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Note from Dan: Nobody on this blog more loudly and confidently predicted Barack Obama’s certain loss in the 2012 election than Suzie, the flagrantly wrong and conservative regular here. For that reason, I thought it would be interesting to look back at a few of her doozies, and I’m indebted to Dave Hicks for collecting them and passing them along in an email.  All of them are linked below. Dave writes: “So, hozabout a review of merely a small sample of her losing claims / epic failures / severe self-flagellation / unbroken string of losses over the past year and a half?” 

Thanks, Dave! Enjoy, everybody!

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“I can’t wait until after Romney’s landslide win to repost a whole bunch of quotes from you clowns. I’m saving them and categorizing them to pull out at the appropriate times. It should be great fun.”

–Comment by Suzie — Aug. 26, 2012, 2:28 p.m.

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“Obama blinked on the tax increase demands. He’s officially history. WoooHOOOO!”
–Comment by Suzie  July 26, 2011, 5:34 p.m.

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“For Dan’s next contest, I suggest “Possible occupations for Obama after January, 2013″

My entry: Capitol Hill shoeshine boy for the new GOP majority.”

–Comment by Suzie, July 30, 2011, 4:44 p.m.

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“Lord knows he has nothing to lose. He knows he has no chance at re-election. And history has shown he doesn’t care what happens to his party when it comes to advancing his socialist agenda. A desperate man like this might do a General Sherman. Slash and burn and damn the consequences.

As his situation gets more dire, I look for 0bama to lose it one day soon, a la Howard Dean.”

–Comment by Suzie, July 31, 2011, 9:53 a.m.

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“Obama now trailing all GOP contenders on generic ballot by 9%. Need any more proof Idiot Boy’s toast?”

–Comment by Suzie, Aug. 3, 2011, 10:46 a.m.

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“ROFL. Those two [Bachmann or Perry ] are the Dems’ worst nightmare. Perhaps y’all should be assessing the risk factor of the Dems running Mr. 39%, the worst president in American history.”

–Comment by Suzie, Aug. 15, 2011,  5:08 p.m.

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“I wonder if the liberal meda [sic] which made such a big deal about 0bama being “historic” because he was black will made a big deal about Bachmann being historic for being the first woman if she wins the nomination.

Somehow I think that will be glossed over.”

–Comment by Suzie,  Aug. 21, 2011, 9:27 a.m.

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“Obama might get a job shining shoes next fall or maybe return to his former job of selling ice cream. Life sucks when you’re kicked down to the lower rungs of the economy you’ve created, doesn’t it?

And then what happens if Moochele is forced to return all the items she ‘borrowed?’ I envision hard times for the 0bamas. Maybe the MSM can pass the hat for them.”

–Comment by Suzie, Sept. 14, 2011, 9:31 a.m.

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“Still think your Idiot Boy would have a prayer against Perry, Bachmann or Palin?

Maybe your time would be better spent not attacking Rick Perry and tending your own back yard.”

–Comment by Suzie,  Sept. 14, 2011, 9:20 a.m.

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“Who do y’all have that could beat any our top tier?”

–Comment by Suzie, — Sept. 20, 2011, 10:53 a.m.

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“The word is that 0bama will be asked to step aside within the next few weeks. They figure it’s their only sliver of a chance to retain a few seats in Congress —in other words they’ve already written off the presidential election.

Their hope (and ours) is that 0bama refuses to leave. Then they are stuck with that albatross. I’m thinking he is far too vain to give it up.

This is REALLY going to be fun!”

–Comment by Suzie, Sept. 20, 2011, 11:00 a.m.

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“LMAO. Democrats would have a better chance running 90-year-old George McGovern.”

–Comment by Suzie — Oct. 4, 9:51 p.m.

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“What leftwingers miss (as usual) is that the GOP is a splintered field with many very strong evenly matched candidates. The fact that four or five of them are either tied or within shouting distance of idiot boy is amazing and probably unprecedented for a sitting president. Once the field is distilled down, that specific GOP candidate will be heavily favored to win, regardless of whom the Democrats end up nominating. Right now Vegas has the unnamed GOP nominee favored to win.”

–Comment by Suzie, Oct. 5, 2011, 7:19 p.m.

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“Debbie is quoting a bunch of liberals, as if their opinion of the GOP field means squat. There are so many extraordinary candidates, the challenge is finding the best one. It’s like picking between Magic, Byrd, Jordan, and Kobe. Who the Democrats end up nominating is also uncertain, but it won’t matter.”

–Comment by Suzie, Oct. 9, 2011, 8:43  a.m.

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“Not the Tea Party members. They’re are all safe. They’re the only ones doing the job they were elected to do. Like last year, the MSM will be misnaming the Democrat whitewash “anti-incumbency.”

–Comment by Suzie, Nov. 21, 2011, 7:52 a.m.

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“The landslide loss for the Democrat candidate next year will probably be as crushing than Carter’s because 2012 and 1980 were both represented by a movement.”

–Comment by Suzie,  Nov. 30, 2011, 1:24 p.m.

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“11 months to the day until the election and the Democrats still don’t have a candidate. Shrillary and Mark Warner have said ‘No thanks’. They know a sinking ship when they see one. I guess the Democrats could turn to their roster of losers; Kerry, Algore, Dukakis, or Mondull. This way they might still salvage 5 states.”

–Comment by Suzie, Dec. 6, 2011, 8:05 a.m.

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“Here’s what everyone must remember: This race is over and has been over since the debt ceiling debate. A few liberals have even had the courage to admit as much, notably Pat Caddell.

But a 32-state win and a 4% margin isn’t good enough for me, and that is why I desperately want a strong conservative like Santorum instead of the so-so Romney. If Rick is our nominee, then in addition to fiscal responsibility, the race becomes about good vs. evil, and when morality is on the ballot, conservatives ALWAYS win big. I want a 45-state whitewash and an 8+% margin. I want the SOB and all his socialist crap thoroughly repudiated. THEN Santorum will start taking the steps proven to work to get this economy back on its feet, and as Bush did 11 years ago, restore morality to the White House.”

–Comment by Suzie, Jan. 11. 2012, 11:15 a.m.

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“Keep singing yourself this song, liberal pukes. Idiot Boy can’t get of the low 40s. Every incumbent president with those kinds of numbers has gotten blown out. You’re setting yourself up for a stunner in November.”

–Comment by Suzie,  Jan. 18, 2012, 5:02 p.m.

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“If Santorum wins, 0bama will be lucky to win 5 states. Rick is the only one who articulates true conservationism and has never veered from the path. He’s the one America wants.”

–Comment by Suzie — Feb. 8, 8:04 a.m.

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“I look for this blog to clear out this fall after Obama’s landslide win.”

“That’s funny. Even liberal Gallup has Obama trailing by 5, and they’re doing they’re best to help him out.http://www.gallup.com/home.aspx

Face it. NO serious prognosticator thinks Monkey Boy has a prayer. This thing is over and has been for almost a year.”

–Comment by Suzie, April 18, 12:51 p.m.

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“So this is terrific. We knew Idiot Boy said goodbye to 10 million votes the minute he picked this fight, but now with the bishops actively engaged, it could cost a him a lot more.

I’m feeling really good about a Romney landslide.”

–Comment by Suzie, May 27, 8:17 p.m.

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“Stick a fork in Idiot Boy. He’s done.”

–Comment by Suzie, June 9, 2012, 10:49 p.m.

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“Romney will beat the little boy with the big ears at every stop from now on on how he LIED about the huge tax cut on the middle class.”

–Comment by Suzie, June 28, 6:58 p.m.

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“Paul Ryan is an outstanding choice for VEEP. Quick as a whip, Tea Party guy. Romney already had the election wrapped up, but this will get the Tea Party even more energized.”

–Comment by Suzie, Aug. 11, 2012, 1:15 p.m.

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“Gallup now has Romney up by two nationally (which means he’s up by 9 or 10).

Is crow tasting pretty good for all you libs who predicted Ryan would hurt the ticket?

LOL and BUSTED.”

–Comment by Suzie,  Aug. 14, 6:24 p.m.

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“Time for bed now, but I agree with Michael Moore for once: Get used to President Romney.”

–Comment by Suzie  — Sept. 6, 11:47 p.m.

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“The election isn’t close. Romney has a commanding lead and about $100 million more that he’s free to spend now that the conventions are over. 0bama got the usual convention bounce of three points. After a week or so, Romney will return to his baseline six-seven point lead and the money will expand it from there.

