Monday Morning (Noonan: It's Romney)

WSJ ^ | 11/5/2012 | Peggy Noonan

[RoosterRedux]

Romney’s crowds are building—28,000 in Morrisville, Pa., last night; 30,000 in West Chester, Ohio, Friday It isn’t only a triumph of advance planning: People came, they got through security and waited for hours in the cold. His rallies look like rallies now, not enactments. In some new way he’s caught his stride. He looks happy and grateful. His closing speech has been positive, future-looking, sweetly patriotic. His closing ads are sharp—the one about what’s going on at the rallies is moving.

All the vibrations are right. A person who is helping him who is not a longtime Romneyite told me, yesterday: “I joined because I was anti Obama—I’m a patriot, I’ll join up But now I am pro-Romney.” Why? “I’ve spent time with him and I care about him and admire him. He’s a genuinely good man.” Looking at the crowds on TV, hearing them chant “Three more days” and “Two more days”—it feels like a lot of Republicans have gone from anti-Obama to pro-Romney.

Something old is roaring back. One of the Romney campaign’s surrogates, who appeared at a rally with him the other night, spoke of the intensity and joy of the crowd “I worked the rope line, people wouldn’t let go of my hand.” It startled him. A former political figure who’s been in Ohio told me this morning something is moving with evangelicals, other church-going Protestants and religious Catholics. He said what’s happening with them is quiet, unreported and spreading: They really want Romney now, they’ll go out and vote, the election has taken on a new importance to them.

There is no denying the Republicans have the passion now, the enthusiasm. The Democrats do not. Independents are breaking for Romney.

[Cyber Liberty]

Providing for the common defense is as American as Mom & Apple Pie. The Second Amendment makes that possible.

[Paladin2]

"if your home catches fire"

Uh, that's what the 12 ga are for.

[jobim]

Almost like being in Love (best version by Johnny Hartman)
Morning (Al Jarreau)
It's a Beautiful Morning (The Rascals)

[stevecmd]

I am buying my champagne tonight! I have a good feeling about this.

Not too fast now... better check that new WashPost/CNN poll

[Paladin2]

"Providing for the common defense is as American as Mom & Apple Pie"

Yep, that why the town sheriff had a gun rack.

[DoughtyOne]

Pool..., over-sized pump, large heavy duty generator.

[lonestar]

You’ve never experienced a storm surge, have you?

[Paladin2]

"....particularly the guys at the liquor store.;-)"

Please amplify, for the understanding of the unwashed, like me.

[eddie willers]

Without Christie’s abhorrent stunt,

Or Robert's weird last minute cave on the "Affordable Care Act".

Had he stuck to his guns we would have:

A. No ObamaCare
B. No Obama.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

When I see him in that jacket, I want to hurl.

I remember when I thought "The Manchurian Candidate" was make believe.

We had a card-carrying commie in the White House. It all seems like a dream to me now.

[Heavyrunner]

If you haven’t heard Pat Gray’s comical rendition of “Happy Days are Here Again” on the Glenn Beck Show, you’re missing out.

If Romney wins, and Pat bursts into song, liberal heads will explode from sea to shining sea. :)

[Wallace T.]

Actually, Christie embracing Obama and giving him credit for the emergency response effort helped the President “own” this crisis, even as FEMA and state and local government incompetence leads to prolonged suffering in New Jersey, New York City, and Long Island. As the week progresses and over a million people remain without power and lack of food and water plagues that area, it will not help Obama, even if the affected areas are “blue”. The MSM is weaker than it was four, much less 20, years ago. The scale of this disaster is harder to hide than the Libyan screw-up.

The effects of Sandy will hurt Obama, and continued incompetence on the part of New Jersey and New York officials will lead to office holders like Christie and Bloomberg suffer the fate of their Louisiana counterparts post-Katrina.

[Paladin2]

Storm surge?

I stay at least a 100 ft above the local surface water level.

Renting beach properties is the way to go.

[lonestar]

I've been close up Rita and Ike and I have never seen the lack of preparation and stupidity as I've seen with Sandy.

Bloomberg would be strung up in TX!...but that would have been true BEFORE Sandy.

[lonestar]

Then you should know that the surge washes entire houses away.

My friends who had a beach house found theirs across the highway after Rita and the pictures were still on the wall...but the furniture was piled in a corner. Their entire addition washed away...on Crystal Beach.

[Paladin2]

"Then you should know that the surge washes entire houses away."

I know.

I wouldn't buy/build there.

[No Truce With Kings]

“When I see him in that jacket, I want to hurl.”

When I see him in that jacket, I agree with Mark Steyn’s assessment - All jacket and no bomber.

[lonestar]

But you also know that all the prep in the world wouldn't help some.

Apparently Statin Island was just a fluke in that everything had to happen as it did. Sandy wasn't that strong a storm.

[stanne]

Sorry, our country is in very serious trouble, heck, I have 15 year olds here who say, “please ord, let me be able to go to college”, in relation to this thing.

Sorry Christie, you are above the standards of any army grunt I woked with in obscure situations and above those of the Band of Brothers, you are the governor.

Just no excuse.

[Paladin2]

Prep is good, but no guarantee.
It all depends on the assumptions. (and on the actual situation.)