Tuesday night was a pretty spectacular occasion for Democrats, women, pot-smokers, gay-rights supporters, and people who think rape is an actual thing.
For others, not so much. But despair not! Even if your cause or candidate tanked, the obscene, untold billions spent assaulting voters’ senses and ripping candidates apart this election season were not squandered entirely. They yielded some enlightenment — and generous helpings of the absurd.
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Romney's campaign seemed to be premised on the notion that you could bring lying to a whole new level and still get away with it. Level 1: I know I'm lying but you'll never figure it out; Level 2: I know I'm lying and you might figure it out, but if you do I have plenty of "explantions" and excuses; level 3: I know I'm lying, and if you catch me and don't buy my alibis, I don't care as I'll ignore you and just change the sunject; Level 4: I know I'm lying, I know you'll figure it out, and when you do I will look you in the eye, basically acknowledge the lie and concede that I will not even try to defend myself (etch-a-sketch, "fact checker" comments) and move on to my next lie before you have a chance to get your footing and challenge me on the previous lie (which is what I think happenned to the President in the first debate). I think it was his boy Eric who told Mitt he could pull this off, and for a while there, I thought he was going to get away with it. Thank God people woke up in time.
Tierney represents Lynn. In the past 60 years Lynn has been represened in congress by Nick Mavroules and in the fifties by Thomas Lane a convicted felon. Tierney's wife and in-laws are crooks, who cares?
Citizens United, Crossroads America and other PACS pumped Six Billion dollars of attack ads into the media for this election cycle. This time, being factual was entirely abandoned. It would be gratifying to see them held accountable for false advertising and force some honesty into the narrative next election.
I agree! I would LOVE to see some type of accountability for the b)(*&^$#@!t that came from these places. There is freedom of speech then there is bold face lying. At least the chickens came home to roost in that the perpetuators of that filth lost.
Demobabble artists like Abraham and Johnson will continue to congratulate themselves and their party cronies for the next few days, until they realize that the world has moved on and that the political problems in this allegedly greates of nations are as bad or worse than before the recent election. . . What these party loyal worthies are not suggesting is the obvious - that nations like Abraham's native Oz and Johnson's native ? don't coutenance or praise the spending of billions and waste of thousands of hours to send gangs of people, half of them nitwits, to the national capital to make mischief and occasionally do a good thing. That the United States should by legislative fiat reduce the election campaigns' durations by tens of months seems to not enter the minds of this purportedly "thinker" class employed by this corporate user of too much wood. . . The corporate entities in the media industry and their chief operators may fear loss of millions of dirty dollars if the American electorate had to decide on their vote preferences in less than three years. . .
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I don't even know where to begin with some of these 'conclusions.'
Here, here, love the column.:)
I guess you could say that Tierney's "lucky" if by that you mean that, even after millions of dollars are expended on negative campaigning, he managed to eke out a win by relying on thousands of peopel who knew him, appreciated his hard work, admired the character of his politics, the nature of his commitment to goals that we all shared. I guess you could call that "luck" but I wouldnt. I would call it "just right."