Republicans are also fired up... I call BULLSHIT!

[Garion_55]

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I have been hearing this all day long by pundit after pundit.

Do you know how I know that that claim is bullshit? How many Kavanaugh supporters got their asses to DC to protest in favor of this judge? How many pro Kavanaugh supporters got arrested supporting this nomination? How many pro Kavanaugh supporters were in the hallways of Congress yelling at the Democrats to support this nominee?


I am pretty sure it's about five none and none.

Republicans were not fired up about Trump and the GOP and the elections and trumps agenda before all this started.

If they got fired up at all now, recently, it was because they were about to lose to the Liberals. That's it. This is all just a game to them.

Well they won. The game is over in their mind.

In a week they won't even remember what the fight was about while our side will still be raging.

In two weeks they will be wondering why the hell Rosanne is no longer on their favorite show.

In 3 weeks, up to 3% of these old crusty Crypt creepers might not even be with us anymore do to their advanced age.

And in 4 weeks Republicans, after having been told again and again that there is no Blue Wave, that the only wave that's coming is red, will decide to just chill out stay home watch Duck Dynsastyy and wait for the returns showing how massive that redwave really is.


And then reality is going to smack those motherfuckers in the face.

[Meadowoak]

1. Fired up as they ever were, ever will be, they NEVER miss a vote, period!

[Dawson Leery]

2. The pundits: it's always bad for Democrats. It's always good for Republicans.

David Gergen (who sucks up oxygen from those more worthy) said the financial crisis could help McCain because people
would be looking for experience. Johnny chose Palin to be his running mate. That should have disqualified him right there!

[donkeypoofed]

3. Content people don't go to the polls in the same volumes as angry ones!!

We're pissed and they're all friggin content. They'll stay home on their dumb asses, likely still gloating.

[bdamomma]

4. Hey

I watch Jeopardy, would they really understand it?

[MountCleaners]

5. Too much is made of their alleged enthusiasm

Kavanaugh is still much more unpopular in the polls than he is popular. He's taking a drubbing on social media and will continue to do so. I just watched bits of the hearings again, and those old white farts just look ridiculous. You'd have to be an awful judge of character to think they looked good. The more the clips get aired, the more ridiculous it appears. They are making a mistake wasting so much energy on this.

[bdamomma]

6. Plus what has this Congress

and this POS don the thug done for them NOTHING to advance their quality of life???? Nothing, just taken away healthcare, treating farmers like shit, and just giving away money (our money) to the very rich, and taking away funds from health, children and other programs to fund his baby prisons and take away children from their parents, we still don't know what the hell is going on with that right? They keep information away from us, what I get from that is how deceitful and guilty they are. They have no respect for us PERIOD. They proved that a number of times.

[Hugin]

12. They don't care. The Trumpanzees would crawl on their bellies across a mile of broken glass...

If they thought they could hurt the Democrats in general and as it turns out after today, Women in particular.

The hate they hold for anyone not exactly like them... And, I mean exactly. Is raw and unwavering. They have no capacity for empathy, compromise, or grace.

Republicans have absolutely no redeeming qualities and until we realize that the rules we hold dear are being used against us and are actually the Republican's greatest vulnerability, the status quo will continue.

[Grasswire2]

13. That is their prime motivator -- anything that hurts Dems.

Even if it hurts them, too.

[Awsi Dooger]

7. A victory like 2016 lends to sustained enthusiasm

If we don't understand that, or deny it, we flunk psychology.

Their voters went way outside the box and succeeded, despite all odds and sustained mockery. They view Trump as a savior and a crusade. There is no chance they are going to sit back and allow it to be taken away due to their own laziness.

For those reasons the enthusiasm and motivation gap this cycle will be less than typical, not greater than typical. We have benefited for months by misguided polling that wrongly proposed low energy on the GOP side. It is similar to early fall 2016 when nonsense polling had Republicans not backing Trump in typical percentage. Once that normalized the gap narrowed, even before James Comey changed history.

Our fate rests with independent voters. Nothing else. We will not win via motivation or turnout. Every poll can basically be ignored other than the preference of independent voters. It shouldn't be difficult to find. There will be one article and news segment after another regarding independent voters and what they are thinking/how they are shifting.

[Hugin]

8. I've seen this story before. It's the excuse they'll use after they steal the mid-terms.

Oh, the Krapignaw fiasco energized the Republican base so they won. Everything. Overwhelmingly.

Also, Democratic voters simply didn't show up at the polls.

They used a similar story line in 2010, 2014, and 2016.

Even though my Mom passed on Election Day 2014, I can still remember the events clearly as EVERY.SINGLE.WITHOUT.EXCEPTION.REPUBLICAN.SENATORIAL.CANDIDATE.WON. Defying, all reasonable explanations and raw statistical probability. Probability says they would have lost one or two of the races. BUT.THEY.WON.ALL.NINE! I realized it was rigged and nothing has changed.

There's no fucking way that would happen in fair, open, and honest elections.

[Blaukraut]

9. About what? They got what they wanted.

I could see them fired up if the rapist hadn't been confirmed. But as it is, he's on the court. They own it for a generation. So time for them to sit back and enjoy their ill gotten gains.

[Quixote1818]

10. Hopefully this narrative will help us get out more votes.

The media always wants to try the horse race angle even when there isn't one.

[budkin]

11. Not after confirmation

They "won." They won't be able to hold a match to the outrage of the majority of the country.

[ancianita]

14. When Democrats get that real Trumpublican taste for spite voting? Look out.

[thegoose]

15. They're not fired up

They're busy jacking off thinking about the mushroom head. Twisted fucks. I'd ask, "What's wrong with them?", except they're world-destroyers. That's all. And no one knows why.