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MSNBC Liberal Panel Calls Romney Racist For Giving Cash To A Black Woman Asking For Help

Maybe I'm missing something, but since when is it a racist act to help out someone in need? A financially struggling African American woman sought out Mitt Romney's bus as it was passing through, looking for help, she approached Mitt Romney and he gladly handed her $50. On the surface this would seem like the right thing to do and be nothing more than an act of generosity, but no, that is considered an example of racism according to a panel of liberal commentators on MSNBC. I guess if you happen to be a white, conservative Republican, giving charity is akin to being racist because you somehow want to use that simple act as an example of a "dependent black person". The race card game is getting old!

From Real Clear Politics

 

Romney Won Iowa By 8 Votes... Now What?

The 2012 Iowa Caucus is now behind us. After a nail biter that lasted well into the night, Mitt Romney was declared the winner by just eight votes. Out of 122,000 votes cast, Romney won by just 8 votes. Just 8 votes? Seriously? I've never seen anything like this in the primary season. So now that Romney won Iowa and is expected to win big in New hampshire, does this mean the race is over? Take a look at this synopsis from Real Clear Politics.

From Real Clear Politics:

I see several key takeaways for your water cooler discussions in the aftermath of the Iowa caucuses, the last of which has received far too little attention.

1. It really was a good night for Mitt Romney. Some people are trying to spin this as a bad night for him because he fell just short of his 2008 showing and failed to demolish a weak crop of Republican candidates. But he also invested less time and fewer resources in Iowa this time around; he didn't really become active until a few weeks ago, when it became clear he had a chance to win....

2. Romney is not the inevitable nominee. Regardless of what the pro-Romney camp insists, it wasn’t a greatnight for their man. He has weaknesses (as described above), even if they are, as my lawyer friends would say, “non-dis-positive.”

Though he’ll almost certainly win New Hampshire by a large margin, his semi-favorite-son status there renders it something of a nullity for every candidate not named Jon Huntsman (who has to finish a very strong second if he wants to continue in the race).....

3. Rick Santorum may well be the future of the Republican Party. While I find it highly unlikely that he’ll be the nominee this time out, there’s a good chance that the Republican coalition will fundamentally change in the next 20 years and move toward Santorum’s style of politics. Twice in a row now, the party has toyed with nominating a candidate who combined social conservatism with economic populism; Santorum’s speech last night was essentially a northern version of a speech Mike Huckabee could have delivered in 2008....

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Obama Continues To Beat The Class Warfare Drum

The President has made it known loud and clear that his theme for reelection will be class warfare. So much for Hope and Change! He campaigned as a new politician. Someone who was going to change the tone in Washington. Instead, what we have is your typical liberal politician who can't explain why his socialists policies have failed. Never mind that these same policies, ideas and programs have failed everywhere else in the world. He'll go back to the same old tired Democratic playbook. You know how it goes. The rich are out to screw the poor and middle class. They only got wealthy by exploiting those under them. The rich need to pay their fair share. We need to raise taxes on the rich or else the poor will die and grow hungry. Public education will suffer and on and on and on!

From the great Larry Kudlow:

Following the GOP debate that nearly the whole world watched on Saturday night, the president on Sunday made it very clear that he will not back off his class-warfare vision in the coming year. Obama told Steve Kroft on 60 Minutes that middle-class inequality will be his big theme, and that somehow successful earners, investors, and small-business owners are to blame.

The president said that while fat-cat incomes went up 200 to 300 percent over the last few decades, middle-class incomes didn’t grow. This is not true, according to James Pethokoukis, whose blog posts citing various studies show that real median income rose at least 40 to 50 percent.

In any case, whatever the exact numbers, it’s still a mystery to me why successful people getting ahead cause anybody to fall behind. The Jack Kemp idea was always to foster a rising tide that would lift all boats. How can this happen if we penalize success and raise top tax rates on work and investment to 50 percent or more? That’s a mystery.

I should think, in a system of democratic capitalism, that more millionaires are a good thing. Show me a system of redistribution, and I’ll show you a system of economic stagnation.

Newt's Immigration Position Is Part Of Larger Hispanic Outreach Effort

From TPM:

Newt Gingrich’s immigration talk isn’t just a nice gotcha moment for his opponents. It’s part of a larger effort to reach out to Hispanic voters that’s a key tenet of his campaign.

Last week, TPM has learned, Gingrich held a conference call with prominent Hispanics. Leaders from all 50 states were invited. It was just the latest in his long push to connect with the Hispanic community that has been a highlight of Gingrich’s race so far.

The effort doesn’t seem to be slowing down now that Gingrich is the frontrunner. Among those on the call was U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Javier Palomarez. He said the call was about economic issues, and was well received by his organization.

“I was glad that Speaker Gingrich reached out to me and spoke with our organization about his economic plans,” Palomarez said.

