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FaceBook Doodlings: Libertarians & Free Staters: let me amplify what Tim said about Tuesday

Tim put up this post, urging movement Libertarians to consider how they’d be voting on Tuesday:

If you are a libertarian, or if you are a Free Stater, or if you just believe in limited government, individual freedom, and personal responsibility….

David Mamet, the famed playwright that was hard Left and just veered Right after finally realizing what the results of the Left have done, put it another way (even as he was speaking to Liberal Jews, it fits here):

Are you prepared to explain to your children not the principles upon which your vote is cast, but its probable effects upon them?

Go read the whole thing.  Tim’s post started a bit of a conversation on Facebook and I waded in (note: I’ve not been active on FB for a while but given the tenor (pretty much, I “went there”.  Now Leah was the main respondent and we’ve been friendly ever since we met when the TEA Party decided to “meet & greet” back in 2009 when Obama sojourned to Portsmouth, NH.  On FB, she expressed an attitude that many Libertarians seem to hold:  both Romney and Obama are pretty much communists and there’s no difference between them (and many view Romney as actually being worse).  The comment that set me off was one about Romney not being able to reverse what Obama has done:

“He is not a king, and cannot just make a pronouncement that he declares a law null and void.“

Have you not been paying attention!!  What the heck do you think Obama has actually been doing????  My response (edited to be more bloggish and a bit more expanded here):

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Obama: I will bankrupt the coal industry

When is the last time you saw a Gadsden Flag on a coal barge?  Remember what he said just before the last election? (H/T: Chicago Boyz via Instapundit)

Blogline of the Day – a take off on Joe Biden

Joe Biden, running mate of Obama, is oft heard to say “Obama is dead and GM is alive”.  Over at The Corner: “Chris Stevens is dead and the UAW’s pension plan is alive.“ That would be Ambassador Chris Stevens to Libya, murdered in Benghazi.  And the GM UAW union workers’ pensions are alive because the … Read more

It’s Time for Us to do Our Part

Four years ago was historic. The first black president was inaugurated. For the first time, a former First Lady became the Secretary of State. It was the first time the Democrats controlled the Oval Office, House of Representatives, and the Senate since the nineties. It was the first time I stopped yelling at the news and rolled my lazy butt off the couch and started actively participating in the political discourse (okay, that part’s not really historic).

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On Wednesday November 7th Can We Blame A Video…

Ten days of blaming a YouTube video for the coordinated al Qaeda terrorist attack that resulted in four dead Americans in Benghazi Libya may yet turn out to be true.  That video, or more precisely the White House cover-up, might well be the last straw that tips a significant number of voters away from Obama, … Read more

Coward. Politics over patriotism? No – politics over American lives

With more and more details about the murder of 4 Americans in Benghazi dribbling out, and nobody in the Obama Administration (White House, DoD, CIA, State) taking real responsibility for the “stand down” decision (“not us!!”) and the Mainstream press covering for them all in this worse-than-Watergate scandal), I am making the executive decision to … Read more

Keep the Change

A catchy Country Rock tune by Rayburn to carry you on to next Tuesday.     PJMedia

Which is the more important value?

Calling out what is true (Political Correctness be damned) or calling out Death? “Murder them, just don’t offend them…” (H/T: Liberal Logic 101)

NH Guv race – what’s the polling saying?

There’s LOTS of folks doing polls this year. I know this personally as every day I am getting between 2 and 8 calls / day wanting to know what I think (silly people, asking this ordinary schlub from Central New Hampsha, as if it mattered – heh!).  Of all the polls, I generally trust Rassmussen the most as they consistently ask likely voters versus just adults or registered voters.  Likely voters are the important ones, as they, of the three groups, will actually get into the car, drive to the polls, and actually cast their opinions to be tallied – remember, our voting percentages are nothing to raise a “Huzzah!” about in the vast majority of elections.  So getting those that do so give more accurate results.  Not only that, the others often end up with likely voters in their “election season ending” polls but use the other groups earlier on (it’s cheaper). Thus that is why you start seeing all of the polls start to congregate around the same numbers a week or two before the election – like we are doing now.

So, here in NH, what does Rasmussen say about the top races?

  • Romney over Obama: 50% to 48% (500 Likely Voters on 10/23, with 95% confidence level).  Margin: +/- 4.5%
  • Ovide over Maggie The Red: 48% to 46% (500 Likely Voters on 10/23, with 95% confident level).  Margin: 4.5%

Disclosure – I got called for this poll.  Also, I notice that Rasmussen also has 1% choosing another candidate.  Given the large number of Libertarians and rabid Ron Paul supporters in NH, I have consistently raised an eyebrow as to this low number (which has varies 1 – 5%). That said, it’s a toss up.  I have not “gotten out” this season like I have in the recent past (for a number of personal reason), so I’m not so sure that I have a handle on this one.  Certainly the Margin of Error for both says “Toss Up!”.  Certainly the absolute blizzard of political ads by both sides has injected name recognition into peoples minds (conscious or not) so I don’t think that this will be THE factor.

