Ben came home briefly to vote and to go out to eat supper with us. Ben and I went to Pekin in the Blazer and got Tracey from work and we went to Bob’s for some supper. Ben headed back to school in the late evening.
MjL 07 Nov 2012, 6:56 a.m.
Tracey and I stayed up until just past midnight watching the election returns.
For a while there I thought #TurdBlossomRove was going to win the night again with his election antics like the two elections he helped Duh-bya steal. It turned out the numbers were just too clearly in Obummer’s favor.
Still, I thought it was rather insulting to make the country wait almost two hours while they dithered instead of just taking the loss gracefully. All is well that ends well as they say.
Now we go back to four more years of a dysfunctional Congress. I wonder what the GQP excuse will be this time? The last four years they refused to govern because they wanted the country to be so miserable we wouldn’t re-elect Obummer.
MjL 07 Nov 2012, 6:57 a.m.
Tracey’s favorite word from last night’s pundit discussion is wackadoodle.
It was used to describe the antics of the Tea Party people by Steve Schmidt on NBC and it was so fitting and appropriate.
Another phrase that will stay with me is stay in line — the advice being given to voters in several key states.
It is a national shame when people have to spend hours and hours in line to vote in what is supposed to be the leading country in the free world.
The GQP voter suppression tactics were also openly discussed and even acknowledged by GQP politicians. Wackadoodle indeed.
MjL 07 Nov 2012, 7:34 a.m.
Michael T. forwarded a link that reiterates several of the willfully blind attitudes the right has had leading up to this election and fueled their near total disbelief that they were roundly defeated.
I really wonder at how deep this disregard for reality permeates the conservative mind across the board when they can be heard to say silly stuff like a raped woman CAN’T get pregnant. And then to go on to use this argument to bolster weird statements about “legitimate rape”.
So many on the right had predicted a Mitt Romney victory, or even a blowout -- Dick Morris, George Will, and Michael Barone all predicted the GQP would break 300 electoral votes. Joe Scarborough scoffed at the notion that the election was anything other than a toss-up. Peggy Noonan insisted that those predicting an Obummer victory were ignoring the world around them. Even Turd Blossom Rove, supposed political genius, missed the bulls-eye. These voices drove the coverage on Fox News, talk radio, the Drudge Report, and conservative blogs.
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