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WaPo’s Bernstein Blames The Tea Party for Republican Senate Woes

Posted on October 2, 2012 by Matt Vespa

Jonathan Bernstein of The Washington Post posted on PostPartisan on: September 28 that: Tea party and other ideological Republicans have undermined that opportunity by nominating some weak candidates – this year’s prime examples are Todd Akin in Missouri and Richard Murdock in Indiana, who defeated a sure thing, incumbent Sen. Richard Lugar. That’s on top of […]

Obama Supporters Attack Romney On His Mormon Faith

Posted on October 2, 2012 by William Teach

And, really, are attacking Mormons in total (via Gateway Pundit) (Catholic.org) The head of a pro-life committee at a parish I know just received a call from the Obama campaign. The caller asked for her daughter by name, and when she was not there then asked where she could be contacted. Her mother responded by […]

Hey, Mitt Romney: Where’s Obama’s Garbage Man?

Posted on October 2, 2012October 2, 2012 by John Hawkins

Sure, running an ad from Mitt Romney’s garbage man complaining because Mitt Romney didn’t walk out and hug him while he was hauling away his empty pizza boxes is a low blow, but the Democrats are going there. A new anti-Mitt Romney ad from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees features Richard […]

I Thought Voter Fraud Didn’t Exist

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Matt Vespa

Some on the political left have been rambling about how voter fraud isn’t an issue for months. : They say it’s: a new poll tax. : It’ll disenfranchise voting, especially amongst those in the minority community who cannot obtain a government issued ID. Eugene Robinson of The Washington Post opined that “what did happen in 2008 was that […]

Why The Tea Party Matters

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Michael Fell

Tea Party principles are based on a belief in the U.S. Constitution.: Across America, a huge natural constituency exists for the bread-and-butter American issues of lower taxes, reduced government, a strong national defense, secure borders and a return to the traditional American values of: E Pluribus Unum, Liberty and in God we trust. E Pluribus […]

Known Thug Alec Baldwin Claims U.S. ‘Will Never Be Great Again’ Under Romney

Posted on September 28, 2012 by Warner Todd Huston

Alec Baldwin is warning the country. “America will never be great again under a Romney administration,” the volatile actor sonorously intoned in a recent, rambling Huffington Post screed. If Mitt Romney is elected, Baldwin tells us, only “rich people” will find the country great. “Everyone else will be asked to dial down their [sic] expectations […]

Is This Really What America Wants?

Posted on September 28, 2012 by Michael Fell

On Wednesday U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton finally admitted al Qaeda in North Africa was behind the terrorist attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, where the American ambassador and three others were murdered. Clinton’s statements further muddied the administration’s fumbled explanations about exactly what happened on Sept. 11. : For purely partisan […]

Discussing Obama, Israel Issue with Wasserman Schultz, MSNBC’s Roberts Fails to Bring Up Her False Charge Against GOP

Posted on September 28, 2012 by Matt Vespa

MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts and DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz In yesterday’s broadcast of MSNBC Live, host Thomas Robert interviewed Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz about the presidential campaign, where she naturally got in all her anti-Romney, pro-Obama talking points. At the close of the interview, Roberts asked whether concern for Israel could […]

An Odd Problem For Romney: Obama Has So Many Weaknesses

Posted on September 28, 2012September 28, 2012 by John Hawkins

The title seems bizarre, doesn’t it? How can your political opponent have too many weaknesses? Of course, the answer is that he can’t. The more weaknesses your opponent has, the better. Barack Obama is one giant walking bag of political weakness. Off the top of my head, just to name a partial list: He’s bankrupting […]

10% Fewer Americans Believe US Is Winning War on Terror

Posted on September 27, 2012 by Warner Todd Huston

10% Fewer Americans Believe US Is Winning War on TerrorAs the turmoil in the Middle East roils and President Obama’s foreign policy scheme faces severe pressure, a recent survey of likely voters finds that pessimism about our success in the War on Terror “continues to grow” with 45 percent saying they think the U.S. is […]

