Opinion: Dirty Harry

Wall Street Journal;  Editorial page editor Paul Gigot on Harry Reid's specious accusations that Mitt Romney didn't pay taxes for 10 years.

How low can Obama and his news media partners go?

Thomas Lifson writes in  American Thinker;  The Race to Define Ryan  "The question ahead for the Romney-Ryan ticket, and for America, is: can we have a an intelligent discussion on the budget, or will media-generated images, thoughts, and emotions (pushing  granny off a cliff being the most notorious) carry the day. Romney and Ryan are betting on the public thinking over the stakes, listening, and m aking an informed decision. The Obama camp and their media allies are betting on the ability to sway people with emotions, principally fear and loathing."

I hate to post Mr.Terrell's cartoons because it just encourages the guy, but I just can't help it.

Obama Lies, Claims Romney-Ryan Will Raise Your Taxes   "So suddenly the greatest tax-hiker in American presidential history, Barack Obama, is posing as a tax-cutter, and trying to position tax-cutters Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan as tax-hikers.

Here Come The Ryan Attacks: Old Media " It was a safe prediction that I made earlier this week that the Activist Old Media would work to destroy Mitt Romney's choice for vice president. The attacks began even before the early morning announcement of Paul Ryan."

Big Three Networks Ignore Lie-Filled Obama Ad Portraying Romney as Murderer  "For two straight days, now ABC, CBS, and NBC have not bothered to mention the roiling controversy over the lie-filled ad that Obama's Super PAC put out intimating that Mitt Romney killed a steel worker's wife. The ad is being called the nastiest, most misleading ad of this election cycle by newspapers, talk radio and even the cable news stations -- CNN and MSNBC both, yet -- but thus far the big three are ignoring the whole story."

In a separate TW Post: What Ryan Actually Says About Medicare  " The far left has already started a campaign to misinform the public about Paul Ryan's views about Medicare and how he supposedly wants to destroy the program."

NRO; The Very Predictable Playbook Against Paul Ryan  "In the national media narrative – perhaps best illustrated by the shorthand of Jay Leno’s monologue, which presumes that the audience has the barest-bone familiarity with national figures – every Republican figure is reduced to one of three things: Old, stupid, or evil.  
George H.W. Bush: Old. Dan Quayle: Stupid. Newt Gingrich: Evil. Pat Buchanan: Evil. Bob Dole: Old. George W. Bush: Stupid. Dick Cheney: Old and evil. John McCain: Old. Sarah Palin: Stupid."

What Ryan Actually Says About Medicare

Newsbusters  "The far left has already started a campaign to misinform the public about Paul Ryan's views about Medicare and how he supposedly wants to destroy the program. (The irony, of course, is that President Obama actually reduced funding of the program by $700 billion as part of his healthcare law.)

"Be that as it may, for those wondering what Ryan actually says about Medicare, National Review provides a helpful primer on the congressman's views, noting particularly that the newest Medicare proposal he's touting actually is quite a bit different from his older one:"

Newsbusters links us to this article from National Review Online:

The Return of Mediscare:  

....Any expert who looks at Ryan’s plan — any intelligent and fair-minded person, really — can tell you the actual worst-case scenario for how much more it could make beneficiaries pay: $0.

The claim Axelrod and Messina are making is based on a hostile interpretation of an earlier version of Ryan’s proposal. Ryan has changed the proposal over the last year, however, and Romney has endorsed the new version. The Democratic criticism, applied to the new plan, is indisputably false.....

"The Romney-Ryan proposal — which has the support of liberal Democratic senator Ron Wyden of Oregon — would let senior citizens choose a coverage plan provided either by the federal government or by a private company."

 Erskine Bowles says Ryan budget “sensible … honest, serious”   "Remember this when you start to hear the Obama campaign rip the Ryan budget as an unserious attempt to kill Medicare and allow rich people to feast on the bones of the poor.  Bowles has his own issues with Ryan’s plan (which at one point in the video below he calls “radical”), but Bowles acknowledges this as a good-faith effort to fix the structural crisis in American finances. "

Democrats: the epitome of civility

Remember these words to another president? 'A cancer within the cloak of the Presidency'...

