ONLY IF PEOPLE SHOW UP TO VOTE: Preference Cascade? Romney Draws Massive Crowd In Colorado.

ROMNEY RYAN RALLY AT RED ROCKS: Two pictures.  Background on this: we left our home in time to get there just before five under normal conditions.  About thirty miles out, the highway became a parking lot, where we got stuck for the next two hours.  The freaky thing was the lines extending behind us at least as much.  The highway exit was closed, but we’re conservatives/libertarians, we find ways. So we went back roads, parked in way outlaying parking lot (for another facility) and tried to walk.  Only the people ahead of us were getting turned back at the door, so we all walked back to our cars shouting stuff like “Romney” and  ” Soon a real president.”   Look at those pictures and let me tell you, at least that many of us were turned away or prevented from approaching.  Da roosterish, be not getting it, but… it looks like they’re gonna need a bigger October surprise.

THE DISCOVERY PROCESS SHOULD BE INTERESTING: Climate researcher Michael Mann sues his critics.

I don’t know what Rand has planned in the way of a legal defense fund, but you could always hit his tipjar. I did. (Bumped).

SCIENCE: ‘We won’t advise the state again’: Scientists outraged at Italian seismologists’ jailing.

LIKE A DOG TO HIS VOMIT:  Is THIS the October surprise?  EXCLUSIVE: Mitt Romney — Court Battle Over His Involvement in Bitter Divorce.  If it is, it shows one thing:Obama is truly incapable of having an original idea.  Or even close to it.  In fact, this is his signature move.  And done over and over.

UPDATE: Daniel Blatt at Gay Patriot blogged about it here.  I share his views on Ms. Allred being called a “civil rights attorney.”  Is that polite for “neither civil, nor right”?

BENGHAZI: Frank Gaffney: Did Obama Have His Own Iran/Contra Going On In Libya?

HE ALREADY WEARS PAJAMAS: (And a cape!) Superman quits The Daily Planet – over the state of journalism.  He’s going to become a blogger.

POLIPUNDIT: Could This Be A Wave Election? “Here, in ultra-liberal King County, Obama signs are nowhere to be seen. You do see the occasional Romney sign. But back in 2008, you’d think this was the headquarters of the Cult of Obama.”

I’m hearing that from a lot of places. But don’t get cocky, kid. It all depends on showing up.

#NARRATIVEFAIL: White House told of militant claim two hours after Libya attack: emails. “Officials at the White House and State Department were advised two hours after attackers assaulted the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11 that an Islamic militant group had claimed credit for the attack, official emails show. . . . Administration spokesmen, including White House spokesman Jay Carney, citing an unclassified assessment prepared by the CIA, maintained for days that the attacks likely were a spontaneous protest against an anti-Muslim film.”

Mr. Nakoula was unavailable for comment — since, you know, he’s in jail until after the election.

RELATED (From Ed): Who’s going to tell Chris Matthews?

WELL, THE TOLERANT PEOPLE LOOK WEAK: Survey Confirms Islamic Intolerance On The Rise in Indonesia.

OUCH: Leno: Obama’s top debate pt was saying how sanctions are crippling Iran’s economy. And if anyone knows about crippling an economy it’s Obama.

AN OBAMA SECOND TERM:  Will create one sure thing– just ask Julia:

RICH LOWRY: The Adoration Bubble. “They say that a sitting president usually loses the first debate, since he isn’t used to getting challenged. For Obama, this isn’t just a function just of the presidency, but of his existence.”

JOHN HINDERAKER: Can The Democrats Sink Any Lower?

Sure they can. Hey, there are two weeks to go until the election! The party of slavery, Jim Crow and corruption is just getting warmed up. Gloria Allred has not yet been heard from, which I guess is another way of saying that the fat lady has not yet sung. And on YouTube, the Democrats’ unofficial brigades have launched the anti-Mormon smears that we have long been expecting.

