September 19, 2012  Who's 'dead'?  Thomas Lifson  In only the
past week we have been treated twice to predictions that a
"gaffe" by Romney means that his campaign is dead. First was the
purported outrage of Romney criticizing the Cairo embassy's full
grovel over the First Amendment.  Then came the tape of comments
at a fundraiser where the GOP candidate noted that 47% of the
population pay no income taxes, and a similar number receive
checks from the government, making it difficult for Romney to
get their support.  But like a movie monster that would not die
(at least in the eyes of liberals), the Romney campaign is
thriving. According to Gallup (via Andrew Malcolm), Obama's
convention bounce has evaporated and the race is tied.    As
Malcolm comments:  What a bummer for the preferred media
narrative of recent days!  If one is looking for corpses-to-be
of doomed entities, a better place to look than the Romney
campaign would be the newspaper industry, overwhelmingly
dominated by progressives.  Advertising the