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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Right, the folks who work at and operate Fox News knew damn well what they were doing, or should have. Their viewers are the victims. Willing victims, but victims all the same.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"@The "White People Mourning Romney" Tumblr...
Electoral campaigns: 5.8 billion dollars
Those pictures: PRICELESS.
He has way too much respect/infamy in political circles to not bounce back from this though. Short of a Charlie Sheen style breakdown anyway.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.After this failure, he'll have a big job convincing anyone to keep giving him money. Remember, he has also made himself look like a fool on Fox News.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"For everyone mocking Republicans because precisely one guy got up on Fox News and threw a hissy fit, and because many more voiced their displeasure their guy lost...I have a question.
You're so certain you guys would've been the beacons of graciousness and reason if Romney had won? No Democrat would've taken to Facebook to talk about how America is becoming a white man's dictatorship of women haters or something like that?
Do you believe that?
It was an honor... Thankfully the one hope I can say is that the Republicans are going to have to probably come to terms with their behavior within the next 10-20 years, when the current generation comes of age, and the youth behind them exists. And both I don't see looking very favorably at being screwed on Healthcare, Education, Immigration, etc. Reform. I just don't. The current generation that grew up through the 1990s and 2000s seems to lean far more left than the Republicans of right now would be comfortable with.
It's called Schadenfreude.
edited 8th Nov '12 2:56:59 PM by PotatoesRock
Personally I don't think they would have (at least not on the air) but if they did I would be very disappointed in them.
I agree with you. Most Democrats are very much like the President, as in, they carry themselves with a composure and panache that, as the Aiken debacle showed, too many Republicans lack.
But then, Karl Rove is not any "leader" of the Republican party. And Mitt Romney, and Republican NJ governor Christie, two of the bigger names in Republican politics, basically can sum up their statements with "Well done President Obama."
My point is, why is Karl Rove the entire Republican party? Is that not the kind of broadbrushing that liberals resent in the right-wingers?
edited 8th Nov '12 2:59:22 PM by TheStarshipMaxima
It was an honor@Potatoes Rock, while that might be true, why uphold him as the example? Why not judge us by the fact that the very man we wanted to unseat Obama and halt his socialism stood up and said "He has my prayers, and my congratulations"?
Again, isn't that the kind of thing you'd demand of the right?
It was an honor

I feel bad for the people who thought Romney would bring them prosperity.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"