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Fox News Poll Shows Obama Widening Lead Over Presumptive GOP Presidential Nominee Mitt Romney

August 9, 2012 by 1 Comment

Fox News reports that Obama’s lead over Mitt Romney is widening. Um, this must have been really hard for them to report, considering people like Sean Hannity, Gretchen Carlson, Steve Doocy, Brian Kilmeade, Mike Huckabee and Bill O’Reilly, as well their so-called pundits, can’t bear the thought of Obama much less dropping his name on the set.

The president would take 49 percent of the vote compared to Romney’s 40 percent in a head-to-head matchup if the election were held today, the poll found. Last month, Obama had a four percentage-point edge of 45 percent to 41 percent. This marks the second time this year the president has had a lead outside the poll’s margin of sampling error.

Obama’s advantage comes largely from increased support among independents, who now pick him over Romney by 11 percentage points. Some 30 percent of independents are undecided. Last month, Obama had a four-point edge among independents, while Romney had the advantage from April through early June.

There was also an uptick in support for Obama among women, blacks and Democrats. Source

A CNN poll also shows Obama leading Romney, holding a seven-point lead. Some scoffed at Nate Silver’s assessment earlier this week that Obama could win by a landslide. While I don’t think that will be the case, I do think he will manage to win reelection, barring any scandals. Mitt Romney was bloodied by Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich during the primary season and Obama just picked up where they left off. They defined Mitt Romney even before the Obama team got to him.

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Obama Campaign Adviser: “Romney Failed to Define Himself to Voters, Now Vulnerable to Whole Range of Questions”

August 5, 2012 by 3 Comments

Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod tells Fox News’ Chris Wallace Mitt Romney has failed to define himself to voters and has “left himself vulnerable to a whole range of questions.”

“Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace, citing a recent Quinnipac/CBS/NYT poll that showed Obama hitting 50 percent in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida, asked Axelrod if he thought the Obama camp’s negative ads about Romney’s offshore finances and business record, among other things, had been successful in defining him to voters.

“Well, I’d put it another way: he hasn’t been very successful in defining himself to voters,” Axelrod said. “And he’s left himself vulnerable to a whole range of questions that I think people are asking about him, and whether he’ll be the kind of advocate for the middle class, an advocate for their interests in this economy that they’re looking for in this election.” Source

The first rule of politics is never to let your opponent define you. On that one thing, Mitt Romney failed miserably. No matter what he says, most people doubt his words have an ounce of truth. The Obama campaign picked up where his fellow Republican presidential candidates — Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich — left off. During one debate, Rick Santorum said Romney was the worst candidate to go up against Barack Obama in the general election. Newt Gingrich slammed Romney on his Bain Capital years and the fact that jobs were actually lost not created during his tenure.

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Bill O’Reilly: Democrats Made Black Americans ‘Dependent’ On Government for Entitlements

July 17, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly is trying to sound smart again, saying the Democratic Party has made black Americans “dependent” on government entitlements. Um, remember Newt Gingrich called President Obama the “Welfare President.” Yeah, that’s Bill O’Reilly’s code word for calling Barack Obama the same thing.

During a segment on his Fox News show last night about African-American support for the Republican Party, host Bill O’Reilly asserted that the roughly 85-90 percent of African-Americans who regularly vote for Democrats only do so because Democrats have made them “dependent” on government “entitlements”:

WILLIE BROWN [FORMER SF MAYOR]: [Democrats] moved in and offered programs and policies that allowed African Americans to become incredibly dedicated and the anchor in many Democratic elections.

O’REILLY: Alright, but that’s a nice view if you’re a Democrat. But someone else would say the Democrats moved in and gave them all kinds of entitlements,making them dependent on the Democratic party and the state, which is not a good thing.

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Is Mitt Romney Forgetting the First Rule of Politics to Define Oneself Before Opponent Does?

July 9, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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Is Mitt Romney Forgetting the First Rule of Politics to Define Oneself Before Opponent Does? (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Is presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney forgetting the first rule of politics to define oneself before the opponent does? Um, he can’t define himself because he is out of touch with just about every American on Main Street and in line with people like David Koch. That’s evident from one of his donors in the Hamptons saying “lower income people don’t understand what’s going on,” according to Think Progress.

The Note: “One of the first rules of politics is to define yourself before your opponent does it for you. The Obama campaign has made this its mantra with a relentless focus on making Mitt Romney out to be something of a cross between Gordon Gekko and George W. Bush.”

