It’s the truth. Americans like Barack Obama. They don’t like Romney. And they really don’t like Ryan

[kpete]

Michael Tomasky on the GOP’s Self-Delusion Syndrome
by Michael Tomasky Sep 27, 2012 4:45 AM EDT
With Obama’s lead in several swing states becoming insurmountable, the right has begun to panic—by denying reality altogether.

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.

But no—now, the mere fact of poll-taking is “a subtle means of Republican voter suppression,” as Simon Maloy put it over at Media Matters. And the latest whine—this cupboard somehow never runs bare—is that conservatives don’t like taking polls. So said Scott Walker to Fox on Wednesday. Yes, of course! Because conservatives are people of action, busy people, who have neither the time (like the indolent 47 percenters) nor the inclination to accept phone calls from lamestream media pollsters. Honestly. Scott Walker can’t really believe this.

And finally, the last refuge of these scoundrels, bashing the librul media. Did you catch Rush Limbaugh’s pathetic rant on Tuesday after the famous blown interception call? Packer fans should just shake it off, he said, because the true aggrieved party is conservatives: “We’re lied about every day. The media gets it wrong on purpose against us every day. Now, I think it’s a good analogy.”

It’s a ridiculous analogy, and it’s not lies with which Limbaugh and Morris and their ilk are now coming face-to-face. It’s the truth. Americans like Barack Obama. They don’t like Mitt Romney. They really don’t like Paul Ryan. And they don’t want any part of the ideology of callousness and make-believe facts and pigheaded warmongering—and economic crisis and big deficits and all of that—that the Republicans are peddling. Of course these people will never come to terms with all that. But right now, boys, you’re running out of targets, and excuses.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/27/michael-tomasky-on-the-gop-s-self-delusion-syndrome.html

[Cary]

1. kpete, are we getting carried away here or are we really kicking ass?

I'm getting really excited about this. I have a really good feeling. I hope I'm not going to suffer a let down because I'll be crushed.

[AndyTiedye]

4. We Might be Getting a Bit Carried Away

The teabaggers control 27 states with 270 electoral votes, including most of the swing states. We need a landslide to stop them from stealing it.

[jmowreader]

5. They do now

Idaho is a bellwether for the teabagger movement, so let's look at our primary for inspiration.

The teabaggers primaried every non-bagger incumbent in the state. Every non-bagger incumbent survived to the general. IOW the only teabaggers still able to be elected are incumbents from last election.

On edit: While there are many baggers in office now, that they ran purely on economics then failed to work on solving economic problems (the Idaho baggers spent a week debating America's return to the gold standard and two debating nullifying the Income Tax Amendment...yes, Virginia, the Idaho Legislature did this), there may be a lot of teabaggers going home. They are a loud minority; no one likes paying taxes but most people understand why we do.

You will like this: in my county the sheriff is retiring. The chief deputy (who is more competent than the current sheriff, and the current sheriff is very good) won the primary over three teabaggers. He got 80 percent of the vote. Now all three teabaggers are running write-in campaigns. It will be fun to see them be stomped a second time.

[reformist2]

8. We're not kicking ass yet, but the country is clearly no longer 50/50... it's changing.

[flamingdem]

2. what's to like?

(nada)

[HockeyMom]

3. While I don't like Romney,

and I have worked side by side with the Romney's of the corporate world, I dislike Ryan even more.

MAYBE Romney as a rich kid MIGHT have an excuse for being the way he is, Ryan has no excuse whatsoever for being how he is.

[JI7]

6. yeah, pity might be a better term for how i feel about Romney

he just comes off so lame, pathetic etc .

but ryan i really do hate. i hated/hate Bush also.

[lunatica]

7. All I have to do is remember the untold numbers of people who've lost their jobs

because of Romney's life's work and feeling sorry for him is the last thing I'll ever do.

[reformist2]

9. Yep. Every time I see how well off he is, I think how that wealth was taken from hundreds of workers

[porphyrian]

10. . n/t