Category Archives: Mitt Romney
Time To Go Vote Mitt Romney for President!
Election Day Reminder
Posted on | November 6, 2012
– by Wombat-socho
Woke up a little early -not early enough to do Live at Five, unfortunately, but early- and decided to throw this up as a cheap substitute.
Hopefully all of you will be voting and/or taking part in Romney’s GOTV efforts today, or working as election judges to make sure things are on the up-and-up even if it is close enough for them to cheat. (Ace is offering an incentive, as if you needed one.) Some of you have excuses for staying home, but unless you’ve been crippled by some burdensome medical condition, there is no excuse for not going to the polls and pulling the lever for Romney.
Randy Barrett explains in a WSJ column why voting Libertarian this year is counterproductive.
If you don’t know where your polling place is, what the hours are, or what the ballot looks like, this helpful link will get you what you need.
Now go out and win this thing! NOBODY STAYS HOME!
From The Other McCain: http://theothermccain.com/
Massive Romney-Ryan Rally in Ohio – Excitement is Electric!
WEST CHESTER, OHIO: MASSIVE CROWD FOR ROMNEY-RYAN RALLY
Posted on | November 2, 2012
That tiny speck on the stage? Rudy Giuliani.
BLUE ASH, Ohio
I’ll have more photos later, but right now I just want to tell you how awesome tonight’s rally was. Rudy Giuliani’s speech was off the hook — the best takedown of the Obama administration I’ve heard this entire cycle, bar none. What Rudy said about Benghazi was particularly brutal.
We left early to beat the traffic out of the rally, stopped by the Double Tree Hotel to see some people, and Ali Akbar discovered an Associated Press reporter on Twitter trying to deliberately lowball the crowd estimate and claim there was “low energy” among Republican voters here.
Three words: BULL FUCKING SHIT.
That crowd was at least — at least — 25,000 and probably more like 35,000. No one could honestly claim it was less than 20,000, and they were fired up.
The AP reporter? Steve Peoples, a lying hack who has been previously busted for trying the same dishonest partisan trick in August.
If a Democrat Party propagandist wants a paycheck, let him collect it from OFA or the DNC, not AP.
UPDATE: You know why I was so angry about this?
Because last night I watched a video.
Andrew’s not here. He’s everywhere. “Fuck you. War.”
UPDATE II: Welcome, Instapundit readers. Ed Driscoll points out that the Cincinnati Enquirer, hardly a bastion of right-wing fanaticism, estimated Friday’s crowd at 30,000. Yet Steve Peoples reports 18,000?
Like I said, three words.
UPDATE III: I love this photo:
Young. Female. Republican. I know lots of young female Republicans, and yet the MSM wants to pretend they don’t exist. Just like Steve Peoples wishes out of existence more than 10,000 people.
UPDATE IV: Steve Peoples last tried to lowball the crowd estimate — and got caught by Tom Blumer of Newsbusters — when Paul Ryan came to Miami (Ohio) University in August. Guess what?
I was at that rally, too: “Math.”
UPDATE V: Video via Ace of Spades:
UPDATE VI (Smitty): Gay Patriot links. Thanks!
From The Other McCain: http://theothermccain.com/
Huge Ohio Rally For Mitt Romney – High Energy!
From The Other McCain: http://theothermccain.com/
This Picture Says it All About the Upcoming Election
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Obama Did Not Call Benghazi A Planned Terrorist Attack Until 14 Days Passed – He is a Liar
Sorry, Candy, Obama Didn’t Call Benghazi A Terrorist Attack In Speech….
Tonight’s debate moderator Candy Crowley tried to fact check Romney and claim Obama did indeed call Benghazi a terror attack the next day. Here’s the text from Obama’s Rose Garden speech the day after the attack:
THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Every day, all across the world, American diplomats and civilians work tirelessly to advance the interests and values of our nation. Often, they are away from their families. Sometimes, they brave great danger.
Yesterday, four of these extraordinary Americans were killed in an attack on our diplomatic post in Benghazi. Among those killed was our Ambassador, Chris Stevens, as well as Foreign Service Officer Sean Smith. We are still notifying the families of the others who were killed. And today, the American people stand united in holding the families of the four Americans in our thoughts and in our prayers.
