Posted on 10/04/2012 2:57:43 AM PDT by nathanbedford
It will not be necessary to adduce arguments to conservatives on these threads that America was on the brink of the precipice and liable to cascade over into the void of debt. We must either radically change course or surrender this great experiment in liberty to the statists led by Barack Obama. The odds that Obama could be stopped seemed to be lengthening as the Romney campaign was running out of time and out of geography.
I believe that as at 9:29 PM Eastern standard Time America was hurtling toward that void. An hour and a half later it might just have happened that Romney managed to reverse the arc of this election and opened for himself a realistic chance to win.
An empty suit is like a soufflé, when the air goes out the whole thing collapses. Obama is the classic empty suit who has been propelled since infancy through the best schools (from the most exclusive prep school in Hawaii to Occidental, Columbia, and Harvard Law), bestowed with great honors (president of the Law Review, Nobel Peace Prize) and into posts (instructor at University of Chicago Law School, Illinois State Senator, United States Senator, President of the United States of America) for which he was qualified only by virtue of his race and his radical ideology. The whole contrivance imploded last night as the air went out of Obama's campaign in one great rancid and embarrassingly public fart.
I expect to see intensity among Republicans increase and intensity among Democrats decrease. I even expect to see a measurable if limited fall off in support by African-Americans for Barack Obama.
I expect to see increased donations to Romney and to the Republican cause and a decrease in donations to Obama and to the Democrat cause.
I expect to see improvement in Romney's poll numbers nationwide and in the swing states of more than the traditional one and 1/2 to 2% accruing to a challenger who wins the first debate.
I do not expect it, but I would not be surprised to see a few of the mainstream media deciding it is not too late to save their reputations and restore their integrity.
I expect to see a much more aggressive Obama in the next debate but I expect that will reveal a very unseemly personality who will not contrive to be effective but only petty and he will not restore his image from tonight's debacle.
I expect Paul Ryan will be able to cope with Joe Biden whom I expect to be much more aggressive than he otherwise would have been, but it will not avail.
I expect to see a more robust and aggressive line of attack assumed by Romney's surrogates in the immediate future. I expect to see an aggressive congressional investigation into Benghazi, for example. I expect to see breaks in the ranks among Democrats over this and other issues in the wake of emergence of whistleblowers and the need by careerists to save themselves. I expect to hear demands that Romney make specific his plans for the economy no more.
In short, I expect to see the arc of the campaign changed toward Romney's favor. I have no idea who will win this election, that is still too close to call. Obama still has the levers of the presidency and he is fully capable of triggering an October surprise and he will have plenty of cover to do so in the flaming middle east. An October surprise is an option which has concerned me since my last vanity in March: Never mind the Ides of March, beware the Surprises of October
The Rino did what he had to do last night. He now has a chance to win this election but only if he does more of the same from now until the last ballot is cast. As Robert E Lee replied when asked if the South would win the Civil War, "we will win if it be God's will and every man does his whole duty."
Romney did his part, now we must do ours, it might still not be enough.
Excellent, as always.
Posted this on another thread, but it also applies here... America needs to take this into consideration. Romney will be faced with an entire system stacked with libs. He will be powerless until they are neutralized/removed.
The job of all of us is to root out and flush libs and their sympathizers from all positions of authority - from school nurse to Bohner.
“Evn if Romney governs as Reagan, modern business id filthy with libs in high places, the GOP is as well and the whole of the political infrastructure - aides, secretaries et all. They have been at this since McCarthy was shut down.
It will take decades to undo the damage...if it’s even possible.
And then there’s the state of education which was the primary conduit for all the rest to be possible.”
“The whole contrivance imploded last night as the air went out of Obama’s campaign in one great rancid and embarrassingly public fart.”
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Exquisite...
A RINO cannot save the Republic. We The People will...or we won’t. Mitt isn’t Obama but he is very much of the degraded Culture.
too early to tell. We should all just assume that for the next two debates, the fix is in because the media will not allow Obama to look this bad again. I would not be surprised if he comes out with the questions written on his hands.
Well got to start somewhere and last night was the night.
Romney unfiltered by the press, almost Reaganesque last night.
Jim Lehrer could have filtered most of Romney's performance but did not.
He's dead Jim.
Well with the VP debate coming up next week, with Ryan taking on Bidden, it could be the start of the end of the Obama era.
I expect you are absolutely right.
The Obama Error ended in the summer of 2009, it’s been the media propping him up since then. They lost the people when he ignored the economy and focused on agitating for Obamacare despite the fact that people wanted him to focus on the economy.
But I sense a growing backlash against the radical libs is coming, people are slowly but with being certain are starting to “wake up”.
It could very well happen that Obama will be given his walking papers, not long after Valentine, who helped to do damage to a great American baseball team.
my new tag line
There were plenty of disturbing things Romney said tonight for conservatives, but why go into it. I’m sure everyone here has been working their nuts off trying to stop the coming collapse in their own way. Let’s take a break to bask in at least a little good news that Romney kicked Obama’s smarmy keister.
Exquisite... and eloquent
The empty suit of Obama was present last night but also the idiot McCain was not either.
How much of a Rino Romney actually is, or not, is a subject for some analysis and not of the chest-thumping variety.
Very excellent, Mr. Bedford.
And I think Jeff Head knows a few things.
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