The Hispanic Chamber “wants to work with and hear from all of the Presidential candidates on their plans to create jobs and prosperity,” Palomarez said.

Gingrich’s National Hispanic Inclusion Director, Sylvia Garcia, told TPM that outreach to Hispanic leaders — which she said Gingrich has been doing for years — gives Gingrich an advantage over his rivals; it could be something that separates him from Mitt Romney as the campaign moves forward.

“His advantage is that this dialogue with Latinos began well before campaigning became an issue,” she said in an email conversation Wednesday. “He understands that as ALL other Americans, Latinos are natural conservatives and making sure they receive the correct message has always been one of his goals.”

Team Gingrich has been talking this way for a while, and Gingrich has been putting his money where his mouth is for years. As Benjy Sarlin reported back in 2009, Gingrich was using social networking and TV appearances on Spanish language TV to ingratiate himself with the Hispanic community and attempt to grow the GOP base there. Republicans have long felt they have a real chance to grab big swaths of the Latino vote, which they say is naturally more socially conservative and open to Republican ideas.

Spain Rebukes European Socialism

Spain is the latest European country  to rebuke the failed European Socialist model. In a stunning turnaround for Conservatives, Spain elected Mario Rajoy and his conservative People's Party to take over control of parliament. This brings an end to the Socialists rule in Spain. The outgoing Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero took control in 2004 in a controversial election marred by a terrorist attack on a Madrid train station. This tragedy cause fear to spread throughout Spain and many voters elected the Socialists in hopes that it would prevent further attacks. The incumbent at the time was Jose Maria Aznar who along with Tony Blair served as George W. Bush's strongest European ally.

Spaniards have become fed up with policies that have nearly bankrupted their country. The far left Socialists are so unpopular that the current Prime Minister Zapatero decided not to run for reelection. The Socialists have spent like there is no tomorrow and taxed their way into an economic meltdown. In many ways, the Obama Administration has adopted the policies of Spain and it is for this reason that President Obama and his Democratic Party is headed for a landslide defeat in 2012. In this defeat, President Obama loses one of his strongest supporters in Europe.

From the Reuters article describing Spain's election:

Ana Maria Lopez, a 53-year-old chiropodist, poured scorn on the Socialists and said she intended to vote on Sunday.

"This government is the worst, everything it touches it destroys. I want a change, I'm fed up with this," she said.

"I'm self-employed, this government has never given anything to the self-employed they only want our money and our taxes."

I hope the White House and the Democrats pay close attention to the developments in Europe because this is indicative of what they can expect to see from the American people next year. Socialism has NEVER worked. The European Socialist model has failed and the love affair the the radical left and main stream media have with this utopian dream is finished.

 

California... The Anti-Business State

For many years, California conservatives have railed against the anti-business, tax and spend liberals and their stranglehold on Sacramento. For the most part, their words have fallen on deaf ears with voters. The liberal wing of the Democratic Party has essentially controlled both chambers of the State Capital, statewide offices and the Governorship for most of the past forty years. I know, I know, there were a few Republican Governors throughout those years and its no coincidence that the state was in better fiscal shape during their administrations. Need I remind you of Gray Davis's doubling of the budget in less than eight years? These wreckless policies have brought the Golden State to its knees. We are in big trouble and rather than moving towards a more hospitable climate for business, the Democrats are doing the opposite.

The Los Angeles Times yesterday published a sobering op-ed on the current toxic business climate in the Golden State. I would encourage you to read the entire article to get a sense of why a heavy regulation and high tax combination make it nearly impossible to create jobs.

From the Los Angeles Times:

Unless Sacramento moves to improve the business climate, California's reputation as one of the country's most toxic business environments will make it hard for the Golden State to regain its luster.

California's suffocating regulations have a lot to do with this discontent. A 2009 study by two California State University finance professors, Sanjay Varshney and Dennis Tootelian, estimated that regulation cost the state's businesses $493 billion annually, or nearly $135,000 per company. Additionally, dense and complex land-use regulations have driven up housing construction costs in the state, giving residents a double whammy: a stagnant economy and unaffordable home prices, even since the real estate bubble burst.

Taxes are another burden. According to the Tax Foundation, California imposes the nation's second-heaviest tax burden on businesses, and finance officers of major companies recently rated the state's overall tax environment the worst in the country, according to a poll in CFO magazine.

On top of taxes and regulation, the state can also claim what may be America's most expensive litigation environment for firms. The American Tort Reform Foundation recently named California one of the country's five worst "judicial hellholes," in part because state law allows trial lawyers to sue firms for minor violations of California's complex labor and environmental regulations.

Rick Perry's Implosion... The "Oops" Heard Around The World

In case you missed the CNBC Republican Debate last night. Take a look at these 53 seconds of footage that probably ended Governor Rick Perry's bid for the nomination.