“Expect the MSM which controls, moderates, then spins the debates to try to help 0bama out, but barring some hugely successful dirty trick, Romney wins in a landslide.”

Comment by Suzie, Sept. 9, 8:08 a.m.

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“But Romney will win in a landslide. He looked very presidential in his blasting 0bama’s incompetence and pathetic apology to the Islamic terrorists. Strong moments like that will help him both with the conservative base and with swing voters.”

–Comment by Suzie, Sept. 13, 9:15 a.m.

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“Romney will win in a landslide. Nothing has changed. The polls haven’t changed. Neither Gallup nor Rasmussen favors 0bama. Same as before. Yawn.”

–Comment Suzie,  Sept. 23, 2012, 3:18 p.m.

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“Romney still has more money and is now the better debater, having been through the mill the past two years. He’s going to overcome the MSM hatchet job, and win this thing.”

–Comment by Suzie,  Sept. 25, 2012, 8:26 p.m.

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“Romney is going to win by 7 which will qualify as a landslide. Whatever polls you clowns are citing are wrong.”

–Comment by Suzie, Oct. 1, 2012, 10:24 p.m.

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“Can I just interject sanity in all this nonsense? Let me say the same thing I have been saying months. Romney leads by a significant margin today, as he did yesterday, last week, and last month. Obama was NEVER going to win, was never going to come close.

Romney is going to win in a landslide, and was always going to do so. The only difference is now more people know it.”

–Comment by Suzie, Oct. 9, 2012, 11:59 a.m.

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“Let me predict further, ladies and gentlemen, that not only will Romney win in a 6+ point landslide, the GOP will take a minimum of 54 Senate seats. You may mark it down and take it to the bank.”

–Comment by Suzie, Oct. 18, 2012, 11:43 a.m.

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172 COMMENTS

  1. Kristen | November 7, 2012 at 8:05 am

    I don’t keep binders of files on the blog, so thanks for doing this for me.
    I doubt well see her again, at least as “Suzie”.

  2. scott whitaker | November 7, 2012 at 8:08 am

    For an egotist such as she, she will not feel humbled one bit. Instead she will beam with satisfaction at seeing all of her quotes and revel in the fact she, despite repeatedly being dead wrong, is the topic of conversation. It’s a win win for her in her rather twisted reality.

  3. Mike Scott | November 7, 2012 at 8:12 am

    I would like to propose a new phrase for this blog:

    “I’m going to Zimbabwe.”

    This will be a useful euphism for anyone who ardently makes delusional predictions but does not wish to acknowledge the reality of said delusions.

    There will be lots of people going to Zimbabwe today. I do predict, however, it will not stop most Zimbawean travelers from having to proclaim more trips to Zimbabwe.

  4. Donut Miser | November 7, 2012 at 8:28 am

    This morning was one of the few times I could bear watching Fox News. I especially enjoyed Fox & Friend’s “Whine Festival.” The 2012 vintage of Château de Romney le Perdant is curious…sweet and fragrant for the Democrats, bitter and unpalatable for the Republicans. I believe Suzie would “enjoy” a glass with her crow.

  5. Oliver | November 7, 2012 at 8:31 am

    Zimbabwe doesn’t know what it’s missing.

    Thank you, Suzie, so very, very, much.

  6. Hope and Change | November 7, 2012 at 8:33 am

    Wow..you seriously spent a lot of time on that…..and you want conservatives to accept the fact that Obama is POTUS and come together and live happily ever after? LOL

  7. Kathy | November 7, 2012 at 8:41 am

    Wake up, little Suzie. It’s time to go home.

  8. Citizen | November 7, 2012 at 8:47 am

    Dan Casey, you are a small, small man. Go ahead and pull your play ground tactics. You are part of the reason this country is divided. Those of us that care are STILL worried about the future of this once-great nation. No amount of “nanna nanna boo-boo” will change that.

  9. scott | November 7, 2012 at 8:56 am

    Aren’t there some bets to be settled today?

  10. K | November 7, 2012 at 9:00 am

    Its really telling that Mr. Obama won Massachusetts, and Wisconsin, as well as kept his office with the “down” economy.

  11. gdad | November 7, 2012 at 9:00 am

    The Giles Co. Ten Commandments had a HUGE impact on the election.

    Wait, I know, I know, suzie is really an Obama fan and she was just trying to get his supporters fired up.

  12. Debbie | November 7, 2012 at 9:01 am

    Note to Suzie admirers, if you go the horse track with her, put your money down on the horse she predicts will come in last. You’ll make a fortune.

  13. colorado max | November 7, 2012 at 9:02 am

    remember the old adage, he, who laughs loudest, laughs last. obuma will
    never finish this term, he will be impeached and removed from office long
    before the mid-terms in 2014

  14. Cold n P | November 7, 2012 at 9:03 am

    “Revenge is a dish best served cold.”

    Nicely served Dan and Dave. We should all keep these back as reminders throughout the year. I’m sure the bubblehead will show it’s venomous satire sooner or later back on the thread. It can’t stay away.

  15. It's Over! | November 7, 2012 at 9:14 am

    1.The Election is over! Congratulations to the winners, Condolences to the losers, now lets all go out and take all the signs down!

  16. Contrasuzie | November 7, 2012 at 9:21 am

    “LMAOOOOOOOO!” — posted by Screwzie too many times to count.

  17. David | November 7, 2012 at 9:22 am

    Is this considered professional for a columnist from a reputable news organization? The day after the election is this is the first thing posted? Come on Dan. You’re better than that.

  18. Kristen | November 7, 2012 at 9:23 am

    MikeScott…it can join “hiking the Appalachian trail” as a handy euphemism.

    Hope and Change…we don’t really care what you “accept”. Deal or move.

  19. Mike Scott | November 7, 2012 at 9:24 am

    Kristen@1

    Oh no. I doubt that. There will be many more topics to troll and many more delusions to support. It’s a way of life, if not a perverse affliction of the mind.

  20. Kristen | November 7, 2012 at 9:25 am

    You’re nuts, max, and yes we’re the ones laughing last. Right at you. Suck failure, you bottom-feeding hater. You and those like you were ushered straight back to obscurity last night. Enjoy it. :)

  21. Contrasuzie | November 7, 2012 at 9:27 am

    “colorado max says:

    remember the old adage, he, who laughs loudest, laughs last. obuma will
    never finish this term, he will be impeached and removed from office long
    before the mid-terms in 2014

    Posted on November 7th, 2012″

    Someone should start a file for colorado max.

  22. Frank | November 7, 2012 at 9:30 am

    …yaawwwnnnn….well, we now know for certain that there are more takers than makers. And, it looks like we’ll get to see what obumee meant when he told medvedev…”tell putin to be patient, until after… the election…, when I’ll have more flexibility”. I can hardly wait.

    Why is obumee wanting to meet with Romney? Romney holds no office that can help obumee bring healing to the country. Oh, I know why! Because that’s the point! He certainly won’t meet with republicans who DO hold office.

  23. Dan Casey | November 7, 2012 at 9:30 am

    “remember the old adage, he, who laughs loudest, laughs last. obuma will never finish this term, he will be impeached and removed from office long before the mid-terms in 2014″

    Unbelievable. Colorado Max is predicting that not only will House Republicans forget about the budget and debt and the nation’s credit, but that they’ll impeach (indict) Obama, AND that the Democrat-majority Senate will convict him and kick him out of office.

    CM, what are you smoking?

  24. Oliver | November 7, 2012 at 9:33 am

    LOL, I can’t wait to see a Democratic Senate impeach Obama.

    Some real sorelosermans out there this fine morning.

  25. Dan Casey | November 7, 2012 at 9:35 am

    Frank,

    Obama will meet with House Republicans. What he won’t do is drink their ayahuasca. They have to forget about their talking centipedes and mad hatters and get real.

  26. old blue | November 7, 2012 at 9:37 am

    Dan

    I watched a little CNN this morning. They interviewed a Republican congresswoman from Tennessee, and sure enough she brought up Hurricane Sandy as a factor in the election.

  27. Oliver | November 7, 2012 at 9:37 am

    “You want conservatives to accept the fact that Obama is POTUS”

    What’s your alternative? Do tell.

    NB: Be careful not to invite any visits from the Secret Service. They’re busy enough as it is.

  28. old blue | November 7, 2012 at 9:40 am

    I hate elections. The major party Presidential candidates are not monsters, but they are often characterized as such by the opposition. It’s an ugly business.

