SHOCKER: Ohioans Really Believe Romney A Viable Human

I love to watch people swoon over polls. Just as the military made up the bulk of the beginning of the anti-war movement leading up to the Vietnam War, today's campaign professionals know a pig in a poke when they see one, polls.

Such luminaries of the polling world as the New York Times and the Washington Post have been wrong so many times as to convince watchers to bet against them every time because the odds against being right. It's easy to bet against in-kind political contributions when they are transparent lies. That local news outlets simply pass on the lies is a given, especially in these cut-and-paste days of no reporting.

In the 2012 presidential campaign these same in-kind contributions are being made again all over the country and especially so here in Ohio where The Washington Post has Obama up by 8 points. Maybe in downtown Toledo where Obama should be up by 16 points if there were any people living in downtown Toledo.

The press in its herd mentality has been reporting on Romney's "worst week" as if it were true because that is what they do to help their guy. The week was so incredibly bad for Romney that Obama needs a +10 Democrat weight in the polling to have a slight edge, but it must be reported that Obama is up by 8 so that republicans get depressed and the Romney campaign must spend more money to counteract such lies. That is campaigning here in Ohio, Romney VS Obama and his lapdog media.

How to account for the massive crowds appearing at Romney, Paul or Romney/Paul rallies here in Ohio? Simple, in this "new" campaigning, voters don't believe the media nor their polls. In short, the voter knows they are being lied to because it is the new norm which they do not like, but accept as reality. They accept that they cannot change. They cannot change that they have no longer are a part of because the voter has left the mainstream Republican and Democrat process because they see it for what it is. Fixed. The old guard wants to control Romney, but with his pick of Ryan he quietly told them, "No, thank you." Now they take pot shots at him, his campaign and what he says.

Ohio believes Romney to be a decent man and a good candidate. Ohioans really believe Romney a viable human. They also believe he can beat Obama. I know I do.

Big(ger) Government

Review 2011 Election/Preview of 2012 Election Thoughts

After the elections yesterday I thought this explanation should be repeated.

• Democrats  don't understand THE DEBT CEILING.
• Republicans don't understand THE DEBT CEILING.
• Liberals don't understand THE DEBT CEILING.
• Neocons don't understand THE DEBT CEILING.

Allow me to explain

Let's say, you come home from work and find there has been a sewer backup in your neighborhood.

Your home has sewage all the way up to your ceilings.

What do you think you should do? Raise the ceilings or pump out the crap?

Your choice is coming next November. Don't miss the opportunity.


via Curmudgeonly & Skeptical which is a great site.

Huntsman Is Toast

Michael Moore likes Huntsman!

Now he is directing his outrage at President Obama, a man he helped win office in 2008. “I don’t understand why he’s chosen the path he’s chosen, why he did not come in fighting for the working people of this country,” Moore tells Newsweek. “He could have been a great president. He could have pulled us back from the abyss.” Instead, “he came in more as Neville Chamberlain, wanting to appease Republicans.” Moore hasn’t even decided whether he’ll vote for Obama again in 2012; he likes Jon Huntsman on the Republican side, saying “it’s crazy time over there” and Huntsman is the only “sane candidate.” “If the Republicans were smart, they would nominate [him].”

Maybe Moore will produce some more propaganda, but this time for Huntsman the faux Republican. Heck, Moore might double Huntsman's numbers up to 2%. No matter, Huntsman is toast.

A Tale Of Two Cities

and one president

Miami-Dade mayor ousted in recall vote; anger over tax hike...

Denver City Council endorses 6.6% pay raise for elected officials...
Obama team fixated on re-election...

It was the worst of times, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was
the season of Darkness, it it was the winter of despair, we had nothing before
us, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far
like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its
being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison
only.  

Apologies to Dickens, but even he had no understanding of the true depths of political stupidity.

Cut $100 Billion? Why Not $500 Billion? A Trillion?

Government has grown by ridiculous proportions since Team Obama took over, but government has grown massively for 20 plus years including when Republicans had control.

Republicans promise $100 billion in spending cuts


If the personage in Congress and the White House don't understand the concept of limited government they might pick up a copy of the United States Constitution and since they are not busy reading the legislation they are passing maybe the could bone up on what our founders had to say about the correct role of government.
 
Yeah, like that is going to happen. They could have one of their $120,000 staffers read to them. If those people can read.

“Cloward-Piven strategy wasn’t exactly a brilliant success”

via Instapundit

Yes, it was. Welfare rolls doubled. “Necessary” programs were added and expanded into areas that governments had never ventured before creating whole new classes of beneficiaries, now, including those living illegally in America.

The Cloward-Piven strategy was adopted, altered and put to work in our education system from K to advanced degree programs, used to build union enrollment and became the strategy de jour of our political, both Republican and Democrat, class in state houses and Washington, DC. The Cloward-Piven crowd sat back in smug enjoyment and plotted to expand it even more as movements such as AGW, anarchists and self incited (insert aggrieved party name) and other groups flood the system with not only their problems, but their self appointed resolutions which stripped down were/are merely the amount of the acceptable bribe (with a COLA built in).