The United States condemns in the strongest terms this outrageous and shocking attack. We’re working with the government of Libya to secure our diplomats. I’ve also directed my administration to increase our security at diplomatic posts around the world. And make no mistake, we will work with the Libyan government to bring to justice the killers who attacked our people. [...]
Of course, yesterday was already a painful day for our nation as we marked the solemn memory of the 9/11 attacks. We mourned with the families who were lost on that day. I visited the graves of troops who made the ultimate sacrifice in Iraq and Afghanistan at the hallowed grounds of Arlington Cemetery, and had the opportunity to say thank you and visit some of our wounded warriors at Walter Reed. And then last night, we learned the news of this attack in Benghazi.
As Americans, let us never, ever forget that our freedom is only sustained because there are people who are willing to fight for it, to stand up for it, and in some cases, lay down their lives for it. Our country is only as strong as the character of our people and the service of those both civilian and military who represent us around the globe.
No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for. Today we mourn four more Americans who represent the very best of the United States of America. We will not waver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act. And make no mistake, justice will be done.
Alana Goodman breaks this down better than I can in this September 30th article:
Obama said during the speech that “No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation” — but at no point was it clear that he was using that term to describe the attack in Benghazi. He’d also spent the previous two paragraphs discussing the 9/11 attacks and the aftermath. “Acts of terror” could have just as easily been a reference to that. Or maybe it wasn’t a direct reference to anything, just a generic, reassuring line he’d added into a speech which did take place, after all, the day after the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Here’s the line with some additional context:
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Great One Liner Tweets on The Debate From Dennis Miller!
Found at Moonbattery: http://moonbattery.com/
67 Million Watched Empty Suit and Empty Brain Get His Ass Whupped
Awesome: 67 Million Watched Obama Get His Ass Handed To Him Last Night, 28% Jump From 2008 Debate…
Humiliation on a grand scale.
Via WaPo:
More than 67 million people watched the first presidential debate of this election cycle — nearly 15 million more people than watched the first presidential debate four years ago.
That 67 million, however, falls very short of the Mother of All Presidential Debates: the Oct. 28, 1980 smackdown between President Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, which had drawn a whopping 81 million viewers.
About 12 million of the 67 mil who watched President Obama square off with GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney at the University of Denver were aged 18-34 years. Nearly 31 million of them were 55 years or older, Nielsen reported Thursday.
The debate was carried live across 11 networks; Telemundo aired it on tape delay.
In a tight race at the top, ABC appears to have, once again, snagged the most viewers to the first presidential debate of this election cycle — like it did four years ago. About 11.25 million people watched Romney vow to axe Big Bird, on ABC.
From Weasel Zippers: http://weaselzippers.us/
Did We Mention That Romeny Kicked Obama’s Ass in Last Night’s Debate?
Update: CBS insta-poll shows decisive Romney victory; Update: Romney crushes Obama in CNN insta-poll
Oct 3, 2012 10:44 PM by Allahpundit
Hands down.
From Hot Air: http://hotair.com/
Courts Try to Make Sure Obama Wins in Pennsylvania – Vote Early and Often
Green Light for Voter Fraud in Pennsylvania
In the key swing state Pennsylvania, the fix is in:
Pennsylvania’s divisive voter identification requirement became the latest of its kind to get pushback from the courts ahead of Election Day, delivering a hard-fought victory to Democrats…
A demented dictate by Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson blocking voter ID requirements
“is good news for Obama’s chances in Pennsylvania, one of the nation’s biggest electoral college prizes, unless Republicans and the tea party groups that backed the law find a way to use it to motivate their supporters and possibly independents.”
Obviously anyone who believes in the concept of one man, one vote will want the openly crooked Democrats out of power at the soonest opportunity. But people who care whether elections are fair appear to be a minority in the age of Hopey Change.
The law requiring voter identification passed the state legislature without a single Democrat vote. But laws are just bumps in the road when moonbats control the courts.
In Pennsylvania, election workers will still be allowed to ask voters for a valid photo ID, but people without it can use a regular voting machine in the polling place and would not have to cast a provisional ballot or prove their identity to election officials afterward.
We’ve had voter fraud in presidential elections before, most famously when it put JFK over the top in 1960 but Nixon didn’t make an issue of it for fear of tearing the country apart. But never have we been given such conspicuously obvious advance notice. This time, not making an issue of it could tear the country apart — or allow it to collapse into a banana republic.
On tips from Henry and Laurie.
