Year: 2012

TAMPA, Fla. — Clint Eastwood put on an odd skit Thursday night at the Republican National Convention. It was awkward to watch and hard to hear, but I have to hand it to Eastwood. He achieved the impossible; he made the gaffe-prone Mitt Romney come across as supremely tactful. Four years ago, when Barack Obama […]

Ze’ev Jabotinsky: who is considered one of the most influential Zionist thinkings ever: wrote in 1932: “ The work of the publicist is a legacy from the Prophets of Israel…Our passion is to speak, to proclaim–“Shouting” is what the same audience calls it, ‘we have no need for words, give us actions.’ One thing that audience forgets […]

Missed the convention? Catch up with our: countdown of the top ten speeches…:  10) Grant Bennett 9) Pam Finlayson : Chris Christie 7) Artur Davis 6) Rick Santorum 5) Condi Rice 4) Mike Huckabee 3) Ann Romney 2) Mitt Romney 1) Paul Ryan

Well, obviously, because you need to find out what all those “racist dog whistles” you heard at the Republican National Convention actually mean. Take this zinger from Mitch McConnell, for example,: “(Obama) hasn’t been working to earn reelection, he’s been working to earn a spot on the PGA tour!” Did you know that’s actually a coded […]

Thumper the Rabbit’s parents always taught him, “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say nothing at all.” If the left’s self-appointed Omniscient Diviners of True Meaning have their way, conservatives in the public square won’t be left with anything at all to say. Ever. It’s a treacherous business exercising your freedom of speech in […]

In 2004, Arnold Schwarzenegger, then a popular figure in the Republican Party, gave an exciting, upbeat and surprisingly funny speech at the GOP convention. He covered a lot of territory: the story of how he came to America, how he became a Republican after listening to Richard Nixon, and other highlights of his life story. […]

The Democrats and their mainstream media cheering section can huff and puff at Paul Ryan’s convention speech, but they can’t blow his house down. It was built on a solid foundation. So powerful was the speech that the liberal establishment is reduced to wailing about alleged lies the speech contained — dishonest and easily refuted […]

Political junkies get excited about the Republican and Democratic national conventions, but for many Americans they provide a stark reminder of how out of touch our political system has become. The strange rituals and bad jokes seem oddly out of place in the 21st century, almost as strange as seeing an engineer use a slide […]

With the RNC under way, and the election only a few months away, some exciting quotes on public relations & politicians I gathered, together with commentary: “Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the: publicity. But then, we elected them.” […]

Live by the wacky, whiny interest group,: die by the wacky, whiny interest group. Because the Democratic National Convention has just banned children from the convention floor – including breastfeeding babies – unless those children have convention credentials. Which, needless to say, is relatively unlikely. It is not clear what motivated this particular policy. However, in […]

It’s not really a shocker that Charlie Crist endorsed Obama or that he’s: speaking at the Democratic National Convention. It’s also probably not going to ultimately be any more helpful than an endorsement from Arlen Specter, Lincoln Chafee, or Scozzafava or any of the other politicians who’ve made it clear they’ll say and do anything to […]

I was not a Mitt Romney fan during the primaries. Hell, I was one of the co-founders of NotMittRomney.com and I would have been thrilled with a brokered convention. But, it didn’t work out that way. Mitt Romney collected the delegates he needed to win. In other words, the game’s over and all the Republicans […]