Cold Blooded

I heard that he came to the hotel before all the voting ended in like a 12 car entourage with secret service and what not..ready to give his acceptance speech..

and left in the back-seat of Tag's car because he immediately lost all that protection and he never expect to lose and needed a ride home..

at 1st, I was like, "Oh they had to expect a chance of a loss.. it had to be in their head".. but the more and more I hear and look back at the people in the convention hall awaiting his win, his high-roller donors and the On-air ppl at Fox.. I'm starting to believe he really did think there was no way he could lose. They spent so much time 'inside the bubble', with their own skewered polls and Fox saying,in essence, each night that Obama had really already lost and Romney was a 100% certainty..Megan Kelly's on air response when Ohio was called kinda proves that "What, so what does that mean? It's over?" and complete dead-pan look.. She was floored.. I am beginning to believe there really wasn't a 'plan b'..

It's pretty stunning when you think about it. Fox had spent a enormous amount of time and effect to make him the winner with the idea of not just 'willing it to happen', but if they projected a 'winner' people would glom onto that and vote for the 'winner'.. it's an old tactic that used to work.. the problem is, Fox and Romney started to believe their bullshit. And when they started getting their own polling.. they lost site of the real world and truly believed Mitt had it in the bag. Rove was stunned Romney lost, it just couldn't be true.. all the money,effort,bullshit.. it couldn't have happened..

So from a 'sociology' stand-point.. it's a pretty fascinating look at delusions become quasi-reality for true believers and their chagrin when the delusions proves to be just that, a delusion.