Liberals Are Stunned After Debate…Wow…This Dumbass Does Need a Teleprompter!
Obama Mega-Donor Bill Maher After Debate: “I Can’t Believe I’m Saying This, But Obama Looks Like He Does Need A Teleprompter”…
He’s just realizing this now?
i can’t believe i’m saying this, but Obama looks like he DOES need a teleprompter
3 Oct 12
Bill MaherZIP | October 3, 2012 11:44 pm |
MSNBC’s Ed Schultz: “I Was Absolutely Stunned” At How Badly Obama Lost The Debate…
Yeah, it was that bad.
Via Mediaite
ZIP | October 3, 2012 11:37 pm
CNN Poll: 67% Say Romney Won Debate, Only 25% For Obama…
Blowout.
BREAKING: Results of CNN-ORC Post-Debate flash poll. Who won the debate: Romney 67%, Obama 25%. +_ 4%. #CNNDebate
Sam FeistZIP | October 3, 2012 11:29 pm
Cutter Concedes Defeat: Romney “Absolutely Wins The Preparation, Wins The Style Points”…
She also makes the bizarre claim that it wasn’t Obama’s “specific purpose” to win the debate. Huh?
All of this from Weasel Zippers: http://weaselzippers.us/
Obama Lost Without Teleprompter
HURT: Obama the debater: Making Jimmy Carter look awesome
W ednesday, October 3, 2012
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ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Party like it’s 1980!
Bewildered and lost without his teleprompter, President Obama flailed all around the debate stage last night. He was stuttering, nervous and petulant. It was like he had been called in front of the principal after goofing around for four years and blowing off all his homework.
Not since Jimmy Carter faced Ronald Reagan has the U.S. presidency been so embarrassingly represented in public. Actually, that’s an insult to Jimmy Carter.
The split screen was most devastating. Mitt Romney spoke forthrightly, with carefully studied facts and details at the ready. He looked right at the president and accused him of being miles out of his depth.
Mr. Obama? His eyes were glued to his lectern, looking guilty and angry and impatient with all the vagaries of Democracy. This debate was seriously chaffing him.
From The Washington TImes
Read more: HURT: Obama the debater: Making Jimmy Carter look awesome – Washington Times http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/oct/3/hurt-obama-debater-making-jimmy-carter-look-awesom/#ixzz28KTQPR2o
Found at Ann Althouse: http://althouse.blogspot.com/
The Beatdown – Blow by Blow By Robert McCain
MITT ROMNEY WINS FIRST DEBATE
Posted on | October 3, 2012
UPDATE 10:32 p.m. ET: Damn. Mitt won it straight-up. I’ve turned my TV to MSNBC to watch their reaction.
Rachel Maddow: “I personally do not know who won this debate.” This means . . . yeah, Mitt won. He beat the hell out of Obama.
Ed Schultz: “[Obama] created a problem for himself tonight on Social Security. He agreed with Mitt Romney. . . . I thought he was off his game.”
UPDATE 10:25 p.m. ET: Jim Lehrer babbling like an idiot about time running out. He wants Obama to get re-elected so ObamaCare will cover treatment for his senility.
UPDATE 10:22 p.m. ET: “Mr. President, you’re entitled to your own house and your own plane, but not your own facts.” Zing!
UPDATE 10:06 p.m. ET: They’ve been going back and forth about ObamaCare for 10 minutes. If you believe what Obama says — as opposed to the actual facts — then you’ll probably think he won this part of the debate. But if you believe what Obama says, you’re probably too stupid to read this anyway.
UPDATE 9:55 p.m. ET: More Twitter:
SHORTER OBAMA: “Vouchers! Republican vouchers! Run for your life, Granny, the vouchers are comin’ to get you!
Robert Stacy McCain @rsmccain Instapundit is blogging a bit of the debate, and also links to the classic Vodkapundit drunkblogging.
UPDATE 9:45 p.m. ET: Been watching and Tweeting, so let me stick some of the Tweets in here:
Just want to point out: Mitt looks really handsome, doesn’t he?
#p2 Question: Any of you guys actually think Obama’s winning at this point? Because, frankly, he seems to be kinda stinkin’ it up so far.
Jim Lehrer’s last question was like, “Here, let me set it up on the tee for you, Mr. President.”
Mitt just hit Obama on the Medicare issue. Obama hit back. Score it a draw, I think.