It isn’t only the presidential election, either. Power Line’s Pick Six candidate Mia Love became a star at the Republican National Convention, which prompted a series of vicious racist attacks by the Democrats. The first was when a Democrat hacked her Wikipedia page to describe her as a “house nigger.” Republicans get accused of racism when they mention golf or Chicago, but Democrats don’t fool around: when they decide to go racist, they call a Republican a nigger. The Democrats’ smear campaign against Mia and her family continues to this day, but you can help to fight back by donating to Mia’s campaign here. . . . You would think that at some point, decent people would be ashamed to be associated with the Democratic Party. For all too many, that hasn’t happened yet. In the meantime, fasten your seat belt, because the Democrats are about to pull out every stop in their desperate greed to hang on to unearned wealth and political power.

Read the whole thing.

MOCKERY:

Obama went on to tell Romney: “You seem to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s.” So he’s Reagan, Eisenhower and Coolidge all rolled into one? Sounds way too good to be true, but one can only hope. . . .

Ike and Coolidge aside, the president’s dismissive attitude toward Reagan’s foreign policy is telling. It underscores why, despite having “won” again by showing up, Obama failed last night. Before the debate, the left was confident that Romney would scare the hell out of voters by coming across as, in the words of New York Times editorialist David Firestone, a “strutting warmonger.” After the debate, they started mocking him as “Peacenik Mitt,” as in this post from the Washington Post’s Greg Sargent.

Just like in the first debate, the left is calling Romney a LIAR!!!! because he did not conform to their stick-figure caricature of him.

The problem is, they’ve come to believe their own stick-figure caricatures.

PARADISE, WITH AN ASTERISK. A nuclear one.

STACY MCCAIN: Signs and Omens: Obama’s Fading Hope and the Graveyard Whistling Choir. Plus, you don’t see the words “rape dungeon” in very many political blog posts. “The plural of ‘anecdote’ is data, as they say, and you don’t need a Magical Forecasting Model™ to see the dots in this emerging gestalt pattern, including the Gloria Allred ‘October surprise’ gambit. Never heard a peep about this until after Obama got his ass kicked in the first debate, did ya?”

PJTV: Trifecta: The Moment Obama Lost the Foreign Policy Debate.

Also: Election Roundtable: Horses and Bayonets! Oh My! Grading the Third and Final Debate.

ADVICE: How To Like Women.

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ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: What is it like to be on Jeopardy?

OF COURSE THEY DID: Megyn Kelly: Media in spin room laughed and applauded at Obama’s “bayonets” line.

After all, they’re just Democratic operatives with bylines.

HONOR THE 241: Today is the 29th anniversary of the Beirut barracks bombing.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: The Adrenaline Zone: Shock and what it means after a gunfight.

BIG BUSINESS IS NOT CONSERVATIVE: “How is one to explain the lack of conservative principles among big businessmen? There are two things at work here,” Dennis Prager writes.

RELATED: Wal-Mart heir funding Obama big time. That’s not exactly surprising, given this 2011 article at PJM titled, “Wal-Mart Goes ‘Back to Basics’: A Cautionary Tale for the Left:”

After suffering seven straight quarters of losses, today the merchandise giant Wal-Mart will announce that it is “going back to basics,” ending its era of high-end organic foods, going “green,”and the remainder of its appeal to the upscale market. Next month the company will launch an “It’s Back” campaign to woo the millions of customers who have fled the store. They will be bringing back “heritage” products, like inexpensive jeans and sweatpants.

Few may recognize it as such, but this episode should be seen as a cautionary tale about “progressives” and social engineering experiments on low-income Americans. This morning’s Wall Street Journal article is blunt:

That strategy failed, and the Bentonville, Ark., retail giant now is pursuing a back-to-basics strategy to reverse the company’s fortunes.

The failure, in large part, can be pinned to Leslie Dach: a well-known progressive and former senior aide to Vice President Al Gore. In July 2006, Dach was installed as the public relations chief for Wal-Mart. He drafted a number of other progressives into the company, seeking to change the company’s way of doing business: its culture, its politics, and most importantly its products.

But then, as Shikha Dalmia writes today at Reason, “Last Night’s Presidential Debate Proves That Al Gore’s Life Has Been In Vain.”

Well, he’ll always have ManBearPig, at least.