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Waterloo?
Don’t get too excited about the Obama/Romney number. Wisconsin hasn’t turned red since 1984, so if Mitt ends up winning there this year it’ll likely be because he’s riding a landslide wave that’s sweeping all sorts of unlikely states into his column. It’s not going to decide the election, in other words, unless Obama holds [...]
Subtle.
I can’t decide which I like better: The one of the rainbow flag flying over the White House (victory!) or the one of the omnipotent American father holding up the two male cake toppers, a beatific glow around him, the whole cultural world literally in his hands. But where’s the one of him desperately trying [...]
Plus: From "solid B+" to incomplete.
The obligatory pit stop on “The View” for America’s first female president. I think this dumb, insulting line is almost a verbal tic for him at this point. He used a variation of it on the trail in 2008 to smear McCain even though Maverick refused to make an issue of his association with Rev. [...]
It's come to this.
The most important thing about this story, I think, is that it’s coming not from a conservative blog but from Politico. And it’s coming on the same day that BuzzFeed, which will also never be confused with right-wing media, is posting a list of Warren’s most embarrassing moments from this now weeks-long authenticity charade. She’s [...]
Veritas.
A video triptych from James O’Keefe and Project Veritas. His last two vids showed how easy it is to obtain a ballot in someone else’s name. This one takes the logical next step of wondering how many of those ballots shouldn’t be there in the first place. Three segments: Non-citizen voting, bias among election officials, [...]
Faith.
Mr. Obama’s declaration last week that he supports same-sex marriage prompted ministers around the country to take to their pulpits on Sunday and preach on the issue. But in the clash over homosexuality, the battle lines do not simply pit ministers against secular advocates for gay rights. Religion is on both sides in this conflict. [...]
Quorum.
Big win, but it’ll probably take electing President Romney to make sure they don’t make it stick on the second try. “According to Woody Allen, eighty percent of life is just showing up,” Boasberg wrote in an opinion issued today. “When it comes to satisfying a quorum requirement, though, showing up is even more important [...]
Quorum.
Big win, but it’ll probably take electing President Romney to make sure they don’t make it stick on the second try. “According to Woody Allen, eighty percent of life is just showing up,” Boasberg wrote in an opinion issued today. “When it comes to satisfying a quorum requirement, though, showing up is even more important [...]
Of course.
Via BuzzFeed, here’s O hitting the eternal Democratic talking point that Republicans who no longer pose a threat to them were pretty sensible in hindsight but the new guy who might just beat them at the polls is the most radical wingnut yet. One thing both campaigns can agree on this year: Neither wants the [...]
Of course.
Via BuzzFeed, here’s O hitting the eternal Democratic talking point that Republicans who no longer pose a threat to them were pretty sensible in hindsight but the new guy who might just beat them at the polls is the most radical wingnut yet. One thing both campaigns can agree on this year: Neither wants the [...]
"Chicago politics is one hand feeds the other, as you know."
Via the Daily Caller. Remember, the stories in the news yesterday about Wright being bribed in 2008 never named the person who supposedly made the offer. Wright is quoted as saying that it was “one of Barack’s closest friends” but without a name it’s hard to tell if that’s anything more than a bitter ex-mentor [...]
Oh my.
The weighted sample of registered voters: 36D/30R/34I, which is right in line with most national polls. Maybe Karl was right about that “turning point.” The bombshell number, obviously, is Romney leading O by two among women. If that happens on election day, rest assured that the overall margin will be a lot wider than three [...]
Au revoir.
To cleanse the palate. Actually, he’s not against raising taxes on the rich, which explains why this clip is circulating on lefty blogs today. What he’s against is raising taxes on the rich a lot. As are, apparently, a lot of wealthy French soon-to-be expatriates. It’s hard to make out the first part of what [...]
"I got my jobs because I do my work. I work hard."
The exciting conclusion to the Case of the Missing Marriage Application. Remember, after a bit of sleuthing, Michael Patrick Leahy determined that the whole 1/32 claim came down to an 1894 marriage application that had supposedly been unearthed by an amateur genealogist but which no one else had actually seen. Leahy couldn’t reach that genealogist [...]
Divisions.
The obligatory follow-up to last week’s post on gay-marriage polling. Interestingly, 54 percent marks a two-point decline from 2011, although it’s still fully 10 points higher than the number who said gay relations were morally acceptable as recently as 2006. Fluctuations in public attitudes are nothing new, though, especially on the question of whether SSM [...]
"One of the hardest things to do is move up a socioeconomic status in a generation."
