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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.”
Share this far and wide…
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.
“Mitt-hammed Ali” |
Jay Cost over at Real Clear Politics has a really interesting analysis of why McCain needs Mitt and needs him now. Key quote:
“Never in his political career has Obama encountered an opponent who can land a blow as well as Romney.”
Read the whole analysis here. It’s definitely worth clicking over to read.
H/T: Hotair
Even NPR touting Romney Veep potential? |
Ambivalent is how I feel about NPR publishing a story touting Romney for Veep. Nonetheless, there does seem to be a critical mass of press about Romney’s Veep potential this last week or two, doesn’t there? Some key quotes:
Romney’s polish as a stand-in, combined with his business success and reassuring demeanor, look better and better as the economic issue ascends. Romney could help out in Michigan, where his name still works. He would also be at least some help in his other home regions of New England and the Mountain West.
Romney was also the guy who would have won in Iowa without the presence of evangelical preacher Mike Huckabee. Romney, who beat McCain soundly in Michigan, surely would have done so again in South Carolina and Florida if he had not been splitting the conservative vote in those states four ways with Huckabee, Fred Thompson and Rudy Giuliani.
Wow, that’s quite an endorsement from an MSM stalwart like NPR. I totally agree with the sentiment but…it’s NPR!
Veepstakes “Final Four” - Go vote for Mitt! |
Mitt is now in the Final Four going up against Pawlenty. He’s currently the top vote getter at 69% with 28K votes in!
If you haven’t voted yet, click here, and take Mitt to the finals! (looks like he will be up against Colin Powell)
Ramesh Ponnuru on McCain’s Veep choice |
Not about who, but how McCain needs to handle differences of position between himself and a potential more conservative running mate. His advice is very wise, I think.
In 2000, Joe Lieberman had to move left on school choice, Social Security, and affirmative action to get on the Democratic ticket. After his shift in positions, he was aligned both with Al Gore, the presidential nominee, and with his party. McCain’s choice is going to be trickier, since on several issues he himself is not in alignment with his party. If he picks a vice-presidential nominee from the conservative end of the party, should he make that nominee profess agreement with him on global warming, immigration, stem cells, and the like?
I think the answer to that question is a clear “no.” For one thing, there would be no point in picking someone conservatives like while forcing him to abandon the positions that made conservatives like him in the first place. It might even make conservatives less supportive of a McCain candidacy if they think he is trying to remake the party in his image. It would, in addition, make it hard for McCain to continue running as a man who values integrity and conviction. It would make it harder for McCain to attract a running mate to begin with. A conservative politician is not going to want to tack left to win McCain’s favor and then, if the ticket loses, move back right to realign himself with the Republican base for future elections. It could even, somewhat paradoxically, undercut McCain’s case that he is a maverick Republican if he insists on making other Republicans conform to his views.
By far the better course, if McCain picks a running mate who is to his right on these issues, would be for that vice-presidential nominee to emphasize those issues where they agree but forthrightly admit to their disagreements. The veep nominee could say that he understands that President McCain will call the shots in his administration but that he will feel free to offer the president his own views in private.
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