JOE BIDEN: FROM GAFFE FACTORY TO LAUGH FACTORY
Bottom line on last night’s vice presidential debate: Paul Ryan looked serious and up to the task of serving as vice president under Mitt Romney. He did nothing to scare independents or lessen the support he already enjoys with the GOP’s conservative base. To that end, he was a winner.
One bad spot though: Joe Biden nailed Ryan effectively as a hypocrite for opposing the stimulus…but then requesting stimulus money for his district. Talking the talk; not walking the walk. That kind of inconsistency hurts a politician’s credibility. Still, it was just a flesh wound in the debate.
Now as to Biden…
He came off looking like that mechanical/maniacal clown at the miniature golf course in theAdam Sandler movie “Happy Gilmore.” Click here for a 52-second clip of the scene I’m talking about in case you haven’t seen the movie.
And click here for a 1:10-second compilation by the RNC of Biden treating every important national issue as a laughing matter.
Among the words used to describe the vice president’s performance: buffoon, disrespectful, over-bearing, obnoxious, contemptuous, sarcastic, condescending, appalling, disturbing, patronizing, irritating and rude.
And that’s just the words that are printable in a semi-family publication!
That aside, the most significant part of the debate, in my opinion, was Biden blaming the intelligence community for the administration’s false characterization of the deadly Benghazi terrorist attack on our embassy as a protest against some stupid YouTube video no one had seen.
As my friend Rich Galen notes, the Democrats have been slamming Bush 43 for a decade because of erroneous information our intelligence community provided related to Iraq and its efforts to acquire nuclear “yellow cake.” It’s unthinkable to the Left that our intelligence operations could have been wrong about that, but it’s apparently the same intelligence community’s fault that four American diplomats in Libya are dead.
Anyway, the Obama-Biden team, incessantly saying everything from the economy to the war to teenage pimples is Bush’s fault brings to mind this quote by Benjamin Franklin: “He that is good at making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”
Amen.
BIDEN VS. GROVER
In case you missed last night’s vice presidential debate, Joe Biden attacked Grover Norquist and the Taxpayer Protection Pledge:
"Instead of signing pledges by Grover Norquist not to ask the wealthiest among us to contribute to bring back the middle class, they should be signing a pledge saying to the middle class, 'We're going to level the playing field. We're going to give you a fair shot again. We are going to not repeat the mistakes we made in the past by having a different set of rules for Wall Street and Main Street.'"
Now for all the mamby-pamby Republicans like Chris Edwards who complain about signing the Tax Pledge, consider the company you’re keeping:
Obviously, Joe Biden hates the Tax Pledge. President Barack Obama hates the Tax Pledge. Harry Reid REALLY hates the Tax Pledge. 99.9 percent of Democrat candidates hate the Tax Pledge. Liberal special interests hate the Tax Pledge. Liberal reporters and columnists hate the Tax Pledge.
Do you think that maybe, just maybe, Republicans who are objecting to the Tax Pledge are maybe, just maybe, running with the wrong crowd?
LIAR, LIAR…FIREMAN’S PANTS ON FIRE
Nevada Democrat congressional candidate John Oceguera said in Thursday’s debate against Rep. Joe Heck (who cleaned his clock!) that he supports ObamaCare because after he left his gold-plated, six-figure job with the North Las Vegas Fire Department his monthly health insurance premium was $1,400.
Really?
I want to see the policy…because that’s more than twice what I’m paying for my family of five. So Johnny O must have some kind of Cadillac plan…or didn’t do any shopping. Or - and this is quite possible - the guy is lying through his teeth…just as he’s doing in his television ads claiming Joe Heck supports rape.
DRIVE-BY MUTHINGS
* My Baltimore Orioles have come in dead last for the last four years, and have had a losing season for the last 14 years straight. In July, they were 10 games behind the hated (in a good, Christian way) New York Yankees. The two teams have now split their 22 head-to-head games this season right down the middle.
The Yankees finally won the division on the last day of the season. But who advances to the division championship series now comes down to one last game this afternoon in the Bronx at 2 pm. Don’t even try to call or email me until after dinner!
ROCK ON, CONSERVATIVES!
The Nevada chapter of Americans for Prosperity is hosting a FREE “Freedom Day” concert/rally at the Henderson Pavilion next Saturday, October 20th beginning at 5:30 pm featuring Olympic Gold medalists Jackie Joyner Kersee and Chad Hedrick.
Bring the family for a fun evening with face painting, bounce houses, free food and drinks…all capped off with a rock show by 3 Doors Down scheduled to start at 7:00 pm. For more information or to RSVP, click here
FAMOUS LAST WORDS
"For the second time in two weeks, the Democrat came out and defeated himself. In both cases the Republican was strong and the Democrat somewhat disturbing. Another way to say it is the old man tried to patronize the kid and the kid stood his ground. The old man pushed, and the kid pushed back." – Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal
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