My Conciliatory Message to Republicans on Obama Winning Reelection
November 6th, 2012 by Erik Loomis
[SL]: I don’t always watch Fox News. But when I do, it’s after MSNBC has called the tipping point state.
…[SL] Karl Rove is complaining that the election was prematurely called. Karl Rove. Swear to God.
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Dr.KennethNoisewater:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:19 pm
I would like to echo those sentiments.
bob_is_boring:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:21 pm
If only there was a pithy internet tradition-abbreviation wherein I could express my outright, verbally articulated laughter in three short letters.
blonde lady on Fox News:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:21 pm
but it is only because Obama unfairly attack Romney
and bailed out the auto industry. Damn you Ohio.
Uncle Ebeneezer:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:22 pm
Woot! Woot!
Corey:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:23 pm
So, is it OK to criticize him now? Because fuck drones and fuck silence on climate change.
Joshua:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:23 pm
I know it’s not much for them in the grand scheme of things, but I am so glad that all these rich fucks burned ~$550 million and couldn’t get their man in office.
LeeEsq:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:23 pm
Hip, hip, hooray.
norbizness:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:24 pm
(GOP lies unconscious, twitching on the ground)
Milhous: Hey, I think that they’re becoming a marginalized, regional party with no future demographic or electoral prospects.
Nelson: I *said* “Ha-ha”
Njorl:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:24 pm
Mostly, I’m glad that all those pundits who took shots at Nate Silver have to retire now.
Erik Loomis:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:25 pm
One huge story is how Citizens United made no difference at all in the presidential election. Downballot I think it is very different. But the idea that the rich can buy elections through commercials seems wrong. I think that people just tune out after x number of ads.
Uncle Ebeneezer:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:25 pm
Imagine all the people crying in their pancakes…
Manju:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:25 pm
You should add another “Ha” for me. This Republican voted for Obama.
Clearly I was induced to vote against my own interests by the Dems exploitation of social issues…like their criticism of various Repubican pro-rape positions.
You really got me.
SEK:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:25 pm
I wonder what our overconfident trolls will make of this turn of events?
That’s right, we’ll never see them again.
parrot:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:26 pm
silver!
Malaclypse:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:26 pm
I feel every bit as happy as I did when this happened.
joe from Lowell:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:26 pm
Throw all of the money they spend on Senate races, too. They thought they were buying a Republican Senate.
Manju:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:27 pm
I’m going to withhold judgement until UnSkewed Polls dot com weighs in.
SEK:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:27 pm
I have the sudden urge to collect all of his/her predictions and weave a tapestry of wrong out of them.
props:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:28 pm
state initiatives seem like the best bang for your plutocratic dollar
Dr.KennethNoisewater:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:29 pm
May I add a somber “suck my ass”?
Barry Freed:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:29 pm
Thank god. Though I suppose Obama is going to go celebrate with a couple of drone strikes.
djw:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:30 pm
30 million dollars of very rich people’s money dumped into the giant black hole that is Josh Mandel. Tell me again about how Rove is a genius?
elm:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:30 pm
Karl Rove refuses to accept that Ohio should have been called, even though Fox themselves have called it. Very entertaining to hear the rest of Fox News respond to him.
Hogan:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:31 pm
We got you so you don’t know what you’re doin.
Malaclypse:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:31 pm
He skimmed 10%.
Warren Terra:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:31 pm
Also legislators, school regulators, and especially judges, where state laws permit. One of the shocking lessons of watching Dubya and learning about his Texas was just how crazy his state supreme court had gotten.
NBarnes:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:33 pm
This is great news!
For John McCain!
Murc:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:33 pm
So what’s everyone drinking?
I’ve got some Waupoos here. It’s a Canadian hard cider, very good; crisp, with a strong but pleasing aftertaste. Can’t actually buy it down here, I brought it back from my last drip there.
What all else is everyone throwing back?
Warren Terra:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:33 pm
tonight’s results will certainly have to affect their projections.
bob_is_boring:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:34 pm
Point.
Malaclypse:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:35 pm
Fox now saying the real message of the election is the need for Democrats to reach across the aisle.
I’m thinking more along the lines of burning the Republican party to the ground, and salting the Old Confederacy with the ashes. I think I like my real message better.
