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What Happens If Obama Wins?

Steve MacDonald

This is a direct question to my Libertarian leaning friends who claim to have a love of liberty so deep that they would rather watch it bleed out on the street than vote for Mitt Romney.  I get it.   I was never a huge Romney guy.  I was no fan of John McCain either but I understood he risk that Obama represented to liberty.  Not enough of us did and Obama was elected.

So here we are again, almost four years into the worst presidency ever, a world in chaos, economic, political, and that same guy wants four more years.   Is it really worth the risk?

And just to be clear, I do not care about your Gary Johnson or Ron Paul write-in fantasies.  We are way, way past that.  This is the real world. This is about putting Liberty on life support.  About keeping it breathing.   To stop the bleeding before there is nothign left to save.   And color it any way you want but voting for anyone but Romney (at this point) is a vote for Obama.  I don’t like it, but that’s how it is.  And while you are free to vote for whomever you like regardless, no matter what the risk, I want you to honestly answer this question first, before you go to the polls in November and risk it.

What Happens if Obama Wins?

(And for those intent on going off on some libertarian anti-Romney rant…The almighty says don’t change the subject just answer the F…ing Question.)

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New Hampshire: Romney 48% Obama 45%

Steve MacDonald

Rasmussen Reports shows Romney leading in its most recent poll in New Hampshire. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in New Hampshire shows Romney with 48% support to President Obama’s 45%. Four percent (4%) prefer some other candidate, and three percent (3%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.) My personal … Read more

This lady is p*ssed off!


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And I don’t blame her. Does the mainstream media suck? You betcha!

Conservatives for Obama? No, really….

I mean, I can at least see why maybe some conservatives may decide to vote for Gary Johnson, the national Libertarian Party’s Presidential candidate this year…. But then there’s Marty Begin, a   Nevada voter and “self-described conservative” quoted in today’s Wall Street Journal article about Mitt Romney. And…this guy says he’s going to vote for Obama. A “conservative”? Voting for Obama? I mean, helloooo…

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Mysterious Folder Conundrum

Steve MacDonald

Love Birds

Suppose you fall in love with someone who is good looking, well groomed, and has lots of potential.  Let’s say you two lovebirds decide to get married.  Giddiness and joy all around…congratulations.

One day, you are at the supermarket, casually buying grapes (so you can feed them to your love, like they do in the old-timey movies), when a shadowy person comes up behind you and hands you a sealed folder.  The mystery person whispers in your ear and says…

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Medicare Fraud – [Updated and Bumped – Again…]

Steve MacDonald

When I say “Medicare Fraud,” I’m not referring to the corrupt practices of people and professionals who are milking taxpayers by running fast circles around the bureaucratic behemoth that is Medicare.  I am referring to the left-wing Democrat lie-factory that has nothing in its barren campaign quiver but fear tactics.   That is the fraud I am referring to.   That and the fraud they will perpetrate on every aspect of the Ryan Budget.

I just hope Harry Reid has nothing to say about the Ryan budget…you know…that might get awkward.

Here’s a short clip from CBS news c/o Hot Air on Romney/Ryan and Medicare…

[Update(s) on the jump]

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Paul Ryan it is: “Hiding Spending Does Not Reduce Spending” (see below)

Bottom line: “We dont’ think government should be in control of all this. We think the people should be in control.” Watch this video; look at the facial expressions and body language of the two politicians to his left; look at the fear and loathing emanating from the other political class pigs around that table! YES!

Mitt Romney made a gaffe: He told the truth.

The Lamestream Media liars were stumbling all over themselves last week to convince everyone—perhaps even themselves—that Romney had committed a terrible gaffe! in Israel! Turns out he made the unexceptionable observation…

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Obama Is A Murderer [Updated]

Steve MacDonald

He is.  He even has a kill list.  They bragged about it.  Foreign terrorists have constitutional rights but killing American Citizens without a trial is not above Mr. Obama.  Yes, the Peace Prize winner has a kill list.  And he is using it. Meanwhile, that Obama Super PAC Ad about how Romney “Murdered” a Steel … Read more

A Rose By Any Other Name…

Steve MacDonald

This may sound like a strange observation but I think we can narrow down the field of potential Romney VP candidates based on how well their name sounds after “Romney.”  (I am amused by the notion that this might matter.)   Romney-Christie, for example, does not roll off the tongue the way “Romney-Ryan” would.   And let’s face it, Obama- Biden may one day be a slang term for economic destruction (if it is not already), but it rolls off the tongue as if it were a beautifully constructed expletive.

Drops hot Tuna casserole…”Obamabiden!”

