Mitt Romney has tapped into what Nixon called the Silent Majority.
There are millions of people out there that are non-political. They don’t talk about politics. They don’t go to protests or donate to candidates and they damn sure don’t answer opinion polls. But they do vote, especially when they are unhappy.
Right now they ain’t happy.
When they are happy they either stay home or they vote for incumbents. They are happiest in times of peace and prosperity. When the economy is booming and none of our kids are dying in foreign countries, they are very forgiving. Just ask the Big Dawg.
They aren’t stupid or ignorant, they just prefer to think about other stuff, like Dancing With The Stars and NFL fantasy football. Unlike us, they find politics to be boring. But that doesn’t mean they don’t care.
They know when things aren’t the way they oughta be. They weren’t happy in 2004, but not unhappy enough to do anything about it. They were very unhappy in 2006, so they voted out a lot of incumbents, especially the ones in power – the Republicans. They still weren’t happy in 2008, so they voted out some more GOP incumbents and switched the party controlling the White House to the Democrats.
But then they got even more pissed off in 2010 and started voting out Democrats. And they are still pissed today.
You can spend a billion dollars on campaign ads, but these voters know when mama ain’t happy. And as my uncle would say, “When mama ain’t happy, nobody’s happy.”
A lot of this is pure luck on Mitt’s part. If he would have won the nomination in 2008 he would have lost to Obama because 2008 was a “any Democrat” year. This year is basically “any Republican”.
So he’s gonna get four years to make mama happy. If he doesn’t, he’ll be replaced too.
My plan:
Today: Vote for Mitt Romney (done)
Tonight: Get drunk while I watch the election returns come in.
Tomorrow: Celebrate (recover from hangover)
Thursday: Start holding Mitt Romney’s feet to the fire.
The Crawdad Hole 
GMTA!
Do it for the children!
Heh.
Actually, this factoid really does say it all:
I wouldn’t expected anything less of Romney.
This is probably the depression talking, but i cried most of the way through this. That and 2 deaths in the family this month and mom in surgery right now and i can’t be there. Prayers for a good result tonight, for America to turn the corner.
Oh, I welled up too. TeamRomney has made me do that a few times with their imagery this campaign.
Prayers for you & your mother too.
(((jadzia)))
Praying for you & your mom
We are sending you hugs, prayers and positive thoughts from everyone here at TCH
Hugs and prayers, Jadzia.
I am praying for you and your mom.
{{{{Jadzia}}}}
hugs and prayers Jadzia——you’re in all of our thoughts today….
{{{Jadzia}}}
Love and prayers to your mom, to you, and your family.
{[Jadzia}] {{{Jadzia’s Mom}}} Prayers for you and yours!
Sending comfort support strength and healing to you and your mom … Jadzia ,big hugs and lots of love ( I love your name , makes me think of Jazz )
So sorry to hear.
Prayers and big hugs to you and your family.
Thank you so much guys. Sh*ttiest month ever. See you over on the liveblog threads.
I hope it will be a decisive landslide, but I think that we might have to wait until Thursday to see. Anthony gave me a bit of insight as to what he went through today at the polls.
I don’t like this at all. I know NY is blue, but this is questionable behavior that is in your face.
One reform we should all push for is uniform voting standards and require that all states use paper ballots that can be checked and recounted manually. “Paperless” ballots should be outlawed.
HONK!
The biggest changes I would like to see have to do with the primaries (including eliminating the caucuses). I would like to see 4-5 regional primaries scheduled 1 month apart on a rotating basis, starting in February or March and ending in June. Fuck Iowa and New Hampshire.
I completely agree! We need uniform voting standards. I have absolutely no problem at all with requiring ID. We should be assured that the people casting votes, should be casting votes. If you need ID for sudafed then it should damn well be needed to vote and nothing, NOTHING will change my mind about that.
We also need to have cross state checks. I live in a beach community in northern Florida and let me assure you people around here vote in multiple states and BRAG about it. It happens on both sides. They own winter homes here and feel entitiled to vote here as well as their home state since they pay taxes. Oh they’ll get in your face about it too, not shy at all they will tell you how entitiled they are to more than one vote. This.must.stop!
Damn somehow my post above ended up below where I thought it would be…..argh!
