Romney Almost Grows A Pair

Romney v. Trump?
Four years ago Romney didn't have the stones to really go after Obama. Now all of a sudden he's found a pair and he's going after Trump.

It's like a duck waddling in to take on a honey badger. A honey badger on meth.
This won't be pretty.

From Rush Limbaugh:

So you think this was done on behalf of Rubio? You think they sent Romney out there on behalf of Rubio, and this is making you want Trump even more because you're so ticked off at what they're doing? That's probably gonna be a pretty common reaction here. Trumpists out there are gonna feel like the establishment's trying to manipulate 'em, sucker 'em, and they're just gonna dig in deeper. That's why I said when I opened the program, "I cannot believe they still do not get what's happening out there." By that I mean the establishment Republicans in Washington. 

Repeal Rove

Republican strategist Karl Rove said on “Fox News Sunday” the only way to stop gun-related violence, like the Wednesday massacre at Emmanuel African Methodist Church in Charleston S.C., was to repeal American citizens’ Second Amendment rights.

Time to revisit the FBI 2013 Uniform Crime Report, Expanded Homicide Data Tables 14 and 15. These tables capture the number of felons killed while committing a felony- killed by police and private citizens. From 2009 through 2013 there was an average of 703 felons killed each year, 420 by police and 283 by private citizens. This mean that armed citizens are responsible for taking down 40% of violent felons in the US during the past five years.

Armed citizens do not have to quake in bedrooms waiting for some crazed individual to snuff them out. Who knows how many others were spared (mom's, children, innocent bystanders) because someone had the right and common sense to arm themselves.

For this same five year period the following is true:

1,427 felons were killed by citizens, 61% (862) used a handgun.

Annual  Average: 172

2,102 felons were killed by police, 77% (1,625) used a handgun.

Annual  Average: 325

These statistics do not include the use of other firearms such as rifles and shotguns.

People like Karl Rove want to see that end.
Karl Rove would like to see another 172 or perhaps even 200 innocent lives added to the nation's murders each year so that he can feel safe.

Welcome to the mainstream GOP's War on Guns.
They'll have the same success as the War on Poverty and the War on Drugs.
Idiots.

Democrats, Incumbents Get Wake Up Call

RICHMOND, Va. — Eager to drain the 2009 elections of drama and import, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs claimed Tuesday night that President Barack Obama was “not watching returns.”

You can be sure that he is studying them closely now: The off-year elections were, in two big races, anunmistakable rebuke of Democrats, reshuffling Obama’s political circumstances in ways likely to have severe near-term consequences for his policy agenda and larger governing strategy.

Independents took flight from Democrats. They suffered humiliating gubernatorial losses in traditionally Democratic New Jersey, where Obama lent his prestige in a pair of eleventh-hour campaign rallies Sunday, and in Virginia, which had been trending leftward and just last year was held up as an example of how Obama was redrawing the political map in his favor.

Tuesday night’s trends were emphatically not in Obama’s favor. Among those paying closest attention are dozens of Democrats who won formerly Republican congressional districts in 2006 and 2008 and are up for reelection in 2010. Many of these pickups that powered the Democrats’ recapture of Congress came in Southern and border states, or in the Ohio River Valley, where political conditions are similar to those in Virginia.

Obama now faces a much tougher challenge persuading these mostly moderate Democrats to put themselves further at risk by backing such liberal priorities as expanding government’s role in heath care or limiting greenhouse gases.

More here.