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Romney Hanging On
By His Fingernails

Power Line, by John Hinderaker

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Posted By:Dreadnought, 11/6/2012 10:53:28 PM

It has been a terrible night for Republicans, with hardly a bright spot anywhere. The Senate has gone South, and Mitt Romney has underrun his expected (by me and many others) performance in pretty much every contested state. I’ve been ready to give up for a while, but Karl Rove says it isn’t quite over yet. If Romney wins all of the outstanding swing states: Florida, Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio, Iowa and Colorado (maybe I’m missing one more)–he wins the election. Those are all states I was confident Romney would win, except possibly Iowa, but at the moment

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: gruntled, 11/6/2012 11:00:34 PM     (No. 8994469)

It is incomprehensible to me that ANYONE with the least bit of decency or intelligence could vote for Obama given the past four years.

It appears that the America that was great is indeed no more.

"Going Galt" will now be a reality and the productive will NOT sit still to be leached by the parasites. Initiative is dead.

If I ever again read or hear someone claim that "we are a nation of conservatives" I will kick them in the crotch. Just to start. We have finally become a nation of parasites.

Hello tin pot third world. You are us.



Reply 2 - Posted by: killerbee, 11/6/2012 11:01:36 PM     (No. 8994471)

God's will in all things. I can't see Romney winning all those states. There has been massive voter fraud and I'm not sure what we can do about it from the loser's seat. Maybe Romney's amazing lawyers can make a case that will force someone, not the DoJ, to investigate.

The mainstream media is evil.


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: dolphin, 11/6/2012 11:08:31 PM     (No. 8994490)

Nobody considering polls thought to consider the extreme hatred dems feel for us. It has driven their voting. They are teaching our children to hate us. It must stop.


Reply 4 - Posted by: Screwgun, 11/6/2012 11:11:52 PM     (No. 8994498)

It's the media's fault.


Reply 5 - Posted by: Scout Finch, 11/6/2012 11:13:58 PM     (No. 8994506)

How can so many people be against Obamacare as polls have routinely shown since this debacle became reality over two years ago, and yet Obama leads in so many polls right now? What is going on? There's something so strange about it all. I just don't understand...


Reply 6 - Posted by: bamapreacher, 11/6/2012 11:15:12 PM     (No. 8994511)

Obama has won Iowa, so Rove is, as usual, full of it. Too bad people actually listen to such a loser and get their hopes up.


Reply 7 - Posted by: Cleanhousein2012, 11/6/2012 11:17:08 PM     (No. 8994528)

Congrats to the repubs. Ohio just been called for Obama.

Thanks for helping put the final nails in e coffin of We The People. It is now truly time for a third party, if there is anything left to save in 4 years.

I'm so disgusted I could just spit.


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: Yosemite Sam, 11/6/2012 11:27:35 PM     (No. 8994573)

Some of use warned about nominating a RINO cult member to howls, jeers and derision. Now we are confronted with the possible ruination of this once great country. You Willard supporters will have to live with it right along with those of us who knew better.


Reply 9 - Posted by: texaspast, 11/6/2012 11:28:44 PM     (No. 8994578)

#7, you are wrong. It is way past time for a third party. It is too late. We are, as a nation, now dead. USA, RIP 1787-Nov. 6, 2012.


Reply 10 - Posted by: dr fate, 11/6/2012 11:29:06 PM     (No. 8994582)

We can blame it on the leftists and the media til' the cows come home. True that they are as evil and despicable as we have always known them to be, but the core problem is the society, the culture in which we live. A large portion of it abandoned decency, self-respect and the ability to reason decades ago. We are now seeing the most drastic results of that downslide.


Reply 11 - Posted by: Phil_hk, 11/6/2012 11:33:38 PM     (No. 8994615)

I agree with #9

If you can get out
Sell your house or abandon it

Find a job in someplace else. Leave and change your citizenship. As I found out years ago just moving over seas is not enough you must completely leave if you can. This is especially true if you have small children. Older people can probably be OK but this is going to get really really bad.

The problem is that after this election it will probably be impossible to turn back. The whole US is now like California.