Mitt Romney was largely ignored during the 2008 presidential campaign when voters chose John McCain over him. He didn’t define himself then and he hasn’t done so during the 2012 campaign. Former presidential candidates Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich dinged him pretty bad, painting him as a) the worst Republican candidate to go up against Obama in the general elections; and b) as someone who fired many workers during his stint as CEO of Bain Capital.

The Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee are just picking up where Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich left off. Mitt Romney hasn’t “walked the real streets” of America as he claims, otherwise, he would have defined himself from the 2008 presidential campaign. One thing I know is that he’s a very liberal Republican masquerading as an ultra conservative to get votes. Mitt Romney = RINO.

Is Mitt Romney Forgetting the First Rule of Politics to Define Oneself Before Opponent Does?
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Newt Gingrich Says “Obama Picking Fight on Economy Recipe for Disaster”

May 27, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Mitt Romney new best friend, former adversary Newt Gingrich is on “Meet the Press” trashing Obama, saying the president “picking a fight on the economy” is a recipe for disaster. He also added that he is the worst president on job creation since the Great Depression. President Obama is a hypocrite, in my view, for being in bed with the same private equity groups he has been assailing. Gingrich says Obama can’t fight over debt because he has created more debt and can’t fight over jobs because he hasn’t created any. Damn, that’s a slap but it rings hollow coming from someone who attacked Mitt Romney mercilessly on the campaign trail.

Gov. Romney drove up the largest per capita debt of any state in the U.S. His record isn’t a record of increasing private job creation, but the opposite, that’s according to the Democratic surrogate, Gov. Martin O’Malley. David Gregory reminded Newt Gingrich of his statement that his tenure at Bain Capital was a character issue. Um, Gingrich is dancing around that. He’s a less credible surrogate for Mitt Romney as Ron Paul would ever be.

Newt Gingrich claims Mitt Romney will get 40% of the Hispanic vote, as George W. Bush did, because Hispanics are more concerned about jobs, housing and education, not immigration. That’s a very bold prediction that won’t come to fruition, unless Obama absolutely bombs over the next few months. He also said Mitt Romney has a bold plan for educating poor blacks, Latinos and whites.

Gov. Martin O’Malley said Obama has created more jobs in less than four years than George W. Bush did in eight years.

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Report: Rick Santorum Suspending Presidential Campaign

April 10, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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Report: Rick Santorum Suspending Presidential Campaign. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

CBS is reporting sources are saying Rick Santorum suspending presidential campaign. Thank God this ridiculous side show is coming to an end. Now if Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul could just bow out like a decent person, the party could begin to heal from the horrible mudslinging we have seen in recent months. That’s if the damage hasn’t already been done. Santorum will deliver remarks from Gettysburg shortly. He has reportedly spoken to Mitt Romney, AKA Etch-A-Sketch dude already. No he can go back to being a Moderate Republican since he’s all but sure of being the nominee.

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Report: Rick Santorum Suspending Presidential Campaign (Twitter)

 

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More Trouble for Newt Gingrich as Think Tank Files for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Protection

April 5, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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More Trouble for Newt Gingrich as Think Tank Files for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Protection

Another blow to Newt Gingrich’s presidential aspirations comes as his think tank files for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection. The Center for Health Transformation, which reportedly has offices in Washington D.C., Atlanta and St. Louis, filed for bankruptcy in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Atlanta Wednesday. Download the filing here.

Emory University political science professor Merle Black said ”This ends his campaign. He’ll now be completely on the defensive about this,” the Atlanta Business Chronicle reports. The center listed estimated liabilities of $1 million to $10 million and 50 to 90 creditors.

But Stefan Passantino, national counsel for the Gingrich campaign, said the bankruptcy didn’t happen on Gingrich’s watch. As part of his preparations to run for president, Gingrich divested himself of any involvement in the think tank’s operations last May, Passantino said. “I don’t think this hurts his ability to run for president,” Passantino said. “If anything, it shows the importance of his leadership while he was there.” Source: Atlanta Business Chronicle

No matter how he spins it, this bankruptcy filing comes at a critical juncture for Newt Gingrich in the presidential campaign process as he was shellacked in the last three primaries by wide margins. This bankruptcy filing is further proof that Newt Gingrich isn’t equipped to run this country. If he can’t run his not-for-profit organization, then how can he be trusted to run this country?

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Newt Gingrich New Campaign Strategy is to Sabotage Mitt Romney in Tampa at Republican National Convention

March 14, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Newt Gingrich knows he can’t win the GOP presidential nomination, so he will do the next best thing in his mind — sabotage Mitt Romney any way he can, particularly at the Republican National Convention in Tampa.

