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Mud-slinging: The Left’s One-Trick Pony

Chicago White House Mud slinging: The Lefts One Trick Pony

Liberals have taken Chicago politics to a whole new level this campaign cycle with baseless accusations suggesting their opponents are unsympathetic, money-grubbing extremists who will feed your grandmother cat food and steal her Medicare benefits and Social Security check before they push her backwards off a cliff without a blindfold.

There’s a certain truth to the old nursery rhyme “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me.” But in the game of politics, names are like mud, and mud sticks. The Democratic Party is replete with lazy cowards who choose to sling mud rather than debate issues. Why waste one’s energy hurling sticks and stones when slander will do the job without lifting a finger?

The Obama administration has nothing to run on, save a campaign of character destruction, given its deplorable record of supersized governmental policies leading to high unemployment and an economy teetering on the brink of insolvency. As juvenile as it is, mudslinging is the only hand desperate liberals have left to play. They’ve got nothing.

According to Politico, Obama’s plan is to “destroy Romney” utilizing the same methods he’s used in previous races. Former White House deputy press secretary Bill Burton said the campaign will focus on attacking Romney’s character to “portray him as inauthentic, unprincipled and weird.” Here is weird: to date, liberals have painted presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney as a liar, a miser, a felon, a tax evader, and an accomplice to a woman’s cancer death — without a shred of evidence.

Circumstances are no different for Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI). Prior to being chosen as Romney’s running mate, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan was already a source of liberals’ angst and a target of their attacks simply because he is a freethinking financial genius who embraces the free market.

Liberals are already hollering Ryan doesn’t have enough private sector experience to be qualified to be Vice President. Prior to his public service, Ryan was employed at a variety of jobs, including a stint driving the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile, making him better qualified than our president was in 2008. And then we have as next in line Vice President Biden. Biden has his mindless blundering, and Ryan has his arithmetic. You do the math.

Some label Ryan as a flip-flopper for his support of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) and auto company bailouts Ryan justified as a way to halt the raging economic firestorm. Responding to the Daily Caller, Ryan said he believed the economy was “on the cusp of a deflationary spiral which would have created a Depression” and had that happened, we would have had “a big government agenda sweeping through this country so fast that we wouldn’t have recovered from it.”

With time ticking closer to the November elections, frantic and radical liberals will ramp up their attacks to paint a proven job creator and a budget hawk in the most unattractive light possible in hopes voters will be distracted from the real issues surrounding a failed and visionless presidency.

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Liberal Loons Removed From Paul Ryan Event

At least our side doesn’t act like five-year olds. But this is pretty much what the left is known for!

“More Engaged” Is Democrat-speak For “more Enthusiasm”

Democrat SC “More engaged” is Democrat speak for “more enthusiasm”

A new USA Today/Gallup survey delivered more bad news for Democrat Barack Obama. It was a measurement of Americans’ interest in the issues that will be talked about by both Obama and Republican Mitt Romney. The report’s accompanying message explained that it found 74% of Republicans are thinking about the election “quite a lot”, but just 61% of Democrats are doing the same. Republicans are clearly “more enthused” about voting in this election, but in Democrat-speak, “more engaged” is the phrase that is substituted for “more enthused.”

The verbal gymnastics Democrats and their media cheerleaders have to go through to hide the truth is quite instructive. When Gallup did a survey without USA Today’s influence, it found virtually the same gap but it more honestly called its finds an “enthusiasm gap.”

Gallup’s finding of a 13 point Republican “engagement” advantage is larger than it has found in “recent elections.” Gallup explains how the level of engagement among voters has been reflected in Election Day results. It makes the point that higher engagement means higher turnout. The high enthusiasm of Republicans will mean a higher turnout in November, and that will help Romney and his VP selection Paul Ryan.

In 2000, Democrats who out-numbered Republicans did not show up because they were embarrassed by Bill Clinton’s sexual perversion in the White House. On Election Day 2008, in the belief that John McCain would be worse than Obama, enough conservatives either stayed home or voted for Obama, handing him the election. These factors changed the expected outcome of those elections and made history.

In marvelous Democrat-speak, Gallup says “That data suggests that Republican voter turnout could top Democrat turnout…” In other words, Gallup is saying: “The fact that Republicans are saying they are more enthused to vote, COULD mean that Republicans will go to the polls in greater numbers than Democrats.”

Romney’s selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate has energized his campaign, and the more voters see of Ryan, the more they like him. Today’s Rasmussen survey shows Ryan’s approval/disapproval rating jumping 11 points from a good 39/25 to an excited 50/32.  Clearly, the “60 Minutes” appearance both men made on Sunday night has done great things for the Romney/Ryan ticket.

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Rush Talks About Journalistic Malpractice On “60 Minutes”

Rush Limbaugh talks about “60 Minutes” editing out Paul Ryan talking about his mother, who lives in Florida and is on Medicare.

Lawsuit Accuses DHS Of Humiliating Men, Favoring Women

An employee’s lawsuit accuses Napolitano’s Department of Homeland Security of humiliating men while favoring women. The lawsuit maintains that the DHS has systematically discriminated against straight men, while giving special preference to lesbians.

Obama Campaign Aides Ban Voter Interviews Outside Rally

Dave Davies of Newsworks.org reports that Obama campaign aides banned him from talking to voters outside a campaign rally. The aides would not identify themselves, and cited vague “security reasons” for their censorship. This act of disallowing the press to interview potential voters outside a campaign rally is unprecedented.

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Romney: Obama, Take Your Campaign Out Of The Gutter

At a campaign rally, Mitt Romney accused Barack Obama’s campaign of being “in the gutter,” and called for an issue-based election.

RNC Chairman Priebus: Obama Raiding Medicare

RNC Chairman Reince Priebus accuses President Obama of raiding and bankrupting Medicare, and contrasts that with Mitt Romney’s plan to save Medicare.

Israel To Attack Iran Before US Election?

RT News reports that Israel is weighing the option of making a strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities before the U.S. election in November. Beyond the obvious security implications this would have for the region, this strike could have a great impact on the American election.

Romney Campaign Releases First Romney/Ryan Video

Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign releases its first video with new VP nominee Paul Ryan.