A Little More Badass, Please

I minor flap occurred today when Governor Mitt Romney walked to Pilsudski Square in Warsaw, Poland to visit the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. He laid a wreath and greeted Polish military veterans, then walked to a monument to Polish war dead on the other side of the Square.

American reporters began shouting questions to Romney about his supposed "gaffes" on this foreign trip: like saying he was "disconcerted" to hear that perhaps London wasn't quite ready to handle the complicated logistics of the Olympics (he was, of course, proven right by the ticketing fiasco and thousands of empty seats) and raising political culture as a reason for Palestinian poverty (he is, of course, correct about that too.)

But the reporters' questions were accusatory and hostile (what else is new?) and shouted in a sacred place for Poles.

That set off Romney press secretary Rick Gorka, who barked, "Kiss my ass. This is a holy site for the Polish people. Show some respect!" He then told a reporter to "shove it."

He later called the reporters to apologize, saying "it was inappropriate."

While I understand the candidate's desire to want to run a classy, respectful campaign, the other side is running a low-down, dirty campaign of lying, cheating, and stealing. I'm not suggesting Romney do that. But I'd like to see a tougher stance from him and his team: tougher with the leftwing reporters covering him, with Team Obama, with government unions...with ALL of his opponents who will NEVER give him a fair shake, regardless of how polite he and his team are.

Given the crap Obama Economy and the fact fewer and fewer Americans trust the president on the economy (and much else), Romney can win in November. But he and his team cannot be afraid to be tough, aggressive, and yes, sometimes brusque to those who are either vicious or acting like jerks, like the reporters in Poland.

A little more badass, Governor. A little more basass, please.

The O'Reilly Factor---TONIGHT!

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Tomorrow in Texas

Tomorrow, Texas will hold the Republican Senate primary. True conservative Ted Cruz is running against GOP Establishment Guy Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst. While in Texas last weekend for Glenn Beck's Restoring Love event, I saw several Dewhurst ads, which were a pack of vicious lies about Cruz. Dewhurst is desperate and flailing, but hopefully, after tomorrow, he'll just be a bad memory.

If you are a Republican in Texas, please get out tomorrow and vote for Ted Cruz. I've had the honor of interviewing him a few times and getting to know him a bit, and he is outstanding in every way: a good man and REAL conservative who will fight every day for limited government, fiscal responsibility, and economic freedom. In other words, he will not just beat back the leftist kooks, he'll take on the GOP establishment as well----and he'll do it fearlessly and based on principle.

The Tea Party conservatives we sent to DC in 2010 are doing well in fighting for our foundational principles, but they need some serious backup. Ted Cruz will bring it. He is the cavalry.

Texans: make him the Republican nominee for Senate. Texas needs him---and so does the rest of the nation.

My Appearance at Restoring Love

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Into The (Slight) Lead

Two new polls are out today, both showing Governor Mitt Romney leading President Obama in head-to-head match-ups.

Gallup has Romney up by one point, 46% to 45%, among registered voters. (See the poll here: http://www.gallup.com/poll/150743/Obama-Romney.aspx )

Rasmussen Reports has Romney up by three points, 47% to 44%, among likely voters (a more accurate measurement.) (See that poll here: http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll )

While it's true that we're still about 100 days from the election and anything can and probably will happen to alter the trajectory of the race, the reality is that there are ONLY 100 days left until the election. Voters are beginning to make their decisions, based on the candidates, their positions, and in bad news for Obama, their records.

100 days out and the economy sucks and is getting worse. Jobs are drying up. The already paltry economic growth is grinding to a complete halt. Food and other inflation is beginning to kick in big time. Spending is more and more out of control. The national debt is careening toward $16 trillion. The Middle East is falling to the Islamists. Our allies are adrift and our enemies are emboldened. We are broke at home and crippled abroad.

These are not good times in America. This is not a Reaganesque "Morning in America." It's more of a Marxist "Midnight in America."

Many Americans who were willing to give Obama some time and space to do his thing now realize that his "thing" was the "fundamental transformation" of the nation into a statist redistributionist mess with a command economy...with him at the controls, of course. And those Americans are now starting to believe that he needs to go if we're to have any chance of throwing that "transformation" in reverse and saving the country.

And that's what's at stake in 100 days. Nothing less than the life of the nation.

Breitbart.com On "What The (Bleep)?"

Big thanks to Breitbart.com for this:

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Accountability Bites

President Obama has spent the last four years blaming his predecessor for the bad economy. He's been constantly whining about what he "inherited" and how "tough" it's been to turn it around.

Now, however, he's discovering that the American people actually expected him to move beyond the whiny blame game and actually improve the economy. And what they're discovering now is that he wasn't interested in "improving" the economy but in "fundamentally transforming" it as a socialist, redistributive mess.

This is why we're now seeing the American people begin to turn on him en masse.

In a poll released this week, The Hill found that "two-thirds of likely voters say the weak economy is Washington's fault, and more blame President Obama than anybody else. It found that 66 percent believe paltry job growth and slow economic recovery is the result of bad policy. Thirty-four percent say Obama is the most to blame..."

See the entire poll here:

http://thehill.com/polls/239377-the-hill-poll-majority-of-voters-blame-president-for-bad-economy

Then there is the new Gallup/USA Today poll, which shows that "by more than 2-1, 63%-29%, those surveyed say Romney's background in business, including his tenure at the private equity firm Bain Capital, would cause him to make good decisions, not bad ones, in dealing with the nation's economic problems over the next four years."

That poll also found that "a record number of Americans express skepticism about the activist role of government Obama espouses; 61% say the government is trying to do too many things that should be left to individuals and businesses. That's the highest number since Gallup began asking the question in 1992."

See the entire poll here:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/story/2012-07-23/poll-romney-obama-economy/56439758/1

What goes around, comes around, eh, Mr. President? Accountability bites.

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