I can't help but feel that Mitt Romney has been set up.

[tk2kewl]

But I don't quite know how to articulate it without sounding nuts. I wish George Carlin were around to say it for me.

[L0oniX]

1. Here ya go ...pick one...

http://blogzarro.com/2007/05/100-greatest-george-carlin-quotes/

[tk2kewl]

3. I mean I would love to hear him talk about current events

Like Mitt is being set up as the scapegoat and everyone else is going to get off scot-free.

[Whisp]

38. inspiring

[Sebass1271]

36. Did he get to comment on Obama?

I wonder what he would say today about Him.

[MrMickeysMom]

2. By whom and for what reason?

By KKKarl Rove, so that he can create a distraction from his evil plan to Republicanize all the fascists in Congress?

That's what I be thinking, if I had a feeling at all about this, the worst fucked up party that's ever degenerated.

[tk2kewl]

4. I was thinking more about the power of the money behind the scenes

Nt

[MrMickeysMom]

12. Yeah, but who's money?

Criminals that operate from Wall Street?

Three things in life keep coming up as the 3 worst... The obsession with -

1) Money
2) Sex
3) Power

So, once you know which one of these things are the driving force behind RMoney, then you've got to wonder which corrupt institution is behind it-

The World Bank?
Religious Hegemony?
Military?

[grasswire]

5. I believe John McCain was set up.

And if John McCain and Mitt were both set up, I can only surmise that the Bushes are behind it. Using failing GOP candidates as place holders during two terms so people will forget about W and be ready to accept Jeb.

[greyseal]

25. This is extremely plausible. Jeb's biding his time.

[Art_from_Ark]

26. You could be right

Even people here seem to be forgetting how awful Junior was.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021378524

[EmeraldCityGrl]

37. I'm thinking Jeb's son George P. Bush.

He's Latino and they will use that to capture the
Latino vote. He's been groomed since he was 12 yrs. old
And spoke at the Repub convention on behalf of his
Grandfather.

[left on green only]

6. Are we talking cosmic here.......

.....as in John Smith?

[HoneychildMooseMoss]

7. Maybe he's a "sacrificial lamb"?

The Republicans probably knew they wouldn't be able to win this year, with all of those third-tier candidates they had in the primaries, so maybe they're just going to fall on their swords this time around, and field a candidate next time who will seem sane by comparison?

[tk2kewl]

14. I just get the feeling it's bigger

[pkdu]

8. How about this....

" no one , and I mean fucking no one , has ever wanted the Presidency so bad , and been willing to say anything , and I mean fucking ANYTHING , to any audience and still not have anything close to the wholehearted support of his/her Party establishment"

[tk2kewl]

10. Are you saying that is evidence of a set up?

[pkdu]

15. My "quote" was satirical ...but

Party based in truth.

I firmly believe ;
1. GOP looked at all the "clown car" occupants and said " is that the best we can do" ?
2. Begged others to join the race who said NFW this time round ( Christie , Jeb etc)
3. Then said fuck it.....he's the best hope we have but chances are he loses.

[RobertEarl]

9. He stood a chance

And then he started talking.

He is the best the republicans could find. Which tells you a lot about that party.

[tk2kewl]

11. I hope your right and I'm just over thinking it

[former-republican]

13. I think they tried to go with a centrist

but they ended up with Romney.

I don't think you will ever see a hard right wing President ever win another election. They didn't know all this shit was going to come out.

The country is changing for the better.

[ode2joi]

22. Fog of Class Warfare

Akin and now Romney both committed the unpardonable sin(s) of telling the truth. They were able to get low/middle income whites to vote against their own best interests..they are beginning to wake up to the fact that they are the "New Negroes"....when the fog completely lifts they will not be happy!

[former-republican]

28. can I sign up for your news letter

[Major Nikon]

16. Willard is a robot from the future sent to insure nobody votes GOP ever again.

[reformist2]

17. I think Mitt is a practical joke Massachusetts played on the Republican party.

If they hadn't let him be a figurehead governor for one term, none of this would have ever happened.