UPDATE 9:31 p.m. ET: Now they’re talking debts and deficits, and Obama’s worst broken promise: He claimed he’d cut the deficit in half and, instead, has doubled it.
UPDATE 9:20 p.m. ET: Obama and Romney are going back and forth on taxes. This is getting so good, I’m going to stop the frequent updates for a few minutes and just watch a while.
UPDATE 9:16 p.m. ET: Damn it, Obama keeps claiming to have given a “tax cut” to the middle class, but there was no rate reduction. Instead, he’s put in a series of tax credits, which are not the same as tax cuts.
UPDATE 9:13 p.m. ET: Romney gets a chance to hit back at Obama. Does pretty good, but gets a bit too “into the weeds” for my tastes.
UPDATE 9:11 p.m. ET: Obama comes back talking a lot of details, claiming Romney’s plan will “cost” money and have to be “paid for.” The government-centric point of view.
UPDATE 9:09 p.m. ET: Mitt opens with humorous anniversary congratulations, then goes into his 5-Point Plan for economic recovery. Having followed Mitt on the trail, I’ve heard this a zillion times, but for many of the 50 million people watching, it’s new.
UPDATE 9:07 p.m. ET: Obama opens with anniversary shout-out to Michelle. Then gets all into class warfare, blaming Bush, etc. He sucks.
EXPECT FURTHER UPDATES . . .
* * * PREVIOUSLY (8 p.m. ET) * * *
This verdict may shock some readers, seeing as how I’m publishing it a full hour before the debate actually begins.
Everybody’s playing the “expectations game” (notice Nate Silver trying to raise the ante for Romney) which, like a lot of what goes on in politics, is transparent bulls–t. Once you realize they’re trying to manipulate your perceptions, you should not be deceived, e.g.:
ABC’s George Stephanopoulos is doing his part for team Obama to make sure that Mitt Romney’s performance at Wednesday evening’s debate is a disappointment, one that will surely lead to his losing the election in November.
On Tuesday morning’s Good Morning America, the former Clinton Administration staffer sternly warned that if Romney doesn’t exceed expectations in the debates, he’s finished.
Why? Because Romney is under “huge, huge” pressure, Stephanopoulos says. And “he’s behind right now,” so if he doesn’t overperform, he’ll be considered a failure.
Give that everyone else is at it, therefore, I’m getting out ahead of this psychological gamesmanship with the pre-emptive declaration of Romney’s unquestional triumph.
And so this is your official “Debate Thread.”
Bite me, Nate. And bite me, George.
UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!
UPDATE II: Linked by the Lonely Conservative — thanks!
From The Other McCain: http://theothermccain.com/
Romney Puts The Beatdown on Obummer
LIVE AT FIVE: 10.04.12 [DEBATE HANGOVER EDITION]
Posted on | October 4, 2012
– compiled by Wombat-socho
TOP NEWS
ROMNEY ADMINISTERS EPIC BEATDOWN TO OBAMA ON NATIONAL TV
Candid shot of Obama after debate (props to Bob Owens for this)
MSM, Secret Service helpless to stop thrashing as President stumbles through first debate
Even MSDNC, Democrat Party leaders know it
From The Other McCain: http://theothermccain.com/
Shocker! Planned Parenthood Spends Millions To Defeat Romney!
Planned Parenthood Spends $3,925,229 Campaigning Against Romney…
Romney will end the taxpayer gravy train, and they can’t have that.
(CNSNews.com) – Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s political action fund has spent $3,925,229 campaigning against Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, according to data gathered by opensecrets.org.
The data show that Planned Parenthood’s political action fund has spent a total of $4,092,620 for the 2012 federal election as of Sept. 30, 2012. Of that, a total of $3,924,229 was spent in opposition to Romney.
Planned Parenthood also spent money against other Republican presidential candidates, including Rick Santorum ($3,429), Newt Gingrich ($2,500), Rick Perry ($1,382), Ron Paul ($1,006) and Herman Cain ($396).
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A Picture is Worth…So Will I
Found at Wirecutter’s Place: http://ogdaa.blogspot.com/
Obummer Can’t Let “Drowning Black People” Stop Him From Campaigning While Mitt Has Already Reached Out to Those in Need After The Storm
Leading From Behind: Obama Announces He Will Visit Hurricane-Ravaged Louisiana After Romney Makes Surprise Visit On Friday…
Via Daily Caller:
President Barack Obama announced Friday that he’s heading to Louisiana, but he’ll arrive after Mitt Romney has toured the storm-damage state in company with the state’s popular Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal.