Reply 12 - Posted by: bob913, 11/6/2012 11:35:22 PM     (No. 8994624)

Our country just lost. Now nothing will hold obama back.

Hundreds murdered thru his actions with millions to come.


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: ivehadit, 11/6/2012 11:37:54 PM     (No. 8994635)

Do not blame Mitt Romney. Blame the people of the United States.


Reply 14 - Posted by: Blackeagle, 11/6/2012 11:40:05 PM     (No. 8994641)

I guess that most folks are fine with trillion dollars deficits, as long as they get their freebies.

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
~Alexis de Tocqueville


Reply 15 - Posted by: FunOne, 11/6/2012 11:43:53 PM     (No. 8994658)

The decline started long ago. Loose immigration and illegals increased the democrat vote.

Giveaways to about 50% of the voters have reached the tipping point.

We are now a socialist nation.


Reply 16 - Posted by: NorthernDog, 11/6/2012 11:43:54 PM     (No. 8994659)

It's odd that Obama is winning these swing states all by the same small margin, and still trailing in the popular vote overall.
It's no accident that the big Democrat counties are the last ones to report their vote totals.


Reply 17 - Posted by: bighambone, 11/6/2012 11:48:34 PM     (No. 8994675)

You have to figure that if the Republicans could not win this national election with the state of the US economy as it is today, that they are not about to win any future national elections in this country for a very long time, and perhaps not until after the Republican Party is reorganized with a new name and an entirely new platform.

The voter demographics in the country are changing fast, and are stacking up against the Republicans. The liberals keep pointing out that Hispanics are the fastest growing voter bloc in the country, and that the Republicans will never win a majority of Hispanic voter support unless they go along with another big amnesty for tens of millions of illegal aliens. But if the Republicans do that, the vast majority of the legalized aliens being mostly poor low wage earners, with limited educations, will eventually be given US voting rights and become liberal Democrat voters, thus putting the Republicans further from ever being able to win national elections in the future.

Within the next four years Obama will probably have a chance to replace at least three or four of the current crop of elderly US Supreme Court Justices with new very liberal justices who will be on the court for decades.

Just look at the two jackass Republican senatorial candidates in Indiana and Missouri, who lost their races after making ignorant public comments about abortion and rape and you see why the Republican Party is called the stupid party.


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: mc squared, 11/6/2012 11:49:10 PM     (No. 8994676)

This doesn't add up. No McCain voters switched to Obama so those votes are safe. Some disappointed Dems must have switched to the GOP or stayed home and the students didn't appear to care this year.

Fraud on such a big scale that we can't comprehend it? There aren't that many morons in the whole country.


Reply 19 - Posted by: King of all trolls, 11/6/2012 11:52:36 PM     (No. 8994684)

8, yes, Santorum and Palin would have carried CA, NY, NJ, etc. we know. If only we had listened to you!

Btw, people, cheer up. The GOP still has the House and gridlock can be a good thing. It's not easy to beat the First Black President and his media court. Mitt gave it a whale of a try. In the end he was stabbed in the back by a whale from New Jersey.


Reply 20 - Posted by: mgwitt, 11/6/2012 11:56:10 PM     (No. 8994701)

Friends, it looks like the libs have defeated the conservatives. America will never recover from what is ahead of us. I have witnessed the destruction of a once great country and I am very sad. God help our children and grand children. God bless America.


Reply 21 - Posted by: oh-heck, 11/6/2012 11:56:53 PM     (No. 8994706)

4 more years of limbo between recession and recovery is a thought too depressing to bear. I begin to believe that after 8 years of continued stagflation in blue states with the all but the politically connected being dragged toward poverty, that maybe the majority will give up being handed their daily gruel and wish for the days of independence.


Reply 22 - Posted by: geoguy, 11/7/2012 12:03:38 AM     (No. 8994722)

NOW America will experience the tyranny, socialism, and poverty of a third world country. We will get to learn what it's like to be crushed by an oppressive government.

The fools. Damn fools!


