I stayed true to my earlier statement: I didn’t watch a lick of the RNC. I did not care. I couldn’t even make it through YouTube videos of the candidate that other bloggers got excited about: Mia Love, Paul Ryan. I read the text of Romney’s speech and thought it a good one, on balance.… Read More And After the Nausea, the Vomiting…The RNC and Lee Atwater’s Sins
I’m starting to thing this pundit business is easy. Two days ago I posited the following: So let’s look at the kind of guy Mitt Romney is. He’s a business guy. He’s managerial. He’s serious. He’s sober. He plans and works and works and plans. Which is to say, he does not fly by the seat… Read More Paul Ryan and the Vice Presidency
Unlike Stacy McCain or Bob Belvedere, I am not enough of an insider-politics kind of guy to follow the buzz and make educated guesses. I don’t know who’s going to get picked. So what follows is merely the emanations of feelings in my gut. So let’s look at the kind of guy Mitt Romney is. He’s a business… Read More Romney’s Veep is Going to Be Boring
…and the Panic of 1907, too. This is a few days old, but worth pointing out. And there’s no end in sight. But Romney’s all Rich and stuff!
Stacy McCain offers up the new attack ad. You can demagoge about corporate fatcats until Demosthenes himself says “Dude, we get it,” and people play right along. But when you ask the question: “So what’s the government going to do that’s any better?” You won’t get an answer that makes any sense. We have an… Read More Romney Concludes That People Dislike The Government More than Bain Capital…
[Insert Mayan Calendar Joke Here] The Romney campaign doesn’t seem to know how to respond. For centuries, business leaders have been inept when writers, intellectuals and politicians attacked capitalism, and, so far, the Romney campaign is continuing that streak. One thing is for sure. As Arthur Brooks of the American Enterprise Institute has said again… Read More David Brooks Starts to Sound Like Jeff Goldstein
…and Hot Air asks the obvious question “So what are we planning on replacing it with? I mean, there’s Mitt’s drill-down of various reforms, some of which are clearer than others. Are we going with that?
Via A Checquerboard of Nights and Days, The Obama Campaign complained about FactCheck’s call about whether Romney “sent jobs overseas” while he was head of Bain Capital. They tell him he’s still wrong. For all these reasons, we respectfully reject the Obama campaign’s request that we amend our original story. We re-state our conclusion that… Read More FactCheck Spanks the Obama Campaign…
Bloomberg has Obama up 13 points. Rasmussen has Romney up 2. I mention these because they’re the most recent polls, and they’re polls of Likely Voters, not just Registered Voters. Now that’s an 11-point difference. Rasmussen’s sample is about double the size, but that’s the only noticeable difference. So unless Bloomberg is heavily weighting Democrats,… Read More Bloomberg vs. Rasmussen
This is arguably a bit more serious. And I know I’m supposed to be shocked and appalled, but for some reason I can’t stop laughing. Maybe I’m having a hard time buying the pretense that Joe Conason really cares about the dignity of the police uniform.
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