 | Romney seems suspect Oct 26th 2012, 14:17 One way to gauge the judgment of a potential president is to look at who they listen to for advice. By that measure, Mitt Romney seems suspect. Mitt should have called Nancy Reagan as a reference check on John Sununu, an arrogant bully, who was fired by a president who really hated firing people. Mr. Sununu has been largely absent from public life for 20 years, but Mitt Romney took him out of mothballs and installed him as co-chair of his campaign. His reward? Last night, Sununu said he thought Colin Powell's second endorsement of Obama for a second time is based on racial affinity. Sununu quickly reversed field, but it will remain one of the more infamous statements of this campaign, although somewhat overwhelmed by the fog of the campaign's frenzied final days. Read full article >>   | | Jennifer Rubin: Likable no more Oct 26th 2012, 13:45 Way back when President Obama was "likable" and Mitt Romney wasn't and the media were delighted to harp on the topic, Republicans would acknowledge, "Yup, he has a rotten record, but the voters sure do like him." They'd then shake their heads and express amazement. "Why do they like him?" Read full article >>   | | Geraldo on Libya: Stop 'preposterous' nonsense Oct 26th 2012, 13:37 Focus on why there wasn't enough security in Benghazi before the attack, urges Geraldo Rivera on today's "Fox & Friends." Focus on the intelligence failures, he says. But stop with the "preposterous" idea that some "fat bureaucrat" could have been watching the Benghazi attack via video feed and could have dispatched forces to save the U.S. personnel who died in the attack. And Geraldo insists that a full vetting of Benghazi needs to wait till after the election. That view didn't receive a favorable reception among the "Friends." Vintage Fox News stuff. Read full article >>   | | Greg Sargent: The Morning Plum: Romney's false scare story in Ohio Oct 26th 2012, 12:57 This created a stir last night on Twitter that has subsided. But it wouldn't be surprising if the Obama campaign seizes on it in coming days to close out its argument in Ohio. From the Detroit News: Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney told a rally in northern Ohio on Thursday night that Chrysler was considering moving production of its Jeep vehicles to China, apparently reacting to incorrect reports circulating online. Read full article >>   | | 'Obama told a whopper,' fact-checker quotes Woodward Oct 26th 2012, 12:54 Twentieth in a series of endless, tireless, exhaustive, hairsplitting, obsessive, resounding, never-before-attempted, conclusive posts on the fact-checking industry. The fact-checking industry, like all of journalism, has succumbed to the imperative of instantaneousness. The moment a debate or convention speech is concluded — even before! — competing fact-checkers are racing to place their verdicts on the Web. Sometimes the speed hurts, as in this AP fact-check that overstepped the evidence in the Obama "acts of terror" dispute following the Oct. 16 town-hall debate. We also rapped the Huffington Post for a cheesy quick-turnaround aggregated fact-check of the vice-presidential debate. Read full article >>   | | Jennifer Rubin: What will close the deal for Romney? Oct 26th 2012, 12:45 Time is running out. The candidates need to make their final sales pitches, and their organizations must now turn out their voters. In Iowa today Mitt Romney will give what is perhaps his last major speech of the campaign on the economy. The campaign describes the speech this way: "Governor Romney will present his argument to the American people that we are at an inflection point in the history of the country. Our growing national debt and unfunded liabilities will soon be unsustainable, while our economy is struggling under the weight of government policies that are stifling economic growth and job creation. He will make the case that his Plan for a Stronger Middle Class and his experience in creating private sector jobs, in rescuing the Olympics, and as Governor of Massachusetts offer the best path to success in the wake of the failure of the last four years." Read full article >>   | | Obama plays to the coarse, ignorant vote Oct 26th 2012, 12:21 What is President Obama doing? What votes is he trying to get? I said last week he had better find ways to appeal to more white voters, especially white working women, or he was going to lose. Well, the Obama campaign must have had a meeting and decided it needed the campaign message to center on the president's childish, not-quite-cute name-calling, highlighted by vulgar insults. In the meeting it was obviously decided that the clumsy use of "Romnesia" could stay, but that if the president used his own mouth to call Mitt Romney a "bull*****er" that would really appeal to...? Appeal to whom? I have no idea what the Obama campaign is about, 11 days before the election. Read full article >>   | | Jennifer Rubin: Morning Bits Oct 26th 2012, 11:45 Mitt Romney goes big while the president plays small ball. "With 12 days left until the election, Mitt Romney began offering the outlines of a closing argument here that co-opts President Obama's message from four years ago, repeatedly promising to deliver 'big change' at a moment of 'big challenges' and calling his opponent a guardian of the status quo." Read full article >>   | | Alexandra Petri: Is voting like sex? Lena Dunham's first time with Obama Oct 26th 2012, 11:21 Voting is like sex. People make videos about it and post them online. And then everyone argues about whether that was a good idea. In my continual quest to have every possible position on the subject of Lena Dunham, I think I like her latest video, a get-out-the-vote effort. It's cute and tongue-in-cheek and doesn't outstay its welcome. With the minor objection that I am fundamentally opposed to the whole concept of get-out-the-vote videos, it works. Read full article >>   | |
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