What Will the Republican Whine Be November 5th?

[Stingo]

Everyone is predicting vote totals and Senate races and the like, but who else would predict the coming Republican whines, and let you comment on what you think those whines will be. Will they whine Dems encouraged sexism against Palin? Will they whine about an Affirmative Action President? Make your opinion known!

http://allspinzone.com/wp/2008/11/01/what-will-the-republican-whine-be-november-5th/

[NC_Nurse]

1. "He bought the presidency with all that MONEY!" WAAAAHHH. Never mind

that the same could be said for them for the past 8 years. :eyes:

[Hugin]

2. "It were being stolen!"

We'll hear that often.

[asthmaticeog]

3. "Whine?"

Whining is nothing compared to what they'll do if they fail to steal it by gaming the Dems with voter challenges, purges, etc. They will do everything they can to delegitimize an Obama administration in the eyes of as much of the public as possible. "Whining" would be FINE in comparison to what's coming, just watch.

[bemildred]

10. Yeah. Carter and Clinton all over again, but worse.

As opposed to the lickspittle fellation of Raygun and the Bushes. I have a feeling that President Obama is not going to tolerate mistreatment of his children silently though, and the internet genie will not be stuffed back in the bottle. The Mighty Wurlitzer could have its hands full this time around.

[Stingo]

13. Which Republican will do the fellating

with Larry Craig gone?

[bemildred]

16. A lot of them to choose from, from what I can tell.

The Republican party is like a refuge for closeted gays.

Not that I have anything against fellating, far from it, but it is unseemly in journalists when dealing with political leaders and what is presented as "news".

[CLANG]

22. Correctamundo!

That's why we need to root the bastards out, and finish them off.

[Stingo]

23. I get you both

But you're not talking about fellating. You're talking about prostituting.

[MNDemNY]

4. Let's hope it's not : "We didn't steal anything, we won fair and square."

[mwb970]

5. "Voter fraud", "pro-Obama" media, sexism.

Also:

ACORN.
Black identity voting.
Obama declined public campaign financing.
"Vicious" media/Internet attacks on Palin.
Press scrutiny violating Palin/McCain's First Amendment rights.
Katie Couric.
Jon Stewart.
Bill Maher.
Michael Moore, on general principles. George Soros, ditto.
Obama's big crowds and fundraising success.
Crypto-Muslims.

Those are just the "whining points" I thought of off the top of my head! FR will be a-buzzin' for months.

[Interceptor7]

6. the GOP will try to delegitimize Obama's presidency

with all of the claims you listed. Voter fraud will be at the top of the list on Nov. 5.

[Seldona]

19. Agreed.

Welcome to DU!

[Berry Cool]

9. Don't forget Keith Olbermann.

He will be at or near the top of the shit list.

[PATRICK]

7. McCain

will in all likelihood bear the brunt, especially since even a mediocre competent could have kept it in cheat territory.

What will be interesting is if no one hears a peep about the real central character in the whole fiasco, George Bush. The press has been sidestepping him completely since they failed to keep up His Phoniness in the polls. That means the GOP a) has no guts to throw off the current ruling dynasty even in defeat b) the expect bush to do the dirty for them until his last disastrous day in office.

The normal blahblah is to make heroes and "rising stars" out of the debacle's survivors, spending more time looking for "new" leaders and trends than they would ever waste ink on Dems in a similar plight(except to encourage them to become Republicans in some fashion). In that "newness" the Republicans are fatally, comically restricted from becoming "liberal" or being disrespectful toward the Bushes(in public), or throwing their nutbase baggage under the bus. All they can is keep saying no to change and blaming Dems for everything imaginable or otherwise.

Suddenly they will get a lot smarter about things they have done nothing about before other than exploit or make worse. The results of that wisdom will be to obstruct the Dems from accomplishing anything for the public good, pretty much a more impotent repeat of their past eight years intentions.

The parity/gridlock game they expect to work back to in 2010 recaptured seats may be the next shocker for them, because they will avoid ANY real change in themselves, their faults or disasters. How the Dems will cope with the new situation is MORE critical because much less predictable. A superparty with at least one poisonous division based on money.

It would be good if in its full righteous fervor they completed campaign finance reform. Then a natural populist evolution can happen in representation as corruption as we know it today is gutted. The prospect for new parties or a changed Dem party still lies with a break from the past. Greens, etc. have been caught up in the current mess. Real politics, real democracy and real choices have yet to set down their roots. In all that unknown, only the GOP will remain mired in dreams of power lost and a past that can never be nor ever was possible to sustain.

