Romney Cheerleaders: Living In An Alternate Reality?

If you paid attention to conservative pundits and politicians leading up to the elections, it’s like they were living in a different reality. Polls meant nothing and there was simply no possibility the president could get re-elected.
Grimmsays...

Newt Gingrich: “My personal guess is you are going to see a Romney landslide, 53% plus in the popular vote, 300 electoral votes plus. And we may come very close to capturing control of the Senate.”

Rush Limbaugh: ”You know, all of my thinking says Romney big…it’s not even close. Three hundred-plus Electoral Votes for Romney.”

Glenn Beck: “321 votes!! That’d be great, which would be a mandate, giant giant spankin’ — that’s huge!”

Grimmsays...

I also like how the numbers they projected for Romney would fall under "landslide" and "mandate". Yet the numbers Obama got were actually better and the same people scoff at the mention that Obama won by a landslide/mandate.

nanrodsays...

Which brings up one of my bigger disappointments in life. How much of a waste of skin the douche formerly known as Dennis Miller has turned into.

Aziraphalesaid:

I love how near the end he just admits it, "I don't believe the polls... I think he's in great shape". It was so funny watching them all make excuses for why he lost in the end.

Fletchsays...

Reince Priebus makes me wish I had a Slapovision-enabled TV. Too bad getting humiliated won't shut these idiots up at all. Do the salaried Fox political commentators ever appear on any shows outside of Fox, and are they ever not pissy, snotty, arrogant, condescending, self-righteous, ignorant, and just plain STOOPID? It's as if Republicanism is a religion to them. No evidence required. "I don't believe the polls." Has Krauthammer EVER been right about anything? He's still on the Fox payroll! Miller still says "cat", ffs. Yer a really hep dude, Dennis.

VoodooVsays...

I think that's part of what happened. I think democrats thought the same thing back in 2004 with Kerry v Bush. They couldn't conceive that Bush would remain elected so they didn't bother to vote.

I think the main thing though is just the implosion of the Republican party. They've gone so far far far right that they're losing moderate republicans.

The most delicious part is how Nate Silver got lambasted as a political pundit by the right even though he correctly predicted every single state of the union race outcome

It just perfectly illustrates the right being so out of touch with reality.

Silver: The data says this
The Right: we don't care! Hey Romney, don't bother writing a concession speech, you won't need it!

PalmliXsaid:

hmm it makes you wonder if the republican spin machine worked against itself here by making people think they didn't need to vote because Romney had it in the bag.

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