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« on: November 10, 2012, 11:42:14 am » |
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Wow. I'll bet he treats all of his staff with this kind of disdain: From the moment Mitt Romney stepped off stage Tuesday night, having just delivered a brief concession speech he wrote only that evening, the massive infrastructure surrounding his campaign quickly began to disassemble itself. Aides taking cabs home late that night got rude awakenings when they found the credit cards linked to the campaign no longer worked.
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« Reply #1 on: November 10, 2012, 12:45:47 pm » |
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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.
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Facts are the center. We don’t pretend that certain facts are in dispute to give the appearance of fairness to people who don’t believe them. Balance is irrelevant to me. It doesn’t have anything to do with truth, logic or reality. ~Charlie Skinner (the Newsroom)
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« Reply #2 on: November 10, 2012, 02:19:48 pm » |
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The sad reality is...from watching Fox in the following days, giving a listen to Rush, Hannity, and the rest, is that they're still delusional. They're trying to rearrange the stuff inside the bubble, not get rid of anything or add anything new...but just move all the stuff that already exists around to different areas...a bit of non-reality feng shui...and poof...it's *different.* So if we did that, it's GOT to be something else. They are literally perplexed that the rain dance didn't bring any rain.
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« Reply #3 on: November 10, 2012, 03:24:14 pm » |
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I'd have loved to be a fly on the wall around Ann... "But Mittens, I wanted to be Queen! Boo Hoo!"  "Don't worry, Pookie. You can be Queen of the Cayman Islands. And I shall be King!"  |
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