   

 



 
Reply 23 - Posted by: janylou, 11/7/2012 12:04:14 AM     (No. 8994725)

The dims carried every live body they could get to fill out a ballot or fill them out for them and have them sign their name to it. They have brided and cheated and we are screwed.


Reply 24 - Posted by: pickle1, 11/7/2012 12:08:31 AM     (No. 8994732)

If Obama does win this election; I find it very strange that it will be an exact duplication of his first Presidential win. No Senate change, only House again and the same idiot we have for President. I have never seen that happen. Obama in truth has never really won an election. He has only gotten in due to lies, cheating and fraud.

Only cheating and fraud can do that. I have not heard once anyone ask what the American people think.

Impeach Obama tonight and throw him in jail.


Reply 25 - Posted by: doctorfixit, 11/7/2012 12:09:14 AM     (No. 8994733)

Can we at least agree that nominating a super rich eastern establishment Rockefeller Republican does not work? I'm not sure anyone could have beat the Obama attack machine, but he got served the best possible opponent for his strategy. Third party? That will just guarantee Democrat permanent power. No. The GOP must change and become a real alternative, or it must go the way of the Whigs. Democrat Lite is not viable.


Reply 26 - Posted by: woodsman, 11/7/2012 12:10:16 AM     (No. 8994738)

Why did we lose?...the same reason we always do - Social issues...the roe v wade issue lost this race with women. They use this as an effective club against us every time.
Those asking for a third party are right - we need a fiscally conservative socially libertarian party. We are easily portrayed as hypocritical in that we want government out of our lives yet want to impose it heavily when it involves this issue. There's my post election rant - we're screwed.


Reply 27 - Posted by: FlatCityGirl, 11/7/2012 12:10:20 AM     (No. 8994739)

Idiot commentators are on FOX talking about 0b@$tard moving to the "center" now.

How stupid are they? 0b@$tard will now cram Marxism down our throats with a shovel.

0b@$tardCare was fed to us with a teaspoon. You ain't seen nothing until he revs up for a second term.

In a year's time, we'll have 20 million more unemployed and another 30 million on the government teat.

We just Went Europe.


Reply 28 - Posted by: VAfreedomluver, 11/7/2012 12:10:27 AM     (No. 8994740)

Romney ran a fine campaign--probably about as good a campaign as could have been run in this political climate. He seriously impressed me once the general election campaign began in earnest, and I thank him for fighting the good fight.

America is a severely divided country, but the trend seems to be going in the wrong direction.


Reply 29 - Posted by: hammondb3, 11/7/2012 12:10:49 AM     (No. 8994741)

Folks...

We're screwed. Plain and simple.

It only gets better after bloodshed now.


Reply 30 - Posted by: loosbolt, 11/7/2012 12:11:10 AM     (No. 8994742)

The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president.

The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their prince and president!

--unknown


Reply 31 - Posted by: Bla Bla, 11/7/2012 12:12:29 AM     (No. 8994743)

If Mitt can find his inner fighting man, CONTEST with recounts in all the close election states. I know Dems were cheating everywhere they could. This is the same spiritual battle I felt in the Bush/Gore race in 2000, and GW ultimately won.


Reply 32 - Posted by: TigerLilly, 11/7/2012 12:15:34 AM     (No. 8994752)

Sorry but I am still stunned, I just can't believe Obama won. Romney had all of those crowds and Obama didn't. The Republicans were coming out and voting so heavily, the Democrats were not enthused and Obama won? I just can't believe it. Obama voters do not know what they have done to this country. I am stunned.


Reply 33 - Posted by: kiwinews, 11/7/2012 12:15:48 AM     (No. 8994753)

I don't understand, live Ohio election results have Romney leading 46,294, 123 to O's 46,080,774 with 67% reporting at 12:13 EST.

Isn't that ahead?


Reply 34 - Posted by: bighambone, 11/7/2012 12:16:49 AM     (No. 8994756)

The Obama crew got out in front and defined Romney in negative terms to enough people to win, by slamming Romney's business competence, honesty, and even his religion, before Romney could unify the Republican base and introduce himself to the country. After that Romney never had a chance. The final stab in Romney's back came from a fellow Republican, Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey.