I agree with you about no more paperless ballots. Heck I’m fine with having a purple finger if it means honest elections.
As for the primaries, excellent idea!!
I would be so tempted to say to someone who bragged about voting twice ” omg I am so sorry you told me that , I am a voting watchdog for ( some made up org ; friends of the police wives blah blah ) and I am legally obligated to turn you in , just to see their face fall .
I agree completely.
HONK! And Honk times a million for the regional primary idea! FUCK Iowa and NH!
This is Sandy. Everyone in NYC has been complaining.
I saw a post from one of the morons at AoSHQ that made me LOL:
Another poster asked what he thought those “grim” faces meant, but I didn’t need to ask. I know exactly who those men are — men like my grandfather who fought in WW2, was career Navy & then worked for Caterpillar but who never voted because he figured he had done his duty for his country with 2 purple hearts & various other medals & “those politicians are all corrupt anyway.”
Those men aren’t voting for Obama.
Those are my relatives too. And they’re pissed.
I said earlier today on another blog – that video is SO well done, it actually gave me the first hope since 9/11/01. It has been a HORRIBLE time for our country since then. Bush & Obama both.
I don’t know if Romney really will be better, but if he is one tenth the guy who is shown in this video I already feel better.
Obama is simply DOOM AND GLOOM.
I hope Obama is out of a job tomorrow.
HONK! AMEN and from you lips…..
Like I asked at the end of the last thread, a serious question. Did O vote early? And is he the first sitting President to do so?
Yes he did vote early and I beleive the fauz news made a big friggin deal out of him having yet another historical moment.
Damn. I heard that he voted early, but didn’t know that he was the first Preezy to do so. The idiot has broken American Presidential tradition. This isn’t like basketball or golf or receiving the Nobel Prize or being world famous or being categorized as kewl and hip. Its American Presidential tradition, which a long line of pub and dem Presidents have followed.
LOL! They did make it a big fucking deal didn’t they?!?! They broke away from what they were reporting to “take us there live!” (he, of course, made sure to go at 5:00 pm EST) so we could watch him chat up the people at the station (and SHOW HIS ID, btw) while all the pundits went on & on about how he was the FIRST sitting POTUS to early vote, blah, blah, blah.
But they sure cut away fast when he started having obvious trouble working the machine. SCoaMF doesn’t even know how to vote.
He also had to show a photo ID. So there!
Good plan MyIq. I have about the same plan- except have allotted time for a damn good cry- either in gratitude or despair- and time for continual prayers for the rest of the day today lol.
Thanks be to God for antidepressants.
If you know of one that WORKS, please advise. : (
Wellbutrin. Easy. I have problems with most medicines- took a few tries- but that one worked. Easy on, easy off too. No grogginess.
I want to try that one, primarily bc it’s the only one where weight gain isn’t a major side effect. But right now it’s Cymbalta; if that doesn’t work I’m asking to try WB. OK, NOW going over to the liveblog….
Megan running the ad now. (Watching online)
Blue state, red district that went huge for Obama last time. Line today was longer than I’ve ever seen it, moving fast but still waited over an hour. Much more Republican looking than I remember in 2008. 🙂
WOW. Howard sure is looking a lot more like an SS General these days.
What a dick…excuse my french. Looks like “fraud and voter harassment” will be the default DNC story if they lose, because it couldn’t possibly be something as logical as high Republican turnout against an incumbent rival during a deep recession.
Considering the Obamacans do not acknowledge that we are even in a deep recession right now, what else can you expect?
On January 21st they will acknowledge it and blame it all on Romney.
I stole this from Erica:
https://twitter.com/TheAngieNC2/status/265909360977399808
And projection is still the theme with the New Dems. I told my Obot aunt four years ago, if Obama was complaining about something the other side did, it was guaranteed that he did it worse. Every single time I researched his complaints his career was mired in it.
Thanks for fixin’ this embed. 😉
To add to your list myiq, Friday: Hammer the media fools and empty their drool buckets.
With hopes a Romney blowout will do that for us. Media malpractice has run amuck since January 2009 and I don’t mean just the partisanship, but the coverups like Fast, Furious and Benghazi.