  29. cold hard truth | November 7, 2012 at 9:43 am

    While we enjoy a attack on someone who has the courage to offer a opinion about a candidate who did not meet the approval of the Blessed one Dan lets look at the real problem we face NOTHING has changes we still have Gridlock and the same problems just new clowns to tell us all whats wrong and who to blame it on. Fix things Da*n it. As far as Romney went good bye I just hope the country can survive till Hillary Takes command in 16.

  30. gdad | November 7, 2012 at 9:43 am

    Note that folks like Cantor are already claiming that continued House rule proves voters prefer the right-wing vision.

    Wrong. The House dominance proves that Repubs gerrymandered redistricting well.

    Oh, and I’ve already heard the 30 Republican governor meme several times now. What BS.

  31. gdad | November 7, 2012 at 9:44 am

    One Republican strategist talking on NBC (I think) last night acknowledged that the Repubs are running out of “old white men” and would have to find a new vision. It was a pretty stark admission.

  32. LB Hagen | November 7, 2012 at 9:46 am

    It’s Not Just Four More Years, It’s Much Bigger Than That
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    http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2012/11/its-not-just-four-more-years-its-much.html
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  33. gdad | November 7, 2012 at 9:48 am

    IMO, two words might have cost the Republicans the Virginia Senate seat and the presidential election (in the state) — transvaginal probe.

  34. John Wilburn | November 7, 2012 at 9:53 am

    Even though she doesn’t have the guts to post, I still enjoy knowing that Suzie is reading this.
    .
    :)

  35. Kristen | November 7, 2012 at 9:55 am

    I’m really looking forward to 4 more years of Frank making lame plays on Obama’s name.

  36. Jason | November 7, 2012 at 9:56 am

    Citizen-
    Dan’s post was aimed at one person. If you read her comments, you’d know that she was constantly making unsupportable predictions and calling anyone who questioned them idiots. There are numerous conservatives who post here regularly, many of whom even predicted Romney would win. But Suzie distinguished herself and painted a bull’s eye on herself.

  37. Dan Casey | November 7, 2012 at 10:00 am

    Right, gdad.

    The GOP proved that it can win elections that they’ve gerrymandered to their advantage.

  38. crooked road | November 7, 2012 at 10:00 am

    Okay, so when does Obama begin having federal marshals start collecting all the rednecks’ guns? Isn’t that one of the many things that he was supposedly waiting until his second term to do? Along with changing the federal government over – somehow – to a socialist regime?

    I always wondered why the morons thought he was waiting until his SECOND term to do all of these things they predicted during the 2008 election cycle that he’d do in his first term. Anybody from the Mitch McConnel/Donald Trump section have an answer on that one?

  39. Frank | November 7, 2012 at 10:01 am

    and that, dano, is why we are looking at continued gridlock for another 2 years….because the repubs won’t be drinking the libs’ kool-aid.

  40. Dan Casey | November 7, 2012 at 10:03 am

    It’s actually Dave Hicks’ post. He collected all the comments and the links to them. I simply formatted his email for the blog. Perhaps I should have called it a guest post.

    In any event, it wasn’t the first post on the day following the election. Mark Jurkevich’s post is.

  41. Salemite | November 7, 2012 at 10:12 am

    I guess all of those “Victory Rallies” the Romney team had sorta backfired, huh?

    Guess I was right; victory rallies are held after a victory.

  42. Ron May | November 7, 2012 at 10:12 am

    remember the old adage, he, who laughs loudest, laughs last. obuma will
    never finish this term, he will be impeached and removed from office long
    before the mid-terms in 2014

    Comment by colorado max — November 7, 2012 @ 9:02 am

    So you and Donald Trump are working on the “trumped up” charges that will lead to the impeachment process, right colorado?

  43. Jason | November 7, 2012 at 10:14 am

    Per Crooked Road’s post, I have to say something to every gun enthusiast here, liberal or conservative.

    It’s hard enough to talk my wife into letting me build an AR-15 without people going bonkers and driving the prices up. So…

    OBAMA’S NOT GOING TO TAKE YOUR FREAKING GUNS. DO NOT RUSH STORES FOR AMMO OR GUNS.

  44. william quesenberry | November 7, 2012 at 10:22 am

    in the words of Jack Nicholson in the movie about aliens from mars……”little people…..why cant we just all get along”

  45. dave | November 7, 2012 at 10:26 am

    The most enjoyable part of last night was watching Karl Rove make a complete ass of himself in front of all of Faux News? nation. He was in total denial and tried desperately to get the Faux decision room to mback down when it called Ohio and the election for Obama. And he’s still on the air this morning trying to spin defeat into victory with his “yeah he won but his margin of victory was less this time”. That’s what Karl’s 300 million dollars bought nfor his supporters, a point or two shaved off the victory margin. It’s time for the FEC and the justice dept. to investigate his 501 (4) C corp and yank his tax exempt status..

    http://news.yahoo.com/karl-rove-vs-fox-news-053252384–abc-news-politics.html

  46. Debbie | November 7, 2012 at 10:27 am

    Right Frank, they’re too busy drinking the TP tea. They will gladly destroy the country out of petty bitterness. They’re a bunch of true patriots.

  47. Sandi Saunders | November 7, 2012 at 10:27 am

    Sore losers always have to prove what makes them such “great Americans”.

    I admit, it does make the victory sweeter when framed by the delusional rantings of the blog pests.

  48. VVArlock | November 7, 2012 at 10:35 am

    Jason – shush you’ll ruin it. I spent the last month buying stock in Winchester and Smith.

  49. Cold n P | November 7, 2012 at 10:37 am

    Whatever any of you conservatives or newbies think of this thread, remember susie was the one to bring this down on herself with:

    “I can’t wait until after Romney’s landslide win to repost a whole bunch of quotes from you clowns. I’m saving them and categorizing them to pull out at the appropriate times. It should be great fun.”

    –Comment by Suzie — Aug. 26, 2012, 2:28 p.m.

    susie deserves every bit of this ridicule and more.

  50. VVArlock | November 7, 2012 at 10:37 am

    For those who (like suzie) doubted Nate Silver and FiveThirtyEight.com – He wins again. The man was right. How many times does he have to be right before the deluded and ignorant will consider it a track record?

  51. scott whitaker | November 7, 2012 at 10:38 am

    Crooked, good thought. Why would he wait? Simple, it’s not gonna happen. The NRA’s ads sickened me. Their negativity had to sway more than a few votes.

  52. VVArlock | November 7, 2012 at 10:41 am

    As for impeachment- for what?
    I heard a right wing Fb acquaintance talking about impeachment for Benghazi and NDAA, but if that is what they are thinking there is no chance of an impeachment removal even in a Republican Controlled Senate (Which we don’t have).
    There just isn’t any impeachable offense there, whether you agree with what happened or hate Obama for it, there isn’t a crime there.

  53. John Wilburn | November 7, 2012 at 10:48 am

    Jason:

    “It’s hard enough to talk my wife into letting me build an AR-15 without people going bonkers and driving the prices up. So…

    OBAMA’S NOT GOING TO TAKE YOUR FREAKING GUNS. DO NOT RUSH STORES FOR AMMO OR GUNS.”

    Those are two choices you made. I made different choices and feel much better about them.

  54. Sandi Saunders | November 7, 2012 at 10:49 am

    It is really sad that there are people who believe their own delusions, as well as the ones spoon fed to them by right wing media. I do worry when approximately half the voters in this nation are that wrong, angry and still clinging to delusion. If you people do not wake up and get a grip, it will be a long time in the wilderness with only the gerrymandered districts to save you from extinction. Your jig is up.

  55. Other John | November 7, 2012 at 10:50 am

    Jason, I’m glad my wife likes shooting as much, and possibly more, than I do (She’s generally more liberal, but voted for Gary Johnson this year). I may have to buy my FIL’s AR if he ever decides to sell it though…but before I get to that, I’ve got a Glock 17 with my name on it once I finish saving the rest to buy it.

  56. hokie hater | November 7, 2012 at 10:52 am

    If anyone does hear from good ole suzie, tell her I took that Romney 6+ point landslide and 54 senate seats for the right wing nut jobs to the bank this morning……guess what……it didn’t clear, damn thing bounced.

  57. gdad | November 7, 2012 at 10:55 am

    #29 According to number of wingnuts I know, Obama will be suspending the Constitution so that he can serve a third term in 2016. I guess that will happen after he takes away everybody’s guns and imposes Muslim law.

