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GOP Girl learning of the defeat (Original Post) Ichingcarpenter Nov 2012 OP
LOL - Too funny. nt 99th_Monkey Nov 2012 #1
All Dress Up... KharmaTrain Nov 2012 #2
"Access Denied" Old and In the Way Nov 2012 #3
I liked the accounts of the Anthony McCarthy Nov 2012 #4
It's a great book . . . MrModerate Nov 2012 #27
I'm a terrible person Ratty Nov 2012 #5
i must be a terrible person also - when people pass me on the hiway with a R+R sticker i just leftyohiolib Nov 2012 #6
I laugh too. Omg they are hurting this week... BelleCarolinaPeridot Nov 2012 #9
There's 11 pages? I was coming back to grumble it looks like there's only 1! Turborama Nov 2012 #63
K&R stonecutter357 Nov 2012 #13
Some of those tweets and Facebook posts are just nauseating. GoCubsGo Nov 2012 #16
Don't they realize... Stargazer09 Nov 2012 #25
They live in a bubble. GoCubsGo Nov 2012 #30
A friend of mine was like that Stargazer09 Nov 2012 #31
If stupidity were gold, they could buy the moon hifiguy Nov 2012 #50
Thank you so much for that link! Jester Messiah Nov 2012 #28
Holy shit! Some of those are hilarious! And some are just sad. progressoid Nov 2012 #32
If Ms. Kats doesn't watch herself LibertyLover Nov 2012 #40
+1 patrice Nov 2012 #43
Struggling to find work but already plans on running for Congress? Meet Josephine the Plumber. nt Chiyo-chichi Nov 2012 #44
O.M.G.!!! Did this guy use Obama win to end a marriage understanding/engagement? .jpg patrice Nov 2012 #34
BTW, there's that "I want a baby" meme again that some are hearing from young unmarried women here patrice Nov 2012 #39
Can you elaborate? flamingdem Nov 2012 #47
My single, mature, very nice son has encountered that a couple of times in temp job situations here patrice Nov 2012 #56
I don't know man Ter Nov 2012 #54
Is that Mike Myers? tridim Nov 2012 #7
Poor baby. . . B Calm Nov 2012 #8
Some possible captions: Waltons_Mtn Nov 2012 #10
Nasty and gross. efhmc Nov 2012 #17
You could get lost in her eyes, but then there'd be two lost in there... Snarkoleptic Nov 2012 #11
I hope she can wash that off her face! George II Nov 2012 #20
Prolly use permanent Sharpie marker. Snarkoleptic Nov 2012 #22
I hope she didn't call Charles Manson for tips on how to mark up her face! George II Nov 2012 #45
Zombie apocalypse!! hifiguy Nov 2012 #51
Gawd-Do they all have to either look like Ann Coulter or dress like her-Vomit barbiegeek Nov 2012 #12
I'm sorry but I just can't make fun at others' misery! Light63 Nov 2012 #14
Well said. Time to get to work. efhmc Nov 2012 #15
I think all the other posts are reactions to the crap that has been heaped our way.... George II Nov 2012 #21
That's all very billh58 Nov 2012 #23
I hope that the Republicans share your concerns. So far they seem to be entrenched. olegramps Nov 2012 #24
You Said it! Baby Bear Nov 2012 #26
" To lose what you strongly believe in" NOLALady Nov 2012 #29
Well said! GoCubsGo Nov 2012 #33
+1,000 freshwest Nov 2012 #60
I applaud the sentiment; if for no other reason than that we are better than they are. Aristus Nov 2012 #36
I'm with you Downtown Hound Nov 2012 #59
You don't need to make fun at others' ohheckyeah Nov 2012 #61
Well, the GOP may need a large place Hubert Flottz Nov 2012 #18
Gov. Scott (R-FL) failed to deliver Florida for Rmoney. Scott just SDjack Nov 2012 #35
GOOD catch!! patrice Nov 2012 #53
Gov. Scott should be employed in a nice Federal Pen. Hubert Flottz Nov 2012 #65
I'd tap it. Bucky Nov 2012 #19
Paul Ryan, "Was it the red gangsta hat???" patrice Nov 2012 #37
Nixon's REVENGE!!! patrice Nov 2012 #38
After years of Republicans yelling NASTY stuff at me & my friends, here's my favorite: patrice Nov 2012 #41
Are they yelling at the television with the vote tallies, screaming "you lie!"? George II Nov 2012 #46
Their holy tv??? Surely not!!!! patrice Nov 2012 #52
Thanks for posting, Ichingcarpenter! patrice Nov 2012 #42
That's a photoshop of John Belushi in a bad wig! Egalitarian Thug Nov 2012 #48
LOL!! txdemsftw Nov 2012 #58
THis one!!!!! Fawke Em Nov 2012 #49
"The Republicans' hottest club is Wah Wah Waaaaaaah ... Arugula Latte Nov 2012 #55
Thanks for this! & That'd be Blasphemy Ave. for the Christians amongst us . . . (same concept). patrice Nov 2012 #57
Human ignorance is not funny. PufPuf23 Nov 2012 #62
Purity Ball with her dad, I suppose! akbacchus_BC Nov 2012 #64

