Posts Tagged ‘Mitt Romney’
30 Reasons To Dislike Barack Obama
As a conservative, picking out things you don’t like about Barack Obama is kind of like pointing to the wettest part of the ocean. It also goes beyond politics. Not only is Barack Obama wrong politically, he’s not a good guy, “cool,” or even moderately likable. To the contrary, he’s one of the nastiest, least admirable people in politics and he gets by based on a phony persona he created when he ran for President in 2008 — along with the help of press corps liberals that work to protect him like they’re on his payroll. Based on his performance and his personality, Barack Obama deserves to be the least popular man ever to sit in the White House.
1) Nobody but an ass would say, “It’s very rare that I come to an event where I’m like the fifth- or sixth-most interesting person.”
2) He’s a former (maybe, who really knows?) coke-snorting pothead who governs with all the care and due diligence you’d expect from a coke-snorting pothead.
3) Barack Obama actually said, “The private sector is doing fine.” Given that the private sector has never at any point been doing fine since he became President, he’d have to be dumb, dishonest or delusional to say something like that.
4) He is a bigger liar than Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter put together. There’s nothing the man says you can count on his meaning unless he’s saying something nice about himself.
5) He’s made racist comments about white people. Just to name one example, . . .
Read more by John Hawkins at TownHall.com
Here Comes Obama’s Raid On YOUR Retirement
Yeah, it’s going to do you a lot of good….
President Obama’s budget, to be released next week, will limit how much wealthy individuals – like Mitt Romney – can keep in IRAs and other retirement accounts.
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Under the plan, a taxpayer’s tax-preferred retirement account, like an IRA, could not finance more than $205,000 per year of retirement – or right around $3 million this year.
Read more by Karl Denninger at market-ticker.org
15 Year Old WI Conservative Meets Bullying From Teachers
As a 15 year old, I never imagined my activism in politics would translate into controversy for me at school.
My name is Benji Backer and I attend a public high school in Appleton, Wisconsin. I have always supported the public school system and plan to do so for the rest of my life. Many Americans who stand up for the public school system and the unions believe there is no attempt to sway opinion or that students with opposing beliefs are singled out. Unfortunately, experiences I have had with harassment and bullying prove that wrong. This is a timeline of the most extreme cases of harassment and indoctrination I have had in the three different public schools I have attended over the last three years.
I am currently in my freshman year of high school and the incidents are happening more frequently and I believe are more severe. As you can imagine, the ongoing pressure and bullying has been disturbing to me, my friends and my family.
Read more by Benji Backer at FreedomWorks.org
Republican sclerosis
How the party fell behind
These days, Republican political professionals seem to feel rather like Mikhail Gorbachev did in 1983 when he toured farms in Canada two years before he would become premier of the Soviet Union. Stunned by how productive a certain agribusiness was, Gorbachev asked how many farmhands had brought in the crop. “None,” came the answer; the farm was entirely mechanized.
From this one conversation, Gorbachev instantly understood the depths of the Soviet crisis and the desperate need for a new approach. For Republicans, the November 2012 election proved their technical inferiority in exactly the same way — it all came home to them in one day, Nov. 6, as President Obama’s campaign demonstrated a degree of technological superiority above the GOP’s efforts as shocking in its way as the mechanized agribusiness was to the hidebound ways of Soviet agriculture.
Read more by John Podhoretz at NY Post
How the Left Dupes Conservative Voters
Too little serious conservative analysis of the 2012 presidential campaign has yet appeared. This is understandable. The results of the election were disheartening to the point of shock. The campaign defied all historical precedent, all commonsense interpretation. The Romney ticket should not have lost and did not deserve to lose. The Democrats, fielding the least worthy ticket in the past century — and that’s saying something — did not deserve to win.
Read more by J. R. Dunn at AmericanThinker.com
Whoops: PolitiFact’s ‘Lie of the Year’ Turns Out to Be True
Last month, PolitiFact selected its “Lie of the Year.” Given PolitiFact’s dubious record of singling out Republicans for lying far more often than Democrats, you probably could have guessed the winner of this particular sweepstakes was a Mitt Romney campaign ad:
It was a lie told in the critical state of Ohio in the final days of a close campaign — that Jeep was moving its U.S. production to China. It originated with a conservative blogger, who twisted an accurate news story into a falsehood. Then it picked up steam when the Drudge Report ran with it. Even though Jeep’s parent company gave a quick and clear denial, Mitt Romney repeated it and his campaign turned it into a TV ad.
And they stood by the claim, even as the media and the public expressed collective outrage against something so obviously false.
Read more By MARK HEMINGWAY at weeklystandard.com
It Doesn’t Pay to Work
In the wake of President Obama’s re-election victory, there has been a lot of discussion about makers and takers. Mitt Romney said on a conference call with supporters, among many other things, that Obama bought a lot of votes with “gifts” to various constituencies, an evidently true observation for which he mysteriously was maligned by Bobby Jindal and others. The truth is much worse than Romney suggested or than most people imagine: the middle class is right to feel bitter and betrayed. Those who work for a living have been sold out by federal and state governments that have created a welfare system gone mad.
ZeroHedge has the grim numbers:
[I]t is now more lucrative – in the form of actual disposable income – to sit, do nothing, and collect various welfare entitlements, than to work. This is graphically, and very painfully confirmed, in the below chart from Gary Alexander, Secretary of Public Welfare, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (a state best known for its broke capital Harrisburg). As quantitied, and explained by Alexander, “the single mom is better off earning gross income of $29,000 with $57,327 in net income & benefits than to earn gross income of $69,000 with net income and benefits of $57,045.“
Read more by John Hinderaker at Powerlineblog.com
Learning from the Election
1. Populism
The Republicans have only won the popular vote since Ronald Reagan’s presidency on two occasions: 1988 and 2004. In both instances, even the patrician Bushes were able to paint their liberal opponents as out-of-touch Massachusetts magnificoes. Lee Atwater turned Michael Dukakis, the helmeted tank driver, into a bumbling Harvard Square naïf. Karl Rove reminded the country that John Kerry, the wind surfer, was a spandex-wearing, wetsuit-outfitted yuppie who lived in several of his rich wife’s mansions, as he jetted around in her plane and sailed on her boat.