Erik Loomis:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:36 pm
CNN is basically saying the same thing.
elm:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:36 pm
Oh, jeez, Fox News decides that they should interview their “Decision Desk” because Rove is angry. Well and good. But the Desk is down the hall, and the male anchor says that he needs to “escort” the female down the stairs so she doesn’t fall.
Malaclypse:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:37 pm
Ipswich Ale 5-Mile IPA – all ingredients harvested within 5 miles of my local brewery.
Barry Freed:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:37 pm
What is good in life?
Scott Lemieux:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:38 pm
The 18-year-old Jefferson’s Farley bought for a wedding gift. My better half has some Finger Lakes Distilling Maple Liqueur.
SEK:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:38 pm
Here’s what commenters are saying at conservative websites:
Goats are the answer. Also:
Yes, you can.
Only everything. But thank you for playing.
Who’s a sore loser? Who is? Who is?
elm:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:40 pm
Courvoisier VSOP. The Frenchiness is my special “Ha ha!” to the Republicans.
dougR:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:41 pm
Yeah, the thing I was REALLY concerned about was Republican voter intimidation efforts–which got lots of play going into Nov 6, but on the actual day, a nothingburger. (Election thugs have to be trained, housed, fed and transported, and someone has to pay for it!) But I surfed the usual-suspect lefty blogs for reports of any real R-thug presence at polling places, and pretty much didn’t find it. Makes me wonder if the vast tidal waves of Republican cash this election season encouraged stupid, nonproductive expenditure at many levels–it would thrill me no end to find out that all the right-wing crackpot money was basically lit on fire and had negligible effect overall.
Malaclypse:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:41 pm
This proves we are a center-right nation, or some such horseshit.
Hogan:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:42 pm
Bulleit Rye and Lagunitas IPA, for complicated reasons. Cheers.
Uncle Ebeneezer:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:45 pm
Twice jealous. Nursing a head cold so I can’t drink, and they don’t sell Ipswich Ale out here in SoCal. Have a drink for me.
dougR:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:45 pm
As did Norah O’Donnell, moments after NBC called it for Obama–gosh, it’s now more important than ever for everyone in Washington to work together to do something about the terrible fiscal cliff!!! EEEk!!!! (My contempt for these fatuous assholes knows no bounds.)
Bill Murray:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:46 pm
BiB?
Mike Piotrowski:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:46 pm
Blantons, neat.
Bill Murray:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:47 pm
well it’s not like the Dems didn’t spend a crap load of money too
Murc:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:48 pm
God dammit Scott, two posts in and you win the thread. Give everyone else a chance.
And really, the jewel in Finger Lakes Distilling crown is their Seneca Gin. It’s perfect for martinis; the secret is you leave out the olive, because the gin itself does all the work for you.
Bill Murray:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:48 pm
Sarah Palin the new favorite for 2016
Hogan:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:48 pm
Oh yes you are! Oh yes you are!
Warren Terra:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:51 pm
Well, the dress code for female presenters on Fox News is not exactly practical. Maybe her heels are especially vertiginous?
Bill Murray:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:51 pm
Purging is at last at hand. Day of Doom is here. All that is evil, all their allies; your parents, your leaders, those who would call themselves your judges; those who have lied and corrupted the Earth, they shall all be cleansed.
SEK:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:52 pm
Goldstein’s Twitter account is worth reading tonight. Especially when he gets all tough and threatens the people who unfollow him.
Scott Lemieux:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:53 pm
Makes a great G&T too. And a Mackenzie Rye manhattan, outstanding.
Warren Terra:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:53 pm
Like chickens can be trained to care for goats.
Dr.KennethNoisewater:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:53 pm
Who needs wine when you’ve got whine?
SEK:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:55 pm
After they unfollow him, so they never see the Big Man’s Big Threatening Words.
Pee Cee:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:56 pm
So, is it wrong of me to enjoy the collective freak out of all those wingnuts on Facebook that just happened to go to the same high school as I did?
Because if that’s wrong, I don’t want to be right…
Reilly:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:57 pm
Karl Rove’s on Fox claiming that Ohio may not go to Obama. He’s got his own math. And Romney’s people are not conceding Ohio, no doubt having been in communication with Rove.
somethingblue:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:58 pm
Which Democrat will be the first to agree, and on which Sunday morning talk show?
