has the ability to slice off a third of the undecided swing voters by way of a major attack on the economy, thereby lifting him well above the 50 percent threshold. Swing voters:
• Challenge Obama's assertion that we are recovering and that unemployment is dropping. • Lay the blame for the economic stagnation on his "spending and borrowing" and suggest that with less of each, things would improve much more quickly. • Believe that "his cure is worse than the disease" in that "the borrowing has done more harm than the spending did good." • Are convinced that if we reelect Obama, we have only more spending and borrowing to look forward to and that the results will be the same.
Will Romney exploit the vulnerabilities this poll suggests? Only time will tell.
"It's a Chain of Lie After Lie After Lie" What if the financial crisis wasn't an accident? That experts have PROOF regarding an elaborate scheme dating back to Sept. 18, 2008?… Dick Morris
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” - Benjamin Franklin
Andrew Breitbart was right: it is a war. And we fight that war on two fronts: against the Progressives on one side and radical Islam on the other. Both are equally dangerous and hateful in their condemnation of American exceptionalism. They are close kin to one another in the sense that the Progressive Movement seeks to install the state as the replacement for religion and the distributor of our worldly needs; while Islam is a theocracy and the single arbiter of justice and purpose. Neither of these social structures gives a damn about the individual or his freedom–both must be imposed. They are unnatural; it is our nature to resist the shackles of servitude. Freedom is, apparently, not for everyone.
America is a constitutional republic. For this reason, we are inherently vulnerable to apathy. To prevent the government from growing itself, citizens must stay involved. Sadly, that has not been the case in recent decades. We need to forget about Dancing With the Stars and take a sobering look at the number of spears pointed at our country and the American culture.
What Do We Need To Do?
Stand on the courage of our convictions confidently. We have every reason to feel encouraged, not discouraged. The sycophantic news media is never going to like or approve of anything we do. So we may as well do what needs to be done and let them whine and caterwaul to their heart’s content. We need to watch Democrats closely in the coming election and make sure that the dead are not voting and that the New Black Panthers are not intimidating people outside their polling precincts. They will stop at nothing in order to preserve their grip on the throat of liberty. This is for all the marbles.
The media has gone out of their way to say that the Tea Party was no longer relevant and that the Obama crowd is the true mainstream of American thought–like hell! The landslide defeat of incumbent Richard Lugar and the refutation of the union assault on Governor Walker of Wisconsin has them stunned. We were supposed to lie down and let them have their way and instead they got their a**** handed back to them.
In addition to fighting a “two front war,” we fight a war within a war. Equally dangerous to the conservative cause are the milquetoast moderate establishment Republicans.
Moderates suck–in either party–because they compromise (a bad word in the Tea Party mindset). The middle of the road is not some lofty perch from which one can see all, it is a spineless position and only good for being being run over. Do not compromise. Do not accept a liberal premise. It is time that they are made to reach out to us.
Action:
Once we regain control we can begin to work on the restoration process; however, it is going to take several elections to undo the meddling of a Marxist megalomaniac.
Boycott the propagandist news media. The MSM is complicit in the fraud that is Barack Obama. There is nothing that they present that isn’t bent to promote their agenda. They deserve to be ignored for their journalistic negligence and obfuscation of the truth.
Indict Eric Holder! There is no telling how deep this insidious scandal may reach, but there can be no doubt that Holder believes that he is above the law. When we finally regain control of the Executive office, we will need to install a pitbull as AG and literally tear into all of the abuses of power that have become the norm for the Obama Administration.
Investigate Solyndra/Lightsquared, etc. Obama’s green energy policies are nothing more than a money laundering operation to funnel tax payer’s money to his union pals and campaign backers.
Withdraw from the United Nations. The UN has become a joke and there is nothing there that we need to answer for. They are only interested in extorting us and blaming us for all the things gone wrong in the world. They are trying (still) to shove global warming down our throats, despite the fact that it has been exposed as hoax.
Eliminate bureaucracies and repeal regulation. It is time to eliminate the alphabet soup agencies that are regulating our economy to death. The Constitution does not obligate us to preserve ANY of the nonsensical things that these bureaucracies do.
