Ann Romney Quote of the Day!

"I Am Happy To Blame The Media For Mitt’s 2012 Loss"

- Ann Romney on her husband's 2012 presidential loss to Barack Obama

Politiks As Usual: In The News 12/10/12

Obama, Boehner Meet About Fiscal Cliff and Agree -- Not To Say Much

Sandy Victim Accuses FEMA Representative of Discrimination

Supreme Court to Review Gay Marriage

‘Study’ Claims Fox News Viewers Have Average IQ of 80

Newt Gingrich: Yeah, If Hillary Runs in 2016 Republicans Will Lose

Murder, the Chicago Way

CBO: Feds Borrowing $4.8 billion Per Day in FY 2013, So Far

Gay Mafia Objects to Reparative Therapy Proponent on Dr. Oz Show

Honest Barry? Media Hype Comparisons of Obama to Lincoln

George Will: 'Opposition To Gay Marriage Is Dying - It's Old People' 

The 'Polyamorous' Pour Out 'Polyoutrage' on Dan Savage

What's The Truth About the Unemployment Numbers?

Religiously Unaffiliated’ Voting Bloc Helped Propel Obama To Victory

Politiks As Usual: In The News 11/26/12

Black Friday Shopping Hits A New Record 

More Congressional Republicans Break Tax Pledge for Sake of Looming Fiscal Crisis 

U.N. Declares Contraception Basic Human Right

Pressure Building For Immigration Amnesty

Exit Polls Prove US Still a Red State Nation

WashPost Celebrates Turkey Day By Saying 'Great Day to Come Out as Gay'

HuffPo Posts Video of San Fran’s ‘Famed Celebration of Fetish, BDSM’

One Third Of Schools Receiving Stimulus-Funded 'Student Improvement Grants' Showed Declines

Planned Parenthood Ran a Black Friday Deal

Redefining Marriage Sign of a Lost Society

5 Deep Insights Gained from Watching Hoarders

Race Rants Over Rice

NBC News Stopped Gay Rights Group From Releasing Chelsea Clinton Ad, According To Report

Study: MSNBC Is Pretty Much Pure Propaganda At This Point

Townhall.com:

The Obama campaign and cable "news" network MSNBC shared more than a mere slogan this presidential cycle.  Neither entity had a single negative thing to say about the incumbent president over the closing week of the campaign.  By definition, it was Team Obama's job to portray the president in a unflinchingly favorable light -- but what exactly is the NBC-owned channel's mission statement?  Fox News is often accused of being a little more than a right-wing spin machine, particularly during its opinion programming.  Fox's overall coverage of the campaign tilted heavily in favor of Mitt Romney during the home stretch, with some "fair and balanced" negative coverage of the Republican and positive reporting about the president sprinkled in for good measure.  MSNBC went the full Pravda.  Via Pew Research:

Not a single MSNBC story about Mitt Romney was positive -- not one.  Meanwhile, zero segments about the president were negative. Allahpundit reaches into the word bag and grabs an entirely appropriate description of Pew's data reflected graph above: "Indistinguishable from propaganda."  He also notes that the Benghazi controversy was in full swing over this time period, indicating that MSNBC couldn't find anything critical to say about the Obama administration, even regarding its disgraceful handling of a preventable terrorist attack that claimed the lives of four American diplomats.  As I reported yesterday, the MSNBC crew is now accusing critics on this front of engaging in "conspiracy" theorizing.  In short, the network has essentially given up trying to even pretend to anything other than a house organ of the professional left.  At what point are they no longer considered a news outlet?  I'll leave you with this chart from Pew, demonstrating that overall media coverage of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney moved in opposite directions in the week directly preceding the election.  Surprise:

