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.
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In an early January debate, George Stephanopoulos questioned Mitt Romney a really irrelevant question about the issue of birth control which the Supreme Court settled in 1965 and whose proposal was not on any state ballot. Then, within a month or so the Catholic outcry over Obamacare and whole Sandra Fluke-thing broke commencing the Dems charge of a Republican “War on Women”. Though they state otherwise , the Dems are clearly using the phrase as a fundraising tool and a way to tarnish the GOP’s chances with female voters this Fall. Into that mess steps DNC adviser Hilary Rosen who had this to say about Ann Romney (go to 0:46): The Dems have been in hurt-control mode all day! This, in the same week that numbers were revealed indicating that on average women are being paid 18% less than men who work in Obama’s own White House! Now we know those numbers are skewed, given that maternity leave and lack of overtime push women’s numbers down in every profession, but if the Dems want to belittle child-rearing and ignore a White House with pay equity issues, then game on. No one messes with Ann Romney!
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“War on Women” Charge Backfiring
I figured that on April Fools Day I’d post on the terrible few days our very foolish fine President has had to endure. The Washington Times really hit the nail on the head that over the last 10 days: Obama waded into the Trayvon Martin issue, race-pandering ( skip to 1:34 ) and aggravating an already tense racial situation. Obama had an open mic snafu which made him look not only sketchy as hell, but very much like Putin’s bitch. Obamacare, the President’s signature domestic achievement, got nearly laughed out of the Supreme Court ( still waiting on the final vote, though all this must have been embarrassing for the progressive crowd ). Obama’s budget was voted down 414-0 by the House. Apparently, the Senate no longer votes for budgets given that they haven’t passed one in well over 1000 days. Nonetheless, I’m pretty sure the Republicans will still find a way to screw all this up — Romney may flip-flop again, Santorum may drone about some social issue no one cares about right now, House GOP may ruin their momentum on Sunday talk by accepting MSM premises and falling into a class-warfare trap, or perhaps some combination of the three. Who knows — it’s April Fools Day for everyone else too!
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Terrible Week for the Obama Nation
On his radio show Wednesday, Rush Limbaugh said this : What does it say about the college co-ed Susan [ sic ] Fluke who goes before a Congressional committee and says she must be paid to have sex? What does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She’s having so much sex, she can’t afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex. What does that make us? We’re the pimps. I really heard the bit myself and at the time laughed because quite frankly on the substance of the issue he has a philosophical point. Rush usually illustrates “the absurd with absurdity” and the average libtard , who has no sense of humor, simply doesn’t get it. I’m convinced that’s part of the reason why they despise Rush so much. But, Rush did personally attack Fluke, the Georgetown University student who testified ( btw--didn’t that used to be a Catholic school ? ), who he apologized to this weekend . Yet, in his buckling under the public pressure he did say this: I personally do not agree that American citizens should pay for these social activities. What happened to personal responsibility and accountability? Where do we draw the line? If this is accepted as the norm, what will follow? In my monologue, I posited that it is not our business whatsoever to know what is going on in anyone’s bedroom nor do I reckon it is a topic that should reach a presidential level. Again, on the substance I reckon he’s completely right. Perhaps the government should refocus this issue onto itself, turning the 10th Amendment into a prophylactic to protect the states from the federal government impregnating, giving birth to and forcing the states to raise the “unwanted children” of more government largesse and crackpot social engineering.
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The frustrating debt-ceiling debacle of last summer yielded two predictable outcomes: we got small-to-none of the promised spending cuts and Obama got a free hand until after the 2012 Election to question for a cold $1.2 trillion for raising the debt ceiling . In no way is this a victory for the American people. Politically, though, Obama’s in a bind — he questioned for this! This kind of reminds me of the Republican’s obstruction of the payroll tax cut extension around Christmas. It wasn’t worth the political hurt — Obama was merely setting up an issue for material in his State of the Union address while he and the MSM got to pound the GOP for a while — but the GOP did it anyway. Obama questioned for the power to increase the debt ceiling and therefore made this quandary himself. He has to do this. With the nation focusing on South Carolina and with our debt-to-GDP ratio about to burst 100% , Obama just opened himself up to getting seriously pounded by the GOP candidates on TV and in the upcoming debate ( that is if the candidates can focus on anything other than being the anti-Romney at the moment ).
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