Tag: victor davis hanson

Some of my favorites:

> *Affordable Care Act:* Mostly [unaffordable, uncaring, and inactive](http://hotair.com/archives/2013/07/14/california-insurance-commissioner-we-could-have-a-real-disaster-on-our-hands-with-identify-theft-fraud-and-abuse/).

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> *Drones:* Sophisticated, humane military tools in the hands of the right commander in chief.

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> *Filibusters:* Unpatriotic obstructionism begun in 2007.

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> *Fracking:* Produces way too much unnecessary energy and money.

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> *Unemployment Rate:* It depends on why you want to know.

> By now there is a clear pattern in the three debates: The Democratic candidates are running as if they are not incumbents and talk vaguely about what they might like to do rather than concretely about they have actually done the last four years — often as faux conservatives in touting tax cuts and more drilling. They more often speak, interrupt, and gesticulate, and the moderators are far more accommodating toward them — while Romney and Ryan have the greater recall of facts and present the more systematic argumentation in the face of guffaws, snarls, and meandering emoting.The radically shifting polls reflect that reality: Voters seem not so interested in tit-for-tat score-keeping as much as which candidates seem the more reliable, civil, informed, and trustworthy.

I have watched the other two debates, but I have a feeling I will be watching the NLCS tonight instead of the debate. I have seen all I need to see.

An excellent piece from Victor Davis Hanson:

> For the last two years, millions of Americans have grown, ever so insidiously, tired of Barack Obama and his administration. The Tea Party brought such frustrations to the fore. And now the debates — and the ability of Romney to show millions that he is a decent, competent alternative to Obama rather than the caricatured greedy white man of Obama’s sleazy ads — are closing the deal.

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> The election is not over, but it is starting to resemble October 29 or November 1 in 1980, when, after just one debate, the nation at last decided that it really did not like Jimmy Carter very much or what he had done, and discovered that Ronald Reagan was not the mad Dr. Strangelove/Jefferson Davis of the Carter summer television ads. Like Carter, Obama both has no wish to defend his record (who would?) and is just as petulant. In the next three weeks, he has only three hours left to save his presidency.

Hopefully, it is Governor Romney who reigns supreme during the 3 hours Dr. Hanson is referring to.

I, unsurprisingly, agree with Victor Davis Hanson:

> So the American voter at least has a choice: vote in a new president to open up and grow the economy while cutting back the unsustainable rate of government growth, or assume that “they” have done horrible things to the Obama team and thus prevented the president from succeeding — and that Romney in charge would be even worse than the last bad four years.

The more the American people understand the choice, the more I believe will vote for Governor Romney.

> The Obama health-care plan was once different from Hillary Clinton’s in that it never included an individual mandate, but then it did have a mandate, then it had a tax instead, and it ended up with a penalty. The only constant is that names change as circumstances dictate.

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> Someone said something about cutting the deficit in half within four years and, through borrowing, forcing unemployment under 6 percent, but I am not sure any more who it was — given that that was 42 months of 8 percent–plus unemployment and $5 trillion in borrowed money ago.

Yes we can?