Repeal ObamaCare! No one even wanted socialized medicine before Obama jammed it through the Congress against the will of the people. Not a single Republican voted for it.
Tax reform is long overdue. It is the primary tool by which the progressive institute their social architecture. Flat tax, national sales tax –it doesn’t matter–but change the status quo and eliminate the IRS.
Social Security reform. Entitlement spending is just out of control and must be contained. We cannot continue down the current path. Medicare and Medicaid and all public assistance needs a massive overhaul.
Eliminate the Department of Education–which has polluted the minds of our young people and indoctrinated them into this entitlement mindset that is dragging our society down into the quagmires of hell.
Purge courts of activist “judge-islators.” With every legislative defeat we hand them, we get a lawsuit to thwart the people’s will. Legislation from the bench is the Progressive movement’s alternative strategy. If they cannot defeat us in the arena of ideas, then they simply run to the nearest sympathetic liberal judge and have them issue a ruling that counteracts the offending action.
Keep the House
In light of the November 2010 midterm elections, and the primaries for the coming 2012 election, keeping the House should be a fairly easy task. Congressman Allen West (R-FL) is definitely the bright spot on our horizon. We need to install a true conservative as Speaker and continue our efforts to constrain the cancer of socialism. The House of Representatives is currently the only stronghold of common sense that there is in the 22 square miles that is Washington, D.C. We must retain this, if possible, and increase our numbered advantage there.
Regain Control of the Senate
Investigate and indict Harry Reid–who has not passed a budget in 1,112 days, despite the legal requirement to do so. This man should be investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Harry has a morgue drawer in his desk where all of the good ideas put forth by the Republicans in the House now reside. (And they accuse us of being obstructionist.) The Senate is a collection of monumental egos–100 presidents in waiting–and their direct election (17th amendment) is something we should seriously consider repealing. Streamline the government and restore it to its original format and structure to preserve the sovereignty of our republic. It is time, as some liberal columnist once quipped, to force the Senate to pull over–“park the clown car and get out to stretch their legs.”
Judge Napolitano: Repeal the “Progressive” 17th Amendment
Our #1 Job
Our first concern is to be sure that we get control of the White House by electing the Republican candidate, which will most assuredly be Mitt Romney.
Then we can hold Romney’s moderate feet to the fire and keep the establishment Republicans under the spot light of truth. He will need to be dragged to the right and told when to compromise. But we can help him. Romney leaves much to be desired in the hearts of true conservatives. But he is not a Marxist; and he is not beneath the thumb of George Soros.
“Applause waits on success.” - Benjamin Franklin
The only weakness that our constitutional republic has is apathy. Citizens need to pay attention and participate, or their freedoms will be stolen right out from underneath them, as has been repeatedly demonstrated by history
Read the entire post here.This post is pretty lengthy but worth the time to read. To win this election and take back our country, we must have a plan and this one looks pretty good to me. What say you?
Whether you are a Newt or Santorum or RPaul fan… or were still hoping that Palin would run, the reality is that Mitt has the GOP nomination. Now until Tampa it is just window dressing. Mitt has the numbers. As Conservatives, Independents, mainstream Republicans, Libertarians, Tea Party activists, disenfranchised Democrats, people of faith, Constitutionalists, Patriots of all stripes, we MUST combine our efforts and elect Romney and REMOVE OBAMA and the Socialist trend forever from the United States.
Time to stop focusing all our energy on what is wrong with Obama but instead on what is right with our guy (Romney) and on what needs to be done to win not only the election but the war!
Mac Lewis: The logic of the ad in one line: “If voters think on election day that Obama is the cool one, but Romney is the competent one, Obama will lose.”
Matt Lewis wrote Wednesday morning that Obama vs. Romney is starting to look a bit like a “Mac vs. PC” commercial. Here’s the RNC kinda sorta embracing that framework to make the point that what America has with The One is the policy equivalent of a Sad Mac.
