Election 2012 – Page 15 – John Hawkins' Right Wing News

Mitt Romney Vs. Bane?

Posted on July 17, 2012July 17, 2012 by Matt Vespa

Silly season has begun. : Apparently, some liberals are comparing Bane from the Batman comics to Mitt Romney. : It’s downright ludicrous. : We’re going to try to make fictional characters in a fictional universe salient issues in the 2012 election. : As Paul Bedard wrote in the Washington Examiner today: “It has been observed that movies can reflect […]

America Does Not Build Business, Business Builds America

Posted on July 17, 2012 by Michael Fell

In a speech given Friday to supporters at a campaign stop in Roanoke, Va., the current Oval Office occupant told business owners they owe their business success to government built infrastructure saying: “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.: There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me because they […]

Obama Discusses Vision For Second Term: A Lot Of Spending

Posted on July 17, 2012 by William Teach

No one should be particularly shocked. It’s all he knows, especially since it’s not his money (via Erika Johnsen from Townhall) Of course, he uses the word “invest” as a euphemism for spending boodles of Someone Else’s cash. Money we don’t have. On projects that have so far failed. He wants “investments” in more failed […]

Why Obama Is Swimming Against The Current Ever More Desperately In Trying To Get Reelected

Posted on July 17, 2012July 17, 2012 by John Hawkins

Ideally, a President likes for his policies to be popular and effective. Failing that, policies that are popular, but ineffective give him an opportunity to be reelected. Even policies that are effective, but unpopular can ultimately work out because they give the politician some successes to point towards. Of course, an unpopular policy that works […]

New York Times Slams Romney on Foreign Finances, Ignores Democrats’

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Warner Todd Huston

The New York Times is aghast that Mitt Romney won’t succumb to demands from Democrats and the Old Media that he release enough of his financial records to suit them. In particular, the Times worries over Mitt’s Swiss bank account and foreign investments. But while the paper beats Romney up for his finances they ignore […]

One Way Transparency

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Michael Fell

White House spokesman Jay Carney dismissed Donald Trump’s position that should today’s Oval Office occupant keeps insisting Mitt Romney release his tax returns; Romney demand that barry soetoro, barrack hussein obama, or whatever his name is first make his college records public information.: Rather than address the issue at hand, the administration consciously chose to […]

Team Romney To Hit Obama On Crony Capitalism

Posted on July 16, 2012 by William Teach

It started Sunday with Ed Gillespie hitting Obama And the Washington Post picks the story up Trying to shift the presidential campaign narrative away from his personal finances and tenure at Bain Capital, Republican Mitt Romney will launch a fresh assault this week accusing President Obama of political cronyism at the expense of middle-class workers. […]

People Still Think Obama’s Signature Legislation, ObamaCare, Is Terrible Legislation

Posted on July 16, 2012 by William Teach

Nancy Pelosi said we had to pass the bill to know what’s in it. Democrats did just that, by offering bribes and using cheap parliamentary tricks, despite massive outcry over the legislation, and now that we know what’s in it, it hasn’t gotten more popular. People are not resigned to accepting it. And the polls […]

Immigration Is Also A Key Issue In 2012

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Matt Vespa

Despite his moderate character, Mitt Romney could be the most conservative candidate we’ve had on immigration in over a decade. : Regardless, immigration should be front and center because it is an economic issue. After all, our large welfare apparatus is one of the main reasons why immigrants flock to the United States. : In addition, legal […]

Reuters Touts Obama’s Faux Tax Cuts

Posted on July 15, 2012 by Warner Todd Huston

Reuters has apparently singed up on Obama’s communication team if its latest lovefest over his plans to favor America with “tax cuts” just in time for the January election campaign is any indication. It took four, count ’em four, Reuters reporters to come up with this one! Reuters was pleased to note that Obama and […]

Obama ‘Outsourcing’ Fundraising… to China!

