A sense of desperation in the air for Republicans...

[kentuck]

They are beginning to act like cornered animals.

Laura Ingraham was nearly distraught. ""If you can't beat Barack Obama with this record, then shut down the party. Shut it down...", she said. And she is not alone.

Bill Kristol suggested they should at least go down with a fight.

George Will, who was on the Ingraham radio show, said conservatism was like a second language to Romney. The criticism is building to a crescendo. They sense the early warning of defeat.

Rush Limbaugh, on his radio show, said in a moment of unintended honesty, that Romney "may as well be Elmer Fudd as far as we're concerned". It is all about voting against Barack Obama. Their hatred is visceral. And it is directed toward Barack Obama.

Their actions are unpredictable. They are without empathy. It is a character flaw of their entire Party. So they have no qualms about lying or impeaching or whatever they can do to weaken their opponent. They are showing signs of desperation and that makes them a dangerous animal.

[Cary]

1. Cheers, Kentuck!

[kentuck]

5. Yo!

[TwilightGardener]

2. Yup, like cornered badgers.

[reflection]

6. THE POLLS ARE WRONG!!!!!!!1

[TwilightGardener]

7. LOL!

[BeyondGeography]

3. Someone needs to tell them they're not so cool anymore

Sell-by date, like, expired.

Did any of them criticize Romney (apart from Scarborough this morning, just because he needed to full air time) for keeping Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld away from Tampa? No. Which should tell them something right there, if they had an honest cell in their brains. This guy they defended almost to the bitter end for eight years and whose presidency ended in 2009, Stalinized.

They are to blame.

[asjr]

4. How can one group of people have so much hatred

for one man? Each day some of them absolutely allow themselves to show how evil they are. And evil is the correct word. It is chilling!

[MFM008]

8. im enjoying it while it lasts.

[kentuck]

9. If there is such a thing as Karma...

These folks are in for a hard fall.

[Blanks]

10. The republicans really counted on their failed economic policies...

Being blamed on Obama. The clip of turtle man saying that their number one priority is to make Obama a one term president didn't help.

There is just too much alternative media anymore to hide their shenanigans in the folds of the main stream media.

Half the country blames congress for the unemployment woes, and their approval rating is like 12% or something.

It isn't all due to the fact that Romney is such a loser. I don't know that a charismatic republican candidate would have done any better with the way Boehner's house has performed.

[Arugula Latte]

11. The ones who hate Obama with every fiber of their being think everyone shares their hate.

In reality their hate is enormous, but their numbers aren't quite there.

[hifiguy]

12. Those are the dying honks of a party that is rapidly

becoming irrelevant. As is pointed out at this OP http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021321319#post7 and link, demographic changes taken together with geography are collapsing the Repuke base and doing so quite rapidly. Within one or two more presidential elections there will be no possible way for the 'pukes to assemble an Electoral College majority. And then the moving finger having writ, moves on.

[kentuck]

14. O Happy Day!

When that happens.

[sadbear]

13. No, I think their actions are predictable.

The hand-wringing will start very soon. And then the lurch to the right. Very predictable.

[7worldtrade]

15. Sep 11, 2012 5:25pm Republicans Nervously Eye Swing State Polls - ABC's The Note

For Mitt Romney’s campaign, the outlook in the battleground states is even worse than the national polls.
According to a GOP source with access to private polling being done by independent Republican groups (who are spending a lot of money tracking public opinion in the battleground states), Romney is in trouble in two must-win states:
Ohio: Romney down 5 percent.
Virginia: Romney down 4 percent.
Most troubling for Romney: the Ohio trend has been consistent for several weeks and is not a “sugar high” resulting from the Democratic convention.
These internal state-by-state tracking polls show some positive signs for Romney, but nowhere near enough to compensate for Ohio and Virginia. The good news:
- In Wisconsin, which Obama won by 14 points, Romney is only down 2 percent, putting the state within reach.
- In Nevada, which Obama won by almost 13 points, the race is tied. It is also essentially tied in Colorado and Iowa.

Hard for me to believe Nevada and Colorado are "tied."

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/09/republicans-nervously-eye-swing-state-polls/

[D23MIURG23]

16. I actually think Elmer Fudd would appeal more to middle class voters.

At least he is down to earth, and I expect his debate performance would be no worse than Rmoney's.

[Skittles]

17. yes, PLEASE, shut the fucking party down

PLEASE