Lewis:
Republicans, of course, will claim the contrast favors them — that Tuesday night demonstrated a serious candidate talking about serious issues — versus someone “slow-jamming” with a comedian (while the economy crumbles).
But it also reminds me that the Obama vs. Romney clash creates a PR/optics problem for Republicans: Policy aside, Obama seems cool — while Romney seems more like The Man. (This might not matter, however. Voters might decide they personally like Obama, but that they want a technocrat to fix the economy. Sometimes we need The Man!)
Brand images, though, often outlast political campaigns. And from a purely superficial standpoint, the GOP — especially if Romney makes a milquetoast running mate pick — risks reinforcing its image as your father’s party. So the GOP V.P. pick could be a factor this election and if not for this election, it might reinforce a brand for the next time?!?
With a couple of events and a couple of speeches the 2012 Election focus was set and the race is on, all in one day.
While President Obama appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon for some slow ‘jammon’ that ended up looking and sounding anything but presidential except to the (MSM) media Obamabots, Mitt Romney took the stage in New Hampshire and claimed his position as the presumptive GOP nominee after winning 5-primaries on Tuesday. That one move showed leadership and has changed the conversation. Within 24-hours Gingrich announced that he was leaving the race, former GOP primary candidate endorsed Romney and the RNC announced that Mitt Romney was now their presumptive nominee unveiling their support and the support of many behind the scenes already working together to defeat Barack Obama, including with the Ron Paul Campaign though Paul has no plans of dropping out of the race..
Romney looked and sounded presidential creating an echo over the blogosphere and even among some mainstream media outlets that a presidential Romney made slow jammom Obama look anything but presidential.
"Thank you Pennsylvania, Delaware, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New York! And tonight I can say thank you, America. After 43 primaries and caucuses, many long days and more than a few long nights, I can say with confidence – and gratitude – that you have given me a great honor and solemn responsibility. And, together, we will win on November 6th!
We launched this campaign not far from here on a beautiful June day. It has been an extraordinarily journey.
Americans have always been eternal optimists. But over the last three and a half years, we have seen hopes and dreams diminished by false promises and weak leadership. Everywhere I go, Americans are tired of being tired, and many of those who are fortunate enough to have a job are working harder for less.
For every single mom who feels heartbroken when she has to explain to her kids that she needs to take a second job … for grandparents who can’t afford the gas to visit their grandchildren … for the mom and dad who never thought they’d be on food stamps … for the small business owner desperately cutting back just to keep the doors open one more month – to all of the thousands of good and decent Americans I’ve met who want nothing more than a better chance, a fighting chance, to all of you, I have a simple message: Hold on a little longer. A better America begins tonight.
Tonight is the start of a new campaign to unite every American who knows in their heart that we can do better! The last few years have been the best that Barack Obama can do, but it’s not the best America can do!
Tonight is the beginning of the end of the disappointments of the Obama years and the start of a new and better chapter that we will write together.
This has already been a long campaign, but many Americans are just now beginning to focus on the choice before the country. In the days ahead, I look forward to spending time with many of you personally. I want to hear what’s on your mind, hear about your concerns, and learn about your families. I want to know what you think we can do to make this country better…and what you expect from your next President.
And I’ll tell you a little bit about myself. I’ll probably start out talking about my wonderful wife Ann – I usually do – and I’ll probably bore you with stories about our kids and grandkids. I’ll tell you about how much I love this country, where someone like my dad, who grew up poor and never graduated from college, could pursue his dreams and work his way up to running a great car company. Only in America could a man like my dad become governor of the state in which he once sold paint from the trunk of his car.
I’d say that you might have heard that I was successful in business. And that rumor is true. But you might not have heard that I became successful by helping start a business that grew from 10 people to hundreds of people. You might not have heard that our business helped start other businesses, like Staples and Sports Authority and a new steel mill and a learning center called Bright Horizons. And I’d tell you that not every business made it and there were good days and bad days, but every day was a lesson. And after 25 years, I know how to lead us out of this stagnant Obama economy and into a job-creating recovery!