Posted on July 14, 2012 by Warner Todd Huston

While Obama tries to get America focused on the false claim that Romney outsourced jobs as the chief of Bain Capitol, what was the President doing? Why, outsourcing his fundraising, of course. Outsourcing it to Shanghai, China to be precise. On July 11, Obama’s big money men were holding a nice fundraiser in Red China […]

Romney Demands Apology From Obama For Feckless Bain Attacks

Posted on July 14, 2012July 14, 2012 by William Teach

He won’t get it, obviously. Team Obama has nothing else to run on (NY Times) Mitt Romney demanded an apology from President Obama on Friday for making what he called “reckless” and “absurd” allegations in an escalating battle over whether Mr. Romney’s business record included outsourcing American jobs. After days in which the Obama campaign […]

WaPo Hypes Poll On…Weather!? Buries Anti-Tax Hike Sentiment

Posted on July 13, 2012 by Matt Vespa

With the scorching heat and the infamous derecho that left D.C. in the dark on June 29, it seems perfectly logical for folks in the Washington area to blame “global warming” as we all bake in the 100 degree heat. In fact, The Washington Post conducted a poll that showed that a majority of Americans […]

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers for VP

Posted on July 13, 2012 by Matt Vespa

Romney needs a solid conservative running mate on the Republican ticket. : In 2012, we have more solid VP names being talked about lately. : Bobby Jindal, Chris Christie, Marco Rubio, Rob Portman, Bob McDonnell and others have been mentioned would be superb choices. : However, I do agree with the Wall Street Journal, in the case of […]

American Energy Means American Recovery

Posted on July 13, 2012 by Michael Fell

There is widespread consensus that America needs to become energy independent. America’s ever growing dependence on foreign energy puts her at ever-greater risk in a world that is increasingly unstable. Given the current political upheavals in the Middle East, this reality is slapping America in the face with increasing costs at the pump, which are […]

Holder’s DOJ Unaccountably Hikes Claims of Number of Texans Lacking Photo I.D.

Posted on July 13, 2012 by Warner Todd Huston

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder originally said that some 600,000 Texans lacked a voter I.D. and therefore would be disenfranchised by the Texas voter I.D. law, but Department Of Justice lawyers have suddenly upped that number greatly. Holder’s DOJ now claims that 1.4 million otherwise eligible Texas voters don’t have proper I.D.s. Unfortunately, Holder did […]

Condi for VP?

Posted on July 13, 2012July 13, 2012 by Matt Vespa

Yesterday afternoon, the Drudge Report stated that Condoleezza Rice was a frontrunner for VP spot on the Republican ticket this year. : Larry O’Connor, who was sitting in for Chris Plante, complimented Drudge this morning on WMAL: stating “he got a tip, he followed up, he verified it and published it.” : In other words, he […]

Touré’s Absurd Conclusions About Romney’s NAACP Speech

Posted on July 12, 2012July 12, 2012 by Matt Vespa

Matthew Balan of Newsbusters posted a very curious/nauseating story about left-winger: and 9/11 truther: Touré Neblett’s new theory surrounding why Romney really wanted to address the NAACP this week. : Apparently, Romney purposely wanted to be booed to”elicit an emotional reaction from white voters.”: In: Touré’s absurd piece in Time magazine, he states: Why would he bother going to the […]

Boston Globe Lifts Bad Info From Other Sources on Romney’s Bain Tenure

Posted on July 12, 2012 by Warner Todd Huston

The Boston Globe wanted readers to think it had a scoop on its Bain Capitol story on July 12. But in the story claiming Romney is lying about leaving Bain in 1999, the Boston Globe not only used the work of other publications and did so without attribution (we call that plagiarism) but, on top […]

Obama Chasing Spain’s Failure

Posted on July 12, 2012 by Michael Fell

Just last year Obama was telling America how “green” energy technology was the guaranteed pathway to energy security and independence: “The future is here. We are poised to transform the ways we power our homes and our cars and our businesses”. He said America risked falling behind the rest of the world in the design, […]