Mitt Vs. Obama: A State Of The Race Report For 9/27/2012

Posted on September 27, 2012September 27, 2012 by John Hawkins

If you had told me a month ago that Mitt Romney and Barack Obama would be knotted up at 46% at this point in the race, I’d have told you that Romney was in good shape because you have to think the remaining independents are going to break heavily for Romney. Unfortunately, the enthusiasm level […]

Today’s Yahoo/ABC Hit Piece

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Michael Fell

Yahoo News and ABC News, two dependable card carrying members of the “progressive” Party Pravda, completely ignore spreading violence in the Islamist world, the White House cover up of the Benghazi consulate terrorist attack and Barack Obama’s decision to appear on a daytime talk show rather than meet with world leaders. Nothing to see here […]

Chevy Volt Battery Plant Floundering Despite $151 Million from Obama

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Warner Todd Huston

Another in a long list of Obama-touted and tax-supported “green energy” companies is on the verge of going out of business, this time in Michigan. Two years ago, President Obama visited the LG Chem battery plant in Holland, Michigan. Obama then hailed the plant saying, “You are leading the way in showing how manufacturing jobs […]

We’ve Been Robbed $2.8 Billion — By The AARP

Posted on September 25, 2012September 25, 2012 by Matt Vespa

As polling shows, seniors and white Americans over the age of 65 generally don’t support PresidentObama or his health care reform bill. : They are appalled at the $716 billion in Medicare cuts, which will be used to expand coverage (and dependency) for lower income Americans — so why does the AARP support it? Avik Roy, […]

Keeping the Faith

Posted on September 25, 2012 by Matt Vespa

It’s over! At least, that’s what the liberal pundits are saying 24/7. Romney is lagging behind in key states and since Barack Obama is awesome — this whole election is over. : In the words of Yogi Berra, “it ain’t over, til’ it’s over.” : We’re 41 days away from Election Day and some on the right […]

UVA College Democrats Accidentally Blast Awkward E-Mail

Posted on September 25, 2012 by Matt Vespa

Justin Higgins at JHPolitics: has obtained a rather awkward email: detailing a meeting of the University of Virginia’s College Democrats chapter. : In the email, we reportedly had a woman named Carmen who went nuts, a bad turnout at their phone bank, and a bad turnout canvasing. As Higgins noted, their plan to remedy their unenthused cohorts is […]

Media Blasts Ryan, Acts as if AARP is Non-Partisan

Posted on September 25, 2012 by Warner Todd Huston

Last week the media was all over Paul Ryan’s visit to an event with the American Association for Retired People gleefully reporting that he was booed. The media treated the whole affair as if the AARP was some non-partisan organization. But, the truth is, the AARP is no more non-partisan than any organization carrying water […]

Romney-Obama: Two Speeches, Two Views

Posted on September 25, 2012September 25, 2012 by Michael Fell

Despite recognition by virtually everyone but the Oval Office that the White House trumpeted anti-Islamist video trailer has next to nothing to do with violence in the Middle East, and that it is simply a re-election distraction ploy that deflects blame from Obama’s failed foreign policy; in his speech to the United Nations General Assembly […]

Obama Skirts Another Executive Duty To Pander to ‘The View’

Posted on September 25, 2012 by Matt Vespa

In the wake of a rather tragic and tumultuous events regarding American foreign policy in the Middle East, President Barack Obama plans to forego the opportunity for a one-on-one meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his visit to the UN this week.: The reason is simple.: It just could not wait. The president […]

How The Romney Campaign’s Lack Of Aggression Is Allowing Obama To Dominate The News Cycle

Posted on September 25, 2012September 25, 2012 by John Hawkins

It’s a given that the mainstream media will do everything it can to hurt Romney and protect Obama. The most effective way for it to do that is to keep Romney on the defensive. So, the economy is still in the toilet, our credit rating has been downgraded again, and our embassies are burning, but […]

To Obama, Mid-East Violence and Murders: “Bumps in the Road”, Israel: “Noise”