[Demeter]

8. I Know What the Whine WON'T Be!

We had a piss-poor candidate picked out of a dozen piss-poor candidates;
he ran a piss-poor and divisive campaign that tore our base to shreds and disgarded most of them;
he added as VP a veritable Bride of Frankenstein cum pitbull without any lipstick, brains or pull;
and George W. Bush screwed the economy so bad, we could have run Superman or Wonder Woman and still lost.

Also, Kkkarl Again couldn't deliver the goods. The Democrats are getting too smart and canny for us.

[Stingo]

11. So they won't blame their own actions?

Really?

[Demeter]

12. Now You Are Teasing Me!

That's okay, we're all family here. You can be the pesky kid brother, if you want to.

[Jack Rabbit]

14. No one thing in particular

It will be all over the map.

Obama will be too far out in front for them to claim massive voter fraud, but some will claim that, anyway.

Then there's the media. That excuse, like the first, is pretty tired, but it won't stop them.

Some will blame Sarah Palin, without mentioning that she was McCain's choice. Others will blame McCain himself, saying he was too much of a maverick without mentioning his marching in lock step with the Bushies 90% of the time. And then some will blame the myriad of Republican turncoats like Colin Powell or Scott McClellan, without mentioning why they turned.

Some will blame Democratic negative advertising for turning off voters to Republicans, while never mentioning how GOP negative advertising turned off voters to Republicans. Some will be sure to mention Kay Hagan's negative attack ad against Libby Dole; how dare Kay Hagan, a Sunday school teacher, defend herself against charges of being atheist?

Some will blame Mr. Bush's unpopularity, without blaming Mr. Bush's unpopularity on his incompetence or Senator McCain's strong support of Mr. Bush's incompetent programs.

Some will say that McCain caught a bad break when the GOP economic formula (known as Reaganomics or voodoo economics) of deregulation, cut taxes, borrow money from foreign banks and spend it on pointless wars and useless military boondoggles fell like a house of cards, without mentioning McCain's role in pushing the necessary legislation through Congress for all these years.

Of course, it will be hard for any rational, objective observer to point to just one reason for the Obama landslide, too.

[madamesilverspurs]

15. Seeing as how they've already started

it's safe to say that they will serve any whine before its time.

[pipi_k]

17. Well I'm hoping there isn't any whining because

they've all done the lemming thing straight into the nearest large body of water

or over a cliff

or rattlesnake pit


I don't wanna hear anything but the sweet sound of crickets :7

[Stingo]

18. Crickets

No, there's not going to be any sweet sound here. It will be loud and there's going to be a whole lot of complaining and whining.

[yellowcanine]

20. They will whine about the pres race being called too early and hurting their downticket candidates.

They will whine about how much money Obama spent.
They will whine about the MSM treating McCain and Palin "unfairly".
They will whine about the MSM not "letting" McCain go after Obama enough and not reporting on all of the Obama "scandals".

[Stingo]

21. That first is very realistic.

Thanks for the comment

[Alcibiades]

24. It's obvious

They will claim election fraud, citing the massive turnout as evidence.

Of course, video footage and lots and lots of evidence of masses of actual people voting will not dissuade them, because the facts don't comport with their opinions.

What we need to emphasize in calling them on this bullshit is that they have become an angry, ideologically extreme party that has lost not only its grip on moderate Democrats and independents, but even on moderate Republicans. The Rovian style of appealing only to the base has blown back on them.

[Stingo]

25. they don't understand reality

It is as simple as that. So they won't understand the evidence.

[agincourt]

26. We didn't run a "true" conservative.

McCain uses silverware and doesn't think the earth is flat and created in 6 days. Thats why we lost. Had we only run a leader that belongs just right in "The Handmaid's Tale", then we would have won.

[Chrishelms]

29. Who should be blamed? Limbaugh, Hannity, Coulter, Malkin, etc.

Sure the "liberal" media, ACORN and the rest will be blamed by the right, but the real culprit will be the Republican Noise Machine, which pressured John McCain to run as George W Bush's crown prince. McCain got his ass handed to him because he tried to ride into the white house on the coattails of a sitting president who had a 23% approval rating in America but a 99% approval rating on right wing talk radio and Fox "news." McCain tossed his independent, maverick credentials in the trash because Limbaugh, Coulter and the rest of the one percenters pitched a royal bitch about him being "too liberal." He caved in to the demands of Michelle Malkin and Sean Hannity, abandoned his own core beliefs for a failed administrations core beliefs and lost.

[enuegii]

27. They will whine about the huge "Unamerican Voter" turnout...n/t

[Stingo]

28. That would be the

"libruls?" The "brown people?" The "Young?"