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 It is absolutely astonishing that Romney and the GOP (Original post) |
The Velveteen Ocelot | Nov 2012 | OP |
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| NRaleighLiberal | Nov 2012 | #3 | |
| dchill | Nov 2012 | #5 | |
| tanyev | Nov 2012 | #65 | |
| dmr | Nov 2012 | #88 | |
| ProudProgressiveNow | Nov 2012 | #117 | |
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| riverwalker | Nov 2012 | #4 | |
| Arugula Latte | Nov 2012 | #105 | |
| tavalon | Nov 2012 | #114 | |
| ProudProgressiveNow | Nov 2012 | #118 | |
| awoke_in_2003 | Nov 2012 | #136 | |
| hifiguy | Nov 2012 | #106 | |
| elleng | Nov 2012 | #6 | |
| On the Road | Nov 2012 | #7 | |
| demwing | Nov 2012 | #8 | |
| deutsey | Nov 2012 | #15 | |
| Ilsa | Nov 2012 | #18 | |
| deutsey | Nov 2012 | #61 | |
| demwing | Nov 2012 | #80 | |
| deutsey | Nov 2012 | #87 | |
| ProudProgressiveNow | Nov 2012 | #119 | |
| demwing | Nov 2012 | #123 | |
| Mme. Defarge | Nov 2012 | #141 | |
| democrat_patriot | Nov 2012 | #9 | |
| drm604 | Nov 2012 | #10 | |
| Doodler71 | Nov 2012 | #22 | |
| INdemo | Nov 2012 | #58 | |
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| INdemo | Nov 2012 | #115 | |
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| INdemo | Nov 2012 | #126 | |
| Blanks | Nov 2012 | #132 | |
| roody | Nov 2012 | #128 | |
| starroute | Nov 2012 | #32 | |
| riderinthestorm | Nov 2012 | #35 | |
| ColumbusLib | Nov 2012 | #74 | |
| starroute | Nov 2012 | #103 | |
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| femrap | Nov 2012 | #86 | |
| Fantastic Anarchist | Nov 2012 | #104 | |
| Maeve | Nov 2012 | #120 | |
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| BellaKos | Nov 2012 | #17 | |
| cui bono | Nov 2012 | #75 | |
| ProudProgressiveNow | Nov 2012 | #122 | |
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| xtraxritical | Nov 2012 | #73 | |
| dballance | Nov 2012 | #14 | |
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| malaise | Nov 2012 | #66 | |
| thelordofhell | Nov 2012 | #16 | |
| Stuart G | Nov 2012 | #94 | |
| rhett o rick | Nov 2012 | #20 | |
| drm604 | Nov 2012 | #21 | |
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| Solomon | Nov 2012 | #102 | |
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| femrap | Nov 2012 | #91 | |
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| Cleita | Nov 2012 | #143 | |
| Chico Man | Nov 2012 | #33 | |
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| Blanks | Nov 2012 | #112 | |
| DallasNE | Nov 2012 | #36 | |
| Mayberry Machiavelli | Nov 2012 | #37 | |
| tblue37 | Nov 2012 | #43 | |
| Rex | Nov 2012 | #39 | |
| riderinthestorm | Nov 2012 | #40 | |
| tblue37 | Nov 2012 | #41 | |
| Cleita | Nov 2012 | #48 | |
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| femrap | Nov 2012 | #93 | |
| tiredtoo | Nov 2012 | #45 | |
| GeorgeGist | Nov 2012 | #46 | |
| Cleita | Nov 2012 | #49 | |
| laundry_queen | Nov 2012 | #125 | |
| litlbilly | Nov 2012 | #47 | |
| ThomThom | Nov 2012 | #78 | |
| femrap | Nov 2012 | #95 | |
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| Emit | Nov 2012 | #55 | |
| myrna minx | Nov 2012 | #62 | |
| Spitfire of ATJ | Nov 2012 | #51 | |
| japple | Nov 2012 | #64 | |
| Spitfire of ATJ | Nov 2012 | #101 | |
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| femrap | Nov 2012 | #96 | |
| StrictlyRockers | Nov 2012 | #135 | |
| SHRED | Nov 2012 | #54 | |
| AtheistCrusader | Nov 2012 | #56 | |
| The Velveteen Ocelot | Nov 2012 | #67 | |
| femrap | Nov 2012 | #97 | |
| struggle4progress | Nov 2012 | #57 | |
| Sarah Ibarruri | Nov 2012 | #59 | |
| Raine | Nov 2012 | #60 | |
| George II | Nov 2012 | #63 | |
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| standingtall | Nov 2012 | #72 | |
| Cha | Nov 2012 | #70 | |
| cally | Nov 2012 | #82 | |
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| Up2Late | Nov 2012 | #71 | |
| treestar | Nov 2012 | #77 | |
| Chakaconcarne | Nov 2012 | #83 | |
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| The Velveteen Ocelot | Nov 2012 | #89 | |
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| Bernardo de La Paz | Nov 2012 | #134 | |
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| The Velveteen Ocelot | Nov 2012 | #138 | |
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Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 03:38 PM
1. Willard did promise real change
Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 03:38 PM
2. " what those idiots were thinking "
Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 03:39 PM
NRaleighLiberal (28,605 posts)