Four years ago Barack Obama dazzled us in front of Greek columns with sweeping promises of hope and change. But after we came down to earth, after the celebration and parades, what do we have to show for three and a half years of President Obama?
Is it easier to make ends meet? Is it easier to sell your home or buy a new one? Have you saved what you needed for retirement? Are you making more in your job? Do you have a better chance to get a better job? Do you pay less at the pump?
If the answer were “yes” to those questions, then President Obama would be running for re-election based on his achievements…and rightly so. But because he has failed, he will run a campaign of diversions, distractions, and distortions. That kind of campaign may have worked at another place and in a different time. But not here and not now. It’s still about the economy …and we’re not stupid.
People are hurting in America. And we know that something is wrong, terribly wrong with the direction of the country.
We know that this election is about the kind of America we will live in and the kind of America we will leave to future generations. When it comes to the character of America, President Obama and I have very different visions.
Government is at the center of his vision. It dispenses the benefits, borrows what it cannot take, and consumes a greater and greater share of the economy. With Obamacare fully installed, government will come to control half the economy, and we will have effectively ceased to be a free enterprise society.
This President is putting us on a path where our lives will be ruled by bureaucrats and boards, commissions and czars. He’s asking us to accept that Washington knows best – and can provide all.
We’ve already seen where this path leads. It erodes freedom. It deadens the entrepreneurial spirit. And it hurts the very people it’s supposed to help. Those who promise to spread the wealth around only ever succeed in spreading poverty. Other nations have chosen that path. It leads to chronic high unemployment, crushing debt, and stagnant wages.
I have a very different vision for America, and of our future. It is an America driven by freedom, where free people, pursuing happiness in their own unique ways, create free enterprises that employ more and more Americans. Because there are so many enterprises that are succeeding, the competition for hard-working, educated and skilled employees is intense, and so wages and salaries rise.
I see an America with a growing middle class, with rising standards of living. I see children even more successful than their parents - some successful even beyond their wildest dreams – and others congratulating them for their achievement, not attacking them for it.
This America is fundamentally fair. We will stop the unfairness of urban children being denied access to the good schools of their choice; we will stop the unfairness of politicians giving taxpayer money to their friends’ businesses; we will stop the unfairness of requiring union workers to contribute to politicians not of their choosing; we will stop the unfairness of government workers getting better pay and benefits than the taxpayers they serve; and we will stop the unfairness of one generation passing larger and larger debts on to the next.
In the America I see, character and choices matter. And education, hard work, and living within our means are valued and rewarded. And poverty will be defeated, not with a government check, but with respect and achievement that is taught by parents, learned in school, and practiced in the workplace.
This is the America that was won for us by the nation’s Founders, and earned for us by the Greatest Generation. It is the America that has produced the most innovative, most productive, and the most powerful economy in the world.
As I look around at the millions of Americans without work, the graduates who can't get a job, the soldiers who return home to an unemployment line, it breaks my heart. This does not have to be. It is the result of failed leadership and of a faulty vision. We will restore the promise of America only if we restore the principles of freedom and opportunity that made America the greatest nation on earth.
Today, the hill before us is a little steep but we have always been a nation of big steppers. Many Americans have given up on this President but they haven’t ever thought about giving up. Not on themselves. Not on each other. And not on America.
In the days ahead, join me in the next step toward that destination of November 6th, when across America we can give a sigh of relief and know that the Promise of America has been kept. The dreamers can dream a little bigger, the help wanted signs can be dusted off, and we can start again.
And this time we’ll get it right. We’ll stop the days of apologizing for success at home and never again apologize for America abroad.
There was a time – not so long ago – when each of us could walk a little taller and stand a little straighter because we had a gift that no one else in the world shared. We were Americans. That meant something different to each of us but it meant something special to all of us. We knew it without question. And so did the world.
Those days are coming back. That’s our destiny.
We believe in America. We believe in ourselves. Our greatest days are still ahead. We are, after all, Americans!
God bless you, and God bless the United States of America."
To quote Jedediah Bila, “With this one speech, Romney changed the discussion from class warfare to a discussion of hope and choice.”