I’m going to go with Tim Kaine on Meet The Press.
Pee Cee:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:58 pm
To crush the Republicans, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the wingnuts.
Stan Gable:
November 6th, 2012 at 11:59 pm
WRONG!!! – Conan, what is best in life?
Rhino:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:00 am
2005 vosne romanee, and toting with a slightly elderly colston and bassett Stilton. Oh and I have a still pic of Grayson smirking on the iMac.
Life is good.
Morbo:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:00 am
I am looking forward to lots of schadenfreude tomorrow. Our house district is still too close to call, but fingers crossed on that one.
Murc:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:01 am
I’m having some trouble finding clear reporting on it, but various people are telling me that a slim majority of Puerto Ricans voted to reject their current status quo with the US, and that an overwhelming majority are saying that if the status quo does change, it should be in favor of statehood.
Nothing is certain, of course, but the Union might be expanding for the first time in over fifty years.
Unless I’m wrong on this. Having trouble running down hard numbers.
Major Kong:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:02 am
To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, to hear the lamentations of their women.
*Note – Conan was actually quoting Genghis Khan
Nathan of Perth:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:02 am
Coca-cola cause its 1pm and a bit early to sneak a Toohey’s out of the work fridge.
Barry Freed:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:02 am
Is he threatening to slap them with his dick?
Brien Jackson:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:03 am
Fuck and Yes.
sparks:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:03 am
So, no real cockslapping, just cockwhiffing.
Barry Freed:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:05 am
Please SEK, more like this. I’ve got to get my gloat on.
Malaclypse:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:06 am
Done and done. And I do mean done.
Hogan:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:07 am
Thing is, I don’t feel like “WE’VE WON!!” as much as JG et al. feel like “WE’VE LOST!!”, and JG et al. will never believe or understand why that is.
sparks:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:08 am
One of my closest friends from college is now a full on headsplitting screeching wingnut. She hasn’t even managed a muted sob. Just silence.
Murc:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:12 am
Coca-cola is Australian slang for… what now?
Some sort of hard liquor you distill out of rocks and kangaroo livers?
Brien Jackson:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:12 am
Yuengling. Lots and lots of Yuengling.
SEK:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:18 am
OK:
Erik Loomis:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:19 am
I’d love to bring Puerto Rican statehood in front of a Republican House. No racism in that debate, none at all.
J.W. Hamner:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:20 am
Yay for The Maths defeating Peggy Noonan’s arbitrary sampling of lawn signs and psychic communion with an imaginary electorate!
Stan Gable:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:21 am
I liked the direction Pee Cee took below: “To crush the wingnutes, see them driven before you and to hear the lamentations of Karl Rove.”
Malaclypse:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:21 am
Why vote for the Accountants In The Green Visors when you can vote for NEVERLAND!
Speaking as an accountant in a green visor, tax cuts for the wealthy are a shitty strategy for growth. If your mileage varies, that means your mileage is wrong.
Rob:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:22 am
The chances Republicans would let Puerto Rico in are between zero and zilch. Unless you get a East and West Dakota thrown in as well.
Malaclypse:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:23 am
God, if you let this happen, I will take back everything I’ve said about you over the years.
Reilly:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:23 am
What? There’s a Fox anchor who isn’t balanced?
shah8:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:25 am
I wonder which of my expensive teas I should drink…
wjts:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:26 am
Victory Headwaters Pale Ale.
Nathan Williams:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:27 am
Suntory Yamazaki 12-year .
SEK:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:27 am
More?
Or:
There are some very fertile fields out there, in which “centrists” like the GOP frolic with minorities who don’t want to open small businesses.
spencer:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:28 am
Please oh please.
timb:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:29 am
Lets hope the EPA fixes the latter in the next year
brewmn:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:29 am
And NPR spent all evening making the point that Obama will win by a smaller margin than in 2008, so apparently his re-election is a complete repudiation of his entire first term, as well as his campaign platform in 2012.
spencer:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:29 am
Applejack and ginger ale.
What?
brewmn:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:30 am
Try Claire McCaskill in her victory speech tonight.
