The Elephant Not In The Petraeus Speculation Room;Why Was Romney Not Strident On Benghazi?

Speculation is of course, naturally and quite rightly, rife over the resignation of General Petraeus. Firstly one must express the greatest sympathy for him, his wife and family, and all the families involved at a most difficult and tragic time.

Beyond the personal there are questions which arise in relation to the timing of the announcement. Why just after the election? If the answer to that is that the General felt that it might influence the election result, then if that was considered by him a matter of honor it was still a political act. 

By not making the announcement it may have affected the election, as it may have raised the serious questions which the Republicans would have considered fair game during a critical period of the election. 

Thus by not making the announcement the campaign of President Obama may have been assisted.

Subsequent to the election the possibility that Gen.Petraeus may not now testify and that Sec. Clinton is advised as "not being available" to testify, muddies the waters even further.The personal appears very much to be political in this case.

The other consideration that the Republicans should also look at is, why did Mitt Romney not hit long and hard over the Benghazi tragedy? Why the quietude during the final debate, which was on foreign policy, where a hard hitting attack, without Candy Crowley to assist President Obama, may have given Romney the edge he needed to win Ohio and Florida.

Instead we saw a strangely quiescent and acquiescent Romney basically saying he agreed with President  Obama time after time. A wasted opportunity or, murkily, was Romney somehow muffled "for the good of America"? Perhaps, like Watergate, the truth, if there is something "rotten in the state of Denmark" so to speak,  will out and, like Nixon's second triumph, President Obama's will turn to ashes in due course.

In the meantime what is needed is the strongest possible voice for the Republicans to keep at this situation until it is totally clarified. If this is simply a personal tragedy, then that will come out and the political aspect will disappear. But if there is a political element, then it must be brought into the full glare of public scrutiny.

Clearly Mitt Romney is not the person for this. According to the voters at Greta van Susteren's site, the titular head of the GOP is Sarah Palin-let no one doubt that her voice would be strong and unmuffled and would press the issue to whatever conclusion it came to.

Redux: By Dismissing Her GOP Establishment Made Palin Blameless If Romney Loses And Would Be Front Runner For 2016

Campaign Redux: An Occasional reprint from the pre-election series at Palin4President2016 which still have topicality
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Although there is little doubt they will try, as per my article on the subject reproduced below,  there really would zero credibility in any attempt to assign the blame for a Romney loss to Sarah Palin.

It is beyond imagining what the media would be doing if Palin was still a governor and had to deal with a massive emergency-e.g. an earthquake in Alaska, and had enlisted the aid of President Obama, like Governor Christie has done.

If Palin had been on various television programs during an emergency praising Obama, whilst dismissing Romney, and then having a photo op with the president, the media/blogosphere would have had a meltdown.
If Romney loses subsequently, the GOP Establishment, and all the hate Palin forces, would have ascribed his loss totally to Palin.

As it happens Christie was chosen by Romney to be the Tampa conventions keynote speaker (at which event he did not mention Romney in his peroration-imagine if Palin had done that). Palin of course was snubbed by the Romney team and has not been invited to participate in the campaign. 

Palin has given her voting and financial support to the Romney campaign and has gone on the attack against the Obama administration vehemently, professionally, and without any embarrassment to the Romney effort that can be found in the polls. 

Most certainly, there is absolutely no comment from any poll analyst which ascribes Romney  being behind in the Electoral College to anything Palin has said or done. On the other hand, there are media complaints against Ryan who "has contributed to Romney's defeat"

The GOP Establishment/Beltway/RINO wing have, by totally removing Palin from the Romney  campaign have also removed any chance they might have had to ascribe a Romney defeat to her in any proportion-unlike after 2008 when they, falsely, as all the evidence shows, ascribed McCain's defeat to Palin.

After November 6th Palin can go forth towards the 2016 nomination unsullied by the slightest tincture of blame for a Romney loss should that eventuate. On the other hand there is much to be said about ascribing a Romney loss to the way they have treated her-so she wins on both scores.

Here is the reprint on how she would be blamed for a Romney loss by the die-hards, irrespective of all common sense to the contrary-not that anyone with any common sense would subscribe to such nonsense.

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As articles like 'Whose idea was it to nominate Romney" appear more often and in various versions the same GOP campaign managers and "insiders" who viciously attacked Sarah Palin after the 2008 campaign will be at it again. 