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Michael Fell

In comments made during a CBS ’60 Minutes’ interview, Barack Obama described violent attacks on embassies in the Middle East and the murder of US ambassador Chris Stevens and three others, as “bumps in the road”. When asked if recent events in the Middle East had changed his outlook on supporting the Arab Spring, Obama […]

The Obamaized Flag Poster Suddenly Disappears from Campaign Store

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Warner Todd Huston

Last week, President Obama’s campaign paraphernalia store on his website was heavily criticized for having a poster of a U.S. flag that was Obamaized by having the field of fifty stars replaced with an Obama logo. Over the weekend, the item was suddenly disappeared down the Internet memory hole. The poster, titled “Our Stripes: Flag […]

Obama: Yeah, My Campaign Ads Sometimes Go Overboard

Posted on September 24, 2012 by William Teach

There are two stories surrounding Obama’s interview with CBS News. The first is goes thusly (CNN) President Barack Obama discussed his frustration with gridlock in Washington, saying his “biggest disappointment” in his nearly four years in office has been the failure to oversee change in the nation’s political climate. “My biggest disappointment is that we […]

Chief Justice Roberts, Obamacare And The Supreme Court Emperors’ Clothes; Are Justices Uniquely Honest Angels?

Posted on September 24, 2012September 24, 2012 by Lester Jackson

The ObamaCare decision exposed the Supreme Court as an emperor without clothes.: Hoping for deliverance from ObamaCare, many usual critics defended the Court. But with a new term fast approaching, a month before a critical election, Chief Justice Roberts’ handiwork should be remembered as a final wake-up call to consider, once and for all, whether […]

Dinesh D’Souza’s ‘2016,’ A Warning Tale

Posted on September 23, 2012 by Warner Todd Huston

In 2007-08, Americans didn’t know anything at all about the man they were about to make the President of the United States. They elected Barack Obama to the highest office in the land despite knowing nothing about him, his ideas, or his past, and, unfortunately, he’s led this country to despair. Now it is time […]

U.S. Drops to 18th in Economic Freedom

Posted on September 22, 2012September 22, 2012 by Matt Vespa

If you’re a Canadian, you should be happy. : Our friendly neighbors to the north are riding high with their recent placement on the Economic Freedom chart at number five. : Meanwhile, the United States dropped ten spots to number eighteen on the scale. : Gateway Pundit: posted about this story: on September 19 citing The National Post which reported […]

The Hill Cites Squishy Republicans To Portray GOP as ‘Alarmed’

Posted on September 22, 2012 by Matt Vespa

The media’s ongoing contribution to the Obama reelection effort is fairly obvious: omit or downplay news stories and polling data that cast the Obama administration in a negative light while hyping trivial Romney gaffes or media-manufactured tempests-in-teapots: in order to focus the election narrative on the Republican candidate’s deficiencies — real or or imagined – rather […]

PBS Anchor Gwen Ifill Touts Pro-Obama Polls, Dismisses Mideast Violence As a ‘Dust Up’

Posted on September 22, 2012September 22, 2012 by Matt Vespa

On the September 19 broadcast of the PBS Newshour, anchor Gwen Ifill discussed the latest polls with Pew’s Andrew Kohut and Mark Blumenthal, “senior polling analyst” of The Huffington Post. : Her talk about voter engagement and enthusiasm got a little hazy — if not completely insensitive — when she referred to last week’s embassy attacks […]

CNN Anchor Tells Citizens United President David Bossie You Can’t Judge OWS By ‘Worst Members’

Posted on September 22, 2012 by Matt Vespa

With Occupy Unmasked being released today in select theaters, the September 21 edition of CNN’s Early Start with Zoraida Sambolin invited David Bossie, producer of the film and President of Citizens United to discuss the film.: However, things got hazy towards the end of the interview where Sombolin shamelessly tried to convey the narrative that […]

As Embassies Burned, Obama More Interested in Interviews and Photo Ops

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Warner Todd Huston

Even as President Obama’s flacks are telling the media that he is too smart to attend daily intelligence briefings, we are finally finding out what he did on that volatile Friday morning last week when our embassies were burning and 21 countries were erupting in anti-American protests. Instead of worrying about all that, Obama was […]