Eight Fucking Years, People.

[NYC_SKP]

In Case You're Thinking "There's NO WAY We'd Ever Elect a Moran like Mitt"... :

Think again:



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NEVER AGAIN.

[Ishoutandscream2]

1. And lord, those were 8 very long years

Please, never again!

[GoCubsGo]

14. Some of us are still suffering from them.

Those eight years devastated me financially, and pretty much killed my career. If Rmoney wins, I might as well just slit my wrists and be done with it. And, I'm sure he and his ilk would be just fine with that.

[teddy51]

2. First of all I don't think he was elected in the first place, my sences tell me they stole

the 2000 election with the help of SCOTUS. But yeah, It could happen again by virtue of the Repugs buying/stealing it for Romney.

[Art_from_Ark]

5. His brother was governor of the crucial state

His campaign co-chair was in charge of counting votes in that state.
Republican operatives from out-of-state physically shut-down the vote-counting at Miami-Dade.
A judge who was later invited (and accepted, until word got out) to a freeper event in South Carolina, made the Democrats waste 3 days of valuable time loading up trucks of ballots and transporting them to Tallahassee, only to refuse to look at the ballots once they arrived.
A "justice" on the US Supreme Court who was a duck-hunting buddy of one of the plaintiffs and who was appointed to the court while another plaintiff's father was Vice President, agreed to accept the case after the Florida State Supreme Court had ruled that all the votes had to be counted.
Not surprising, the "justice", as well as 4 of his cohorts (including one who expressed dismay at a potential Gore victory because she might have to delay her retirement by at least 4 years), ruled in favor of the plaintiff.

If this had happened in any other country in the world, Americans would say that that election was rife with fraud.

[DCBob]

3. Its mind-boggling some on left seem to have forgotten what it was like under the Bush/Cheney regime.

In fact, a President Romney could be even worse... he can be totally manipulated by RW forces and he will enjoy every minute of it.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

7. Forgot? No. We had unprosecuted war criminals, endless Middle-East wars, an open Gitmo,

tax-cuts for the rich, spying upon all Americans, TSAs, more manufacturing jobs transferred to foreign countries, bailouts for the banksters, no serious investigation of voting machine fraud, ...

Oh yea, if Rmoney is somehow elected, he will return to such policies or make them worse.

[Alexander]

4. Not elected either time.

[handmade34]

6. I will do everything

I humanly can to work for the re-election of Pres. Obama... that said, I have a vague feeling that the real heads of the Republican Party will force Romney out because he is so toxic and we will have another Republican Presidential Candidate... someone new that will excite people but not give them enough time to learn the truth about him (the new candidate)

[Rosanna Lopez]

11. They're stuck with Romney

They can't change their nominee now - it's too late. They have him for good or for ill. He may be flawed, but he's still in contention, and raising a record amount of money. No one else could raise that much.

And changing nominees half-way through the election would be basically conceding defeat - it just doesn't happen, at least not in modern times that I know of. Afterall, the Republicans knew in 1996 that Bob Dole was going to lose to Clinton and didn't change him, did they?

[DCKit]

13. That would be Jeb Bush.

You and I are on the same page with that scenario.

[RedStateLiberal]

8. When people claim it makes no difference who the president is...

...I have to wonder if they've completely forgotten about the absolute disaster that was Dubya.

[flamingdem]

10. I think they have somehow

It's a mystery!

[SoFlaJet]

15. And Grover Norquist's Stated Qualifications

for a republican president are quite shocking:

As stated by Grover Norquist at CPAC.

“All we have to do is replace Obama,” Norquist stated. “We are not auditioning for fearless leader. We don’t need a president to tell us in what direction to go. We know what direction to go. We want the Ryan budget. We just need a president to sign this stuff. We don’t need someone to think it up or design it. The leadership now for the modern conservative movement for the next 20 years will be coming out of the House and the Senate.


Pick a Republican with enough working digits to handle a pen to become President of the United States. This is a change for Republicans: the House and Senate doing the work with the president signing bills. His job is to be captain of the team, to sign the legislation that has already been prepared.”

[flamingdem]

9. Thanks for the reminder

gak

[Kablooie]

12. Yep. America loves to play mean jokes on the world.

And on themselves.

Romney has a long history of mean jokes and would be perfect being one himself.

And we'd get to look at his face next to Washington, Lincoln and FDR for the rest of our lives.

Wheee!

[Gidney N Cloyd]

16. I'll always feel like a decade of my life was stolen.

Between the Bush years and the post-bush mop-up.

Stolen. Fucking stolen.