 

 

Tea Party vs OWS As Seen By The Media

I found these cartoons and thought they accurately captured the differences between the Tea Partiers and the Occupy Wall Street crowd as reported by the main stream media. There's nothing wrong with introducing a little humor into the debate. LOL

From The Political Jungle:

 

From The New York Times:

 

Another Example of Mainstream Media Double Standards

We're now in week two of the Herman Cain sexual harassment scandal and the media is not letting up on their quest to derail his campaign. I'm not sure what happened fifteen years ago during his tenure at the National Restaurant Association, but even if the allegations are true, should we even care? After all, weren't we led to believe after the Bill Clinton episodes that someones private life shouldn't have any bearing on their ability to govern? Not that I want to revisit the Clinton scandals, but he did settle for $850,000 with Paula Jones, one of his accusers. Not to mention the other claims of sexual assault while he was Governor of Arkansas. Need I mention the infamous Lewinsky scandal in which he preyed upon a young White House intern while he was a sitting President? He was protected by the media, the National Organization of Women and every other liberal organization. The tolerance bar was set so low after he left office that no other politician would ever have to live to such a high standard, unless he was a Republican. Ladies and Gentlemen, that is the problem with Herman Cain. He is a Conservative Republican who happens to be an African American. That is a trifecta with the mainstream media and thus they are hellbent on destroying this man's quest for the White House. Just for the record, I continue to be a registered Independent and I have yet to decide who I will support in the primary or general elections.

 From the Boston Herald:

What is all the fuss about Herman Cain, possibly having sexually harassed a couple of women? He is not a sitting president, just one of the many contenders in the GOP primary. There isn’t even a blue dress.

Didn’t the mainstream media and liberals enlighten us during President Bill Clinton’s era of indiscretions that this is private behavior and doesn’t affect governing abilities? Even the National Organization for Women buried their collective heads in the sand and never said boo about the $850,000 Paula Jones settlement.

So haven’t we matured like the Europeans?

The problem is that Cain is a Republican. That’s why Politico has written 90 stories in one week about the pizza mogul. Twelve-plus stories per day seems excessive even for the left-leaning site, but it does prove the point that Republicans are held to a much higher ideal than Democrats by both the media and voters.

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The Hypocrisy of Occupy Wall Street

Hey OWS protesters, your hypocrisy has reached epic levels.  You don't represent 99% of Americans, you  represent the radical, left wing 9%, who never passes up an opportunity to protest against capitalism and corporate america. You dream of a communist or socialist revolution and yet you can't present one example of a country that has succeeded in creating this utopia. You want to blame Wall Street and corporate america for our problems? You want to do away with mega, multinational corporations? You say banks are stealing and robbing America? Get real.

You're probably using an Apple iPhone to communicate. If it wasn't for Wall Street, Apple would have never gone public and raised the money necessary to grow into the amazing company that it has become. You're probably wearing cool looking clothes made by a "mega" clothing manufacturer who also went public with the help of Wall Street banks. The electricity and gas supplied to your house is provided by your local utility whose stock trades on the NYSE and who pays a dividend to the 1% who you want to punish. Your car was made by a multinational corporation. The gasoline supplied by a Big Energy company. Your grocery store is probably a "mega" company as well. The sleeping bags and tents that you're living in were manufactured by companies who relied on funding, loans and equity investment provided by Big Banks. Your ability to use social media like Facebook and Twitter exists because the venture capital and banking community took on the risk and provided capital to fund great ideas. Those videos that you filmed of your protest are now viewed around the world because of sites like YouTube. Guess what? YouTube was funded by venture capital firms who you want to penalize by making them pay huge taxes and yet expect them to continue to back and develop these great new technologies. The music that you listen to was produced and recorded by record labels, owned by mega global media companies. Do you know who supplies capital to these Big Banks and Venture Capital firms? Yup, you guessed it, wealthy individuals. The 1% who you want to blame for our financial mess. Do you know what life would be like if banks, multinational corporations and wealthy investors didn't exist? Have you ever been to a poor, undeveloped third world nation? Is that the society you envision? Our country has paid a heavy price including the shedding of blood to give you the right to protest and the means to live a relatively comfortable life with all of the modern conveniences that you demand.

I rarely agree with Alec Baldwin's political views, but during his visit to the Occupy Wall Street encampment he made a point to defend capitalism. From Yahoo News:

Alec Baldwin visited the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City this week, where he found himself defending the very institutions the demonstrators are protesting: Banks, capitalism and the rich."You have to have capital markets in this country," Baldwin said. "You can't not have strong capital markets in this country or this country is going to go down the tubes. ... Capitalism is worthwhile and capitalism demands the flow of money. ... You want the banks to do what the banks do."

There's nothing wrong with companies making a profit to provide that convenience along the way. That my friends is the beauty of capitalism. It's not perfect and not everyone will succeed, but it has lifted more people out of poverty compared to any other economic system known to man. Your solution has been tried before. Just take a look at North Korea, Cuba and the former Soviet Union. How did that work out for them?