Of course the Peoria Journal Star endorses Romney

I'll tell you why Ceelo... 

A newspaper that regularly allows hateful, racists comments to run unchecked, would of course endorse a person for President of the United States, that is on record saying that he doesn't even care about 47% of Americans. Nope, no surprise here. As a matter of fact, this endorsement would be consistent with everything the newspaper stands for on a daily basis. 

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A small sampling from the regular pjstar audience who are allowed to make racist statements every time the newspaper runs an article with anything to do with African-Americans...

and...

So again, no surprise here.

Is this the "binder full of women"

... the Mormon candidate for the President of the United States was referring to, when asked about what the candidates would do to address gender inequality in the workplace:

In response to a question about what the candidates would do to address gender inequality in the workplace, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said that when he was governor and looking to fill his cabinet,"women groups brought him whole binders full of women."

There are men in this cabinet.

Last night I had to remind myself it was Tuesday...

I was laughing so hard at some stuff on the news, I just kept waiting for somebody to look up from their "news report" and say, "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night Live." But it never happened, so I laughed harder. And today the jokes just keep coming...

Clint Eastwood On RNC Speech: 'An Oddball Thing,' 'If Someone's Dumb Enough To Ask Me...'

Though his performance at the Republican National Convention has been widely panned by critics and pundits, Clint Eastwood's post-speech interviews have been refreshingly candid and highly entertaining. In the much-ballyhooed speech, Eastwood conducted an extended dialogue with an empty chair, in which he pretended sat Barack Obama.

"If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're gonna have to take what they get."  

Eastwood on "Extra" (via The Washington Post).

But he didn't stop there. In an appearance on "Ellen" (where he put his feet on Ellen's table), the actor said he doesn't really care what people thought of the event. "The Democrats who were watching thought I was going senile, and the Republicans knew I was." He summed up the event thusly: "I was just trying to have some fun." Source

The last time a campaign needed Americans to fear Islam...

We got George W. Bush again. 

Much credit on his re-election could probably be given to a very scary (yet timely) videotape of Osama bin Laden. If you will recall, on October 29, 2004, al Jazeera broadcast excerpts from a videotape of Osama bin Laden addressing the people of the United States (in which he accepts responsibility for the September 11 attacks) condemns the Bush government's response to those attacks and presents those attacks as part of a campaign of revenge. The video was reported to be 18 minutes in length; with Osama only speaking for 14 minutes 39 seconds.

Strangely enough, here we are again in another election season with Americans watching anti-American sentiment spread across the Middle East, thanks to some silly film short, that showed up on YouTube. I bet some little known avant-garde film maker (whomever he or his surrogate may be) is quite pleased with the response their little YouTube venture has received. Who could possibly be responsible for such a hateful film; who benefits the most from it being public?

Because we are such a cynical republic, let us speculate:

Stuart Stevens is Mitt Romney’s top strategist. In what many in the campaign now consider a fundamental design flaw, Stevens is doing three major jobs: chief strategist, chief ad maker and chief speechwriter. It would be as if George W. Bush had run for president in 2000 with one person playing the roles of Karl Rove, Mark McKinnon and Michael Gerson. Or if on the Obama campaign of 2008, David Axelrod had not been backed up by Jim Margolis, Robert Gibbs and Jon Favreau.

Asked if he had assumed too many roles, Stevens said he had big teams to help him in each area. “Everybody wears a lot of hats,” he said. “We’re that kind of campaign — very un-compartmentalized.” He said that making the ads in-house has been a huge advantage. “You can walk down and stick your finger in the cookie batter.”

Stevens, a 58-year-old son of the South, is easy for conservatives to dislike. His official bio does not exactly scream “Republican ad guy from Mississippi”: “Stuart was educated at Colorado College, Middlebury College, Oxford University and the UCLA Film School, [and] is also a former Fellow of the American Film Institute.”

He is not particularly ideological, and has a big-city, Hollywood aura that grates on movement conservatives. “He’s a smart, capable guy but he sends bad signals” to the right, said a Republican operative who works closely with the campaign. “He has a lot of goofy quotes that cause everybody to shake their heads. … Stuart is one of the most insecure guys in the business. But he has become the top strategic adviser to the nominee, which is a huge accomplishment.”

Every profile of Stevens includes the descriptor “eclectic,” which seems fair, given he has skied to the North Pole, chronicled his use of steroids to compete in an extreme race, written novels and a campaign memoir, advised clients in Albania and Congo and consulted on Hollywood projects, including the political film “The Ides of March.”

