A Message From Lucianne  



Now More Than Ever
Get Your Eagles Up!
Lucianne Tees - in
Black or White
Click to Buy

































   
 
Home Page | Latest Posts | Links | Must Reads | Update Profile | RSS | Contribute
Register | Rules & FAQs | Search | Post | Contact | Logout | Forgot Password


Ask the tough questions, Mitt
New York Daily News, by S.E. Cupp

Original Article

Posted By:StormCnter, 10/3/2012 6:20:24 AM

As both campaigns try their darndest to lower expectations in advance of Wednesday night’s first presidential debate, and the media sound a dire warning that the entire future of Mitt Romney’s campaign will rise and fall on this one performance, it’s worthwhile to pause on an obvious (if rarely mentioned) point: This debate should be a cakewalk for Romney. Finally, after a year that has seen President Obama’s supporters in the media whitewash his record and, for the most part, neglect to ask him tough questions about his many failed promises, Romney will get the chance

Comments:
I particuarly liked Ms. Cupp's closing line.

  

Post Reply  

Reply 1 - Posted by: texascunning, 10/3/2012 6:37:01 AM     (No. 8906050)

If only someone four years ago had asked the question "Who Are You?"

Hmmm. Wonder if The Who would consider allowing its use as a campaign theme song...


Reply 2 - Posted by: sinic, 10/3/2012 6:38:23 AM     (No. 8906054)

Sounds like a good plan to me! I hope he pounds him constantly, cause it's NEVER happened in his lifetime. He's always weaseled around things to ensure he's totally in control. Unless the moderator's totally in the tank....which is entirely possible.


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: vwlarry, 10/3/2012 6:50:48 AM     (No. 8906074)

The moderater is Jim LEH-rrrrrrerrrrrr. Watch for the twinkling in his eyes whenever he turns to speak to his Dear Leader.


Reply 4 - Posted by: bpl40, 10/3/2012 7:02:37 AM     (No. 8906077)

A lot of people have gone to a lot of trouble and expense for a long time to ensure Zero never has to face the music. No matter what Der Lehrer asks Mitt should skillfully pose in his answers tough questions which have been deliberately avoided so far. She is right it will be a blood bath.


Reply 5 - Posted by: Jebediah, 10/3/2012 7:11:47 AM     (No. 8906087)

The problem is, based on the entire Romney campaign since the primary win, and even with in infusion of Paul Ryan, who LOOKED like he would whip up the ticket, the campaign still seems to think it can win simply because it isn't Obama, and my disgust is overwhelming. (Fred Barnes has a wonderful opinion piece on this in today's Wall Street Journal, a must read, and oh I wish ROMNEY would read it.) Voters KNOW who Obama is, and what he has done, and they either accept it "(poor soul---after what Bush left him") or ignore (the bypassing of the Win law for air contractors: "everybody does that." ) They don't bother to dig too deep, even when Obama phones it in after BinGazi and heads at once for yet another $-maker in Vegas, saying HE has had a bad day. Meanwhile, Romney just sits there, passing by opportunity after opportunity to point out how the man has managed our economy and our place in the world, figuring people will figure it out themselves. AND THEY WON'T! To call this a wasted opportunity, dragging (if he had that kind of energy) defeat from the jaws of victory with a shy smile and vague promises is too kind. He is McCain without the oomph. Unfortunately, he is also McCaine WITH the ability to set us right.....and I will never ever forgive the man for this campaign and what looks like a defeat. Chicago and Obama must be laughing their a---- off---even with Biden out there, Romney is muffled. It is one thing to be a lousy politician and quite another to rely on BAD advice and stick with it when those who know are SCREAMING for him to show some spine!!!!!


Reply 6 - Posted by: MissMolly, 10/3/2012 7:14:54 AM     (No. 8906091)

#6 has joined the national media in declaring Romney's loss ahead of time. Try thinking positively, friend.