I’m dying to know how much of this spot was already in the can and ready to go when Obama dropped his Romney-hates-steelworkers spot on Team Mitt this morning. Obviously the interviews with the Steel Dynamics employees were already done, but had they edited everything yet or do they just have hours of footage from [...]
Out. Sort of.
He hasn’t suspended his campaign but he says he won’t spend any more money to contest the upcoming primaries with Romney, preferring instead to focus on electing Paul supporters as delegates to the convention so that they can influence the platform. BuzzFeed has his full statement but here’s the key bit: Our campaign will continue [...]
Bullies.
A top Democrat on Sunday defended Mitt Romney’s character, saying that despite recent reports that Romney was a bully as a young man attending prep school, he believes that has little to do with the man Romney is today. “There’s not a single thing that I know about Mitt Romney in his adult life which [...]
Marriage.
What’s that you say? Four days’ worth of media hyperventilation over gay marriage wasn’t enough for you? Good news then — today’s day five. CNN will have top social cons Gary Bauer and Tony Perkins while ABC gets the coveted and obligatory Barney Frank interview. But the one to watch is former Bush solicitor general [...]
Marriage.
What’s that you say? Four days’ worth of media hyperventilation over gay marriage wasn’t enough for you? Good news then — today’s day five. CNN will have top social cons Gary Bauer and Tony Perkins while ABC gets the coveted and obligatory Barney Frank interview. But the one to watch is former Bush solicitor general [...]
Marriage.
What’s that you say? Four days’ worth of media hyperventilation over gay marriage wasn’t enough for you? Good news then — today’s day five. CNN will have top social cons Gary Bauer and Tony Perkins while ABC gets the coveted and obligatory Barney Frank interview. But the one to watch is former Bush solicitor general [...]
Culture.
Former President George W. Bush’s pollster for his 2004 re-election, Jan van Lohuizen, has put out a memo to Republican operatives suggesting a shift in the way the GOP discusses same-sex marriage… “Recommendation: A statement reflecting recent developments on this issue along the following lines: “‘People who believe in equality under the law as a [...]
Shiny objects.
“I saw it with my own eyes,” Phillip Maxwell, a lawyer who was Romney’s high school pal at the elite Cranbrook School in Michigan, told ABC News. “It was a hack job … clumps of hair taken off.”… “For Mitt to be a bully just shocks me,” [Maxwell's brother, Peter,] said. “He was the kind [...]
Yeah.
If this is what the left needs to tell itself to come to terms with the prospect of defeat, so be it. We all find our own paths through the Kubler-Ross model, my friends. Don’t mock someone just because they’re momentarily stuck on stage one. Bill Clinton allegedly thinks O’s “incompetent” and an “amateur,” but [...]
Terrific.
This Mother’s Day, thank mom for the gift of life by helping to ensure that other kids don’t receive it. Honestly, the only surprise is that she didn’t go the whole nine yards and make this a pitch for Planned Parenthood instead. “This Mother’s Day, I can’t think of a better way to honor all [...]
Scandal.
What do you think, guys? Do we let The One slide on this or should we indulge in a little end-of-the-week outrageous outrage over a shiny news object of our own? What would the left do? Or rather, let me rephrase: What did the left do four days ago? Do note, this comes from a [...]
Uh oh.
Via Legal Insurrection, Michael Patrick Leahy of Breitbart.com keeps on digging: The slender thread upon which Elizabeth Warren’s claim that she is 1/32 Cherokee rests—a purported 1894 marriage license application—has been exposed as non-existent. Based on a review of the original marriage records found in the files of the Logan County, Oklahoma Court Clerk’s office [...]
Party of Ideas™.
I think I’m going to make this a regular Friday feature. We’ll be dealing with a new Obama-manufactured nontroversy every week from now until the economy starts to wake up and give him something meaningful to talk about. Why not try to guess next week’s shiny object ahead of time? Says the Examiner: The Labor [...]
Trouble.
Fascinating numbers which I think bear out one of my points in this post last night about why the states keep banning gay marriage when national polls show a majority in favor. When asked whether they approve of O’s new stance on SSM, 51 percent say yes versus just 45 percent who say no. (Among [...]
Bullying.
It’s Tim Carney of the Examiner, unable to resist pointing out on air how our very serious media parlays a moronic one-day distraction into a moronic two-day distraction. Day one: Feign outrage over a non-story about something Romney did 50 years ago that’s being pushed for political advantage. Day two: Cite the fact that people [...]
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