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bimbocoles

(26 posts)
1. I don't think Romney will win this thing but a teeny tiny part of me
Tue Oct 30, 2012, 12:26 AM
Oct 2012

wishes he would win just so I could watch him fuck the country up so bad that no Republican would get elected again for atleast 8-12 years. He would probably lead us into a war with Iran with his buddy netanyahu.

Blaukraut

(5,693 posts)
4. How did that work out with Bush?
Tue Oct 30, 2012, 12:34 AM
Oct 2012

This country has a short attention span. Bush screwed up the country really bad, and look how fast Americans are ready to give another Repub the old college try, after only allowing a Democrat 4 years to fix the mess. No, if Romney wins, he'll get 8 blissful years to bring down the country, and after that a Dem will get only 4 years (if that) again to try to rebuild.

bimbocoles

(26 posts)
6. I don't know if he would get a 2nd term after starting WW3 with Netanyahu
Tue Oct 30, 2012, 12:45 AM
Oct 2012

Romney has ties to some pretty shady people, just like Bush/Cheney, and there's no better money maker in their eyes than a good 'ol war. Is there anyone that doesn't believe Romney would start or atleast join (with Israel) our country's next big foreign war?

BlueDemKev

(3,003 posts)
14. More like TWO (2) years...remember the 2010 midterms?
Tue Oct 30, 2012, 09:52 AM
Oct 2012

...The public turned against the Democrats so fast during the first 24 months of Obama's presidency. 63 House seats 6 Senate seats lost just 2 years later.

Kablooie

(18,634 posts)
10. They'd say the Democrats were responsible and whoops, we get another Republican.
Tue Oct 30, 2012, 05:58 AM
Oct 2012

Laying justifiable blame on a Republican is nearly impossible.

BlueDemKev

(3,003 posts)
15. Exactly.
Tue Oct 30, 2012, 09:59 AM
Oct 2012

Republicans create a horrific mess, the Democrats are sent in to clean it up and if everything is all fixed within six months, people are all ready to throw the Democrats out. This causes panic among congressional Democrats from swing districts and many stop supporting the president as a result. Not that it matters, because come midterm time the Democrats get slaughtered and lose one (or both) houses of Congress, grinding all progress to a halt.

niyad

(113,302 posts)
3. "if romney wins this thing". . .reminds me of a remark made the night raygun was elected--
Tue Oct 30, 2012, 12:32 AM
Oct 2012

"there isn't enough alcohol in the entire world to make this right"

LeftInTX

(25,314 posts)
8. there isn't enough alcohol in the entire world to make this right
Tue Oct 30, 2012, 02:58 AM
Oct 2012

that's how I felt when Raygun was elected.
that's how I will feel if Romney wins

The Wizard

(12,545 posts)
5. If they steal this one
Tue Oct 30, 2012, 12:39 AM
Oct 2012

The American people won't sit back passively and accept it. Rove could wind up on the end of a rope. Let's hope Obama's numbers are beyond a plausible rigged election.

BlueDemKev

(3,003 posts)
7. I'll work with Romney just as much as Obama's adversaries worked with him...
Tue Oct 30, 2012, 01:34 AM
Oct 2012

...and with the same attitude as well.

TroyD

(4,551 posts)
12. 'He won't win.'
Tue Oct 30, 2012, 07:19 AM
Oct 2012

Hopefully not.

But none of us knows what will happen until a week from tonight.

Anything can happen, and Team Obama needs to be prepared to have the Justice Department and its lawyers keep an eye on electoral theft.

I am seeing reports of thousands of early votes going missing in places like Florida.

 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
11. the second sad thing is that if he is prez, there would never be any actual way you could. Like he
Tue Oct 30, 2012, 07:14 AM
Oct 2012

would 1) come down from his ivory tower and, if he did 2) give a shit what anyone thought. He wouldn't even listen to his own campaign experts when they said 1) Don't pick Ryan or 2) don't expand the beach house with a car elevator since you have a "richy-rich problem"

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