I've got a baaaad feeling about this.
I said this prior to Obama's election, and I think I was pretty much correct...they Republicans knew the economy was in the shitter, and they'd do whatever they could to keep it there and blame the black guy.
Now, we're hearing all sorts of warning bells ringing about how bad the European economy really is, and LIBOR, and the dollar being turned into paper maché, and the whole world collapsing...so, if the GOP really wanted to win, why the bloody hell would they nominate Romney?
And now, the GOP is on every news program bashing their own candidate! WTF? Why would they be doing this? Looking down the pike, perhaps? They know what's coming, because they're helping create the debacle, and it will properly set them up for 2016? Remember, the GOP plays the long game. The Dems play the quarter.
Might seem far-fetched, but these guys aren't behaving normally...it's like when the cows lie down before a thunderstorm, or the birds disappear before a tornado. Something is up.
Of course, I could be wrong.
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Okay, so what could be the downside? Obama wins again? And, as a lame duck, he gets to do stuff without worrying about reelection? Is that really enough? What if? What if the economy tanks as bad as every major economist is saying will happen? Obama will take the blame, and another Bush skates in in 2016. New World Order achieved.
Of course, I could be wrong.
And you're and ass.
(Alerters, keep scheming's comment in mind when you get your panties in a wad over my "personal attack."
Reading these posts with much interest this morning and thought I would chime in with MY conspiracy theory, for what it is worth.
Factual basis for my theory: America and the rest of the world is on the brink of catastrophic disaster. We all know why. We need immediate action, now. Immediate and intelligent action now can only mitigate the extreme challenges this world is facing, but it is better than doing nothing at all. And with the Religious Right and T-Party crazies in Congress and the Senate either running the show with their elected Greedmiester as President -- or -- just sitting around filibustering and obstructing everything as they have been with Obama in office, nothing -- NOTHING -- can get done to prepare us for the disasters that are surely coming.
Billionaires and "real" Republicans (not the crazy whacked-out Bachmann T-Party types) must surely have enough common sense to see the writing on the wall. They must know, without any doubt, that another four years of wasted political arguing between the party that wants to do what is right and the lunatic party that only cares about forcing their religious morality on others would be extremely dangerous not only to the "little people", but to their cush position riding on the shoulders of the little people too.
The question is, how to get rid of all the right-wing religious extremist nutbag whackos.
Enter Mitt Romney. He is the annointed one, "The One" to use a Matrix term, the penultimate representation of the perfect "leader" for the greedy, religious, isolationist, racist extremists.
My theory is that Mitt Romney has received assurances along the way from little birds whispering in his ear that he doesn't need to worry about things like his tax returns, or his Bain experience. The little birds whispering in his ear, and the billionaires pumping the money into his campaign, have assured Romney that he IS their man. But those assurances were all lies meant to maneuver Romney into position for a final, huge, epic smack-down.
My theory is that Romney is now in the process of being on the receiving end of that smack-down. He is going to take a hard, hard nose dive right into the political trash can, and there will be a lot of right-wing extremists running for Congress and Senate that will take that nose-dive with Romney. The psychological impact will be the equivalant of Romney being publicly whipped and tarred and feathered on national TV. The right-wing whacko base is going to GET the message. They'll crawl back into their holes that they slithered out of. Obama -- not a liberal president but a little right of center president as we all know -- will have a congress and senate that he can WORK with, and get some very needed legislation passed. In 2016, Jeb Bush or another "real" conservative will have a new landscape to work with, and not have to run the crazy religious right-wing whacko gauntlet of approval.
That's my theory. Hope you have as much "fun" reading it as I did typing it. Back to work...