Malaclypse:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:32 am
Due to demographics and our persistent cultural changes, the GOP will never again win a national election.
From his mouth to god’s ear.
DrDick:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:33 am
My own sentiments are, “Suck. On. This!”
DrDick:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:36 am
Seconded!
Malaclypse:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:37 am
Every two to four years, we need to pick up some shitty political party and throw it up against a wall.
Eli Rabett:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:37 am
Right now Harry Reid should be calling up Mitch McConnell and telling him, either you clear all the appointments hanging fire before Jan 1, or we kill the filibuster in the new Senate.
DrDick:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:37 am
Their bitter tears are like the sweetest nectar to my lips, their lamentations like the chorus of angels.
DrDick:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:38 am
Some Black Bush that I have been saving for a special occasion.
DrDick:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:39 am
Well, they could reach across the aisle and beat the Goopers to a bloody pulp.
Colin:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:41 am
Hah?
Taj Mahalo:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:44 am
Veuve Clicquot Brut. Tasty.
spencer:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:45 am
In what alternate universe is the GOP inching toward the left?
Dave3544:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:46 am
Deschutes Jubelale.
Colin:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:49 am
Thirded.
Colin:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:51 am
My parents are in Ohio, and this was exactly what happened not just among them, but (as they tell it) among many of their friends of different partisan stripes. Everybody was sick of the ads, and just tuned them out and voted the same way they would have with or without ads. The PAC funding didn’t change a damn thing for presidential choices. It may matter in other types of races down the road, and I expect those funding PACs to try to make things more “assured” for their own interests in the future. But tonight….this is good news.
SEK:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:52 am
Even more?
If you didn’t guess that was Jeff, you’ve wasted less of your life than I have.
SEK:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:53 am
Will do on the morrow. Have a concession speech to watch now.
Taj Mahalo:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:53 am
Only if Harry Reid is planning to screw McConnell and get rid of the filibuster anyhow.
Murc:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:54 am
Can he deliver on that?
I dislike much about Reid, but one of his more endearing qualities is that he doesn’t write checks his ass can’t cash. Unless he has 51 firm votes on that, I can’t see him making the threat.
SEK:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:55 am
Help a brother out, though: list all the names s/he’s posted under. Otherwise I’m going to have to slog aimlessly through thousands upon thousands of comments.
jamie_2002:
November 7th, 2012 at 1:03 am
Glenlivet Nadurra
Sweet as a Romney concession, strong as an Obama acceptance
Nathan of Perth:
November 7th, 2012 at 1:06 am
Brew made from iron ore fines and sheep gizzards if you must know.
Scott Lemieux:
November 7th, 2012 at 1:07 am
Ah, the nectar of the Irish.
Holden Pattern:
November 7th, 2012 at 1:07 am
Rove is not a genius, and anyone who ever said he was is a fool. He’s a sociopath who is able to exploit the giant, grift-laden machine that is movement conservative politics.
Holden Pattern:
November 7th, 2012 at 1:11 am
However, you can’t say that Tim Kaine represents the Dem leadership… except for those years he ran the DNC.
Walt:
November 7th, 2012 at 1:13 am
Let me be the first to say “Bookmark it, libtards!”
Nathan of Perth:
November 7th, 2012 at 1:15 am
Best wishes to all of you who will be victory dancing into work tomorrow.
Both Sides Do It:
November 7th, 2012 at 1:16 am
ohmygod it’s happening, the worst fever dreams from the conservative swamp are coming true:
there are VUVUZELAS at Obama’s campaign headquarters
America truly is a changed nation, forever
they tried to warn us but we didn’t listen
why oh why didn’t we listen
DocAmazing:
November 7th, 2012 at 1:17 am
St. George’s Absinthe with a tiny bit of water to make it cloudy. If I’m gonna be disillusioned, they’re going to have been interesting illusions.
Bill Murray:
November 7th, 2012 at 1:18 am
she made up for it with extra fairness
CD:
November 7th, 2012 at 1:23 am
Can we just get on with the gay sharia now?
wengler:
November 7th, 2012 at 1:29 am
Somewhat related, Brown Shugah by Lagunitas.
It packs a punch at 9.9.
