comMITTed to Romney!

Under the category of “who woulda thunk it?” an unnamed Democratic Party official says Hillary will release her delegates to Obama. Man, this is a big-time disappointment. I was so looking forward to a divisive, debilitating floor fight. I wonder what Hill got in return? The donor list?

~~John Cronin~~

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/08/24/official-clinton-to-release-delegates-to-obama-wednesday/

DENVER — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, hoping to unite the Democratic Party and cement her future in it, will gather her hard-won primary delegates Wednesday at a reception where she is expected to formally release them to Barack Obama.

Clinton has invited her pledged delegates to a reception at the Colorado Convention Center, not far from the main Democratic National Convention arena.

The high-profile gathering of political regulars who once fought against Obama serves a dual purpose for Clinton: Show fellow Democrats that she can be a team player, and display her still-formidable political strengths for the future. Many of her supporters want her to run for president again.

A Democratic official told The Associated Press Sunday, a day before the convention begins, that she is expected to release her delegates at the Wednesday event. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to discuss details publicly.

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Figured that I’d share this old video of The Cars to celebrate Hillary Clinton’s indecision on whether to put her name forth for nomination at the Democratic National Convention [See Story]

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Back in those dark days of early 2007 when the MSM informed us that the nomination of Hillary Clinton was “inevitable” and that she had the “biggest and most professional campaign staff in U.S. history,” I used to say that the best defense against a Hillary Clinton presidency was an open microphone.

Ditto for a Barack Obama presidency as well. The Pubbies can’t make up anything better than what BO comes up with himself. Check out Obama’s latest wild hair as he positions himself to the left of Karl Marx.

~~John Cronin~~

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=302222641317480

By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY

Election ‘08:

A plan by Barack Obama to redistribute American wealth on a global level is moving forward in the Senate. It follows Marxist theology — from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

We are citizens of the world, Sen. Obama told thousands of nonvoting Germans during his recent tour of the Middle East and Europe. And if the Global Poverty Act (S. 2433) he has sponsored becomes law, which is almost certain if he wins in November, we’re also going to be taxpayers of the world.

“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times . . . and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK,” Obama has said. “That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen.”

Oh, really? Who’s to say we can’t load up our SUV and head out in search of bacon double cheeseburgers at the mall? China? India? Bangladesh? The U.N.?

In an Obama White House, American sovereignty will become an endangered species. The Global Poverty Act is the first toe in the water of global socialism.

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Here’s the latest scuttlebutt on Mitt Romney’s standing in the Veep Sweepstakes. It is fascinating to me that the voter dynamics are the same as they were during the primary season. Mitt is seen as the #2 Republican in the nation. Eighteen months ago, the nation didn’t recognize the name Mitt Romney. Today Intrade puts him in first place to get the VP nod.

Huckabee is ranked #1 among entertainment agent’s as the most likely to get a new game show gig.

~~John Cronin~~

http://www.nypost.com/seven/06032008/news/nationalnews
/gamblers_bet_on_hill__mitt_for_veep_113714.htm

June 3, 2008 – Hillary Rodham Clinton and Mitt Romney are the favorites to be their parties’ vice-presidential nominees, according to a popular online betting site.

Intrade, which correctly picked the winner of every state in the 2004 general election, evaluates the veepstakes chances of 30 prominent political figures - 16 Democrats and 14 Republicans.

Among Democrats, Clinton holds a slight lead over Virginia Sen. James Webb, with a 21 percent chance of her being named to the No. 2 spot, compared with Webb’s 19.7 percent.
In a distant third place is New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, at 6.2 percent.

On the GOP side, there are three leaders, Romney at 19.2 percent, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty at 15.6 percent and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee at 14.1 percent, according to Intrade.

Intrade is one of several online political “prediction markets” in which participants speculate on outcomes of campaigns, election turnout, the chances of a brokered Democratic convention and even whether Eliot Spitzer will get indicted.

Intrade’s participants hedged their bets saying there’s an excellent chance the veep picks will be “none of the above.”

They say there’s a 40.8 percent possibility none of the 14 prominent Republicans drawing attention will get the nod. For Democrats, the figure is 28.5 percent.
andy.soltis@nypost.com

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PEWRESEARCH.ORG has an interesting article on how the MSM have treated Obama, Clinton and McCain through the early primaries. They have produced a chart showing the number of positive articles written about each of the three candidates. Conservatives have often been accused by the left as being a bunch of whiners when it comes to our claims of bias towards any conservative Republican. The chart in the article won’t produce any chest-clutching surprises, but I think its still worth a look to have the PEW organization re-confirm what we have long contended.