What's more, Obama received substantially more coverage than Romney during this time frame (80 percent to 62 percent).  So the incumbent enjoyed increased and more positive coverage as voters finalized their decisions; his challenger was mentioned less, but when he was covered, those mentions were twice as likely to be negative than positive.  Whining about media bias is a useless enterprise for conservatives.  It's a fact of life that isn't going away any time soon.  Republican politicians should recognize this reality and plan accordingly.  But it's also preposterous for people to continue to claim that this bias doesn't exist.  Sure, improved polling and the Sandy photo-ops goosed Obama's numbers in the chart above, but that doesn't explain the sharp negative turn of the Romney coverage.  The media is generally populated by liberal Democrats who wanted Obama to win.  Whether it's deliberate or subconscious,  this mentality slants coverage.  The American people understand this more than ever -- which is why it's inaccurate to pin Romney's loss on slanted journalism.  It was a contributing factor, of course, but there were many bigger issues at play.  That said, a 2011 UCLA study has posited that media bias increases Democrats' popular vote total by eight to ten percentage points in any given election season.  That might sound extreme, but ask yourself this question:  If a Republican incumbent were facing roughly eight percent unemployment, and much higher "real" unemployment -- all while adding more than $5 trillion to the national debt and breaking virtually every major promise he'd made during his previous campaign, would this election have even been close?  Probably not.  He'd have long since been declared a failure, and the resulting coverage would have been a build-up to the coronation of his opponent.  Benghazi and its cover-up would have been a massive, eleventh-hour feeding frenzy; a final nail in the coffin.  But Democrats preside over a different media climate, so forward to four more year we go.

RELATED: Pew media study: Obama’s coverage improved dramatically in the final week of the race

After Obama Re-election White House Deluged With Petitions For Secession

Barack Obama's surprising re-election and the amount of fraud that went into it are making some people understandably angry, so much so that massive amounts of people urging their state to secede from the union. To think with another 4 years of a Far-Left President who puts the needs of white, anti-God liberals above all else, any wonder folks in 23 states across the land are begging to be done with this God-forsaken country before it completely goes to hell?

WashingtonTimes.com:

It’s traditional for Americans to threaten to move to France or Canada when their candidate loses, but this year some disappointed voters are implementing a different plan.

In the wake of the Nov. 6 election, petitions seeking to secede from the union have been filed on behalf of 23 states on the White House website, https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petitions. Most of the petitions contain the same wording and ask to withdraw “peacefully” from the United States in order to form independent governments.

Critics describe the effort as a bit of an overreaction. “Anyone who wants their state to secede from the union is someone whose brain has already seceded from their body,” said John Andrews, director of the conservative Centennial Institute at Colorado Christian University.

Still, the White House may have to take the requests seriously. According to the website, any petition receiving 25,000 online “signatures” on the “We the People” page within 30 days of posting will receive a review by the appropriate executive department and a response from a White House staffer.

As of Monday, the Texas petition had already exceeded the 25,000-signature threshold, and the Louisiana petition was fast approaching the cutoff with more than 18,000 signatures. Most of the petitions were posted online Nov. 10, which means they have until Dec. 10 to qualify for a response.

It’s impossible to tell from the website who is behind the drive, given that those signing the petition only use their first names, last-name initials, and city and state of residence. The website does show that most petitions include the John Hancocks of signers from other states.

Steve Eichler, CEO of TeaParty.org, said his organization isn’t involved with the petition drive, but added that he wouldn’t be surprised if tea party advocates were at the root of it.

“We have not put out anything seceding from the United States, but the feedback we’re getting shows that people believe that their elected state leaders are more in tune with their needs than those of the federal government,” said Mr. Eichler.

He added that support for secession has cropped up in comments on the organization’s blogs. “People are feeling disenfranchised, they’re feeling a loss of voice, and they just don’t know what else to do,” he said.

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In 59 Philadelphia Wards, Mitt Romney Did Not Get A Single Vote

Voter fraud and/or voter intimidation could only explain this:

It's one thing for a Democratic presidential candidate to dominate a Democratic city like Philadelphia, but check out this head-spinning figure: In 59 voting divisions in the city, Mitt Romney received not one vote. Zero. Zilch.

