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Vote For Love Of Country...not "revenge"

Listen to the video:



really?





Which is the better message? 

UPDATE:  At least the Romney campaign gets it.

Why Romney Is Not Bush...

It doesn't get much clearer than this...


The Romney campaign would be wise to use this as a 30 second ad in Ohio, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Here's Romney's 1st ad from last night.

The Clear Choice...

Via Gateway Pundit, here's a billboard in western Michigan:

Obama has done more harm to this country by a president since James Buchanan's policies caused the Civil War...

Krauthammer On Obama

Here's an apt description of Barack Obama as exists anywhere:



Via Gateway Pundit

DNC Desperation: NYorker Magazine...

Romney vs Empty Chair....

When you see things like this in staunchly Liberal magazines...you should be smelling panic.

via. Instapundit




http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/152843/

Romney Pummeled Obama

Here's just how bad it was:

via Legal Insurrection

Romney Clobbers Obama In Debate

Here's how Koreans see last nights debate, found via Ace of Spades,



Romney won hands down.

Biden on the Middle Class...

Here's Biden's endorsement of the Romney/Ryan ticket.

Dirty Jobs & America

Mike Rowe is the host of a show called "Dirty Jobs."  In that show he goes around the country working in various industries and does the dirty work...that needs to be done.  Recently, he wrote Mitt Romney as letter...here's the letter:

Dear Governor Romney,

My name is Mike Rowe and I own a small company in California called mikeroweWORKS. Currently, mikeroweWORKS is trying to close the country’s skills gap by changing the way Americans feel about Work. (I know, right? Ambitious.) Anyway, this Labor Day is our 4^th anniversary, and I’m commemorating the occasion with an open letter to you. If you read the whole thing, I’ll vote for you in November.

First things first. mikeroweWORKS grew out of a TV show called Dirty Jobs. If by some chance you are not glued to The Discovery Channel every Wednesday at 10pm, allow me to visually introduce myself. That’s me on the right, preparing to do something dirty.
When Dirty Jobs premiered back in 2003, critics called the show “a calamity of exploding toilets and misadventures in animal husbandry.” They weren’t exactly wrong. But mostly, Dirty Jobs was an unscripted celebration of hard work and skilled labor. It still is. Every week, we highlight regular people who do the kind of jobs most people go out of their way to avoid. My role on the show is that of a “perpetual apprentice.” In that capacity I have completed over three hundred different jobs, visited all fifty states, and worked in every major industry.

Though schizophrenic and void of any actual qualifications, my resume looks pretty impressive, and when our economy officially crapped the bed in 2008, I was perfectly positioned to weigh in on a variety of serious topics. A reporter from The Wall Street Journal called to ask what I thought about the “counter-intuitive correlation between rising unemployment and the growing shortage of skilled labor.” CNBC wanted my take on outsourcing. Fox News wanted my opinions on manufacturing and infrastructure. And CNN wanted to chat about currency valuations, free trade, and just about every other work-related problem under the sun.

In each case, I shared my theory that most of these “problems” were in fact symptoms of something more fundamental – a change in the way Americans viewed hard work and skilled labor. That’s the essence of what I’ve heard from the hundreds of men and women I’ve worked with on Dirty Jobs. Pig farmers, electricians, plumbers, bridge painters, jam makers, blacksmiths, brewers, coal miners, carpenters, crab fisherman, oil drillers…they all tell me the same thing over and over, again and again – our country has become emotionally disconnected from an essential part of our workforce. We are no longer impressed with cheap electricity, paved roads, and indoor plumbing. We take our infrastructure for granted, and the people who build it.

Today, we can see the consequences of this disconnect in any number of areas, but none is more obvious than the growing skills gap. Even as unemployment remains sky high, a whole category of vital occupations has fallen out of favor, and companies struggle to find workers with the necessary skills. The causes seem clear. We have embraced a ridiculously narrow view of education. Any kind of training or study that does not come with a four-year degree is now deemed “alternative.” Many viable careers once aspired to are now seen as “vocational consolation prizes,” and many of the jobs this current administration has tried to “create” over the last four years are the same jobs that parents and teachers actively discourage kids from pursuing. (I always thought there something ill-fated about the promise of three million “shovel ready jobs” made to a society that no longer encourages people to pick up a shovel.)