~~John Cronin~~

http://pewresearch.org/pubs/854/candidate-character

The trajectory of the coverage, however, began to turn against Obama, and did so well before questions surfaced about his pastor Jeremiah Wright. Shortly after Clinton criticized the media for being soft on Obama during a debate, the narrative about him began to turn more skeptical — and indeed became more negative than the coverage of Clinton herself. What’s more, an additional analysis of more general campaign topics suggests the Obama narrative became even more negative later in March, April and May.

On the Republican side, John McCain, the candidate who quickly clinched his party’s nomination, has had a harder time controlling his message in the press. Fully 57% of the narratives studied about him were critical in nature, though a look back through 2007 reveals the storyline about the Republican nominee has steadily has steadily improved with time.

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Some Democrats are privately expressing their anger towards Hillary Clinton because they believe she is trying to sabotage Barack Obama’s campaign in order to elect John McCain this
year and then for her to run again in 2012. The ruthless ambition of that woman is breath taking to observe. Let’s make sure we do everything in our power to keep the Democrats out of the White House in 2008!

~~John Cronin~~

http://pundits.thehill.com/2008/05/13/strong-superdelegate-backlash-
growing-against-clinton/

Brent Budowsky THEHILL.COM

Behind the scenes, there is now a very substantial anger growing among many senior Democrats and superdelegates towards Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) staying in the race while playing what many Democrats privately now believe is the race card.

The feeling is that the only reason Hillary remains in the race is to use certain remaining states to make the “working-class white” argument that many Democrats, a number of whom have been supporting Clinton, find deeply offensive.

This gives credence to those who believe that Hillary wants to elect Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) so she can run in 2012.

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Robert Evans has some interesting gossip that he is dishing tonight.

~~John Cronin~~

http://www.suntimes.com/news/novak/917712,CST-EDT-novak27.article

April 27, 2008

ROBERT NOVAK novakevans@aol.com

Big-time Republican contributors are complaining that prospective presidential nominee John McCain is poorly organized for the campaign and off to a bad start in raising money.
McCain begins well behind Democrat Barack Obama in the 2008 money derby, and longtime Republican givers say there is no coherent plan for catching up and getting ahead.

The bright spot for McCain in the opinion of the GOP money men is the presence in his campaign of New York investment banker Lew Eisenberg, an experienced Republican fund-raiser. Eisenberg, a pro-choice social liberal who has often contributed to Democrats, was attacked by conservatives when he came on board with McCain in 2007. When McCain clinched the nomination, Eisenberg was sent to the Republican National Committee as victory finance chairman.

In another article further down on the same page some Mitt Romney news.

McCain for guns

Sen. John McCain, continuing to mend his right-wing fences, will do something next month that George W. Bush never has done during 7½ years as president: attend a National Rifle Association event.

McCain plans to be in Louisville, Ky., on May 16 for the NRA’s ”Celebration of American Values.” Also on hand will be two of McCain’s defeated rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee.

The NRA gave McCain a mediocre C-plus rating in 2004, but since then his pro-gun voting record as a senator has been 100 percent. While some activists in the gun-ownership movement are still suspicious of McCain, his voting is vastly better than that of his two Democratic opponents, Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton. Each is graded F by the NRA.

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In the “lest we forget department” Austin Hill at Townhall.com has a good article on those two zany Democrat politicians, Bill and Hill. Worth the read to remind ourselves what we are up against in this election. If they somehow pull their bacon out of the fire and wind up the “co-nominees” of the Democrat Party, we will have to hit the ground running to prevent a re-run of the first scandal-plagued Clinton administration.

~~John Cronin~~

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AustinHill/2008/04/27/
the_democrats__indignation_over_the_clintons__better_late_than_never

Breaking news - - Bill and Hillary Clinton are nasty, frequently inauthentic, and dishonest.

Actually this is not “news” at all. But many Liberal Americans have just begun to discover this painful reality, and it’s an arduous process for them to stumble out of their denial.

My concerns about Bill’s relationship with the truth date back to his now-famous “I experimented with marijuana a time or two“ and I “didn‘t inhale” shtick of 1992. So many others seemed to revel in the entertainment value that then-Governor Clinton provided with those remarks. I, on the other hand, was horrified that a serious candidate for the presidency would utter such absurdities, and expect, as he apparently did, to be taken seriously.

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I came across an article on The American Spectator site this evening that talks about one of the Massachusetts Republicans who is taking on Sen.John Kerry of swift boat fame. If I remember the details correctly, this is the same John Kerry who claimed to have received three wounds in four months (in Vietnam) serious enough to deserve Purple Hearts.

