Mitty @ Al Smith Dinner: Shades of the Gipper

No Mitt Romney did not miss his true calling by not becoming the next Bill Cosby,  but at the Al Smith Dinner last night,  Mitt did seem to offer shades of the Gipper, video:

Hat tip:  Faussta.

Edited:  dl

Take tehis to the political bank, Victor Davis Hanson, via Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit”

“Obama did not forfeit the debate as last time, and took his cue from Joe Biden in interrupting and muttering while Romney spoke, so his energy

But Candy Crowley’s bias was more insidious. She chose the questions and the questioners. She let Obama’s towering ignorance on gas prices slip by unremarked. She corrected Mitt Romney with incorrect facts, allowing Obama to escape the most dangerous moment

I will write a more detailed response later this week. As it happens I’m preparing to leave for Connecticut. But I did want to pass along a couple of first impressions.

That Obama sounded better last night than he did

I do not know what Barack Obama does know, I do know that Obama does not know math, from Smitty, Other McCain:

[Obama] “We got back every dime we used to rescue the financial system. . .”

[…]

[Congressional

Michelle Obama must have OD’d on Kool Aide before being interviewed on a DC area hip-hop station. She said that “We are in the midst of a huge recovery.” Who is she kidding? The unemployment rate is officially 7.8% but

The Romney image created by the Obama ad bombardment was unlikable, but the actual candidate turned out to be an astonishingly decent person and extremely capable. The clash between the cartoon Romney and the real Romney seems to have jolted

Sad news for the Obama Campaign and her War on Women meme, women also have working parts about the neck, from Susan Page, Useless Toady:

6:11PM EDT October 15. 2012 – WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney leads President Obama by

Karen is suggesting that BuzzFeed was duped, from Lonely Conservative:

A reader who is a photographer emailed me his analysis of the t-shirt worn by an alleged Mitt Romney supporter at a campaign event over the weekend. He believes

Bullies, as anyone who has dealt with them before will tell you, tend to be not all that bright.  And look, I know I’m hardly the first to the first to notice this, but Joe Biden would seem a prime

Robert Gibbs gives a preview of Barack Obama’s strategy for the second debate, from Keith Laing, Hill:

“I think the president will make sure people understand the choice, and certainly if Mitt Romney puts up his hands and says

Will this Obama/Biden message of “We killed Osama but they forgot to remind us about the blowback” really carry them past the election? The buck stops where?

Tom Maquire, Just One Minute.

Givens Practically the entire administration knew that we had a security problem in Benghazi and that the attack was never the result of some stupid video. The Senile Delaware Blue Hen, Joe Biden, asserted that “we” did not know about

Breaking bews, from WHEC-TV, Rochester, NY:

Gates Presbyterian Church will be holding its annual ham dinner on October 27 from 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Along with ham, dinner will include potatoes, vegetables, salad, dessert and a drunk.

Tickets can

Time for the senile old Blue Hen to retire to Delaware.  Peggy Noonan shows Old Joe how to do snark:

“National Democrats keep confusing strength with aggression and command with sarcasm. Even the latter didn’t work for Mr. Biden. The