Donald Trump's Final Ad - The Heart Of The Matter and What's At Stake

He has it exactly right. This is what the election is really all about, and always has been.

Mitt Romney At Red Rocks...Simply Amazing

I think we can say that Colorado is going Republican this year.

Romney Hits Obama On Gutting Welfare Reform

One of the signature achievements of the Clinton Administration and a GOP dominated House was legislation reforming welfare to include work requirements along the lines of the highly successful legislation pioneered by Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson.It was called the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF).

Back on July 12th, the Obama Administration issued a directive that essentially made TANF meaningless by allowing individual states a free hand with requirements for their welfare-to-work programs, which are federally funded.Essentially, it amounted to a waiver, and one that a lot of Blue states are going to implement with a nod and a wink.

The latest Romney ad attacks that policy, saying that the new Obama directive allows people to 'stay on welfare forever'.

That of course isn't necessarily true, but it certainly gives Blue states carte blanche to do so if they want to . And as a denizen of such a state, let me assure you that most of them will want to, for obvious political purposes.

Needless to say, White House spokeshole Jay Carney was quick to respond, claim that Mitt Romney as governor of Massachusetts signed a letter with a number of other governors from both parties asking for certain changes to the TANF federal requirements:

"The ad is particularly outrageous as Governor Romney himself with 28 other Republican governors supported policies that would have eliminated the time limits in the welfare reform law and allowed people to stay on welfare forever. Those are not standards the president supports."

Ah, but the devil's in the details.The difference in the 2005 letter Romney and 29 other state governors signed and Obama's 2012 directive is that the letter merely called for specific changes in policy to create more flexibility in crediting different types of work and coordinating work credit with existing state programs, like Wisconsin's:

"Increased waiver authority, allowable work activities, availability of partial work credit and the ability to coordinate state programs are all important aspects of moving recipients from welfare to work,", the letter read.

Romney's campaign Policy Director Lanhee Chen fired back at Carney writing that the Governor has in fact been consistent on this issue:

"Because Massachusetts had implemented reforms of its own shortly before the federal reforms of 1996, it was actually exempt from many of the federal requirements when Romney took office as governor," Chen wrote. "But nevertheless, facing an overwhelmingly Democratic legislature in one of the most liberal states in the country, Romney vetoed efforts to weaken work requirements and he pressed repeatedly to instead strengthen them and bring them in line with federal standards."

She also mentioned the inconvenient fact that a certain Illinois state senator named Barack Obama was outspokenly opposed to welfare reform:

“Unfortunately, not everyone was enthusiastic about welfare reform,” Chen writes. “For instance, a man named Barack Obama took to the floor of the Illinois State Senate to announce his opposition. A devoted believer in old-school, big-government liberalism, Mr. Obama had no interest in embracing the welfare reform package that linked welfare to work. Now as president, with an economy struggling, an election looming, and a dispirited liberal base in need of encouragement, he has decided to turn back the clock.”

Heh!

The real problem with welfare is that it creates a culture of dependency in some people. And culture is the operative word.

I've known some people who were forced by circumstances to go on welfare, food stamps and AFDC for a time and absolutely hated the idea.They treated it as a very temporary and embarrassing phase in life that they eliminated as soon as possible.

There are a number of others who regard what was always supposed to be a temporary leg up and part of a social safety net as something they were entitled to, as 'free money' from the government, a 'gimmee'.

It's the second, growing class that is the problem, as well as those committing outright fraud by going on multiple programs in blue jurisdictions where arcane privacy rules effectively keep them from being caught in most instances.

President Obama's new directive just enabled those politicians looking to pander to the second class.

It's hardly the worst problem we have to deal with but it's a symptom of what's wrong, and Governor Romney was correct to point it out.

New RJC Ad: 'I've Never Voted For A Republican For President, But This Time I will'

Well done, and right to the point..

In another related piece of info, a well known Democratic pollster reveals that President Obama probably lacks enough Jewish votes right now to carry Florida:

President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are “in a 50-50 election right now,” political analyst and Democratic pollster Doug Schoen tells Newsmax.TV, adding that the president is lacking the crucial Jewish vote in Florida needed to win the election.

