Day: August 27, 2012

Thanks to Mistress Lafayette for the picture of the  latest Welcome to Westgate sign.  Who do you even call to report this trash?

No Corey, there are no problems over here.  None at all.  Car litter on Sudley Manor Drive is accumulating also.  It must be those using the ball fields and Splash Down.  Actually, it stops after you get through the 3 way stop where everyone in the West end of Manassas and Prince William cuts through to Lomond.

Corey needs to take note that we have our own weiner wagons here in Westgate and yes, there are hoarders in PWC.  Stay tuned.

Its political convention time again.  The GOP dodged an obvious bullet as Hurricane Issac sailed past the Tampa area which the convention will be held.

The news stations are asking Americans if political conventions are becoming a thing of the past.  The networks no longer televise the conventions like in the good old days.  Is the political convention just a see and be seen venture nowadays?  Lots of money is spent.  Will political animals be content to compress their conventions to a day or two?

My guess is that compression of any convention would get in the way of some serious partying and elbow rubbing and that nothing will change.

Meanwhile, how about those hurricanes.  Has we dodged the hurricane bullet or is there more to come this September and October?

From Politico.com:

TAMPA, Fla. — Hundreds of evangelicals gathered in downtown Tampa, Fla., on Sunday afternoon to talk about exactly the things that Mitt Romney wants to avoid this week: abortion, birth control, gay marriage and religion.

The Faith and Freedom Coalition rally drew the expected rock stars of the evangelical movement — Mike Huckabee, Ralph Reed and even Newt Gingrich. Yet few of the speakers talked about Romney himself — the rally was designed to fire up the most red meat, anti-Obama crowd here in Tampa just a few days before Romney accepts the nomination.

How will Team Romney steer away from the issues that the evangelicals deem important and stick to the Romney issues? How does Mitt Romney avoid topics that will only drive more potential voters away and focus on economic issues that so many folks care about without alienating that base? Romney is already iffy with those guys in the first place.

Romney is iffy because of his moderate Republcian governorship in Massachusetts and because of his religion. The evangelical base just doesn’t seem to like him and hasn’t warmed up to him like they did many of the earlier GOP primary candidates.  Most of these Romney watchers aren’t speakers.  That takes care of some of the problem.

Can Team Romney avoid the obstacles? It will be an interesting watch.

Let’s give Romney and Ryan their day in court.  I will agree that they never said anything as flat earth society-like as Akin.  However, let’s not skirt the real issue.  How does the NEW stance of Romney on abortion differ from the stance of Akin?

How does Paul Ryan’s stance on abortion differ from the stance of Todd Akin?

From a legal point of view, I don’t see any difference in Ryan and Akin.