Should Obama pull this off tonight, I think he’s going to wish he didn’t. The media always seems to turn on the Preezys during the second terms. And SNL gets funny again 😉
You might as well campaign against cow flatulence.
This one tops the “My First Time” ad
https://twitter.com/AmericanSpringg/status/265665072196640769
Whatever happened to safe, legal and rare????? Now it’s like what … blowing your nose?
These people. These people.
Exactly! And if you read the article, the rationale of the admaker is so fascist – Downs babies should be aborted. Ugh.
Anyone who doesn’t conform to their notion of perfection should be aborted. But wait — wait — it’s the conservatives who are evil! The Nazis dehumanised Jews, turned them into rats, so that killing them became a public service. The radical abortion crowd have done the same thing to babies still in utero. They aren’t human, they aren’t people, you’re not actually killing anything, so go for it! Which isn’t to say that, for me, there aren’t circumstances where I won’t accept it’s the least of many evils. But it shouldn’t be made simple or easy or unthinking or casual. But that’s just me.
What is the “right” answer to an unwanted pregnancy? I have to wonder about anyone who doesn’t consider abortion to be a moral dilemma.
Well, my exceedingly unpopular view on that is … don’t have sex. Seriously. If you can’t deal with the consequences, don’t do the deed. Because the alternative has become, do whatever the hell you like and then destroy the life that’s been created because it’s not convenient. But that’s when ‘unwanted’ doesn’t include all the truly horrible circumstances that abound. Obviously there are circumstances when you’re looking at weighing up a set of truly terrible options. Fwiw, I believe that abortion is the taking of a human life. But sometimes there are circumstances where that’s the best outcome, even though it’s a terrible situation. Which isn’t the same as having a free for all, no holds barred, there is no moral or ethical question to be considered at all approach.
When the pro-choice movement went from “safe, legal & rare” to “on demand, at any point, & taxpayer funded” they lost me. And don’t fool yourself — when the progs took over the Dem party, they made the conscious decision to abandon the “safe, legal & rare” position (in fact, they raked Hillary over the coals for saying that) because, by their logic, that left a “stigma” on the decision. I actually got in arguments with people saying that PREVENTING an unwanted pregnancy *was* the best thing to work for & that could provide common ground with people in the pro-life movement. They didn’t want to hear it AT ALL.
So fuck them –one less threat for the New Dem Party to try to hold over *my* head.
Honky honk honk. Sometimes I wonder about the psycho-pathology of women who are so hell bent on killing unborn children.
Hillary is the last Dem I heard talk about safe, legal and rare. After that it was give me my abortion now, you breast-cancer charities!
“On demand, at any point, & taxpayer funded” is the perfect position for sexist pigs btw – absolves them of any responsibility and helps them pressure a woman into having sex at the man’s whim.
Consequence-free is for guys – a woman’s body WILL have consequences from promiscuity – whether its STDs, scarring from abortion, or body-image problems as they turn themselves into sex objects.
VM, you’re right. I don’t give that angle enough consideration. And that just makes me very very sad. Talk about women being their own worse enemy.
PS Mind you, when I hear the hard right types screaming about anti-abortion, then I get antsy too. Because I really do not want men controlling women’s bodies — whichever side of the fence they sit, men don’t live with the consequences either way. But they can’t be shut out of the conversation, because they are half of the equation. One of my big issues is the men who can’t prevent a woman from aborting the child they would love and cherish even if the woman doesn’t want it. Arrgghhhh!
I think the fan-boyz miss the point with shit like this. Only really shallow, self serving idiots would think that was the purpose of having choices. It is tone deaf since plan-B is not available without an adult for girls under 17 thanks to Obama.
Choice means: It is up to me what happens to MY body and choice means it is up to YOU what happens to YOUR body. End of story.
Absolutely — when yours is the only body in the equation. But when a woman is pregnant, there are 2 people in the equation. That’s my feeling, anyhow. I guess it’s not yours.
I don’t understand your response to my comment.
Maybe I do… At some point, there are “two in the equation” but each woman should be trusted to make the best decisions for her situation and health, in my opinion.
The choices I make for myself would probably fit the conservative position pretty well but I am choosing that and I don’t expect everyone else to do the same.
