By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  June 17th at 03:56 PM  | 

Today, President Obama completed his 100th (documented) round of golf. In celebration of this milestone, Duane Lester of All American Blogger made the following video: Obama is working hard, at least at playing golf. In less than three-and-a-half years he has played 100 rounds of golf. Just nine months into the Obama presidency the New York Post reported that Obama surpassed former President George W. | Read More »

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  June 14th at 08:00 AM  | 

You can’t make this stuff up. Your tax dollars are being used to market ”livestock semen.” Senator Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma) has put together a new study titled “Treasure Map: The Market Access Program’s Bounty of Waste, Loot and Spoils Plundered from Taxpayers.” The report released today found that the federal government has spent more than $2 billion on a program to promote private companies marketing products | Read More »

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  June 13th at 11:00 AM  | 

A new Reuters/Ipsos poll, released Tuesday evening, finds Romney has closed to within a single point of Obama, among registered voters – 45 percent to 44 percent. Obama led by seven points a month ago. According to the Ipso’s press release, the poll was mostly taken after “a rough week for Obama’s campaign capped by his remarks on Friday that the private sector of the | Read More »

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  June 10th at 12:01 PM  | 

The Romney campaign has released a powerful new web video, “Fine?.” The new video responds to President Obama’s out of touch “the private sector is doing fine” comment with snippets of middle class workers talking about their experiences struggling with the realities of the Obama economy: “We’ve seen layoffs, cutbacks.” “When it’s all said and done I’m making $200 a month.” “I’ve been looking for | Read More »

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  June 9th at 05:55 PM  | 

President Obama is trying to fight back against the hue and cry raised over his saying the private sector is doing fine. Saying the private sector is doing fine may have been a blunder, but it wasn’t a gaffe. It may have been a revelation to some, to others it was a confirmation. Mitt Romney quickly pounced on Obama’s tone deaf statement calling it an | Read More »

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  June 8th at 11:00 AM  | 

The  Romney campaign has released a new television, titled “Strong Leadership,” touting Romney’s economic record as Massachusetts governor:   “As governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney demonstrated strong leadership—reducing the unemployment rate and balancing budgets without raising taxes. As president, Mitt Romney will do the same to help create jobs and get our country back on track.” The ad highlights three of Governor Romney’s economic achievements:

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  June 4th at 05:45 PM  | 

You hear the left complaining about conservatives selectively editing video. The Center for American Progress has posted complaints about video editing, yet today they engaged in selective video editing. They posted a video titled “Heritage Foundation ‘expert’ Cannot Cite Any Examples of Actual Voter Fraud.” The problem is that the “Heritage Foundation ‘expert’” did cite voter fraud and the Center for American Progress edited it | Read More »

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  May 31st at 12:30 PM  | 

Having seen Mitt Romney, build a lead among the critical Independent voters and veterans, close the gender gap and improve his favorable ratings while the recently restarted Obama reelection campaign stumbles badly out of the gate. And as hid campaign suffers from the Democrats’ Bain mutiny and a campaign spokesman who bears false witness, Obama decides to continue his negative feedback loop by attempting to trash | Read More »

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  May 29th at 04:15 PM  | 

Today, the Romney campaign released a new video, “Not Even Half” taking President Obama to task for the billions of taxpayer dollars he has given to companies that later failed — including companies that were run by Democrat donors:

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  May 29th at 08:04 AM  | 

On Memorial Day, Gallup reported that U.S. veterans support Mitt Romney over Barack Obama for president by 24 percent — 58 percent to 34 percent. This is a  finding that is likely to doom Obama’s efforts  to gain support among military voters. According to NPR’s Greg Allen, the Obama campaign hopes to capitalize on what the Obamacrats perceive as a  generational change in the military.  | Read More »

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  May 25th at 03:00 PM  | 

It has been one stumble after another since President Obama officially launched, some would say restarted, his reelection campaign three weeks ago.  With the Dems’ Bain mutiny making a shambles of the what was going to be Obama’s main attack on Romney,  this may have been Obama’s worst week ever.  The  RNC  produced the following  video that makes that point:

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  May 24th at 11:30 AM  | 

The Romney Campaign is out with another positive video about what a Romney Presidency would be like “Day One, Part Two.” In the “Part Two” video we are told that on his first day in office, President Romney will: Announce deficit reductions, ending the Obama era of big government and helping to secure our kids’ futures. Stand up to China on trade — demanding they | Read More »

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  May 23rd at 08:15 PM  | 

Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt was caught in a deviation from the truth when asked whether anyone from the White House or the 2012 [Obama] campaign had reached out to Mayor Booker, to make him reel his words. LaBolt answered, “We did not.” When the incredulous reporter immediately gave LaBolt another chance, he doubled down on his prevarication Shortly thereafter, Mayor Booker threw Labolt under | Read More »

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  May 23rd at 08:30 AM  | 

A new ABC News/Washington Post poll finds that in the last month Romney has closed his so-called gender gap from 19 to 7 percent. Last month Obama led among women 57 to 38 percent. Now that lead is down to 51 to 44 percent. The new poll found voters would be split 49 percent for Obama and 46 percent for Romney if the November election | Read More »

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  May 22nd at 11:00 AM  | 

The new Crossroads GPS ad “Basketball” could prove to be the most effective ad of the 2012 presidential campaign. The ad is not red meat for right wingers. It does not go after President Obama for his associations with radicals such as Van Jones, Bill Ayers or the Reverend Wright. I doesn’t go after Obama’s Socialism — his desire to redistribute all our wealth. It | Read More »

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  May 20th at 06:00 PM  | 

According to the New York Times, president Obama has “significantly lowered” the bar on how success in Afghanistan is defined. In four years Obama has gone from ”we must never forget, this is not a war of choice, this is a war of necessity” and “this is a war that we have to win” to “Afghan good enough.” According to the Times, Obama’s new definition of | Read More »

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  May 19th at 02:22 PM  | 

In the weekly GOP address, Wisconsin’s U.S. Ron Johnson takes the president to task for the failed Obama economic policies: “We are all disappointed by the failure of President Obama’s economic policies… His budget busting stimulus plan grew government, grew our debt, but failed to grow our economy.” You can watch Senator Johnson’s terrific address below: Senator Johnson starts by noting that it has now | Read More »

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  May 17th at 03:00 PM  | 

It looks like Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker might have been right last month when he said would win the recall fight. Three recent polls have found Governor Walker at 50 percent and leading Democrat Tom Barrett: Marquette Law School — 50% to 44% Public Policy Polling — 50% to 45% Rasmussen — 50% to 45% According to Marquette Law School Poll Director Charles Franklin, Republicans | Read More »

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  May 15th at 05:00 PM  | 

Speaking in Des Moines, Iowa this afternoon, Romney took President Obama to task for his incessant spending and borrowing: “Today America faces a financial crisis of debt and spending that threatens what it means to be an American. Here in the heartland you know in your hearts that it’s wrong.  We can’t spend another four years talking about solving a problem that we only make | Read More »

By: Dan Spencer (Diary)  |  May 12th at 03:44 PM  | 

Florida officials have discovered that 180,000 registered voters may be non-citizens. A CBS4/Miami Herald analysis of information supplied by Miami-Dade shows a large number of the potential non-citizens voters cast ballots in the past — including the 2000 election, when the presidency was decided by just over 500 votes. According to Deputy Supervisor of Elections Christina White, there are a “lot of non-citizens on our | Read More »