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Once again, the Dems role out kids as Political Fodder

You can tell when the Dems are either at the top of their form or are scared out of the wits.  With either extreme, they go back to the old trick in their book – roll out “the kids”.  Now, the Adults in the Room (pretty much, Conservatives and Libertarians) are pretty much disgusted with this, but the Dems keep thinking that this is smart politics – playing on Society’s and parents’ emotions.  If “Forward!”doesn’t get to you …”It’s for the kids” should.  After all, they are our future (and paying for our Social Security checks and checking us into our final nursing homes, right?) as if that is supposed to cover all ills – and ideologies.  Sure, we want to protect our kids and provide for them, but for Dems, they often are just mere political props.

Sidenote: “FORWARD!”  –  The new Obama campaign “phrase” updated with “!” as if that is supposed to make it more imperative to vote for Obamessiah.  You know what it makes me think of immediately?

  • A military commander urging his troops onward to battle to protect the homeland.  Imagine that: voting for Obama is Patriotism itself!
  • Didn’t somebody back in 1917 start using that as well?

Like here:

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Obama Watched Benghazi From Situation Room

Obama is reported to have been watching the Benghazi attack in real time.  If true, this adds a whole new layer to the lies, misdirection, and…oh yeah, lies.  Four Dead In Ben-Gha-zi.  

The “Let me be clear” President is Anything But

Let me be clear. The nation’s understanding of Benghazi-gate remains fuzzy at best.  We’re still experiencing this administration’s version of Chinese water torture as it slowly drips out information, one contradictory drop at at time.  We’re more than six weeks on, and all we have are more questions.

For a president who constantly says, “Let me be clear,” none of this is clear.  The Benghazi attack was the result of a video and a protest getting out of hand, then no, it was not. It was a spontaneous attack; no, it was planned.  The President kind of, sort of, may have referenced the Benghazi attack as an “act of terror” in the 9/12/2011 Rose Garden speech, or he was referencing the attacks 9/11/2001. It’s not clear. To make that even more unclear was Ambassador Rice, just a few days after the President’s Rose Garden speech, saying that it was a spontaneous event in response to the video leading one to believe that the administration didn’t believe the 9/11/12 attacks were an act of terror.  Of course this was again redressed when the moderator in the second presidential debate stepped in it and muddied the waters further.

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Data Point – Rasmussen

  Every day, Rasmussen has been polling likely voters (not just adults, not just registered, but LIKELY voters) as to their picks for Prez.  Now, like the stock market, today’s result is cannot be held to be tomorrow’s result.  However, when you start piling up all the other polls (but throwing those out that are … Read more

“Coquettish waif discussing electoral virginity” – the sequels are coming

That Steve – he certainly has his way with words, eh?  The video that Steve posted of Lena Dunham has received all kinds of attention today from the Right side of the blogosphere – and none of it positive.  Pretty much, it has made the faux Julia by the Obama campaign look tame by comparison.  For all of the sturm und drang by the Left about the War on Women by those of us on the Right, isn’t this much worse treatment?

Like many, when I first saw it, I was speechless – how much lower can these folks go?  Equating voting with sex?  Really?  I know that most would consider me to be a prude – no sex before marriage and only with your spouse.  So to listen to a young lady making double entendres in a loving voice towards Obama – and this is supposed to be Presidential?  Contrast that with George Bush who always wore a jacket and tie in honor of the Office.  Who really has the honor?

Obama saying that voting for him is like giving up one’s virginity? With him?  No, not all the words are there – but that is the intent, full on.

Hip, cool – and promiscuous with a married man.   I grew up before the “hook up” culture – I consider it part of the coarsening of the culture, an abandonment of most sense of morality, and a total lack of self-respect for oneself.  Really?  Sex for voting?  And this presents Obama….how?  And what about Michelle – his wife?  Will this go down as “I did not have sex with that woman” as part of his legacy?  The campaign set this table – and then invited everyone to have a seat.

Anyways, the parodies that you expected are now inbound (and frankly, Steve Crowder does a better than Lena at this…):

And this works well too(#ObamaAbstinence):

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Obama Flip – Flopper Deluxe

From the more than I dare cross-post file, we get the Obama flip-flopper deluxe from Hot Air.  Video of Dear Leader stating things he has since…evolved on.  It is only evolving when someone else does it. Too bad he’s not evolved past the epic historical failure of the brand of socialist government he favors for … Read more

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