KharmaTrain

(31,706 posts)
2. All Dress Up...
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 08:21 AM
Nov 2012

...and no party to go to. No fireworks, no Oak Ridge Boy/Meatloaf duet, no great Willard victory speech.

These people were sooooooooooo sure they were gonna beat the colored fella...the "Great White Hope" would lead them into a new golden age. Then reality hit...

 

Anthony McCarthy

(507 posts)
4. I liked the accounts of the
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 09:03 AM
Nov 2012

posh victory party the Romney campaign at the Boston Convention Center. One pointed out that the guest list showed that Romney was quickly disposing of his egalitarian facade so he'd be able to hob nob with his real people. They bought $25,000 of fireworks that weren't used.

I don't think I've ever enjoyed the defeat of these people so much as I do now. I read somewhere that Obama might offer Romney the Sec of Commerce position, which would be a really bad idea. If there's one thing he doesn't need it's a mole who hates his guts in his administration. I wish Kerns Goodwin had never written that bull shit book.

Ratty

(2,100 posts)
5. I'm a terrible person
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 09:10 AM
Nov 2012
http://whitepeoplemourningromney.tumblr.com/

I look at all of these and just laugh. I should be feeling said that half our country is angry and that we seem more divided than ever as a nation. But I just laugh.
 

leftyohiolib

(5,917 posts)
6. i must be a terrible person also - when people pass me on the hiway with a R+R sticker i just
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 09:18 AM
Nov 2012

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laugh at them. i feel badly enjoying their disappointment and yet saddened by the fact that there are only 11 pages of them

GoCubsGo

(32,078 posts)
16. Some of those tweets and Facebook posts are just nauseating.
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 10:06 AM
Nov 2012

Nauseating because these whackjobs will continue to live among us. They can't go and actually live in their parallel universes, away from the sane people in this society.







Stargazer09

(2,132 posts)
25. Don't they realize...
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 10:34 AM
Nov 2012

...that Obama has been President for four years already, and America didn't go to hell?

The "someone can be too good" tweet made me seriously ill, though. How can anyone actually believe that???

GoCubsGo

(32,078 posts)
30. They live in a bubble.
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 11:02 AM
Nov 2012

These are the nutbags who think they have already lost their freedoms under this President, even though isn't one among them who can name a single freedom they've lost. They live in a parallel universe where a compulsive liar and bully can be "too good". If they can ever manage to extract their heads from their asses and see the light of day, they're going to be in for one massive shock.

Stargazer09

(2,132 posts)
31. A friend of mine was like that
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 11:04 AM
Nov 2012

Hard-core republican who suddenly woke up.

Now he's more liberal than I am. I love it!