Patricia Murphy:  Newt Gingrich tipped his hand last night at “his campaign’s real strategy, which is no longer to win to nomination outright but to make Mitt Romney lose by denying him the 1,144 delegates he needs to clinch the GOP nomination before the Republican convention in August.”

“Gingrich has grown increasingly bitter toward Romney throughout the campaign, as the former Massachusetts governor has unloaded a barrage of attacks against the former speaker and, Gingrich believes, hurt his showings at the polls in the process.”

National Journal: ”Governor Romney will get at most one out of every three delegates. Once again he will fall dramatically short … I think that the odds against his being able to get 1,144 delegates is very, very high. I think he is more likely to be a front-runner who ends up not finishing the race.” (Quoting Newt Gingrich)

Still think this man is a viable candidate for the White House? If he can’t get his way, he resorts to dirty politics, much like his stint as Speaker of the House. He badmouthed Ronald Reagan then and is acting as though he is the legitimate heir to his legacy. What a narcissist!

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Democratic Strategist Paul Begala: Mitt Romney “Gone from Inevitable to Unelectable” with Rick Santorum AL, MS Wins

March 14, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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Democratic Strategist Paul Begala: Mitt Romney "Gone from Inevitable to Unelectable" with Rick Santorum AL, MS Wins (New Yorker)

Democratic strategist Paul Begala is calling on Mitt Romney to drop out of the race for the GOP presidential nomination. He has proven that he can’t win the tough states by big margins during the primaries, so imagine if he were to go up against President Obama? Rick Santorum, with all the crazy comments emanating from his lips, is winning primaries in the more conservative states, such as Alabama and Mississippi (though Mississippi is still stuck in the dark ages, with 29% frowning upon interracial marriages).

His take is actually hilarious, but true — Mitt Romney should be strapped like his dog in his doghouse on the top of one of his Cadillacs and be driven off to one of his many mansions. Funny!

Paul Begala: “Let me be the first to call on Mitt Romney to get out of the race. By placing third in Alabama and Mississippi, losing to Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich in both states, Romney has gone from inevitable to unelectable. Somebody strap him to the roof of one of his Cadillacs and drive him off to one of his many mansions.”

“One of the great legends of political consulting is the Dog Food Problem: an apocryphal tale of a company that had the best packaging, the best advertising, the best marketing. But there was only one problem: the dog wouldn’t eat it. Forevermore we should no longer call it a Dog Food Problem. We should call it a Mitt Romney Problem.”

The New Yorker had a picture of Mitt Romney strapping Rick Santorum to the top of his car, it should probably be the other way around. Assailing President Obama isn’t getting Mitt Romney anywhere. People just don’t like this man and don’t trust him. Either way, I have to echo Barbara Bush’s sentiments, this the worst presidential campaign I have seen in a long time.

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Newt Gingrich at a Loss for Words When Confronted by Wolf Blitzer on George W. Bush 2008 Apology for Koran Burning

February 29, 2012 by 1 Comment

Republican hypocrisy — Former president George W. Bush apologized for U.S. troops burning Korans (Qurans) in 2008 and I can’t recall hearing any outrage expressed then as we are seeing with Obama’s apology, which he called “inadvertent,” for a similar action. Personally, I don’t believe Bush should have apologized in 2008 and Obama in 2012, but it’s the hypocrisy of the GOP presidential candidates I find despicable. Rick Santorum, who can’t stay on message, said Obama’s apology “shows weakness,” though he admitted the troops’ actions were a mistake, while Newt Gingrich said the president “surrendered.” “There seems to be nothing that radical Islamists can do to get Barack Obama’s attention in a negative way,” Gingrich said, “and he is consistently apologizing to people who do not deserve the apology of the president of the United States, period.” Um, exactly what did President George W. Bush do when he apologized?

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer asked Gingrich yesterday if that standard also applies to President Bush, he was at a loss for words. Um, he didn’t realize that we are living in a technological age where everything that’s said and done is captured somewhere and can be pulled out at the drop of a hat. Gingrich’s lame response was, “I wasn’t a presidential candidate at that point.” Wow, HYPOCRISY in all caps. What I find reprehensible is the fact that we have a bunch of mediocre candidates masquerading as presidential material. To all my Republican readers, who support Newt Gingrich, just so you won’t say I’m getting in the muck, here’s the clip of Newt Gingrich waffling when confronted by Wolf Blitzer:

Newt Gingrich at a Loss for Words When Confronted by Wolf Blitzer on George W. Bush 2008 Apology for Koran Burning
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