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To: Bubba_Leroy

Because a huge popular vote win makes the post-election lawsuits less likely.

Because a huge popular vote win shuts the liberals up completely.

Because a huge popular vote win prevents a replay of 2000, where the liberals all called the Republican President illegitimate.

Because we are not just fighting to unseat the Kenyan, but to de-legitamize the Kenyan News Media.

That’s why. (Off the top of my head, in 30 seconds. I could come up with a 10,000 word essay on the subject but I have to get to work. I’m taking the ferry from Hoboken into NYC this morning.)


49 posted on 11/05/2012 5:33:16 AM PST by samtheman (Obama. Mugabe. Chavez. (Obamugavez))
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To: samtheman
Because a huge popular vote win shuts the liberals up completely.

It doesn't ever work that way. Just the opposite in fact. Liberals cannot handle the cognitive dissonance caused by a huge popular vote against them. Derangement immediately sets in.

Look at recent history. Did the liberals shut up after the Republican blow out election in 2010? Did the lamestream media start giving the Tea Party some grudging respect? Not hardly.

In 1994 it was much worse (and really fun to watch). In a nationwide blowout election, Republicans seized control of the Senate, the House, a majority of the governorships and a majority of the state legislatures. Basically, nearly every Democrat running for any office anywhere in the country lost and nearly every Republican running for office anywhere in the country won.

The lamestream media was not expecting it, was not at all prepared for it, and had a collective on-air meltdown as the election results started rolling in. My favorite was watching Peter Jennings proclaim "Imagine a nation full of uncontrolled two-year-old rage. The voters had a temper tantrum last week....the nation can't be run by an angry two-year-old."

Liberals (including the lamestream media) spent the next four years in a non-stop concerted effort to demonize Newt Gingrich and every other Republican that they could blame for the 1994 "temper tantrum."

In 1984, Reagan had the audacity to win almost 59% of the popular vote and almost 98% of the electoral vote. I don't recall the liberals ever shutting up about Reagan or considering him to be a legitimate president. The palpable liberal hatred and loathing of Reagan was not matched until the liberal hatred and loathing of George W. Bush set in, after Bush won a majority of the popular vote in 2004.

The worst was Nixon. His greatest crime was beating McGovern with over 60% of the popular vote in 1972. None of the liberals in or out of the lamestream media even knew anyone that had voted for Nixon. Nixon could not possibly have actually received 60% of the vote. He must have stolen the election and he had to be punished for it. And punish him they did, managing to force his resignation over stupid campaign tricks of a kind that paled in comparison to anything that LBJ or Kennedy had done. No conservatives came to Nixon's defense, because Nixon was basically a liberal (opening relations with Communist China, imposing wage and price controls, enacting "revenue sharing" with state and local governments, creating the EPA - it is a long list).

I still hope that Obama loses tomorrow in a nationwide landslide. It will give me hope for our nation's future. I have no illusions, however, that it will do anything other than make liberals even more deranged and bent on revenge.

I go back to my original statement. All that really matters is that Romney get more than 270 electoral votes. The more the better. Winning several more states than he needs will eliminate any recount fights in any one state. But running up Romney's vote totals in Texas or in any other state that Romney is sure to carry, or reducing Obama's vote totals in New York, California or any other state that Obama is sure to carry will accomplish nothing.

50 posted on 11/05/2012 7:14:23 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy (Are we nearing the end of the Obamanation?)
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