Reply 7 - Posted by: country boy, 10/3/2012 7:25:05 AM     (No. 8906100)

FTA "His mantra Wednesday night should be: “'My campaign may be imperfect, but your presidency has been abominable.'”"

A whole new respect for SE Cupp.

Heads up, Mitt camp. Check it out.
Channel Newt Gingrich for 90 minutes, and you'll be in the White House for sure.


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: god of irony, 10/3/2012 7:29:59 AM     (No. 8906105)

What is the over and under for how long it will take Obama to "scratch" his nose with his middle finger?


Reply 9 - Posted by: Lala, 10/3/2012 7:36:29 AM     (No. 8906114)

I suspect Mitt is actually tearing it up on the campaign trail, but I never see him on the news. He can't kidnap Chris Matthews and demand to be given equal time on MSNBC. He's a very smart man and I also suspect he's a man who hates to lose. Let's not despair. Get out and talk to people. Knock on some doors. Make some phone calls.


Reply 10 - Posted by: quantumman, 10/3/2012 7:58:06 AM     (No. 8906144)

Ask him where the buck stops?


Reply 11 - Posted by: BcdErick, 10/3/2012 8:17:58 AM     (No. 8906174)

#11, our dear leader would probably respond with something like "at a truck stop somewhere near where Romney lives." Yes, it's that bad.


Reply 12 - Posted by: ROLFnader, 10/3/2012 8:40:27 AM     (No. 8906218)

As a conservative, I always listen to what Fred Barnes has to say. I remember watching him on TV and wishing he's squeak up louder.


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: Judge, 10/3/2012 9:09:25 AM     (No. 8906290)

Dont sell Mitt short. He will do fine


Reply 14 - Posted by: Gloating, 10/3/2012 9:17:29 AM     (No. 8906314)

Take time today to say a prayer for Mitt Romney and for our nation.


Reply 15 - Posted by: bob913, 10/3/2012 9:31:21 AM     (No. 8906345)

and DO NOT say obama is a nice guy!!
He is not, just ask any of the relatives of the hundreds and hundreds of dead Americans and Mexicans!


Reply 16 - Posted by: pomom, 10/3/2012 9:49:25 AM     (No. 8906385)

Ask tough questions? That's the moderator's job. You mean be tough, direct, and unflappable. Only Mitt will get tough questions.

My hope is that when Obama stands there and distorts Mitt's record, Mitt will turn to him and say, ''it's time you stop lying and tell the American people the truth for a change.''


Reply 17 - Posted by: BaseballFan, 10/3/2012 10:10:10 AM     (No. 8906439)

Who votes for a campaign style?
How stupid!
That's what DemocRATS did in 2008, and will do in November.
Vote for the person that can LEAD. Vote as though the future of your country is at stake.


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: broken01, 10/3/2012 12:36:16 PM     (No. 8906832)

Odumbo having had it easy with the MSM never calling his arrogant tail on the carpet for anything will not like any tough questions from Romney. I sure that the governor knows this an will be prepared. Just one sharp question from Romney will perplex Odumbo. He might not show it but it will definitely throw him off his game. For anyone going wobbly just remember that Romney is a skilled debator who can pick his opponent apart with a smile and a nod. I'll have my popcorn ready because this should be good.



Post Reply   Close thread 704720




Below, you will find ...

Most Recent Articles posted by "StormCnter"

and

Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)




Most Recent Articles posted by "StormCnter"



US ends freeze on new natural
gas exports, approves Texas terminal
Reuters, by Ayesha Rascoe    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 5/18/2013 12:33:11 PM     Post Reply
WASHINGTON, - The Obama administration opened the door to a new era of U.S. energy exports on Friday, approving the first liquefied natural gas project since the start of a heated debate over how best to benefit from the shale energy boom. The Energy Department´s approval of unrestricted natural gas exports from Freeport LNG´s Quintana Island, Texas, terminal ends nearly a two-year pause in its review of export applications as the administration addressed concerns that sending unlimited amounts of domestic gas abroad could harm U.S. manufacturers. While the approval had been widely expected after growing signals

