Oh, wait a second.
PRESIDENT OBAMA WON! Whoo-hoo! He got his second term just as predicted, with well over 300 electoral votes! And once Florida figures out how to count and its 29 electoral votes are added, the President will have a total of 332! WOW! Another landslide! And that Regressive republican, lying, flip flopping, two faced, duplicitous, self-serving, robotic empty suit lost! WHOO-HOOOOOOOO!!!
Okay, now the exhilaration has subsided. For real. On with the results before another wave washes over me.
But before we get to the results, a word about Florida. Once again, the country shakes its collective head in disbelief at the idiots who run the only state that can't seem to accomplish an election on time like the rest of the country. We're like a third world nation. Soon we'll need UN observers to oversee our elections.
This is nothing more than counting, folks. It's what you learn in first grade. Do we need to bring back that bald geek with the giant bulging eyeballs who stared at the "hanging chads" back in 2000?Once again, Florida was the state with the longest lines, the most chaos at the voting locations, and the only state that still hasn't figured out how to finish counting them. We need to get rid of the incompetents starting with the Regressive governor, who cut the number of early voting days in half and refused, when asked by the League of Women Voters and other groups, to add an extra day or two before election day. And we need to rid ourselves of the Regressives in the House and Senate. They're getting paid for a job they can't do. Time for a pink slip.
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Disgraced Col. Allen West of Florida has lost his congressional seat but is refusing to admit defeat and accept the fact that the voters booted him out. This is the guy who once said most of the Democrats in Congress were Communists. This is the guy who called Debbie Wasserman Schultz "vile". This is the guy whose irresponsible and violent actions in the military caused him to be relieved of his command, charged with three counts of aggravated assault and fined $5,000. His military career was over, and he was allowed to retire the next year.
Goodbye Todd Akin, who made up the bizarre term, "legitimate rape." He claimed a woman can't possibly get pregnant from rape because her body will magically "shut the whole thing down."
Goodbye Richard Mourdock, who said, "pregnancy resulting from rape is a gift from god; part of god's will."
Goodbye Deadbeat Dad Joe Walsh, who openly mocked double amputee, American hero and veteran, Tammy Duckworth.
HELLO Senator Tammy Baldwin, Democrat from Wisconsin, and first openly gay US Senator! She beat far rightwinger Tommy Thompson for a seat in the US Senate.
HELLO Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts!
and WELCOME BACK Alan Grayson, temporarily out of the US House as a Democratic Representative from Florida, replaced for 2 years by a far rightwing Teabagger, who was just voted back in by a 2-1 margin.
And my US Representative, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who is also the Chair of the DNC, beat Karen Harrington (R) -- her perennial challenger who never seems to learn that we don't want her -- by a 2-1 margin.
Bottom line is President Barack Obama won re-election with about 100 more electoral votes than Willard Romney received -- and that number will rise further when Florida's 29 points are added to the score. And the Democrats picked up seats in the House as well as the Senate.
FOUR states voted in favor of marriage equality: Washington state, Maine, Minn, and Maryland.
Americans
sent a loud message: We will not accept the rightwing's race-baiting
tactics, the despicable, constant lying, voter suppression and false
narratives of a "lack of enthusiasm" on the part of Democrats and Obama supporters. Make it more difficult and we show
up in HUGE numbers.The Regressive republicans' disaster from this past Tuesday has led to on-air meltdowns and temper tantrums from Rush Limbaugh, Donald Trump, The Quitter from Wasilla, Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, and Karl Rove, who, in Right Wing World, is somehow allowed run one of the biggest political PACS while simultaneously acting as a "Fox contributor and analyst", sitting on their set and offering "analysis."
The tape of Karl's shock and disbelief at President Obama's re-election is now legendary, having been played on The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and run endlessly on all of msnbc's shows. I myself have gleefully rewound and watched it countless times!
This stems from all of Fox's mouthpieces refusing to accept the results of every political poll for the last couple of months. They live in their own world, separate from reality. All polls have shown that in almost every swing state, President Obama led Willard by several points. The rightwing mouthpieces have spent these last couple of months talking themselves into believing that every poll in the country was wrong and that Willard would not only win, but would win big -- taking almost every swing state by storm.
And then reality came along and hit them in the face like a snowball you didn't see coming.
The clip below shows Karl in denial so classic that it will be shown in psychology classes for decades to come. The rightwing echo chamber has so talked itself into its own set of "facts" that reality just couldn't possibly be true! And thus the meltdown, where Karl insisted that Obama hadn't won. If we could just wait for more results to come in, why, Willard would be the winner and Karl would be vindicated! He even sent one of their blonde reporters down to the Room of Political Geeks to find out why they had pronounced "the wrong guy" as the winner. She dutifully walks off the set down to the Geek Room and is told that the stats show Obama won. And they say they're "99.95% sure of the results"! Further, most of the votes that had yet to be counted would come from highly Democratic precincts.
It was hilarious. Watch Rove steadfastly refuse to believe what his own network -- as well as every other network -- has projected. And he does it while the Chyron graphic under his fat face exclaims, "BARACK OBAMA RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT."
Priceless.
Rove wouldn't accept reality because he spent about $400,000,000 of his rich donors' money and got nothing for it. Billionaire Sheldon Adelson also spent hundreds of millions in the Regressive republicans' primary and then spent more on Willard's campaign and got nothing in return. Think these nice folks are furious right about now? LOL
This is a good thing. It shows that despite the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling -- allowing unlimited funds to a candidate's political PAC by any unnamed entity, foreign or domestic -- the voters cannot be bought. And they weren't.
Now, the Regressive republican party has a big problem. Their base -- angry middle aged white men -- is a diminishing demographic. Unless they reach out to women, gays, blacks and hispanics, they will continue on the road to extinction. And that doesn't mean trotting out Condoleezza Rice at another convention, as if to say, "See? We have 'one of them,' too!" It means coming up with legislation that will actually benefit those groups.
The problem is if they reach out to women, gays, blacks and hispanics, they will lose their base of angry old christian white men, because that base just happens to hate all those groups.
And now we Liberals can sit back and watch the Republican Civil War begin. I can tell you right now, they don't get it. They never will. Their mouthpieces have already spent the last few days screaming about -- and blaming -- Hurricane Sandy, Chris Christie (for complimenting the President's quick, effective response to the hurricane), Candy Crowley, fact checkers, the media, and the polls. But they won't blame themselves, their attitudes, or their regressive legislation.
Alec Baldwin summed it up perfectly with a humorous tweet: You know your party's in trouble when someone asks, "how'd the rape guy do?" And you answer, "which one?"
UPDATE:
President Obama has won the state of Florida, bringing his Electoral College tally up to 332. Willard Romney ended up with 206.
President Obama addresses his staff.
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