Biden says Democrats will 'shock' everyone in midterms (".. losses are(n't) going to be bad at all")

AFP on Yahoo ^ | 7/18/10 | Alex Ogle

[NormsRevenge]

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Vice President Joe Biden brushed aside suggestions on Sunday that Democrats will suffer big losses in November midterm elections, vowing that Barack Obama's governing party will "shock the heck out of everybody."

Speaking on the ABC News program "This Week," Biden dismissed prevailing wisdom that Democrats, 17 months into Obama's transformative residency in the White House, would suffer a drubbing at the hands of salivating Republicans.

"I don't think the losses are going to be bad at all," Biden said. "I think we're going to shock the heck out of everybody."

Biden said he was "confident when people take a look at what has happened since we've taken office in November and comparing it to the alternative, we're going to be in great shape."

The vice president said he believes the Obama administration will get credit from voters for helping guide the economy out of recession and passing key legislation on health care and financial reform.

"It's just going to take time," Biden said.

"The election is not until November. And I think we're going to have to firmly make our case."

Obama has launched into campaign mode in recent weeks, hoping to transform the spectacular grassroots support from Democrats and independent voters which propelled him to the presidency in 2008 into a full-bodied platform for his party in the upcoming congressional races.

[tet68]

Biden said. “I think we’re going to shock the heck out of everybody.”

Either their losses will be so great they commit mass
suicide or they have already rigged the election.

[clearcarbon]

Coming from Joe Biden, it means nothing.

[billhilly]

Some people on the Titanic had similar thoughts.

[RWB Patriot]

Double meaning in this statement?

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[rockabyebaby]

MAJOR voter fraud coming - either that or obama will susepend elections and declare himself messiah of the world,,,,forever

[rockabyebaby]

Will the poll watchers will be a factor?

ACORN + Black Panthers = MAJOR MAJOR voter fraud - guaranteed.

[Victor]

Oh well, ...I don’t expect the guy to come out and say “It’s over/ we’re f&%ed.

[mthom]

“I’m sure Gibbs is more in the loop than Biden.”

If Obama has any brains at all the average man on the street is more in the loop than Biden is.

[Hoodat]

Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

[4Liberty]

Pimp my Mortgage!

[4Liberty]

Acorn......... Great!

[manc]

hey Joe , obama and his far left wing thugs from Chicago chose you because you’re an idiot and that they could pass things which you are too dumb enough to understand.
hey Joe how does it feel to be on the outside even though you’re a vice pres ?

[OCCASparky]

Only when he said the Tea Party wasn’t racist. Aside from that, hard to say.

[WhatNot]

"we're going to shock the heck out of everybody."

"Vee have vays of making you vote for us"

[ken21]

franken stole the minnesota u.s. senate seat,

and it didn’t bother the civic minded.

/s

[justiceseeker93]

Notice that Biden and Hoyer both agreed that the Tea Party isn't racist. They must have switched to a new Democrat party line because the “Tea Party = racism” meme wasn't gaining traction according to their pollsters.

[Mariner]

Accusations of racism, dirty ads, money, voter fraud and voter intimidation...that's all they've got.

Of course, such tactics have won elections before...

[Madame Dufarge]

Well, the fraud machine at the Department of Justice is all geared up:

"A lesser-known provision [of the Motor Voter law] also obliged the states to ensure that no ineligible voters were on the rolls — including dead people, felons, and people who had moved. Our current Department of Justice is anxious to encourage the obligations to get everyone registered, but explicitly unwilling to enforce federal law requiring states to remove the dead or ineligible from the rolls.

In November 2009, the entire Voting Section was invited to a meeting with Deputy Assistant Attorney General Julie Fernandes, a political employee serving at the pleasure of the attorney general. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss Motor Voter enforcement decisions.

The room was packed with dozens of Voting Section employees when she made her announcement regarding the provisions related to voter list integrity:

We have no interest in enforcing this provision of the law. It has nothing to do with increasing turnout, and we are just not going to do it.

Jaws dropped around the room.

Lawlessness at the DOJ: Voting Section Told Not To Enforce Purging the Dead or Ineligible from Voting Rolls

[LucyJo]

"Biden says Democrats will 'shock' everyone..."

IOW, "you ain't seen nuthin' yet, if you think you've seen Democrat-ic corruption."

Dems didn't lie about one thing during the last big campaign. They said they would be transparent. Anyone would have to be blind, deaf, and "dumbed down" to not see straight through them.