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kpete

(72,016 posts)
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 12:18 PM Nov 2012

GOP Grapples w-FAILURE: Dems “must be looking at us like we’re biggest f__king morons in the world”



GOP Grapples With Embarrassing Polling Failures
It hurts to lose. It hurts even more when you don't see it coming.


No matter what the answer is, the GOP knows it must come up with a more reliable method of measuring the electorate. It hurts to lose; it hurts more when a party doesn’t see it coming. And this year, Republicans were completely blindsided.

Democrats “must be looking at us like we’re the biggest f——- morons in the world,” one frustrated Republican said. That’s what I’d be doing.


http://www.nationaljournal.com/columns/on-the-trail/gop-grapples-with-embarrassing-polling-failures-20121113
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GOP Grapples w-FAILURE: Dems “must be looking at us like we’re biggest f__king morons in the world” (Original Post) kpete Nov 2012 OP
Yes. We are. yardwork Nov 2012 #1
Hell, txdemsftw Nov 2012 #2
Goes without saying bowens43 Nov 2012 #3
I'd Look At Them That Way Anyway ProfessorGAC Nov 2012 #4
Yes, but not for the reasons you think. dawg Nov 2012 #5
Nope, Mr. gop Strategist ... 1StrongBlackMan Nov 2012 #6
Yeah. You know why? Aristus Nov 2012 #7
ex-President Cheney's assistant bongbong Nov 2012 #26
We looked at you republicants as the biggest morons way before this election. eom ChisolmTrailDem Nov 2012 #8
+1 LONG before this election Vincardog Nov 2012 #31
We have at last found common ground ! C_U_L8R Nov 2012 #9
exactly!- Let this be the beginning of a productive awakening... RepublicansRZombies Nov 2012 #25
Oh, it's beyond that. Raffi Ella Nov 2012 #10
The Devil will have his due. tblue37 Nov 2012 #17
hahaha~ Raffi Ella Nov 2012 #23
Yeah We were, back during the Clinton impeachment. Ganja Ninja Nov 2012 #11
Ummm yeah. Always have. bluerum Nov 2012 #12
yup. that is pretty much how we see it. nt seabeyond Nov 2012 #13
We are. Because you are. hifiguy Nov 2012 #14
well, yeah, why do you ask? you are morans.. irisblue Nov 2012 #15
If the shoe fits ............... nt Tennessee Gal Nov 2012 #16
Yep malaise Nov 2012 #18
Do bears shit in the woods? Scuba Nov 2012 #19
Do Giant Pandas make waste in the bamboo grove? byeya Nov 2012 #20
ya think? shanti Nov 2012 #21
It's not just polling errors pal, trust me. That's just the icing on one of several (r) cakes. nm nc4bo Nov 2012 #22
LOL !!! - K & R !!! WillyT Nov 2012 #24
We'd have thought that even if you'd have won. CanonRay Nov 2012 #27
We are, but it's nothing NEW ... Bake Nov 2012 #28
we HAVE been looking at the like that!! denese Nov 2012 #29
not any moreso than before the elections... BlueMan Votes Nov 2012 #30
The stupidity is that there was gobs of data out there and they chose to be lied to. socialindependocrat Nov 2012 #32
Nothing new there... Jennicut Nov 2012 #33
Why yes I am Downtown Hound Nov 2012 #34
Duh. After Occupy made clear we are the 99%... Amonester Nov 2012 #35
They ran rape philosophers quaker bill Nov 2012 #36
 

bowens43

(16,064 posts)
3. Goes without saying
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 12:22 PM
Nov 2012

they are the biggest fucking morons in the world.

They are wrong about absolutely everything.

ProfessorGAC

(65,170 posts)
4. I'd Look At Them That Way Anyway
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 12:24 PM
Nov 2012

Their failure to assess the electorate this time has nothing to do with it.
GAC

 

1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)
6. Nope, Mr. gop Strategist ...
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 12:27 PM
Nov 2012

We are sympathetically encouraging you to stay the course because we whole-heartedly agree with you that ideology and wishful thinking will over-come math and reality.

Aristus

(66,462 posts)
7. Yeah. You know why?
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 12:32 PM
Nov 2012

BECAUSE YOU'RE THE BIGGEST FUCKING MORONS IN THE WORLD!