SuperPac American Crossroads also produced a new video entitled: “Cool” - After four years of a celebrity president, is your life any better? It is focused toward the young…
Meanwhile Obama looked foolish and inept appearing in one of the worst skits ever, demeaning his position and the office of presidency after having spent taxpayer money to campaign and to promote his new student loan program into an election issue. But the problem with that is Obama’s record and that Romney agrees with Obama on helping students with their loan debt while the economy keeps them from getting jobs, making it a non-issue.
Under Obama:
1 in 2 recent college grads are jobless or underemployed
85% of recent college grads are moving back with their parents
Last night, President Obama appeared on Jimmy Fallon’s unwatchable show to “slow-jam the news.” By this, Fallon meant that Obama would read a campaign speech about student loans, Fallon would utter a few lines to back him up every so often, and his lead band singer would warble in support of Obama’s propaganda.
Only one problem, aside from the fact that this was possibly the worst “comedy” segment in the history of mankind: it violated campaign finance law.
The equal time rule states that if a licensee permits a person “who is a legally qualified candidate for any public office to use a broadcasting station, he shall afford equal opportunities to all other such candidates for that office in the use of such broadcasting station.”
There are exceptions to the rule: appearances on (1) a bona fide newscast, (2) a bona fide news interview, (3) a bona fide news documentary, or (4) on-the-spot coverage of bona fide news events.
Only the second provision could be construed as saving NBC from giving Mitt Romney equal time. But this was not a bona fide news interview. In fact, it wasn’t an interview at all – no questions were asked, no answers were given. It was literally Obama reading a campaign speech over a guitar, a horn, a keyboard, and some drums.
Not only was this appearance in violation of equal time law, it was clearly an in-kind contribution by NBC to the Obama campaign. As the Federal Elections Commission states, “A donation of services is … considered an in-kind contribution.” Under applicable law, contribution of broadcast time is considered such a service. This was a campaign commercial for Obama, and the Obama campaign was not charged for it. A minute of network time can cost up to a couple million dollars; this segment ran a full five minutes. There is no doubt that Obama was given millions of dollars of free advertising time, and the Romney campaign should invoke all available law to make that clear.
NBC should be punished to the fullest extent of the law (because they are a repeating offender). Mitt Romney should be given equal time, and an equally sycophantic propaganda piece by Fallon. Obama should be ashamed of himself (though, of course, he has no capacity for shame). Video HERE
Speaker of the House John Boehner also weighed in this week on Obama campaigning on the public dime. Boehner said Obama misuses Air Force One for political trips and that he is now trying to make a political issue out of student loans, hitting swing states to make speeches without having to cover the cost for campaigning. Using taxpayer dollars to fly to battleground states to make political points is 'pathetic, said Boehner. Read more Here.
Of course violating campaign laws, ethics or tradition doesn’t seem to matter to Team Obama. He has been campaigning and appearing at fundraisers on the taxpayer dime for months. Yet, they had the audacity to announce this week that President Obama would be beginning his official campaign in about a month. At some point the American people are going to get tired of being played for fools on top of watching their country being spent into bankruptcy. As Mitt Romney said the other night, “It is still about the economy and we’re not stupid”
Although he isn't yet the official nominee, MittRomney kicked off his presidential campaign in earnest today, effectively accepting the Republican nomination for president this evening after easily winning all five GOP primary contests over Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul as he said, “A better America begins tonight”.
(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Romney looked like a new man… a man to beat, not a man catching-up with an incumbent. “It is still about the economy and we’re not stupid” Romney said with the sound and look of a solid presidential candidate to the cheers from visibly encouraged supporters. Ann Romney did the introductions for her husband, as has become customary before his speeches and she also looked confident as she shared how grateful she was for the support and prayers of so many she has heard from. She also looked ready for the journey; and looking and sounding like someone who loves and is proud of America instead of someone, like Michelle Obama, who stated in the 2008 campaign the election of her husband was the first time in her life that she was proud of America.
