In which Rachel Maddow absolutely destroys the Republican Party.
Mitt Romney may have graciously conceded the election to President Obama Tuesday night, but some conservative pundits and bloggers didn’t accept defeat quite as calmly.
Donald Trump made some of the most controversial comments of the night, calling the election a ‘total sham and a travesty’ on Twitter.
‘We can’t let this happen. We should march on Washington and stop this travesty,’ he wrote. ‘Let’s fight like hell and stop this great and disgusting injustice! The world is laughing at us.’
He deleted others that called for ‘revolution,’ which he wrote when he thought Romney won the popular vote but lost the electoral college.
Rocker and Romney supporter Ted Nugent also went on a Twitter tirade.
‘Pimps whores & welfare brats & their soulless supporters hav (sic) a president to destroy America,’ he wrote. ‘Goodluk (sic) America u just voted for economic & spiritual suicide. Soulless fools.’
The New York Daily News, “Republicans React to Obama Triumph With Anger, Gloom and Calls to Fight.”
Second coming of the Tea Party, here we come!
(via inothernews)
Go ahead, GOP. Fight him.
A VOTER SPEAKS OUT ABOUT MITT ROMNEY’S INSULTING 47% COMMENTS
Newly-discovered audio from a conference call in June captures Mitt Romney asking business owners to urge their employees to vote for him.
Romney, speaking on a call to the very conservative National Federation of Independent Business, tells a group of business owners that they should “make it very clear” how they feel about the candidates. The audio, discovered by In These Times, also captures Romney telling the business owners to “pass… along to your employees” how their jobs might be effected by who wins in November:
I hope you make it very clear to your employees what you believe is in the best interest of your enterprise and therefore their job and their future in the upcoming elections. And whether you agree with me or you agree with President Obama, or whatever your political view, I hope — I hope you pass those along to your employees. Nothing illegal about you talking to your employees about what you believe is best for the business, because I think that will figure into their election decision, their voting decision and of course doing that with your family and your kids as well.
When you know the majority of citizens, don’t support you, you go for bullying and coercion.
Mitt thinks he’d have a better chance to become president if he was Latino. In the first video of the Actually… series Rosie Perez explains why it will take more than being Latino for Mitt to win the election.
[This is SO GOOD.]
(via truth-has-a-liberal-bias)
“As a woman, my health is important to me.
So when it comes to that time of the month, I don’t trust my body with just anyone.
That’s why I choose the one brand of tampon created by the people that know my body best: the gentlemen of the Republican Party.
G.O.B. Tampons — designed with all the knowledge of a woman’s anatomy that only comes from being a 60-plus-year-old conservative man.”
— Saturday Night Live
I’ll be honest, this is the first thing I thought of when I read “G.O.B.” on the box…Tumblr, you need to get on that…
SWING AND A PRAYER We’ve all heard of the swing states — the states that could, in essence, decide the election for either President Obama or Mitt Romney. They’re so “swing” that at least one major news organization has sent out student reporters to all 12 of them, making the other 38 irrelevant! (Just kidding! Sort of. But with one major presidential candidate playing favorites, perhaps now is not the time to divvy up America, I’m just saying.)
Now Nate Silver has done a deeper dive and narrowed those swing states to ten “strategically important” ones, breaking them down into four groups:
- The Big Two (Ohio and Florida)
- The New Breed (Virginia, Colorado and Nevada)
- Primary Purple (Iowa and New Hampshire)
- The Blue Wall (Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan)
His conclusion?
The most plausible range of outcomes runs from Obama losing the election by about two percentage points, slightly better than John Kerry did, to his winning it by perhaps six or seven, slightly worse than his margin from four years ago. Given where the election is being contested, however, the most likely outcome is that Obama wins enough tipping-point states to eke out a victory.
We’ll wait to see what the latest set of polling looks like in light of Romney’s “47%” speech and the fallout from Obama’s handling of the deadly protests in Libya and elsewhere. For now, would love to hear your reactions in the replies and reblogs, please.
(via gov)
GOP presidential candidate MITT ROMNEY, from the audio track of a secretly-taped video made during remarks to a “closed-door gathering of about 30 major donors earlier this year.”
Nothing says “us vs. them” like a little “us vs. them.”
Also, it’s always interesting to me that more people — especially in this day and age — don’t shoot more video or record more audio from behind these “closed-door” meetings. Especially since that’s (apparently) where most of the honest appraisals of the American electorate — by our candidates — take place.
While last week’s Libya response did no favors to Romney, my educated guess is that today, barring any other electoral shocks, will be seen as the day that Mitt Romney lost the presidency because this has much more of a domestic frame to it.
I’ve said this before, if Obama and the Democrats don’t take the club Romney just handed to them today and beat the living snot out of him with it…well, as Ann Coulter said, “Shut it down”
(via mommapolitico)
Rep. Steve King, one of the most staunchly conservative members of the House, was one of the few Republicans who did not strongly condemn Rep. Todd Akin Monday for his remarks regarding pregnancy and rape. King also signaled why — he might agree with parts of Akin’s assertion.
King told an Iowa reporter he’s never heard of a child getting pregnant from statutory rape or incest.
“Well I just haven’t heard of that being a circumstance that’s been brought to me in any personal way,” King told KMEG-TV Monday, “and I’d be open to discussion about that subject matter.”
A Democratic source flagged King’s praise of Akin in the KMEG interview to TPM. But potentially more controversial for King is his suggestion that pregnancies from statutory rape or incest don’t exist or happen rarely. A 1996 review by the Guttmacher Institute found “at least half of all babies born to minor women are fathered by adult men.”
The tie between statutory rape and teen pregnancy has been the subject of ad campaigns from groups like United Way.
H.R. 3, the bill co-sponsored by King, Akin and Paul Ryan in 2011, originally called for an exemption in the federal ban on abortion funding only in the case of “forcible rape.” That language was dropped after pressure from women’s advocates and Democrats. At the time, the Republican sponsors of the legislation weren’t too interested in discussing their reasoning for the wording.
Talking Points Memo, “Rep. Steve King: I’ve Never Heard of a Girl Getting Pregnant from Statuatory Rape or Incest.”
Jesus fucking Christ already. White conservative men just need to shut the fuck up.
(via inothernews)
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