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06 Sep 2012

The Latest from Charlotte

The Democratic platform “strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v. Wade and a woman’s right to make decisions regarding her pregnancy, including a safe and legal abortion, regardless of ability to pay.” But Reason.TV finds Democrats oppose freedom of choice on just about every other issue, preferring to dictate which schools you can attend, whether you must join a union, what light bulbs are acceptable to use, even such mundane issues as whether it’s OK to drink a soda.

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Jason Mattera ambushes the Occupy encampment in Charlotte, bearing an iPad with a petition to ban capitalism, and seeking signatures or at least a tent where he can crash in the rain.

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Kira Davis evicted Wednesday from the MSNBC Pavilion after holding up a sign supporting Romney. Davis, a conservative blogger, earlier delivered a blistering rebuttal to MSNBC pundit Toure’s charges of racism surrounding the 2012 election.

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After the party’s over, Patriot Update’s Scottie Hughes pitches in to help clean up the liberal mess in Charlotte.

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05 Sep 2012

Never Mind

After embarrassing themselves and demonstrating the party to be absolutely tone-deaf by removing any reference to God in their platform, Democrats today engaged in an equally embarrassing floor vote to amend the platform to acknowledge that religion has a place in American culture. The reinstatement didn’t go off without a hitch, however. It took three separate votes before the party convention chair decreed that two-thirds of the delegates favored the change, even though President Obama reportedly urged the reinstatement, fearing the original, “religion-free” platform would damage his re-election bid.

Besides language on God, the Democrats also restored platform language that reaffirms Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, amidst jeers and boos from the floor.  The question remains: Why was this language dropped in the first place? The Democrats have recently been a more secular party than the Republicans, but there’s a distinct difference between being secular and being overtly anti-religious. It appears many Democrats have crossed over that Rubicon. More from the GOP War Room.

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05 Sep 2012

Democratic Roundup

Democrats, for the first time ever, have removed any reference to God in their party platform — and it’s all the fault of Fox News.

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Video aired for the Charlotte delegates declares “Government is the only thing we all belong to.” Correction, Democrats: The government belongs to us.

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National debt hits $16 trillion as the Democrats open their convention — $5.5 trillion during Obama’s first term, although he earlier lambasted George W. Bush for accumulating $4 trillion in debt over his two terms in office.

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Is President Obama still a liberal? Reason.TV asks that question to Democratic delegates and Obama supporters in Charlotte.

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04 Sep 2012

Obamanation

For some, Barack Obama can be characterized as an empty chair. Utah artist Jon McNaughton sees the president differently, as a destructive force who has launched a myriad of changes that are tearing apart the fabric of the nation. McNaughton has now sought to encapsulate the damage in an epic painting he calls “Obamanation.”

“I chose to use an undisclosed studio so I could paint privately, without interruption, to focus on the task of embedding in a single painting all the mindless, radical and dangerous atrocities of the Obama administration,” McNaughton says. “It is my declaration that we have never had a president do more to harm our country than Barack Obama.”

McNaughton has issued a challenge to viewers: To find the 60 different symbols and metaphors he has woven into the painting representing negative actions by the Obama Administration. To get a zoomable view of the painting and see how you fare with the challenge, visit McNaughton’s website at www.jonmcnaughton.com H/T iOwntheWorld

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30 Aug 2012

With the GOP in Tampa

Setting the stage for Clint Eastwood tonight, New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez wowed the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, with an account of her days packing heat while working for her parents’ security firm. “And at 18, I guarded the parking lot at the Catholic church bingos,” Martinez related. “Now, my dad made sure I could take care of myself. I carried a Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum. Yes, that gun weighed more than I did.”

She sure fired a bull’s-eye Wednesday night!

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Sourcefed presents “The Top Ten Most Badass Republicans.”

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Dick Morris delivers high praise for Paul Ryan’s speech.

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Jon Voight outlines his support for the Romney/Ryan ticket and says he’s not the only conservative in Hollywood, just one of the few willing to speak on the record.

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29 Aug 2012

Republican Convention Roundup

Dick Morris predicts a 3-4 percent bounce in the polls for Mitt Romney based on Ann Romney’s speech Tuesday night.

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Utah Congressional hopeful Mia Love fires up the Republican delegates in Tampa. If elected from Utah’s 4th District, Love will be the first Republican woman to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. She’s pitted in an uphill race against six-term Democratic incumbent Jim Matheson.

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Rumors are swirling that Clint Eastwood will be the GOP’s “mystery speaker” on Thursday night. Go ahead, make my day.

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Code Pink Vaginas protest the Republican National Convention. Sure signs that the protest was anemic: Presence of dude “ringers” and most of the participants, regardless of sex, look like they should be packing Poligrip instead of lube.

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28 Aug 2012

How Conventions Came to Be

How did political conventions get started? How did they begin? Dick Morris relates the story behind the first conventions, and the pivotal role played by Andrew Jackson in persuading the parties to adopt conventions as their chief mechanism for nominating presidential candidates.  In the early years of the nation, these candidates were selected by congressional caucuses.

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In related news as the Republicans open their 2012 convention in Tampa, Reason.TV’s Kennedy says the delegates should just skip the speeches and go party at Tampa’s renowned strip clubs — thus, showing support for “capitalism at its finest.”

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25 Aug 2012

How FDR Got Nominated

Dick Morris rolls back the calendar to the year 1932 and goes behind the scenes to re-create the dramatic deal-making that helped Franklin Delano Roosevelt to nail down his first presidential nomination from the Democratic National Convention. Other protagonists in this scenario include Al Smith, a longtime FDR ally turned arch-foe; media kingmaker William Randolph Hearst and John Nance Garner, a lanky Texan statesman who famously declared that the office of vice president was “not worth a bucket of warm piss.”

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24 Aug 2012

Eat More Papaya!

Reverend Al Sharpton accuses vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan of being a family man and an intellectual. Chris Matthews accuses Paul Ryan of being an Eagleton, even though Eagleton was a Democrat. Even Matt Lauer jumps in on the fun, and starts mimicking DNC talking points. See the footage. Is Soledad O’Brien biased? Find out. Papaya and more on this Kruiser Control. H/T PJTV

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20 Aug 2012

Parsing the Polls

The Rasmussen and Gallup polls show Mitt Romney nursing a narrow lead over President Obama, but other polls have the incumbent up by anywhere from 7 to 9 percent. With the competing polls projecting different outcomes, which ones can you really trust?

Glenn Reynolds poses that question to Michael Barone in the latest edition of InstaVision. Barone is a veteran expert on the subject, serving as senior political analyst at the Washington Examiner and co-editor of the Almanac of American Politics. H/T PJTV

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