Romney added that “tonight is the beginning of the end of the disappointments of the Obama years” . He urged everyone to hang on just a little longer… until he was elected.
After sweeping all five primaries tonight and no longer having a serious opponent after Santorum dropped out, Romney’s shift to focus on the general election makes sense. Since Santorum exited the contest earlier this month, Romney has assumed the mantle of presumptive GOP nominee. Santorum’s endorsement is considered imminent by most.
Rep. Ron Paul (TX) will hang in to the end. He is $2 million in the black and continuing to collect delegates. Former Speaker Gingrich (GA) is barely hanging on with a near $5 million debt looking for a way to make a graceful exit and still try to have some input at the GOP convention. The former Massachusetts governor made clear in his address this evening that he is embracing victory, even if some of his opponents refuse to concede defeat.
From the sound of Romney’s speech tonight he intends to run a campaign on real hope and change and focus on the positives of his vision and experience for America and the negative details of Obama’s abysmal record, while Team Obama has already shown their hand and plan to run a negative campaign using Alinsky-style mud-slinging since President Obama can’t run on his record or his former slogan of hope and change.
Tonight’s speech and shift to the general election was expected when earlier this week Mitt Romney began to pivot to swing voters -- ever so slightly as he campaigned with Florida Sen. Marco Rubio at stops like Mustang Expediting on April 23, 2012 in Aston, Pennsylvania, where he said he was open to “studying” Marco Rubio’s DREAM Act alternative as an option. But, he has endorsed Paul Ryans’s budget plan and is reaching out to the tea party as well as American’s of all affiliations and walks of life for their input.
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Romney also sharpened his attack on Obama saying the past few years were the best Obama can do but not the best America can do. A line Juan Williams seized on during the after-speech quarterbacking on Fox News.
Here are some highlight from Romney’s ‘A Better America’ Speech:
The address included the unveiling for a number of themes likely to re-emerge throughout the campaign against Obama. Romney attempted to turn the president’s “fairness” message against him, arguing that the commander in chief’s dismal record has led to a condition of “unfairness” for millions of Americans.
Among the more memorable lines from Romney’s speech were “A better America begins tonight” and “It’s still about the economy, and we’re not stupid.” as mentioned above.
The Obama campaign quickly responded with a statement charging that Romney wants to return the country “to the same policies that got us into the economic crisis in the first place.”
“Tonight is the start of a new campaign to unite every American who knows in their heart that we can do better,” Romney said. “The last few years have been the best that Barack Obama can do, but it’s not the best America can do. Tonight is the beginning of the end of the disappointments of the Obama years and the start of a new and better chapter that we will write together.”
“In the days ahead, I look forward to spending time with many of you personally,” Romney continued. “I want to hear what’s on your mind, hear about your concerns and learn about your families. I want to know what you think we can do to make this country better and what you expect from your next president. And I’ll tell you a little bit about myself. I’ll probably start out talking about my wonderful wife, Ann — I usually do — and I’ll probably bore you with stories about our kids and grandkids.”
The Obama campaign, meanwhile, moved to their favorite trick in an attempt to tie Romney to President George W. Bush and charged Romney with misrepresenting the president’s record.
“The title for Gov. Romney’s speech tonight should have been ‘Back to the Future,’ because he has proposed a return to the same policies that got us into the economic crisis in the first place,” Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt said. “We have tried those policies before. They didn’t unleash growth, they didn’t spur job creation and they didn’t boost the middle class. And while Mitt Romney praised those policies in 2004, they led to a recovery that produced seven times fewer private sector jobs than the president’s policies, despite a significantly milder recession compared to the one the president faced coming into office.”
I’ll get a transcript of the speech up when I find it; it’s not yet up on Mitt Romney’s campaign site.
We now have the candidates for the 2012 Election and we have a clear choice of candidates and for America’s future. This election will be a choice between two candidates, two records and two visions for our country!
Allen West Speaks to the Folks at Home - Florida’s 22nd Congressional District may have to give up a very fine representative, for the good of all Americans.
