McCAIN REDUX OR HEY MITT... WTF?!

Here's a news item that should alarm Conservatives concerned about the Establishment Republicans resolve to defeat Obama:

May 17 (Bloomberg) -- Mitt Romney denounced a plan drafted by Republican strategists to run a racially tinged advertising campaign against President Barack Obama focusing on Obama's former pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright Jr.

[Nafta's Notes & Comments: "Racially tinged"?! Facts are facts. Wright is an unabashed racial bigot. And aren't you all a little bit tired of the one-sided racism that Black radicals get away with? For example, the failure of U.S. Attorney General Eric "The Racist" Holder to prosecute New Black Panthers for intimidation of white voters in Philadelphia is a sad commentary on race relations in the US. So much for Equal Protection under the law. White guilt on the other hand is condescending and generally looks really stupid and phony.]

Romney responded to a report in today's editions of the New York Times detailing a proposal for a super-political action committee backed by billionaire Joe Ricketts, the founder of what is now TD Ameritrade, to finance ads featuring Wright, whose racially incendiary sermons became an issue in the 2008 presidential campaign. [Emphasis added.]

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[Nafta's Notes & Comments: Click here to view ex-Black Muslim Wright's "racially-tinged" vitriol as discussed in the New Republic. Oops, somehow the left leaning New Republic has made the article about Wright's ex-Muslim background "unavailable" as of the posting of this piece! This is like the old Soviet Encyclopedia changing the facts to suit their Marxist agenda. But here's a veiled threat that is apparently being taken seriously by the RINOs running the Romney campaign. It's in the aforementioned Liberal-Fascist rag, The New Republic entitled Smear Interrupted.]

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So Mitt; even though these Liberal-Fascists are going to resort to religious bigotry against you and the Mormon Church and to use false accusations of racial bigotry as a deodorant for the stench of their crappy economic, foreign, and domestic policies; you're going to treat the America-hating Wright and Obama with the utmost respect? Huh?

Hey Mitt, in the 2008 and 2012 Republican primaries, why was okay for you to have carpet bombed Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry, Rudy Giuliani, and Mike Huckabee with no-holds barred negative ads? Now that they're all gone, where's your resolve to defeat the biggest threat to the freedom of the United States since WWII? What makes the arrogant America-hating Obama immune from criticism that any other President--Democrat or Republican--would get for doing such a lousy job? 

Dammit Mitt! Grow a pair for the country's sake.     

SAY ANYTHING II - STARRING TEAM OBAMA 2012

No, there really isn't a sequel to the 1989 movie coming to a theater near you. But listening to and seeing the recent work products of Team Obama's presidential campaign, you'd think that the following dialogue from the Say Anything movie might have occurred during a recent staff meeting.

Diane Court: Nobody thinks it will work, do they?

Lloyd Dobler: No. You just described every great success story. 

But recent silly and factually inaccurate attacks on Mitt Romney by Team Obama look more like they came from the mind that brought us the movie, Plan 9 from Outer Space rather than from an accomplished political strategist. Plan 9 is arguably the worst movie ever made. So to carry the movie analogy a bit further, the 2012 Obama campaign is to the 2008 Obama campaign as Plan 9 from Outer Space is to Citizen Kane. 

The 2008 Obama presidential run was a well-run political campaign that took advantage of a sympathetic news media, John McCain's weak campaign, Bush fatigue, and carefully controlled information releases about the mysterious Candidate Obama. On the other hand, the Obama 2012 campaign is petty, immature, and reminiscent of an adolescent movie about a contentious high school student body presidential election. 

The first ridiculous attack on Mitt Romney came with the revelation that the cruel Romneys carried their dog Seamus on the roof of their car on a road trip to Canada. (See my post of April 18, 2012, It's a Man Bites Dog World and Bo is Nervous.) As it turned out, the President Obama's own autobiography revealed that the President as a kid had sampled canine cuisine--no he didn't eat Alpo®--he ate a real canine! The joke became, "Better on the roof of a car than on the roof of a mouth." By the way Team Obama front-man David Axelrod was the one that conceived the Plan 9-like "Dog Strategy" in which Romney is portrayed as cruel to dogs. David Axelrod, I'd like you to meet your intellectual doppelgänger, Ed Wood. 


Then came the 50-year old story of how Romney and several other high school "thugs" held down a fellow student that was suspected of being "gay" and cut his hair off.  The "victim's" family has disputed the characterization of the alleged victim, John Lauber.  The National Review cited an ABC News interview of Betsy Lauber one of John Lauber's three sisters. According to the ABC News interview, Ms Lauber stated:

“The family of John Lauber is releasing a statement saying the portrayal of John is factually incorrect and we are aggrieved that he would be used to further a political agenda. There will be no more comments from the family,” she said.
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“If he were still alive today, he would be furious [about the story],” she [Christine Lauber] said with tears in her eyes.

But that didn't keep Team Obama from milking the story for all it's worth. Besides that, Democrats don't really care about facts, only the psychological impact of a story is important. Coincidentally, Obama announced his support of Gay marriage, although it was half-assed in that Obama left it to the states to legalize it. It was clear that it was a non-committal commitment designed to impact fund raising from the LGBT* community. It worked as the money flowed from the LGBT community after Obama's announcement. 


The latest Obama campaign ad being run in five battleground states portrays Romney as capitalist vampire, responsible for the closing of 100-year old steel mill. The capitalist vampire (or vulture) theme was espoused first by Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry, two of Romney's Republican primary opponents. But according to the Christian Science Monitor:

... the [Obama] ad elides some facts: Romney left Bain [Capital] shortly after it acquired GST Steel, though he continued to receive profits from Bain payouts. He wasn’t around when GST went under. Also, it was an era when cheap foreign imports were hitting US steel firms hard, in general. It’s not clear whether GST would have survived in any case.

