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movonne

(9,623 posts)
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 05:17 PM Oct 2012

I am getting very nervous about this election...the thought of

romeny winning makes me sick...when bush won the election I was depressed for months....I knew they would screw this country up and they did it in a big way...and romney will do it on steroids...this country will go to the corporations and we will probably never get it back again...God why can't the majority of this country see what's coming..

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I am getting very nervous about this election...the thought of (Original Post) movonne Oct 2012 OP
Breathe... it aint over till it's over! whttevrr Oct 2012 #1
Sheriff Arpaio’s Police State of Arizona under fire in U.S. 9th Cir. Court scottx1 Oct 2012 #2
How is this related to the OP??? n/t gkhouston Oct 2012 #20
Elections in Arizona - Sheriff Arpaio scottx1 Oct 2012 #31
in 2000 I was in England Skittles Oct 2012 #3
My fear is that they will steal it, cause in a fair fight Romney does not stand a chance. teddy51 Oct 2012 #4
I agree they will steal it...if they win...that is why the polls are movonne Oct 2012 #7
From all the dirt they have flung so far there is nothing left to surprise anyone. lumpy Oct 2012 #10
After the Supreme Court stopped the vote count in Florida, madaboutharry Oct 2012 #5
never give up! hrmjustin Oct 2012 #6
You are right... rebuke Oct 2012 #29
PLEASE use all that energy to help expose Romney to the media Democratopia Oct 2012 #8
The polls are coming back in Obama's favor. Gallop is being discredited. wisteria Oct 2012 #9
I hear you and feel just exactly like you do. onecent Oct 2012 #11
Here's what I think. If Romney wins, the world will upaloopa Oct 2012 #12
You know? The sad thing about this is you could be right. onecent Oct 2012 #15
If always thought the same thing PlanetBev Oct 2012 #21
Maybe Romney is testing the waters.... rebuke Oct 2012 #30
First, we are going to win. However, if things don't turn out we all need to flow still_one Oct 2012 #13
Some welcome corporate rule Floyd_Gondolli Oct 2012 #14
The myth of the benevolent corporation. As if the number one goal wasn't really profit. Ridiculous! MatthewStLouis Oct 2012 #32
I know exactly how you feel. hamsterjill Oct 2012 #16
I agree txdemsftw Oct 2012 #19
Go cry elsewhere. We're busy reelecting Barack Obama here. MjolnirTime Oct 2012 #17
I don't think I was crying...and I am also busy reelecting Obama...I love him.. movonne Oct 2012 #27
The OP isn't crying... awoke_in_2003 Oct 2012 #28
i feel the same way. DesertFlower Oct 2012 #18
Use that nervous energy and GOTV. :) Liberal_Stalwart71 Oct 2012 #22
Just keep working...dont pay attention to polls davidn3600 Oct 2012 #23
Just think of who Romney would appoint to his cabinet to please his base..... FrenchieCat Oct 2012 #24
I can't get my head around it either. Frumious B Oct 2012 #25
Things are looking pretty good, at least as I see them NHDEMFORLIFE Oct 2012 #26
 

scottx1

(5 posts)
2. Sheriff Arpaio’s Police State of Arizona under fire in U.S. 9th Cir. Court
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 05:19 PM
Oct 2012

Arpaio’s thugs take the Arizona police state to a new, very criminal, high.

Sworn court papers have been filed in two cases pending before the high federal appellate court in San Francisco detailing Arizona law enforcement’s willingness to engage in serious felonies to assist the Sheriff’s friends and to silence Arpaio critics. Arizona police have issued threats against civil litigation to protect Arpaio’s closest friend and top advisor (Justin Michael Nelson) from civil litigation – AKA Police Obstruction of Justice and Police Federal Civil Rights Crimes. (18 U.S.C. §§ 241, 242) Arizona police have conspired with Dignity Health of San Francicso to silence a well-known critic of Arpaio via violence – YES, attempted murder to be exact, now being covered up by Arpaio police state stooges. Sensational stuff, but, all on the appellate record, sworn and undisputed.

Situation normal for Arizona, official felony crimes against the justice system and official crimes of violence to assist Arpaio and Arpaio’s cronies by threatening critics and foisting police sponsored violence against those in the “cross-hairs” of Arpaio’s Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO). Those with a knowledge of Arizona law enforcement and government should not be a surprised as to how the Arizona police state operates. The bold criminal conduct of police caught in these cases reveals the state of lawlessness existing in Arizona whereby law enforcement doesn’t even bother to cover-up their crimes satisfactorily. It is truly anything goes concerning police misconduct and outright police crime in Arizona.

See

http://www.scribd.com/doc/110442436/Arpaio-inspired-AZ-Police-Crimes-Sworn-9th-cir-Court-Filing

+ Scott Huminski

 

scottx1

(5 posts)
31. Elections in Arizona - Sheriff Arpaio
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 06:45 PM
Oct 2012

Relevant to elections in Arizona - and Arpaio winning easily. Nervous?

Skittles

(152,964 posts)
3. in 2000 I was in England
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 05:20 PM
Oct 2012

when Brits learned I lived in Texas, they would ask me what I thought of George W. Bush. I told them he will be your worst nightmare - endless war and a crashed economy. From Romney I imagine even worse.

 

teddy51

(3,491 posts)
4. My fear is that they will steal it, cause in a fair fight Romney does not stand a chance.
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 05:21 PM
Oct 2012

I think his minions such as Rove and others are hard at work trying to come up with the details on how to steal this election.

movonne

(9,623 posts)
7. I agree they will steal it...if they win...that is why the polls are
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 05:24 PM
Oct 2012

over the place....setting us up for a steal...

lumpy

(13,704 posts)
10. From all the dirt they have flung so far there is nothing left to surprise anyone.
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 05:25 PM
Oct 2012

The bastards suceeded in sitting Geo.W. in the drivers seat using the dirty tricks the GOP is famous for.

madaboutharry

(40,150 posts)
5. After the Supreme Court stopped the vote count in Florida,
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 05:23 PM
Oct 2012

I felt like it was a coup and was angry for a very long time. After 2004, I also was depressed for months. Watching all those neocons like Dan Senor and Ari Fleischer on television for all those years damaged my health! Mitt is surrounded by these same people. If he wins, it will be a disaster.