The president’s Sept. 3 visit was announced via a 11:54 a.m. tweet from White House communications director Daniel Pfeiffer. “President Obama will head to Louisiana on Monday to visit damage from Hurricane Isaac,” he tweeted.
The above announcement came after Romney changed plans and visited Louisiana on Friday.
LAKELAND, Fla. — In a last-minute change of plans, Mitt Romney will head to visit storm-affected areas in New Orleans today, skipping a previously scheduled joint rally with running mate Paul Ryan in the battleground state of Virginia this afternoon.
A Romney aide told ABC News that Romney will “join Gov. Jindal and will meet with first responders, thank them for their work and see areas impacted by the storm in LaFitte, La.”
From Weasel Zippers: http://weaselzippers.us/
Liberal Journalists Really Are Delusional
Top Yahoo Reporter Giggles That Ann and Mitt Romney Are Happy About Blacks Drowning
Imagine thinking you could get accurate information from delusional adolescent fools like this:
On a hot mic, reporter David Chalian of Yahoo News said that Ann and Mitt Romney are “happy to have a party with black people drowning.” …
The comments were made during an ABC/Yahoo livestream, when the reporters believed that microphones were off.
Media establishmentarians have been praying to the diseased gods of moonbattery for Isaac to cause Katrina-style misery in New Orleans, allowing them to run split screens of weeping welfare mommas contrasted with successful Republicans at the RNC.
The worst thing anyone could say about liberal journalists is that their phony, contemptible ideology suits them — and it does.
At least Chalian was exposed to the public; it resulted in his being fired. But a guy like that rising to Washington bureau chief proves that his mentality is pervasive.
From Moonbattery: http://moonbattery.com/
Untitled
Caterer At Obama Campaign Event Wears “Government Didn’t Build My Business, I Did” T-Shirt…
Ruh-roh the caterer at the President’s last event in Iowa — The Village Corner Deli –clearly snuck thru the vetters pic.twitter.com/VnRobDBF
Ed Henry @edhenryTV 
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Let’s Get Some Real Men in the White House: Romney and Ryan
From American Thinker: http://www.americanthinker.com/
Expect The Demonrats To Go into Crazy Mode over Ryan…
New Democrat Campaign Message: Grandma, Cliff, Some Assembly Required
Posted on | August 11, 2012
Members of the Democrat-Media Complex like Charles Pierce of Esquireand James Fallows of the Atlantic are already registering their disdain of Paul Ryan, and the Democrats are busy e-mailing their massive oppo-research PDF dossier to reporters, so the media attacks on Ryan are pre-scripted dictation from the DNC research department.
This is predictable, and is the best argument for picking a conservative like Ryan: No matter whom Romney had chosen, the Democrats would have demonized the GOP running mate as a Jekyll-and-Hyde combination of Dick Cheney and Martin Bormann.
In that kind of situation, why not go bold?
So we’ll have a few days of “evil heartless Paul Ryan,” then the Democrats will go back to the “clueless rich guy Romney” message and then, if the Romney-Ryan ticket moves ahead of Obama in the polls, they’ll start playing the Mormon card with frenzied desperation.
It’s predictable, and you shouldn’t be surprised.
UPDATE: Democrats hold a monopoly on Civility™!
From The Other McCain: http://theothermccain.com/
Paul Ryan Coming Out Swinging
Paul Ryan Comes Out Swinging Against Obama: “If You Have A Small Business, You Did Build That”…
This election just got a hundred times more exciting.
Via Washington Examiner:
Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., is coming out swinging against President Obama’s “record of failure” by attacking his belief in the role of government in the economy.
“I’m proud to stand with a man who understands what it takes to foster job creation in our economy, someone who knows from experience, that if you have a small business—you did build that,” Ryan will say, according to excerpts of his speech released by the campaign.
Ryan then praised Romney for his career at Bain Capital — mentioning that company’s role in launching Staples, especially — before offering this implicit rebuke of Obama’s attacks on Romney: “We Americans look at one another’s success with pride, not resentment, because we know, as more Americans work hard, take risks, and succeed, more people will prosper, our communities will benefit, and individual lives will be improved and uplifted,” Ryan plans to say.