Having learned that there is good money to be made by writing tell all "books' which the leftist media and Palin haters gobble up there is an absolute certainty we will see the same people, although a different cast of characters, having another go to save their skins and cash in on the anti-Palin audience for such tittle tattle trash. Who knows they may get an appearance in a new version of "Game Change".

Here are the top ten reasons why they will blame Palin if Romney loses;

#1. Force of habit

# 2. Hoping it will lead to "talking head" tame Republican guest spots on MSNBC

#3. To enable them to fill in a chapter in their "tell all" post loss books

#4. Because McCain chose Palin over Romney as his VP thus allowing for "Even McCain preferred Palin to         Romney after seeing his tax records" comments. (Not technically Palin's fault but that won't stop them blaming  her of course)

#5. By suggesting Romney "go rogue" Palin created opportunities for the most miserable "satire" ever. Like this execrable "If Mitt Romney went rogue" piece at 
The Wall Street Journal which depressed Republican turnout as it indicted the campaign must have been in a hopeless position for such lame "support" of the candidate.

#6. So they can tee-up their next "centrist" candidate (calling Jeb/Chris) by stopping the only viable true conservative.

#7. They will say Romney lost because Palin was not a "team player" didn't fire up the base by speaking at the convention (whoops) and go on the campaign trail with Mitt. (that she wasn't invited is neither here nor there of course.

#8. Palin gave the left an opportunity to "denigrate" Paul Ryan. If she hadn't been on the ticket in 2008 they couldn't have said "Ryan is just Palin in trousers".

#9.By helping so many Tea Party candidates to win in 2010 she forced the party to the right and Romney was forced to stand on an unpopular platform. It's all her fault. Romney was not unlikable, stiff, had no tax return problems, the "47%" video had no influence, his trip to the U.K. was not a disaster, neither did he jump the gun when the U.S. Ambassador was killed. Oh, and Ryan ran a hugely popular campaign with bigger crowds than Palin drew.

#10. They have already started blaming Palin !

As Gifford's Attacker Jailed Let Us Never Forget It Was Leftist Kos Moulitsas (Daily Kos) Who Led The Despicable Charge That Palin Was Involved

The arch "progressive" site "Daily Kos" described as the repository for 
"the angry left"  is a sad spectacle of a degrading, literally rotting pile amidst its degradation of others.

Founded in the  G W Bush years by one Kos Moulitsas as a repository for the left to channel their hatred towards all things conservative, and especially the Iraq war, the site and its founder had the opportunity to grow into something positive. 

Daily Kos could certainly  have retained its dynamism whilst developing into a hard hitting but challenging, forward looking and constructive site for the left. Instead, it has kept its anger  and turned that to childish spite and spittle.

This is entirely the legacy of its founder Moulitsas who oversees the site. The articles and comment section are riddled with fanaticism, foul language, personal invective and, at times utter paranoid idiocy.

This is the site that, under Moulitsas's watch, actually ran comment after comment to the effect that G W Bush and Cheney would, rather than let Obama take office, declare Marshall Law. To add insult to injury the editor himself lampooned his own contributors as "funny" after the dust had settled.

Again, under Moulitsas watch the site was the originator of the disgusting canard that Trig Palin was not Sarah Palin's son. 

This neglect of common decency in editorial watchmanship points to perhaps a key to the site being such a swamp. The height of poor "journalism" was reached with their article that Governor Walker of Wisconsin had 
fathered a baby which he then abandoned.They ran this the day before the recall election and then had to admit it was false.

Moulitsas seems to be laboring under some degree of Palin derangement (PDS) which manifested itself, yet again in a column where he advised that Palin's "legacy" would be as some sort of watch word  as to how not to select a vice-president.  

The fact that Palin actually lifted McCain above Obama in the polls, and exit polls after the election showed she was a plus for his campaign seems to have escaped Moulitsis who seems to have a blind spot for the facts where Palin is concerned.

As far as a negative legacy-we will see  how Palin's career, which has just commenced actually, plays out. If she simply carries on as an endorser of conservatives who, like Ted Cruz and Deb Fischer, win against all the odds and  she shapes congress to her beliefs-well what an historic legacy. But it may be that high office beckons. 

As for Moulitsas, he will never gain any positive legacy because he will never escape the shoddiness of his disgusting tweet after Gabby Gifford's was shot.

Rushing to judgement, and letting all the pent up Palin hate come out Moulitsas tweeted "Well done Sarah Palin"  Nothing will ever fix that scar on his reputation no matter how  many people disregard the rubbish pit that "Daily Kos" has become-lampooned so powerfully by Dan Riehl.



