I guess Ross Perot is most concerned about the sucking sound he hears coming from Democratic party economic policies. From the DesMoines Register today:

Our country faces a momentous choice. The fact is the United States is on an unsustainable course. At stake is nothing less than our position in the world, our standard of living at home and our constitutional freedoms. …

It is for these reasons that I am endorsing Mitt Romney. He has spent most of his career in the private sector. He understands how jobs are created. He understands how government can get in the way of that process. As a president, he would do what this administration has been unable to do, which is reform our federal government, pare it back, and — most critically — keep it from acting as a brake on economic growth.

Equally important, as a governor, Mitt Romney balanced the budget of his state for four straight years without raising taxes. Writing in all caps is called shouting, and that fact is something that deserves to be shouted from the rooftops. I should add that Gov. Romney accomplished this feat while working with a legislature that was overwhelmingly under the control of the Democratic Party in one of the most liberal states in the country. In short, although he is a rock-solid conservative, he knows how to reach across the aisle and make common cause with those with whom he disagrees.

Hat tip to Politico. All emphasis is added.

I guess Ross didn’t get the memo.

Geez. After the Democrats have treated accomplished, inspiring women with SUCH respect, THIS is how they get paid back? From USA Today:

5:15PM EDT October 15. 2012 – WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney leads President Obama by four percentage points among likely voters in the nation’s top battlegrounds, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, and he has growing enthusiasm among women to thank.

As the presidential campaign heads into its final weeks, the survey of voters in 12 crucial swing states finds female voters much more engaged in the election and increasingly concerned about the deficit and debt issues that favor Romney. The Republican nominee now ties the president among women who are likely voters, 48%-48%, while he leads by 12 points among men.

Don’t these women know there’s A War On Women!!?? How will these women find THOUSANDS of dollars to pay for the birth control they need? (Go follow that last link. Sounds as if $18,000 pays for a lot of birth control. Just how much sex are Democratic women having these days? )

“In every poll, we’ve seen a major surge among women in favorability for Romney” since his strong performance in the first debate, veteran Democratic pollster Celinda Lake says. “Women went into the debate actively disliking Romney, and they came out thinking he might understand their lives and might be able to get something done for them.”

While Lake believes Obama retains an edge among women voters, the changed views of Romney could be “a precursor to movement” to the Republican candidate, she says. “It opens them up to take a second look, and that’s the danger for Obama.”

Of course, there is an easy explanation for this. Maybe Democratic women are so busy, um, “getting busy” that they don’t have time to answer Gallup’s phone calls?

Stereotype much, Democrats?

Apparently the national Democratic Party campaign machine thinks that the Republican candidate for Congress in CD 2 is Martha…STEWART?

The first female combat pilot in U.S. military history would seem an unlikely target for a kitchen-themed attack ad, and yet that’s exactly what Nancy Pelosi’s House Majority PAC and Rep. Ron Barber have cooked up for Martha McSally, a retired Air Force colonel and pioneering A-10 pilot.

“Wall St. and Martha McSally—here’s what they’ve got cooking,” a female voiceover says as well-worn recipe cards pop out of a recipe box against a backdrop of fresh groceries. The ad features a photo of McSally on a recipe card alongside scribbled accusations like, “raise retirement age” and “essentially end Medicare.” The ad concludes, “McSally and Wall St.— a recipe for disaster.”

Wait a minute—I thought that Democrats were the Party of Women? (Women who expect the government to give them thousands of dollars to pay for their birth control.)

Did you know that there are five sitting women governors in the US—and FOUR of them are Republicans? (Brewer of Arizona, Hailey of South Carolina, Martinez of New Mexico, Fallin of Oklahoma.)

Did you know that one major political party is running women for BOTH Congressional seats in southern Arizona? (Hint: it ISN’T the party who sponsored the Mc-Sally-in-the-kitchen ad).

McSally thought the whole thing was a hoot:

McSally, for her part, calls the accusations false and the ad’s theme “laughable.”

“The fact that they use this theme of Martha McSally in a kitchen cooking up recipes is…overtly sexist and insulting to any woman, but it certainly doesn’t fit specifically with me,” she said in a phone interview. “For crying out loud, I served 26 years in the military. I was too busy shooting 30 mm out of my A-10 at the Taliban and al Qaeda to spend any time in a kitchen.”

I must admit—I have a soft spot for A10 pilots. In DESERT SHIELD and DESERT STORM I was a targeting officer for an Army division. I shared a work space with the Air Liaison Officers who coordinated Close Air Support, mostly from Air Force A10s. Our “ALO”s befriended me. They took me to training events in the desert, where they showed me how to signal an aircraft by flashing a mirror.

More important, they let me tag along with them one weekend when they went to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for some weekend training. While they trained, I got to relax in air-conditioned buildings and eat at a REAL chow hall.

My sleeping quarters was an A10 squadron ready room. I slept on a cot, surrounded by racks of flight gear. When I woke up one morning, I noticed that a lot of the gear was missing. Turns out the squadron had flown a training mission that morning. The Warthog pilots had tiptoed in and retrieved their gear while I slept. They felt sorry for the Army guy who had to live out in the Saudi desert, and they didn’t want to disturb his sleep.

The chow hall was the best…as far as I was concerned. We Army pogues had been surviving mostly on MREs and local Saudi meals for the first few months of DESERT SHIELD. At this chow hall, though, I not only got hot food, I got ALL I could eat of it.

The only problem was—it was an Air Force only chow hall. Army personnel weren’t allowed inside.

How did my A10 ALO buddies get around that? They loaned me a pilot’s desert camouflage BDU top, complete with pilot’s wings.

Now, most of you have seen my Fort Buckley picture. I wear coke-bottle glasses, and always have. Pilot’s DON’T normally wear glasses like that. Nevertheless, I was able to walk around—and eat—at that air base all weekend. Nobody said a word.

A10 pilots are, indeed, a resourceful bunch. So, when the national Democrats look at the CD2 Congressional race, why is it that they instinctively think of Martha the TV homemaker, instead of Martha the fighter pilot colonel?

McSally has flown some 300 combat hours over Iraq and Afghanistan, earning the Bronze Star during her time commanding a combat squadron in Operation Enduring Freedom during 2005 and 2006.

McSally also sued her bosses at the Department of Defense in the early 2000s to change Pentagon policy forcing women service members to wear the abaya— Muslim body covering— when they went off base in Saudi Arabia. The policy changed. She uses that powerful example when constituents wonder if she’ll simply toe the party line once she gets to Washington, she said.

“I’m a conservative and I’m an independent thinker.”

But sure, McSally in a kitchen is the first thing that springs to mind.

Apparently, for some people, it IS the first thing that springs to mind.