An Inferno for Our Times?
National Review Online, by Stephen W. Smith    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 5/18/2013 12:25:26 PM     Post Reply
Although skillful and clever throughout, Dan Brown’s Inferno is finally more of a gateway argument on behalf of population control than a simple thriller about Dante, Florence, or bioterror. Considered as a whole, the novel serves as something like a “gateway to the Posthuman age,” as the seeming villain of the novel says when describing the goal of his plot. While the gateways in Dante lead either to Hell and self-knowledge or to Mount Purgatorio and a climb to the stars, this novel leads the reader into a brave new world of genetic engineering and suggests

Tom Perez and his ´disparate
impact´ hiring quotas lose in court
Washington Examiner, by Editorial    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 5/18/2013 12:21:02 PM     Post Reply
Do Americans have a right to expect that firefighters responding to calls from their neighborhoods will always be the best-trained, most capable individuals available? Not if the U.S. Department of Justice has its way. That´s the disturbing message from a discrimination suit DOJ filed against the New York City Fire Department alleging that it discriminated against black and Hispanic applicants. Oddly enough, the case was not based on any particular act of discrimination. It was based purely on the fact that somebody somewhere decided that too many NYFD applicants had failed a job exam. The DOJ argued that these multiple failures

   

 



 
Wig-wearing ´CIA spy´ in Russia
´was investigating Boston bombings´
Telegraph [UK], by Staff    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 5/18/2013 10:26:41 AM     Post Reply
The Kommersant daily said it was probable that the suspected agent Ryan Fogle - officially a diplomat - was looking for information on the Tsarnaev brothers, who are alleged to have carried out the Marathon bombings. It linked the Mr Fogle´s capture, which threatens to further stress ties between Washington and Moscow, to a trip that a US delegation made to Dagestan in April in coordination with the Russian authorities to investigate the blasts. Suspected bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev travelled to the region of Dagestan in 2012 and US authorities are eager to see if he built up contacts

Watergate 2.0 -- why the
IRS scandal is far worse
Fox News, by Matt Kibbe    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 5/18/2013 5:59:17 AM     Post Reply
In the wake of one of the worst abuses of government power in recent history, many are rushing to frame the Internal Revenue Service scandal as simply an attack on conservative activists. That view risks creating a partisan political football and misses a fundamentally scarier abuse that exceeds the scandals of Watergate or any other prior government abuse. The IRS has admitted that since May 2010 it targeted grassroots-conservative organizations that had applied for tax-exempt status, unfairly subjecting them to rigorous scrutiny due to their political leanings. Such groups were told they were required to comply with IRS requests,

The 10 P.M. Phone Call
National Review Online, by Andrew C. McCarthy    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 5/18/2013 5:39:48 AM     Post Reply
‘What would you be focusing on in the Benghazi investigation?” I spent many years in the investigation biz, so it’s only natural that I’ve been asked that question a lot lately. I had the good fortune to be trained in Rudy Giuliani’s U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan. Rudy famously made his mark by making law enforcement reflect what common sense knew: Enterprises take their cues from the top. Criminal enterprises are no different: The capos do not carry out the policy of the button-men — it’s the other way around. So if I were investigating Benghazi,

Disturbing abuses of power
Washington Post, by Colbert I. King    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 5/18/2013 5:34:57 AM     Post Reply
East Germany’s Ministry for State Security, also known as the Stasi, posed a major challenge during my three-year stint as an attache at the U.S. Embassy in Bonn during the 1960s. Detecting and preventing Stasi agents from penetrating the security of U.S. diplomatic facilities in West Germany was a 24-7 undertaking. The East German secret police were even more ruthless and relentless in operations against their own citizens. Political suppression in that communist state was total. There was no room for dissent. Thousands of East Germans were arbitrarily imprisoned for “internal security” reasons.

