What's not being reported: This is becoming a disaster for the GOP on multiple levels

[kpete]

TUE OCT 23, 2012 AT 12:44 PM PDT
What's not being reported: This is becoming a disaster for the GOP on multiple levels
by MinistryOfTruth


Last night every GOP fear about a Mitt Romney presidential candidacy came true. He couldn't stand up to Obama at all. There's only two weeks left to go. If this race is as close as the media keeps telling us than last night was a tremendous disaster for Republicans. Since the first debate Romney has failed to make the case for Conservativism. Instead Romney has adopted the debate strategy of being a moderate democrat who appears on Fox News, and that strategy didn't work.

Proof, from last night.

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The sum of all wingnut fears

http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/22/14629085-did-the-final-presidential-debate-do-anything-to-influence-who-you-will-support-in-the-election

Romney ceded Obama way too much policy territory, adopting a "Me too" strategy that utterly failed to win over debate viewers, and the few times Mitt tried to interject with Fox News talking points about "apology tours" the President readily smacked those strawmen down. At Fox News utter calamity broke out. Did they address Romney's failures? No. They called Obama a retard instead. This is why Republicans are going to lose. Last night proved that if Obama is paying attention to the debates instead of his day job he can easily mop the floor with Romney, the best guy the GOP had in a very weak field of candidates. What Republicans must be doing is looking at the utter shitstorm coming down on the them if things don't go their way, and it can't look pretty.

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This was supposed to be the year the GOP took back the Senate. This was the year Republicans would defeat that overbearing tyrant who is weak overseas Barack Hussein Obama. 22 Democrats have to defend their seats this year to only 10 Republicans. GOP winning the Senate? That ain't happening. Because of bad candidates with unpopular positions Democrats will likely retain control of the Senate if they turn out and vote. Running as ultra-conservatives who parrot Fox News and Right Wing radio is costing the GOP the Senate. Again. Same thing happened in 2010, and it is proving to me that massive money and the right wing propaganda machine along with gerrymandering can deliver the House of Representatives to the GOP on a local level, but on a State level Republicans can no longer win consistently outside of the South and the sparsely populated South West and North West.

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/23/1148824/-What-s-not-being-reported-This-is-becoming-a-disaster-for-the-GOP-on-multiple-levels

[porphyrian]

1. . n/t

[porphyrian]

4. "Republican" is now a tainted brand. n/t

[calimary]

13. Not tainted enough.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

17. +1

[Wounded Bear]

2. Too bad, so sad....

May they go down in flames.

[Shankapotomus]

5. Your wish is my command

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. What a perfect response!

This picture just made me laugh out loud!

Thank you.

[Shankapotomus]

7. Wish I could take credit for it

But I found it online. Glad it made you laugh, though.

[sarchasm]

9. HA! 16 minutes no less! ...

... timing is everything. I think I had milk coming out of my nose.

[Keafirehouse88]

11. Best picture ever

Good job dude. That's how I feel about everything the GOP( getting older party) does.

[Shankapotomus]

12. Can't take credit for it

Found it online. Welcome to DU, though.

[calimary]

15. Welcome to DU, both of you - Keafirehouse88 and sarchasm!

Glad you're both here. We STILL have to work our asses off to get this job done. We need you both. And our President needs you, too.








Now get to work.

[malaise]

20. Freaking perfect

[SalviaBlue]

3. K&R

[Cha]

8. Good to Know..thanks kpete!

[spanone]

10. k&r...

[russspeakeasy]

14. Thanks for the post..

[calimary]

16. I LOVE this!

"Fight like hell. If we vote, they lose. Elections matter, that's why the only new GOP idea in the last four years was to make it harder for people to participate in elections. Fight like hell, not like we are losing by ten points, instead fight like we can finish these wingnuts off for good. Like I said, after doing nothing to fix the country for the last four years because they were so hell bent on defeating Obama, the GOP deserves it."

Yes. Utterly and completely! FIGHT LIKE HELL - so we can finish these bastards off FOR GOOD.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

18. K&R

Thx for posting.

[-LOKI -BAD FOR YA]

19. mitt is right about the apology tour except he is leading it for the gop

on an additional point we may gain seats

[davsand]

21. I hope you are right, however...

I think the premise is correct that Obama is going to win. I also think that The Mittster has done NOTHING for the GOP ticket as a whole.

Having SAID that, however, there's one thing that I just can't discount in this all, and that is the pervasive attitude out there--on both sides of the fence--that the nation is best served when at least one branch of the legislature is dominated by the opposition party. I'm scared to death that the voters are gonna stand there and tell pollsters they think Congress sucks, but then they are gonna walk in the voting booth and think "Congress sucks, but MY guy is ok..." and then proceed to vote to re-elect whatever obstructionist asswipe they've had in office for the last few terms. If that happens we are gonna see four more years of the same shit we've just had.

If you've noticed, there are quite a few of the veteran Republican pols out there that have not exactly embraced The Mittster. THOSE are the guys I am most concerned about facing for four more years.

We've been busting hump locally in our Congressional race because we've got a good shot at taking a seat away from the GOP's control. (Look up David Gill, and send him money if any of you can--David is a great guy and he's REAL!) I know that Illinois has a few races that are looking good for a Dem pick up, and I know there are a few more across the country. THOSE are the races to be watching, and THOSE are the ones that can make a huge difference in the long run.

I am scared unto death that the Democrats will see polling that looks good, or they'll see op-eds projecting happiness ahead for the Dem party and then they'll all just sit back and wait for the good times to start while the GOP quietly hangs onto majority in the House or--worse yet--eats away at any Dem seats.



Laura