HALF-FULL REPORT 10/05/12

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.  I’m here on business, but that sure won’t keep me from writing this HFR.  Holy Toledo, what a week.  First, though, I have to thank Jack Kelly for his marvelous HFRs while I’ve been away.

Future historians may entitle what happened in Denver on Wednesday night (10/03) The 90 Minutes That Saved America.  It took the RNC all of 12 hours to take advantage of the split-screen presentation of the debate, and flood battleground state airwaves with this devastating ad called simply "Smirk" –

Schadenfreude can be so much fun.  The entire Moonbat Media was just so totally certain that their messiah was going to obliterate Mitt.  Their rage and disappointment was beautiful to behold.

Chrissie Tingle-leg was in full meltdown on MSNBC.  Hyper-lib Joe Klein called his Time Magazine column on the debate Unilateral Disarmament, complaining bitterly:  "Barack Obama lost it. I mean, he got his butt kicked. It was, in fact, one of the most inept performances I’ve ever seen by a sitting President." 

The Business Insider headline: Romney Absolutely Destroyed Obama.  The London Telegraph’s: Romney Humiliated Obama.  Zero’s media lapdogs tried to blame moderator Jim Lehrer.  Other than Zero himself, I’d blame the White House Svengali, Valerie Jarrett, who controls access to him and makes sure no one who’d criticize him gets a chance to.  So when Romney rhetorically began smacking him around, he became a resentful deer in the headlights.

It was fascinating to watch Zero seem to literally shrink in size right on the debate stage.  Zero is 6-1, while Romney is 6-2, but it was Mitt’s commanding presence and energy that was so much larger.  Zero became small right before our eyes.  Look how small he is (and how bitter-angry Moochelle is) in this post-debate pic:

 
My Romney favorites of the evening:

"What things would I cut from spending? Well, first of all, I will eliminate all programs by this test, if they don’t pass it: Is the program so critical it’s worth borrowing money from China to pay for it? And if not, I’ll get rid of it. Obamacare’s on my list…

"And I’m sorry, Jim, I’m going to stop the subsidy to PBS. I’m going to stop other things. I like PBS, I love Big Bird. I actually like you, too. But I’m not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for."

Straight to Zero:  "I’ve been in business for 25 years and I have no idea what you’re talking about…"

 "Look, I’ve got five boys. I’m used to people saying something that’s not always true, but just keep on repeating it and ultimately hoping I will believe it."

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The happiest guy in pundit-land has to be Breitbart’s Mike Flynn, who said before the debate (10/02) that Zero is losing so badly in the polls (when they are honestly examined) that he needed "a debate knock-out" in Denver.  Yesterday (10/04), Mike analyzed polls showing Zero’s support is collapsing in Illinois.  Yes, Illinois.

Then there’s the Buckeye State.  Paul Bedard points out how absentee ballot requests portend a Romney blowout in Ohio on election day.

So, looks like those folks on the Forum who said I was in Norkland too long could be right.  Many thanks to Mae, Ella, jmoynihan, jkolb, jackcarlson, and others for staying positive while I was having doubts.  As Dr. Bob explained:

"Obama’s internal polling tells him he is in deep trouble. The (public) polling is so skewed that if the figures were fairly done Romney would be up by about 7 to 8 points. As we get closer and closer to the election you will see the figures get better for Romney because the polling organizations go from trying to influence to trying to be right."

Then there’s Rockymount’s observing Zero’s "monumental Freudian slip," when he said the morning after his debate debacle: "The man on stage last night doesn’t want to be held to account … for what he’s been selling for the last year."  Zero claimed he was talking about Romney, when in truth he was so obviously describing himself.

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We have 32 days to go until Nov. 06, and every one of them will be more intense than the day before. 

Zero’s angry anti-white racist speech from 2007 is going to get traction.  He effects this phony black southern drawl and lavishes praise (starting at about the 1:40 mark) on his pastor Jeremiah "God Damn America" Wright.

 
 
There’s the rumor that a blockbuster donor scandal may soon engulf the Zero campaign.

Next up:  the Ryan-Biden VP debate on Thursday (10/11).  In 2008, everyone expected Biden to wipe the floor with Sarah Palin, but Mama Grizzly held her own.  Now, Biden is the underdog, as Ryan must spot SloJoe by at least 60 IQ points.  Yesterday (10/04), Biden upped his underdog ante by declaring that Zero and the Dems will raise taxes by $1 trillion.  Ryan will gut Biden like a fish.

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Meanwhile, watch what happens in Venezuela this Sunday (10/07).  Zero’s buddy Hugo Chavez may lose his presidency to phenomenally popular Henrique Capriles Radonski.  Chavez’s thugs will cause a lot of violence – a wake-up call reminding us how Zero’s loss will unleash similar violence by his thuggish followers.  The message may be, if Venezuela can get rid of its Marxist dictator, so can we, threats and violence notwithstanding.

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Two more international items.  On Monday (10/01), North Korea threatened nuclear war at the UN.  Notice the headlines this made – not.  Governments around the world shrugged their shoulders – because they know the Norks have no nukes.  Just why and how was explained in North Korea’s Nuke Test Flop from October 2006.  The Nork threat is ridiculous.

Also on Monday, hyperinflation arrived in Iran.  Steve Hanke at Cato estimates the inflation rate of the rial against the dollar is now at 70% a month.  On Wednesday, massive anti-regime riots and protests broke out in Tehran and other Iranian cities.  This is exactly what the oil sanctions on Iran are supposed to provoke.  The hope is that the regime will implode, or at the least be forced to abandon its nuke ambitions in order to provide food for its people – and thus make an Israeli military attack on the nuke facilities unnecessary.

This is to be profoundly desired.  Look at the chart in the "massive" link above to see how suddenly the rial is shooting up to total worthlessness.  The mullah regime could implode quickly.  So think of what we may have on the immediate horizon here:  three of the world’s most horrible governments may soon vanish – Chavez’s in Venezuela, Ahmadinijad’s in Iran, and… Zero’s in America.

Now that’s a hat trick for history.

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The emphasis should be, however, on the word "may" above.  We must not allow any euphoria over the First Debate to think Romney has this in the bag.  Zero was knocked down, not knocked out.  Now is the time to be prepared for every dirty trick, every attempt at character assassination, every crooked corrupt move in the Dems’ and the media’s arsenals.

The first example appeared today (10/05) – the Labor Department’s rigging the unemployment stats.  Monica Crowley calls it an October Surprise: "43 consecutive months of above 8% unemployment, and 1 month before election, the rate miraculously drops to 7.8%."  Right.  Jack Welch called the 7.8% "unbelievable… these Chicago guys will do anything, can’t debate so change the numbers."

There will be many more such October Surprises to come.  The best news is that they may not matter.  A voting majority of Americans saw Zero exposed as an emperor-with-no-clothes hoax last Wednesday night.  They now realize that, as Charles Krauthammer observes, "People say Obama was off his game.  This is his game… He’s not half as intelligent as he thinks he is."

And when the high priest of leftie comics, Jon Stewart mocks Zero’s smarts and wonders if he actually is dumb, then you know a Nobama Future may be in sight.

Make your plans now, folks, to be at the Washington Rendezvous with your fellow TTPer soul mates to celebrate the Nobama Future.