not Father, Son and Holy Ghost but Race, Gender and Class. …

kens on October 5, 2012 at 12:17 PM

You listened to Dennis Prager this morning! :-)

I love Dennis. Since my work hours changed, I don’t get to catch his show nearly as often as I’d like, but I happened to hear it today.

astonerii on October 5, 2012 at 12:08 PM

And maybe I shouldn’t have been so harsh, but I’ll tell you that if you had ever made a remark like that in front of my wife, she would have given you a tongue lashing you wouldn’t soon forget. My wife, who hates politics, went on a 10 minute rant about the utter stupidity of Team Obama ganging up on someone who used a horse for therapy.

But she likely takes little care of it, instead, signing paychecks to people who do.

astonerii on October 5, 2012 at 12:08 PM

I want to correct a misperception you are presenting here, assuming you’re not just missing a sarc tag.

First, anyone who rides horses regularly LOVES their horse. It’s not a gray area. You either LOVE horses or you don’t care that much for them. There’s almost never any in-between.

Second, if you’re signing paychecks to people to take care of your horse, you’re doing so because (a) you have the money and/or (b) they can provide better care than you can provide. If you question (b), see my first point.

I know this since…

1) my wife owns and operates a horse boarding barn, is 4-H advisor for our horse club and has coached our county’s “Groom and Clean” team in Ohio’s competition (and LOVES horses!) and my youngest daughter does English jumping, and…

2) my youngest daughter competes in English jumping, cleans stalls to pay for her own board, has competed in Ohio’s “Groom and Clean” and Hippology teams, placed 1st in the Ohio State Fair horse skillathon, etc. etc. etc. (and LOVES horses!)

Horses are expensive, sensitive and opinionated animals that require constant attention and care to be worth competing with. And horse ownership is not a casual affair to owners, and for you to put forth that misperception is a serious miscalculation on your part when there may be horse owners in the audience who can and will call you out on your ignorance.

This doesn’t surprise me, although it does surprise me a little that he waited so long to do it.

It doesn’t surprise me at all. It’s all about the impact. Romney knew that any apology or walk back would be ignored, trivialized, or marginalized by a complicit media. I suspect he anticipated a “47%” attack at the debate, and was planning to apologize/walk back then, when 50-70 million people were watching.

That didn’t happen, but all eyes are now on Romney, he’s got a positive glow, and the apology will have some impact. It will also lessen the impact of the inevitable attact come Debate 2.

Ann Romney has a horse.

Bishop on October 5, 2012 at 12:04 PM
and Michelle Obama has a horse’s @$$.

Laura in Maryland on October 5, 2012 at 12:09 PM

…it may taste better than dog…OR…it may be better sex than what JugEars is getting now!

1. He kept saying “jobs, jobs, jobs”, while Obama keeps talking about “planting seeds to grow our economy with new infrastructure, green energy, and hiring more teachers to prepare our children for tomorrow’s world”. After four years of misery, people don’t want to hear this flowery, idealistic, Liberal crap. People want to know when they can go back to having a full time, secure job.

2. I know a lot of people on our side don’t like this stuff, but it was very important for Romney to talk about bi-partisanship. After eight years of Bush hatred, Centrist Independents wanted the two parties to try harder to work together. They thought would happen with a President Hillary. Instead, they were sold a bill of goods, with Obama marketed as potentially the most bi-partisan politician in the history of mankind.

Now, after four years of Obama hatred from Conservatives, Centrist Independents are more desperate than ever for an adult to step in and get both sides to work together for the common good. Sure, that sounds to us like mushy appeasement, considering the MSM’s definition of bi-partisanship (our side surrenders), but Romney does fit the bill on this issue, so why not sell it, if that’s what sells?

It was great how Romney kept referring to the fact that he was a Republican to had to find a way to work with a state legislature that was 87% Democrat, and how Obama rammed through this massive health care bill without one Republican crossing over to vote for it. He even mentioned Scott Brown’s election when making that point.

That’s too bad because it was great accidental politics by Romney. Got the Democrats pandering to a group that few people want to think they belong to and most everyone agrees with the gist of the argument. Romney should be able to win the providers and the ones who want to be self-supporting but have been held down by Obama.

Buddahpundit on October 5, 2012 at 12:35 PM

Romney wants to complete the process Bush43 started – get the GOP to be the party responsible for changing the “4″ to a “5″ even though the ‘Rat Presstitute Corps will never give the GOP “credit” and we’ll give the GOP grief.

and Michelle Obama has a horse’s @$$.

Laura in Maryland on October 5, 2012 at 12:09 PM

Where’s my drum kit? Oh, there it is – Ba-dum CHING!

Ed WHO DO U THINK FIGHTS OUR WARS?

Yeap the middle class

But, I will agree that Romney appears to have changed his tactics for the much better – these are the tactics that I think most of us were hoping for after the Ryan pick. Hopefully Romney will keep it up. And, given the debate prep that Romney has done over the last month or so (see Costa’s NRO article), I think that Romney should be able to keep this up at least in the debates, which would be a huge boon for him (debates will directly reach more people in an unfiltered manner than any other single thing that he does).