Otherwise, it was the Republicans who always ended up reduced to plutocratic grandees. Since 1960, and with the exception of Barack Obama, the Democrats always lost when they ran northern liberals — George McGovern, Michael Dukakis, Walter Mondale, and John Kerry — so great is the American distrust of both old money aristocrats and Northern tsk-tsk scolds. Apparently southern accents — LBJ, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Al Gore — were necessary fides to win the popular vote, a sort of implicit reminder to voters that liberal Democrats could be just folks rather social engineers and redistributionists. Wealth apparently is not the key as much as an impression of familiarity with the working classes. Liberals laughed at Reagan riding horses, chopping wood, and chainsawing on his ranch, but voters liked what they saw. Neither party apparently can nominate a Massachusetts governor or senator and expect to win. Mitt Romney is a good man who would have made a very good president, but by June he was no longer a good Mitt Romney. Instead, millions of dollars in hit ads and free media assaults reduced him to a hideous caricature of a greedy, heartless Scrooge.
2. Barack Obama Was a Special Case
Read more by Victor Davis Hanson at PJmedia.com
The worst media election since the last one
No matter which candidate wins Tuesday, it’s clear the media didn’t just cover this election, they shaped it. To paraphrase Dickens, it was the best of coverage and the worst of coverage.
If you were President Obama, you got the best of coverage and photos of you with halos around your head. Your made-up autobiography and “composite” girlfriend were a blip in the news, your radical positions downplayed and the ongoing failures of your administration – economy, fast and furious, foreign policy in general – were all given short shrift in the major media.
Even your massive failure on Libya where four Americans were killed was somehow “utterly contrived” and CNN’s Candy Crowley covered for you during the debates. Every silly thing your PR people thought up from Big Bird to bayonets to binders received journalistic attention.
Read more by Dan Gainor at Fox News
Mud on his hands
Obama had one strategy this campaign: character assassination. But thanks to a voter backlash, Romney’s optimism may well win the day
Watch the campaign news segment with the sound turned down. You can see what’s happening in their faces: Mitt Romney is earnest, optimistic and forward-looking. Barack Obama is sour with sarcasm, peevish, defensive and even downright angry. Nineteen-sixty John Kennedy has turned into 1974 Richard Nixon.
Whatever could be bothering this former apostle of light?
Read more by Kyle Smith at NY Post
Mitt Romney Delivers Remarks In West Allis WI, “Real Change From Day One”
Mitt Romney today delivered remarks in West Allis, Wisconsin, “Real Change From Day One.” The following was prepared for delivery:
Thank you. It’s good to be in the home state of the next Vice President of the United States.
Next to Ann Romney, Paul Ryan is the best choice I ever made.
Read more at MittRomney.com
Victory Event with Mitt Romney on Fri Nov 2 at State Fair
You’re Invited to a Victory Event with
Mitt Romney
and the Republican Team
Friday, November 2, 2012
Doors Open 7:30 AM, Program Begins 9:30 AM
Products Pavilion at State Fair Park
640 South 84th Street, West Allis, WI 53214
All attendees will go through airport-like security and should bring as
few personal items as possible. No bags, sharp objects, umbrellas,
liquids, or signs will be allowed in the venue. Cameras are permitted.
Questions: TeamWI@MittRomney.com | (608) 535-9307
For Important Campaign Updates: Text (WI) to GOMITT (466488)
Women for MITT
Are you interested in helping Mitt Romney retire Obama this November?
Are you interested in turning Wisconsin into a RED state?
Come join us, bring your friends!
There are less than 30 days until Election Day, and we need each of you to help the conservative voice be heard throughout Wisconsin!
* Monday nights are “Moms for Mitt” nights at your local victory office 6-9 pm
* Tuesday nights are nights to call for Congressman Paul Ryan for Congress at all 1st Congressional District victory offices. 6-9 pm
* Wednesday nights are “Ladies Nights” at all local victory offices. 6-9 pm
* Thursday nights are “Young America” call nights. 6-9 pm. High schoolers can do a really great job of calling.
If you have any questions or would like to help out please contact:
Samantha Machart - West Allis office - smachart@wisgop.info or 414-803-8534
Phil Curry - Franklin office - pcurry@wisgop.info or 414-803-8548
Dan Fink - dfink@wisgop.info or 414-803-8518
Evan Bradtke - North Shore office - ebradtke@wisgop.info
Victory Rally with Mitt Romney at State Fair on Mon Oct 29
TONIGHT’S EVENT IS CANCELED
You’re Invited to a Victory Rally with
Mitt Romney
and the Republican Team
Monday, October 29, 2012
Doors Open 5:15 PM, Program Begins 7:15 PM
Expo Center at State Fair Park
640 South 84th Street, West Allis, WI 53214
All attendees will go through airport-like security and should bring as few personal items as possible. No bags, sharp objects, umbrellas, liquids, or signs will be allowed in the venue. Cameras are permitted.
Questions: TeamWI@MittRomney.com | (608) 535-9307
For Important Campaign Updates: Text (WI) to GOMITT (466488)
Commit to Mitt Bus Tour
with Leah Vukmir, Alberta Darling, and Ted Kanavas
1488 So. 84th Street, West Allis, WI 53214
Date: Tuesday October 30th at 12:45