It’s going to get ugly: Palin Post-Mortem |
If what Carl Cameron says in this clip is even only half true, I am mortified.
I don’t know how much truth there is to it, but I’ve generally found Carl Cameron to be pretty credible.
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Mitt: Team Player? Or Palin Spoiler? |
There’s a mini-controversy brewing over at Townhall & the American Spectator blogs. In a nutshell, Matt Lewis picked up on some rumors published at the Prowler saying that it is former Romney loyalists turned McCain staffers who are trashing Palin in the media. He cites no sources and has no real evidence whatsoever. If you want the full background, click here, here, here, and here.
What I really wanted to bring to your attention, however, is a great column by the inimitable K-Lo, Kathryn Lopez, over at National Review Online. Read it all, but here’s an excerpt:
Watching him these past few months, he acts like a man who found a home on the Right, who both personally and philosophically appreciates those who were open to what he brought to the campaign trail, and continues to want to serve his country in whatever capacity she needs him. Right now, that’s by fundraising, contributing, and campaigning for conservative candidates and causes like the Susan B. Anthony List and Proposition 8 in California.
Reading the article immediately made me feel better knowing that Mitt is still active and working hard for the issues he championed during his campaign.
All this back and forth reminds me, however, of how hard fought, exhausting, and frankly ugly the primary campaign got for us hard-core Mitt supporters. I don’t know what is going to happen next Tuesday, but if McCain does not win it will be with very mixed emotions that look forward to the 2012 primary season.
End of the road? |
I sure hope not, but this article sure makes it sound like it…
Mitt Romney, who earlier this year stood between John McCain and the Republican presidential nomination, said yesterday he does not expect to seek public office again.
In an interview at the Duquesne Club, Downtown, Mr. Romney answered the question several ways, and each answer seemed to close the door not only on another presidential bid, but other elective office as well.
“I think it’s quite unlikely that I would run for office again,” he said. “I gave this my best effort. My experience in politics is that the window opens rarely. It opened for me. I stepped through it, got on the stage and did my darnedest to win the nomination. John McCain was successful and I was not.”
He added that he now plans to stay active “by being outside of government rather than being inside” and, pressed on whether he was saying he would never run, called another run for office “quite unlikely.”
Ugh…between this and how the McCain campaign is going I think I need to stop following politics…
Mitt on Fox News |
Oh what could have been…
Maybe some of you are thinking this as well? |
WowOWow.com describes itself as:
wowOwow is a free daily Internet website created, run and written by Lesley Stahl, Peggy Noonan, Liz Smith, Joni Evans, Mary Wells, Sheila Nevins, Joan Juliet Buck, Whoopi Goldberg, Julia Reed, Joan Ganz Cooney, Judith Martin, Candice Bergen, Lily Tomlin, Jane Wagner, and Marlo Thomas.
Anyway, they put together their list of the “50 Sexiest Men over 50.”
I’ll give you one guess as to who made the list.
Now that the economy is such a big deal… |
Kiwi columnist from New Zealand says what all of us are thinking:
Somewhere in Massachusetts, Mitt Romney might be having a quiet chuckle to himself.
The man who was once favoured to be John McCain’s vice-presidential pick - before the Republican nominee banked sharply right with surprise wing-woman Sarah Palin - has probably noticed how the lie of the land has suddenly changed.
Last week as McCain flailed about on the economy, a running mate who was a businessman, Olympics entrepreneur, former governor of a state of 6.4 million and Washington ‘outsider’ might have made more political sense than a ‘hockey mom’ governor from Alaska.
McCain, who has admitted that economics is not his strong suit, spurned his chance to pick a number two who could have talked credibly about measures to aid the ailing economy.
Don’t get me wrong. I think McCain and Palin are way better than the alternative, but I must admit that neither of them is giving me warm fuzzy feelings as I hear them talk about the economic crisis.
Say what?! |
Lest we forget amid the Palin-mania going on, there is a Democratic candidate in this race named Barack Obama. Click here to learn a bit about his parents. (trust me on this, it’s worth at least 3.5 chuckles)
H/T: Hotair
Just in case… |
Interesting article from the Boston Globe about what might be in store for Mitt if McCain doesn’t win.
