Settled Pattern

Attribution
The cultural difference between Israel and its Arab neighbors is so striking that you would think it beyond question. But when Mitt Romney attributed the gap between Israel’s economic performance and the Palestinians’ — “Culture makes all the difference,” he said in Israel — the roof came down on him. PC police the world over raised a red card, giving him demerits for having the temerity to notice the obvious. (Richard Cohen, Washington Post, 8/6/2012)

Liberal opinion writer Cohen echoes RedStateVT's contention - and the contention of others as well - that Romney's comment in Israel on Arab culture was accurate. We wish he had not waited a week to say so.

Prime Time
The Democratic National Convention Committee and Obama for America announced Tuesday that former President Jimmy Carter will be addressing the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte via video cast....Carter left office with a job approval rating of 34 percent.

At first we thought that this was a joke courtesy of the Romney campaign. Jimmy Carter? Will he speak before or after Elizabeth Warren? The Republicans have got to be thanking their lucky stars. Who better to make the case that Obama does not deserve a second term then an idealistically misguided one term Democrat president who presided over a disastrous economy and has - in retirement - become even more of a punch line than when he was in office?

Lawless
The Georgetown law student famously insulted by Rush Limbaugh for backing insurance coverage of birth control will introduce President Obama at an event in Denver on Wednesday, a campaign official confirms to POLITICO. (POLITICO.com, 8/7/2012)

The good news just keeps coming! By all means, bring back recreational sex expert Fluke. It will remind America of her desperate struggle to pay for condoms.