3. They thought Ben Ghazzi would be it. Instead it was Hugh Briss.
They are just so whacked out on hatred, ignorance, right wing hate radio...the bubble. |
Response to NRaleighLiberal (Reply #3)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 06:16 PM
tanyev (22,085 posts)
65. OMG! This is Hugh!!!1!
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Response to NRaleighLiberal (Reply #3)
Sat Nov 10, 2012, 09:48 AM
ProudProgressiveNow (3,239 posts)
117. +1 nt
Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 03:39 PM
riverwalker (6,451 posts)
4. "Rove...pants around his ankles" LOLOL n/t
Response to riverwalker (Reply #4)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 09:20 PM
Arugula Latte (40,097 posts)
105. Please let me not think of Ned Beatty in Deliverance ... Please let me not think of Ned Beatty
Response to Arugula Latte (Reply #105)
Sat Nov 10, 2012, 04:45 AM
tavalon (25,684 posts)
114. Too late..........................................
Response to tavalon (Reply #114)
Sat Nov 10, 2012, 09:49 AM
ProudProgressiveNow (3,239 posts)
118. Yup.....
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Response to Arugula Latte (Reply #105)
Sat Nov 10, 2012, 03:01 PM
awoke_in_2003 (18,498 posts)
136. You got a purty mouth...
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Response to riverwalker (Reply #4)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 09:32 PM
106. He looked like a man who had been whacked on the head
Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 03:42 PM
elleng (40,520 posts)
6. Yes and no, imo.
Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 03:42 PM
On the Road (20,334 posts)
7. Obama is Smarter Than This
Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 03:43 PM
demwing (10,949 posts)
8. They bought into their own con
Response to demwing (Reply #8)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 03:47 PM
deutsey (16,802 posts)
15. The more I'm reading about the disaster of Romeny's campaign
Response to deutsey (Reply #15)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 03:55 PM
Ilsa (31,665 posts)
18. Yes, this ineptitude alone
Response to Ilsa (Reply #18)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 06:08 PM
deutsey (16,802 posts)
61. Yep...the way they responded to the original attack in Libya alone revealed what
Response to deutsey (Reply #15)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 06:49 PM
demwing (10,949 posts)
80. and the way he canceled the credit cards
Response to demwing (Reply #80)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 07:06 PM
deutsey (16,802 posts)
87. And yet these dipshits who supported him still decry
Response to demwing (Reply #80)
Sat Nov 10, 2012, 09:51 AM
ProudProgressiveNow (3,239 posts)
119. I can't wait until..
Response to ProudProgressiveNow (Reply #119)
Sat Nov 10, 2012, 10:14 AM
demwing (10,949 posts)
123. It's hard to stay loyal to a dick
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things should get interesting
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Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 03:43 PM
democrat_patriot (2,766 posts)
9. Because nobody tells Mr. Romney "no". Not anyone that wants to keep working there.
Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 03:45 PM
drm604 (13,962 posts)
10. Part of me believes that some sort of fix was in, or at least was supposed to be in
Response to drm604 (Reply #10)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 04:00 PM
Doodler71 (443 posts)
22. As much as I scoff at conspiracy
Response to INdemo (Reply #58)
Sat Nov 10, 2012, 12:19 AM
Blanks (1,351 posts)
111. Kerry didn't have the resources of the executive branch of the federal government.
Response to Blanks (Reply #111)