But that's the essence of the American economic system. There are risks and rewards.  There are winners and losers. And it was in Bain's best-interest to have had GST succeed and not fail. Besides Romney was long gone and was working to rescue the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Games. But that little fact doesn't seem to matter to Team Obama. Moreover, Democrats and Obama are rarely held accountable by the Lamestream News Media. 


Team Obama is counting heavily on the fictional view of businessmen like Romney as portrayed in movies like Pretty Woman. The movie is about a businessman in the legal business of hostile takeovers. He's in LA in connection with the takeover of a shipbuilding company and hires a prostitute to accompany him to social events connected with the takeover. Here's some illustrative dialogue from the movie between the hard-hearted businessman Edward (Richard Gere) and the heart of gold hooker Vivian (Julia Roberts):

[Fumbling with his tie, Edward tells Vivian about his business.]

Vivian: You don't actually have a billion dollars, huh?
Edward: No. I get some of it from banks, investors… it's not an easy thing to do.
Vivian: And you don't make anything…
Edward: No.
Vivian: … and you don't build anything.
Edward: No.
Vivian: So whadda ya do with the companies once you buy 'em?
Edward: I sell them.

[Viv reaches for his tie.]

Vivian: Here, let me do that. You sell them.
Edward: Well, I… don't sell the whole company, I break it up into pieces, and then I sell that off, it's worth more than the whole.
Vivian: So, it's sort of like, um… stealing cars and selling 'em for parts, right?
Edward: [sighs exasperatedly] Yeah, sort of. But legal.

Of course in the end, the hard-hearted businessman falls in love with the hooker and under the influence of her heart of gold decides to keep the target company intact building ships and preserving union jobs. A noble and "fair" ending. No doubt that if a sequel were ever made, "Edward" would be an Obama campaign contribution bundler who gets an Department of Energy grant to fund a wildly successful green energy company. "Vivian" would be the CEO running the company. If only Hollywood screenwriters could grant the wishes of Team Obama.


The bottom line, to use an overused cliché, is that silly tripe like dog on the car roof stories, bully boy stories, and the corporate vampire diaries are what we will be treated to until election day by Team Obama. It makes one dread an October Surprise from Team Obama, especially if it involves Mitt Romney being implicated in the Lindbergh Baby kidnapping.  


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*Nafta's Notes: According to Wikipedia, LGBT is an initialism that collectively refers to the "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" community. It has been in use since the 1990s.

JUAN "Win at any cost!" VARGAS

Some time ago, I posted a blog called Mismanagement 101 or Welcome to Scam Diego. In it I promised a "Part Two" describing the incompetence of the major political players, governmental and business entities within the area also known as San Diego, California. It is an arduous task because there is so much to expose. One of the points I intend to make in Part Two is that generally, people that run for any political office in the San Diego area do so because it is the best job that they will ever have without having any real marketable job skills.

This brings up the unique case of Juan Vargas, a Harvard Law School graduate and classmate of Barack Obama, who has been a San Diego City Councilman, a California State Assemblyman and a current California State Senator. He is an ambitious man that has wanted to run for Congress for a very long time, but was blocked by the incumbency of one Congressman Bob Filner. So now that Bolshevik bump on a log incumbent Filner has opted to run for Mayor of San Diego, Vargas has finally set his sights on the 51st Congressional District in California. Vargas has held several impressive private sector jobs including an associate attorney position with the silk stocking law firm of Luce, Forward, Hamilton and Scripps, Vice President of External Affairs for Safeco Insurance, and Vice President of Corporate Legal for Liberty Mutual Group.  Along with his impressive academic credentials and public service, this seems to result in a formidable resume. It is so much so that according to a campaign press release:

California State Senator Juan Vargas secured the coveted California Democratic Party endorsement for his bid for U.S. Congress this Sunday, Feb 12 at the Democratic State Convention in San Diego. The Democratic Party voted to approve the regional Democratic Party's overwhelming decision to endorse Senator Vargas over Denise Ducheny for the 51st Congressional District.

Normally, I don't care much about Democrat primaries because most Democrat candidates pretty much espouse the same old class warfare and race card tripe. But front runner Vargas has assumed a particularly vicious approach towards his opponent Denise Moreno Ducheny. A recent Vargas principal campaign committee mailer was sent to potential or registered Democrat voters highlighting an apparent 12-year old DUI arrest. It clearly states that it was paid for by Vargas for Congress 2012, (FEC # C00497321). There are several other alleged character issues that are included in the Vargas mailer. It's the same old negative campaign tactics that we've come to expect from Democrats. But going after one of their own? Perhaps there is no "11th Commandment" for Dems like the Republicans had under Reagan, i.e., "Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican."

But this tactic of digging up old DUI convictions seems to be a standard Democrat strategy by their candidates for office, as happened to George W. Bush in the waning days of the 2000 Presidential campaign. But why talk about issues when you can take the intellectually lazy way of engaging in personal attacks? It is especially true if it is tired old news. But if it is the admitted heavy alcohol and cocaine usage in a self-serving autobiography by the cool "slow jammin' the news" Preezy then ni modo. 


Liberals can be hypocritical, break laws, break rules, break wind, and have a good chance of getting away with it. So never mind what's good for the country--just get elected--civility and decency be damned. And the scary thing about Socialist/Fascist/Communist and Democrat political parties is that in practice most all of them act in accordance with the maxim that the ends justify the means. If this kind of dirty politics happens in a local congressional election, what can we expect from the Master of Deceit and Disaster, Barack Obama's presidential campaign? More on that very soon...