One productive thing that any of us can do to support Mitt in whatever his future political activities are is donate to his PAC, Free and Strong America. This will help keep him “a player” in nationa politics and help lay the groundwork for 2012 just in case…
“Romney in Purest Veep Audition Yet” |
Video from Mark Halperin at Time Magazine. Mitt looks great!
“Obama is not a radical” |
Seems like we’ve remained pretty focused on the GOP side of things, but I just had to share this post from NRO’s The Corner. It’s an excellent, concise set of facts which are downright damning for BHO to anyone to the right of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi.
Last night on one of the talking head shows Dick Morris casually stated that Obama is not a radical. Perhaps not. But consider that according to recent polling, Obama’s positions on the following issues are opposed by a median of 76% of respondents:
- Obama supports giving driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants
- Obama supports racial preferences in public employment, contracting and school admissions
- Obama opposes a ban on partial birth abortions
- Obama would cut funding for research and development of “unproven” missile defense systems
- Obama opposes making English the official language for doing business with the U.S. government
- Obama opposes the Supreme Court decisions prohibiting racial assignments of grade school children
- Obama opposes parental notification for minors obtaining abortionsMoreover, Obama
- would talk without precondition with the leaders of state sponsors of terror
- is the only U.S. senator to vote against the language of the Born Alive Infant Protection Act
- supports giving foreign terrorists habeas rights
- contends William Ayers is a mainstream member of the community
- for twenty years belonged to a church whose pastor, Obama’s mentor, was prone to making, well, somewhat radical statements
- plans to raise payroll, income, capital gains and estate taxes
- despite recent rhetoric, never opposed a gun banhas received the following ratings:
- NARAL — 100%
- NEA — A
- ACORN — 100%
- Planned Parenthood — 100%
- National Taxpayers Union — F
- Family Research Council — 0%
- Citizens Against Government Waste — 13%
- NRA — FObama may not be a radical, but the National Journal’s assessment that he’s the most liberal member of the U.S. senate is well-deserved. Nonetheless, I’d like to know how Morris defines “radical.”
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Mitt pwns Tom on “This Week” |
Tom Daschle speaking on behalf of “the One” sounds as vapid and vacuous as his candidate. Mitt sounds great and substantive and lands all of his punches. You can watch it at this link. He was particularly good addressing the Russian/Liberal canard that the Georgians brought this on themselves. He also handled a question on Huck’s latest shots at Mitt with class and dignity.
Let’s hope that we get to see a lot more of Mitt between now and November!
The Spoiled Children of Capitalism |
This is not directly Romney related, but I thought it really captured so much of what is wrong with the Left that many of you would enjoy reading it. Here’s an excerpt:
It’s an old story. Loving parents provide a generous environment for their offspring. Kids are given not only ample food, clothing and shelter, but the emotional necessities as well: encouragement, discipline, self-reliance, the ability to work with others and on their own. And yet, in due course, the kids rebel. Some even say their parents never loved them, that they were unfair, indifferent, cruel. Often, such protests are sparked by parents’ refusal to be even more generous. I want a car, demands the child. Work for it, insist the parents. Why do you hate me? asks the ingrate.
Of course, being an old story doesn’t make it a universal one. But the dynamic is universally understood.
We’ve all witnessed the tendency to take a boon for granted. Being accustomed to a provision naturally leads the human heart to consider that provision an entitlement. Hence the not-infrequent lawsuits from prison inmates cruelly denied their rights to cable TV or apple brown betty for desert.
And so it goes, I think, with capitalism generally.
Capitalism is the greatest system ever created for alleviating general human misery, and yet it breeds ingratitude.
People ask, “Why is there poverty in the world?” It’s a silly question. Poverty is the default human condition. It is the factory preset of this mortal coil. As individuals and as a species, we are born naked and penniless, bereft of skills or possessions. Likewise, in his civilizational infancy man was poor, in every sense. He lived in ignorance, filth, hunger, and pain, and he died very young, either by violence or disease.
The interesting question isn’t “Why is there poverty?” It’s “Why is there wealth?” Or: “Why is there prosperity here but not there?”
At the end of the day, the first answer is capitalism, rightly understood. That is to say: free markets, private property, the spirit of entrepreneurialism and the conviction that the fruits of your labors are your own.
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