“I could make a compelling argument why either side is going to win,” Schoen tells Newsmax in an exclusive interview. “But I will say this: There’s never been as much at stake in an election in recent memory as there is in this one.

“Two competing views, two competing visions, and – from where I sit – this is a fight and a contest that has transcended importance for ourselves and for our children.”

One of Obama's biggest hurdles: capturing Florida's Jewish voters. The president, polls show, has about 60-65 percent of the Jewish vote, but, says Schoen, if Obama does not win “a full 75 percent...it could, in fact, be decisive.”

It will vary from state to state, but barring something crazy happening I still think in the end that President Obama will end up with a Jewish vote in the low 60's. A substantial drop from 78%, but still far more than he deserves.

To Jews who are conflicted about this, here's what I have to say. If you can't find it within yourself to pull the lever for a pro-Israel Republican, fine. But at least don't vote to put an anti-Israel president back in the White House for four more years.

Just don't vote for president. At least do that much.

Outstanding Romney Ad..This Says It All

As opposed to this...



He sure did.Although he had a lot of help form the Democrats in Congress.

These two items perfectly define the choice we have in November.

(hat tip to Snoopy for the graphic)

Mitt Romney's New Ad: 'Obama Lied'

As I mentioned before, Mitt Romney is not John McCain, and he has no intention of allowing Barack Obama and his media lackeys to simply lie about him without challenging it and fighting back. And by the way, the Washington Post quote came from the paper's own factchecker.

Speaking of outsourcing, anybody mention the jobs in coal or in oil production that have been lost under this administration - while our president gave $2 billion dollars of our tax money to Brazil to be used to develop their oil infrastructure and production, thus directly shipping American jobs overseas? Remember this one?



Oh, and the Brazilian oil we helped them develop? China got it. Well done, Mr. President!

I'd love to see a followup by a conservative superPac dealing with all the other outright lies Barack Obama has told the American people during his occupation of the Oval Office...maybe with an animated Pinocchio nose that grows after each example.

As I've said before, it's easy to tell whether this president is lying. Just see if his lips are moving.

WAPO Fact Checker: 'I Don't Fact Check Our Own Writers'

WAPO Fact Checker Glenn Kessler apparently got his pee pee whacked by his bosses at the Washingtone Post after he gave a story the Post ran on June 21 about Bain Capital, Mitt Romney’s old firm claiming it invested in companies that were “pioneers” in the practice of shipping jobs overseas four Pinnochios for untruthfullness.

Kessler now says he refuses to fact check stories published in his newspaper, and thus will not award any Pinocchios even for comments made by political candidates about stories reported in the Washington Post:

Kessler has announced he is not going to issue any Pinocchios based on claims that President Obama’s campaign has made based on a disputed Washington Post story — although he says the Obama campaign misquotes the WaPo story.

Why? Because “The Fact Checker does not check the facts in the reporting of Washington Post writers or columnists.” He does this in a column that defends the Post’s reporting. {...}

The column then goes on to say that the Obama campaign has made false claims regarding the story – which, remember, the Romney campaign still claims was inaccurate to begin with.

“[T]here is little in the Post article that backs up the Obama campaign’s spin,” Kessler says.

Nevertheless, he refuses to scold the Obama campaign for this. “Given that this debate involves an interpretation of a Post article, we are not going to award any Pinocchios.”

Translation? 'Umm, I like my job and it's been made clear to me that if I want to keep it, dissing the Washington Post's own biased reporting had better not ever happen again.'

And that apparently includes bogus campaign ads based on it.

Obviously, you can't fault Kessler for this...it's his bosses.

What was that about freedom of the press and journalistic ethics again?

The RNC's Latest Ad On ObamaCare

Not bad...not bad at all.

Another Beautifully Brutal Ad From Mitt Romney...

CNN refers to it as an 'attack ad', and I suppose they're right, but then not all attacks are bad - or unjustified.

Here, he takes President Obama's 'the private sector's doing fine' an dliterally rams it back down the president's throat...'how can the president fix our economy when he doesn't undestand it's broken?'

Heh!

As CNN puts it those five words can’t seem to go away.

Nor should they.

Mitt Romney's Latest Ad - Brutal