These are the kind of numbers that send Republicans into paroxysms of voter-fraud angst, but such results may not be so startling after all.

"We have always had these dense urban corridors that are extremely Democratic," said Jonathan Rodden, a political science professor at Stanford University. "It's kind of an urban fact, and you are looking at the extreme end of it in Philadelphia."

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Politiks As Usual: In The News 11/12/12

Petraeus Resigns After Affair With Biographer Turned Up in FBI Probe

The Liberal Media Are More Powerful Than Ever

It’s Not The Economy, Stupid

Partial Recount in Tight Florida House Race Between West and Murphy

Philadelphia Came Out in Astronomical Numbers for Obama

Is the GOP Headed for the Boneyard?

‘Catholic Bishops’ Election Behavior Threatens Their Authority’

Newsweek Cover Compares Obama to Napoleon, Calls GOP 'Old,' 'White,' 'History'

Senators Propose Comprehensive Immigration Changes

A Message To Discouraged Christians

Vote Count Confirms Obama Win in Florida

Blacks Will be Hurt the Most by Obama Win

Politicaloutcast.com:

One again, Blacks voted for Obama in “mass quantities.” Some put the number at 95 percent, although I’ve seen a number around 92 percent. The Black vote in the Philadelphia wards was off the charts. One article carried this headline, “Vote was astronomical for Obama in some Philadelphia wards,” even though another article reported in September of this year that “[p]overty rose significantly in Philadelphia and its surrounding counties over the last two years, while the city’s median household income in 2011 ranked second-worst among the nation’s 25 largest cities.”

These areas are deeply affected by policies that are championed by the Democrats. Have the majority of blacks benefited by decades of calls for more poverty programs and and wealth transfer incentives? When you have time, read the article “Philadelphia’s Poverty Problem” that was published online in PhillyMag in 2010. It’s heart wrenching:

More than a third of the city’s kids don’t graduate from high school . . . . Sixty percent of the city’s children are born out of wedlock. A third grow up in poverty. Philadelphia, recent stats say, is America’s poorest big city.

Which hurts all of us. Consider the problems just on a practical level: It’s tough to attract new business to the city when so much of it is dangerous, when we lack an educated workforce.

We lose out on tax revenue. We end up spending more — billions more — on prisons and services trying to resurrect our poorest people than we would in tackling some of their problems head-on.

No doubt some Blacks break free from the conditions that they were born into, as the above article points out. They beat some very bad odds, but they are expected to stay with the liberal insistence that a strong central government managed by caring political party is their way out of poverty, and woe to any “minority” who says otherwise. Black and Brown people who support Republicans are said to be “window dressing.”

Remember how Stacey Dash was savaged by blacks for her support of Mitt Romney? Consider these comments by Joy-Ann Reid, an on-air contributor at MSNBC:

They just think they need to put more window dressing on it, and find some more black and brown people to say the exact same things they believe. They don’t believe they need to change their positions on issues. They just believe they need to change the decoration.

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Takeaway From Last Night's Election: Glorious Night For Anti-God, White, Social Liberals

Still getting over the shock, but here's my takeway from last night's election results:

1) Huge win for white, social liberals. Their mascot, Barack Obama, gets another 4 four years to further their anti-God, immoral, abortion by any means, "civil rights" for people who choose to have sex with people of the same sex, "civil rights" for illegal immigrants, pro-union at any cost, pro-"climate change", pro-victimhood agenda.

2) When Obama won Nevada, a state suffering some of the worst unemployment and housing foreclosure rates in the nation, you just knew it was not going to be Mitt Romney's night.

3) Yes, Hurricane Sandy did have an effect on the election. To think, the week before the hurricane hit Romney was leading in most polls. Then Sandy came, killed many, destroyed homes, etc., and a nation came together, saw the clips on TV (including POTUS supposedly "leading the charge" to recovery) and a certain, severely obese governor of New Jersey (and supposed Romney advocate) empirically embracing Obama like he was the second coming of God--yeah, optics can be very influential.