That’s probably not the origin of his strategy, but I still think it’s the truth.

DrUrchin on October 5, 2012 at 12:48 PM

I had a slightly different take. Certainly he was ready to respond during the debate but, as others have well argued, there were reasons why Obama stayed away from the issue. You can’t keep the image of likeable but incompetent in the polling if you are the one to start the personal attacks against Romney. Likewise, you’ll note that Romney was very careful to attack Obama’s policies not Obama personally.

I think the next debate will be more heated- especially with an audience asking questions.

“The real Romney is the one who can communicate. He’s straight and direct and not fancy, forgivably jargony, but worried about America and sincere. That’s the Romney who showed up for the debate. Stay that guy!”

wtg Peggy

petefrt on October 5, 2012 at 12:36 PM

Ann Romney has a horse.

Bishop on October 5, 2012 at 12:04 PM

So did Jackie Kennedy. She even won horse riding competitions. But…shhhhhhhhhh! :-)

joejm65 on October 5, 2012 at 12:36 PM

Jackie Kennedy also (shudder) went hunting on her horse. Hunting for animals that fur coats are made from, no less. The Democrat media had absolutely no problem Adoring her for doing something they would trash Mrs. Romney for doing.

And don’t forget the Kennedys actually had horses at the White House. “Macaroni” was the most famous example, and even showed up on the 1962 White House Christmas card.

The Kennedys apparently also kept 2 other horses at the White House; “Tex” was a gift to JFK Junior from Lyndon Johnson, and “Leperchaun” was a gift to the family from the Government of Ireland.

Romney “reinvention … to champion of the average Joe” succeeding

Also known as the William Graham Sumner strategy (see “The Forgotten Man”). It’s about time!

As someone who worked in the horse industry, I thank God for rich people who paid me to ride some very well bred and well trained horses. People that float around on big yachts pay people to build, sell, service and pilot them. ETC!
I never resented the people I worked for. I wanted to be like them.

tj4osu on October 5, 2012 at 12:43 PM

$100K in the hands of a private citizen that spends that money on horses or yachts does more to stimulate the economy than if the federal government takes that money for their wacky redistribution schemes.

The proggies will never accept this.

That’s probably not the origin of his strategy, but I still think it’s the truth.

Oh…. And Donald Trump is just a small businessman…

SWalker on October 5, 2012 at 12:08 PM

Why has no one in the media mentioned that yet? Where was Trump yesterday to throw that in King Obama’s face?

JPeterman on October 5, 2012 at 12:10 PM

Trump is out of the country. He said that on ON THE RECORD

Ann Romney has a horse.

Bishop on October 5, 2012 at 12:04 PM

But she likely takes little care of it, instead, signing paychecks to people who do.

astonerii on October 5, 2012 at 12:08 PM

As someone who worked in the horse industry, I thank God for rich people who paid me to ride some very well bred and well trained horses. People that float around on big yachts pay people to build, sell, service and pilot them.
I never resented the people I worked for. I wanted to be like them.

tj4osu on October 5, 2012 at 12:43 PM

Very well said.

Ann Romney has a horse.

Bishop on October 5, 2012 at 12:04 PM

But she likely takes little care of it, instead, signing paychecks to people who do.

astonerii on October 5, 2012 at 12:08 PM

As someone who worked in the horse industry, I thank God for rich people who paid me to ride some very well bred and well trained horses. People that float around on big yachts pay people to build, sell, service and pilot them. ETC!
I never resented the people I worked for. I wanted to be like them.

The divisiveness and polarization that has engulfed the nation, particularly since the election of Barack Obama, is toxic and it must come to an end.

Dividing people by class, income, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and special interest group or grievance group, is anti-American. Much of it springs from the left, however there are those on the right who have been guilty of utilizing this same tactic. There are those who are eager to drive a wedge between Americans based on these issues and/or conditions for political gain, and that all too familiar hyphen between the designator of the special interest group and ‘American’ is that wedge.

That we now have a candidate, in Mitt Romney, who recognizes that it is the mandate of the federal government, and ALL those who are elected or appointed public servants, to serve 100% of the citizenry, rather than seek to offer some groups preferential treatment while castigating or ignoring others, is the best news this nation has had in a very long time.

The next debate won’t take place for nearly two weeks, and that’s on foreign policy, where the “middle class” argument won’t be relevant. If Romney sticks to jobs and wages over the last three years of recovery, he has an excellent opportunity to steal a march on Obama.

Slightly OT but I found it odd that the town hall format would be used on “foreign policy.” According to the schedule the OCT 16th town hall format debate is both foreign and domestic policy. The OCT 22nd debate will the same format as last Wednesday’s.

Which means two things. The “middle class argument” will be part of the next Presidential debate. And secondly, it means we know that somewhere around the 21st Obama will find reason to do something “Presidential” when it comes to propping up the myth more formally known as The Arab Spring.