WHOOPIE! Romney Lost the Election TONIGHT!!!

[GOP Congress]

DU THREAD: Mitt Romney Lost The Election Tonight. Original Post by Ikonoklast

OK, cavers. Welcome to Bizarro World, where down is up, right is left, and left is completely out of whack. Ikon claims that even as Webster's Dictionary has revised "P'WND" to show Obama's face in it, that Romney has LOST THE ELECTION. That's like saying that after a boxer winning every round, knocking down the champion every minute, that the refs will lift the arm of the one losing at the end of the fight? Ha ha ha!! So let's take a peek on how the DUmmies spin this utter, utter wipeout. OP. Ikonoklast (Star Member) - Thu Oct 4, 2012 (12:47 am) Original Post - Post Count: 19,281 Mitt Romney Lost The Election Tonight. The ammunition he handed to the Obama campaign was priceless. Mitt was talking so fast I think he actually lost track of what he was actually saying. Wednesday of this week Mitt Romney just contradicted Monday of last week Mitt Romney on live national television. Mitt is going to get hammered in the meanwhile before the next debate with negative ads using his own words against him. I'd be willing to bet that the undecideds are still mostly just that after Mitt's bully boy performance. Give this three days. Mitt will be crowing tomorrow, but give this three days. He'll be eating that crow inside of a week. Yes. Mitt kicks Obama's ass and drags it in the mud and HE's the one eating crow in a week? Try again. 1. CaliforniaPeggy (Star Member) - Thu Oct 4, 2012 (12:48 am) Reply to Ikonoklast (Original post) - Post Count: 98,879 Hope you're right! I'm not feeling it now. Hope and change works. Every time. NOT. 6. gkhouston (Star Member) - Thu Oct 4, 2012 (12:53 am) Reply to CaliforniaPeggy (#1) - Post Count: 17,743 There's video of Romney campaigning for the opposite of things he said tonight. He's just proved himself a liar out of his own mouth.  So, now when he tells us he's being honest about his tax returns and his time at Bain... Romney just publicly torpedoed the last of his credibility for what will probably be a small one-week bounce. OK, so he "lied." Obama was spot on in identifying those "lies," wasn't he? Oh, right... 7. DonRedwood (Moocher) - Thu Oct 4, 2012 (12:53 am) Reply to CaliforniaPeggy (#1) - Post Count: 1,322 Don't forget Miss Peggy, The President is a very cool chess player.  Every time he seems weak, he is setting up a checkmate. Yes, classic strategy. Let yourself get beaten to a pulp. He will never see it coming while you are unconcious on the canvas while the ref is counting you out. 18. Moses2SandyKoufax (Star Member) - Thu Oct 4, 2012 (1:36 am) Reply to freshwest (#14) - Post Count: 724 Who cares? Rush and O'Reilly fans weren't going to vote for the President anyway. The people you mention are a constant in all elections.  We win despite them. LOL... 8. Ikonoklast (Star Member) - Thu Oct 4, 2012 (12:53 am) Reply to CaliforniaPeggy (#1) - Post Count: 19,281 When you are the Challenger, you'll never beat the Champ just trying to stay close on points. It has to be a knockout. Mitt danced around a lot. The best he could do was stay out of range. He didn't really land anything on anyone much, except on Jim Lehrer. This is getting hilirous... Now for the Big Bird PBS Pity Parade...!!! 4. Downwinder (Moocher) - Thu Oct 4, 2012 (12:52 am) Reply to Ikonoklast (Original post) - Post Count: 5,956 I think he will choke on Big Bird. 10. Matariki (Star Member) - Thu Oct 4, 2012 (12:54 am) Reply to Downwinder (#4) - Post Count: 13,824 1 Seriously. Big Bird is gonna haunt him. 27. Indpndnt (Star Member) - Thu Oct 4, 2012 (2:09 am) Reply to Downwinder (#4) - Post Count: 688 Oh, no kidding! Big Bird is trending like mad on Twitter right now! It's hilarious! The one thing people are getting from this debate is that Willard "wants to kill Big Bird!" Ahhh...perhaps you missed THIS one... [youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvnHI1K4cIE[/youtube] OK, enough of the bird. Let's put this in perspective: Kermit went corporate over 30 years ago and got BIG. He got his own hit show, two or three movies, and made tons. Sesame Street is popular enough to become its own network. Hey, if Al Gore and Oprah can do it, why not? Moving on... ah, bitch and moan at the tax rates![/size] 11. RiteWingKing (Moocher) - Thu Oct 4, 2012 (12:56 am) Reply to Ikonoklast (Original post) - Post Count: 1 Let Romney Stand by his words. Lower tax rates for the rich but eliminate tax preferences.  Once that sinks in for many a millionaire that maybe harder to swallow.  I would go for that.  So let's get rid of the mortgage deduction, real estate tax, sales tax, charitable contributions.  These deductions mainly go to the 1%. Oh, back to the "1%" vs "99%"? How's that hope and change and 47% working out for you? 22. BainsBane (Moocher) - Thu Oct 4, 2012 (1:51 am) Reply to RiteWingKing (#11) - Post Count: 27 His staff will walk it back tomorrow As they always do when Romney diverges from the right-wing playbook.  Even his campaign staff have complained the guy says completely different things before different audiences. Yes, our "playbook," AKA the US Constitution. 23. Ikonoklast (Star Member) - Thu Oct 4, 2012 (1:51 am) Reply to lonestarnot (#19) - Post Count: 19,281 Why Mitt and the Republicans think this is a winning issue with the younger than 55 voters is astounding. Like they didn't see or already forgot how hard their IRA's and 401K's got hammered in this recession, and that's exactly what Mitt has in store for them. No guarantees, like Social Security. Right now in this country is the largest generational shift of assets from an older generation to a younger, and the smell of all that money is driving Wall Street mad. They WANT people to go bankrupt due to health insurance woes, they WANT people with no safety net, because they know that they will have to sell off all their assets in order to survive instead of willing them to their children. I forgot exactly who and how it was said it about twenty years ago, but the gist of it was "If you think that those crooks on Wall Street are just going to sit idly by while a trillion dollars worth of wealth is inherited by the next generation of working people and they don't try every trick in the book to try and steal it, you're crazy or stupid." Got news for you...even MTV called Romney the winner! Not to many senior citizens there... 36. Ikonoklast (Star Member) - Thu Oct 4, 2012 (3:14 am) Reply to Scootaloo (#34) - Post Count: 19,281 It's the undecideds he needs, in a big way. And Mitt seems intent on driving them away. Then explain the 67% vs 25% victory Romney "drove away". Hmmmm? 35. Ikonoklast (Star Member) - Thu Oct 4, 2012 (3:09 am) Reply to Scootaloo (#32) - Post Count: 19,281 The trouble is Mitt lost the audience, too. I'd be willing to bet that in three days not one average person who listened to that debate will be able to remember one solid political point made my Romney. But we'll make sure they remember that Mitt wants to kill Big Bird. People will remember THAT one. Yes, do that. Screw the economy. Screw health care. Screw our domestic stability. But let everyone know we killed that damn bird. GO FOR IT. Let's go...