  58. Angela Allen | November 7, 2012 at 10:56 am

    Hey Dan, I am impressed that you know what ayahuasca is! But ayahuasca is considered to bring knowledge and wisdom, so maybe everyone should drink it.
    I wouldn’t take any from Boehner though.

  59. scott whitaker | November 7, 2012 at 10:57 am

    The GOP/TP will spin this loss and assign fault to Obama’s “negative campaign”, the “liberal media”, the “handouts” all the “takers” will be getting etc. But a sober look at the demographics is sobering. In a nutshell, the GOP/TP base is old, rich, white men. He lost the women’s vote and all ethnic minorities. He lost the under 40 vote and he lost to the under $50k/yr. vote. My son commented that Romney’s speech last night looked as if it was attended by his friend’s from his country club. When I attended Clinton’s rally here I was struck by the diversity of the audience. When I saw pictures of Romney rallies I saw nothing but white faces. Clearly the GOP/TP needs to expand its base which would mean a softening of its strident views on women’s issues, low taxes on the rich, health care and safety net issues. This is no longer a country that is dominated by the wishes of the WASP vote. The sooner the GOP realize that the better for them and this country. I think they do know that but they somehow cannot find a way to allow themselves to do it.

  60. Lynda K | November 7, 2012 at 10:58 am

    Suzie must be drowning her sorrows in her Dewars this morning…. or whatever it is she/he drinks before noon.

  61. scott whitaker | November 7, 2012 at 11:00 am
  62. Mike Scott | November 7, 2012 at 11:05 am

    For my money, conservopundit that has the best seat on the crazy train is Glenn Beck. I know Rush is obnoxious, but calculated. Sean pretends to be even handed but rational, but Glenn Beck, he appeals to a special class of American right wing crazy.

    The nation deserves to be destroyed by God for electing Obama:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Yje_8T8s7yw

    Still, I bet a large sum of money he isn’t leaving for Zimbabwe anytime soon.

  63. markj | November 7, 2012 at 11:09 am

    So many vicious comments. So much ganging up. These comments may make the writers feel superior to Suzie, but it is lowly behavior.

    I suspect Suzie is as responsible as anyone for generating traffic on this blog and stimulating debate. There is a lot I don’t like about her style, but she does not deserve the kind of pounding dished out on this thread. I can’t imagine who does.

    Hang in there Suzie…time has a great healing effect.

  64. Mike Scott | November 7, 2012 at 11:09 am

    And… if you are kind of into sarcasm, math and language there is always xkcd…

    http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/math.png

  65. Lori | November 7, 2012 at 11:31 am

    Jason @ 43 – thank you for saying that!! IMO, the NRA is just doing their part to help gun & ammo manufacturers increase sales by spreading fear and false information. Obama made no gun proposals in the last 4 years and I don’t recall it being part of his reelection campaign.

    Frank – if the GOP doesn’t put on their big-boy pants and start working with the President all we are going to see for the next two years is same the slow growth of the last 3. What do they have to lose now? Their #1 agenda of making Obama a 1 term President failed. Suck it up boys and get to work for the American people!

  66. Mike Scott | November 7, 2012 at 11:43 am

    dave@45…I just happened to surfing by Fox when they called Ohio for Obama and then watched Rove try to stir the pot by getting their anchor to take the long walk to the “decision room”. The “decision room” calmly explained why they made their decision.

    Here’s the thing, Fox had pundit who had invested millions of dollars for an outcome. How could any such reporting be fair and balanced?

  67. gdad | November 7, 2012 at 11:51 am

    #43 There you go, Jason, trying to talk people out of buying more guns so that there will be fewer to confiscate. All part of the commie lib plan.

  68. Dan Casey | November 7, 2012 at 12:06 pm

    For those who don’t know, ayahuasca is a nasty black tea brewed from a bunch of rain forest vines that naturally contain the mind-blowing hallucinogen dimethyltryptamine, aka DMT. It makes LSD (another hallucinogen in the tryptamine family) look like kid stuff by comparison. But, DMT is not orally active because it’s destroyed by monoamine oxidase, which is naturally present in your gut. So it needs to be consumed along with a monoamine oxidase inhibitor, which comes from another plant that’s also in ayahuasca.

    Somehow, witch doctors in the Amazon region figured this out long before Pizarro ever landed his armada in South America. And now, ayahuasca is a recognized-as-legal sacrament in the Church of Santo Daime here in the the U.S.

    I’ve never tried the stuff . . . but I’m quite curious about it. One of my many and varied acquaintances, famed underground LSD chemist Nick Sand, swears it will heal the body and spirit of many maladies.

  69. Saintbridge | November 7, 2012 at 12:16 pm

    Please, let us take a moment to rub the troll’s nose in it. But not more, for the troll is just a provocateur. Nobody can be that inane.

    And let the whiners blather on about whatever they want to say after saying, “…yeah, but…”

    Reason, science and common sense prevailed. It is dispiriting that it was ever close. But, alas, we have a president for the next four years who speaks for all of us here on this blog.

    He is not the antichrist or a Muslim or a Constitution-destroying heathen. And I promise to every one here who didn’t vote for him that I will be sure your home/neighborhood isn’t on the list for repurposing into a socialist hellscape.

    Cheers!

  70. Debbie | November 7, 2012 at 12:17 pm

    Don’t worry about Suzie, MarkJ. Any attention is better than no attention for him/her.

  71. Jason | November 7, 2012 at 12:27 pm

    VVArlock-
    Yeah yeah, you and everyone who was smart enough to buy ammo and AR parts months ago in the hope that they could sell them for a nice profit to the paranoid.

  72. Sandi Saunders | November 7, 2012 at 12:31 pm

    MarkJ, you are rather new here and unless you have lurked for the past 4 years, you have no idea how richly the screen persona named Suzie deserves every single syllable.

  73. gdad | November 7, 2012 at 12:35 pm

    #63 MarkJ, “suzie” indeed generates traffic and sometimes sparks “debate,” although I’m not sure that’s really the right word for what she stimulates, but she does it with an inexcusable nastiness. In making her predictions over the months she’s called anybody who’s liberal all kinds of vile names and she used to call the president a monkey. Any insults you”re reading here are tame by comparison, and they’re tame compared to what she would have unleashed had Romney won and the Repubs taken the Senate. Our ganging up on the troll or gloating over her horribly bad predictions — whether she returns to the blog or not (in her last post she said she’d be back “early” this week if I remember correctly) — will be fairly shortlived.

  74. gdad | November 7, 2012 at 12:36 pm

    #63 Also, what Debbie said in #70.

  75. Kristen | November 7, 2012 at 12:44 pm

    Markj, did you actually read her comments above? A mere drop in the ocean of rudeness she’s regurgitated on this blog. Rest assured that she’s loving every post on here.

  76. Jason | November 7, 2012 at 12:49 pm

    “Younger voters and minorities came to the polls at levels not far off from the historic coalition Obama assembled in 2008. The reality caught off-guard Republicans who banked on a more monolithic voting body sending them to the White House — and who had based their polling on that assumption.”

    http://news.yahoo.com/obama-bets-electorate-matches-2008-wins-100747098–election.html

    Read that last bit and let it soak in. The Romney campaign actually bent their internal polling for what they wanted rather than looking for how things were. Astounding. Your internal polling is supposed to be completely impartial and accurate, so you can allocate resources with maximum efficiency, knowing where to campaign, where to direct your get out the vote people, etc. McCain for example, knew for weeks before the election that he was likely to lose, it was one of the reasons he had a well-written concession speech ready to go.

    Instead, Romney’s people chose to ignore what reality-based polling was saying, and wasted time and money on Pennsylvania, a state that he went on to lose by more than five percentage points, when he could have been pounding away more at Ohio, which he lost by less than two. Or Florida, where he is likely to lose by well under one percentage point. Of all of the swing states, he chose to throw his Hail Mary to the state he was LEAST likely to win.

  77. J.M. White | November 7, 2012 at 1:00 pm

    For those who don’t know, ayahuasca is a nasty black tea brewed from a bunch of rain forest vines that naturally contain the mind-blowing hallucinogen dimethyltryptamine, aka DMT…

    …I’ve never tried the stuff . . . but I’m quite curious about it. One of my many and varied acquaintances, famed underground LSD chemist Nick Sand, swears it will heal the body and spirit of many maladies.