Reply 35 - Posted by: Bla Bla, 11/7/2012 12:21:00 AM     (No. 8994763)

re #32 -- I think it has to do with the state's popular vote vs. the electoral votes gained form each district.

Ohio MUST be contested, however -- I mean, criminy -- some have already been caught red-handed & arrested there!


Reply 36 - Posted by: Bla Bla, 11/7/2012 12:21:40 AM     (No. 8994764)

Meant #33


Reply 37 - Posted by: loosbolt, 11/7/2012 12:23:37 AM     (No. 8994768)

McCain won Missouri by some 4000 votes or so in '08. Romney carried the state by 16 points. THAT is the true reflection of how this country felt about this election but alas those pesky programmable voting machines that kept scoring for Obama even when the voter chose Romney. We got owned...yet again


Reply 38 - Posted by: Vastrightwingconspirator, 11/7/2012 12:25:21 AM     (No. 8994770)

Romney should have chosen Rubio; period! It's obvious,--the democrats know this--that you have to pander to large minority groups now to win. Not to mention, we NEEDED Florida, not Wisconsin, which we lost anyway. I love Paul Ryan, but I thought it was a bad choice when he announced it, and it's more evident now.
And can we please agree, that next election we need to choose a conservative candidate that pounds home the differences between conservatism and liberalism.


Reply 39 - Posted by: ivehadit, 11/7/2012 12:26:03 AM     (No. 8994771)

barack obama's brother, George, said that afer the white colonialists left Kenya, the country turned into a tribal battlefield.
He wished they had stayed as he compared Kenya to South Korea, both having gained freedom at roughly the same time. He said, look at the difference between the two now.

The businessman is going to shut 'er down, no more hiring. The truly wealthy are going to leave because they can. The 46 million just inherited a losing scenario.


Reply 40 - Posted by: kiwinews, 11/7/2012 12:32:19 AM     (No. 8994780)

Whoops I misread the chart I was looking at. I thought it was statewide numbers not the national popular vote. Missed a decimal point there. Bye bye America.


Reply 41 - Posted by: Kate318, 11/7/2012 12:33:02 AM     (No. 8994782)

This isn't about a northeastern candidate, or the 47%, or the media, or the social conservatives or a third party or anything else. It's about vote fraud, pure and simple. They do it and we don't. And, they are very, very good at it. We either learn to play the game the way that they do or form a new country. Those are our choices. Anything else is unrealistic.


Reply 42 - Posted by: Cleanhousein2012, 11/7/2012 12:37:20 AM     (No. 8994793)

19 - without reelection to consider, and a larger majority in the senate, what is to stop Obama from continuing to rule by fiat and Executive Order?

That, along with a complicit Republican Congress, leaves We The People as nothing more than funding for the Unions, the friends of Obama and the enemies of the US.

Nah, it is time to start considering plan b.


Reply 43 - Posted by: rocket scientist, 11/7/2012 12:40:16 AM     (No. 8994799)

4 More years of the Magic Mulatto, the mental midget Biden VP and the evil ValJar
running things, uggghhhh. Israel will have to make some tough decisions in the next few days or weeks regarding Iran. We may see war break out in the Middle East soon. Elections have consequences.


Reply 44 - Posted by: maisy, 11/7/2012 2:39:35 AM     (No. 8995008)

Is anyone suspicious of the voting machines? So many losses seems incredible considering who these corruptocrsts are. Third world here we come.


Reply 45 - Posted by: maisy, 11/7/2012 2:45:33 AM     (No. 8995016)

The mostly young crowd cheering obamas speech remind me of the Germans cheering Hitler.they seem brainwashed to me.frightening how they have been indoctrinated.chilling.


Reply 46 - Posted by: vwlarry, 11/7/2012 3:40:27 AM     (No. 8995081)

I am not going to cast any more votes for anything. I'm finished. It's no use.



