THE CHILLICOTHE ADDRESS: Romney’s Best Speech of the Campaign. Here are two brief excerpts.

America is one Nation under God. American history has been a story of the many becoming one – uniting to preserve liberty, uniting to build the greatest economy in the world, uniting to save the world from unspeakable darkness. Everywhere I go in America there are monuments that list those who have given their lives. There is no mention of their race, their party affiliation or what they did for a living. They lived and died under a single flag fighting for a single purpose. They pledged allegiance to the United States of America. So, Mr. President, take your campaign of division and anger and hate back to Chicago and let us get about rebuilding and reuniting America.

And:

America runs on freedom. Free men and women, pursuing their dreams, working hard to build a better future for their families. This is what propels our economy. When an American succeeds, when she wins a promotion, when he creates a business, it is that individual, that American that has earned it, that has built it. Government does not build our businesses, the American people do.

The full text is here.

HEH: Even the mainstream media is admitting that Ryan's Medicare plan won't throw Granny over the cliff.

OBAMA TRIES to buy more votes in Iowa. I'd rather he left the $170 million in the economy so I could afford to buy steak.

SOME FACTS about 'MediScare'.

HUH? What the hell is a 'nonpartisan progressive group'?

FINALLY: "Commercial Space Race" In Full Swing.

"THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS A LOST MORAL CAUSE. It is a party that loves and revels in lies and is running for office on the power of lies. What will that party do if it then wins? The reasonable expectation is that it will continue to lie."

MORNING IN AMERICA or 'Mourning' in America: "The political mirage of something for nothing, from leaders who "care," has ruined many a nation."

A MAN OF IDEAS, and who is clear about them.

IF THE 'RYAN PLAN' won't throw Grandma over the cliff, then it surely will throw future grandmas over the cliff.

The Daily Beast's Kirsten Powers tried that number on Fox's Special Report last night; it went over like the proverbial lead balloon.

RHETORICAL QUESTIONS: (1) If 'right-wing extremists' are in the majority, are they still extremist? (2) If a nation is 'right of center' where is the center?

"IDEOLOGY MATTERS, but we don’t build a nation on ideologies but on deeds...."

A CHOICE OF TWO FUTURES


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OBAMA CAMPAIGN: Ryan Pick Not ‘Courageous’ Because He Votes with GOP Too Much. I suppose a 'courageous pick' would have been a Democrat....

EMAIL PANIC FROM DEMOCRATS: ‘Disturbing Report’ of Overflow Crowds at Romney/Ryan Events.

Uh, yes. Republicans -- and seniors, and women, and independents - are 'coming out' for Ryan and Romney. Deal with it.

AN EXERCISE in incoherent psychology. Rick Moran shoots the fish in a barrel and Bill Reader (via Sarah Hoyt) administers the coup de grace.