Although Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are locked in a statistically perfect tie (45-45-0), you can tell the Obama campaign is in total terror. Not panic—that happened in June. Terror.

Every single attack on the Romney campaign has failed, and polls show Americans don’t give a fig about whether Romney was CEO of Bain when, per SEC regulations, he should have been only a departed name on the masthead.

Likewise, the campaign tried to court groups of voters—first, by promising the LGBT community that should anyone someday attempt to make same-sex marriage legal at the state level somehow, the President would not specifically stand in their way. And that the President would support a measure to allow children of illegal aliens to apply for work permits, even though that would qualify them to be counted in unemployment metrics and thereby raise the unemployment rate further.

The only stunt the President has briefly made pay off is his idea about “extending the Bush tax cuts for the middle class,” which means that taxes increase for all other classes. Unfortunately for the campaign, it appears that no such measure will be enacted prior to the election anyway—the President waited too long.

Attempts to get Mitt Romney to release his tax records—actually, more of his tax records than he has already released—are another useless attempt to play the class warfare angle. Americans already know Mitt Romney is rich; they may not understand his foreign investments or Swiss bank accounts, but they know full well that Barack Obama is by all measures quite wealthy, is courting multi-millionaires, is taking expensive vacations, and being an utter hypocrite about this.

Signs of desperation show in the media. Speaking to the NAACP Mitt Romney was booed twice—the same number of standing ovations he received; and this doesn’t count the sheer number of applause outbreaks. Romney criticizes Obamacare—which the media immediately reminds you was deemed constitutional by the Supreme Court. It isn’t the President who has to prove this ridiculous Bain allegation; Romney responds to it negatively! The bias in the stories shows that the liberals embedded in the main stream media are seeing this desperation.

No, this is not the first election in which a politician—incumbent or challenger—has thrown unfounded attacks against an opponent. What indicates the sheer terror is how utterly bizarre and illogical the attacks are. It isn’t that Romney is advocating a questionable foreign policy position, but that he gang barbered a kid, which even the alleged and conveniently late victim’s family denies. It isn’t that Mitt Romney as governor didn’t pay his taxes or covered up some indiscretion, but that he put a dog in a rooftop carrier designed for that purpose.

So far, Mitt Romney seems almost amused by the inanity—he enjoys watching his opponents’ unforced errors. But to break the tie, Romney needs to come out with his own line of attacks, rather than deflect or respond. Become not merely active, but aggressive. Earlier, the Romney campaign began to question the links between Obama and the economic success of some of his major donors—okay, that’s a start, but will the average American understand it? Or is this a tu quoque back at the President?

The time to take advantage of the Obama campaign’s terror is right now, when they are only now beginning to suspect that re-election is impossible.

The Czar of Muscovy

Божію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control of all Russia upon the death of Boris Mikhailovich, who replaced Alexander Yaroslav Nevsky in 1263. However, in 1283, our Czar was passed over due to a clerical error and the rule of all Russia went to his second cousin Daniil (Даниил Александрович), whom Czar still resents. As a half-hearted apology, the Czar was awarded control over Muscovy, inconveniently located 5,000 miles away just outside Chicago. He now spends his time seething about this and writing about other stuff that bothers him.