Prediction for the October surprise thread.

[grantcart]

After the last debate both sides will almost certainly drop some surprises. For the Democrats if they have anything concrete on Romney's taxes that is when it will come.

The Republicans have a harder time because they haven't left anything behind in attacking him for 5 years.

But I predict that there will be something that will be very difficult for Romney.

and it will be leaked by someone in the Bush circle.

They don't want him to lose they want him eliminated for 2016.

That's my prediction. What's yours?

[Vincardog]

1. I think Rmoney's tax returns will come out the week before the election.

[Astazia]

26. Me too. n/t

I hope, I hope, I hope!

[ejbr]

2. Here's mine

We'll find out he murdered a nun on her way to do charity work, then stomped on defenseless kittens, then punched a toddler in the face, all on camera.

But alas, the race will still be close.

[hrmjustin]

4. LMFAO!

[2theleft]

5. I was going to say

Multiple wives, some under the age of 18 that he picked from his binders... but I like this one better.

[JDPriestly]

32. No. We will learn that he had a nervous breakdown at one or more times in his life.

And we will learn that after he falls apart when his tax returns come out and we learn that he got tax amnesty a couple of years ago.

Also, we will learn that he hired illegals and took advantage of them in some way. That's a story that is out there and has been ignored.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

3. Perhaps some Bain-related video from the 90's . . .

. . . the creep has more skeletons than the Catacombs.

Should be good. He is brilliant at shooting himself in the foot.

[joesdaughter]

6. October Surprise?

Perhaps Bishop Romney covered up scout abuse in his LDS Ward ?

[hrmjustin]

7. Welcome to DU and that would cream him.

[AverageJoe90]

13. Hello and welcome.

Is your dad a DU member?

[joesdaughter]

20. Nope

He was the finest human being I ever knew. I only heard him swear three times and two of those cussings were about Republicans- so they did not count. I was blessed to have him as my father.

[AverageJoe90]

21. Awesome.

Hope you enjoy your time here......and R.I.P. your dad. I think he's probably having a good old time with J.F.K. & F.D.R. up there......

[joesdaughter]

22. Thanks

Perfect on his table mates- Mike Mansfield would make the fourth.

[MjolnirTime]

15. this sounds interesting. tell us more.

[JDPriestly]

33. That is possible.

[movonne]

8. Obama is the president and I think he probably has a few secrets

to spill on romney...Obama has access to a lot of stuff..what the repugs have I don't know...Obama is a open person and do not think there is much on him...unless they find a muslin birth
certificate with his name on it...

[aquart]

9. I would be shocked discover that Obama is really a coarse cotton fabric.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

11. heeheehee

[GallopingGhost]

24. LMFAO

I cannot tell you how many times I have read, "Obama is a MusliN", mostly from the intelligencia that posts on yahoo.

[Lex]

10. Plus Obama has been thoroughly vetted. If there's dirt, it would've been found by now. But

Romney, not so much.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

12. I think it will be..

a mental health issue. Bi-Polar disorder. I was a mental health professional for 30 years before I retired. Not diagnosing, just guessing.

[joesdaughter]

14. State Trooper Uniform

really concerns me. I'm serious.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

16. His family has been..

dropping hints about this for weeks. "The Mitt stabilizer."

[JDPriestly]

34. My guess also. He may have had an embarrassing nervous breakdown.

His family members look at him with anxious eyes. Especially his sons.

They are just a tiny bit frightened of him, I would guess. He is very authoritarian, but there is something beyond that.

And the way he jabbed his arm and hand in the debates and could not control himself, could not prevent himself from speaking out of turn. Signs of a manic phase.

In addition, the work he did required him to focus intensely on something for a while -- and then he sort of let it go. That kind of stop and start career would work if you had a lot of strong ups during which you had a lot of energy and then lows during which you could let others take over.

He may have a lot of energy and then not so much. Would not surprise me.

Sometimes bipolar people achieve a lot and then fall apart. Some authors have been like that. They work and work in their manic phases and then drink in their depressions. He doesn't drink, but he may still have severe lows.

