Michael Tomasky has a fine piece on the GOP's self-delusion syndrome:
"What a fantastic last two weeks these have been. I don’t even mean Barack Obama solidifying his lead over Mitt Romney, although that’s perfectly fine. No, I mean the near-mathematically perfect joy of watching these smug and contemptible creatures of the right dodge and swerve and make excuses and, most of all, whine. There is no joy in the kingdom of man so great as the joy of seeing bullies and hucksters laid low, and watching people who have arrogantly spent years assuming they were right about the world living to see all those haughty assumptions die before their eyes. Watching them squirm is more fun than watching Romney and Paul Ryan flail away.
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It’s not lies with which Limbaugh and Morris are now coming face-to-face. It’s the truth. Americans like Barack Obama. They don’t like Romney. And they really don’t like Ryan."
And Robert Farley of "Lawyers, Guns, and Money" asks some interesting questions that punch holes the size of Chris Christie in the GOP's quaint "skewed polls" theory.
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Great comedy!
Great pablum for the masses!
Obama will win
Much to the chagrin
Of those who will inherit
The eventual wind
FoxNews is so openly biased as to be ridiculous...but Colbert's
wit is not only funny..but 'fair
and balanced'.
Mitt Romney Favorability Lower Than George W. Bush, Poll Finds
Dissing the polls as inaccurate shows the level of desperation to which the republicans have fallen.
They create their own reality.
The Theater of the Absurd, aka the GOP, just keeps funnier. The Romney campaign is already putting into play a defense of their candidate's performance during the upcoming debates by claiming:
"– President Obama is "widely regarded as one of the most talented political communicators in modern history."
– "This will be the eighth one-on-one presidential debate of his political career. For Mitt Romney, it will be his first."
– "Four years ago, Barack Obama faced John McCain on the debate stage. According to Gallup, voters judged him the winner of each debate by double-digit margins, and their polling showed he won one debate by an astounding 33-point margin."
Myers argues that Obama will "use his ample rhetorical gifts and debating experience to one end: attacking Mitt Romney."
"We fully expect a 90-minute attack ad aimed at tearing down his opponent," she writes in the memo.
Pushing back against emerging conventional wisdom, Myers concludes that the debates will not, in fact, decide the election: "It will be decided by the American people," she says."
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/27/first-on-cnn-romney-memo-seeks-to-lower-debate-expectations/?hpt=hp_t1
Hilarious. Already defensive and, in a sense, falling back on the "blame-it-on-Obama" theme before it even gets started. The statement is right about one thing, though: The American people will decide -- unless the GOP engages in a lot of cheating (which they've already begun). Of course all the polls showing Obama in a comfortable lead, even in swing states, are part of a "liberal conspiracy" -- even those at Fox!!! Love it.
I xan;t wait for the final week before the election. The Republicans will be doing the whole Fuhrerbunker thing.
Having lower favorability than W is pathetic.
Poll freak-out indeed. On the right-wing sites I read, they are working diligently to convince themselves that all the polls other than Rasmussen are "skewed" because they show such a high level of Democratic party ID. They're in denial about the fact that those pollsters don't weight their samples by party ID, but simply report what people tell them about their party preference. They can't imagine the possibility that the Republican party's deepening lunacy is pushing more Americans to identify with the Democrats.
When even Fox's polls kept showing Obama ahead, there was the same dismissive "they're in the tank for Obama" response. That's right, Fox News is now guilty of deliberately skewing its polls to produce pro-Obama propaganda. Truly delusional.
Anyone who questions the skewed-polls dogma is shouted down and called an Obama campaign operative.
Utter, abject reality-denial. What they've done with evolution, anthropogenic global warming, and Keynesian economics, they're now doing with polls.
Pathetic. But like Tomasky, I feel no sympathy. These people are defenders and excuse-makers for the ugliest and most bigoted ideas and attitudes. On November 7 I will be gloating. Quietly, but I'll be gloating.
Yes. The reality is too painful.
They've convinced themselves that the only reason Mr. Obama is ahead is because the polling companies are cheating!
I knew it would happen. This is how they've behaved since Mr. Obama became president.
Ignore what is real.
Create your own reality because truth is too painful to face.
I see it every day on conservative blogs.
So sad.
"There is no joy in the kingdom of man so great as the joy of seeing bullies and hucksters laid low . . ."
Or, the sweetest of desserts are the just ones. ;)
Re: Republicans turning on the supposedly biased polls. We're witnessing the childish reaction of bully types who've spent decades saying and doing anything to win. They've sacrificed honor, integrity, honesty and their credibility in a perpetually compulsive drive to win. It's to be expected they will act out angrily and irrationally when denied the victory they feel entitled to.
Anyone who doubts that need only waste a few minutes listening to Rush Limbaugh. There's no spectacle quite as disgusting as an obese, old, cynical bully having tantrums of the kind most people leave behind in their middle-school years if not before.
No Shaw, it's not that they are cheating. The question is the statistical models they are using.
Is this going to be like 2008? Or 2010?
Some argue that based upon voter registrations and self-identification from other polling, some polls are oversampling Democrats.
2010? Seriously? When, what, 30% of the voting public actually voted? And that's because fewer people are motivated--except for the party that's out of power--than are motivated to vote in presidential elections.
You keep telling yourself all those glittery fairytales.
I'm sticking with Nate Silver:
New York Magazine, on October 12, 2008, referred to Silver as "The Spreadsheet Psychic": "a number-crunching prodigy who went from correctly forecasting baseball games to correctly forecasting presidential primaries".[73] Other commentators drew a parallel between Silver's baseball prognosticatons and his election forecasting in 2008: "The Tampa Bay Rays and Barack Obama have made 2008 the year of the surprise contender, though one man predicted both successes before nearly anyone else – and he sees a general election landslide for Obama over John McCain on Tuesday".
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