What to expect from the left if Obama loses
Attributing an Obama defeat to racism, though, is a weak charge because he is, after all, the incumbent—and so his defenders will need to bolster the America the Pathological diagnosis. That’s where a larger conspiracy would come in: The Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision handed the levers of power to plutocrats like the Koch brothers and Sheldon Adelson.
“Is a ‘Citizens United’ Democracy a Democracy at All?” asked Katrina vanden Heuvel of the Nation recently. Team Obama already has suggested that the election was being bought. “You’ve got a few very wealthy people lining up trying to purchase the White House for Mr. Romney,” said senior White House adviser David Plouffe in October. Added campaign strategist David Axelrod: “They are trying to buy this election.”…
Which brings us to the indictment that could ring loudest of all if Mr. Romney wins: America is ungovernable, democracy not up to the challenge. The United States is “a nation of dodos . . . too dumb to thrive,” Time magazine’s Joe Klein wrote in 2010, after opinion surveys showed the public insufficiently impressed by Mr. Obama’s economic stewardship. Days later, in a column called “Down With the People,” Slate’s Mr. Weisberg wrote that “what may be the biggest culprit in our current predicament [is] the childishness, ignorance, and growing incoherence of the public at large.”
This is familiar territory for progressives.
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Just wait until Romney throws out Roe V. Wade and bans contraception and homosexuality.
Muahahahahah
rockmom on November 5, 2012 at 3:19 PM
You can expect giant temper tantrums from all the adult children.
bitsy on November 5, 2012 at 3:19 PM
Now that’s…what I’m talking about….
HomeoftheBrave on November 5, 2012 at 3:21 PM
The entire Twin Cities up in flames while out in the exurbs we politely but visually remind any potential miscreants that doing so here would be a bad bad idea?
Bishop on November 5, 2012 at 3:21 PM
So they won’t use it? LOL
Communism is full of weak charges. Its all they have.
bernverdnardo1 on November 5, 2012 at 3:22 PM
Who cares?
Just laugh at them and be schadenfreudig.
They’ll be this.
Schadenfreude on November 5, 2012 at 3:23 PM
That’s one thing I don’t understand about rioting / looting – they always seem to do it in their own neighborhoods and they are only hurting themselves. If Romney wins, why not riot in Texas or Florida somewhere, instead of D.C.?
Oh, wait – Floridians and Texans are armed. The residents in D.C. are not. Stupid idea – nevermind.
Timothy S. Carlson on November 5, 2012 at 3:23 PM
roger that. Here in the southside of Indy we are a rioter’s roach hotel. They may come in but they most assuredly would never, ever, come out. (at least not horizontally)
tommyboy on November 5, 2012 at 3:24 PM
What do you mean, “IF“?
Joe Mama on November 5, 2012 at 3:24 PM
Expect the media to suddenly try claiming how bad the economy is.
blink on November 5, 2012 at 3:25 PM
Don’t forget outlawing tampons and putting black people back in the cotton fields in chains.
/<—- for the terminally stupid.
kim roy on November 5, 2012 at 3:26 PM
vertically..?
affenhauer on November 5, 2012 at 3:26 PM
Legacy of the Prince of Darkness, a perfect depiction.
Schadenfreude on November 5, 2012 at 3:26 PM
The Marines will have to give Oblamer and Moochelle and all their little parasite czars and Big Sis Incompetano the bum’s rush to the curb in January.
viking01 on November 5, 2012 at 3:27 PM
I expect riots and a whole lot of stupid.
dogsoldier on November 5, 2012 at 3:27 PM
Whoops. You are correct. Got carried away in the feeding frenzy.
tommyboy on November 5, 2012 at 3:29 PM
They won’t ‘claim’ the economy is bad – it is bad. They will just start reporting the reality of the situation.
However, they _will_ try to blame the economy on Romney’s win. Everything that is wrong – and that they have not been reporting – will be blamed on Romney’s win.
Timothy S. Carlson on November 5, 2012 at 3:29 PM
It is a weak charge, but that’s never stopped them from making it. Racism is the default excuse for just about everything that doesn’t go the left’s way when it comes to the minorities on their plantation.
Citizen’s United will certainly come up, but it doesn’t have enough demagogic appeal for the left-wing simpletons to have any legs.
Another thing you’ll hear are frustrated screams directed at the American people for being so stupid. This will be followed by concern trolls blaming the internet, talk radio and Fox for manipulating all those commoners that the left has always held in contempt.
RadClown on November 5, 2012 at 3:29 PM
FLOTUS will incur a massive deficit regarding national pride.
Droopy on November 5, 2012 at 3:30 PM
I thought it was always the French Riviera.
MassVictim on November 5, 2012 at 3:33 PM
Now that she has spend her money, Mooch will insist Barky substitute the hamberger helper for the kobe beef.
tommyboy on November 5, 2012 at 3:34 PM
They need a bigger helicopter to get that azz out of town.
Schadenfreude on November 5, 2012 at 3:35 PM
I just want the words
Chew-bacca and Sas-quach unbanned from HA
batterup on November 5, 2012 at 3:38 PM
A presidential pardon for Tony Rezko, so he can start on that library.
