I am beginning to become scared that Romney/Ryan will win. Can smart people please post here and say reassuring things to convince me that he won't?

...and boring listeners to death as a FOX News contributor until the end of his days.

He'll have to pry those Sunday news show invites out of John McCain's cold, dead hands.

so, look for him in 6-8 months?

As Roosevelt's personal representative, he traveled to Britain and the Middle East in late 1941, and to the Soviet Union and China in 1942.

This strikes me as fairly unlikely...

mccain and kerry still had jobs and still have some credibility within their parties. idk if romney is talkshow material - he doesn't really have any reason to keep pushing things he doesn't actually believe once he's not running for office.

He'll always be running for office.

GuysGeeks, he meant the general public will forget Willard instantly.

when did lacking reasons ever keep Romney from doing anything?

Or prepare his sons to run for office. xxp

I hope deathstare son goes first

it would be awesome if one of his sons also had a failed bid for presidency

the inverse Adams family

Dubya came so close :(

before every debate he would write 'dad...also grandpa' on a sheet of paper

Some dude on the radio this morning was actually favorably comparing polls from Nate SIlver and Karl Rove. As if the latter were not some giant, walking red flag.

isn't it likely that Mitt Romney would just go back to the private sector that he can make a couple more hundred billion dollars before he retires?

I think so

that way when one of this doofus sons is running for president in 2036 he can finance the campaign himself

I hope deathstare son goes first

He would be the perfect president for the apocalypse.

200 million, not 200 billion sorry

the more interesting question would be what obama would do next if he lost

it really cracks me up that dude looks like he fell directly out of The Omen III

He is almost cartoonishly evil looking.

the inverse Adams family

― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Friday, November 2, 2012 11:08 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yet still creepy, kooky, and altogether ooky.

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/02/nov-1-the-simple-case-for-saying-obama-is-the-favorite/#more-37035

sometimes I wonder if Obama could accomplish things that improve peoples lives a hell of a lot more easier if he weren't president

Really curious how much that single IN senatorial poll will change the 538 odds in that state.

Do you mean presidentially? I think a few polls from that Senate race have shown that Mourdock is finished

No I mean for Donnelly/Mourdock. Right now 538 is still showing Mourdock as a 65% favorite. I have to assume that as soon as the most recent IN poll is added that will flip flop completely. IN is very under-polled by the way according to RCP.

According to RCP there has been only one IN senate poll post comments (and only two in October altogether.)

oh, maybe it was just something I read on the Fix that the internal polls for both campaigns show Mourdock in a world of hurt

The group implosion of the Republican senate candidates has been a beautiful thing to watch.

the exact same thing happened during the mid terms too. gotta wonder how long the 'serious' members of the gop will tolerate these tea party morans.

serious Republicans have no influence or are David Frum.

If that was true Rick Santorum would be the presidential candidate.

serious republicans are feeling downright grave atm

Primary voters chose Mitt because he didn't dress his children and his children's dolls in the same skirts.

they should have david gergen run for president every year

serious Republicans have no influence or are David Frum.

― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, November 2, 2012 12:28 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

If that was true Rick Santorum would be the presidential candidate.

― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Friday, November 2, 2012 12:30 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

'no influence' might be an overstatement but they sure don't run the show. 'their guy' won because the 1000 crazy people that the base preferred flamed out + crazies can't handle national media not because the srs republican establishment took over. rick santorum isn't the candidate because of rick santorum. rick perry isn't the candidate because of rick perry.

Mitch McConnell has run the show in the Senate since Obama was elected, WTF are you talking about

basically if srs republicans were holding the puppet strings we wouldn't have spent half the year talking about donald trump and herman cain. and once romney became mathematically inevitable, santorum woulda found the exit door.

you mean this thing?

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/03/02/health/mcconnell480/mcconnell480-blogSpan.jpg

yes

not saying he runs everything but to say he has no influence is nutso

http://wuzzadem.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/turtle.gif

when the only gop senators still around are far right and the filibuster exists you don't have to do anything to make nothing happen. that's not the same as having real control w/r/t how the party operates.

xp

making nothing happen for Obama in the Senate is real control

I'm not arguing that 'republicans don't control congress' I'm arguing that srs people don't control republicans

and i am saying for you to argue that he is not a serious Republican, or a serious person who controls other Republicans, is quite foolish

he's a serious asshole