Stalwart GOP apologist Cokie Roberts Quick to Point Out How Winning is a Problem for Obama

[Orrex]

She couldn't get on the air fast enough to claim last night as a de facto victory for Republicans. Two of her main points?

1. Obama risks losing the support of the wealthy, aging white electorate.

2. He really needs to work with Republicans if he wants to get anything done.


Thanks, Cokie. I knew that there must be some way to see this as a GOP triumph. I was worried that I'd have to go to Fox News to hear it, but there you were on NPR, right on cue.

[roscoeroscoe]

1. yeah i heard that nonsense too

wow, critical that he reach out~

[CTyankee]

2. does that woman ever get her saggy butt out of D.C. to look around at the real world?

She hasn't been relevant for 40 years, if then....I still laugh when I remember her poutrage over Bill's affair with Monica Lewinsky. "It simply isn't DONE!, " she sniffed...

Yeah, right, nobody in office f*cks around...

[Jim__]

3. Yes, he'd be in a much stronger position if he had lost.

[coalition_unwilling]

4. ABC's coverage in general was all-around despicable. Coke-head's shilling for the

Rape-publicans was echoed by other vicious digs at Obama by others on the panel like George Will. Obama's win was based, according to ABC, on 'negative campaigning.' It was really incredible (in a "I can't believe they're being so ugly to Obama" way). Stephanopolis did NOTHING to counter the pro-GOP shilling and anti-Obama slander. Watched from 6 p.m. PST to 11 p.m. PST pretty much non-stop.

I will be boycotting ABC and Disney for the next 4 years.

[NBachers]

9. I kept yelling at Bob Scheiffer's incessant babbling and pontificating- and then Cokie

She's so smug, delighted, and satisfied with her own hollow, bitter self. God, she just needs to go away!

[Ganja Ninja]

5. The Queen of the Librul Media has spoken.

And she's channeling Mitch McConnell.

[LondonReign2]

6. Oh, Fox was all over that idea too

I flipped over to Fox immediately after Ohio was called so that I coiuld bask in their tears of sorrow, and there is Megan Kelley talking about how its the President that has to change, because America picked the Repubs for the House don't you know.

[agtcovert]

7. There was plenty of snark...

From Inskeep (on NPR) this morning too. It's only been recently that I've realized what a gigantic tool he is.

We're on to the debt ceiling and how Obama is going to cause us all doom.

[Orrex]

12. I like Inskeep less and less

In most of his interviews he comes across as incredibly false, especially if he decides to guffaw at some mildly amusing comment from the interviewee.

Strictly speaking, I wasn't surprised to hear Roberts give her spiel, but it still makes me want to hurl.

[Scuba]

8. The no-longer-relevant Roberts spoke? Huh.

[NBachers]

10. She's like a has-been novelty act that keeps trying to find new ways to tell the same old sour joke

Nobody wants to hear it anymore

[Atman]

11. The Fox analyst says he ran into the entire Romney team at the hotel bar last night...

He says they whined to him that it was all Sandy's fault...they had momentum, they thought they were on their way, but then that damned hurricane sapped all their energy. And Obama was mean and ran nasty ads about them. But, surprisingly, the Fox guy didn't buy it. He said they had a lot bigger problems than just Sandy or Obama's ads, and pointed out that Obama one all of the key demographics they said they'd win, and Romney only had old white men. LOL! I love the smell of losing GOPpers in the morning.

[SoapBox]

13. Argggggghhhh!

Her, Steve "Snark" Inskeep...and others...

Why I stopped listening AND donating to NPR after the 2008 elections.

Shut the hell up CokieHead.

[closeupready]

14. Can not STAND that woman.

When it comes to a Democratic victory, she's the reliable MSM-preferred "Democratic" pundit who can be counted on to always find a way to help the GOP snatch themselves a victory from the jaws of resounding defeat.

[Skidmore]

15. Seriously, there is a whole group of these talkers--Roberts, Charon, Barnes, etc, who need to

just retire. They have outlived their usefulness. To ensconced in the echo chamber and social circuits, they no longer have a grasp on reality.

[Orrex]

19. I think Charon has a job running that ferry

It's always nice to have something to fall back on.

[NYC Liberal]

16. I was listening too. Obama doesn't need to work with them; it's the other way around.

Obama has bent over backwards trying to get consensus and trying to find compromises to get Republicans to do something, anything with regards to jobs. They have refused. It is now their turn to come to the table.

[Skidmore]

17. That is an argument that needs to be framed up front rather than letting them run with this notion

that somehow he has no mandate.

[NYC Liberal]

20. If the Republicans continue their obstruction, they are in big trouble in 2016.

They won't be running against Obama, so they can't blame everything on him. They'll have to run on their own record and not just against Obama's.

[closeupready]

18. Indeed. The GOP is shrinking, and OBAMA 'needs to suck up'?

Um, no. I don't think so. To the contrary.