The GOP’s Self-Delusion Syndrome

The GOP’s Self-Delusion Syndrome (Editorial)

What a fantastic last two weeks these have been. I don’t even mean Barack Obama solidifying his lead over Mitt Romney, although that’s perfectly fine. No, I mean the near-mathematically perfect joy of watching these smug and contemptible creatures of the right dodge and swerve and make excuses and, most of all, whine. There is no joy in the kingdom of man so great as the joy of seeing bullies and hucksters laid low, and watching people who have arrogantly spent years assuming they were right about the world living to see all those haughty assumptions die before their eyes. Watching them squirm is more fun than watching Romney and Paul Ryan flail away.

Well, the polls have started to come, and they portend total disaster. Americans don’t turn out to like a heartlessly cruel Social Darwinian articulation of the national condition that by the by calls half the population worthless. Huh. Go figure.

But is this a problem? Of course not! There is an explanation for this too: The polls are wrong! All of them. Except of course Rasmussen, that rock of right-minded methodological certitude jutting out from the ocean of relativist corruption.

It’s not lies with which Limbaugh and Morris are now coming face-to-face. It’s the truth. Americans like Barack Obama. They don’t like Romney. And they really don’t like Ryan. And they don’t want any part of the ideology of callousness and make-believe facts and pigheaded warmongering—and economic crisis and big deficits and all of that—that the Republicans are peddling. Of course these people will never come to terms with all that. But right now, boys, you’re running out of targets, and excuses.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... drome.html


The sentence that really nails it is this one: "Americans don’t turn out to like a heartlessly cruel Social Darwinian articulation of the national condition that by-the-by calls half the population worthless."

I really HOPE they continue to ignore the polls. Keep ignoring them. Keep listening to Limbaugh and Morris...

Wolf Blitzer On GOP Poll Bias Claims: 'Fox News Polls Are Showing Almost Exactly The Same Thing' (VIDEO)

Wolf Blitzer had a ready answer on Thursday to conservatives complaining about the bias of polls showing President Obama ahead of Mitt Romney.

Right-wing pundits and anchors have made something of a habit recently of alleging that pollsters are skewing the numbers to favor Obama over Romney by oversampling Democrats.

"Could there possibly be some skewing going on by the media, the left-based mainstream media?" host Steve Doocy said, later talking darkly of "media polling bias."

"The polls are credible even though you don't want to believe them," Juan Williams told the hosts in another segment, to no avail.

On Thursday's "CNN Newsroom," Blitzer said it was very "convenient" for Republicans and people on Fox News to demean the polls. But, he added, there was a big flaw in their arguments.

"What they don't say is that the Fox News polls are showing almost exactly the same thing," Blitzer said, reeling off a string of numbers. "...You don't hear them complaining about the Fox News polls. They're complaining about the others. So there's an imbalance there."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/2 ... 22393.html

Jus' keep doin' what yer doin'...

Pretty sad that a empty suit like Obama who has done little and only has a 50% approval rate is still competitive after doing nothing to end the recession. It is like electing a fundraiser instead of a chief executive.

Vote for me becuase I know how to convince you to vote for me. I don't know anything else, but by God I know how to win your vote!


Here... have a cell phone on me.

And in the end, I'm not voting for the Social Darwinism Party...

Fun to see that the sour-grapes mentality is already setting-in on the other side.

I want a new bumper sticker....

Obama/Romney 2012
Either way we lose.

Look for it available on Cafe press sometime over the weekend.

Democracy4Sale wrote: And in the end, I'm not voting for the Social Darwinism Party...

Fun to see that the sour-grapes mentality is already setting-in on the other side.

True, you and a lot I people are voting for 4 more years of vastly growing debt, high unemployment and more diminishing of our country.

You would rather the whole country go down the tubes than make any hard decisions of addressing our out of control entitlement society.

Will you still be blaming bush in another 4 yrs when we are in the same position?

No, I'll be thanking Obama for finally turning around the stinking disaster left by Bush, and thanking god that he defeated the Two Stooges in this election so he could finish what he started...

And with any luck, I'll be celebrating the demise of the TeaParty, and relegation of the GOTP to the status of a minority party of old, angry white guys who haven't got a clue why they aren't relevant any more.

Nobody that matters wrote: I want a new bumper sticker....

Obama/Romney 2012
Either way we lose.

Look for it available on Cafe press sometime over the weekend.

I like that! And it's so true!

Democracy4Sale wrote: No, I'll be thanking Obama for finally turning around the stinking disaster left by Bush, and thanking god that he defeated the Two Stooges in this election so he could finish what he started...

And with any luck, I'll be celebrating the demise of the TeaParty, and relegation of the GOTP to the status of a minority party of old, angry white guys who haven't got a clue why they aren't relevant any more.

rofllol Then you are likely to be very disappointed because none of those desired outcomes are going to happen. No incumbent at only 50% approval rate was elected with a mandate.

At best Obama will be a spoiler for four years.