Voting for Romney: A not so simple matter of priorities.

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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

A friend of mine and I talked over the holiday weekend. While she’s not at all happy with President Obama, she’s concerned about the Republican Party’s and Mitt Romney’s stands on social issues. She wonders about the politics of President Romney’s appointments to the Supreme Court, about his is being pro-life when she’s pro-choice, and about gay rights on which they disagree. Like so many people out there, she’s a socially liberal individual who understands the importance of electing a fiscal conservative, but isn’t sure she can compromise the one in order to do the latter.

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How to beat a well-funded Congressional incumbent with just two months to go.

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Monday, September 3, 2012

It’s Labor Day, the unofficial start of the campaign. It’s a date that assumes voters are less interested in the election than the media and the candidates who are running, and will zone out if you campaign full-bore for more than two months. Many people, poll results notwithstanding, including both the undecided and people leaning to one candidate or the other, won’t finalize their decisions until Election Day. This is a good thing for challengers who don’t want voters making up their minds too soon.

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The Mitt Romney Convention Video

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Friday, August 31, 2012

Hi. For those of you who were watching the Republican National Convention on one of the networks that didn’t begin its coverage until 10 PM ET, here’s a link to the video about Mitt Romney that you missed.

Mitt Romney Convention Video

if you’re undecided or open to reconsidering your vote for President Obama, and wanted to know more about Mitt Romney as a person, you should kick back and take the time to watch.

Thanks.

-Next Contestant

“Clear choice?” Is this commercial the best argument Bill Clinton can make for re-electing President Obama?

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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

If you watch TV, you’ve probably seen a commercial the Obama campaign is running featuring Bill Clinton. Here’s the link to the video if you need it. Let’s read through the text of the 30 second ad together, including my comments after each section. The ad copy is in italics and breaks between paragraphs are my own. Here goes…

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Dutch Ruppersberger v. Nancy Jacobs: Pandering for votes.

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Monday, August 27, 2012

Pandering is what many politicians do for a living. When you don’t understand or know how to solve a problem, when you don’t really care enough to do anything substantive about it or have the balls do be honest with your constituents, you pander.

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Bill Clinton: Dispelling the myth of his balancing the budget.

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Saturday, August 25, 2012

Those of you who have read yesterday’s article (“Bill Clinton: Economic policy genius or just lucky?”) may be saying to yourself, “Okay, he may not have created millions of jobs, but at least he balanced the budget!” Sorry to disappoint you, again. He never did, but he came close.

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Bill Clinton: Economic policy genius or just lucky?

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Thursday, August 23, 2012

I don’t know about you, but I’m soooo tired of hearing the President Obama and other Democrats boast about how many zillions of jobs Bill Clinton created when he was President. Give me a break. The man was anything but God’s gift to the Presidency. Bill Clinton just happened to be in the right place at the right time.

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“What?!” The basackward economics of President Obama.

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Thursday, August 23, 2012

The great American Middle Class is shrinking? Are we each, individually getting smaller? No, although there are some days lately when it feels like it. We’re losing income and wealth. While the precise definition of “Middle Class” is a bit fuzzy, what is clear is that this protracted recession is hurting everyone, some more than others, but everyone. And the effects for many of us are serious and long-lasting, the kind that take years, maybe even a generation or more, to reverse.

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The Alchemy of Stimulus Job Numbers: Spinning wishful thinking into election gold.

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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Ever wonder how it’s possible that stimulus spending has created so many jobs, and yet unemployment seems stuck above 8%? There are many reasons, of course, but one of the more obvious is that the President is overstating the number of jobs he claims to have created or saved.

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“Obamanomics.” Wishful thinking, positive spin or outright lies?

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Obama and Putin with ChartsWednesday, August 15, 2012

The next time the President or anyone running for high office drops a big number, would someone please ask him or her, “How do you know?” It’s a simple, entirely reasonable question. “How do you know?”

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