Partisan Paleo-Press Panics as Polls Plummet!

While the title of this article may read like a headline written by some yellow-journalism editor on crack, it is nonetheless true. The old media (paleo-press) are indeed scrambling to spin Obama's disastrous performance during the first Presidential Debate into something that doesn't resemble a fiasco. After having thrown all pretense of being non-partisan to the winds during Obama's reign, they now feel obligated to defend the indefensible.

Their excuses for Obama range from the sublime ("The debate format and moderator are to blame"), to the ridiculous ("Obama suffered a Rocky Mountain high"). In point of fact, Obama's performance was the result you can expect when a polished and prepared statesman like Romney meets a hack politician driven by hubris and ideology, such as Obama. As Daniel Greenfield puts it, it was a case of "qualified professional" meets "talented amateur." Romney's statements, in and of themselves, were not all that spectacular, and Obama's stock "liberalese" responses and gambits were not especially bad. It was the juxtaposition of one next to the other that was so telling. The lack of substance and meat behind Obama's duplicitous prattle has never been so starkly exposed as when contrasted against Romney's substantive fact-driven statements. All Romney had to do was stick to the truth, and let it work its magic.

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Romney: "The president said he'd cut the deficit in half. Unfortunately, he doubled it. Trillion-dollar deficits for the last four years. The president's put it in place as much public debt -- almost as much debt held by the public as all prior presidents combined." Obama: "When I walked into the Oval Office, I had more than a trillion-dollar deficit greeting me. And we know where it came from: two wars that were paid for on a credit card; two tax cuts that were not paid for; and a whole bunch of programs that were not paid for; and then a massive economic crisis." Oh puh-leeze. One can perhaps forgive Obama's "bobbing and weaving," and for being nonplussed when people start throwing hardballs at him, however. After years of being lobbed Nerf balls by the paleo-press ("What is your favorite color, Mr. President?"), it had to come as a shock when "Univision's" Jorge Ramos grilled him on "Fast and Furious" last month, followed by Romney handing him his head on a platter. Welcome to the real world, Mr. Obama--where actions have consequences and deeds matter more than words. The polls as reported by the paleo-media have little if any connection to the real world. When liberal institutions such as "New Yorker" magazine feature a cover showing Mitt Romney debating an empty chair, then I promise you that the poll numbers have moved more than a point or two in Romney's favor. (Has there ever been a more apropos logo for a liberal publication then the supercilious hauteur of "Eustace Tilley?" Just asking). I believe that we are in the midst of a contest with global, if not cosmic, implications. Rather than a typical mundane political race, I believe that this year's election is emblematic of a race to the wire between the human ego and the human soul, between spirit and ego-centricity. As Ronald Reagan once pointed out, we are dealing with a struggle between up versus down, not left versus right. "We the people" are currently engaged in a battle of historic proportions, and the stakes could not be higher. This is a battle for freedom, for truth, and for our souls -- it is not a battle we can afford to lose. I hope that those who have been biding their time during the Obama reign are prepared to step forward with the names and deeds of those who have committed crimes of treason, robbery, obstruction of justice, misprision of felony and the like against the United States during these past few years. The time for an explosive American variation of "J'accuse!" will soon be upon us. As has been noted before, there is nothing new under the sun, and folks such as the ones that "we the people" now confront have been with us for a long, long time: "[They are] filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, backstabbers, haters of God, insolent, proud, and boastful. They refuse to understand, break their promises, are heartless, and have no mercy." Romans 1: 29-31