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They really did believe that they were going to win…was it all just a dream? Take a look at what Taegan Goddard found (protect thy keyboards):
“It appears Mitt Romney’s campaign prepared a transition site in the event that he won.”
President Romney – Believe in America: Smaller. Simpler. Smarter.
Click over to see more screencaps of what might have have been, including a precious page indicating that appointees will have their finances “reviewed and scrutinized.”
Meanwhile, Karl Rove, trying to find a way to divert attention from the $400 million his American Crossroads blew during the election of ads and efforts that yielded nothing of consequence, has decided the reason for the GOP failure was that…Obama suppressed the vote.
GOP strategist Karl Rove went on Fox News today to argue that President Barack Obama “succeeded by suppressing the vote” — an argument that directly contradicts the conventional wisdom that Romney failed to appeal to non-white and female voters.
Rove argued that Obama won with a smaller popular vote and a smaller margin of victory than in the 2008 election against Sen. John McCain. Instead of expanding voters, Rove argued, Obama “suppressed the vote” by demonizing former Gov. Mitt Romney and encouraging people not to vote.
“President Obama has become the first president in history to win a second term with a smaller percentage of the vote than he did in the first term,” Rove said.
Have you stopped laughing yet?
Perhaps my favorite clueless post-mortem is by self-described ”cosmopolitan conservative,” Matt K. Lewis, who admits the GOP’s f*cked up re: wooing Latinos, but he still can’t wrap his mind around the fact that the Republican party is on the losing side of marriage equality.
Of course, it’s not just about modernity and being cosmopolitan. It’s also about taking a hard look at what conservatism actually means. An obvious place to start is with Latinos. It’s pretty obvious Republicans can’t win national elections by losing 70 percent of the nation’s fastest-growing demographic. But here’s the good news: There is nothing inherently conservative about being anti-immigrant. We are a nation of immigrants. As I’ve argued before, there are plenty of non-electoral reasons for conservatives to favor more legal Latino immigration. For example, immigrating is the most entrepreneurial thing a person can do.
…”A tougher issue, but one that should be discussed, is gay marriage. Some conservatives say it’s time for the GOP to back same-sex weddings. Marriage, after all, is a conservative institution, and can have a salutary impact on the lives of anyone, gay or straight. Others strongly disagree. Most conservatives I know are completely comfortable with the notion of civil unions. Nobody thinks that you shouldn’t be allowed to legally designate anyone you want for hospital visitation, etc. But there is a real concern about redefining marriage. There is a sense — and it may be semantic — that “marriage” is a special union between one man and one woman. This is clearly an issue that Republicans will have to wrestle with.”
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You might want to check out Pat Buchanan’s recent performance on the Gordon Liddy show; the most racist diatribe anyone had heard in ages. Also, some of the GOP crowd claims a mandate to deny the President on issues since they kept the house
Uncle Pat may have the record for the most bigoted crap ever emitted by a public figure. Glad he’s relegated to Liddy’s show.
my priority is putting people back to work.
well, there is one person he made a priority of putting back to work.
“There is a sense — and it may be semantic — that “marriage” is a special union between one man and one woman.”
It’s not semantic — it’s religious.
Lewis should take his civil unions crap to the toilet with him the next time he goes, and flush it hard to make sure it goes down.
I get so disgusted when these conservative and Republicans pull that “we believe in civil unions” crap, when they are not actively working to secure civil unions but, in fact, actively oppose them whenever they’re on the table. If civil unions are in fact an acceptable alternative to these conservatives, then why haven’t they already worked to secure civil unions in more than 1/5 of the states, or at the federal level? Liars.
The one thing that really endears me is how Mitt canceled all of his workers credit cards. So not only did they lose, he fired his workers and left them high and dry.
Forget about his whole ‘like to fire someone’. I would never hire someone so inhuman.
Not only did he cancel them, he cancelled them immediately — before they left for home. Cheap SOB, isn’t he?
I get upset by the words used like “the Latino vote” and “gay marriage”. They are still not accepting equality for all. Do they have to change their lies to get votes from “non white” and “not straight” people. OH! I’m sorry, they have Adam West.
I’ll just go and have another beer and be thankful that I am a Canadian.
Nope. I haven’t stopped laughing yet. I’m stil laughing at the election night roll of Kkk Karl on Fox. He was too darned shocked he let it out of the bag that he had a special someone in Ohio checking on things for him.
It appears that the famous nickname he has failed again. Karl was not able to turn that Romney Turd into a Blossom. Money couldn’t paint flowers on that turd.
well, that’s when you know a campaign and election is over…when the candidate cancels your credit card.
What’s in your wallet?
I’m loving the Big Bird meme right now.
Who’s unemployed now, beeyotch?
That tells everything else about Romney and pals that the media didn’t mention.
but…he’s such a great guy…he just didn’t have a chance to show it…
this is according to David Brooks who attributes it to those who got their cards cancelled. (puke.)