Which reminds me. How about Hillary and the sniper fire at the airport in Tuzla? She said she misspoke. After hearing hear description of “running with our heads down” to the awaiting entourage and then seeing the actual YouTube footage of the calm and peaceful reception at the airport with a little school girl presenting her with a letter and kissing her on the cheek, she raises “misspoke” to a whole new level.

Below is the news release from Beatty’s campaign.

~~John Cronin~~

http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=13065

I would invite you to check out www.jeffbeatty.com to learn more about Jeff Beatty who is also running as a Republican to replace John Kerry as the Commonwealth’s Senator.

Jeff has served this nation for most of his adult life. First as a Delta Force commando who was involved in the mission to rescue American medical students in Grenada. He has also served with the FBI’s hostage rescue team and with the CIA’s counterterrorism center. For the past 15 years he has managed TotalSecurity.us, a security consulting business. He has appeared over 300 times on CNN, FOX, MSNBC and the leading networks on to provide expert commentary on topics ranging from defense, security, to foreign policy.

Most telling though is Jim Ogonowski’s refusal to debate Jeff Beatty. In fact, there was to be a debate tonight at Boston College but Mr. Ogonowski refuses to discuss the issues with Jeff. Instead, Jeff will lead a forum where he will discuss the issues with the audience.

I think we are all in agreement that John Kerry should be retired. However, the citizens of Massachusetts deserve a first-class Senator with the relevant experience in these dangerous times. That person is Jeff Beatty.

Again, please check out the website. It will be time well spent.

– James J. McDonnell
Chief of Staff, Beatty for U.S. Senate

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This article says it all about Senator Clinton.

Either you get it, or you don’t:

DECLARATIONS — By PEGGY NOONAN — Getting Mrs. Clinton — March 28, 2008

My favorite quote from this great article:

What struck me as the best commentary on the Bosnia story came from a poster called GI Joe who wrote in to a news blog: “Actually Mrs. Clinton was too modest. I was there and saw it all. When Mrs. Clinton got off the plane the tarmac came under mortar and machine gun fire. I was blown off my tank and exposed to enemy fire. Mrs. Clinton without regard to her own safety dragged me to safety, jumped on the tank and opened fire, killing 50 of the enemy.” Soon a suicide bomber appeared, but Mrs. Clinton stopped the guards from opening fire. “She talked to the man in his own language and got him [to] surrender. She found that he had suffered terribly as a result of policies of George Bush. She defused the bomb vest herself.” Then she turned to his wounds. “She stopped my bleeding and saved my life. Chelsea donated the blood.”

~ Vic

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Alright, I promise that I will not post any more Hillary Clinton videos (for a period of not less than one week). This event is very important and it helps illustrate just how important our selection of a national leader is.  Senator Clinton will obviously say or do anything (like staying with Bill) to obtain power. She lacks any viable sense of integrity. Earlier when my wife and I were discussing this, she said, “just think of all of the lies that Bill Clinton would have been caught in if we had YouTube back then”. It is much better that we learn a persons character before we elect them.

 Senators Clinton and Obama are making a John McCain Presidency more realistic by the day.

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First, the original video in case you haven’t seen it:

Then, the Senator’s newest lie explanation:

Oh well, at least she isn’t going to become President.

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There is just nothing quite as sweet as seeing the corrupt and powerful exposed for their dishonesty. For me, it is even more sweet when it involves a Clinton.

Update: On saying last week that she landed under sniper fire during a trip to Bosnia in 1996, when she was first lady:
“I was sleep-deprived, and I misspoke.”

Would President Hillary Clinton be Sleep-Deprived at 3 a.m.?

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Given all these headlines:

Obama Calls Grandmother ‘Typical White Person’ in Radio Interview

Obama-Clinton Feud Escalates With Racial Remarks

Clinton team readies for Obama full assault

Race Debate Complicates Obama and Clinton’s Fight for African-American Voters

Isn’t it nice that Governor Romney stepped aside for the good of the party, and didn’t cause us to be embroiled in the kind of mess that the Democrats are in? Now that Mike Huckabee tried as he could to continue it on for us, but thankfully the people took care of that little problem.

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Seems the nastiness going on between Sens Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are making them both dirty, and beneficiary of all the dirt is Sen. John McCain the guaranteed Republican nominee.

You can check out the article at Reuters.

Highlights:

The poll showed Arizona Sen. McCain, who has clinched the Republican presidential nomination, is benefiting from the lengthy campaign battle between Obama and Clinton, who are now battling to win Pennsylvania on April 22.

McCain leads 46 percent to 40 percent in a hypothetical matchup against Obama in the November presidential election, according to the poll.

Cross Posted at www.annmarieisme.com

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