Bachmann to Vote ‘No’ on Debt Ceiling - Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann outlines a plan to lower the deficit and says that the first step is to pay off debt
Little Susie must live in a Republican State. If she lived in a Democratic Party controlled State, she would be arrested for selling her lemonade without a permit, arrested by the Obama Sugar Police for reckless endangerment, fined by the IRS for not providing Obamacare for her employees, her Federal Taxes would rise 66% as punishment for being a successful small business, and her teachers from school would go picket at her home, screaming "Boycott Susie" because she has non-union employees!
I have to say this is one of the funniest, cutest,and innocent commercials I've seen in a long time. Whoever came up with this one hit the proverbial home run.
It's funny how a dad leaves a smart phone to help his little girl with her lemonade stand and she creates a giant corporation in an afternoon.
In a world full of darkness, it's refreshing to see something entertaining in a wholesome kind of way!!
Yesterday, after a short political sabbatical, I cautiously dipped my toe back into the boiling porridge that now passes for public discourse. Drudge is always first, and it was there that I discovered that Palin had finally made it official: She’s running.
Was there ever a doubt? Talk about anti-climatic.
The big question in my mind was always this: Can she win? Her speech in Wisconsin answered that question for me. Sarah Barracuda’s reemergence finds her in full campaign mode and she is startlingly better than ever before. I know how Chris Matthews feels now.
Could Pawlenty, Gingrich, or Romney have generated the energy and sense of urgency that Palin so effortlessly brought forth? The mind struggles to animate them with such authenticity, and the reason might be obvious: There is always the nagging doubt that they are true believers.
It’s easy for Sarah because she believes everything she says. Her sound conservative agenda is not a political design, it’s an expression of core values, and the passion that issues forth is so genuine that it never occurs to a single person in the audience, on the left or the right, that she is anything other than what she appears to be.
Palin is kryptonite to the Loony-Left and the RINO-right precisely because they all know that she is serious. Does the Left fear Gingrich? Hardly. Any chance that Romney will roll back the welfare state? Puh-lease. Is Tea-Paw (Pawlenty) going to ride into the Beltway and run rough-shod over the Statists? He would struggle to find a Veep with less gravitas. They will all be ignored… until they are nominated.
To gauge the threat measure the heat, and Palin has be hotly scrutinized more than any other politician in history. Her travails with the punditry, mainstream media, and the establishment at every level seems to be remarkably unbalanced… until you calculate two things.
1. Her influence. Romney could release a thousand page theses tomorrow that rivals the Federalist Papers and it would be trumped if Palin tweeted about Michelle’s garden. Is that fair? Nope. But it’s reality. When Sarah speaks, people listen, and everyone knows it.
2. Her spine. Fight like a girl nailed it. The uber-Mama Grizzly is the real deal. Boehner cries because he thinks his navel is the center of the universe. A mother with a child that has Down’s-syndrome knows that politics doesn’t even make the top ten when you list reasons to get emotional. She won’t cry when she’s being sworn in, trust me.
Sarah’s courage is her defining attribute. She has endured a withering assault and is stronger than ever because she has faced it without blinking. The Primary Season may hold surprises, but Palin has already been battle-tested like no other politician in history and I doubt that anyone will be pulling a secret rough-draft Alaskan version of Romney-care out of her closet anytime soon.
America doesn’t need a Republican version of Obama solutionism, it needs a female version of Ronald Reagan conservatism. She will be the default Republican choice for that reason alone. Her flaws are not flaws of character or ideology, and in the end people don’t choose a candidate because they think that Lexington and Concord are in New Hampshire, or that America has 57 States. People choose because they trust.
De Tocqueville knew it was true about America, and I know it’s true about Palin. Sarah is great because Sarah is good. We’ve tried everything else, let’s try honest government again… this time in heels.
thecommunists, I remained silent; I was not a communist.
Then they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat.
Then they came for the trade unionists, I did not protest; I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics, I did not protest; I was a Protestant.
Then they came for the Jews, I did not speak out; I was not a Jew.
When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.
Election 2014 - What Is Really At Stake
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