Here is a great response ad by GOP Candidate for Michigan’s 1st Congressional District – Dr. Dan Benishek. Dem Candidate Gary McDowell has been accusing Benishek of wanting to harm Social Security (that’s an original attack!). Benishek does a good job of putting that aside, and goes on the attack himself by tying McDowell to Pelosi and Obama.

As Nelsa reported in our Forum, Mike Castle has announced he will NOT mount a write-in candidacy against Christine O’Donnell in the Delaware Senate race. Here is part of an announcement he released:

“While I would have been honored to represent Delaware in the U.S. Senate, I do not believe that seeking office in this manner is in the best interest of all Delawareans. Therefore, it’s time for Jane and me to begin thinking about the next chapter of our lives.”

The limited polling that had been done on a 3-way race seemed to indicate Castle would have pulled votes away for the Democrat, Chris Coons. So, Castle’s bowing out is not necessarily news that will help Christine O’Donnell.

MSNBC’s Ed Schultz “admits” he’s fat on his program and says, “I’m not offended by any of you who think I’m a fat slob.”

This comes after Schultz was reportedly reprimanded by MSNBC president Phil Griffin for calling Gov. Chris Christie a “cold-hearted fat slob.”

H/T: Newsbusters

Daniel Webster appears on Fox News to respond to Alan Grayson’s completely dishonest “Taliban Dan” attack ad. The ad has backfired on Grayson and Webster is now ahead of him in the polls and has received many contributions over the past few days as a result of the dishonest ad. Webster called the ad another one of Grayson’s false and “nasty tricks to try and impugn my character.”

Here is audio of radio great – Mark Levin – sounding off on the audio of President Obama telling author and journalist Bob Woodward that “we can absorb a terrorist attack.”

Levin said “we didn’t absorb” the 9/11 attack. We “responded to it,” even though it had a devastating impact on the country. Levin also said flatly Obama “is an anti-war protester dressed up as a President.”

Listen to Levin’s entire broadcast from 9/28/2010.

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Here is video of MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell interviewing Levi Johnston about his plans to run for Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska. O’Donnell asked Johnston many of the same questions Katie Couric asked Sarah Palin back in 2008. Johnston was asked what he reads, and he said he reads “Frontiersman.”

Johnston came off as absolutely ridiculous – which would be accurate. Painful to watch. At the end, O’Donnell had to get in a shot at Sarah Palin by advising Johnston to read the “New York Times,” and telling him if he does, within 5 days “you’ll be up to speed with Sarah Palin.”

Dick Morris is out with a new column in The Hill, where he said the November Midterm Elections could bring the “obliteration of a generation” of Democrats. Morris lays out the desperate situation facing Democrat candidates all across the country. He believes the GOP will make huge gains and take control of the House, and will regain control of the Senate as well:

THE HILL: Thanks to the leadership of President Obama, Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid, the Democratic Party is facing the biggest defeat in midterm elections in the past 110 years, perhaps surpassing the modern record of a 74-seat gain set in 1922. They will also lose control of the Senate.

Republicans are now leading in 54 Democratic House districts. In 19 more, the incumbent congressman is under 50 percent and his GOP challenger is within five points. That makes 73 seats where victory is within easy grasp for the Republican Party. The only reason the list is not longer is that there are 160 Democratic House districts that were considered so strongly blue that there is no recent polling available. . . . Read More