Sat Nov 10, 2012, 09:32 AM
115. Maybe but..Kerry's organization was weak, didnt fight for those lost Ohio votes.
Response to INdemo (Reply #115)
Sat Nov 10, 2012, 10:25 AM
Blanks (1,351 posts)
124. I think Kerry made the right choice.
Response to Blanks (Reply #124)
Sat Nov 10, 2012, 11:17 AM
126. I dont blame Kerry either...
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Response to INdemo (Reply #126)
Sat Nov 10, 2012, 01:39 PM
Blanks (1,351 posts)
132. Rove was finally outflanked.
Response to Blanks (Reply #124)
Sat Nov 10, 2012, 11:22 AM
roody (7,496 posts)
128. I thank the Green Party for
Response to drm604 (Reply #10)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 04:48 PM
starroute (10,387 posts)
32. There's an excellent article at Slate analyzing their failures
Response to starroute (Reply #32)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 05:06 PM
35. Only 6% of scientists self-identify as Republicans in a Pew poll. The Rethugs have done
Response to ColumbusLib (Reply #74)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 08:40 PM
starroute (10,387 posts)
103. Here are some more links
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Response to drm604 (Reply #10)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 07:03 PM
eridani (38,401 posts)
84. Outsourcing has apparently bitten them in the ass
Response to drm604 (Reply #10)
Sat Nov 10, 2012, 09:59 AM
Maeve (28,526 posts)
120. Too much of their GOTV efforts were concentrated on election day
Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 03:45 PM
deutsey (16,802 posts)
11. I agree...this election has been fascinating to watch unfold.
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Going into Election Day, I figured it was going to be the standard who's up/who's down type of thing with some possible 2000/FLA-style shady activities.
I was cautiously optimistic that Romney was going to lose, but I had no idea the loss would be such a colossal train wreck for them. And I welcome it. |
Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 03:45 PM
malaise (106,007 posts)
12. Great post
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Truth is that they were publicly suppressing the vote and boasting that Voter ID cards would give the election to Rmoney. They were trying to steal the election but Democrats learned well from 2000 and 2004. And the Courts were not on their side.
I would have celebrated the victory regardless but this was a gazillion times sweeter. After the Courts went against them with Obamacare they should have realized that the ideological purity assumed in the bubble was never real. They are totally and completely fucking stupid and the shellacking and the shell shock were fall down funny.  |
Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 03:46 PM
KharmaTrain (30,724 posts)
13. Campaigns Create Their Own Bubble...
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Doing the whirlwind 3 and 4 event days is not unlike a rock band...another day another venue with very little time to look at a newspaper. One day rolls into the next...one city looks like the last one. It's in this bubble that Willard let the grandeur of the crowds and hangers on grow. Surely everywhere he went during those last days he was seeing large crowds and his people were pumping him with good news to keep the ball rolling. That ball came to a brick wall called reality on Tuesday night.
What makes this unique is this bubble existed inside another bubble...the one created by Bullshit Mountain and hate radio. It's the one where Benghazi was the "worst scandal than Watergate" and how Willard looked surprised and then blindsided when the real facts of that situation hit him in the face at the second debate...Proceed gubnor...
So here in essence Willard lived in a real vaccuum...fact free and based on manufactured "scandals" and based on the assumption that a majority of the country thought like he did cause it was all he saw around him. The real story here is how a complete parallel universe has been created and how so many people were sucked into it... |
Response to BellaKos (Reply #17)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 06:39 PM
cui bono (7,424 posts)
75. To the point where they used the RW propaganda in their campaign.
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I couldn't believe when they actually started using Limbaugh's points to campaign on.
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Response to cui bono (Reply #75)
Sat Nov 10, 2012, 10:01 AM
ProudProgressiveNow (3,239 posts)
122. Big mistake on their part....
Response to KharmaTrain (Reply #13)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 04:04 PM
24. If he has any insight about this after-the-fact he'll probably write a book. Or if he doesn't --
Response to KharmaTrain (Reply #13)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 04:34 PM
Patiod (11,511 posts)
29. A good businessperson doesn't do that
Response to Patiod (Reply #29)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 05:13 PM
KharmaTrain (30,724 posts)
38. Speaks Of What Type Of A "Leader" He Would Have Been...
Response to KharmaTrain (Reply #13)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 06:38 PM
xtraxritical (2,954 posts)
73. "The Emporer has no clothes". Nobody told him so.
Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 03:46 PM
dballance (3,701 posts)
14. And I was Worried WE were the ones in the bubble who would lose.
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Response to BellaKos (Reply #19)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 06:31 PM
Tumbulu (3,245 posts)
69. Very good point nt
Response to dballance (Reply #14)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 06:16 PM
malaise (106,007 posts)
66. I never thought that Obama could or would lose
Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 03:53 PM
16. Money Money Money Money Money Money Money
Response to thelordofhell (Reply #16)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 07:44 PM
Stuart G (7,671 posts)
94. well said...nt.
Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 03:57 PM
rhett o rick (26,679 posts)
20. First of all that's how sociopaths think. Secondly, Rove promised them a rerun of 2000 and 2004.
Response to rhett o rick (Reply #20)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 03:59 PM
drm604 (13,962 posts)
21. Maybe the fact that it didn't work in 2008 should have been a clue?
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Response to drm604 (Reply #21)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 04:14 PM
rhett o rick (26,679 posts)
26. IMO they didnt try in 2008. I think they figured that after 4 years
Response to rhett o rick (Reply #26)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 04:43 PM
bluestate10 (8,571 posts)
30. NO. They tried in 2008. As long as they have 40%+ of american voters willing to shove their heads
Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 04:01 PM
Javaman (40,609 posts)
23. his campaign was run by ex-bush* morons...
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they live in their own special little bubble, a bubble they thought still existed when the totally bullshited the nation and the supreme court into thinking george w. moron* had an ounce of brains.
Still believing their own bullshit, they thought their same "tried and true" method of heaping pile on pile of bullshit upon the American public would still work, "hell" they believed, "it worked twice before!" but twice before was also helped by various sycophants working and rigging the poles. this time, Obama and his admin called them all on their bullshit and made sure there was no fixing of the machines as best as they could. Still however, under their deluded haze of past "victories" they thought they could once again rest on their laurels, but alas... |
Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 04:14 PM
Corgigal (3,492 posts)
27. Thank you
Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 04:28 PM
bluestate10 (8,571 posts)
28. Yeah. I can't wait for the book and movie on Romney's campaign.
Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 04:47 PM
31. I now really do believe he believed the white horse prophesy as
Response to Cleita (Reply #31)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 05:23 PM
tblue37 (11,698 posts)
44. Not even then, because they just say they misread the signs, and can now say with absolute certainty
Response to treestar (Reply #81)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 08:29 PM
102. Finally! LOL
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[How many tries did he get? :
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Response to Cleita (Reply #31)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 05:49 PM
japple (4,103 posts)
52. I believe that, too, Cleita. That, and living in an echo chamber for most of his
Response to Cleita (Reply #31)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 10:30 PM
Avalux (28,938 posts)
108. The GOP is a cult then.
Response to Avalux (Reply #108)
Sat Nov 10, 2012, 04:17 PM
143. Absolutely. They have been a cult since the second coming, Ronnie,
Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 04:57 PM
33. The Republican tactics used to work
Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 04:58 PM
34. Television no longer controls the people (nt)
Response to Chico Man (Reply #34)
Sat Nov 10, 2012, 12:34 AM
Blanks (1,351 posts)
112. That has to be a big factor.
Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 05:09 PM
36. It Was The Nature Of The Man
Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 05:10 PM
37. Yeah if that CBS story that you are apparently reference is true, I don't even know what.
Response to Mayberry Machiavelli (Reply #37)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 05:21 PM
tblue37 (11,698 posts)
43. This comment was posted on the article on Huffpost that described how shellshocked the Romney
Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 05:16 PM
Rex (34,633 posts)
39. The Party of Racism is mostly wrong about most things.
Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 05:17 PM
40. I shudder to imagine the kind of governance we'd have gotten from within that "bubble".
If their reality was this distorted even BEFORE they presumably got into the White House, actually being President makes it even harder to get real truths to penetrate. Great post. K&R |
Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 05:18 PM
tblue37 (11,698 posts)
41. I find myself wondering whether they really did have some electronic vote
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Response to tblue37 (Reply #41)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 05:30 PM
48. For sure they did, but this time we had enough eyes on our side to
Response to femrap (Reply #92)
Sat Nov 10, 2012, 03:45 PM
tblue37 (11,698 posts)