Which brings me to my purpose in writing. On Labor Day of 2008, the fans of Dirty Jobs helped me launch this website. mikeroweWORKS.com began as a Trade Resource Center designed to connect kids with careers in the skilled trades. It has since evolved into a non-profit foundation – a kind of PR Campaign for hard work and skilled labor. Thanks to a number of strategic partnerships, I have been able to promote a dialogue around these issues with a bit more credibility than my previous resume allowed. I’ve spoken to Congress (twice) about the need to confront the underlying stigmas and stereotypes that surround these kinds of jobs. Alabama and Georgia have both used mikeroweWORKS to launch their own statewide technical recruitment campaigns, and I’m proud to be the spokesman for both initiatives. I also work closely with Caterpillar, Ford, Kimberly-Clark, and Master Lock, as well as The Boy Scouts of America and The Future Farmers of America. To date, the mikeroweWORKS Foundation has raised over a million dollars for trade scholarships. It’s modest by many standards, but I think we’re making a difference.

Certainly, we need more jobs, and you were clear about that in Tampa. But the Skills Gap proves that we need something else too. We need people who see opportunity where opportunity exists. We need enthusiasm for careers that have been overlooked and underappreciated by society at large. We need to have a really big national conversation about what we value in the workforce, and if I can be of help to you in that regard, I am at your service – assuming of course, you find yourself in a new address early next year.

To be clear, mikeroweWORKS has no political agenda. I am not an apologist for Organized Labor or for Management. mikeroweWORKS is concerned only with encouraging a larger appreciation for skilled labor, and supporting those kids who are willing to learn a skill.

Good luck in November. And thanks for your time.

Sincerely,
Mike Rowe

PS. In the interest of full disclosure I should mention that I wrote a similar letter to President Obama. Of course, that was four years ago, and since I never heard back, I believe proper etiquette allows me to extend the same offer to you now. I figure if I post it here, the odds are better that someone you know might send it along to your attention.

Mike is right.  America has been fooled into thinking that a college education is the be all end all of employment opportunity.  Our educational system has failed this country...and it is becoming more evident every single day.  You want a job?  There are hundreds, if not thousands of "dirty jobs" looking for people to work every single day.  Just look in the news papers.  Unfortunately, most of them go unfilled. 

I'm a cabinetmaker.  I build commercial cabinetry.  The median age in my industry is above 40 years old.  That's not a good thing as it's unsustainable.  When the "old guys" retire, without passing on their skills and knowledge, that knowledge and skills are lost...because there isn't anyone to take on the burden of learning how to work hard. 

I'm 50 years old (or I will be in a couple of weeks).  I haven't had an apprentice working with me in years...that's a telling  problem right there...if we, as a nation, don't begin right now, to change how we educate and prepare our children to take over the burden of running this country, and I don't mean the excerable political class that we've foisted upon ourselves, I mean the abillity to build those roads, build those houses and skyscrappers, bridges, power grid...then we're doomed not just as a nation, but as a society.

UPDATE:  From the comments, keep in mind that I do have a college education...an A.A., B.A. (History), M.A. (History) & Ph.D. (Medieval European History)...I took a 50% cut in pay when I became a cabinetmaker.  I went through a vo-tech school program (not offered any more...not enough students) in Tallahassee, FL.  Sooo...I've been through the edumacation mill myself.  I think that America has made a huge mistake in emphasizing college education, to the detriment of our country.  It's not too late turn this around, though we are close to the tipping point. 

Skills are being lost every day with each "old guy" who retires without passing on his knowledge and skill to a new generation of craftsmen and women...it's not too late, but we're close...

Are You Better Off?

Are you better off now than you were 4 years ago?  Even David Axelrod can't so yes to that.

Jane Edmonds, Liberal Democrat...for Romney

Here is a great speech that wasn't aired by ANY news channel...Mr. Romney's former Secretary for Employment and Labour, Massachusetss.




Jane Edmonds, Liberal Democrat...supports Mitt Romney.

Clint Eastwood's Speech

It's a very simple speech.  Not eloquent in the Obama mode, but rather that of an ordinary man, who...once disappointed, won't ever make that mistake again.  In his own words,



An elegant speech from the heart.  You  don't hear those at political conventions...ever.  My hat is off to Mr. Eastwood, and I hope that Messers Romney and Ryan can, in the end, "retire" Mr. Obama from office ('retire' is the term Mr. Carter uses when describing the asswhoopin' he got in 1980).

