Prez Politics ’12

Obama’s Looking a Little Dog-Eared: Another Fraudian Slip?

May 24, 2012

American Thinker, which deconstructed Obama well ahead of the curve, and long before Dinesh DeSouza (example here), is now busily deconstructing the fraudulent images of his presidency, if indeed it IS his presidency. Mara Zebest is a Photoshop expert, author of several books on the topic, and has been observing some odd features of official White [ Read more ]

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42% Of Democrats Prefer NoBama!

May 23, 2012

UPDATED with map and video. Obama by the Numbers 2012 – When more than 40% of Democrat Primary voters (the most enthusiastic Democrats) simply cannot bring themselves to vote for Obama, he may truly have jumped the shark! Arkansas has an open primary, so it’s just possible that mischievous Republicans may have skewed the results, [ Read more ]

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Cartoon(s) of the Day – Bain vs Bane!

May 21, 2012
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Romney Channels His Inner…… Thatcher???

May 4, 2012

Now that Mitt Romney has turned his attention to defeating Barack Obama, instead of destroying other Republicans, I must grudgingly admit that he seems to “get it”, especially after today’s article in The Hill, where he mocked Obama’s ‘new’ communist campaign slogan ‘Forward, what, over the cliff?’. But then I saw this campaign video, and [ Read more ]

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FORWARD! Off the Cliff With the Truth Team

May 3, 2012

UPDATE: Yet more forward-looking cartoons after the jump UPDATE 2: Even Mitt R-Money gets it ‘Forward, what, over the cliff?’ H/T THE HILL Another gift that keeps on giving – the Obama campaign seems to lurch from dog-in-mouth moments to foot-in-mouth moments with great ease this season – even without (ahem) unleashing Joe the Gaffer, [ Read more ]

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FORWARD: Socialism or Death! Are You Serious Mr President? Are You Serious?

April 30, 2012

Barry the Marxist and Joe the Gaffer rolled out a new campaign slogan today, but just like most ideas from the left, it has an old and tarnished history. H/T the Drudge Report, for picking up on the Washington Times article titled New Obama Slogan Has Long Ties To Marxism, Socialism, and adding the rather [ Read more ]

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Cartoon of the Day: Etch-a-Sketch, the Gift that Keeps on Giving

March 22, 2012

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Santorum Blogger Conference Call on Obamacare and Consistency

March 22, 2012

This afternoon, Granite Grok was one of a select number of conservative bloggers on a conference call with Senator Rick Santorum, and several of us got to ask questions of the candidate – the transcript is the best approximation that my typing skills could muster, and thanks to Pete, DaTechGuy, for some corrections: Senator Santorum: [ Read more ]

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Romney’s Core Convictions? Try Etch-a-Sketch!

March 21, 2012

What a gold mine for his opponents, all the way from Rick Santorum to Barack Obama! Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom managed to out gaffe “Joe the Gaffer” Biden this morning when he said (paraphrasing)  ”positions pushed too far right in the primaries? No problem you can reset them, like an Etch-a-Sketch – just shake ‘em up”!! [ Read more ]

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Santorum Press Call re Super Tuesday and OH

March 5, 2012

Abbreviated transcript of a press conference call with the Santorum campaign this afternoon: Feeling good , within margin of error in OH, in spite of being outspent 12:1 People of OH have figured out that this election is about freedom. Recent revelations have shown that Romney advocated, not just for individual mandate, but he continued [ Read more ]

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Stacy Goes to Hell (MI): All in the Interests of Journalism, Of Course!

February 26, 2012

As hinted in the prior post, Stacy McCain’s Saturday night plans involved a trip to Hell, Michigan to check out the local denizens of the dark, where he found that he was altogether overdressed for the occasion. Being, of course, compelled to keep an ear open for political discourse, he concluded, based on a random [ Read more ]

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On the Road Again: Stacy McCain Follows the Campaign Trail to Super Tuesday

February 26, 2012

Grok friend, Robert Stacy (The Other) McCain, a devotee of the Hunter S Thompson school of Gonzo Journalism, is on the road again in pursuit of news and unusual angles along the primary trail to Super Tuesday. (Thanks to Bob Belvedere at Camp of the Saints for the picture.) True to the Gonzo style, Stacy [ Read more ]

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CPAC Straw Poll: We Want Mittens with Principles!!

February 13, 2012

Yeah, that makes no sense, but that’s the conundrum posed by the CPAC Straw Poll results this weekend. The poll was conducted in two parts, CPAC attendees and National. A unique ID was provided to each registrant, and 3408 of the approximately 10,000 attendees voted. Link to the charts is below, but here is the [ Read more ]

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Mr Clean Makes a Sweep, Thankyou BarryO

February 8, 2012

As the final caucus results roll in on this first Tuesday night in February, it is looking more and more like  Rick Santorum will sweep Missouri, Minnesota, and come close, if not first in Colorado. Santorum trounced poor Mittens by 30% in MO, 18% in MN, and was running neck and neck in CO, with [ Read more ]

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Herman Cain Endorses Newt Gingrich

January 29, 2012

Newt Gingrich spoke at the Lincoln Day Dinner at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, West Palm Beach, Florida, where he was endorsed by former candidate Herman Cain. Other speakers included Rep. Allen West (R-FL), & Sid Dinerstein, Palm Beach County Republican Party Chairman. Click here for just the Cain segment (Video Courtesy C-SPAN)

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What Happened at the Reagan Revolution?

January 27, 2012

Mitt Romney has gone to great lengths to belittle Gingrich’s role in the Reagan revolution, even having an aide check the index of Reagan’s diary to find “just one reference” to Newt. Problem is, that speed reading to find what you want to believe, leads you to overlook everything else. In fact, the people who [ Read more ]

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Not So Lucky Talisman – Wipeout in SC

January 22, 2012

The best laid plans of gnomes and men were not enough to save Mittens from a hubristic wipeout in South Carolina Saturday evening. First he claimed the momentum and inevitability after NH, then, as he saw Newt’s numbers rebounding, Romney called in the surrogate attackers, and finally he tried to backpedal expectations – all to no avail. Newt’s margin of victory was [ Read more ]

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Reporting from SC: Can Mittens be Stopped? Is This Newt’s Night? Can Santorum Surge? (again)

January 21, 2012

Update 9pm: Mittens was stopped It IS Newt’s night! Santorum surged past Ron Paul, but no further. Live coverage from Stacy all evening Time for another plug for our other roving friend, real shoe-leather reporter, and first class writer, Robert Stacy McCain, AKA TheOtherMcCain. Refreshed by a luxurious two day break at home in Maryland, [ Read more ]

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You’ll Never Roam Alone: Mittens Gets Help in SC

January 21, 2012

Our very own traveling gnome has been spotted on location this week, wintering in southern climes, where he *may*  have been overheard saying: “READ MY LIPS, NO NEWT SUCCESS!” In fact, in a moment of rich irony, the man who would rule over our choices of candidates and party chairs, said of Gingrich “Look, this [ Read more ]

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Running Out of Asterisks – Huntsman Quits

January 16, 2012

It’s not often you’ll find a story on these hallowed pages which references the NY Times, but thanks to a hat-tip from Stacy, The Other McCain, we have confirmation that Gov Jon Huntsman has bowed to reality and will quit the GOP Presidential race, and will be making an endorsement tomorrow,  Monday,  of fellow moderate, Mitt [ Read more ]

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