    Comment by Dan Casey — November 7, 2012 @ 12:06 pm

    It’s an interesting experience, but very hard to find in this area and quite expensive when you can find it. I don’t like the taste, nausea or vomiting, but the trip is indescribable. It opens your mind in ways that LSD or mushrooms just can’t. It also does wonders for severe depression. I wouldn’t recommend it for anyone who has any fear of those types of experiences. It’s so overwhelming that things can go bad pretty quickly. We’re talking about something that makes shamans truly think they’ve morphed into jungle animals.

    I mean, that’s what I’ve heard…

  78. gdad | November 7, 2012 at 1:21 pm

    Ah, the troll claims on another thread to have just returned. Of course it did.

  79. Dan Casey | November 7, 2012 at 1:26 pm

    “Read that last bit and let it soak in. The Romney campaign actually bent their internal polling for what they wanted rather than looking for how things were. Astounding. Your internal polling is supposed to be completely impartial and accurate, so you can allocate resources with maximum efficiency, knowing where to campaign, where to direct your get out the vote people, etc. McCain for example, knew for weeks before the election that he was likely to lose, it was one of the reasons he had a well-written concession speech ready to go.

    Instead, Romney’s people chose to ignore what reality-based polling was saying, and wasted time and money on Pennsylvania, a state that he went on to lose by more than five percentage points, when he could have been pounding away more at Ohio, which he lost by less than two. Or Florida, where he is likely to lose by well under one percentage point. Of all of the swing states, he chose to throw his Hail Mary to the state he was LEAST likely to win.”

    Jason, what you call them is BLINDERS. And the right-wing has them in astounding dimensions that go far, far, beyond fooling themselves with self-skewed polls.

  80. Sandi Saunders | November 7, 2012 at 1:38 pm

    CBS said as much last night when Romney would not concede Ohio, they said that they called it because they knew they had excellent and extensive polling that confirmed their decision.

  81. Mike Scott | November 7, 2012 at 1:43 pm

    “The Romney campaign actually bent their internal polling for what they wanted rather than looking for how things were. Astounding.”

    I don’t think it’s astounding. Confirmation bias is the most common kind wish asked for each day.

    As for wasting money on Pennsylvania, one theory was he has some much of the stuff available tht it really didn’t matter.

  82. markj | November 7, 2012 at 2:14 pm

    gdad / Kristen:
    What Suzie & Dan taught me on this blog is what animates and stimulates discussion on these type of blogs. Suzie is a master. On the other hand, topics that I find intereting and substantial, which I post on this blog, are of far less interest. This Suzie post generated almost 80 posts now.

    By contrast, my post today about America’s slip out of the Top 10 on the global prosperity index, and the myth that if GDP goes up, all boats rise. I thought you folks who battle about high vs. low taxes would find it interesting to see very high tax countries at the top of the list again. But no, that subject only generated 6 comments so far – less than 10% of what Suzie stories generate.

    In that sense I salute Suzie. She clearly is a though leader when it comes to understanding what this blog community is interested in.

  83. Still Learning | November 7, 2012 at 2:15 pm

    #66 The “fair and balanced” act blew up at announcement time for the Obama victory last night. Poor ol Shep (I love saying that for some strange reason) was between pouting and and angry, and was very transparent in his displeasure of the outcome. And then ol rode hard and put up wet Nancy Noonan just about lost it on camera. Every time ol Shep (there I go again) asked her a question about how everyone, meaning her and the rest of the right wingnut experts, had been wrong in their analysis she would longfully opine…….”oh Shep” and then proceed with her senseless drivel. I’m sorry I’ve just got to say it again…..poor ol Shep.

  84. colorado max | November 7, 2012 at 2:25 pm

    jason, i haven’t owned a firearm in over 40 years, but you can but your
    %^$ that i will be packing before the sun goes down.

  85. VVArlock | November 7, 2012 at 2:26 pm

    Of course the religious deny the facts and try to force their belief about the world onto the world.
    Glad to see that this time it cost them an election.

  86. Dan Casey | November 7, 2012 at 3:13 pm

    Mark, I think the lack of response to your column today has a lot to do with the fact that a lot of the RWers who usually come here are staying away, for now.

  87. Dan Casey | November 7, 2012 at 3:15 pm

    “jason, i haven’t owned a firearm in over 40 years, but you can but your %^$ that i will be packing before the sun goes down.”

    Hmmm. It almost sounds like Colorado Max is a fixin’ to go hunt himself some o’them stinkin’ librals.

  88. Kristen | November 7, 2012 at 3:17 pm

    MarkJ, I’m going to assume you’re being ironic in your assessment. As for response to your thread, we’re all just election obsessed today and little else is going to distract from that.

    If you read through all of the comments on this thread, few of them actually pertain to Suzie. After comment #3, the thread veers off into general election talk.

  89. Kristen | November 7, 2012 at 3:17 pm

    “but you can but your
    %^$ that i will be packing before the sun goes down.”

    LOL. Oooo…scary.

  90. Warren | November 7, 2012 at 3:25 pm

    colorado max earlier said that the President would be declaring martial law and suspending the constitution so that there would never be another election and he’d be president for life. Now cm says the president will be impeached, convicted and removed from office.

    Well colorado max, which is it, buddy? Which is the outcome that angry delusional old white men are certain will happen?

  91. Sandi Saunders | November 7, 2012 at 3:26 pm

    Yes, a gun is definitely the answer Colorado Max!

  92. Warren | November 7, 2012 at 3:30 pm

    MJ, any aspiring columnist must realize that in addition to discussing any particular opinion piece, it’s common and entirely valid to discuss the writer’s perspective, motives, articulation, etc.

    Get used to it, or give up the dream.

  93. joe | November 7, 2012 at 3:54 pm

    Markj..I suppose..
    and Jerry Springer , Maury Povich or even Limbaugh
    have their followers too.
    I dont salute them either.
    Cooler heads prevailed in this election.
    Not the bug eyed screamers.

  94. Lynda K | November 7, 2012 at 4:05 pm

    markj writes, “I suspect Suzie is as responsible as anyone for generating traffic on this blog and stimulating debate.”

    I have no idea what the actual numbers looks like for the blog but whenever Suzie rears its ugly head, I sign off. I stay away until I think I can stomach it again, then I return for a while… until I get sick of reading her spew. So, for me, she does not generate any interest in my being here – exactly the opposite.

  95. Art Hill | November 7, 2012 at 4:15 pm

    Ah, the Schadenfreude! I bask in it’s brilliance. Andrew Sullivan nailed it last night on Colbert, “There’s a black man in the White House with nothing to lose.”

  96. Dave Hicks | November 7, 2012 at 4:30 pm

    Re: Comment by Jason — November 7, 2012 @ 9:56 am

    Not only that. I welcome debate with the folk of any persuasion.

    I have even said that occasionally even Suzie gets something right.

    OTOH, I despise shouting matches, sand-box tactics, Ad Hominem attacks, Tu Quoque claims of justifications, fallacious arguments in general, opinions posted as fact not opinion, claims w/o citation of fact or support, failure to acknowledge when proven wrong, never acknowledging that other folk have a right to an opinion, trolling, etc.

    Anyone who does not excel in those flaws should not assume that the OP of this thread was aimed at them or aimed at all folk of their persuasion. It was not aimed at a point-of-view. It was aimed at one despicable blogger. Had that blogger been of an opposite persuasion and had failed so miserably, I would have served up the same plate of crow.

    So, others who are commenting as if this thread was about them, please realize it was not. If I inadvertently offended you, I am sorry.

    In fact, were Suzie to return and acknowledge that she was not as omniscient, infinitely wise in all things, I would revise my condemnation of her.

    As always, YMMV.

  97. pammala | November 7, 2012 at 4:34 pm

    SUUUUUCCCCKKKEERRRSSSSSS !!!!!!!!!!!!

  98. Dave Hicks | November 7, 2012 at 4:35 pm

    Re: Comment by Cold n P — November 7, 2012 @ 10:37 am

    Right on mark.

  99. Cold n P | November 7, 2012 at 5:29 pm

    Nice jab markJ. Did it cross your mind that just maybe your subject was boring the day after the presidential election? Prodding us with susie talk just took you down a bit in my opinion, not that I expect you to care. I don’t.

  100. Debbie | November 7, 2012 at 5:30 pm

    I prefer gummy bears, Pammala. Glad you got your sugar fix though!

  101. dave | November 7, 2012 at 5:59 pm

    pammalaladingbat@4:34

    I prefer a little diversity in my sweets. Make it snickers and I’ll take a whole box. And in your case, I’m sure you would prefer nuts!

