Wow! Is this the October Surprise?

[TrueAmerican]

Is the October Surprise is that there is no October Surprise?

[olddem43]

1. 10 days left - anything can happen.

[kanrok]

2. Those fuckers have nothing

No Osama and the Dow below 10,000. Bush is toast.

[dave123williams]

3. They have explosives, and no ethics...

Halloween bombing? Nuke goes off in Portland? Nothing would suprise me.

[d_b]

4. Hmm..

Nader endorses Kerry? Bush endorses Kerry? Who knows..

[newyawker99]

9. Hi SidChimaera!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[d_b]

28. Herro!

:-o

[Flammable Materials]

16. And oil prices at an all time high.

Bush should have learned from 9/11 that he couldn't trust the Saudis.

[ochazuke]

5. Timing

Depending on what the surprise is, it would come any time between a day and a week before the election. So, don't exhale just yet.

[AntiCoup2K4]

6. Anything that will happen will happen next weekend

Probably on Halloween.

The key to whatever they do will be to dominate the news cycle with wall to wall 24 hour news coverage, rolling into Tuesday morning 11/1, ensuring that people go to the polls programmed by the hysteria - if they go at all.

Don't let them get away with it! I don't care if an un manned drone with "Property of Al Qaeda LLC" lands in your driveway, get to the fucking polls! Because the Busheep WILL be there, if they have to crawl, hopelessly brainwashed to believe that only an Idiot Son of an Asshole can save them from doooom :scared:

[phish420]

7. Most october surprises occurr within days, not weeks

of an election

[Bucky]

8. It's almost like they're throwing the election.

Did the CIA trump them on some revelation? Did their plans to bag Zarqawi or bin Laden in the last two weeks fizzle? They've got about six days left to spring their October surprise, I think. Rove is turning out to be all bark.

[AmerDem]

10. I think at a minimum Rove will use the

Kerry pissing on the USA flag then burning it. I have no idea what is behind this nonsense but it was talked about a month ago. This happened around the time of the Vietnam protests and some how or another ex repuke congressman Doran (spell?... now in radio) is involved in this mess.

Just throwing it out there for someone to add onto it.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Don't start false rumors even in jest. Rule of Propaganda is push any lie

[AmerDem]

14. what the fuck are you talking about?

This was actually talked about at length here at DU. I brought it up because this has been out there for awhile and to date Rove hasn't brought it out. Considering they would start something like swift Boat Liars and this thread is about October surprises it might be wise to look into it and be prepared.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

32. What is your motive?

[A-Schwarzenegger]

33. Motive? We dont need no steekeen motives.

You do not need a motive to beat a dead rumor.

[Clinton Crusader]

12. there is FILM of this?? HIGHLY unlikely!

I keep seeing:

Iran
bin Laden (tee hee)

I fail to see how invading Iran is a GOOD thing for *. Osama? *yawn* - too late.

:kick:

[AmerDem]

18. actually it was rumored

to have been filmed. Like I said I have no idea what the details are or how the repukes have taken an otherwise uneventful protest and turned it into another one of their great anti American conspiracy theories. I'm sure someone here with more detail on this nonsense will chime in.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

34. Here's more detail on it.

It's pure bullshit. But it spreads smooth as butter.

[AmerDem]

23. here is some more talk on this rumor

Read it for what it's worth. It gives more detail into what this garbage is all about. It does sound like pure nonsense and if something like this did exist you would think they would have used it during the debates to give shrub some lift.

Anyway here is the link:

http://forums.santacruzsentinel.com/cgi-bin/forums/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=001545




edit... I can't seem to get the link to work. the address is breaking

[demwing]

25. If Robert "B1 Bob" Dornan is behind it

you can be sure its complete bullshit.

[AmerDem]

26. yes it is Dornan

It was Dornan who apparently said he had watched the film. The guy is a complete crack pot.

[bushwakker]

13. They're gonna knock off the old man

Bush I will be sacrificed in hopes of generating sympathy for the wastrel son.

[Dob Bole]

15. Wait five days, and we'll see.

nt

[seabeyond]

17. surprise.....bah h aha n/t

[liberal N proud]

19. McCain will replace Dickless on the ticket

Due to dickless' health it will be decided that he will assume a less stressful job other than puppet master and they will put McCain on the ticket and that will bring all the stray birds back into the flock.

[geekgrrl]

27. ugh what a terrible thought

b/c that might actually sway swing voters. And Mccain has always creeped me out.

I am carrying extra stress (on top of my usual grad student thesis stress) this week wondering about the the october surprise.

[IronLionZion]

20. I thought the CIA was going to release their own surprise against Bush

maybe they foiled each other?

link to DUer Raul Groom's article on it: http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/03/10/10_spark.html

[annabanana]

21. They're best chance of a "surprise" now is....

The degree of disruption at the polls. Republican "poll-watchers" challenging the residency, or age etc. of those actually showing up to vote.

(unless something in Minn/St.Paul blows up on halloween)

[tuvor]

22. Bono had an October surprise. n/t

[Snow]

24. The Wolf ad might be one of the surprises.....

if you listen to the BC04 line, the talk is that they showed the ad to focus groups and so on some months ago, and the effect was so powerful they decided to hold it back until now.

[Bucky]

35. Maybe they recruited the focus groups from BC04 rallies.

This really doesn't fit the definition of an October surprise. It's got to be news from the real world--which is an area that our current leaders seem to have trouble navigating.

[shawmut]

29. Sinclair

Just days after KKKarl Rove told Sean Hannity that he had some tricks up his sleeve, the Sinclair story broke.


I believe that was their October surprise.

[tinrobot]

30. Too late

Voting has already started. They've already lost a good percentage of the vote in the swing states.

I think it was Sinclair.

[Yunaleska]

31. A lot of early voting

Is occuring only in non-swing states. Texas, for instance.