Governor Sour Grapes is telling us all now why it is he lost: free contraceptives for college girls, rolling back student loan debt, free health care for those damned free-loading Hispanics and blacks. Just keep talking, numbnuts, so we won’t ever have to worry about you or your fucking brats ending up in the White House. Christ, what a clueless asshole.
This excerpt here kills me.
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You can imagine for somebody making $25,000 or $30,000 or $35,000 a year, being told you’re now going to get free health care, particularly if you don’t have it, getting free health care worth, what, $10,000 per family, in perpetuity, I mean, this is huge.
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Well, yeah.
Edit: You know what Mittens’ problem was? Aside from not working the electoral college better? He doubled down on the economy, and he was wrong.
What an asshole. Paul Ryan isn’t doing much better, although there is at least some accuracy in what he says.
You mean big cities voted for the Democrats? :drops monocle into tea:
So, that 47% that he didn’t have to worry about? Looks like he could have worried at least a little.
“Not deporting people’s children” is a handout now?
On the one hand, this confirms Mitt is kind of a douche. On the other hand, he apparently still has to fundraise, so apparently the universe is punishing him for it.
Pity for him that wasn’t entirely true, like his not-urban blue collar hometown not voting for him either!
Edit: One woman on Twitter was giddy that she’d gotten her vagina back as a gift from Obama. 
“Urban” is code for “minorities”.
Nothing which isn’t all that untrue but politically incorrect to say nonetheless.
And, really. You have to be trying hard to find fault in Ryan’s statement.
I think the point to be taken from this is that he KNEW that working people in America earning minimum wage CANNOT ever afford health care and he doesn’t care. A worker who works 40 hrs at $7.25 for 52 weeks a year only earns a bit more than $15,000. How in the hell are you supposed to buy health care on that, even if you have two workers in the family it’s unachievable on your own. He is thus proven to be an asshole.
The not-so-subtle subtext here is:
“Look, every candidate has to offer shit to certain constituiencies to make sure he has their votes. The shit my constituency wanted was tax breaks for rich pampered dolts who never did a lick of hard work in their lives, a little saber-rattling for neocons (with the added assurance that I’d get some US servicepeople killed if anything happened that actually resembled a military threat), a promise to sign into law any anti-abortion measures that the Democratic congress passed, plus persecuting the illegal brown people. But I lost so I couldn’t deliver–instead of running across the US on some kind of apology tour that would be an admission I fucked up, I’m going to point out that Obama won because he also made assurances to various voting blocs that wouldn’t piss on me if my hair was on fire.”
See post #8
I’m aware.
The bit about running a “superb” campaign was very much false. So is the implication that Obama gave anything in particular to black voters, there’s no mention of the support Obama got from Asian voters or what they got, and of course there’s a substantial helping of bullshit in the idea that Obama somehow did something wrong by supporting policies that were popular with people whose votes he wanted to win. Maybe Romney should have tried that. He also seems to suggest the immigration issue hurt him only because Obama attacked him on it, not because his stance was unpopular.
Did Ryan say a word about why people in urban areas voted for Obama? I don’t think he did. I didn’t hear a word about why people voted for Obama- just that he got good turnout. Actually I think turnout was pretty similar to 2008; Republicans just convinced themselves that was not going to be the case.
I think this needs to be said again.
So just how do republicans in general expect people to get healthcare?
To have preventative medicine rather than obscenly expensive emergency care?
Isn’t healthcare a fairly fundamental core of any realtively well funcitoning society that is taking care of its members?
Who exactly were the “constituency” that wanted US servicemen and women killed?
All the Bushie Neo-cons who advised Romney to take a belligerent stance towards all them disrespectful brown people and to flex Amurrica’s muscle, Dan Senor, Wolfowitz, Cheney, that crowd. These thugs love it when a US President forgoes diplomacy and sends the troops abroad on little or no provocation to protect “our” interests, which means of course their oil.
Next question?
I can totally imagine him the morning after the election acting just like Stephen Colbert’s onscreen persona at the beginning of his first post-election show. The one difference would be that Mitt presumably wasn’t drunk or hung over, but he would not need chemical assistance to let the anger and bitterness flow free.
Really? I make around $35,000. Where can I get this free $10,000 of healthcare every year? I go to the ER, I get a bill and if it doesn’t cost me money (because I don’t pay) it costs me on my credit score. I make too much for Medicaid, and y’all killed the Medicaid expansion, so no free Medicaid for me. I work for a company with fewer than 50 employees, so no employer provided insurance for me. All I get is an opportunity to buy health insurance off the state exchange at a vaguely more reasonable rate than I buy insurance now, which is still going to hurt. Not free.
Well yes, I didn’t think the quote needed much explanation; the acknowledgment that many working people can’t afford health care, and yet it’s somehow a bad or questionable thing to vote in favor of health care reform is precisely what kills me. It’s almost cartoonishly bad. “Oh, these poor people who can’t afford medicine went into Camp Obama because he doesn’t want poor people to die from preventable illnesses, pfft!” I mean, Mittens was all about affordable health care too at one point, but we don’t need to talk about that.
Thanks, poor folks! We owe you one.