  102. Laura | November 7, 2012 at 6:29 pm

    @Debbie & dave -

    There’s always schadenfreude pie: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/26/how-to-make-a-schadenfreude-pie/

  103. Warren | November 7, 2012 at 6:32 pm

    #97: It’s pammala, the poster who puts the “KKK” in “suckers”…

  104. Dave Hicks | November 7, 2012 at 7:25 pm

    Re: Comment by pammala — November 7, 2012 @ 4:34 pm

    Those who bought into Suzie’s assurances?

  105. joe | November 7, 2012 at 7:38 pm

    Another rather accomplished Baltimorian..

    Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!’ I shrieked upstarting -
    `Get thee back into the tempest and the Night’s Plutonian shore!
    Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
    Leave my loneliness unbroken! – quit the bust above my door!
    Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!’
    Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.’
    …(EAP)

  106. dave | November 7, 2012 at 8:22 pm

    Laura@6:29

    Add a cup of chopped DARK walnuts and you might have something there!

    :)

  107. Mattyr | November 7, 2012 at 8:37 pm

    Very close to willing to bet suzie and Pamela are run by Dan and a couple others here.

  108. Dave Hicks | November 7, 2012 at 9:34 pm

    Re: Comment by markj — November 7, 2012 @ 2:14 pm

    By contrast, my post today about America’s slip out of the Top 10 on the global prosperity index, and the myth that if GDP goes up, all boats rise. I thought you folks who battle about high vs. low taxes would find it interesting to see very high tax countries at the top of the list again. But no, that subject only generated 6 comments so far….

    —————–

    MarkJ

    With all due respect, you might think about the following.

    It is often said that in real estate the three most important things are location, location, and location.

    I suspect that in opinion columns at least one of the three most important things is timing. It might, also, be all three.

    FWIIW, so far, I have appreciated your threads, very much. However, please don’t resort to Suzie’s style of trolling for attention and reaction for the sake of a comment count.

  109. Jason | November 7, 2012 at 9:39 pm

    To all who answered about the article I referenced-
    I know about confirmation bias and blinders. But that’s for your cheerleaders, your press people. Without regard to your ideology, the object is to win the election, and to win it, you have to spend your time and money wisely. I do find it stunning. McCain knew he was dead. You could *almost* feel sorry for Romney. It was obvious during his concession that he was genuinely shocked, he thought he had the thing. Maybe it will come out that his actual pollsters were getting good data and the message got changed by his handlers before it got to him. I wonder if we’ll see a good behind-the-scenes book.

  110. Frank | November 7, 2012 at 9:57 pm

    hey dano,

    I think your post at 3:15, concerning Colorado Max, and what he might do with a gun, is a little over the top. Know what I’m saying?

  111. gdad | November 7, 2012 at 11:26 pm

    #97 Oh boy, pammalalalala is back to tell us how Obama will be gone after election day.

  112. Dave Hicks | November 8, 2012 at 1:04 am

    Re: Comment by Mattyr — November 7, 2012 @ 8:37 pm

    A number of us have posited that premise.

    Dan denies it. I tend to believe him.

    However, that doesn’t preclude someone else from being the culprit.

    If so, I will nominate them for the the-best-strawnman-ever award — as they have been very successful at presenting a grossly distorted caricature.

  113. Dan Casey | November 8, 2012 at 1:20 am

    Mattyr,

    1) I have created zero personas on this blog; and
    2) I don’t make a dime off this thing; and
    3) It has never even occurred to me, ever, to waste my time playing mental masturbation games by creating posters and then replying to them; and
    4) See Occam’s Razor for more.

    And jeez. At the very least, even if you don’t like my stuff (which is fine with me), pay me the compliment of believing that I don’t make stuff up.

    I’m 54, married for 26 years, with 4 kids and I write 3 columns a week, which I work hard at (because I’m not a “natural” writer) and I don’t have the time for such nonsense.

  114. Debbie | November 8, 2012 at 4:31 am

    Laura, that pie recipe made my teeth hurt just reading it.

  115. Mattyr | November 8, 2012 at 6:14 am

    I’m getting close, it may not be you per se but its bit adding up.

  116. Suzie | November 8, 2012 at 6:40 am

    Wow. I missed this. 113 posts in a thread devoted to your trulyl, while I’m 6000 miles away. Soon to be bigger than President Moron’s Selection Day thread. Ah, the power of Suzester.

    As for my prediction, I was dead on when I left. Romney had opened a six-point lead in Gallup. Then came the leftwing media to the rescue. All 0bama has to do is show up for a two-hour photo op in NJ for the MSM to proclaim the idiot the most presidential figure in history. Meanwhile ten days later, NYC is still is in desperate straits because 0bama’s FEMA is AWOL. Ask those folks what they think of 0bama’s ‘response’ now. “Cold Katrina” is shaping up to be far worse than the original, but 0bama doesn’t care.

    Then there was Benghazi, and enormous scandal the MSM ignored. CBS sat on damning evidence of 0bama being asked point blank if it was a terrorist attack. They knew the truth and allowed him to get away with his lie.

    And speaking of lies, the MSM allowed 0bama to skate with the biggest lies of all, that Romney would raise taxes on the middle class while 0bama would cut them. In his final stump speeches, 0bama was actually claiming he had cut the deficit. Silence from the media. Incredible.

    Couple all those things with a society that I think has turned the corner to dependency. We now have more people IN the wagon than are pulling the wagon. We have a population who recognizes 0bama is destroying the economy but doesn’t care, as long as they get theirs. Only people who do NOT love this country voted for the man who is intentionally trying to destroy it. You voted for a man who does not care a whit about people, who does not respect religious freedom or human life.

    You’ve got the president you deserve. America is in for some very hard times. The economy WOULD have been turned around with Romney at the helm. He WOULD have joined with the House GOP in avoiding the fiscal cliff. Now the debt ceiling will be raised, 0bama will keep right on spending, our credit rating will be dropped again, and we will continue with the huge deficits as we are headed directly down the path of Greece.

    And when the time comes we can’t pay our bills, China gets tired of financing our irresponsibility, and the government is FORCED to cut back, the leeches will be in the streets destroying property, as in Greece. This was 0bama’s grand goal all along. He’s following the EXACT formula laid out by his mentors Cloward and Piven to destroy America from the inside out, top down.

    My husband and I have decided we are probably going to close down the company and fully retire. We were waiting to see what happened on Election Day. He’s just tired of pulling the wagon. As for me, I’m going to make myself scarce in here. Just as the good people fled Gomorrah before it was leveled, I need an extended break from this cesspool. Right now, I feel dirty associating with people who made this disaster happen.

    Those few of you in here who actually work, watch your paychecks come January 1st. Then you’ll see what your hero has done to the middle class. Morons.

  117. Ron May | November 8, 2012 at 6:54 am

    107.Very close to willing to bet suzie and Pamela are run by Dan and a couple others here.

    Comment by Mattyr — November 7, 2012 @ 8:37 pm

    I’ll take that bet Mattyr!!

  118. Justin True | November 8, 2012 at 7:39 am

    Yeah… What Dan said!

  119. Justin True | November 8, 2012 at 7:40 am

    Maybe Romney needs a new pair of Magical underwear after Obama gave him a wedgie the other night…?

  120. John Wilburn | November 8, 2012 at 7:52 am

    Mattyr:

    107.”Very close to willing to bet suzie and Pamela are run by Dan and a couple others here.”

    I’m convinced that neither Dan, nor one of his groupies pulls pammala’s or Suzie’s puttet strings. There really are people that ignorant posting all by themselves. No one will admit it and they may not like me saying it, but Suzie gives the agressive posters here a punching bag that they want. Without her and, to a lesser extent, pammala, you’d have a fairly vanilla board here when it comes to true left vs. right. Suzie does not like gun rights threads though, and that is just fine with me because both ends of autority and liberty are well represented (even if we are outnumbered).
    .
    ;)

  121. Debbie | November 8, 2012 at 8:25 am

    Thank you for the good news, Suzie. Bye!

  122. Mike Scott | November 8, 2012 at 8:27 am

    “. As for me, I’m going to make myself scarce in here.”

    Sounds like a good plan!. I guess we’ll read about the sale or closure of an important employer in the Roanoke Valley.

  123. Mike Scott | November 8, 2012 at 8:29 am

    Justin@119

    The power of the magic underware has been highly exaggerated, I think. As a rule, anything that can be wedged into tight places isn’t all that magic.