[Spider Jerusalem]

18. Set up by whom?

The only thing I can see coming out of a Romney defeat is the GOP base going "see this is what we get for nominating a moderate" and going the full Palin in 2016. (And if not Palin someone equally extreme-right.) Which may just end up finishing them as a party, because a sizeable percentage of the GOP base is too stupid to realise that no, the problem isn't that your national candidates are too moderate, the problem is that candidates who are moderate enough to win a national election are forced to embrace extremist right-wing policies to placate the base and end up alienating enough voters to cost them the election.

[former-republican]

19. See I don't think he is a moderate

We are finding more and more out about him.

The reason he won the primary is because many republicans are moderate.
The only people that really like him now are the hard right wingers.

The rest of the GOP have no choice but to go along now.

[greyseal]

27. I can't decide if he's a hard-line corporatist or if this a religious delusion (or both)

[ProSense]

20. Ann Romney

More like sabotage.

[fadedrose]

21. I don't want to sound nuts either,

but George Carlin might be just the one to tell us, that is, if you believe in ghosts, karma, heavenly intervention and supernatural stuff.

What do ya say, George? Are we nuts?

[justice1]

23. I don't think so, he initially intrigued me

National health care being the main reason.

[JI7]

24. that makes no sense

[SunsetDreams]

29. He's not a victim

If he has been set up, it is of his own doing.

The GOP didn't set out to set him up, no one did. They made the mistake of thinking they could just lie about President Obama's record, obstruct him and the economy at every turn, and get away with it.

The GOP and Romney have been hoisted by their own petard.

[longship]

30. No major party would nominate a candidate to deliberately lose.

Got it?

And Rove is not an omnipotent, omniscient god.

[KurtNYC]

40. Romney was their best shot this year

He had the money to outlast the others and he brought the whole LDS machine with him.

Ryan is worse, Santorum would be worse off at this stage, Gingrinch was damaged goods, Rick Perry seems too much like Bush, same for Jeb -- BTDT.

[Selatius]

31. I don't think anybody sane on the Republican side thought he would unseat Obama.

He was a sacrificial lamb. They're waiting for the 2016 race.

2016 is when the whole thing is wide open.

I worry that they'll run Jeb Bush, not because he's moderate (because he's not) but because he might fool enough people into victory.

[Sebass1271]

34. Jeb is seating back watching

Everything unfold he will return with Rubio and bingo! Finish with the supreme court.

[Incitatus]

32. Just because this is possibly the worst run Presidential campaign

ever, doesn't mean it was by design. I think the Obama campaign has done a great job, maybe more than meets the eye in dominating this election.

[aletier_v]

33. Remember the remarks about historical outcomes & the economy

Republicans figured it was in the bag

and all they had to do was add $$$$$$$

to definitely tip it.



they just plain underestimated people

and overestimated their historical facts & $$$$

[Incitatus]

35. There was a thread earlier about the effects of social media on elections.

Thanks to the Internet and Al Gore's role in helping to CREATE (NOT INVENT it as the RW lie goes) through legislation that opened it to universities, libraries, business and private use, the people are able to better communicate and disseminate information. The MSM is often forced to cover stories just because of the peoples' use of social media.

I was pissed and very concerned about Citizens United and I still think it needs to go, but it seems the resources the people have are able to counter the bullshit special interests can promote with their millions/billions? in propaganda.

[GeorgeGist]

39. It began long, long ago ...

[mfcorey1]

41. He probably would not take advice from Karl Rove, so they will let him row

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waaaaaaaaay out in the ocean and took his paddle.

[rug]

42. It's pretty bad when billionaires are playing millionaires.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

43. I don't think so...

The Koch Brothers (et. al.) have spent literally hundreds of millions of dollars on this election cycle. I don't think they would do that just to set up Mitt Romney.