Calle 13:
November 7th, 2012 at 1:34 am
Mitt Romney drogadicto con cara de idiota
Ganarme esos Grammy’s fue como venirme en tu boca
Eres corrupto tú lo sabes yo no me chupo el dedo
Tienes cara de narcotraficante con miedo
Scott Lemieux:
November 7th, 2012 at 1:35 am
Frankly, I think Victoria Jackson has him beat.
Jameson Quinn:
November 7th, 2012 at 1:35 am
This will be better than when I win the prediction contest.
rea:
November 7th, 2012 at 1:43 am
“To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women-haters…”
John:
November 7th, 2012 at 1:54 am
Only 10%?
Jeremy:
November 7th, 2012 at 1:54 am
Whine is too sweet for my taste.
DocAmazing:
November 7th, 2012 at 1:59 am
Neverland was already sold to pay Michael Jackson’s debts, anyway.
Jeremy:
November 7th, 2012 at 2:12 am
Early Grey tea, seeing as it’s 4pm in Tokyo. I’ll be having whatever goes well with oysters.
Warren Terra:
November 7th, 2012 at 2:24 am
You can maybe accelerate things by searching for mentions of pancakes and other delicious breakfast foodstuffs.
Corey:
November 7th, 2012 at 2:24 am
You can find results on this page if you read Spanish.
Looks like you’re right – most voted against the status quo (“¿De acuerdo con mantener la condición política territorial actual?”) and then of those voters, most voted for statehood (“Opciones de estatus/Estadiad”).
The resolution isn’t binding on the US government obviously, but it will presumably trigger the introduction of a bill to admit PR as the 51st state.
Nik:
November 7th, 2012 at 2:26 am
Harpoon of all types. Granted, I’m working the night shift there, so have access to the tanks.
Walt:
November 7th, 2012 at 2:31 am
Obama should have gone all-in and had them play “Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos” in the background.
James E. Powell:
November 7th, 2012 at 2:41 am
I believe he could convince a sufficient number of Democratic senators to act as if they are about to get rid of the filibuster.
A subject for discuss in the next couple of weeks: what are the acceptable compromises between keeping it or getting rid of it altogether. Are there any?
Erik Loomis:
November 7th, 2012 at 2:56 am
Good choice.
Erik Loomis:
November 7th, 2012 at 2:59 am
She does win the night for greatest Twitter feed.
LosGatosCA:
November 7th, 2012 at 3:00 am
Plus the 10% to the Caymans and the other 10% that went to the Swiss account, plus the 10% that went to Sally Ball’s brother.
potstill:
November 7th, 2012 at 3:01 am
only the Prods
LosGatosCA:
November 7th, 2012 at 3:01 am
That’s definitely genius, in a sociopathic way, of course.
sign me up:
November 7th, 2012 at 3:09 am
That first one sounds pretty good if we can do something about that consequential poverty.
club:
November 7th, 2012 at 3:19 am
Someone needs to bludgeon Friedman and Charlie Rose and his booker. What a pathetic cast of know nothings clinging to centrist delusions.
SEK:
November 7th, 2012 at 3:30 am
I have mentioned, recently I think, that I’m sometimes I God damned moron, haven’t I?
SEK:
November 7th, 2012 at 3:31 am
Um, wow. Just … wow.
Tom Renbarger:
November 7th, 2012 at 3:40 am
Romney’s epidermis is definitely showing.
synykyl:
November 7th, 2012 at 3:44 am
Tears. Sweet, sweet, tears.
herr doktor bimler:
November 7th, 2012 at 4:08 am
Romney used the same words in his gracious concession speech. Also, JERB CREATERS.
Nik:
November 7th, 2012 at 4:11 am
Which, I should add, means I have unlimited access to all the beer I can drink, and I’m less than half a mile where Mitt Romney is currently not drinking away his sorrows (at the Boston Convention Center) because his religion doesn’t allow him to drink alcohol.
Wow, sometimes the Lord really does bless brewers.
Ben F:
November 7th, 2012 at 4:12 am
Suprise surprise, Jenbob hasn’t decided to show up!
zolltan:
November 7th, 2012 at 4:39 am
Elysian Night Owl! Whoo!