It´s Time To Discuss The
Secret CIA Operation At The
Heart Of The Benghazi Scandal
Business Insider, by Michael Kelley & Geoffrey Ingersoll    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 5/18/2013 5:32:12 AM     Post Reply
In eight months since an attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi left four Americans dead, a Republican-led investigation has focused on potential missteps by the White House — and come away with nothing significant. There has been little attention given, however, to covert actions by the Central Intelligence Agency that were partially uncovered during the September 11, 2012 attack. That may be changing. CNN´s Jake Tapper argued this week that we should give more scrutiny to the CIA´s presence in the Libyan port city. Congressman Frank Wolf (R-Va.) said the same, according to CNN:

John Edwards re-emerges,
begins public comeback
Washington Times, by Ben Wolfgang    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 5/18/2013 5:16:32 AM     Post Reply
Mark Sanford is now a member of Congress two years after he stepped down as governor of South Carolina following a highly publicized extramarital affair. Anthony Weiner appears poised to run for New York City mayor not even two years after scandalous photos of the ex-representative hit Twitter. Perhaps, then, it should be no surprise to learn that disgraced former presidential candidate and North Carolina senator John Edwards is plotting his own comeback. The wealthy lawyer has reactivated his law license and also is hitting the speaking circuit, The Associated Press reported. Mr. Edwards is scheduled

Did Oprah make O.J. snap?
New York Post, by Emily Smith    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 5/18/2013 5:13:24 AM     Post Reply
O.J. Simpson testified this week that he’d been drinking all day on Sept. 13, 2007, before he bizarrely robbed two sports memorabilia dealers in a Las Vegas hotel. But sources close to the case wonder if it was watching “The Oprah Winfrey Show” that afternoon that made Simpson snap. Before Simpson headed to the Palace Station Hotel to rob the dealers, the family of Ronald Goldman, who was murdered along with Simpson’s ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson, were on “Oprah” to discuss the controversial book “If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer.” It was a repackaged version of a “fictitious”

Who Actually Cracked Linear B, the Ancient
Code of the Mysterious Knossos Labyrinth?
Daily Beast, by Malcolm Jones    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 5/18/2013 4:58:46 AM     Post Reply
As Margalit Fox says at the outset of The Riddle of the Labyrinth, the story of Linear B is well known. This 3,000-year-old language was discovered on clay tablets excavated in 1900 on the island of Crete. It thereafter puzzled scholars for half a century before it was decoded by Michael Ventris, an English architect with no formal training in archeology or linguistics. Linear B’s history is an absorbing tale, full of mysteries both intellectual and historical, and it’s been told and retold since Ventris made his breakthrough. The problem, as Fox sees it,

How Mothers from Hell Raise
Their Boys to Do Evil
PJ Media, by Robert Spencer    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 5/18/2013 4:47:38 AM     Post Reply
“Peace will come,” Golda Meir once famously remarked, “when the Arabs start to love their children more than they hate us.” The obstacle to peace was not actually Arabs as such, but Muslims who had imbibed Islam’s doctrine of jihad and hatred of non-believers and primarily Jews — a hatred so intense that it drives people to prefer death (and murder) to life. And as we have seen recently with the monstrous grandstanding of Mama Tsarnaeva, this hatred is passed on in some Muslim families – and Zubeidat Tsarnaeva is by no means the only mother from hell.



Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)



Officials on Benghazi:
"We made mistakes,
but without malice"

55 replie(s)
CBS News, by Sharyl Attkisson    Original Article
Posted By: Drive- 5/17/2013 3:02:24 PM     Post Reply
Obama administration officials who were in key positions on Sept. 11, 2012, acknowledge that a range of mistakes were made the night of the attacks on the U.S. missions in Benghazi, and in messaging to Congress and the public in the aftermath. The officials spoke to CBS News in a series of interviews and communications under the condition of anonymity so that they could be more frank in their assessments. They do not all agree on the list of mistakes and it's important to note that they universally claim that any errors or missteps did not cost lives and reflect "incompetence rather than malice or cover up.