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Hypocrisy 101 – How to deceive the American people, or at least try to.

Obama has come out swinging at Mitt Romney lately, trying to indict him of nasty capitalist behavior while at Bain Capital (which he apparently left in 1999). This commercial tries to blame Romney (along with Bain) for the closing of the Kansas City GST Steel plant in 2001. However, it appears that one of Obama’s … Read more

Data Point – 538 polling averages for NH

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Even though the national race seems to be widening (“don’t get cocky, kid!”), that may not spill over to every state.  Like I said here, the Prez race here in NH is going to be real close – a game of percentages for those Electoral College votes.  To show how close, I saw a link … Read more

Why is it so hard to get a simple answer to a simple question; has NH Romney Victory Fund Communication Director Tommy Schultz been taking lessons from Jay Carney?

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“Tell me, anyone see an answer to my original question in there?  Does anyone see a promise in there to the question I asked?  Does anyone see ANYTHING in there on illegal alien amnesty, the original topic?…This is like a Bible preaching Pastor given a zoning ordinance to influence what he preaches from his pulpit.”

We get campaign folks reaching out to us all the time – in the last few years the New Media has become more important in shaping and reporting on the news.  Certainly to the latter, we try to get off the proverbial couch and get out to the local events and provide coverage (part of our citizen journalism here at the ‘Grok).  To the latter, I still think that I like Jon Henke’s description of political bloggers and the advice he gives to politicians in dealing with bloggers (paraphased):

“Bloggers are like Pastors with a flock in their church.  That Pastor has sole control of that pulpit and does influence all those that come to listen to him make pronouncements and giving opinions that they will listen to.  Why?  They keep coming back, Sunday after Sunday, to listen for more.  They have learned to take those words and evaluate them for truthfulness; the fact that they keep coming back means they have vetted  those words.

So too with bloggers – they are not your followers and they are not your staffers.  Yes, they make like (or tolerate) you, but their first calling is to their readership and their independence.  They are the gatekeepers to the folks you are trying to reach.  Approach them as you would a Pastor –  or you may not like the result.”

Tommy Schultz, the NH Romney Victory Fund Communications Director (and yes, that is how he signs his emails; I asked if he wanted to be called Tom, Tommy or something else – he said Tommy) should have been given that advice before he called me.  He also should have listened better when I told him:

“Remember, I warned you that we go after both Rs & Ds (and savor every moment doing so).“

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Data Point – 2012 Presidential Poll

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Rasmussen puts out a daily poll on Presidential approval that I have been posting, well, a long time.  If Obama’s numbers keep going in this direction, he’s going to have a very long campaign season – and not a happy one.  A minus 22 means that 22% surpus of likely voters are signaling their disapproval … Read more

Venture Capitalism. Obama really wants to put up his record?

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Really?  Does Obama truly believe that just because his outlook is a  “government-centered”, that his version of venture capitalism using public tax money is better than private money?  Sure does – he keeps spending more and more of it.  Problem is, like many Progressives, he places more importance on the intent than the results:

(H/T: Hot Air )

It is rather amusing to watch the official Prez Press Flack Carney twisting behind the podium to explain this:

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2012 Presidential Campaign: Buddy has the right idea – will Paul or Johnson?

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We interviewed Buddy Roemer a lot during this primary season; he was a hoot to talk to and did have some interesting ideas.  But given that he is the former Governor of LA as well as one of its former Congressman (and building a billion dollar bank is no small feat), I always scratched my head wondering why he didn’t get even a wee bit more traction in the Republican field.  Then he decided to switch to that online “Party”, Americans Elect, and he kinda dropped off the radar screen.  But apparently, he kept us on his email list (emphasis mine):

Roemer Refuses to Play Spoiler

Baton Rouge, LA – Governor Buddy Roemer issued the following statement in regard to speculation of him being a “spoiler” for Governor Romney and/or President Obama:

…I run to win. I am not a single-issue candidate or someone who is merely trying to make a statement. I am not Ralph Nader. I am a former Governor of a corrupt state that I helped clean up; I am former four-term Congressman who worked closely with President Reagan to help our country; and for the last twenty years I have been a successful businessman creating jobs.

I am currently polling at 7% in the most recent national survey and I am confident once I receive the Americans Elect nomination that I can attain 15% standing which will then qualify me to participate in the national debates this fall. Obama, Romney and Roemer. Again, I run to win.

If, during the last month of the campaign I discover I have no realistic chance of winning, I will ask my supporters to vote their conscience or for their second choice so the issue of spoiler can be dropped once and for all.

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