139. I hope that is the case, but it seems unlikely.
Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 05:18 PM
Stargazer09 (1,072 posts)
42. Romney has spent his entire life...
Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 05:27 PM
45. in viewing notes on fb from my rightwing friends
Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 05:29 PM
GeorgeGist (9,534 posts)
46. Do you find it astonishing ...
Response to GeorgeGist (Reply #46)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 05:32 PM
49. No. Many of us knew what they were capable of and afraid they might
Response to Cleita (Reply #49)
Sat Nov 10, 2012, 11:11 AM
laundry_queen (4,166 posts)
125. That's exactly right
Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 05:29 PM
47. I am convinced the fix was in and the software upgrade in Ohio
Response to litlbilly (Reply #47)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 06:45 PM
78. also a possibility but I think Rove would have known
Response to jaxind (Reply #50)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 06:00 PM
55. That is a scary thought.
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Welcome to DU, jaxind  |
Response to jaxind (Reply #50)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 06:08 PM
myrna minx (20,535 posts)
62. That's precisely what my friend and I were discussing last night. It is frightening.
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Welcome to DU!
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Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 05:45 PM
Spitfire of ATJ (7,361 posts)
51. They spent so much time hating Obama that they believed everyone hated him too....
Response to Spitfire of ATJ (Reply #51)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 06:13 PM
japple (4,103 posts)
64. That's the heart of the matter: they thought everyone else hated him, too. 95% of my co-
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workers are GOP/tea-party/birther. I was one of the 5 token libruls in my dept. of 50 employees and, though I wasn't at work the day after the elections, my co-dems told me it was silent as a tomb around the dept. on Wednesday. I am sure they cannot believe that God wanted President Obama back in for a 2nd term. It was so nice not to have to hear birthers spewing, Fux Nooz parrots, bible thumping, and Glenn Beck suckers. The next few weeks will really be interesting as they lick their wounds and try to figure out what went so wrong for them. They would never admit that they lost because they were on the side that promoted hate, fear, and intolerance.
Love won this election.  |
Response to japple (Reply #64)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 08:29 PM
Spitfire of ATJ (7,361 posts)
101. the right wing is already spining it that minorities were the cause...
Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 05:55 PM
53. The feel they are "entitled"
Response to jpak (Reply #53)
Sat Nov 10, 2012, 03:01 PM
StrictlyRockers (1,826 posts)
135. They may be entitled to their own opinions, but they are not etitled to their own facts.
Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 05:58 PM
SHRED (10,105 posts)
54. They never counted on so many of us...
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...voting ourselves so much free stuff from Santa Claus.
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Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 06:02 PM
56. Dunno, I was scared shitless that Romney might win.
Response to AtheistCrusader (Reply #56)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 06:20 PM
The Velveteen Ocelot (34,721 posts)
67. That's kind of where I was.
Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 06:06 PM
struggle4progress (71,475 posts)
57. i'd guess that for years mitt has only listened to suck-ups
Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 06:07 PM
59. Only after it was all over did I realize how much fear I'd been holding inside
Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 06:07 PM
Raine (20,175 posts)
60. Well when you plan to suppress the vote and cheat, naturally you wouldn't believe you lost. nt
Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 06:09 PM
63. But they were claiming that the Democratic poll margins were exaggerated and misleading! WTF??
Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 06:22 PM
68. Romney and Ryan thought the fix was in...
Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 06:32 PM
Cha (124,514 posts)
70. Excellent Piece, Velveteen Ocelot! Been on my mind, too..
Response to Cha (Reply #70)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 06:50 PM
cally (20,331 posts)
82. I heard a Democrat is in charge of elections in Virginia..nt
Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 06:35 PM
Up2Late (17,760 posts)
71. I'm not surprised at all, just try to listen to RW Talk radio all day, everyday for a month...
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...and you will start to think like them.
It might not even take a month, for most people, it might only take a week to start thinking like them, because they keep repeating their same lies over and over again until it starts to feel like the truth. It's called Brainwashing! 
I'm not just reporting what I heard about RW radio, I was forced to listen to it at two different jobs, one was in Orlando in 1993-1994 and one in Atlanta, 1998-2003. The people listening to this crap at the first job were all low-income Republicans and the second one was the owner of the photo lab I worked at, who paid his staff low wages but drove a Mercedes-Benz to work and his wife drove (alone) a Chevy Suburban. They would turn on these talk radio stations and leave them on all day long at high volume. When I started to feel the brainwashing getting to me, I countered it by turning on NPR, something that did not make me very popular there and probably led to me being the first let go when the business started to decline. I'm sure when most of them got home they would turn on Fox "news" for their evening programming. 