Droopy on November 5, 2012 at 3:40 PM
JUMP! JUMP! JUMP! It really is the ONLY answer – Go for it!
Pork-Chop on November 5, 2012 at 3:40 PM
Not always. During the Rodney King riots they went to the Asian parts of town. Destroyed Korean stores and whatnot.
29Victor on November 5, 2012 at 3:42 PM
I’m pretty sure the extended form of ‘squatch can still be posted it’s the term which rhymes with bookie which remains verboten.
viking01 on November 5, 2012 at 3:42 PM
Mass exodus to Canada as Babs Streisand trips kicks Bill Maher’s ragged bed roll on the border of British Columbia, engulfed in howling snowy winds, fighting over her organic tofu jerky?
profitsbeard on November 5, 2012 at 3:43 PM
I have a couple of co-workers flying into Detroit on Nov 7 and I fear for their safety. I guess that makes me racist.
Frank Enstine on November 5, 2012 at 3:45 PM
And suddenly the media will be very concerned about the “cost” of everything Ann Romney does and everything she wears.
TarheelBen on November 5, 2012 at 3:47 PM
I always thought they attacked those stores (yes, I have a mental image of a Korean storekeeper with a rifle trying to protect his store, from a TV report) because those stores _were_ in their neighborhood and they felt like the asians were encroaching on their opportunities.
Riots seem to have a big ‘locality and opportunity’ factor to them. Traveling to the source of their disdain/offense is usually prohibitive. In fact, most of the time no one really knows what they are rioting about – they just see everyone else doing it.
Timothy S. Carlson on November 5, 2012 at 3:50 PM
Mooch, February 2013: “Gee Barry, I didn’t know lobshter was so exshpensive.”
slickwillie2001 on November 5, 2012 at 3:50 PM
Heads will asplode.
I’m still worried that the fix is in, though.
The Rogue Tomato on November 5, 2012 at 3:51 PM
They’ll notice gas is $4/gal.
MassVictim on November 5, 2012 at 3:53 PM
I’ll paraphrase what I heard from an old Boston hippie back in 08. “Obama is the best chance of having communism in my lifetime.”
The hard left will go completely bonkers with a BO loss and will do their best to egg on the useful idiots in the hopes of a violent upraising. Remember that one of BO’s friends said at least 25 million must die to herald in the utopia. The old commies just may push it because they so want it in their lifetimes.
Frank Enstine on November 5, 2012 at 3:54 PM
Riots. Tears. Etc.
RedNewEnglander on November 5, 2012 at 3:55 PM
Looks like I’m going to have to give in and learn how to run picture-in-picture on my tv.
OldEnglish on November 5, 2012 at 3:58 PM
They will gather together with conservatives, hand in hand, and sing, “I’d like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony.”
The Rogue Tomato on November 5, 2012 at 3:59 PM
Some Utopia. But that’s about the same proportion as what happened in China to usher in the “people’s” government.
MassVictim on November 5, 2012 at 4:00 PM
I pray that there are no riots. It’ll be an awful stain if it happens. Can you imagine the world media and how they would portray us?
Richard Romano on November 5, 2012 at 4:03 PM
Concern troll alert.
faraway on November 5, 2012 at 4:07 PM
The post-Katrina pre-flood We bees Disenfranchised Sense of Entitlement riots seemed to be guided mostly by which stores on Canal Street and the New Orleans Centre, Riverwalk and Oakwood Malls had the best selection of high end electronics in the most steal-able condition.
viking01 on November 5, 2012 at 4:07 PM
For hours of nonstop enjoyment for the entire family for years to come, please set recording devices for MSNBC @ 18:00 ET.
antipc on November 5, 2012 at 4:18 PM
Watch for a strong movement for the blue states to leave the union, especially if it’s the close vote that the polls are predicting.
Rebar on November 5, 2012 at 4:21 PM
FLOTUS moves from 1800 Penn to OWN.
Dr. Phil hardest hit.
Droopy on November 5, 2012 at 4:22 PM
DemocRats: Post-Election
petefrt on November 5, 2012 at 4:23 PM
Having lived in Los Angeles, I can confirm that Koreatown is pretty close to some of the black neighborhoods in south central LA, but not overlapping. A lot of latino people live in the neighborhoods in between. The mobs would have had to be fairly energetic to make it to Koreatown as that is at least a few miles north and west.
joe_doufu on November 5, 2012 at 4:24 PM
For those watching MSLSD be sure to turn down the brightness on the screen and not sit directly in front of the television.
When Prissy Chrissy Matthews personally reenacts the Big Bang Theory lightning may fly out of televisions and should DNC hack Angria Mitchell sit too close during Chrissy’s flameout that could transform
herit into a smoldering pork rind on live TV.viking01 on November 5, 2012 at 4:27 PM
Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn how the left feels tomorrow.
spiritof61 on November 5, 2012 at 4:29 PM
Yeah, since we’re just golden to them now.
Anyhow, conservatives don’t riot.
The reason rioters stay in their own hoods is they know that gun ownership is highly restricted there.
Akzed on November 5, 2012 at 4:35 PM
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