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Morning Briefing for July 18, 2012

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July 18, 2012

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1. Senator Ron Johnson Will Be At the RedState Gathering. Will You?

In 2010, one of the few candidates the GOP establishment and conservative activists agreed on was a businessman in Wisconsin named Ron Johnson. “Crazy!!!” people said. “It’s Wisconsin. Russ Feingold!!!! Ron Johnson can’t win.”

Then he got the nomination.

“It’s crazy!!! He bores people with charts. He scares the old people. He actually says we need to cut spending. It’s Wisconsin!!!!”

Call Ron Johnson the clock cleaner. He cleaned Russ Feingold’s clock and won. In Wisconsin!!!!

Then he went to Washington and dared to be audacious — he broke out more charts. Not since H. Ross Perot vividly charted the great sucking sound out the door to Mexico has an American politician captured the decline and fall of our economy in pies, bars, and lines.

And you know what? It’s actually pretty awesome. Senator Johnson knows what he is talking about. Unlike our President, Ron Johnson ran a business, had people on a payroll, and turned a profit. He is to President Obama what Adam Smith was to Karl Marx — a breath of fresh air and honesty without class warfare pablum.

He’ll be joining us at the RedState Gathering. This is our last week to cut you any sort of deal. You better go to www.redstategathering.com to register today.

See you in Jacksonville.

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2. Wetting the Bed Over Mitt Romney

Of all the people to not be beating up Mitt Romney for his present not quite stellar campaign, I find myself in that position.

I’m genuinely not that worried.

First of all, remember that most of his primary money is gone so he can’t spend on a fancy ad campaign right now. He can’t spend his general election money yet.

Second, I like the aggressiveness over the past few days. Yesterday, he gave a great rebuttal to Barack Obama’s grade school Marxism. John Sununu was actually spot on. Barack Obama really has no concept of American job creation.

Let me say that unlike some of my friends, I have concluded that it is not that Barack Obama is anti-American. I don’t think he really hates America. I think Barack Obama is just profoundly ignorant about America and its free enterprise system. He wants to take over and “fix” that which he does not understand.

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3. David Brock’s Paranoia Doesn’t Prevent Him From Stalking People

You may recall a Daily Caller piece from earlier this year that exposed the odd behavior of Media Matters founder David Brock as the reincarnation of Mel Gibson’s character in the 1997 film Conspiracy Theory.

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COMMENTS

  • commonsenseobserver

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXdF-cR66V8&feature=g-all-u

  • Melody Warbington (rwm52)

    The Tea Party-backed Ted Cruz, a Cuban-American attorney, tried to chip away on Tuesday at Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst?s conservative credentials, painting him as an advocate of Medicaid expansion, soft on illegal immigration and saying he supported a state payroll tax while serving in the Texas Senate.

    An often visibly flustered Dewhurst found himself on the defensive for much of the debate, shaking his head as Cruz lobbed attacks and halting as he defended his conservative record in the Texas Senate.

    Full story from foxnewslatino is here.

  • acat

    with their latest Cruz smears.

    Mew

    * that’s gotta be the worst part of this whole thing .. I like Perry and have high hopes for him, but the association with Dewhurst, especially as Davey’s trolls get more and more desperate, could be a long-term negative….

  • Melody Warbington (rwm52)

    at least here at redstate. I think citizenk is the only one who agrees with them.

    Agree with you about the Perry/Dewhurst association. I think it would have much been better for Perry to have remained neutral.

  • avagreen

    and not one PEEP from him since then.

    The people of TEXAS elected this idiot, Dewhurst, for the past 12 years. Perry still has a state to run. I know. I live here. We are in a fight for our lives. He doesn’t need to make enemies within the Republican Party. He needs Dewhurst’s base to continue with this fight. We have liberals moving here from California and other states. We don’t need a fight within the Republican Party. We have enough foes within the Democrat Party.

    Quit connecting this fool, rickperryreports, to Perry. NO CONNECTION! His name is Joe Hyde. No connection at all to Perry or his former campaign.

    It’s enough to have Democrats lying about Perry. Please don’t join the crowd over this fool that posts under Perry’s name. I might has well start a blog called obamareports and start maligning liberals.
    Same thing.

    Please!

  • acat

    The trouble is, it’s going into the archives.

    Should Perry run in 2016 or 2020, it’ll turn up, like dead bugs preserved in digital amber.

    Mew

  • avagreen

    “…Joe Hyde is an Internet entrepreneur. He was the founder of one of the largest ISPs in South Texas in the 1990s, and a hyper local magazine in 2006. He has worked in interactive media for Belo in Dallas and Salem radio. He has been a fulltime freelance Web developer and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) consultant since January 2010. RickPerryReport.com was developed on the Drupal platform.”

    http://usdailyreview.com/tag/rickperryreport-com

  • avagreen

    in contradiction to this fool to underscore his undue use of Perry’s name to get fame.

  • acat

    (Cheshire grin)

  • tnfriendofcoal101368

    if you put drupal and work in the same sentence.

  • acat

    I understand it’s a little like dealing with Cthulu .. it may work, but it’s likely to turn out bad in the end, and in the meantime it’ll probably make you crazy.

    Mew

  • Melody Warbington (rwm52)

    but an endorsement from Perry, because he’s so well-liked and competent, is a powerful thing. In no way do I connect Perry with rpr or any of the others who are smearing Cruz. Just thinking out loud that I personally wish Perry had remained neutral. Same thing with Nikki Haley and her endorsement of Romney.

    However (and I don’t want to get crossways with you, ava), Perry has called Dewhurst a conservative on more than one occasion since he made his endorsement, including at the Texas GOP Convention. He also made remarks about those outside the state who support Cruz, stating that,

    “There’s a whole lot of people who don’t intimately and expertly know how Texas operates that have come in and endorsed in this race,” Perry says in the ad. “With all due respect, I respect each one of those individuals, but they don’t know anything about how Texas works, and if they did, they would be endorsing David Dewhurst.”

    That statement appeared in an ad for Dewhurst put together by a SuperPac here

    The article about the convention is here.

    Another statement from Perry is here.

    Gov. Perry has certainly done great things in Texas, but that doesn’t mean we can’t criticize his decision to endorse Dewhurst.

  • avagreen

    Need to make up your mind.

    color me confused.

  • avagreen

    Against the liberals that are trying to take over this state.
    Don’t like Dewhurst, but I prefer him to the total nutz in Austin and Houston, et al that have moved here from California and other liberal states because their insane political ideas have bankrupted those states.

  • avagreen

    http://www.redstate.com/erick/2012/07/12/morning-briefing-for-july-12-2012/#comment-189169

  • avagreen

    n t

  • Melody Warbington (rwm52)

    I’ve been one of Cruz’s most vocal defenders here, and I’ve said very little, if anything until the comment above, about Gov. Perry’s endorsement or his comments since then. In fact, I’ve tried to be very careful not to associate the Governor with rickperryreport or bnuckols in any way.

    I really don’t know what comment you have in mind.

  • Melody Warbington (rwm52)

    Sometimes I actually say things I don’t recall, but really couldn’t figure this one out.