Raindrops wash away
reeling O’s fake veneer

46 replie(s)
New York Post, by Michael Goodwin    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 5/17/2013 5:28:00 AM     Post Reply
Watching President Obama trying to dodge raindrops and responsibility yesterday reminded me of the moment when Dorothy pulls back the curtain and discovers that the Wizard of Oz is “just a man.” Stripped of his spell of mystery and power, the wizard is worse than mortal. He’s a fake. So it was with Obama in the Rose Garden. His performance was tired and trite, ordinary to the point of dull. His veneer of passion was so transparent that you could see him trying to summon his old-time magic by pushing the buttons

Watergate 2.0 -- why the
IRS scandal is far worse

46 replie(s)
Fox News, by Matt Kibbe    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 5/18/2013 5:59:17 AM     Post Reply
In the wake of one of the worst abuses of government power in recent history, many are rushing to frame the Internal Revenue Service scandal as simply an attack on conservative activists. That view risks creating a partisan political football and misses a fundamentally scarier abuse that exceeds the scandals of Watergate or any other prior government abuse. The IRS has admitted that since May 2010 it targeted grassroots-conservative organizations that had applied for tax-exempt status, unfairly subjecting them to rigorous scrutiny due to their political leanings. Such groups were told they were required to comply with IRS requests,

Lew asks Congress for debt increase,
says it’s ´not open to debate´

43 replie(s)
The Hill, by Peter Schoeder    Original Article
Posted By: DW626- 5/18/2013 6:12:33 PM     Post Reply
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew on Friday urged congressional leaders to raise the debt limit and insisted that the White House is not going to negotiate over the increase because lawmakers have "no choice." "We will not negotiate over the debt limit," Lew wrote. "The creditworthiness of the United States is non-negotiable. The question of whether the country must pay obligations it has already incurred is not open to debate." Lew said that while President Obama is willing to discuss plans to reduce the nation´s deficit with Congress, those talks must be kept separate from any effort to raise the nation´s debt cap.

Weiner’s Wife Didn’t Disclose Consulting
Work She Did While Serving in State Dept.

41 replie(s)
New York Times, by Raymond Hernandez    Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter- 5/17/2013 5:43:54 AM     Post Reply
The State Department, under Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, created an arrangement for her longtime aide and confidante Huma Abedin to work for private clients as a consultant while serving as a top adviser in the department. Ms. Abedin did not disclose the arrangement — or how much income she earned — on her financial report. It requires officials to make public any significant sources of income. An adviser to Mrs. Clinton, Philippe Reines, said that Ms. Abedin was not obligated to do so. The disclosure of the agreement that Ms. Abedin made with the State Department comes as her husband,

Higher-Ups Knew of IRS Case
41 replie(s)
Wall Street Journal, by John D. McKinnon*    Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/17/2013 10:23:18 PM     Post Reply
The Internal Revenue Service´s watchdog told top Treasury officials around June 2012 he was investigating allegations the tax agency had targeted conservative groups, for the first time indicating that Obama administration officials were aware of the explosive matter in the midst of the president´s re-election campaign. The disclosure to the Treasury general counsel and the deputy secretary was a cursory one, according to J. Russell George, the Treasury inspector general for tax administration. He said he didn´t reveal conclusions of the probe, which was in its early stages, and his disclosure came as part

Rep. Issa subpoenas Benghazi
auditor Thomas Pickering

39 replie(s)
The Hill [Washington DC], by Julian Pecquet    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 5/17/2013 3:53:45 PM     Post Reply
The lawmaker leading the charge to investigate the Benghazi terror attack on Friday subpoenaed the co-author of a report that slammed the State Department but didn´t interview Hillary Clinton. House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) formally demanded that retired ambassador Thomas Pickering submit to being deposed by the committee next Thursday. The subpoena comes in the wake of a series of acrimonious public exchanges this week between the two men. Issa didn´t issue a subpoena to former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Michael Mullen, who co-authored the Benghazi report with Pickering.