Stevens has a free-flowing way about his life and is excited by ideas he deems wonderful or weird. He enjoys a love-hate relationship with the media — firing off emails with his candid and often illuminating take on the political spat of the moment, while also stoking the media-is-so-damned-biased flames inside the campaign and among conservatives. Source

God told ya'll she don't like ugly

Republican Convention Could Be Shut Down Due To Hurricane

Meteorologists and Republican National Convention planners grew more concerned Wednesday about the potential for Tropical Storm Isaac to develop into a hurricane aimed squarely at Tampa, Fla., the host city of the GOP convention beginning Monday.

In response to the increasingly dire reports, Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn said safety concerns would trump politics, even if that might mean shutting down the four-day convention.

"If we had to make that decision to cancel or to postpone or move the convention, we will do that knowing full well that my obligation and the city’s obligation is to move people out of harm's way. The politics will take care of itself," Buckhorn said Wednesday morning on CNN's "Starting Point" with Soledad O'Brien.

A canceled postponed or hastily moved convention would be a major setback for the GOP presidential ticket. Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan could use a flawless convention to help them recover from a difficult week that began with last Sunday's comments by Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) about "legitimate rape" and pregnancy.

Romney makes lip smacking promises to the NAACP

With much smacking of his lips, Romney vows to ‘make things better in the African-American community’...

Making the most prominent appearance in front of a largely black audience of his presidential campaign, Mitt Romney criticized President Obama’s record on education and the economy at the NAACP’s national convention and boldly declared he was the candidate who represented the “real, enduring best interest of African-American families.”  “If you want a president who will make things better in the African-American community, you are looking at him,” Romney said, causing many in crowd to boo.

The mood in the room was tense. Most of Romney’s 25-minute speech was greeted with silence and muted applause by the largely pro-Obama crowd. But the Republican candidate drew boos several times from the audience of more than 1,000, the loudest when he declared his plans to repeal “Obamacare,” the term he used to describe the national health care law passed by the president.

In front of a crowd that was almost entirely black, Romney emphasized he wanted to campaign in front of all Americans, even if he is unlikely to win their votes.

Romney’s remarks were much different than those he gives in front of largely-white crowds, as he pointedly emphasized his education reform ideas, which make it easier for students to attend charter and private schools. He noted that millions of African-American children attend low-performing schools. And he reeled off data to illustrate the economic challenges African-Americans are facing.

In his speech, Romney praised the NAACP as an organization and pledged to attend the convention next year if he is elected president. He quoted Martin Luther King, Jr and Frederick Douglas and invoked his father George, who marched for civil rights and pushed anti-discrimination legislation as governor of Michigan in the 1960′s. Source

If being black and Republican makes you a better black; does being white and Republican make you a better white?

A couple of days ago, unconventional Republican presidential candidate, Herman Cain played the race card after news broke of his alleged sexual misconduct in the workplace, during his tenure as President of the National Restaurant Association:

"During a Fox News appearance, Cain responded to pundit Charles Krauthammer's question as to whether race, specifically his being a black conservative, was behind the allegations of sexual harassment:

I believe the answer is yes, but we do not have any evidence to support it. But because I am unconventional candidate running an unconventional campaign and achieving some unexpected unconventional results in terms of my, the poll, we believe that, yes, there are some people who are Democrats, liberals, who do not want to see me win the nomination. And there could be some people on the right who don't want to see me because I'm not the, quote/unquote, establishment candidate. No evidence.

KRAUTHAMMER: But does race have any part of that? Establishment, maverick, yes. What about race?

CAIN: Relative to the left, I believe race is a bigger driving factor. I don't think it's a driving factor on the right. This is just based upon our speculation." Source

But oh, lookie here… today Cain blames fellow GOPer Perry; who then turns around and blames fellow GOPer Romney. Interesting that as long as these allegations are coming from the left Cain believes “race is a bigger driving factor”, but if the allegations are coming from the right, it's about him not being a "quote/unquote, establishment candidate".

Cain Says Perry Camp Behind Sex Harassment Leak

Was the recent attack on Herman Cain’s presidential campaign a professional hit job? Absolutely, says Herman Cain. And he says he knows just where to look for the guy who did it: At 815 Slaters Lane in Alexandria, Virginia, a low-slung former warehouse in the shadow of a coal plant.

There, beside rusting rail lines, is the home of OnMessage Inc., a Republican-leaning consulting firm recently hired to bolster Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s presidential campaign.

Perry Says Romney Camp Behind Sex Harassment Leak

As Herman Cain blames Rick Perry for the stories about his alleged sexual harassment, one Perry spokesman suggests another culprit:

"That is false, patently untrue, no one at this campaign was involved in this story," said Perry communications director Ray Sullivan.

Sullivan then suggested to CBS News and National Journal reporter Rebecca Kaplan that Mitt Romney's campaign is behind the allegations.

"I wouldn't put it past them," he said, stating that blog posts have noted that Cain's successor at the Restaurant Association "is a big Romney donor."

"There are much closer connections between the Restaurant Association, Cain and the Romney camp than there are with us," he said.