  124. Sandi Saunders | November 8, 2012 at 8:41 am

    Wow, to what do we owe the honor of “your trulyl” going down in a blaze of idiocy? Another reason to be grateful America elected President Obama again!

    No one will miss you and many are happy to have you gone, so consider your absence a civic duty and the closure of your right wing mill to be providence for the next driver and job creator. Win/Win!

  125. Sandi Saunders | November 8, 2012 at 8:46 am

    News Flash to those with so few brain cells as to apparently not already know. America has been headed for this fall for a long, long time and thanks to the “wagon pullers” who have reaped where they have not sown, we will indeed bear the brunt of the sacrifices and hardship required to dig ourselves out of the mess we did not create. We knew that all along, having a member of the wealth protecting Plutocracy admit it is merely the icing on the dirt cake. My belief in God assures me of your fate.

  126. Sandi Saunders | November 8, 2012 at 8:49 am

    Yes John Wilburn, they do give us that “punching bag” we enjoy swatting like a bug, but like all futile efforts, it gets old and stale and is not missed when it is changed out for actual adult conversations by most of us. This blog is a better place when they are not here and that is simply the truth.

  127. colorado max | November 8, 2012 at 9:08 am

    well, the election proved one thing about the good old USA, it is home to
    59 million idiots.

  128. Kristen | November 8, 2012 at 9:37 am

    So, after briefly skimming Suzie’s offering, I gather Obama won and she’s leaving the country.

    Best. Election. Ever.

  129. John Wilburn | November 8, 2012 at 9:49 am

    Suzie has made a 559 word excuse for her ridiculous prediction. Bear in mind that while she and I likely voted for the same candidate, I realistically predicted a 303 EC point win for Obama. She predicted a Romney “landslide” despite no evidence to support it.

    Suzie, I’ve whethered some rough times in business, but closing down because of Obama’s reelection is not justifiable. I’m no happier about it than you are, but business mut go on and will be as good as it can be within the factors outside of my control. If hubby wants to retire, great, but please don’t act like a bad choice for president is preventing you from success as that is going to be relative and depend mostly on you.

    On the other hand, if you want to retire from the blog because of your own epic failure, go right ahead!

  130. John Wilburn | November 8, 2012 at 9:56 am

    Suzie – November 8th:

    “This was 0bama’s grand goal all along. He’s following the EXACT formula laid out by his mentors Cloward and Piven to destroy America from the inside out, top down.”

    From an e-mail forward – November 7th:

    “Error! Filename not specified.
    By Wayne Allyn Root

    Barack Hussein Obama is no fool. He is not incompetent. On the contrary, he is brilliant. He knows exactly what he’s doing. He is purposely overwhelming the U.S. economy to create systemic failure, economic crisis and social chaos – thereby destroying capitalism and our country from within. Barack Hussein Obama was my college classmate.

    Error! Filename not specified.
    ( Columbia University , class of ’83).

    He is a devout Muslim; do not be fooled. Look at his czars… Anti-business… anti-American. As Glenn Beck correctly predicted from day one, Barack Hussein Obama is following the plan of Cloward & Piven, two professors at Columbia University … they outlined a plan to socialize America by overwhelming the system with government spending and entitlement demands.

    Add up the clues below. Taken individually they’re alarming. Taken as a whole, it is a brilliant, Machiavellian game plan to turn the United States into a Socialist/Marxist state with a permanent majority that desperately needs government for survival… And can be counted on to always vote for even bigger government. Why not? They have no responsibility to pay for it.”

    ————————————————————–

    There. Thought I would provide that citation for you, Suzie. Or was this “original research”? LMAO!

  131. John Wilburn | November 8, 2012 at 10:05 am

    colorado max:

    127.”well, the election proved one thing about the good old USA, it is home to
    59 million idiots.”

    No, the USA is home to far more idiots than that!

  132. Dan Casey | November 8, 2012 at 10:07 am

    “well, the election proved one thing about the good old USA, it is home to
    59 million idiots.”

    –Comment by colorado max

    Yes, max, you may have a point there. And one of those people posted this right here on this blog Nov. 2:


    “As i have said on this blog before, if the left wing nuts re-elect
    obuma this tuesday, you will never have another presidential election in this country. he will by-pass the constitution and have himself appointed supreme ruler of the us. he will join his bff chavez in south america and all his arab friends in the middle east to rule this republic as a socialist nation. you can forget about ever having anything of your own in the future, the government will tell you where to live, where to work, what to eat, and where to go to school. be sure and get your prayer mats early before there is a run.”

    That was YOU, max. . .

  133. gdad | November 8, 2012 at 10:07 am

    #116 OK, folks, stand by for news of one the largest employers in Roanoke shutting down. Yeah, right.

    I sort of figured that suzie would end up fleeing the blog at least for a while given the embarrassment of her incredibly wrong predictions. You can dance and duck all you want, suzie, but you were WRONG.

    However, for those of you celebrating, keep in mind that suzie has declared she was leaving for good several times in the past.

  134. gdad | November 8, 2012 at 10:12 am

    #116 BTW, notice how suzie hedged everything. Probably close down the company. Extended leave. And so on.

  135. Shrillary | November 8, 2012 at 10:17 am

    most ill-informed @ #116

    Really, just a good-bye would have sufficed and still brought much joy to this blog…ummm, what is that old saying? Oh yeah, “Goodbye and good riddance” – perfect.

  136. joe | November 8, 2012 at 10:19 am

    See ya Raven…
    Dont let the screen door hit
    you in the a$$ feathers.
    Drop in now and then chat for a while, let
    us know honey about your travelling circus
    and the money in bottled bile.

  137. Kristen | November 8, 2012 at 10:27 am

    She’s not leaving. And people who are amazed that Obama could get reelected weren’t paying attention when we let W have another term.

  138. Sandi Saunders | November 8, 2012 at 10:39 am

    57,823,653 to be precise Colorado Max. How that many “idiots” managed to choose so badly is no mystery, we see why every time one of you posts here.

  139. joe | November 8, 2012 at 10:53 am

    Kristen..
    let us at least hope
    that Africa will wrap
    her arms around the raven
    and love her like before.
    Its a way she could change our
    world. The whole world.
    But likely she-ll be back I guess
    after serving in Benghazi. She will see
    to it we know her truth once again.

  140. J.M. White | November 8, 2012 at 12:06 pm

    Just as the good people fled Gomorrah before it was leveled, I need an extended break from this cesspool.

    Please don’t go. It’s intentional ignorance like the above sentence that make you golden.

    There is no evidence that God allowed anyone to escape from Gomorrah. If you’re referencing Lot and his family, they lived in Sodom. As for his reward, his silly wife couldn’t follow simple directions, was killed for it and his daughters got him drunk, slept with him and bore him two inbred sons. Yeah, that worked out pretty well for him.

    The eldest son, Moab, went on to found a polytheistic kingdom whose main deity was Chemosh (notice the glaring dissimilarity to the name God, Yahweh or Jehovah). The youngest son, Ben-Ammi, went on to father the Ammonites, a tribe that was a persistent thorn in the side of both Judah and Israel even after being subdued by David.

    You’re the most well-constructed troll I’ve ever encountered. I look forward to your next persona.

  141. VVArlock | November 8, 2012 at 1:49 pm

    JM –
    Don’t expect her to understand the bible any better than she understands economics or politics or humans.

    Of course she got the bible wrong.

    I also do think she is a real person. A really stupid, evil and ignorant person, but a person all the same.

  142. joe | November 8, 2012 at 1:53 pm

    Ive always thought there was something like a messianic
    complex involved.
    This is just another indication.
    Alas , no Messiah…
    Why-d she leave us in this Mess..the Liar

  143. Kristen | November 8, 2012 at 1:58 pm

    joe, considering that that poor continent suffers from famine, drought, civil war, and pestilence…it’s probably one of the few places on earth she can’t make worse just by being there.

  144. Jack J Maniscalco | November 8, 2012 at 2:00 pm

    VVArlock,

    “I also do think she is a real person. A really stupid, evil and ignorant person, but a person all the same.”

    Typical “tolerant” liberal Democrat.

    Suzie is taking Dennis Miller’s advice. As a nation, it appears we value individual initiative less and less. “Give me mine!” is the rallying cry. One day, the productive folks will be gone…as well as that dream that was America. Obama is just the first wave.