Having a Congress here and there throw a setback now and again did not stop the misunderstood juggernaut that continues to tear our nation apart. Which brings us to today with Kucinich, Waters, Schumer, Boxer, Pelosi, Reid and Obama.

Cloward-Pivens is healthy and alive and will be much harder to kill today than before as even a stake through their black hearts may not be enough and shame is a garlic that has no effect.

What I Got For Christmas

I got few presents because for us it is more about family and the birth of Jesus. What I received is useful, nice and actually what I wanted.

I also got some presents I didn't want, don't need and are as useless as the governance we've been creeping towards since the "I Like Ike" era.

I got reporters that continue to lie about everything under the sun and beyond.

I got Republicans that think Obama will be just fine.

I got a lame duck that should've been put out of its misery before it got lame.

I got clueless Republicans.

I got a refurbished death panel.

I got a lot of things I wish I could return tomorrow.

UPDATE: The comics at the NYT just dropped another present in my lap.

How Much Will Lame Ducks Gregg & Voinovich Screw Republicans & The Country

First DADT, then the odious food bill written to kill the family farm amd now we have the obviously Russian written START treaty.

Dems reach magic number on arms treaty as GOP support builds

“I’m leaning toward supporting the treaty but I want to makes sure our side gets a fair hearing,” Sen. Judd Gregg (N.H.) said.

Sen. George Voinovich of Ohio: “I support it.”


It's quite a legacy these people are leaving with this type of anti-Republican which are anti-America votes.

If States Like Ohio Want To Gain Population And Business They Must Go Conservative

Yep, states are losing population which leave soon after liberals impose their policies which drives business out state. And liberals don't get it.

New population count may complicate Obama 2012 bid

The only way possible for a state to rebound is with a good business environment which will bring a good environment of quality life. Ohio is a perfect example of how to ruin a state which liberal tax and spend policies have been pursued by Democrats and RINOs.

House Passes Dream Act Debacle By 18 Votes, 8 Repubs Yes, 11 Repubs Didn't Bother To Vote

The 216-198 roll call Wednesday by which the House passed the so-called Dream Act to give hundreds of thousands of foreign-born youngsters brought to the U.S. illegally a shot at legal status.

A "yes" vote is a vote to pass the bill.
Voting yes were 208 Democrats and 8 Republicans.
Voting no were 38 Democrats and 160 Republicans.
X denotes those not voting.
There is 1 vacancy in the 435-member House.

8 'Republicans' voted to make illegal legal.
Ehlers MI (retiring)
Cao LA (defeated - Gen)
Djou HI 9defeated - Gen)
Diaz-Balart, L FL (retiring)
Diaz-Balart, M FL
Ros Lehtinen FL
Castle DE (defeated - Prim)
Inglis SC (defeated - Prim)

11 Republicans did NOT vote
Griffith AL (defeated - Sen Prim)
Bilbray CA
Radanovich CA (retiring)
Gingrey GA
Buyer IN (retiring)
Stutzman IN
Blunt MO (elected to Sen)
Fallin OK (elected Gov)
Granger TX
Marchant TX
McMorris Rodgers WA

That is 19 Republicans. The Dream Act passed by 18 votes.

Murkowski Still Doesn't Get It, But Why Would've Anybody Thought Otherwise

Murkowski (D -as in Daddy's Seat-AK) speaking of Sarah Palin.

Lisa Murkowski: Sarah Palin is no leader

"I'm still her senator. I'm going to work hard to represent her too. We don't really have much of a relationship."
Murkowski represents everything wrong in DC for many reasons, but her arrogant calculation to defeat (probably) the duly nominated Republican candidate Joe Miller, her feeling of self-entitlement and her snotty cat scratching at her opponents tell me that she hasn't a clue.


As for leadership, few people of quality ever follow a leader that is so arrogant or insecure that they feel the need to puff themselves up by putting their opponents down. I wouldn't follow a leader such as that for any reason. I think we fought a war once about hereditary leadership. They thought they were invincible too, especially against rubes and nobodies. They got their ass kicked.

Sorry Charlie! Only The Best Tuna....

Crist: No regrets on quitting GOP

Nor do we.

The Real 'Shellacking' The Democrats Got

In terms of legislation (including push back of legislation on states by the US Congress), the deep replenishing of the Republican back bench and a rejection of progressive statist crap, the Democrats totally lost on redistricting. Good.

State legislatures before the 2010 election

State legislatures after the 2010 election

These elections have set the liberal agenda back at least 10 years which is absolutely great news for Americans. The incredible rejection at the local level will not only affect legislation at the local, but also at the state and federal levels. The take over of so many state legislatures by Republicans will also decide which party will lose seats due to redistricting, but also which party will gain seats in those states with a growing population. Here in Ohio there will be a loss of two congressional seats because people have fled the liberal/progressive assault on business and individuals through taxation and repressive control of the citizenry. Because of the election Republicans will now decide which two seats will be erased from our congressional map.

