On behalf of us here at AOR, I’d like to wish all the moms out there a Pleased Mother’s Day — we like and appreciate everything you do and have done! Delight in the day ( which should be pretty gorgeous here in the Northeast! ).
Romney’s team is getting excellent at managing the MSM. Take the recent “bullying” tale plaguing the airwaves since yesterday: the Washington Post ran a massive hit-piece on Romney , timed very well with Obama’s gay marriage endorsement; a similar blitzkrieg approach was used to ruin past candidates. The Post had to go back to high school in order to find dirt on Romney and even that tale is falling apart more and more as time goes on. Like the dog issue, the “War on Women” nonsense, and the attack on Ann Romney, this bullying ploy is being handled wisely by Romney’s team. In the past, the left would throw bombs and waited to see what happened. The truth of the tale didn’t matter only that the tale ran, stewed for a while, and hopefully left an impression on some undecideds. Rush often says to liberals the “seriousness of the charge” trumps the “nature of the evidence.” The Romney team has chose not to play that game. His team responds quick and effectively. The tale can’t stew — by the time people start hearing about a tale, it’s already been refuted. Must be frustrating if you’re at the Post today. The MSM’s covering for Obama isn’t working. The first Rasmussen poll taken after the gay marriage announcement showed Romney leading the President 50-43%. It’s obviously early, but Romney’s immediate response strategy is excellent and may end up paying off in the end.
Continue reading here: Romney’s Overall Obama/MSM Strategy a Smart One
Charles C.W. Cooke has a excellent piece over at NRO about the standoff over the past several months between university students and the provincial government in Quebec over tuition hikes. When I attended Carleton University in Ottawa in the 1990s, we envied university students going to school across the river in Quebec because they had the lowest tuition rates in the country. Well, guess what! They still do and even with the proposed increases they probably still would (with perhaps the possible exception of Newfoundland & Labrador). But apparently Quebec university students reckon the world owes them a living ?and are willing to commit violence to make sure it stays that way while Quebec's main student organization, CLASSE, claims it doesn't "have a mandate to condemn violence." Well, yesterday, the Metro subway system in Montreal was shut down for several?hours after three smoke bombs?were thrown on the tracks ?nearly simultaneously at several subway stations. While no one claimed responsibility, mad commuters pointed the finger at striking students. As of this writing, Montreal police are currently investigating four suspects (three female, one male). The three female suspects attend the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM). Although there were no fatalities from yesterday's event, it was an act of terrorism. It was designed to intimidate and scare people who have no dog in this fight to submit to the students' demands. Well, whatever sympathy the Quebec public might have had with the students is gone. Quebec doesn't want to become the Greece of North America.
More here: Chaos in Quebec
Last Saturday, Josh Beckett missed his scheduled start against the Baltimore Orioles due to a strained lat. Former Colorado Rockies pitcher Aaron Cook was called up from Pawtucket to fill in,? got spiked and went straight to the DL . To read the rest of this post, please check out The Spectacle Blog .
Link: Josh Beckett Tees Off Red Sox NationPresident Obama's slow evolution to supporting gay marriage took a rapid turn today when his Number Two Joe Biden chose to reckon out loud earlier this week. The long and the small of it is that President Obama has come out of the closet on this issue far ahead of schedule. To read the rest of this post, please check out The Spectacle Blog .
Originally posted here: Obama's Rapid Evolution on Gay Marriage
