So long as McArdle volunteers to run point, I’m all for it. But I’ll hang back under cover and see how it turns out before I go in.

One of my coworkers is someone who believed the hype and thought the Romney surge was real and was going to sweep us all into a new conservative paradise. He got pissed off when I told him that Romney did well in the first debate, but peaked soon afterward and declined into irrelevance afterwards. He hasn’t been back to work after the election, and I suspect he’s just dealing with the fact that all of the people he believed in and all of the media sources he trusted were lying to him. I’m hoping that this helps him realize that he needs to get better sources of information and have a more realistic world view, but I kind of doubt it. The biggest tragedy about all of the Romneyworld lies isn’t that they believed their own bullshit, it’s that so many other people did and got screwed by them.

Even if they don’t concede Ohio, it’s over. Obama has 290 EV, which wins even without counting Ohio. Time to stop being a sore loser and concede, Willard.

Romney family refusing to leave their bunker. Somebody better get that dog out!

Akin’s bitter sore loser speech will live long as an example of why nobody likes the stupid motherfucker.

Well, here in the People’s Republic of Austin, TX, Capitol Metro is not charging any fare to ride the bus today. Clearly, they are bribing poor people with free bus rides.

I’d be pretty pissed if Romney won. I’m having a hard time believing there are enough stupid people to believe you can cut the deficit by cutting taxes 5 trillion dollars and increasing military spending by 2 trillion more. Or that you can trust someone who says something different every day of the week, and pretends that it was always their most sincere belief. Or that someone who outright lies about the auto bailout to try and fool people into voting for them is a good person. Shit, I’m depressed that he gets more than 10% of the vote.

But riot? Nope. I might consider moving to a more sane country before the US becomes a third world hellhole, which would happen about the middle of Mitt’s second term.

Forget it, Jake. It’s Crazytown.

The weird bubble the right wingers live in is kind of creepy. The place where Romney is ahead in all of the polls and where people still care about Benghazi after Romney neutralized the issue with his horrible debate flub a couple weeks ago. I can’t wait until that bubble gets burst next week.

I it seems the stripes are distracting the skin’s receivers. This would a close game if they could catch.

Steeler’s throwback unis look like they’re the Beagle Boys. They’re after Scrooge McDuck’s gold!

I think Al Sharpton (!) had a good analogy last night. He was like a boxer whose corner has told him he’s ahead on points. He just waited for his opponent to get close and just clinched and held on until the referee told them to break. Again and again. This playing not to lose strategy didn’t work out so well for Obama in the first debate, but with the media in the tank for Romney it probably won’t hurt him too much.

Romney’s big problem was the fact that he completely contradicted his well-known policy positions of the past year, and completely denied ever having them. Even the slow-witted are starting to notice the Etch-A-Sketch.

Most comets are just dirty snowballs, and they’re unlikely to have enough iron to make that work. On the other hand, there are a lot of asteroids that have a lot of iron. It just might work.

Never go full retard Ann.

Is there no cost to Romney for just completely reversing his positions at the drop of a hat? I mean, it’s incredibly obvious that he will say anything, nd he stands for nothing. Has there ever been such a cynical and ideologically bankrupt campaign?

Romney’s basic argument is that he would have the same foreign policy as Obama but he’s much more awesome, so the outcomes would be much better. Plus, he’s banking on nobody remembering what he said last week. You’d have to be a real sucker to fall for that. Sadly, there might be enough suckers inAmerica to make this a winning strategy. If so, I’ll be in my room working on a blueprint to steer a comet towards the planet.

As more facts come out, texan99 is looking more and more like a fool: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2012/10/more_problems_for_romney.php?ref=fpblg

However, it’s becoming increasingly clear that its mission here wasn’t a good faith effort to discuss factual matters, it was simply an attempt to try and spread right wing talking points. Fail.

Actually, you’re completely misrepresenting the contents of my post. I suspect you’re just trolling. You should respond to what people actually said, instead of destroying the straw man you constructed.

And let’s do a little comparison. Before the Iraq war, Bush sent Colin Powell to the United Nations to make a deliberately deceptive presentation on the subject of weapons of mass destruction, supported by fake intelligence. It took a couple of years for the facts to come out, and Bush never personally took responsibility for the deception. In Benghazi, intelligence authorities acting in good faith made the wrong assessment. As the facts came out, they were corrected, and in about 2 weeks, the original assessment was corrected, and the administration took responsibility for the failure. This time, adults are in charge.

Here’s what James Clapper (Director of National Intelligence) said on September 28:

“there was information that led us to assess that the attack began spontaneously following protests earlier that day at our embassy in Cairo. We provided that initial assessment to executive branch officials and members of Congress, who used that information to discuss the attack publicly and provide updates as they became available.”