I don't understand how anyone could think going back to this cabal is good for this country.

 

Democratopia

(552 posts)
8. PLEASE use all that energy to help expose Romney to the media
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 05:24 PM
Oct 2012

Please go to this thread to see something you could do that would only take five minutes and could generate a big impact:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251152860

 

wisteria

(19,581 posts)
9. The polls are coming back in Obama's favor. Gallop is being discredited.
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 05:25 PM
Oct 2012

And, that is the only one where it isn't close. All indicator are President Obama should win this. Don't let anyone think you are fearful.

onecent

(6,096 posts)
11. I hear you and feel just exactly like you do.
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 05:26 PM
Oct 2012

I am pushing 70 yrs old and I have NEVER seen such lying, thieving anchors and hateful people
and it is so sad to see our country crumble when things were going quite well when Clinton was in office.

Hell the Repubs tried to "impeach" him....shit...LOOK at him now.....he's a MASTER. I will be calmer when all this is over.

upaloopa

(11,417 posts)
12. Here's what I think. If Romney wins, the world will
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 05:27 PM
Oct 2012

learn a lesson like they did in the 1930's.
A new age of caring will come about in the world where stakeholders will be more important than stockholders.
But there will be a lot of pain and suffering before and not everyone will survive.
It may be we have to go through a cleansing of the mind before we learn.

onecent

(6,096 posts)
15. You know? The sad thing about this is you could be right.
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 05:28 PM
Oct 2012

We are stretching everything to the max. our planet...our budgets....our discipline and our family values aren't like they used to be....

PlanetBev

(4,098 posts)
21. If always thought the same thing
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 05:48 PM
Oct 2012

Since we don't teach history and civics in school, this country is awash in ignorance. We might have to live it to understand it. This is nothing more than another Gilded Age.

rebuke

(56 posts)
30. Maybe Romney is testing the waters....
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 06:11 PM
Oct 2012

"I would have made a good Pope."
- Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994)

still_one

(91,947 posts)
13. First, we are going to win. However, if things don't turn out we all need to flow
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 05:27 PM
Oct 2012

With the punches

We can only control what we do

Most likely if the unthinkable happens, it will be a worse replay of bush since most of the people on Romneys team are bush people

Why people may not realize that is beyond me

We just have to fight longer

In all seriousness though the issues are on our side

The republicans really did declare war on women, and they will lose because of that

 

Floyd_Gondolli

(1,277 posts)
14. Some welcome corporate rule
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 05:27 PM
Oct 2012

Keep in mind there is a large swath of our population that greatly admires wealth. There is also a large swath that thinks they can achieve that too. Some can, and will, but most are dreamers who lack the intellectual capacity to actually do it.

The family that owns my company is wealthy beyond belief and for whatever reason many employees here admire them greatly and treat them with respect that they frankly don't deserve while others like me see them for the cretins that they are.



hamsterjill

(15,214 posts)
16. I know exactly how you feel.
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 05:31 PM
Oct 2012

I have to remind myself to remain calm. I literally wake up from a sound sleep from the thought of Romney as President. It's because I had to live through George Bush, first as governor and then as President. It's some kind of post traumatic stress, I think. (Not trying to diminish the effect of REAL PTSD, either, but think this is along the same lines).

All we can do and all that we MUST do is to turn out the votes. Like you, I am bumfuzzled that reasonably intelligent people, especially WOMEN, cannot see Romney for what he truly is - a liar, a thief, and an egomaniac.

txdemsftw

(461 posts)
19. I agree
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 05:44 PM
Oct 2012

This election makes me very nervous and I also had to live with GWB as governor and Pres (now that slime ball Rick Perry, ugh) and fear Romney would be much, much worse.

BUT, I have a good feeling about this...November 6th can't get here soon enough.

movonne

(9,623 posts)
27. I don't think I was crying...and I am also busy reelecting Obama...I love him..
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 06:00 PM
Oct 2012

but a little afraid...sorry if you thought I was crying..

 

davidn3600

(6,342 posts)
23. Just keep working...dont pay attention to polls
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 05:50 PM
Oct 2012

Polls will swing around all over the place. You will look like you have bi-polar disorder if you base your day off them. Just keep looking forward.

FrenchieCat

(68,867 posts)
24. Just think of who Romney would appoint to his cabinet to please his base.....
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 05:54 PM
Oct 2012

Now, that thought is what is super motivating to go all out GOTV!

Frumious B

(312 posts)
25. I can't get my head around it either.
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 05:54 PM
Oct 2012

It makes me sick to my core to think that Romney is even within spitting distance of winning this thing. The guy is such a total hack and a fraud. I hope that enough of the electorate come to see that clearly enough to not make such a horrible mistake.

NHDEMFORLIFE

(489 posts)
26. Things are looking pretty good, at least as I see them
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 05:58 PM
Oct 2012

Screw the polls. Once again, all of the little, sidelight stories are exposing Romney as the mean-spirited, arrogant piss-pot that he is. Specifically, I refer to the story about his idiot son wanting to punch the President. Thank you, Tagg (where do they get these names?) for keeping you daddy's penchant for lying as easily as we little people breathe.
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
I'd bet the ranch that Willard will go into the final debate feeling the heat and will say something incredibly stupid, which could finish him off.

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