LibertyLover

(4,788 posts)
40. If Ms. Kats doesn't watch herself
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 12:00 PM
Nov 2012

she'll be ejected from the Mormon church for wanting something more out of life than a husband and staying home with a bunch of kids all under the age of 4 and all in diapers. Running for Congress indeed. Put that right out of your head honey if you stay a Mormon.

patrice

(47,992 posts)
39. BTW, there's that "I want a baby" meme again that some are hearing from young unmarried women here
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 11:59 AM
Nov 2012

in Cupcake Land, sometimes directed at COMPLETE strangers. I. kid. you. not. Does this suggest something about where Akin's remarks came from?

The moral of this story? Republicans don't know how to raise kids.

patrice

(47,992 posts)
56. My single, mature, very nice son has encountered that a couple of times in temp job situations here
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 03:25 PM
Nov 2012

involving mixed groups of young males and females who are relative strangers to one another.

I also heard stuff like that amongst our Occupy from certain suburban bourgeoisie Christian types who were way more tolerant of the Libertarians and Anarchists amongst us than they were toward young college students who wanted to work with, but not FOR, labor, the SEIU in particular.

 

Ter

(4,281 posts)
54. I don't know man
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 01:08 PM
Nov 2012

If Romney had won and you reversed white with black and Romney with Obama, we would all be screaming racism, me included.

Waltons_Mtn

(345 posts)
10. Some possible captions:
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 09:29 AM
Nov 2012

"You told me if I sleep with you Romney would win! You Asshole!"

"No I will not still blow you!"

That's just what the picture looks like to me.

Light63

(233 posts)
14. I'm sorry but I just can't make fun at others' misery!
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 10:02 AM
Nov 2012

In honor and integrity, Obama has won his re-election. I along with my family were jumping up and down yelling until our voices gave out. However, I DO know this. As much as my heart has completely gone out in support for our president, Romney's supporters also have done the same for theirs. To lose what you strongly believe in is a very devastated feelings! I guess what I want to share with you is this: "Like Obama has won his re-election with honor, integrity, compassion and understanding, we should also do the same." The election is over. Let's focus on the directions to help our country piecing back the broken pieces so we can better the lives for everyone in our country. By no means, this is the reflection of my criticism. This is strictly my feelings and humbly like to share with you.

George II

(67,782 posts)
21. I think all the other posts are reactions to the crap that has been heaped our way....
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 10:19 AM
Nov 2012

.....for years, including all the racial garbage, the idiots wearing teabag earrings, etc. We all owe ourselves a few days or gloating, THEN get to work.

But, from the initial comments of McConnell and Boehner, I don't think they accept the fact that their ideology was rejected on Tuesday.

billh58

(6,635 posts)
23. That's all very
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 10:22 AM
Nov 2012

noble, but I refuse to show pity for fucking racists and faux-Christians who call for open revolution and violence. I will not turn the other cheek.

Baby Bear

(124 posts)
26. You Said it!
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 10:36 AM
Nov 2012

Thanks for taking a stand for civility. As Churchill said, "In war, resolution, in defeat, defiance, in victory, magnanimity, in peace, good will."

NOLALady

(4,003 posts)
29. " To lose what you strongly believe in"
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 11:01 AM
Nov 2012

It seems to me they believe that all were not created equal. They seem to believe that all people do not deserve respect, healthcare, a decent education or a right to vote.

If their feelings are devastated, so be it. Welcome to the real world.

We will focus on trying to better the lives of everyone in this country. We are liberal/progressive Democrats. That's what we do.

But, as I mingle in my community who voted for Romney 75%, I feel nothing but pleasure as I look at their faces.

GoCubsGo

(32,078 posts)
33. Well said!
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 11:17 AM
Nov 2012

Most of their beliefs are based on lies and delusions. And, as you point out, they believe all those lies because they think so little of their fellow citizens. Some of us have been devastated by their previous actions of having installed the Village Idiot into power for two terms. I can't feel sorry for these willfully ignorant jackasses, because I know firsthand what REAL devastation feels like, and it has been never-ending. They aren't going to have to through what I've been enduring for the past five-plus years. And, I really don't give a shit if they're upset if they're upset that their savior on a white horse lost. Fuck them. I will enjoy watching them in their misery, and I won't feel the least bit guilty about it.