Putin Punks Obama

Posted on July 11, 2012 by Michael Fell

The most glaring example of diminishing United States power and influence around the globe is the dynamic taking place between the U.S. andRussia regarding Syria. Russia has dispatched a flotilla of eleven warships, almost half of which have the ability to carry hundreds of marines to the eastern Mediterranean.: Some of those ships are to […]

Spinners and Whiners

Posted on July 11, 2012 by Michael Fell

On behalf of ABC News and Yahoo News, the ever-vigilant guardians of the institutionalized “progressive” left’s agenda are at it again. In a “news report” found under the headline-”Spinners and Winners”, Jonathan Karl, Avery Miller, Richard Coolidge and Sherisse Pham are up to their now familiar –bias disguised as news– tricks. The story, which includes […]

Buzzfeed Most Dishonest Headline Attacking Romney

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Warner Todd Huston

Buzzfeed sure seems to be just another arm of the Obama re-election campaign with a piece today attacking Romney over Bain outsourcing… even though Romney did not work at Bain when the outsourcing happened. One of Obama’s most cynical campaign tactics of late has been to try and link GOP candidate Mitt Romney to jobs […]

Bernie Goldberg: Media Will Ignore Obama’s Five Major Broken Promises

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Matt Vespa

The liberal media will make sure to go through the motions and occasionally hit President Obama with some critical points, but they will hold their fire when it comes to addressing five major unfulfilled campaign promises, former CBS reporter and media critic Bernie Goldberg told Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly last night. Given that the latest […]

Rupert Murdoch vs Mitt Romney

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Rachel Alexander

Fox News and Wall Street Journal mogul Rupert Murdoch has gone public with his dislike of Mitt Romney. Murdoch tweeted on July 1, “Met Romney last week. Tough O Chicago pros will be hard to beat unless he drops old friends from team and hires some real pros. Doubtful.” Murdoch is displeased that Romney has […]

Obama is the Outsourcer-in-Chief

Posted on July 10, 2012July 10, 2012 by Matt Vespa

As: President Obama slams Romney for being a “pioneer” in outsourcing jobs: overseas, it appears the president himself and his most loyal supporters are leading the charge in American outsourcing. : According to William Bigelow of Breitbart.com, “Obama’s second largest: fundraiser: is John Rogers, the CEO of: investment giant Ariel Capital Management. He has raised more than: $1.5 million: for Obama’s reelection campaign. […]

Washington Post Fact Checker Gives Obama Tweet 3 Pinocchio’s

Posted on July 9, 2012 by William Teach

Let’s face it, Team Obama likes to stretch the truth, if not out right lie, in order to smear opponents. The number of un-truths, stretches, and lies that are going into Obama campaign fodder is a daily occurrence. It would take a giant post to list all the false ads. He can’t win on his […]

The Romney Campaign So Far Is Very So-So, But Still…

Posted on July 9, 2012July 9, 2012 by John Hawkins

Mitt Romney is not a great political candidate. He won against a weak field because the establishment backed him, much of the conservative media lined up behind him, and he had a huge money advantage. He’s not particularly charismatic, nor conservative; nor is he a man driven by any great principles. That’s why the complaints […]

These Numbers Do Not Lie

Posted on July 9, 2012July 9, 2012 by Michael Fell

In each of the States that elected Republican governors during the Tea Party dominated 2010 midterm elections, unemployment rates have gone down. According to an Examiner.com analysis, since Tea Party Republicans took over in January 2011, the average reduction in unemployment for those 17 States has been 1.35%.: When compared nationally, job creation in those […]

Elizabeth Warren Lies or is She a Victim of ‘Right-Wing Smear Machine’?

Posted on July 8, 2012July 6, 2012 by Warner Todd Huston

No one is responsible for their lies, if they are liberals, anyway. We see this axiom at play again in the Massachusetts Senate race where Democrat candidate Elizabeth “Faux-Cahontis” Warren — who has for decades made her fortune and gained professional success in part for falsely claiming she has native American ancestry — is now […]