Great point about plan B – if it was available it would almost eliminate the need to consider abortion in cases of rape or just plain “oops”
Plan de 49er: Voted 10 days go. Took sweet mama shopping this morn. Take foster son to clinic after lunch. Watch tivo with sweet mama this evening. Check returns at 11PM, celebrate till 11:15 then sleep. I know, I know. Too tightly structured. Sorry. Must be the ritalin.
Oops! Forgot. Wed. cancel Monterey Herald subscrption in blowback against their idiotic political ideology. Wish I could publicize it cheaply some way other than print.
Monterey? That almost as bad as Marin/Napa/Sonoma.
How long was your summer this year? Two weeks or three?
WTF?
Eeeeewwwww!
OMFG …. nooooooooooooo!!!
lalalallaallaalaaaa
*trying not to visualize it*
Eeeewwww is right. Another example of the new dem hit parade called “I don’t learn my lessons the first time.”
Stole that too:
https://twitter.com/TheAngieNC2/status/265908688798240768
Go Angie, go! Great tag teaming.
I hate to break it to Lena, but there’s a reason he’s playing basketball with Reggie Love and not with fangirlz like you.
True dat!
That’s only because his head is wedged up there. If he came out for air, you wouldn’t get any bounce. But I think it’s permanently stuck in that position.
LOL
double ewwwwwwwwwwwwww
IF you were going to vote for someone because of looks you might take a look at this guy I voted for today . Former secret service agent Dan Bongino 🙂 Now I voted for him for other reasons , but I am just sayin ..
http://vets4bongino.com/
And they say guys are shallow!
😛
Fox just had Peggy Noonan on talking about her impression that the Romney campaign is dynamic and joyous while 0’s is bleak and sad. Followed that with a clip of Gingrich slapping John King about the opening question of the repub debate (re: his wanting open marriage) as an opener for a piece on the media’s influence in politics.
I caught those segments. Good stuff !
Strangely enough, I tend to agree with Tweety:
But WE own our votes. If we want to waste them that is our business.
This weekend, Alex Wagner’s show, had Clinton’s song, Fleetwood Mac, “Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow”, playing while coming back from a commercial break. I think they first showed a clip of Clinton saying he lost his voice for his president.
And then it went to Alex saying that the relationship had grown from one of political convenience to a real ‘bro-mance’ and that the Obama campaign had deployed Clinton like a scud missile. WTF? A scud!?
Anyway, the reason I stopped to watch Clinton eventually being insulted. Was I thought, no way, Obama is using Clinton’s old song. And sure enough.
Obama steals everything. There is not one bit of him that is original.
There is a lot of talk about Ohio not being decided until December – that must be the Dem plan.
How sweet if Mitt picks up so many states that OH doesn’t matter.
I want the results to leave no doubt.
Me too. It’s the only way for the good of the nation. (And I’m 100% sincere).
I mean that either way. Things could get ugly if one side feels they were cheated.
Oh, me too — but considering it is only TeamObama talking about it bright & early on election day *before* the votes are even cast much less counted, I’ve got my suspicions on which side will be bringing the charge.
I think that this point they’re going to throw so much spaghetti against the wall hoping some of it sticks that Italy will have to go into public mourning.
we Ohioans are soooooo glad this flipping election is over. We are having a group hangover:
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/11/06/return-to-normalcy.html
Ohio is excited.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/11/strong-republican-turnout-at-polls-in-fl-and-intensity-high-in-pa/
I am going to go mow the lawn since it’s supposed to rain on Thursday I expect to be muy crudo manana.
This should be the last time I mow until March.
Okay, first half done. Break time.
I’m getting better. Six months ago I had to do the yard in four stages instead of two.
That is great.
Okay, I’m done mowing grass for this year!
Congrats on the lawn test. That tells it all, especially in the hot valley.
It’s supposed to be like 80 degrees today.
Ha, ha! After Axelrod trying to say this morning that Romney going to OH & PA his morning showed they were “desperate” (never mind that Obama went to IN on election day in 2008 & won it –same for GWB to OH in 2004) who shows up in OH but Biden! For the love of fuck! Does anybody on TeamObama even talk to each other? Cutter is trying to pass it off as an “unofficial stop” to make sure everything is “set up right” or something (basically what the field office director should be doing). HA has the story:
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/11/06/videos-say-why-is-joe-biden-back-in-ohio/
hahahahaha angienc—leaving Biden to check up if everything is alright will insure and guarantee a Romney blowout!!!!
