Moe Lane

…still has a certain ring to it.

Detroit, near death after years of being crushed by the weight of its own industrial decline, political malfeasance and insurmountable debt, needs a savior. Michigan’s governor will soon appoint an emergency financial manager for the city, giving him or her 
18 months to execute a plan to pull the Motor City out of its financial sinkhole.

And Mitt Romney has every reason to volunteer for that job.

Besides, what the hell CAN they do to Mitt Romney, past calling him a racist?  Which, and I agree with Glenn on this, they will.  But if Romney gets the kind of powers that I would realistically expect from the nickname “Warlord of Detroit” – and, thanks to Right-to-Work, I can see him getting them – and uses them to fix the horrific mess that the Democrats have created… well.  That will resonate elsewhere than in Detroit.

And, who knows?  Maybe some of the people in Detroit will figure out where their class interests actually lie.

Moe Lane

Data mostly from here, and updated. Note that these are major paper flips.  Swing state paper flips are more problematical, largely because what’s definable as a ‘swing state’ is shifting fairly drastically in the GOP’s definition right now…

There aren’t very many national papers that haven’t endorsed, and I suspect that the ones that haven’t yet, won’t. I find it… interesting… that the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the New Orleans Times-Picayune are apparently going to sit this one out, after endorsing Obama in 2008; assuming, of course, that they don’t do their endorsements late. It’s also interesting that there hasn’t been much movement the other way…

They were aiming to raise seven million in seven days: even with taking a couple of days off from fundraising because of Hurricane Sandy they did it in five.  They’re now trying to get another two million by the end of t0night: the running total is 8.67 million, but it will probably be higher by the time you read this.  It might, in fact, be higher by the time I hit the publish button.

Moe Lane

PS: Why aren’t you hearing about Obama’s fundraising prowess, this last week?  Mostly because his campaign’s final fundraising emails read like a drunk trying to finagle one last sawbuck for a fifth of cheap scotch.  I’m getting the feeling that the pipes are dry.

From those who missed it: the commercial is cut from two rallies yesterday:

The Republican nominee — who addressed a crowd approaching 25,000 people, the largest of his campaign — was referring to a comment made by the president during a rally in Springfield Ohio earlier in the day, after the crowd began to boo when he mentioned Romney’s name. “No, no, no, Don’t boo. Vote,” Obama told the audience. “Voting is the best revenge.”

Romney, who has been portraying Obama as a divisive leader in his stump speech of late, used the comments to highlight his point.

“Did you see what President Obama said today? He asked his supporters to vote for revenge,” he said, pausing and then repeating the line for emphasis. “For revenge. Instead, I ask the American people to vote for love of country.”

Three days until election day. Mitt Romney for President.

This is perfect.

. @mittromney at OH rally: Today, Obama asked his supporters to vote for revenge. Today I ask you to vote for love of country.

— Andrea Saul (@andreamsaul) November 3, 2012

…and I am sorry, but Barack Obama has a small soul.

“…and I approve this message.”

Seriously.

Via Instapundit.

As Hot Air notes: when somebody tosses you a softball like this, you go ahead and hit it.

I forget who pointed this out first, but we already have a “Secretary of Business:” it’s called the Secretary of Commerce, only we actually haven’t had one since June.  The last guy (John Bryson) resigned for medical reasons in June, and the President hasn’t bothered to try to get a new one because Obama was apparently busier working on more important things, like Big Bird.  And that tells you the priorities of this administration, right there.

Moe Lane

PS: Mitt Romney for President.

Saw this over at AoSHQ.

Home stretch, folks.  Get your game faces on and get ready to rock and roll… what’s that?  Oh, yes, if you prefer to polka you may do so as well.  We will even stretch the point and permit getting jazzed up.  But no waltzes, please.  Too slow.

Moe Lane

PS: Mitt Romney for President.

Class is what you show when you’re not thinking about it*.

This is what Romney-Ryan thinks is important enough to mention in the last two weeks of the campaign. It is the latest email that I have received from the campaign.

Stay safe, give to the Red Cross, and GET THOSE ROMNEY-RYAN SIGNS INSIDE!  High winds will turn them into deathtraps!

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Jonathan Last has an interesting thought:

[H]ere’s my question: Imagine a world in which, during and after the debate, the left didn’t have a collective, public freak out. In other words, a world in which a still-functional Journolist-type of operation was able to corral lefty elites and get them into something like a coherent message instead of having them set themselves on fire over Twitter. Imagine if they had gotten some message discipline and taken a line more like Republican heads did after the second and third debate–Yes, our guy probably lost this on points, but this was a strong performance and blah-blah-blah.

Would it have made any difference? The debate would still be the debate, and the insta-polls would have been the same. But if Chris Matthews and Andrew Sullivan and their fellow travelers hadn’t micturated on the carpet in public panic, would the story out of the Denver debate been anything more than, Strong performance by Romney, Obama needs to up his game.

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See for yourself.  Here’s Obama’s  “Closing (negative) argument“:

…annnnnnnd here’s McGovern’s frantic begging.

The similarities, while not one-t0-one, are too great to simply ignore.  Including the most damning one: both Obama and McGovern, after a certain point in their respective elections, seemed to have tacitly accepted that they were losing.

(Via Hot Air Headlines)

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PS: Expand the map.

New ad from the RNC:

…You know, Barack Obama should have reported those speeches to the FEC as in-kind contributions.  To Mitt Romney.