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Boston Herald ^ | 11/9/2016 | Howie Carr

Posted on 11/09/2016 4:06:38 AM PST by AU72

At 6:45 last night, Donald Trump promised me and my radio listeners a “beautiful, tight, long night.”

By 10 o’clock, he’d proven himself a man of his word.

The morning stock market futures were down 500-plus points.

The anchor desk at the Clinton News Network looked like someone had just run over its new puppy.

Megyn Kelly looked like she must have looked the day Roger Ailes was chasing her around the desk on Sixth Avenue and asking her when her contract was up.

Mark Cuban hadn’t tweeted in, like, 10 hours.

It was the curse of Jon Bon Jovi — remember, he was the featured entertainment for John Kerry (that’s President John Kerry to you, sucker) on election night 2004.

Guess who was scheduled to play for Hillary last night?

Grief counselors were being deployed onto Facebook — cyber belts and shoelaces were being confiscated from the trust fund crowd.

“How are we looking in New Hampshire?” Donald Trump had asked me hours earlier.

Pretty good, I said, not lying, as events progressed.

The Reagan Democrats were coming home. It’s like in the second debate, when Hillary Clinton was quoting Abraham Lincoln. It’s just that she got the wrong quote from Honest Abe.

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.”

This was our last chance. If Hillary won … Nobody even wanted to think about it all day.

Open borders, the TPP, rampant corruption and no grand juries, no subpoenas, a totally defanged FBI. It would be a banana republic — even more of a banana republic than it has been these past eight years. Ann Coulter sounded down in the dumps yesterday afternoon. Even Rudy Giuliani was talking like he was on

Prozac.

Never, ever believe exit polls.

It’s been a loooooong time since the last Republican victory, in 2004. I was beginning to think John Kerry was going to become a Final Jeopardy question.

“Who was the last Democrat presidential candidate to be defeated by a Republican?”

All these years of nail-biting presidential elections. Even 1988 — didn’t America dodge a bullet with M. Stanley Dukakis? Way too close. Then came the Clintons, bad, but survivable.

Then 2000 — another nail-biter, only this one lasted for seven weeks. Al Gore, oh my God! And finally, in 2008, our luck ran out. Divine Providence abandoned us.

Last night, I was at the Trump Victory Party at F1 in Braintree. There was a teacher from Brookline High with me. I asked him how bleak it was going to be in the corridors this morning.

He thought for a moment.

“Like Bush-Gore in 2000,” he finally said. “Times 10.”

I told Trump that social media had exploded Monday night when he announced that he’d been endorsed by Bill Belichick. Nobody cared when Big Papi came out for Hillary, but this was the end of the world.

Until the results started coming in last night. Then the world really ended. One of those RINO-types was on MSNBC, tut-tutting about the end of NATO or some such thing. Like anybody cared!

George Will … Karl Rove … how about Mitt Romney? What if Mitt’s home state of Michigan would be the one to put Trump over the top?

I remember election night 1980, when Reagan crushed Carter. I went up to one of the editors in the Herald newsroom and told him, “Tonight, Somerville crushes Cambridge.”


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: carr
This morning Howie Carr really enjoyed coming down for breakfast.
1 posted on 11/09/2016 4:06:38 AM PST by AU72
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To: AU72

Check out the faces of the audience on morning joe, they look suicidal. Of course some soft spokeb rotten black bigot was right there calling Trump every name he could spew.


2 posted on 11/09/2016 4:13:48 AM PST by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job....)
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To: AU72; Andonius_99; Andy'smom; Antique Gal; Big Guy and Rusty 99; bitt; Barset; bryan999; ...
Howie Carr list ping. Howie's show today should be gloating to the max. One of Howie's fave quotes is from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson

“Turn the goddam music up! My heart feels like an alligator!”

Howie Carr Show


3 posted on 11/09/2016 4:18:51 AM PST by raccoonradio
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To: AU72

President Trump saved America from communist Hillary, Amnesty socialism, massive Muslim immigration and more evil that would have been imminent with her election.


4 posted on 11/09/2016 4:32:12 AM PST by Democrat_media (Hillary promised EXECUTIVE amnesty for 40 million illegals in her 1st 100 days as prez)
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To: AU72

Since when is Howie Carr NOT a RINO?


5 posted on 11/09/2016 4:33:40 AM PST by sauropod (Beware the fury of a patient man. I've lost my patience!)
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To: sauropod

You’re kidding right? Geeesh


6 posted on 11/09/2016 4:35:16 AM PST by New Perspective (Proud father of a son with Down Syndrome and fighting to keep him off Obama's death panels.)
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To: TalBlack; All

When W beat Kerry in 04, the then-new Air America sounded half asleep and beaten just afterwards—hoping for recounts, claiming the GOP rigged ballots etc. Al Franken had been in Boston expecting a big celebration on Kerry’s home turf.

Google “Kerry party turns to tears, bitterness” for a Conservative News Service story on election night in Boston. Much anger and frustration on a night the Left thought they had it in the bag.

Here, here’s a link
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1268571/posts


?>Some Kerry supporters called Bush’s platform “all lies” and heckled a group of College Republicans who were passing through the crowd.
A distraught woman confronted Democrat U.S. Rep. Harold Ford in the lobby of the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel and screamed, “Can you tell me why everybody made a mistake?” Ford responded: “Let me talk to the candidate before I make a comment. It’s been a long day.”

Another woman standing near Ford began to openly weep at the prospect of a Kerry loss.
Former California Democrat governor Gray Davis spoke briefly with Ford and then essentially conceded the election to Bush and looked ahead to 2008.
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When CNSNews.com asked why he had confidently predicted a Kerry victory just a few hours earlier, Davis responded, “I, like many people saw the exit polls, which saw Kerry ahead in every battleground state.”

“We believed they were a precursor of a great evening,” a somber Davis explained.

Though Davis said he was “very proud of the campaign Kerry ran,” he did criticize the party’s efforts in Southern states.

“Part of [winning the White House] is certainly not writing off the South. It’s too big a part of America just to concede to the other party and expect to win,” Davis said.


I remember Zell Miller had a book about Dems writing off the South in 00 (and it happened again in 04): A National Party No More


7 posted on 11/09/2016 4:40:39 AM PST by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio

Life is soooooooo good this morning...


8 posted on 11/09/2016 5:33:02 AM PST by GOPJ (Hillary's next book: "How to Make $100 Million as a Public Servant" - - freeperJs aoshua c)
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To: Democrat_media
President Trump saved America from communist Hillary...

Disagree. Our precious Lord above exercised His will last night.

9 posted on 11/09/2016 7:00:08 AM PST by upchuck (Thank you Lord for rescuing our country from pure evil. Congrats Donald J. Trump and Mike Pence!)
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