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President Obama’s casting of Mitt Romney as extreme is one of the most glaring incidents of political projection in the modern era. Romney doesn’t approach extremism in substance, style or disposition. Obama swims in it. In an interview with The Associated Press, Obama said Romney has locked himself into “extreme positions” on economic and social […]
In 2010, President Barack Obama confessed to ABC News’ Diane Sawyer, “I’d rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president.” But what if Obama’s one term was not good but bad for the country? The past two weeks, I’ve given the first eight reasons not to re-elect President Obama. Though I […]
My fellow Americans, my fellow Republicans: The 2012 election is not an election between two men but between two entirely different visions of America. President Obama and I are simply the standard bearers of opposing, and may I add, irreconcilable visions of what America is and should be. The Republican Party and I represent American […]
This week when Mitt Romney strides to center stage to deliver his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, he might draw inspiration from an unlikely source: the song “I Am What I Am” from the musical “La Cage Aux Folles.” One of the chief complaints from voters about politicians is that they too often […]
TAMPA, Fla. — Mitt Romney chose Paul Ryan to be his running mate. Since his teens, Ryan has been a big fan of Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged.” In 2005, he told The Atlas Society that the novel shaped his “values system” — and that speech has launched a number of recent columns by liberals aghast […]
TAMPA, Fla. — Politics is about pain. Not the pain you feel when you watch it. The pain felt by the candidates. They brush it off, laugh it off, shrug it off. But it kills them a little inside. Presidential candidates are, appearances to the contrary, human. If you prick them, they do bleed. And […]
So in the latest Israel technology app, there’s an Internet app “for those who won’t get off their asses.” Good new idea: at Kfar Kedem — donkey-mounted Wi-Fi.: : It’s intended for tourists to upload photos and emails about their trip in real time while they ride a donkey. www.sizedoesntmatter.com: is a great new website “aimed at highlighting the […]
One of Barack Obama’s recent ads for his re-election campaign is supposed to feature Republican women who have turned away from the GOP to support Obama/Biden. But, as it turns out, one of the women in the ad is not so “Republican” as she’s presented, having been a registered Democrat for the last 6 years […]
Explaining his endorsement of the current White House occupant on the administration’s infrastructure spending, healthcare reform, and position on abortion, Florida’s former Republican Governor Charlie Crist endorsed him on the eve of the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa. Crist has betrayed American taxpayers before. : He supported the $787 billion “stimulus” boondoggle, which did little […]
Liberal pundits are declaring they have no idea what Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) meant when he referred to “legitimate rape” in an interview this past week. Akin stated, “In cases of legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” It was an awkward, inarticulate statement, but the substance […]
If you’re a conservative poll watcher on Election Day, you’re probably a racist! That’s essentially the charge leveled in an August 25 Washington Post-published article by AJ Vicens and Natasha Kahn of the News21 Carnegie-Knight Initiative.: Entitled, “True the Vote and other poll watchers motives questioned,” Kahn and Vicens opened their article by noting the […]
I was reminded today, during the Bush presidency, there was a daily tracking of both the deaths of US troops serving in the war and rising gas prices.: The media was outraged over it.: The people were as well. Where is the outrage now? Two U.S. troops were killed in eastern Afghanistan today by hostile […]
The crazies are already being arrested with all sorts of weapons and anarchist apparel (Bay News) A Republican National Convention protestor was arrested while he allegedly carried a machete strapped to his leg, according to deputies. According to Hillsborough County Sheriff’s officials, Jason T. Wilson, of Tallahassee, was arrested as he walked in the RNC […]
Romney makes the point many times during his interview with Politico that he isn’t running for president be a rock star, a celebrity, Mr. Cool, Mr. Party, he’s running to provide the United States with excellent leadership and high quality management skills, to Get Things Done Mitt Romney conceded President Barack Obama has succeeded in […]
If Obama were wise he would really ramp up his misinformation machine. He should start giving away free weed, beer, hookers, tanks of gas, kazoos, Vaseline, stretch pants, whirly hats, Flowbees and ShamWows to anyone who promises to vote for him because he just ticked off stacks of Catholics even further by: dissing Cardinal Dolan: for the […]
Our self-described most: transparent administration: in history is at it again. The folks who: claim executive privilege: over documents in the Fast and Furious case yet maintain the president wasn’t involved have decided transparency is overrated. The people who: meet with lobbyists in coffee shops: near the White House to keep unseemly names off the official visitor logs, have decided we […]
Today, the 40th Republican National Convention assembles in hurricane-threatened Tampa, Fla. Seven days later, the 46th Democratic National Convention will assemble in presumably non-hurricane-threatened Charlotte, N.C. Thousands of delegates, many thousands more press personnel and even more political enthusiasts will be on hand. Vendors will sell political buttons to collectors (does anyone wear them anymore?), […]
A story is told of Natan Sharansky, before he was arrested in the former Soviet Union for the crime of studying Judaism and wanting to emigrate to Israel. On July 14, 1978, Sharansky stood before a Soviet court about to sentence him to fifteen years in prison and said, “For 2,000 years the Jewish people, […]
For the umpteen zillionth time since the presumptive GOP nominee’s identity became apparent, the “progressive” Party Pravda and their occupy Oval Office idol are attempting to define GOP challenger Mitt Romney in an utterly disingenuous light. In an article entitled “Romney Turns to Ohio Amidst Distractions” published by staunch “progressive” Pravda propagandists the Associated Press […]
A brief and crude distillation of all arguments between liberals and conservatives. It would have to be revised for most issues that have something to do with foreign policy, or oppressed-minorities and their rights-rights-rights, but I submit that it works for most issues that have to do with social spending: Liberal: Meet Winifred Skinner or […]
All the polls show that the election of 2012 is very close. Most polls show Barack Obama and Mitt Romney tied. Others show slight leads within the margin of error for Barack Obama. Yet still others show a slight lead within the margin of error for Mitt Romney. One thing is for sure. This is […]
Just a few stories from the past week, whether I blogged them or not. Link: Fishersville Mike. Related: Please note: we here at The Trog do not think Biden is stupid, any more than Dan Quayle was. I just couldn’t resist that picture. Link: Allahpundit. Link: Erika Johnson. Link: Trog. Link: Trog. And: Link: Smitty. […]
…and for a good reason. Though, somehow, it’s probably raaaaacist (Washington Times) Mitt Romney, routinely dismissed as a bit stiff and humorless on the stump, is suddenly cracking up his campaign trail crowds. On Saturday, the presumptive Republican presidential candidate delighted supporters at a rally in Powell, Ohio, with a Greek-themed jibe at President Obama. […]
The message, as always–always, always–is: be real darn careful with your money.
The $2.4 billion apiece: Virginia class nuclear submarines.
Like teenagers on vacation with their parents, Republicans from blue states and Democrats from red states don’t want to be seen with party elders. “I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about Mitt Romney,” Elizabeth Emken, the Republican who will face off against Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein in November, recently told me. “That’s the […]
A story is told of Natan Sharansky, before he was arrested in the former Soviet Union for the crime of studying Judaism and wanting to emigrate to Israel. On July 14, 1978, Sharansky stood before a Soviet court about to sentence him to fifteen years in prison and said, “For 2,000 years the Jewish people, […]
CNN has a habit of getting to the real meat of a story, finding all the most important angles, and its coverage of the GOP convention is no exception. CNN has a reputation to burnish by finding only the most important convention stories and with its latest story about how an important sector of Tampa […]