Aristus

(66,310 posts)
36. I applaud the sentiment; if for no other reason than that we are better than they are.
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 11:43 AM
Nov 2012

However, I can't find any sympathy in my heart for them; none at all.

I was raised in a Southern military family. I grew up on Army bases all over the country, and overseas. I was steeped in American history and a kind of genial, we-can-do-it patriotism by my mother and father. They taught me that service to one's country is a noble calling. I always put my hand over my heart and recited the Pledge of Allegiance before class every morning. I always took off my cap and sang the National Anthem before the ballgames. My mother is an old-school Kennedy liberal who marched in JFK's inaugural parade, having attended LBJ's alma mater, Southwest Texas State. I served seven years in the U.S Army, three reserve and four active, including duty in the Gulf in 1991. I consider civic responsibility the duty of every citizen, and I have voted in every Presidential election since 1988.

And in 2003, the sort of people who now support Rmoney started calling me 'un-American', 'anti-American', saying I wanted the "terrorists to win", and all manner of awful things, simply because I opposed the illegal, unconscionable, immoral, and yes, un-American invasion and occupation of Iraq.

Me, un-American...

I spent eight years in a kind of fog, unable to believe that my country was now conducting blitzkrieg-style, lebensraum invasions of countries that were no threat to us. It was surreal.

And now these brain-dead, morally bankrupt, asshole right-wingers cry about what they've "lost"...

Sorry. No sympathy. None at all...

Downtown Hound

(12,618 posts)
59. I'm with you
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 07:27 PM
Nov 2012

For the eight years during the Bush administration, I watched as cops beat, falsely arrested, sprayed with pepper spray, doused with tear gas, and violated the rights of thousands of Americans protesting their illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq, and then later during Occupy Wall Street. And during all of it, all I ever heard from these Romney loving assholes was them cheering it all on.

They cheered on the death and destruction in Iraq. They cheered the assault of civil liberties at home, they cheered the torture in Guantanamo and Abu Grahib, and they cheered on an incompetent and un-elected president as he drove our country into economic ruin.

I HAVE ZERO SYMPATHY FOR THESE ASSHOLES, AND I SAVOR THEIR TEARS LIKE A FINE WINE.

SDjack

(1,448 posts)
35. Gov. Scott (R-FL) failed to deliver Florida for Rmoney. Scott just
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 11:40 AM
Nov 2012

did not have the gears to do the heavy trucking, like Gov. Jeb Bush did to steal the election for his Bro. So, Florida, no possibility of GOP convention for you for 20 years. And, Gov. Scott, your carcass is done in the GOP -- you can get a job outside of politics.

Hubert Flottz

(37,726 posts)
65. Gov. Scott should be employed in a nice Federal Pen.
Sat Nov 10, 2012, 09:26 AM
Nov 2012

And work on some boots on the ground Everglades reclamation the rest of his sorry life. Tampering with elections needs to be investigated and anyone caught doing anything at all, to cheat people out of their right to vote, should get life without parole, where they don't have the death penalty.

 

Arugula Latte

(50,566 posts)
55. "The Republicans' hottest club is Wah Wah Waaaaaaah ...
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 01:17 PM
Nov 2012

This place has everything -- transvaginal probes, Karl Rove freaking out in the corner muttering "Ohio ... Ohio ...", binders full of women, cocktails made with Boehner's tears, Clint Eastwood empty chairs, and a magic underwear dress code. It's located on the corner of Hubris Ave. and Denial St."

PufPuf23

(8,764 posts)
62. Human ignorance is not funny.
Sat Nov 10, 2012, 03:59 AM
Nov 2012

No way am I a GOP and anything other than a liberal social democrat with 40 years of consistent Democratic Party voting history and support for Johnson and McCarthy/then RFK briefly before my first legal vote.

The snark and suppression of honest discussion of policy at DU including towards our own makes a less than positive internet site.

I am not picking on your OP or you as a poster or DU really. Just troubled that good cannot do better.

I am at DU nearly every day for years and have zero question whether I am am Democratic, liberal, unquestionably equal rights, and anti-war/violence at DU or in real life.


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