The Dark Avenger:
November 7th, 2012 at 5:07 am
John Stuart Mill
The Dark Avenger:
November 7th, 2012 at 5:10 am
You can’t withhold that which doesn’t exist in the first place, Manju.
herr doktor bimler:
November 7th, 2012 at 5:15 am
That’s Irn-Bru, Jimmy.
Grant:
November 7th, 2012 at 5:18 am
or pandas not to become homicidal in restaurants.
joel hanes:
November 7th, 2012 at 5:23 am
mentioned climate change in acceptance speech +2
also mentioned deficit reduction -1
and bipartisanship -1
but is not Romney nor Republican +1000
joel hanes:
November 7th, 2012 at 5:29 am
I love that so-yellow-it’s-orange label stuff, but had none on hand.
I uncorked the domestic methode champenoise blanc de noirs that a friend gave me for Christmas — the occasion seemed auspicious.
Bruce Baugh:
November 7th, 2012 at 5:42 am
I do think there’s a lot to be said for Rick Perlstein’s recent argument that a lot of the lack of expected/foreseeable impact is due to money being hoovered away by grifters. Zealots who are a bit less into mooching on the side can still get a lot done with their money, it’s just that they’re kind of marginal at the movement’s higher levels.
bradP:
November 7th, 2012 at 6:37 am
I noticed several graphics last night that said Obama vastly outspent Romney on campaign ads.
bradP:
November 7th, 2012 at 6:42 am
But apparently that was just campaign spending not including outside spending, which was heavily Romney.
I think the final split was somewhere around 60-40 Romney.
Marek:
November 7th, 2012 at 7:51 am
Do you need an intern?
Malaclypse:
November 7th, 2012 at 8:05 am
Okay, those wingnut tears are rancid. I shall not drink them.
chris:
November 7th, 2012 at 8:06 am
And/or walruses.
chris:
November 7th, 2012 at 8:13 am
The weird thing is, half of that rant is half true, except that the party identifiers are 180 degrees reversed. One party lying its head off, the press not calling them on it, the people not calling the press on it, voting for fantasy in preference to reality, one party insinuating itself into the channels of power and constructing an alternate reality…
Maybe it’s an expression of cognitive dissonance, the subconscious realization that the right has been running on fantasy and lies since they turned their back on the Eisenhower wing of the party?
Eli Rabett:
November 7th, 2012 at 8:15 am
The threat is worth the popcorn
Cody:
November 7th, 2012 at 8:25 am
Yes, I expect their formal resignations on my desk by this afternoon.
They shall not be seen on my internets again!
Cody:
November 7th, 2012 at 8:27 am
Joe Donnelly pulled out a win for a Senate seat here in Indiana too. Glad about that, sad to see how thin the margin is. Apparently like 45% of Hoosiers think rape is cool.
I told my wife I didn’t want to live in Indiana anymore, damn.
bradP:
November 7th, 2012 at 8:41 am
Well we did just elect a center-right candidate over a slightly more right of center candidate.
Corey:
November 7th, 2012 at 8:42 am
Mentioning something in your acceptance speech is the very definition of cheap talk.
Malaclypse:
November 7th, 2012 at 8:44 am
Alternatively, we rather consistently elected the left-most viable candidate.
And if you think Mittens is only slightly more right of center, you really have not been paying attention.
Malaclypse:
November 7th, 2012 at 8:45 am
Sweet, sweet wingnut tears. Please go on.
Cody:
November 7th, 2012 at 8:46 am
Indeed. Now Obama has a clear mandate to do whatever Republicans want him too.
Funny how that works.
NonyNony:
November 7th, 2012 at 8:50 am
Hm. I’m wondering if the Republicans would actually go for that – admit Puerto Rico as a state, but take an existing Republican stronghold and cut it in half, making it two states.
Probably wouldn’t work in this day and age. And we don’t have any other outstanding territories that would lean Republican these days either.
NonyNony:
November 7th, 2012 at 8:52 am
Not act – could he convince 51 senators to actually vote against the filibuster if McConnell calls him on it?
As I’ve watched him over the years, I’ve come to the conclusion that Harry Reid is not a poker player. He doesn’t bluff. He feints, but he doesn’t bluff. If he gives McConnell an ultimatum like that it means he’s ready to pull the trigger.
