The Hill calls Obama’s “clinging to their guns and religion” comment a “gaffe”

By: Paula Bolyard (Diary)  |  August 21st at 05:21 PM  | 

  Gaffe -Noun: An unintentional act or remark causing embarrassment to its originator; a blunder: “an unforgivable social gaffe”. From The Hill today: “Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) began resurrecting some of President Obama’s most famous gaffes on the campaign trail Tuesday, reminding a crowd assembled at a Pennsylvania steel plant of the president’s remark four years ago that some voters are “clinging to their guns | Read More »

Some Ryan Pluses You May Not Have Thought Of

By: Paula Bolyard (Diary)  |  August 11th at 06:30 PM  | 

By now we’ve all had time to absorb Mitt Romney’s choice of Paul Ryan as his running mate. The responses have been mostly ecstatic from those on our side of the political spectrum, including words of support from Tea Party Patriots,  Tea Party Express, FreedomWorks, and Concerned Women for America. I suspect that some of these groups have been willing to overlook some of the clunkers in | Read More »