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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/8/2013 11:08:31 PM     Post Reply
Beginning a week of high pressure on gun control, the White House on Monday accused some Republican senators of cowardice for planning to filibuster gun legislation without allowing the full Senate to vote on President Obama’s initiatives. “If they oppose this legislation, have the courage to say so on the floor and vote no,” said White House press secretary Jay Carney. “Don’t block it. Don’t hide behind a procedural action to prevent a vote. That’s the wrong thing to do, and that’s how the president clearly feels.”

Chelsea Clinton doesn´t close
door to public office

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USA Today, by Catalina Camia    Original Article
Posted By: jackson- 4/8/2013 10:23:20 AM     Post Reply
Chelsea Clinton has raised her profile in the last few days, which sparked the inevitable question about the former first daughter´s future: Will she ever be like Mom and Dad and run for office? Clinton, 33, essentially said "maybe" in an interview that aired Monday on NBC´s Today show. "Right now I´m grateful to live in a city, a state and a country where I strongly support my mayor, my governor, my president and my senators and my representative," said Clinton, whose father, Bill, was president from 1993-2001 and her mother, Hillary

Special ops veterans’ group
calls for select probe of
Benghazi attack

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Fox News, by Catherine Herridge    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 4/8/2013 7:00:09 AM     Post Reply
More than 700 Special Operations veterans are urging members of Congress to back a select committee to investigate last year’s Benghazi terrorist attack, according to a letter first obtained by Fox News. The letter from the group, “Special Operations Speaks,” supports the appointment of a special committee tasked with the single mission of investigating the attack that left Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans dead, and shut down the CIA operation in an annex of the Benghazi consulate, in the Sept. 11, 2012 attack. “Congress must show some leadership and provide answers to the public

Obama flying 11 relatives of Sandy Hook
victims to D.C. on Air Force One so
they can back gun control in person

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Associated Press, by Staff    Original Article
Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 4/8/2013 4:05:18 PM     Post Reply
President Barack Obama is bringing 11 relatives of those killed in the shooting at Connecticut´s Sandy Hook Elementary School to Washington on Air Force One on Monday so they can personally encourage senators to back gun legislation that faces tough opposition. A nonprofit organization that works with the families, Sandy Hook Promise, said that after Obama´s speech on gun control in Hartford, he is flying with relatives of seven children and one staffer killed during December´s massacre at the school. The White House says Obama is going to argue that lawmakers have an

Updated: White House, McCain
blast Cruz for threatening
filibuster over guns

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Houston Chronicle, by Joanna Raines    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 4/8/2013 4:55:05 PM     Post Reply
There was growing buzz over the weekend that a bipartisan agreement on gun control — a deal that would expand background checks — could hit the floor as early as this week. However, any deal could be derailed by the looming threat of a Republican filibuster involving Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. With Cruz standing proudly in the way of any gun legislation, Democrats are trying to make him pay a political price — and even a couple of high-profile Republicans are questioning his tactics.

North Korea´s Army Is Full of Jumping,
Leaping, High-Kicking Martial Artists

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Atlantic, by Connor Simpson    Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect- 4/8/2013 5:48:23 AM     Post Reply
Amid all of the very real threats of war and stuff from North Korea, you´d think American intelligence officers want as much video footage of the enemy as possible. Well, here is one video featuring North Korean exercises and Kim Jong-Un holding a gun, and we´ll say this: they certainly get points for presentation. Remember the clap-happy report from Dennis Rodman´s diplomatic basketball vacation? This video comes courtesy of the same Youtube channel that gave us that Rodman video. It appears to be the same state news channel.(Snip for video)This latest dispatch from North Korea´s state television

Gay Connecticut couple accused
of raping adopted children
will face trial

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New York Daily News, by Erik Ortiz    Original Article
Posted By: Drive- 4/8/2013 8:52:23 AM     Post Reply
The case of a same-sex Connecticut couple accused of repeatedly raping and abusing two of their nine adopted boys is headed for trial. Married couple George Harasz and Douglas Wirth of Glastonbury were supposed to be sentenced Friday in Hartford Superior Court under a plea deal, but instead withdrew from their agreement with prosecutors. The men had already pleaded no contest in January to one felony count each of risk of injury to a minor — a reduction from even more serious charges related to sexual assault....


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