McCaskill Calls For Firing Of All
Involved In IRS Targeting Scandal

38 replie(s)
KMOX [St, Louis], by Staff    Original Article
Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 5/18/2013 2:46:31 PM     Post Reply
Washington – Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-MO, issued a video statement Friday in response to reports that the Internal Revenue Service unfairly targeted conservative nonprofit groups. (Snip) “There’s a reason Lady Justice wears a blindfold in America. That is because in America, we don’t apply the law based on who you are, who you know, or what you believe. We apply the law equally.” “We should not only fire the head of the IRS, which has occurred, but we’ve got to go down the line and find every single person who had anything to do with this and make sure

IRS sued for seizing 60
million medical records

36 replie(s)
Washington Times [DC], by Cheryl K. Chumley    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 5/17/2013 9:29:25 PM     Post Reply
A healthcare provider has sued the Internal Revenue Service and 15 of its agents, charging they wrongfully seized 60 million medical records from 10 million Americans. The name of the provider is not yet known, United Press International said. But Courthouse News Service said the suit claims the agency violated the Fourth Amendment in 2011, when agents executed a search warrant for financial data on one employee – and that led to the seizure of information on 10 million, including state judges. The search warrant did not specify that the IRS could take medical information, UPI said.

When it rains, it pours: Ten
press conference take aways

35 replie(s)
Washington Post, by Jennifer Rubin    Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/17/2013 4:52:42 AM     Post Reply
President Obama’s press conference in the rain was not a success, if by success, his supporters would mean an event which convinces anyone who doesn’t work for him that he’s getting ahead of the scandal deluge. The sight of a Marine holding an umbrella over his head only added to the weirdness of the event. So what did we learn? 1. He has full confidence in Attorney General Eric Holder, the man who purportedly recused himself (whenever) without putting it in writing (whatever). When asked about the untrammeled snooping on Associated Press reporters and editors,

Obama’s Defenders: He’s Not Corrupt,
Just Dishonest and Incompetent

35 replie(s)
Commentary Magazine, by Seth Mandel    Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly- 5/18/2013 5:49:03 AM     Post Reply
There was a running joke in the fall of 2008 that John McCain should simply re-air Hillary Clinton’s “3 a.m. phone call” ad, which highlighted Barack Obama’s lack of experience and meager knowledge of world affairs, and just tack on “I’m John McCain, and I approve this message” at the end of the ad. The point was that thanks to the bitter primary battle between the Clintons and Obama, Democrats had already developed the most effective lines of attack against Obama, and Republicans needed only to nod their heads in agreement. Something similar is taking place

Fox’s Brit Hume: ‘Stupid’ For GOP
To Think Of Impeaching Obama Over
Recent Scandals

32 replie(s)
Mediaite, by Andrew Kirell    Original Article
Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/17/2013 5:05:46 PM     Post Reply
Appearing on Laura Ingraham‘s radio show this afternoon, Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume suggested some Republicans were “stupid” to consider impeachment of President Obama a viable response to the ongoing scandals regarding the Benghazi attacks, the IRS targeting of conservative groups, and the Justice Department secret seizure of AP phone records. Likely referring to some GOP lawmakers, including Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) who has put impeachment on the table as an option for handling the Benghazi fallout, Ingraham asked Hume to comment on how some Republican leaders have “ran to the microphone” to suggest removal

   

Post Reply   Close thread 704720





Home Page | Latest Posts | Links | Must Reads | Update Profile | Register | Rules & FAQs | Search | Post | Contact | RSS | Contribute | Logout | Forgot Password

© 2013 Lucianne.com Media Inc.

FS