Obama needs to walk the walk: denounce the outrageous super PAC ad

Tucson, January 13, 2011:  President Obama's Call For Civility ; the article quotes from the Washington Post

President Obama comforted a community suffused with grief and summoned the nation to recommit to a more civil public discourse as he delivered a eulogy Wednesday evening urging Americans to talk with each other 'in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.'

One year later,  Obama Calls for a New Era of Civility in U.S. Politics (NY Times)

(Above) Democrats Ignoring President's Call for Civility? Jan 2011; Fox News All-Star Panel   "Howard Dean... said openly, "I hate Republicans and everything they stand for." That is literally hate speech. I do not remember the times when the main stream media wagging a finger and pulling a chin about the rise of uncivil discourse at the time. So I don't take any of this seriously." Charles Krauthammer.

Cancer Ad Just the Beginning: Obama Super PAC Ready to Launch More 'Incendiary' Ads

(Updated) Lie of the Year 2011: 'Republicans voted to end Medicare'

Politifact  "But more often, Democrats and liberals overreached*:


• They ignored the fact that the Ryan plan would not affect people currently in Medicare -- or even the people 55 to 65 who would join the program in the next 10 years.

• They used harsh terms such as "end" and "kill" when the program would still exist, although in a privatized system.

• They used pictures and video of elderly people who clearly were too old to be affected by the Ryan plan. The DCCC video that aired four days after the vote featured an elderly man who had to take a job as a stripper to pay his medical bills.

* Overreached? Was it so hard to simply say Democrats lied? Speaking of which....

Apparently Schultz has a low opinion of our intelligence;  DNC Chief Wasserman Schultz Attacks Paul Ryan Using PolitiFact’s 2011 “Lie Of The Year,” Claims He Wants To “End Medicare As We Know It”…
Wasserman Schultz, addressing an estimated crowd of 40,000 union members, said that Ryan would “end Medicare as we know it,” and made an extended attack on his budget plan.

Hat tip to Weasel Zippers

Check this off the list: Hitler Finds Out Paul Ryan is the VP Pick

Conservative Daily News.   Language advisory in this.

What's yours is ours and what's ours is our government's

Obama’s First Children’s Book

Toby Toons via Red State

Stop Voter ID Laws – Stop Discriminating Against Dogs

CDN  "Yep, Buddy the voting dog. That is the most recent one, of course. Over the years there have been many stories of this kind, with people registering pets, and if memory serves, I think someone actually registered an inanimate object to vote. Now, the Dems might be trying to argue that voter fraud is not a major problem. It is true that a very small number of fraudulent ballots or voter registrations are caught each election cycle. However, it is foolish to think that is the real extent of fraud, because the current laws are far too lax to get an accurate picture of the problem. (Seriously folks? The fact that people can get away with registering their pets to vote doesn’t make you think twice on this?)  (Emphasis added)

The short voter is a registered Democrat.

Victor Davis Hanson: Obama in Never-Never Land

Victor Davis Hanson  " The chief tenet of postmodernism is that truth and facts are arbitrary constructs, set up by the privileged to manipulate others less fortunate. In the case of our first postmodernist president, Barack Obama, there cannot be facts, past or present, only a set of shifting assertions that gain credence to the degree that they prove transitorily useful for progressive causes.
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"But that was all more than three years in the past, and hundreds of “Make no mistake about it”s and “Let me be perfectly clear”s ago."
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"With President Obama there is neither a reality nor a standard, just words that so often have no connection to the real world, past or present."

http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/politicalcartoons/ig/Political-Cartoons/Let-Me-Be-Clear.htm

Obama's predictable first shot at Ryan

Rick Moran   "You might recall that President Obama harbors no love for Rep. Paul Ryan after the wonkish congressman sliced apart Obamacare during the 2010 health care summit.
"And, of course, the president and the Democrats spent the entire 2010 campaign running against Ryan's budget plan -- including a commercial that featured a Ryan lookalike pushing an old woman in a wheel chair over a cliff.

"So, the Obama campaign's first reaction to hearing the news about Ryan being chosen as Romney's running mate was both typical and predictable."

Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, speaking at the February 25, 2010, Bipartisan White House Summit on health care. Rep. Paul Ryan is a Budget Committee Ranking Member. Quote from Rep. Ryan "The American people are engaged, and if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them."

Getting the message out

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Obama vs. the State of Arizona

http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2012/08/homeland-security-watchdog/