4) Dick Morris and Karl Rove should never, ever, ever be allowed to predict anything when it comes to politics.

5) It's hard enough to beat an incumbent, but Romney did himself no favors by playing it safe in that 3rd debate. He had plenty of opportunity to look presidential and go after Obama on Libya. predator drones killing American citizens, Gitmo still being open, etc. But he didn't and that's incredulous when you consider how much momentum he gained after clearly winning the first debate.

6) I don't know the stats, but libertarians probably cost Romney some key votes. I know Ron Paul never endorsed him and Paul is the leader of that lot so I imagine that a lot of them stayed home.

7) The black liberal vote made a difference in North Carolina, but not Pennsylvania, the latter of which Romney needed badly. At least some blacks in North Carolina are capable of thinking for themselves.

8) Elizabeth Warren beat Scott Brown. Allen West might be out. Some gay, white chick won a Senate seat. "Same-sex" marriage won in Maine. Yeah, those are huge victories for the white, morally bankrupt, "progressive" lot and they're loving it.

9) The Christian-Right needs to get their shit together...and soon. Clearly, Barry's team ran a better ground game and considering all that they were up against (high unemployment, the after-effects of ObamaCare, etc.) for them to still win is frankly speaking...amazing.

10) More gridlock. With the GOP gaining more seats in the Senate, anyone expecting real "change" in DC anytime soon is in either serious denial or just stupid. But that could actually be good for conservatives come 2014 and even 2016 when God forbid, Joe Biden runs.

Politiks As Usual: In The News 11/5/12

Matthews Unaware ‘Revenge’ Was Obama’s Line, Insists Romney Stoking Ethnic Fears With ‘Revenge’ Theme

Sandy Broke Records -- And Hearts

Why I Think Obama Will Win — In Detail

The Argument For School Choice

Commander in Chief Fails Military Voters, Again

Obama Campaigns with Celebs as Sandy Devastation Continues

Savannah Guthrie: Hurricane Sandy Sent 'Seemingly From Above' to Help Obama Get Re-elected

One Of Most Disgusting, Offensive Things I've Ever Seen, Courtesy Of Michael Moore

NAACP Takes Over Houston Polling Station, Advocates for President Obama

Former Hillary “Top Aide” Endorses Romney

Harry Reid Says Working with a President Romney is 'Laughable'  

Karl Rove’s Prediction: Romney 51, Obama 48

Hotair.com:

A shot of optimism after a day of eeyorish state polls. How does Rove arrive at this result when eight of the last nine Ohio surveys have O ahead? In two steps: (1) He clearly trusts the national data over the state data, and (2) he cites historical numbers showing that incumbents recently have tended to overperform their national polling on election day by only one percent or so. Obama’s tied with Romney in the RCP national average tonight at 47.4. If, per the historical data, O’s ceiling is therefore at 48 percent, then it follows that most everyone else will break for Romney and that his national advantage will carry him to narrow wins in the states he needs.
As for Ohio:

Adrian Gray, who oversaw the Bush 2004 voter-contact operation and is now a policy analyst for a New York investment firm, makes the point that as of Tuesday, 530,813 Ohio Democrats had voted early or had requested or cast an absentee ballot. That’s down 181,275 from four years ago. But 448,357 Ohio Republicans had voted early or had requested or cast an absentee ballot, up 75,858 from the last presidential election.

That 257,133-vote swing almost wipes out Mr. Obama’s 2008 Ohio victory margin of 262,224. Since most observers expect Republicans to win Election Day turnout, these early vote numbers point toward a Romney victory in Ohio. They are also evidence that Scott Jennings, my former White House colleague and now Romney Ohio campaign director, was accurate when he told me that the Buckeye GOP effort is larger than the massive Bush 2004 get-out-the-vote operation.