  145. joe | November 8, 2012 at 2:02 pm

    Dear Dan..
    Please consider the following
    for the recent demon departed.
    Caution..loaded with cheese.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZZngTkp54I

  146. Dan Casey | November 8, 2012 at 2:10 pm

    Did Dennis Miller quit? Did he take his ball and go home, because people were too stupid to pay attention to him?

    What a shame. . .

  147. joe | November 8, 2012 at 2:14 pm

    Jack sounds like you are on to O’Reilly’s talking points
    right out of the gate.
    “Obama won because of the takers.
    The country has more takers than makers.”

    Let me remind you of the 47 percent comment that Romney
    thought he made in the dark.
    It wasnt dark.
    We shined plenty of light on it.
    If your party doesnt get off this horse
    its gonna be a helluva long dry ride through the desert.

  148. Kristen | November 8, 2012 at 2:23 pm

    Yeah I heard Miller didn’t have any money any more. Poor guy.

    Maybe they can all move to Africa.

  149. Warren | November 8, 2012 at 2:25 pm

    Exit polls show that 50% of Catholics voted for the incumbent.

  150. joe | November 8, 2012 at 2:49 pm

    I think Dennis Miller spawned
    from one of O’Reilly’s loofahs.

  151. VVArlock | November 8, 2012 at 4:48 pm

    Jack J.

    I don’t think that you know me, and I know you don’t know me well enough to label me. I am neither liberal nor Democrat. I was closer to the Republican Party until about 1995 when they move away from me. Based upon the Republican Party’s move to the far right, I would now consider myself a fiscal moderate and so mixed on the social side as to be resistant to the labels conservative, moderate, liberal – none fit me. Perhaps the best description of my views socially is that of a supporter of the Constitution, civil liberties and equality.

    My views on Suzie are formed from her interactions here. She has demonstrated the qualities I described over and over again, occasionally at me, but mainly to people I consider ‘friends’.

  152. Suzie | November 8, 2012 at 5:42 pm

    I sort of figured that suzie would end up fleeing the blog at least for a while given the embarrassment of her incredibly wrong predictions. You can dance and duck all you want, suzie, but you were WRONG.

    You made the exact same prediction, sweeheart. Didn’t you tell your wife 0bama would lose?

  153. Debbie | November 8, 2012 at 6:05 pm

    ” As for me, I’m going to make myself scarce in here. Just as the good people fled Gomorrah before it was leveled, I need an extended break from this cesspool. Right now, I feel dirty associating with people who made this disaster happen.”

    So your extended break means you’ll take eleven hours a day off, or was that just for today?

    Comment by Suzie — November 8, 2012 @ 6:40 am
    Comment by Suzie — November 8, 2012 @ 5:42 pm

  154. joe | November 8, 2012 at 6:10 pm

    Suzie…
    Just fulfill your OWN promise..and leave.
    Go play in the shallow end of the pool.

  155. Suzie | November 8, 2012 at 8:26 pm

    So your extended break means you’ll take eleven hours a day off, or was that just for today?

    I do what I want, honey. I’ll decide when I do something. Don’t worry your empty little head about it.

  156. Kristen | November 8, 2012 at 8:37 pm

    Someone’s babbling a little incoherently and desperately, Lord….kumbaya…..

  157. Sandi Saunders | November 8, 2012 at 8:56 pm

    What a cockamamie world you believe you live in Jack J Maniscalco, if the future of America rests with people like you and Suzie, May God have mercy!

  158. pammala | November 8, 2012 at 9:00 pm

    see Suzie, little kristi can’t comprehend..but she knows the words to kumbaya for pete’s sake…it figures

  159. pammala | November 8, 2012 at 9:04 pm

    no wonder he won with all the millions of illegal aliens voting..oh and dead people, and giving out voting cards with no id, paying people again to vote, filling them with more promises and pizza and liquor for bammyvote, ..nice clean honest libbie com party;. the fact that you’re proud of it all is pretty scary too…what a twisted bunch.

  160. gdad | November 8, 2012 at 9:18 pm

    #152 Gee, look who’s back already.

    Three weeks or so before the election I said that I had started to think that Romney might win, but that I hoped I was wrong. I NEVER guaranteed anybody a landslide, which you did numerous times, because it was obvious to any dolt that wasn’t going to happen. Or a least it was obvious Romney wasn’t gettin’ no landslide. Didn’t realize Obama would smash Romney by so much.

    I also didn’t guarantee a Rethug takeover of the Senate because I also knew that wouldn’t happen. I also didn’t guarantee that the Giles Co. 10 Commandments case would become a big factor in the election.

    I also didn’t abuse and insult anybody the way you did while making so many horrible predictions.

  161. gdad | November 8, 2012 at 9:20 pm

    #159 Show us your proof, pammalamadingdong.

    You are without question the stupidest troll on this blog.

  162. Sandi Saunders | November 8, 2012 at 9:20 pm

    Just for the record pammala, incoherent insane people ranting that we are “twisted” does not pack much punch. If you have any connection to 7-11, you know far more illegal aliens than we do.

  163. Debbie | November 8, 2012 at 9:22 pm

    The fact that you believe your mindless little words and refuse to believe that the Republicans lost the election all by themselves is scary, Pammala. The GOP became the Tea Party and that was their undoing.

    They drove themselves off the cliff, and if they aren’t smart enough to realize that and run the next presidential race the same way, the next person that they put in the drivers seat will be going over the same cliff. If they don’t change, you’d better get used to being on the losing team.

  164. Kristen | November 8, 2012 at 9:26 pm

    Pammalala, at the risk of pointing out the obvious, those aren’t actually the words to Kumbaya.

  165. Kristen | November 8, 2012 at 9:30 pm

    Citizens United +Koch brothers+ Adelson+ 4 years of what passes for republican effort = big loss for them = big win for America

  166. Suzie | November 8, 2012 at 9:34 pm

    Didn’t realize Obama would smash Romney by so much.

    Yeah. Less than a point in each of the key states.

    Face it Granddad. You’re a gutless wonder who rarely takes a stand, but this time you predicted your Idiot would lose.

  167. Debbie | November 8, 2012 at 9:38 pm

    Pammala, some in the Republican party know they have a problem.

    ‘Mr. Davis [Republican in Prince William Co VA] said that it was “not time to panic” for Republicans. But he said Republicans must be honest with themselves about the future.”

    “It is time to sit down practically and say where are we going to add pieces to our coalition,” he said. “There just are not enough middle-aged white guys that we can scrape together to win. There’s just not enough of them.”’

    ‘Demographic Shift Brings New Worry for Republicans’, By MICHAEL D. SHEAR, Published: November 7, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/08/us/politics/obamas-victory-presents-gop-with-demographic-test.html

  168. Kristen | November 8, 2012 at 9:45 pm

    The GOP either changes or finds more of their ilk ushered back home in 2 years. Now that I’m in a small swing of making campaign donations, I might investigate who’s going to stand against Mitch McConnell in 2 years. He’s a great next target for the democrats.

    And hey, Rocovich building..take down your pitiful “defeat Obama” signs. You lose.

  169. Sandi Saunders | November 8, 2012 at 9:59 pm

    Stop lying to make the truth more bearable Suzie, it was 5 or 6 points in some of the key states, and you and Karl lies for a living Rove, know it!

    Electoral College: 332 v 206
    Popular Vote: 61,122,638 v 58,130,991
    Percentages: 50.5% v 48.0%

    VIRGINIA 50.8 v 47.8

    FLORIDA 49.9 v 49.3

    N. CAROLINA 48.4 v 50.6 The ONE he won!

    OHIO 50.1% v 48.2%

    NEW HAMPSHIRE 52.2% v 46.4%

    COLORADO 51.2% v 46.5%

    WISCONSIN 52.8% 46.1%

    IOWA 52.1% v 46.5%

    NEVADA 52.3% v 45.7%

  170. gdad | November 8, 2012 at 10:13 pm

    #166 Let’s face it, suzie, you are a lying, rude, shameless, idiotic troll, and you were completely and absolutely wrong on everything. If Romney and Obama’s numbers were reversed, you would have claimed you were right about the landslide.

    BTW, if not making outrageous lying predictions and claims and not insulting every other person on the blog makes me a gutless wonder, I’m good with that.

  171. Suzie | November 9, 2012 at 7:14 pm

    Let’s face it, suzie, you are a lying, rude, shameless, idiotic troll, and you were completely and absolutely wrong on everything.

    Back at ya, friend. Only I’ll add “stalker”.

  172. gdad | November 11, 2012 at 11:17 pm

    #171 Stalking trolls is an honorable gig.

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