[BlueStateSaint]

Whoever has those moles, great job!

[jtyangel]

I"m so tired of the damn PBS thing.

When all you get on some pages are public school teachers who want to get their hackles raised over Sesame Street, I swear to God there is no hope! Note to teacher friends: Don't be a one-trick pony--this is TOO important and if SS is so important, perhaps the big teacher's union should dip into it's pocketbook and make sure Sesame Street continues to be funded if it's that pathetic that it's hanging by it's last leg--not that it needs to be--I have no doubt it would have no problem competeing in an open market, but it might have to appeal to a broader audience then the inner city set it is set in.

This whole Big Bird thing is where you can tell people let their emotions run ridiculous. I watched SS as a child too and I've seen things over the years I both agree with and disagree with so it has allowed itself in some ways to be used, at the very least, as a current cultural platform, over the years. But taxes to a tv show, in the day and age of cable and that kind of accessibility, is just unnecessary. Perhaps the thing really bothering teachers is they realize if this dinosaur bites the dust, public funding for schools might be next.

And again, I'm not enemy to schools or Big Bird and I happen to love watching Are you being served, but dang it. Come on now!

[Kyle Ricky]

When there were threats of PBS losing funding last year? They were touting that the funding they get from the government is less than a 10th of what they needed. They get the rest from the donations they receive. So let them lose it.

[wasp69]

Election day is going to be simply delicious...

[Cruise]

Election day is going to be simply delicious...

Given the level of delusion displayed by DU on this thread, I can almost see them trying to convince themselves for the next four years that Obama actually won and is still President.

[jukin]

Dennis Miller Tweets were Hilarious last night...and true.  My favorite was:
9h Dennis Miller Show ‏@DennisDMZ
Romney keeps this up Obama's gonna vote for him.

Guttfield was great too:
*This is a businessman, talking business, to a grad student. Obama should be taking notes and asking for an extension.
*Media coddled Captain Precious, and are now sad he got stomped. Sometimes beta males need to fight.
*Romney is killing it. Killing it. Seriously, this is a terrible wedding anniversary.
*Watching MSNBC discuss the debate is like watching the Titanic discuss the iceberg.
*Obama is rolling down a mountain like Homer Simpson hitting every rock along the way.
*I guess prepping with Joy Behar was a mistake.
*Obama is now like a Best Buy employee trying to sell you something he cannot fully explain.

I second that there was a some great moling with lots of irrationality of the flavor "the MSM leans hard right" brought out.

[wasp69]

Given the level of delusion displayed by DU on this thread, I can almost see them trying to convince themselves for the next four years that Obama actually won and is still President.

Why not?  They did just that with Albert Arnold Algore Jr.

[Celtic Rose]

When you consider how much money Sesame Street makes off of its franchise, why on earth should it still need the funding of the government? Are you telling me that with all of their toys, books, etc. Sesame Street wouldn't survive without being broadcast for free?

 With the internet, it would be possible to have all the artsy stuff that PBS shows available for free as well.  They could create a PBS channel on YouTube and broadcast it to their hearts desire. 

[FiddyBeowulf]

OP. Ikonoklast (Star Member) - Thu Oct 4, 2012 (12:47 am)
Original Post - Post Count: 19,281

Mitt Romney Lost The Election Tonight.

The ammunition he handed to the Obama campaign was priceless.

Mitt was talking so fast I think he actually lost track of what he was actually saying.

Wednesday of this week Mitt Romney just contradicted Monday of last week Mitt Romney on live national television.

Mitt is going to get hammered in the meanwhile before the next debate with negative ads using his own words against him.

I'd be willing to bet that the undecideds are still mostly just that after Mitt's bully boy performance.

Give this three days.

Mitt will be crowing tomorrow, but give this three days.

He'll be eating that crow inside of a week.

Three days or three "business" days?

[GOBUCKS]

TL / DR