Democrats explain away those numbers by saying that they are turning out new young Ohio voters. But I asked Kelly Nallen, the America Crossroads data maven, about this. She points out that there are 12,612 GOP “millennials” (voters aged 18-29) who’ve voted early compared with 9,501 Democratic millennials.

Are Democrats bringing out episodic voters who might not otherwise turn out? Not according to Ms. Nallen. She says that about 90% of each party’s early voters so far had also voted in three of the past four Ohio elections.

In other words, the dam that O’s built among early voters simply isn’t tall enough to hold back the red tide next Tuesday. One caveat to Rove’s point about the national numbers, though: According to RCP, Obama’s either tied or ahead in seven of the last 10 national polls taken. Romney still leads in Rasmussen and Gallup, and in only three of those 10 does Obama reach 49 percent or higher, but things have evened out a bit after Romney’s post-Denver debate surge. Case in point is the new Fox News poll tonight, which has the race dead even at 46 after Romney led by a point in early October. The topline number is not so good for Mitt, but the fundamentals are:

Independents give the edge to Romney by seven percentage points (46-39 percent). That’s down from a 12-point advantage in early October…

Among the subgroup of most interested voters, those who are “extremely” interested in the election, Romney leads Obama by 53-42 percent…

Romney’s supporters continue to be more enthusiastic: 69 percent say it’s extremely important he win, while 59 percent of those backing Obama feel that way.

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Politiks As Usual: In The News 10/29/12

National Polls vs. Ohio Polls: They Can’t Both Be Right

Why Is Obama So Nasty and Vulgar?

Creepy: Children Sing Obama's Negative Messaging in New Ad

High Court Weighs New Look at Voting Rights Law

The 'New Normal' Christianity?

Gallup: Obama's Job Approval Drops 7 Points in 3 Days

USA Today Surprised Chick-Fil-A Didn’t Suffer from ‘PR Nightmare’

AP Writers Claim Their 'Poll' Shows 'Majority Harbor Prejudice Against Blacks'

Hume: Mainstream Media ‘Remarkably Reticent’ to Pursue Benghazi Cover-Up, Burden Has ‘Fallen’ Onto Fox News

President Obama Leads Romney in Early Voting, Axelrod Says

Letter to Obama: Stop Attack on Ministries to Ex-‘Gays’

Clinton Asked for More Security in Benghazi, Obama Said No

Politiks As Usual: In The News 10/1/12

Election Raises Stakes For Possible Supreme Court Vacancies

Some Illegal Immigrants May Get Drivers Licenses Under New California Law

The Media's Net Full Of Red Herrings

US Military Deaths In Afghanistan Hit 2,000

Romney Facing Make-or-Break Week With First Debate, Key Jobs Data

MSNBC's Toure Argues Put 2008 Aside; Only Re-electing Obama in 2012 Will Prove America Isn't Racist

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Liberal Websites Bash Steven Crowder for Not Having Pre-Marital Sex

Katie Couric Voted ‘The Worst Reporter in History of Man’

Meet Nickelodeon's Trash-Mouthed Misogynist Jason Biggs

Paul Ryan Calls For Eric Holder's Resignation Over Fast and Furious

As Race Stands, Obama Within Reach Of Second Term

WE ARE THE 91%: Only 9% of Americans Cooperate with Pollsters

Outrage: Obama Administration Want To Give Egypt $450 Million In Aid

In Libya, Security Was Lax Before Attack That Killed U.S. Ambassador, Officials Say

Politiks As Usual: In The News 8/20/12

'Solid South' No Longer Just All-Red Or All-Blue

Rick Santorum Says Biden Played The ‘Race Card’

Soledad O’Brien’s Progressive Nostalgia and the Collapse of CNN

Eight Arguments You've Probably Heard Against Mitt Romney

The Liberal Sisterhood of the Plundering Hacks

HuffPo Attacks Family Research Council as ‘Hate Group’ Even After Shooting

Peggy Noonan: If Biden Were Republican Meet the Press's Topic Would Be 'How Stupid Is This Person?'