Cody:
November 7th, 2012 at 8:54 am
The Trump’s twitter feed was rockin’ too!
Side Note: If any of these Conservatives need help moving out of the country, just leave me a message here. I’ll be happy to enable your departure. You can go to a conservative wonderland like Somalia or Egypt.
Cody:
November 7th, 2012 at 8:59 am
Not Государственный гимн СССР? (Anthem of the USSR)
mds:
November 7th, 2012 at 9:01 am
That’s mizner’s choice as well, I suspect.
mds:
November 7th, 2012 at 9:04 am
Diet tonic water last night before bed, and a mug of coffee with a Morning Thunder(TM) black tea / mate blend this morning. Right now, the entire world is vibrating slightly, and it’s awesome.
dsn:
November 7th, 2012 at 9:16 am
A good bourbon I picked up at the duty free.
Scott Lemieux:
November 7th, 2012 at 9:17 am
Excellent.
Pee Cee:
November 7th, 2012 at 9:20 am
Give it time. A few of the wingnuts on my Facebook feed are now talking about not paying Federal taxes anymore.
Let’s see how well that works out for them …
JKTHs:
November 7th, 2012 at 9:37 am
Dick Morris is probably so ashamed right now, he’ll never write again.
JKTHs:
November 7th, 2012 at 9:42 am
Shorter CNN: “Look at all those (rural unpopulated) red counties! No mandate! No mandate!”
Lee:
November 7th, 2012 at 9:48 am
Can’t we reach across the aisle to punch the Republicans in the face?
JKTHs:
November 7th, 2012 at 9:49 am
Wouldn’t that make them the 47%?
Lee:
November 7th, 2012 at 9:53 am
I actually think that the Republican platform is in favor of Puerto Rican statehood. At least thats what I read on plainblog about politics.
This doesn’t prevent GOP racisim in the statehood debates though.
Lee:
November 7th, 2012 at 9:56 am
Where is Ghengis Khan when you need him?
DrDick:
November 7th, 2012 at 9:56 am
As an agnostic, I could give a shit about your sectarian quibbles. It simply tastes better.
PSP:
November 7th, 2012 at 10:05 am
The horror of horrors was the Fox commentators, after throwing Romney under the bus for running a bad campaign, playing up Jeb Bush.
Anonymous:
November 7th, 2012 at 10:16 am
Atheist gay sharia.
Lyanna:
November 7th, 2012 at 10:56 am
Let’s have a whip-round and buy their tickets for them, shall we?
Lyanna:
November 7th, 2012 at 11:00 am
I just looked up the Twitter feed of an old acquaintance who is a rabid wingnut (her twitter is full of articles about how letting women have contraception is anti-feminist and such like).
Out of sheer schadenfreude. And she’s all depressed. MAWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHA.
I don’t want to be right either. This is earned gloating.
Anna in PDX:
November 7th, 2012 at 12:39 pm
Good for you Manju!
Dark Helmet:
November 7th, 2012 at 1:30 pm
“In the Good vs. Evil battle…today…Evil won.”
Evil will always triumph because good is dumb
Oregon Beer Snob:
November 7th, 2012 at 6:28 pm
Mickey Kaus would like to subscribe to this person’s newsletter.
Oregon Beer Snob:
November 7th, 2012 at 6:33 pm
Started with a nice home brewed brown ale, then martinis (some random not-very-good-gin, unfortunately) and finished up with a Ninkasi Maiden The Shade.
I should have skipped the gin — thankfully wingnut tears are a good hangover cure.
BertieW:
November 8th, 2012 at 7:12 pm
I agree. It’s not like anyone in their right mind actually expects Obama to work together with Romney. Who the fuck’s Romney that he should expect to have a voice in how our country’s governed? Short of the voice we all get, obviously, on the voting booth.
BertieW:
November 8th, 2012 at 7:13 pm
No question about it, special interest money purchased the charter initiatives in Washington and Georgia. In Washington alone, the charter opponents were outspent 15-1.
BertieW:
November 8th, 2012 at 7:15 pm
After the election was called, he didn’t tweet for like 12 straight hours! I was all ready to declare us free of him..but no..like a diseased phoenix, up he rose again.
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