And why does that surprise you idiots? I thought you liked it that way!

During the run-up to Election 2000, all I ever heard out of you dipshit fuckbuckets was: "Prezdint? Ah don't want no smart feller; Ah jes' want someone Ah kin have a beer with!..."

Your own fucking idea to be perceived as the morons you are. Don't complain to me...

 

bongbong

(5,436 posts)
26. ex-President Cheney's assistant
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 02:42 PM
Nov 2012

> Ah jes' want someone Ah kin have a beer with!..."

What they (and the world) got was an ex-drug addict who was drunk pretty much 7 days a week for 8 lonnnngggggg years.

Raffi Ella

(4,465 posts)
10. Oh, it's beyond that.
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 12:37 PM
Nov 2012

I cannot get enough of reading and seeing just how badly the idiot conniving criminal rethugs lost. It is a wonderous miraculous fantastic amazing divine thing. I won't be letting it go for a very VERY long time.

And what's even more wonderful, they seem to be doubling down! rofl. Or! when they try to talk immigration and minority vote they have NO CLUE what language to use.

It will be SO fun watching them try to reconcile the blind stupidity and vile hatred they have cultivated over the last 30-40 years with now trying to undo it and take a different approach.

They're liars either way and their followers look like idiots because of them. There is no way around that.

They made their bed and now they must lie in it, while I revel! revel! in the reality that America has rejected them and their lunacy~

tblue37

(65,488 posts)
17. The Devil will have his due.
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 01:44 PM
Nov 2012

They made a deal with the Devil--hatred, bigotry, all sorts of evil--to maintain their grip on power and wealth, and now the Devil will have his due.
Hahahahahaha!

Ganja Ninja

(15,953 posts)
11. Yeah We were, back during the Clinton impeachment.
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 12:53 PM
Nov 2012

But over the years we've come to accept Republicans as our brain damaged, dangerously insane relatives. It's the rest of the world that sees you as morons.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
14. We are. Because you are.
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 01:19 PM
Nov 2012

Sam Wang and Nate Silver just couldn't possibly be right even though they're cold-bloded Vulcan number-crunchers without a dog in the fight. Naw, they couldn't be right.

nc4bo

(17,651 posts)
22. It's not just polling errors pal, trust me. That's just the icing on one of several (r) cakes. nm
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 02:07 PM
Nov 2012

socialindependocrat

(1,372 posts)
32. The stupidity is that there was gobs of data out there and they chose to be lied to.
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 04:16 PM
Nov 2012

They have to get some councilling and get hold of that delusional streak

And while they're at it they can deal with the denial stuff, too

Let's face it, we think they're idiots
They try to impose their religious beliefs on the rest of the population
They try to stop the progress of the society
They do nothing to benefit the people who elected them and still expect to get paid
And they want to pull $713B from the people and give it to the wealthy
They fight for the wealthy who put billions into the presidential race
(when they could have just sat back and paid some extra taxes)
They try to suppress voters and expect support from the judicial system.

Oh people, we should jut make a long, long list and send it to them as a reminder...

Downtown Hound

(12,618 posts)
34. Why yes I am
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 05:52 PM
Nov 2012

If for no other reason than I've been looking at you like that for years, and you've only just now noticed.

Amonester

(11,541 posts)
35. Duh. After Occupy made clear we are the 99%...
Wed Nov 14, 2012, 05:07 AM
Nov 2012

the Republican morons nominated the most one-percenter candidate they could find! One one-percenter who made his fortune by bankrupting profitable companies, sending their jobs to China for more profits, and raiding their pension plans.

Gotta be frigging kidding!!

[font color="blue" size=7]DUH![/font]

quaker bill

(8,224 posts)
36. They ran rape philosophers
Wed Nov 14, 2012, 07:10 AM
Nov 2012

and a "pioneer of outsourcing jobs to China".

They don't believe in evolution or climate science....

They still think giving tax cuts to billionaires will fix the economy.

They talk about making America into a land where so much suffering happens that "self-deportation" occurs as if this is a good thing. (because making it so that no one around the world would aspire to live here would be such a good thing... F that "land of opportunity" crap)


Misreadng polls badly is one of the smaller dimensions of their problem.

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