If Republicans act like as republicans, not some smug hierarchical country club like Roman Senators from the Palatine, we will set the progressive agenda back for a generation in 2012.

What Will Doom Republicans And Democrats In 2012?

One can surf to find whatever du jour formula is needed for Republicans or Democrats to succeed in 2012. That's cool, but it's eying the bark on the tree in front of you instead of seeing the forest.

Democrats will fail if they continue to act as they have.

Republicans will fail if they continue to act as they have.

Murkowski Is Like Crist: Screw'em. Give Me The Power And The Money

NRSC Triptik

Murkowski, like Crist of Florida, might be busy proving that they are little republican in the Republican Party that believe only in themselves and are only out for themselves. That the NRSC is assisting her in undermining real Republicans in Alaska is a sign of bureaucratic bloatedness and comfort in positions they feel are no longer answerable to Republican voters nationwide.

300,000 - 500,000 people in front of the Lincoln Memorial feel differently. The left is paying close attention to that rally to find imagined racism and any other fault they can find. The Republican power elites seem to not only have not heard of the rally, but seem to have forgotten where the Lincoln Memorial is sited. If they were to find the memorial they'd be able to read Lincoln's words and then possibly find their way back to believing in what the Republican Party stands for.

If they don't know where the Lincoln Memorial is they just have to remember the next time they go to the Public Affairs Office for the US Mint for some coin, that they continue on west to their favorite, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Then hop back on Independence Ave going west until they see the Lincoln Memorial on the right. Maybe it might be more simple to just ask any tourist in town to guide them.

Once there they will find Lincoln quotes such as, "Allow all the governed an equal voice in the government, and that, and that only, is self-government," which is actually part of this quote, "I have quoted so much at this time merely to show that, according to our ancient faith, the just powers of governments are derived from the consent of the governed. Now the relation of master and slave is pro tanto a total violation of this principle. The master not only governs the slave without his consent, but he governs him by a set of rules altogether different from those which he prescribes for himself. Allow all the governed an equal voice in the government, and that, and that only, is self-government."

Remember the "just powers of government" part of the quote if remembering all of it is just too much.

Short Debrief Of Kagan Confirmation

Via Paco

The five Republicans voting yes were the Maine dames and three testicular atrophy cases led by (who else?) Lindsey Graham.

Elena Kagan 112th Member Of The SCOTUS - Oh Crap, Thanks RINOs

Finding possibly the worst candidate for the Supreme Court of the US is something a community organizer would be good at, but getting her put in place takes geniuses like the group of RINOs who didn't even fight for our country.

Elena Kagan, the 112th U.S. Supreme Court Justice

The five Republicans who supported Kagan were Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Richard Lugar of Indiana and Judd Gregg of New Hampshire.

So now we have a community organizer that can't organize as president and a supreme court judge that knows nothing of the bench sitting on the highest court in the land. At least Obama will be gone soon, but Kagan will be there long enough to subject the US to the World Court thus demoting her and her fellow Supremes to the next highest court in the land.

LeBron Gone - Thanks Democrats

When I left to work in Manhattan and then Washington DC, Ohio had one of the lowest tax rates in America. When I returned I was shocked to find out what had happened to my state. Ohio more closely resembled the People's Republic of Montgomery County , Maryland than the people and business friendly state I had left years before.

Taxes mean never having to say you're sorry... for leaving

We come not to praise or bury LeBron James, but only to note that by moving to Miami he's going to save a bundle on taxes. ... Florida has no income tax. The rate in Akron, Ohio is a little over 7%.

Mr. James figures to earn close to $100 million in salary over five seasons in Miami. According to an analysis by Richard Vedder, an economist at Ohio University, Mr. James's net present value tax savings on his salary are between $6 million and $8 million by living in Miami versus his home town of Akron. Professional athletes do have to pay other state taxes for the dates they play in visiting team arenas, but most of Mr. James's considerable endorsement income would be taxed at Florida rates.

The tax comparisons looked even worse for two other teams in the LeBron bidding, the New York Knicks and New Jersey Nets. ... While LeBron's departure got extraordinary media attention, it is hardly unique. In the early 1990s, Ohio was the home of 43 Fortune 500 companies. Twenty years later the number is 24. Census Bureau data show that from 2004-2008 Ohio saw a net outmigration of $6 billion of income and some 97,000 taxpayers. Even Ohio's famously liberal Senator, the late Howard Metzenbaum, moved to Florida late in his life to reduce his estate taxes. (emphasis mine)

We feel for Cleveland fans, but maybe they should allocate some of their wrath to the state politicians who keep driving high-income individuals and their businesses to financially sunnier climes.

Maybe LeBron left to be with his playmates, but Ohio taxes made it an easier decision. Just ask Howard.

Who Says Pols Can't Do Honest Work?

Abramoff, From Prison to a Pizzeria Job

Personally, I would have him shoveling      out of barns. With his hands.