In contrast, Obama has a very steady personality. That is one of the things I really like about Obama even though I don't agree with a number of his policies. I'm working hard for Obama because I think he is such a stable, sensible person who can win and lose and carry on. That is what we need in a president.

Steadiness. That is what we need. That is strength.

Romney is not a man of strength. He is volatile.

[whistler162]

17. Mitt ROmney is the secret love child of...

Ella Fitzgerald and Ho Chi Minh!

[flamingdem]

19. I knew it !1!!

[JiminyJominy]

18. If there was someting....

Teddy's people woulda found it when that race was so close.

(Unless its something very recent)

[beac]

23. Tax amnesty in 2009 would be recent.

[JDPriestly]

35. No. There are topics that the Kennedys and Ted Kennedy in particular would not broach,

topics on which they themselves were vulnerable.

One was women and sex. Another was alcohol. And a third was emotional stability.

Although I doubt that any of the Kennedys were as unstable as I suspect that Romney is.

[GallopingGhost]

25. It is discovered

that Romney likes to be spanked while lying atop an ironing board.

[pnwest]

27. aw crap, now i have to go gouge out my mind's eye...

[GallopingGhost]

28. lol, sorry! n/t

[Manifestor_of_Light]

30. Flashbacks of Tommy with Roger on an ironing board being ironed by cousin Kevin!!

AGGGGGHHHH!

[demwing]

29. Has anyone seen the counting down clock for an election shocker?

can't remember the URL, but I saw it on DU recently...

Supposedly will reveal some shocking news, though some here thought it might be a viral marketing campaign. It's set to run out tomorrow before the debate.

Anyone?

[Syntara]

31. Voter Fraud Scandal Anyone?

Reading the recent Salon.com widening circle of Republican voter fraud that seems to be developing into a several-states if not nation-wide scandal in proportion, and which Romney has liability because he paid the guy who is bearing the brunt of the scandal some $72,000 in August...knowing this guy has been cited for alleged voter fraud in earlier election cycles...I'm wondering if Romney will get drawn into the scandal in ways we can't quite know about in total scope yet.

Or perhaps something will come of his and Tagg's investor relationship with the Ohio (and ten other state) specific interests in the voting machines to be used in those states? Call me selfish but once...just once...I would love to see him called to task when caught in a blatant act of some illegal activity. I sense there's lots he's escaped, but maybe for my own self-satisfaction I would like to put to rest my suspicions and know for certain that what I suspect is indeed the case with that man.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

36. "They don't want him to lose they want him eliminated for 2016"

Interesting you say that because Ann made such a point of getting it out there that "this is it" for them if they lose. They wanted that out there. Perhaps it does tie back to the Bush's plans for Jeb.

Oh god, I just had a horrible tinfoil hat flashback. Bushes help Wrongney "win" FL with their old vote flipping software and he promises not to run in 2016

As for the October surprise, if it does indeed come from Gloria Alred, I think it might be someone who has inside information about his taxes or money dealings that's embarassing.

[coldwaterintheface]

37. rMoneys Black French love child comes forward!

The one he created while on his 'mission' to France.

[salin]

38. Seamus is alive and talking!

lol

[world wide wally]

39. Romney poops his pants when Obama exposes one of his lies at Monday's debate

[livetohike]

40. My money is on "sister wives". Either that or

a family in France from his missionary days that he forgot to tell Ann about.

[Charlotte Little]

41. I'm agreeing with the major mental health issues theory or possibly a child abuse case...

Child Abuse: Gloria Allred generally doesn't get involved unless it's MASSIVE and involves children/women/abuse/rape/discrimination. Serious.

Or...

Mental Disorder: Ann has dropped that line about worrying about Mittens state of mind, etc. to the press.

Regardless of the October surprise theory, I'm hoping Romnutz completely loses it tomorrow night and either spits in Obama's face (repeatedly) or takes a swing at him - better yet, I hope he jumps Obama and begins beating him upside his head. I'm serious, too. Because then the secret service can drag Mittens off the stage snarling, spitting and speaking incoherently, arrest him and our anxiety will be relieved. And, most importantly, our President can get back to doing what he does best, leading our country.

Bonus - it would be the biggest news in the headlines for weeks/months to follow. And the spin the Repukes would give...so, so entertaining.