“Thursday: Start holding Mitt Romney’s feet to the fire.”
We should probably wait until he’s actually sworn in. It’s probably not fair to start blaming the man before he’s even on the job 🙂
I second that. For the most part.
Once he is President-elect he starts selecting his Cabinet.
And I’ve been wondering if SP is on a list somewhere. Because suddenly she’s gone very, very quiet. Or am I imagining things?
She’s still on FB. I think she is wisely keeping a low profile. This is not her time.
She endorsed Mitt Romney.
I hope! I hope!
I hope Mitt Romney picks Sarah for Secretary of the Interior or Secretary of Energy. They both deal with oil and that is a topic she is VERY knowledgeable about. As a Cabinet member she would gain experience in DC and keep her name in the public view. She really needs to pump up her resume if she plans to make a run for the WH someday.
Another option would be to run for the Senate in 2 or 4 years.
Yeah I was thinking Energy. But Interior would be a good fit too. Anywhere she can use her real life expertise/experience. She has a great deal to offer. And truly, I don’t think she cares so much about being president as she does about making sure things are done right for the people of the US. So I think that if she gets the chance to make a huge difference, she’ll take it. Like she said. It’s not the title that makes you powerful, it’s how you use your talents.
But here’s something I’ve been thinking. Could be I’m totally nuts. But I’m thinking if RR win, then some time in the not too distant future Christie is going to change his team and then run for president as a D. The D bench, going forward, is looking mighty mighty thin. They’re looking at a generational change. I’m thinking Booker might be magically resurrected as the Next Big Hope. I hear good things about him, that he’s a decent man, so that’s something. The only problem is you’re looking at the fetid swamp that is the D party/machinery. Unless HillBuzz is right and the Clintons clean house big time. Anyhow — as much as I’ve appreciated C’s blunt honesty, I’m not trusting him. His speech at the RNC was spectacularly self-serving, his photo op with O the same … and word is he hates Romney. So … hmmm.
I’ve got to get to work here for a bit. Will try to check in later.
I’ll betcha $10 the Left uses that at the end of four years if Romney wins.
“Thousands of Americans watch as Romney sentenced to 10 years!”
I think this was a last minute stop ?
what the heck? that’s amazing.
Hannity is speaking with a Bill Cunningham, a radio jock of Hamilton County Ohio who says the 3 pm polls show Mitt far surpassing the numbers the POS got in 2008 and GWB got in 00 and 04 and that if these numbers hold there is no way Ohio goes to the POS and Mitt is the next prez.
He said the turnout us far surpassing anything seen in the county previously.
that’s great news for that part of the state!!!!
Well, dang, misread the TCH schedule, myiq meant 4pm *Pacific*, started my party already 🙂
LOL, gonna’ be a long night 😉
The sun is over the yardarm somewhere in the world.
Refreshed myself with a 3 mile walk, Sean Hannity in my Walkman, passed the still overflowing precinct voter place, I feel good 🙂
When will it end, and is anyone else puking?
I’ll be puking tomorrow.
Soon, it will end soon.
Not puking- but been eating a bland diet for the past few days- my stomach is in knots.
It don’t matter what you eat, it all tastes bad when it come back up. I have learned that it is less painful if you chew your food well the first time it passes through.
You and me both. All I’ve had today is soup and water.
Same here…got sick this weekend so I’ve only had soup and water. But set the alarm to vote. Didn’t want to risk sick-sleeping too long. 😉
Only if Obama pulls another Unicorn out of his ass tonight. Then I guess we’ll deserve the country we get again 😦 I’m ready for that too, not in an eeyore way, but I’m on the side with the guns /snork.
I can’t imagine anyone waking up tomorrow morning happy that President Obama gets another 4 years for more of the same. If so, I may need to begin to drink some strong kool aide just to get through the next 4 years.
I’ll need Thorazine.
It’s just not another Obama term, it’s his wife, his Czars, his Executive Orders, his not playing well with others, his just being Obama. Nothing personal, just a horrible political experiment gone bad 😦