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Momentum: Papers Endorse Romney

Four major Iowa newspapers have endorsed Mitt Romney, including the Des Moines register.

The Detroit News has endorsed Romney/Ryan.

And now the Los Angeles Daily News, The Boston Herald, The Orlando Sentinel, The Richmond Times Dispatch, The Florida Times Union, The Los Angeles Press Telegram, The Grand Rapids Press, The Columbus Ohio Dispatch,  The Pittsburgh Tribune Review all from critical states have also endorsed Mitt Romney.

I'd say this is progress.

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Peggy Noonan Insightfully Explains Obama

Peggy Noonan has written a wonderfully insightful article for the Wall Street Journal in an attempt to explain what happened in that first debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.  In a nutshell she says that America saw the REAL Barack Obama and it was a big disappointment.

I encourage you to read this.  She is really on target this time.

CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE

Obama Calls Romney A "Bullshitter"

Well, it's the Chicago way, what did you expect?

FIRST LOOK – Rolling Stone cover, “Obama and the Road Ahead: The Rolling Stone Interview,” by Douglas Brinkley: “We arrived at the Oval Office for our 45-minute interview … on the morning of October 11^th. … As we left the Oval Office, executive editor Eric Bates told Obama that he had asked his six-year-old if there was anything she wanted him to say to the president. … [S]he said, ‘Tell him: You can do it.’ Obama grinned. … ‘You know, kids have good instincts,’ Obama offered. ‘They look at the other guy and say, “Well, that’s a bullshitter, I can tell.”’” [Weekly Standard]

You better prepare yourself for what these guys will do if they think they are going to lose or what will happen if they lose.

I Hear A Bandwagon Coming!

At one time political campaigns used "band wagons" to get attention.  A wagon filled with musicians rolling along the streets drew attention and the music inspired people to sing and dance along.  Eventually other politicians wanted a seat on the "bandwagon" so they too could get some of the attention.

In today's world the concept of jumping on the bandwagon usually refers to a form of "group think", where people perceive someone to be winning and want to be part of that victory.  It is called "the bandwagon effect".

Well guess what?  The Detroit News just endorsed Mitt Romney.  That's right, the heart of the auto industry, the place where the UAW and General Motors put food in people's mouths, the place where Obama/Biden had to have calculated that they were ahead, would stay ahead and would never have to worry about.

As poll after poll shows Romney inching ahead, closing the gender gap, gaining in democrat strongholds and looking more presidential than the president, this endorsement in my humble opinion, sounds like the rumble of the wheels and the sounds of the horns as the bandwagon approaches.

All aboard!

 

Not Good: When You Get Caught Lying To The Voters

Despite his denials, despite his surrogates going on television to spin another version of the story, despite his angry response in debates, the facts show that Obama's narrative about the attacks in Benghazi have been far less than honest.  But does anybody really care?

A series of internal State Department emails obtained by Fox News shows some of the initial assessments of last month's deadly consulate attack in Libya, including one email within hours of the attack that noted the group Ansar al Sharia had claimed responsibility.

The emails provide some of the most detailed information to surface about what officials knew in the initial hours after the attack. And it again raises questions about why U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice, apparently based on intelligence assessments, would claim five days after the attack that it was a 'spontaneous' reaction to protests over an anti-Islam film.

Ansar al Sharia has been declared by the State Department to be an Al Qaeda-affiliated group. A member of the group suspected of participating in the Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi has been arrested and is being held in Tunisia.

The emails obtained by Fox News were sent by the State Department to a variety of national security platforms, whose addresses have been redacted, including the White House Situation Room, the Pentagon, the FBI and the Director of National Intelligence.

Fox News was told that an estimated 300 to 400 national security figures received these emails in real time almost as the raid was playing out and concluding. People who received these emails work directly under the nation’s top national security, military and diplomatic officials, Fox News was told. [FoxNews]

The Final Presidential Debate: My Take-Aways

As Mitt Romney prepared to sit at the same table as Barack Obama and debate foreign policy last night he had to know that this would be his most difficult debate yet at the same time know that it was a meeting which would be filled with rich opportunities.  As it turned out Mitt took the safe road and hit pay dirt.

