What Ever Happened To The Moderate Democrats?

The Looking Spoon 

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More Vintage Media Nonsense

Media (and campaign communications) Malpractice

This article is another bit of proof that reporters either don't get it or they're part of an obfuscation team. Here's the title to the article:

"The bubble wars: Obama and Romney battle over who is “out of touch”

It goes downhill after that:

"One way to think about the 2012 presidential campaign is as a battle between two houses: Barack Obama’s White House and Mitt Romney’s San Diego house. The Romney campaign would like to make Obama a prisoner to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., turning every perk and privilege of the presidency into a sign that he is far removed from the people he is supposed to lead, especially anyone struggling in this economy. “Years of flying around on Air Force One, surrounded by an adoring staff of true believers telling you what a great job you are doing, well, that might be enough to make you a little out of touch,” said Mitt Romney after his Wisconsin primary victory.

The Obama campaign has a similar idea. They would like you to think of Mitt Romney as a man so encased in wealth that he can afford esoteric luxuries like the new car elevator planned for his San Diego home. (At Obama headquarters, they’ve named the elevators Romney 1 and 2 for each of his wife’s Cadillacs.) “Gov. Romney calls the president out of touch,” Joe Biden said last week in his dual role as attack dog and envoy to The Everyman. “Hey, how many of y’all have a Swiss bank account? How many of you have somewhere between $20 and $100 million in your [retirement account]?”

Let’s settle this ASAP. Neither man is a man of the people. They both have their vulnerabilities with ‘out-of-touch’ voters. Then again, I don't care about the images war.

This is an open-and-shut case. Obama’s economic policies have been a total disaster. If I was paid $50 for each time the President or his on-staff spinmeisters or the media talked about the economy “turning the corner,” I’d be a millionaire.

The thing is that if you’re constantly “turning the corner”, you’re going in circles.

Job growth has been, putting it politely, inconsistent at best. Economic growth has been anemic well after the recession ended. Without consistent, strong GDP growth, the economy will never truly recover.

You’re in trouble if your campaign slogan is ‘Stick with me; the economy might recover.”

Obama has proven that he’s wedded to the failed economic policies of socialism. He’s an anti-capitalist. What’s worse is that he’s shown a propensity for making ideology-driven decisions rather than doing what’s right for the nation.

Mitt can reassure undecided voters that he’s the right man for the job by using his stump speeches to explain why Obama’s policies have failed or when his policies have succeeded in the past. Presidential elections are about, at least partially, who does the best job of assuring voters that they’re the right man for the job. The sooner Mitt’s campaign focuses on that rather than on tit-for-tat communications, the quicker this race will be decided. 

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Interview with the FDOTUS

Big Fur Hat@IOTW.com

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Update: In light of today's news that Barack Obama ate dog meat as a child, 
 FDOTUS has gone into hiding......

Reluctantly, I'm In....

It's not going to be easy defending a candidate with more flip-flops than a Venice Beach surf shop, but with reluctance I am going to hold my nose and support Mitt Romney.  At least he can't easily be eaten. So let's get on with it.......

Image:sweasel.com

And They're Off: Obama and Romney Start
Race Nose to Nose in Pew Research Poll.

National Journal

"A new Pew Research Center Poll shows President Obama with a narrow 49 percent to 45 percent lead over likely Republican nominee Mitt Romney, results that are in line with another national survey this week showing the two starting the general election race on a more or less even playing field."

Keep Reading

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President's Dog Goes Into Hiding

Much has been made about Mitt Romney, in 1983, putting his family dog Seamus in a kennel on top of his roof and driving from Boston to Canada.

The dog-eat-dog world of the 2012 presidential campaign just got a little nastier.

Obama Dog Recipes
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Fuzzy Takes to Her Blackboard

Fuzzy Slippers has taken on the monumental task of explaining one aspect of the twisted thinking by our friends on the left in a series she's calling Top 5 Lies Leftists Believe About Conservatives. This series should be well worth the read.
Here is the Introduction to first installment - Lie #5 

"We often hear that we need to have a “national dialogue” about this issue or that, or we hear that the goal of political discourse is “compromise.” But as the ideological, socio-cultural, and political divides in this nation become more stark, I wonder if such a dialogue and/or discourse is possible . . . or even desirable. How do you have a conversation (much less a “conversation as a nation”) with someone who not only doesn’t accept any viewpoint but their own but who also is utterly incapable of even comprehending your stance? Someone who willfully misunderstands it often simply to further their own ends?"

 "There are so many things that leftists get wrong about conservatives that it was truly difficult to pick the top five [note: I'd intended to put them all in this post, but as usual, I just went on and on, so am breaking it up into five separate posts, a series if you will]. I decided to select them based on the weight of their contribution to our inability to “work with” and/or “compromise with” leftists and on their relative import to the preservation of our Constitutional Republic (it should be noted, that trying to converse and compromise with someone who doesn't even share your goal is an exercise in futility.)"

#5. Conservatives are fascists.............Keep  Reading

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MoonBats on Parade File

Moonbat Guano for 4/16/2012 - Just in case ya missed it...

*  Execute the Pigs!
   Detroit Street Crime Remains High, So Police Raid a Pig Farm

 * I know the Coffee Sucks, But......
   Aw, It's Spring in the East Village

* Bo Goes 'Full Biden' in Cartagena
  I'll take archipelagos for $500, Alex

* Turd in a Cheap Suit Disses Dr.Huxtable
  I can't wait for this fight to begin!

* You Can't Say That on Television....Can You?.
  Butthole Bob Beckel's Bodacious Blurtation