Oh yeah, I forgot to snicker over Anonymous sending Karl the warning not to steal this election. That was the absolute best!
LOL! Brooks is…
Well, you know. (grins)
What’s incredible is that so many feel free to openly disagree with Rove right now.
A radio host showed up on Fox today to claim that Romney lost because Obama said if Romney won, women would end up in “rape camps”. That’s why he lost, don’t you know. not because of voter suppression…
wow. just wow.
oh, i missed that! where did you see that?
my favorite is welfare queens.
I mean, it’s true actually. How many years of R policies and we’ve all been reduced to welfare queens by their very hands. It takes more than 1% to win an election, fgs.
Give me a few secs. It was about two months ago so I’ll have to hunt up the link for you.
Here ya go:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251187136
If, instead of threatening Rove, Anonymous had hacked and posted American Crossroads’ financial records and emails . . . ?
Let’s just say it would’ve made a great bathroom book.
Anyone paying attention can’t help but hate and loathe Republicans. If only the millionaire mobsters would take Rove out fishing on Fredo’s lake.
Is there no patriot that can rid the nation of this turd blossom?
That is the TWOOPH! It would be Fantacular!
Hey, Blue! Cheney and his friends probably want to take him bird hunting this weekend.
That would work. Perhaps all of Cheney’s hunting party will aim for the face. He’s a cancer on the body politic and unless the cancer is excised it will continue to threaten the life of the nation.
Yep. He is a cancer and a threat to our National Security.
I’d include Frank Luntz on that list of threats to the nation.
Funny alright, but these Republicans are no more deluded than anyone who thinks president Obama is a friend to the middle class (93% of income gains during his first term went to the rich) or a man of peace (Libya attacked on sketchy pretenses without Congressional authorization, five times as many drone strikes launched as George W. Bush’s administration) or a protector of the environment (fossil fuel extraction shot up during his first term, Keystone XL pipeline already under construction).
I have to to run, but yes Luntz and a great long list of them. We can add the largest part of the DOJ too.
Civil Unions in Hawaii were vetoed by a Republican governor. In Colorado a bill was blocked with procedural trickery although the votes were there. In Illinois there was no broad Republican support for CUs. In Arizona they are asking SCOTUS to be allowed to rescind domestic partnership benefits.
Saying they are for CUs is a lie and some BS they say to make themselves feel better
Too bad Willard didn’t let us “review and scrutinize” his finances.
The man is certifiably delusional. Given how well-connected he is and how he sits at the apex of the Republican Party, I find that spooky, not amusing.
… self-described ”cosmopolitan conservative,” Matt K. Lewis, who…
basically argues, “well hell, next time we’ll just pretend we like ‘those people’”,. and we’re all good.
Love it, pubs are gonna stick with stoopid squared.
oh…thanks a bunch!
According to Rove, Obama suppressed the vote. One of the defining characteristics of conservatives is habitual projection.
Is it just me, or does anyone else get the impression that Megyn Kelly enjoyed sticking her foot up Rove’s ass after he spent $390-million of rich Republicans’ money with almost no success to show for it?
I was thinking the same thing, until I realized that Willard simply projected his own likely behavior and realized he had to cut the cards immediatety. They are all ceooks.
@38 I kinda doubt she was *enjoying* it (unless she’s secretly a LOT less of a partisan then the person she plays on TV), but as she said “notwithstanding the doubts that Karl Rove has attempted to place,” it does have a touch of viciousness that suggests she’s not too happy thinking that the fat boy has skimmed about $50 million off the Repug gravy train and they have nothing to show for it.
I am not sure if it is religious or RW political.
The Bible never says a word about who should marry. Indeed Abraham, to whom the Bible attributes fathering the Jewish religion, thanks to the special favor God showed him, married his half sister. Not only that, but he and his wife agreed that he should have a child with his wife’s maid. And, later, when his wife did become pregnant, he and his wife also agreed on throwing out the maid and her baby, Abraham’s firstborn son.
And this is the Bible after almost a millenium of secrecy and only God knows how many strategic revisions.
It is possible to be religious and face the truth. However, that is not possible if a pastor and politicians together are manipulating how religion is taught to congregations.
Is he delusional? Or does he know exactly how to keep his income and influence high?
Any Republican who puts a (D) after his or her name is always the worse of two evils.
True. However, there is certainly no shortage of denial and delusion in the Democratic Party, either.
I wonder if the vast majority of Americans will ever get past the “blue team, red team” games with which the two major Parties manipulate and distract them and start demanding that all politicians focus on the interests of most people in the country.
Instead, most people in the country are focused on protecting their team’s quarterback du jour from what? Comments?
Meanwhile, both Parties are about to violate Social Security yet again.
I don’t entertain their “deep denial and delusion.” Rather, their deep denial and delusion entertains me. The past few days have been some of the most entertaining of my life.
Another Obot celebrating by not talking about what Obama is trying to do to the American social safety net. Slaying imaginary boogeymen is a lot more fun than facing the reality that you have backed a monster.