Trump Fires Back at Obama Campaign Smear

Liberal 'Media Matters' Writer Calls SEALs Gutless for Criticizing Obama

DC Shooting: Evidence of Media Bias? 

Is PolitiFact Campaigning for Obama? 

Does Ryan Have a “Catholic Problem”?

Like MSNBC, CNN Ignored Poll Showing 74 Percent of Americans Support Showing Photo ID to Vote

Newsbusters.org:

In spite of a Washington Post poll showing 74 percent of Americans favor government-issued photo ID mandates at polling places, CNN skipped those numbers this past week in six separate segments on voter ID laws.

As a Mediaite study noted, MSNBC aired 19 segments on voter ID laws from Monday through Thursday without mentioning the poll. While CNN's coverage was largely balanced, the poll numbers still should have been reported in their discussions on voter ID laws.

In one instance of liberal bias, anchor Fredricka Whitfield teed up liberal guest Professor Jonathan Turley on Thursday by asking if ID laws were "a solution in search of a problem."

"And a number of reports show however that voter fraud is actually not much of a problem. So is this a solution in search of a problem?" she asked Turley, who responded that "a national study found that voter fraud is virtually nonexistent when they looked at the 2000 election."

On Friday's The Situation Room, CNN hyped "growing outrage" over new voter ID laws.

Voter ID is a topic CNN has tackled before – with liberal gusto. For instance, anchor Zoraida Sambolin asked former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young the other week if new voter ID laws might " suppress the minority vote."

Anchor Carol Costello asked a La Raza chairman last month "Is there a war on minority voters in this country?" while discussing a Texas voter ID law challenged by Obama's Justice Department.

RELATED: Pennsylvania civil rights coalition appeals ruling in voter ID case

Mitt Romney Picks Paul Ryan For Running Mate

CNN.com:

Mitt Romney on Saturday announced U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as his running mate for the White House -- a bold and risky move that energized both conservatives and their opponents. 

Ryan is a rising Republican star and the party's leader on fiscal and budget issues. 

He is the architect of a Republican spending plan that would overhaul many entitlement programs, making him a favorite of conservatives, whose support for Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has been shaky. 

But the Romney camp was also quick to put some distance between Ryan's initial budget blueprint and his own. 

"Gov. Romney applauds Paul Ryan for going in the right direction with his budget," the campaign said, "and as president he will be putting together his own plan for cutting the deficit and putting the budget on a path to balance." 

His running mate choice draws some clear lines with Romney's Democratic opponents over the size of the cuts in Ryan's plan and his prior votes on taxes, which they say favor the wealthiest Americans -- a point of contention in an election in which both sides consider themselves champions of the middle class. 

"Congressman Paul Ryan is an outstanding choice as our country's next vice president, and today's announcement demonstrates Governor Romney's commitment to returning fiscal sanity back to Washington, DC.," said former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, who mounted the strongest conservative challenge to Romney's campaign in the Republican primaries. 

"I have long supported Paul Ryan's fiscal and entitlement reforms to return our country back on a path of fiscal health." 

Ryan, 42, is considered a policy wonk and conservative Catholic likely to energize the GOP base and sharpen the campaign's focus on government spending and the economy. 

That could boost Romney's appeal among middle-of-the-road Catholic voters in battleground states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania, though Ryan offers little in the way of foreign policy experience. 

 The House Budget Committee chairman was chosen ahead of Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio. A campaign aide told CNN that Romney decided on Ryan on August 1. GOP sources said Friday that the latter three had all been told that they wouldn't be getting the nod. 

Meanwhile, Vice President Joe Biden contacted Ryan, welcoming him to the race, saying that he "looked forward to engaging him on the clear choice voters face this November." And Democrats were quick to make Ryan's fiscal policies a target.

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