With the Middle East and Northern Africa in such turmoil, with the recent attack on our consulate in Libya, the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Obama's very public snubs of our ally Israel all in the forefront of the news, Romney had a shot at slamming Obama's foreign policy failures in great detail.  Instead he chose to speak more broadly about what America's role should be and how we get back what we have lost over the past four years.

Obama on the other hand was seen on the split screen giving Romney an evil stare.  His body language was as if he was coiled and ready to jump over and hit Romney.  In other words, Obama came expecting a real fight.  When that didn't materialize as he had expected, Obama showed himself to be the same kind of disrespectful, mean spirited, sound bite laden, shallow campaigner that Biden did in his debate.

Obama's attempts to provoke Romney included personal attacks rather than policy debates.  And despite the number of "yo momma" jabs Obama threw at Romney, Mitt took the high road and rarely took issue with a sitting president on current foreign policy decisions, a criticism lobbed at him repeatedly in the aftermath of Benghazi.

With the advantage of a bit of election fatigue, a football game gearing up on another channel and the snooze inspiring energy of Bob Schieffer orchestrating the affair, what anybody who might have been watching with an open mind came away with was that the president is very thin skinned, shallow and spiteful while Mitt Romney is confident, knows what he is talking about and has a plan for America to regain its place as the leader of the free world.  And that plan, when it comes to national security, is based in large part on the USA not continuing our economic decline.

Romney will continue gaining on Obama in the polls right up until election day.  The big question remaining is whether Romney will win in the key counties in the key states so that he secures enought electoral college votes.  Last night he helped himself on that count.

Are The Results Of The Election "Fixed"?

You tell me what you think this means:

 

Krauthammer Predicts Jaw Breaker In Next Debate

Charles Krauthammer has a warning for Obama and a criticism of Mitt in advance of Monday's final presidential debate.  He says that Romney missed an opening in the last go around but shouldn't miss it again.  And, says Charles, it is enough to knock Obama out of the race.

Referring to something Obama said in the first debate, Charles advises Romney to be ready.

Substituting unctuousness for argument, Obama declared himself offended by the suggestion that anyone in his administration, including the U.N. ambassador, would “mislead” the country on Libya.

This bluster — unchallenged by Romney — helped Obama slither out of the Libya question unscathed. Unfortunately for Obama, there is one more debate — next week, entirely on foreign policy. The burning issue will be Libya and the scandalous parade of fictions told by this administration to explain away the debacle.

Romney will be ready Monday.

You are offended by this accusation, Mr. President? The country is offended that your press secretary, your U.N. ambassador and you yourself have repeatedly misled the nation about the origin and nature of the Benghazi attack.

The problem wasn’t the video, the problem was policies for which you say you now accept responsibility. Then accept it, Mr. President. You were asked in the last debate why more security was denied our people in Libya despite the fact that they begged for it. You never answered that question, Mr. President. Or will you blame your secretary of state?

If he gets it right this time, Obama’s narrow victory in debate No. 2, salvaged by the mock umbrage that anyone could accuse him of misleading, will cost him dearly.

It was a huge gaffe. It is indelibly on the record. It will prove a very expensive expedient. [Washington Post]

***THE ARMED CITIZEN*** An Every Friday Feature

Martha Lewis was at home with her two daughters when she heard a loud noise. It was 3 a.m., so Lewis immediately called police and grabbed her gun. She went to her daughters’ room and told them each to get something with which to defend themselves. They were at the top of the stairs when a man, who had kicked in the door and entered the home, spotted them. When the man started up the stairs toward them, Lewis warned the intruder that she would shoot him. When he ignored her warnings, Lewis fired causing him to stumble outside where police found him. The 25-year-old male was hospitalized in stable condition. After the incident, Lewis said, “There’s so much talk about banning guns and gun control, but they’re for protection. There’s no way that I could have fought him off.” (The Blaze, Dora, AL, 8/17/12)

Reprinted with the encouragement of the NRA