Toure: A Conservative Response

Here's is Kira Davis' elequent a response to Toure's "niggerization" comment as there has been.

Election 2012: The Bottom Line

Every once in a while, I read something that really strikes a cord.  This election isn't about Romney/Obama, it's about the direction the country is currently heading.  It's about whether or not Americans will have control of the direction their lives go, or whether the government will.

There is not a single Obama voter anywhere in the land who believes that another four years of him will make this country better. Not a single one from coast to coast. No, what they believe is that he will make the country a worse place for those people that they hate. That he will have four more years to sink their ideas deeper in the earth, regardless of how many families go hungry and how many fathers kill themselves because they can no longer take care of their families. What they believe is that Obama will grant their group more special privileges and the rest of the country can go to hell.

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– Daniel Greenfield on “The Most Divisive Campaign in American History.”  Here's some more;

Obama can't win on the economy. He can't win on foreign policy. He can't win on any aspect of his administration. All he can do is stir up violence and then promise to heal the country in his second term while winking to all the representatives of the grievance groups. It's not a new game, but the Democratic Party has never played it quite this baldly in a national election. And if it succeeds, then national politics will have finally been reduced to the level of a Chicago election.

We were expected to believe that the typical Obama voter in 2008 was hoping for a better country, but in 2012 there is no more hope, only hate and fear. The typical Obama voter is not acting as an American, but as a representative of an entitled group looking to secure and expand those entitlements at the expense and the detriment of the country at large.

To vote for Obama after years of grotesque economic mismanagement that has no precedent in history, that exceeds the worst actions of Andrew Jackson or Ulysses S. Grant, is not the instinct of an American, but a selfish greedy looter scrambling to grab a few dinner rolls off the tray while the ship is going down. There is no policy justification for voting for a man with the worst economic and foreign policy record in the country's history. There is no American justification for voting for him. Only the UnAmerican motivation of carving up a dying country into group fiefdoms privileging identity politics over the common good.

And, that ladies and gentlemen is what this election is about.  Every so often, there comes a turning point in our history.  One at which We The People have a say in  what direction we want the country to go.  This election is our choice...to choose government control of our lives, or to be able to grab the reigns ourselves...we have 83 days left to choose wisely.

HT:  Ed Driscoll.

And So It Begins...

Over the next few months we can expect all of the MSM to palinize Paul Ryan as a horrible racist and mysoginist.  It's started yesterday and you can expect it to build into a crescendo over the next month.

Romney Campaign Ads,...could write themselves

If Romney really wants to hammer Obama in ads, he should just replay most of Obama's 2008 campaign speeches.  The ads would just write themselves:




If you look at Obama's proposed budget, the deficit is three times the one the Democratically controlled Congress passed in 2008...and it's still rising...

All of Obama's pledges have a time lapse on them...I guess this one does too:

Mr. Obama has added  more to the public debt than all the rest of the presidents and Congresses combined.  That's frightening...and the fact that we have no end in sight is rather scary as well.  We are on the precipice of bankruptcy.

It's time for Congress to stop spending money we don't have.  The rest of the world won't continue to buy US bonds in perpetuity.  We can't continue to spend, spend, and spend some more.  The end is nigh.

It Worked!

Obama claimed that his economy policies have worked...but you must wonder just what he intended them to do!



If keeping unemployment high, with a higher level of dependency upon government handouts than ever before.  If pushing electric power prices to unprecedented levels was the goal; if crony capitalism with billions upon billions funneled to campaign donors who were invested in solar and wind projects that failed was the goal...

Then yes, it worked.

Fine?

Obama said the private sector is "fine". I beg to differ. My wife hasn't been able to find a full-time job in more than 4 years...and this idiot says that the economy is "fine"? What an asshole. I have spent the past 4 years worried about how we're going to pay our bills.

I've also been worried that if Mitt Romney got the nomination of the GOP that he'd not be tough enough, or his campaign nimble enough to defeat the Politician in Chief who currently resides in the White House. I've been worried that we were facing a John McCain redux...but here's some evidence that my concerns may be misplaced. Here's the Romney campaigns answer to the "fine" comments of Obama...




It's quite possible that the Romney campaign has realized that the media will do anything they can to scuttle his candidacy...something McCain never learned...

via Powerline.

UPDATE:  Not even Axelrod can answer a point blank question on this asinine comment:

Mitt Romney CPAC 2012