Btw, I was told by my boss with the Mercedes-Benz and the Chevy Suburban that Rush Limpballs told them all to go out and get a Chevy Suburban or some other big-ass SUV back in the late 1990s to get back at us Democrats.   I can't remember what they had labeled us back then. |
Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 06:43 PM
77. And they should have considered that not all of the 53%
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Fri Nov 9, 2012, 07:04 PM
spanone (72,100 posts)
85. them really, really thinking they would win makes the victory all the more sweet
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Fri Nov 9, 2012, 07:10 PM
The Velveteen Ocelot (34,721 posts)
89. It does, doesn't it?
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Response to spanone (Reply #85)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 08:19 PM
Raine (20,175 posts)
100. It sure does, I'm enjoying this
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so much more because of their shock and pain!
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Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 08:01 PM
proud2BlibKansan (96,374 posts)
99. His pollster couldn't have been more wrong.
Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 10:27 PM
107. Since everybody they hang out with
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Fri Nov 9, 2012, 10:35 PM
janx (21,732 posts)
109. I WILL TELL YOU WHY.
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And it didn't work! 
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Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 10:40 PM
DCBob (14,765 posts)
110. I think it was bit like the Emperor has no clothes.
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Sat Nov 10, 2012, 12:44 AM
Son of Gob (1,495 posts)
113. Here's how it went down.
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Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Sat Nov 10, 2012, 09:39 AM
116. He was in the Fox News Bubble.
Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Sat Nov 10, 2012, 10:00 AM
121. They live in an alternate reality.
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Sat Nov 10, 2012, 11:20 AM
B Calm (17,277 posts)
127. They live in a bubble and only hear what they want to hear!
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Sat Nov 10, 2012, 11:25 AM
The Blue Flower (1,833 posts)
129. "Never believe your own PR"
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Sat Nov 10, 2012, 12:27 PM
131. I worked in marketing communications for 20 years at a multiB multinational...
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This was during the time when "you create your own reality" and "perception is reality" were on the rise. The marketing mantra where I worked was "We don't have problems. We only have solutions."
Anybody who dared speak truth about a less than wonderful situation, no matter how fixable the problem was...just to suggest something is not perfect or call it a problem...was immediately labeled "negative," dissed and when the chips were down, dumped. "Houston, we have a problem?" Yeah, they'd be screwed. Rove is a child of that era. He honestly believes that perception is reality and if you control perception, you control everyday reality. If you have enough money, you can do that to an extent...but no further. There is some truth to it...but at a much deeper, less material level. Creating the right mindset leads to right decisions that can lead you to the reality you want to create. It all relates to "be the change you want to see." But there will be setbacks and while you're on the road to your personal reality, you may get run down by a drunk who can't drive to their reality fast enough. So you have to drive carefully and watch where you are going and keep an eye on the other cars that may be headed in a different direction toward a different reality. Anyway, they were abusing a philosophy and turned it into bs, and the bs came back to bite the turd in the butt. Which brings us to karma kickback, aka shit on a boomerang.
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Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Sat Nov 10, 2012, 02:23 PM
judesedit (1,190 posts)
133. They thought they BOUGHT the election with the Kochs, Roves, Adelsons and Trumps of this country. I
Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Sat Nov 10, 2012, 02:29 PM
134. Frank Rich wrote a great article on it:
Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Sat Nov 10, 2012, 03:03 PM
137. I Think....
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" Even if they knew Rove had arranged for some kind of vote-flipping scheme in OH (which might explain his weird behavior when OH was called for Obama),"
...Jon Hustead got scared; after Frittcass (sp) Wassermann started legal action on the illegal patches put on the Ohio voting machines. I think he thought about prison time and decided to cancel the flip, investigative reporters can be hard on cheaters.lol  And so many other states were going Obama, he realized it wouldn't make a difference anyway. |
Response to strange7 (Reply #137)
Sat Nov 10, 2012, 03:39 PM
The Velveteen Ocelot (34,721 posts)
138. I suspect that might have been the case.
Response to The Velveteen Ocelot (Original post)
Sat Nov 10, 2012, 04:10 PM
142. It proves the GOP do not respect math, science and reality