PDS will eventually be the subject of learned doctrinal presentations as its irrationality and effect on seemingly normal people is not only ridiculous,  and sad, but a detriment to honest debate. 
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A Christian Site Says"Barack Obama 2013-A Blessing from God" Is An Indication Why Romney/Ryan Received Fewer Votes Than McCain/Palin

Cross posted from "Palin4President2016"





The Evangelical Christian site "Kingdom Insight" at this link has a significant article up after the election which views the re-election of President Obama as "A blessing".


The gist  is that Obama,as much as one may dislike him/his policies prevented  a Mormon from being elected and may, short term, cost the country, but long term people's souls are not at risk which is the more important thing. As I wrote earlier, that was the tack I took (of course I didn't vote for Obama either).

Also, Obama winning if not an evil thing, (which it isn't) must be part of God's plan.We can't determine either his purpose and his plan (two different things) of course, so we will see how things turn out-but we do know that a non-Christian sectarian has not been elected.


Whether one agrees with the sentiments or not, the authors reasons are of significance in my opinion, as they may go towards giving one of the reasons why the McCain/Palin team received more votes than Romney/Ryan did. 

To quote "Firelight":

Romney lost because he simply couldn't turn out the vote. McCain/Palin turned out 6.2 Million more voters than Romney/Ryan did and that is all it would have taken to beat Obama this time around if you look at the numbers. 

Here are some of the thoughts from Kingdom Insight: I have highlighted what I think is the main reason pertaining to the significant drop in the republican vote this time as compared to 2012

What if I were to tell you that Barack Obama’s re-election was a blessing from God?  What if I were to tell you that God is showing us that He still loves us, He still desires for us to turn back to Him and receive His blessings, and that the re-election of Barack Obama was that proof?
What if I were to tell you that, through Christ, Barack Obama might be the greatest hope this land has to repent and turn back to the one true King?  Would you continue reading or would you turn back to the fear, the hate, the anger you might be feeling today?

I struggle to understand this election in the human sense.  I struggle to resist the anger, the fear, the grief I feel over this election.

If Mitt Romney would have won, there would be a complacency about the land, even amongst Christians, who, at the end, seemed satisfied, largely, with a Mormon representing their hope for freedom, representing their protector from the darkness of this world.

All praise to God for giving us a chance to turn to Him, for making our choices clear and not allowing a victory that might lead to a death far worse than physical death, the death of the spirit.

"Answer: Grow The T.E.A. Party"

Guest Editor LISA G IN NZ reviews the election and finds the answer going forwards. Lisa's always interesting site is  AT THIS LINK

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2012

answer: grow the T.E.A. party

Thanks GOP - they picked nicey nice ol' moderate Mitt.  American conservatives need a FIGHTER!

Sure seems like the best group to support going forward to save thecommon decency of  America for me is the T.E.A. party.

Tony Lee at Breitbart advises:

"Jenny Beth Martin, National Coordinator of Tea Party Patriots, criticized the Republican Party for hand-picking a Beltway elite candidate who did not campaign forcefully on America's founding principles and said the "presidential loss is unequivocally on them."

“For those of us who believe that America, as founded, is the greatest country in the history of the world – a ‘Shining city upon a hill’ – we wanted someone who would fight for us,” Martin said. “We wanted a fighter like Ronald Reagan who boldly championed America’s founding principles, who inspired millions of independents and ‘Reagan Democrats’ to join us, and who fought his leftist opponents on the idea that America, as founded, was a ‘Shining city upon a hill.’

Instead, Martin lamented, "what we got was a weak moderate candidate, hand-picked by the Beltway elites and country-club establishment wing of the Republican Party."

“While it might take longer to restore America’s founding principles with President Obama back in office, we are not going away," Martin said. "With the catastrophic loss of the Republican elite’s hand-picked candidate – the tea party is the last best hope America has to restore America’s founding principles."

Martin said the Tea Party's "work begins again today" and "we will turn our attention back to Congress, to fight the battles that lie ahead including balancing the budget, repealing Obamacare, cutting the debt, holding the line on the debt ceiling, and the many other issues that will arise to threaten America.”

James Lewis at AT says common American decency has died, is he right?

For inspiration to continue the fight against leftists, against their evil ideologies, Wild Bill for America (hattip HillBuzz.org) says "Obama gets another four years and Americans must now stand stronger than ever before to protect our traditional faith and values":



Its going to be a long, hard, crappy four years worrying about America for me... again.