An Assortment of Sound Opinions (by ContraSuggest)

ITEM: Romney TKOs Obama in First Debate

You really have to hand it to Mitt Romney.  It only took him 90 minutes to cut through the Gordian knot of many months worth of distortions and lies put out there by Team Obama.  We’re constantly reminded by the media that presidential debates really aren’t that important in determining how people are going to vote.  Whereas that may be generally true, it’s certainly not so in the case of an election where the polls are as close as they are now.  Romney’s stellar debate performance has improved his standing in the polls, nationally and in the swing states; although this election still seems to be anybody’s game, Romney is now slightly ahead.  Due to his loss in the first fight, President Infanticide will no doubt be stepping it up in his next two encounters with Romney.  Mitt had better be ready, this is for all the marbles, he has to withstand Oblabla’s punches and come back to deliver a knock-out blow.  In the least he must clearly be perceived as having got the better of the president, if not, he will no doubt lose his slight edge in the polls.  Remember, the next presidential debate is scheduled for Tuesday 10/16/2012, don’t miss it (and Mitt, you’d better bring your A game).           

ITEM: Biden Makes a Biden of Himself

It isn’t difficult to make the jump from 2012 Vice Presidential Debate to a Warner Brothers Road Runner/Wile E Coyote cartoon.  Anytime Joe Biden is on the TV screen, we need to suspend our disbelief, for he is the hero of ignoramuses everywhere.  Picture the opening of such an animated adventure, as the camera freezes on each figure with a mock Latin subtitle: Representative Paul Ryan: Ipsum Exceptionalis; Vice President Joseph Biden: Moronus Interuptis, Obnoxio Equus Rearendus.  Just as the pathetic and hapless coyote tries in vain to kill Road Runner using an endless array of gadgets from the fictional Acme Corporation, so did VP Biden try to take out Mr. Ryan with an assortment of phony facts provided him by his hack handlers.  That strategy alone wouldn’t have hurt Ryan much, so it was combined with an even more disingenuous one; Biden was boorish, overbearing, condescending, and downright nasty.  He indecorously interrupted Mr. Ryan no less than 80 times with assorted grunts, huffs, guffaws, groans, derisive laughter and over-talk.  I was actually frightened at one point when the camera was focused on Ryan speaking during one of his turns, whilst off to his right Biden could be heard either transforming into a werewolf or passing a kidney stone.  I doubt very much if our clueless VP helped to endear himself to the precious independents courted by both tickets in this close election.  I suppose we shouldn’t be too surprised by Joe’s unbecoming-of-a-vice-president performance; after all, liberals are all about civil dialog.  Right?

ITEM: Obama: Mr. Consistency?

This past week the great condom president, Barrack Obama, told supporters at a campaign rally, that he can be counted on for his consistency.  With a presidential debate approaching, the subject of which will be foreign policy, I thought it would be instructive to briefly review the president’s consistency on foreign affairs.  Over the past four years, the Obama administration has pursued a dangerous and confused smorgasbord of anti-terror and war initiatives.  The lack of consistency in his approach has sent mixed signals to our allies and communicated weakness to our enemies.  Consistency?  Here’s a quick recap of Obama Administration consistency on foreign policy:

• Taking the position that armed enemy combatants captured on the battlefield should receive full US Constitutional rights, including due process and civilian trials; while at the same time increasing overseas unmanned predator drone strikes against enemy targets; executions without the benefit of due process and fair trials
• When taking office, the 911 Five were on course to be tried by a military tribunal; Obama and Attorney General Holder resolved to instead try them in civilian court; four years later they’re back to being tried in military tribunals 
• When he ran for president in 2008, Obama continuously vowed to close the Guantanimo Bay detention facility; four years later it’s still in operation
• In the early days of the uprisings against the ruling Iranian regime, Obama held that the US shouldn’t meddle in Iran’s internal affairs, then later made public statements of solidarity with the protestors
• In Afghanistan, tried to replicate the successful surge strategy employed by President Bush in Iraq, a strategy that Obama roundly condemned.  Because of the vast differences of the two battlefield landscapes, the strategy that worked in Iraq is failing in Afghanistan, as is evidenced by a resurgent Taliban
• Ordered the killing of Osama bin Laden, who was located and executed through and by the very Bush/Cheney military/intelligence policies that Obama condemned in 2008

ITEM: Two Marriage Turncoats Defeated In NY!

Last year I blogged on the subject of four turncoat Republican senators here in New York. 

·             Mark J. Grisanti (Buffalo) [FINISHED]

·             James S. Alesi (Rochester) 

·             Stephen M. Saland (Hudson Valley)

·             Roy J. McDonald (Albany)  [FINISHED]

These slugs ran for office vowing to their constituents that they would uphold marriage as an institution between one man and one woman.  When Governor Andrew Cuomo decided that he was going to aid in the dismantling of marriage by leading the charge to redefine it, he and like-minded folk with very deep pockets, convinced the four aforementioned Republican senators to change their minds and break their promises.  Only with the votes of these traitors did same sex marriage become law in the Empire State.  The cash that they took for selling-out was supposed to fund their efforts to fend off any primary campaign challenges against them as a result of their sleazy votes.  The thoroughly decent and stalwart folks at the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) vowed to take down the turncoats by funding their primary opponents.  Now for the good news; last month, Saratoga County Clerk, Kathy Marchione, soundly defeated Roy McDonald in the Republican primary in New York’s 43^rd Senate District.  One down. 

Senator James Alesi has mysteriously retired!  What were you afraid of James, were you scared to face the voters of your district after stabbing them in the back?  Guess we’ll never know.  Two down (and good riddance to bad rubbish). 

Steve Saland had a much more difficult than expected primary win against a tough challenger by the name of Neil DiCarlo.  DiCarlo will now run on the Conservative Party line in the general election to further plague Saland’s chances at reelection.  Senator Grisanti will also be challenged by a Conservative Party Candidate in the general, as well as a Democrat.  Only the electoral defeat of these Republican defectors will convince other Republican senators not to betray their constituents.  And the fight goes on.