It’s Scandalous! Just Scandalous I Tell You!
Making ‘Anglo-Saxon’ Scandalous
Posted on | July 25, 2012
The English-speaking world shares a culture as well as a language, and the term “Anglo-Saxon” has long been employed as a shorthand designation of this culture, for good or ill. But use of the term becomes a shocking scandal when it is employed by Republicans:
As the Republican presidential challenger accused Barack Obama of appeasing America’s enemies in his first foreign policy speech of the US general election campaign, advisers told The Daily Telegraph that he would abandon Mr Obama’s “Left-wing” coolness towards London.
In remarks that may prompt accusations of racial insensitivity, one suggested that Mr Romney was better placed to understand the depth of ties between the two countries than Mr Obama, whose father was from Africa.
“We are part of an Anglo-Saxon heritage, and he feels that the special relationship is special,” the adviser said of Mr Romney, adding: “The White House didn’t fully appreciate the shared history we have”.
Oh, how terrible: Acknowledging that our history and common culture creates a “special relationship” between the United States and Great Britain, our ally in both world wars of the 20th century. How awful that anyone would risk “accusations of racial insensitivity” by expressing pride in “an Anglo-Saxon heritage” that includes William Shakespeare, Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher.
This is a dreadful scandal, you see, in the same way that practically everything any Republican does is interpreted as scandalous.
Ann Romney owns a horse? Scandalous!
Mitt Romney’s business made profits? Scandalous!
Democrats can engage in routine corruption, enact ruinous policies and leave campaign aides to die in submerged Oldsmobiles and nobody in the media ever blinks an eye, but anything done by any Republican is automatically a controversial scandal.
From The Other McCain: http://theothermccain.com/
The Debate, The Internet, Mainstream Media, and Americans Who Don’t Give a Damn
A Debate in the Land of the Deaf
Excerpts of a great article by: Daniel Greenfield
The debate, like the electoral college, is an outmoded institution dating back to another time when candidates for political office were capable of expressing ideas that could not be compressed into a misleading five word slogan.
The modern political debate is not a test of ideas, but of candidates. HD cameras and screens make it possible for us to see every wince and grimace, and to measure how slowly a candidate responds. The debate is not won by intelligence, but by a combination of populist empathy and low zingers. Those zingers are usually all we remember from past debates because the age of the public and politician that could participate in the marathon Lincoln Douglas debates is long over and everyone knows it.
The debates are rarely about a public interested in weighing and measuring ideas, but a reality show where the candidate who has one bad moment becomes fodder for the late night jokes of the next day. And if the candidates and the public are sub-par, the moderators are even worse appearing only to promote one candidate and one agenda…
How do you debate a compulsive liar while trying to convince voters who already tuned out during the introductory remarks and are planning to wait and see what the media and SNL tells them are the best parts of the debate? It’s a challenge and it’s also the new politics where your goal is to convince unfit voters who can’t figure out how to get a Voter ID that you are fit for the job…
Among the unfit voters are a sizable percent of those who do not understand the issues or care about the issues. All they want to do is vote for the candidate that everyone else is voting for. But they are dwarfed by special interest voters who understand only those issues immediately relevant to them. They don’t care about the national interest, about the national economy or national security, what they want to know are the immediate benefits that will come to them one way or another.
The world could end tomorrow and they would take it as a personal slight, rather than a global tragedy. They have been trained to have a chip on one shoulder and a hand thrust out from the other. They don’t want to hear anything about America, they want to hear only about themselves. They will pay attention only far enough to determine which politician is pandering hardest to them. And they will almost always vote leftward, not because the left represents their interests, but because their egos never let them explore their interests past the pandering…
The perverse thing about the internet is that not only are people not better informed than they were in 1858, but they actually know much less than their great-great-grandparents did. And that isn’t about to change. What new media has done is helped create a stalemate, but it hasn’t broken the perversion that is modern journalism, all it has done is made it uneasy and kept it from claiming all the mental territory that it has attempted to occupy. But it has done this at a cost of generating more noise to drown out the signal. To beat the media, it has become like the media, and the media has become like it. In five years there will hardly be any difference between them as they tumble into a volcano with a death grip around each other’s pageviews…
Millions more will tune in to next week’s Saturday Night Live to find out what they should think about the debate.
Read the entire article at Sultan Knish: http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/