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Rocky
Power Line, by Scott Johnson
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Posted By:Dreadnought, 10/4/2012 5:53:47 AM
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| Over the past month I worried that Mitt Romney was another GOP loser of a presidential candidate in the line of Bob Dole and John McCain. Dole and McCain are great Americans who have made profound personal sacrifices for our freedom, but as presidential candidates they were palookas. I wondered whether Romney was this year’s Republican bum of the month served up to lose honorably to the Democrats’ heavyweight champion. The answer Romney provided last night in the debate with President Obama (transcript here) was something like the great negation of Nathaniel Hawthorne saluted by Herman Melville
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
corndoggies, 10/4/2012 6:16:19 AM (No. 8908748)
There was a Rocky marathon on yesterday. Coincidence? I think not.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
arkfamily, 10/4/2012 6:22:27 AM (No. 8908766)
I wasn't worried about Mitt Romney. I was worried that the media was going to be convincing enough that we should be worried about Romney, if that makes sense.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
beca, 10/4/2012 6:25:16 AM (No. 8908773)
#2 right on...mitt has it......the media is losing this war
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Malia2012, 10/4/2012 6:35:02 AM (No. 8908808)
The ONLY reason some people had the same "worry" as Scott Johnson was BECAUSE of people like Johnson, "bum of the month"? Pundits who are so close to the forest they can't see the trees are the problem. Johnson sounds like an over-educated pinhead who wants demonrat approval! Hawthorne? Melville? Puhleeze! Anyone who has seriously been watching Mitt Romney for months, knew exactly what he was going to do to obama when the debate came up. Romney/Ryan, 2012! Yay!
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killerbee, 10/4/2012 6:56:40 AM (No. 8908867)
Scott Johnson and Power Line have been whining and crying about the polls and how Romney's not getting it done. I've been seriously disgusted with their inability to see beyond the leftist/elitist spin.
The polls are cooked. The media has effectively put a black tarp over Romney unless they can twist something into a "gaffe". And then they pile on with their pearl clutching. It's been disheartening and pathetic.
There, Scott Johnson. I hope you felt that virtual kick in the shins.
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MDConservative, 10/4/2012 7:20:15 AM (No. 8908968)
I wonder whether Obama wants another four years. Ex-presidents get millions, are still "Mr. President" and give up little in terms of perks. If the guy wants to play golf as the President, he can do just as well as a former. I expect Augusta National to call the day after he leave office...why not sooner than later?
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philemon1967, 10/4/2012 7:26:36 AM (No. 8908999)
I think many conservatives are worried that Mitt would be too mild compared to Alinski-inspired Obama. I don't think Scott Johnson is being too hard on Mitt. In fact, by going through a fairly bruising primary process, the Republican candidate is likely going to get a lot more vetting than the sole Democratic Party candidate and I think this translate to a candidate who is less prepared to deal with scrutiny on his current administration's policies' failures. But then again, like one of Romney's strategists said, Obama had a good debate but he had 4 lousy years.
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earlybird, 10/4/2012 7:31:18 AM (No. 8909018)
I have been fed up with lace pantied PowerLine Hinderaker and Johnson for some time now.
Although he gets into his oh-so-clever Rocky bit, Johnson leaves bodies along the way, calling Republican candidates "palookas" and Romney "the Republican bum of the month". And even with Rocky, he reminds that Rocky lost.
PowerLine left my Bookmarks a long time ago.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
BaseballFan, 10/4/2012 7:55:53 AM (No. 8909104)
Ditto to #2 and #8.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
god of irony, 10/4/2012 8:32:38 AM (No. 8909203)
Maybe people like Johnson should have listened to the Romney supporters instead trying to get on the band wagon of the crazy uncle in the attic of the month club.
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Pete Stone, 10/4/2012 8:57:49 AM (No. 8909271)
Johnson points out that "Barack Obama is a big-time bs artist." True, but not a skilled one. He was being pinned down on the issues and had no idea how to talk his way out of it. BTW, it's my opinion that some Ldotters are being too hard on Scott Johnson. He didn't say Romney was Palooka of the Month. He said he had worried that Romney might be. Last night Romney finally came out swinging and showed his intelligence and fighting spirit after a month of being Mr. Nice Guy. Mitt can think on his feet. Obama seems to have trouble without a teleprompter. It was refreshing to see Mitt kick Zero's butt.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
harper, 10/4/2012 12:57:17 PM (No. 8909427)
I think BO's performance last night was exactly in line with his personal trajectory through life. I wonder how old he was when he realized that all he would have to do is show up, vote "present" in other words, and Dem-world would do the rest? Before or after the choom-gang days?
I'll bet that all the reasons for hiding his citizen and education records are related to his being a lazy person who always took the easy way out with the willing help of Dem-world.
They all said he was the greatest. All their allies believed he was the greatest. BO believed he was the greatest.
And soon, Dem-world and their supporters in the media will find a spin to suggest that Romney's drubbing of BO either didn't happen or is racist, and the fairy tale will continue.
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A few hours after Margaret Thatcher´s death on Monday, the snarling deadbeats of the British underclass were gleefully rampaging through the streets of Brixton in South London, scaling the marquee of the local fleapit and hanging a banner announcing, "THE B@&$! IS DEAD." Amazingly, they managed to spell all four words correctly. By Friday, "Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead," from "The Wizard of Oz," was the No. 1 download at Amazon UK. Mrs. Thatcher would have enjoyed all this. Her former speechwriter John O´Sullivan recalls how, some years after leaving office, she
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Jonathan Winters, groundbreaking comic who influenced generations, dead at 87
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LOS ANGELES — Jonathan Winters, the cherub-faced comedian whose breakneck improvisations and misfit characters inspired the likes of Robin Williams and Jim Carrey, has died. He was 87. The Ohio native died Thursday evening at his Montecito, Calif., home of natural causes, said Joe Petro III, a longtime family friend. Petro said Winters died of natural causes and was surrounded by family and friends. Winters was a pioneer of improvisational standup comedy, with an exceptional gift for mimicry, a grab bag of eccentric personalities and a bottomless reservoir of creative energy.
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Hi. As you’ve probably noticed, I’m not the President. I’m just a citizen. And as a citizen, I’m here at the White House today because I want to make a difference and I hope you will join me. My name is Francine Wheeler. My husband David is with me. We live in Sandy Hook, Connecticut. David and I have two sons. Our older son Nate, soon to be 10 years old, is a fourth grader at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Our younger son, Ben, age six, was murdered in his first-grade classroom on December 14th.
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