This fucker knows something...

Bush is entirely too confident about Republicans retaining control of Congress. And he keeps saying stuff like, "I can see why YOU GUYS might think Republicans won't win"...which implies that there's something that he knows that everyone else doesn't. This makes me really uneasy.

that Iraq had WMDS...

he was confident about Brownie's heckavajob during Katrina

he was confident we were makin' progress in Iraq

he was confident about staying the course

....

and you're worried because he's confident about the (s)election???

He was confident back in 2001 that we'd have a 500 Billion dollar surplus this year.

Greg

Having all the money and the power means you're always right about everything.

It just doesn't sound right. Especially coming from someone who "won" two elections under very dubious circumstances.

admit candidly how grim it looks and they're going to lose. Can't have that.

Either the fix is already in, or he truly is in a state of denial.

I don't want to believe it, but, Karl has been awfully quiet lately????????? And there is some sneaky shit going on in Ohio and some of the other hotly contested races. However, Bush does have a rather crazy history of being in DENIAL!!!!

how long will YOU take this?

something, here.." when talking about why he knew Repugs would win. He pressed his hand to his chest when he said that. He knows WE know HE knows how to steal the election was my impression from that...and it was very creepy.

He told a reporter on Air Force One just before the 2000 election...."I know I'm going to win." That was reported many times here on DU when we were going over what happened with the Selection. He knew...and he knows.

When he was asked wny Republicans would win, he said: "Secondly, I'll tell you what I see -- you didn't ask, but I'm going to tell you anyway. I see there's a lot of enthusiasm amongst the grassroots activists. Our people are going out there to man the phones and to put up the yard signs. You know, they're showing up when it comes time to -- these absentee votes."

What does that mean? I don't get why he mentioned absentee votes there. Republican activists are showing up when it comes time to - what? Count absentee votes?

really wanted to "let the cat out of the bag" about "what he knows" so he could jump up and down with glee. Thanks for posting that part.... I was so horrified at his stammering about "I know you think I know..." that I forgot until you reminded me. The absentee's. Who is guarding them...

He's very deranged. I think no matter what happens with this election that some "power behind the scenes" is going to have to reign him in. He was the most delusional I've ever seen him today. The real "dictator" was showing.

:scared:

"Absentee Votes May Delay Results" (OH) - Elections officials in large and small Ohio counties say they can't count all their absentee ballots in time to provide results on Election Day, unless they can start scanning them days earlier.

But the secretary of state's office has told Cuyahoga and Lucas counties, which asked for advice, that state law does not allow counting absentee ballots before 12:01 a.m. Election Day.... Completing the scans by 8 p.m. is critical. A Diebold Election Systems computer server that Cuyahoga bought can't download absentee ballot information at the same time it downloads votes from the touch-screen machines used in polling places."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2579275

and I'm starting to feel a little paranoid too.

absolutely obvious to EVERYONE it was stolen.

The polls I've seen coming out the past couple of days don't even LOOK like what's going on in my state. I'm sure the Ford/Corker race is close, but Corker ahead? I don't see it. I live in the most Republican side of the state and I simply don't see the kind of support for Corker that one would normally expect from a Republican area. I see far more Ford signs and stickers and paraphernalia.

However, the past few polls seem to suggest that Corker is ahead (within the margin of error, of course), so I'm not quite sure how we keep Dems up in the polls when the polling seems dubious, at best.

:shrug:

gotten to the Pollsters thru bribes or threats.

One poll will show the Dem (Sherrod Brown) up by 8 and the next poll will show the race even.

I smell something very dirty. I'm in Ohio and you're in TN....those are 2 of the states that are Rove is focusing on...along with Missouri and VA.

Would love to hear from people in those states.

Most polls in the last three weeks have shown McCaskill slightly ahead - two or three points.

Last night the local news showed the results of their own polling and - surprise! - Talent is +3, a rather sudden reversal of the trends this month.

My radar is starting to go off a little.

I live in KC, MO '93 to '97. Nice city. I hear that Johnson County in KS has turned away from the Religious Right and heading for the Dems!

yesterday they had Allen up by 3 points, today they have Webb up by 4.

It is indeed strange. It cannot be overstated that voter turnout is critical in this race. EVERY DEMOCRAT needs to go to the polls, come hell or high water. Don't make it close enough for them to steal it.

Dems to the polls.

I want TN, MO, VA, and OH to go Dem so bad!

Totally - yet there was nary a murmur from anyone anywhere except the
blogosphere

The day after the new fix is in Bush will be out fornicating with puppies on the WH lawn and the media will say, "well, we just had it wrong. even though they were upset about FOLEYIRAQBUDGETDEFICITKATRINAIRAQPLAMEAFFAIRFOLEYNOCHILDLEFT BEHINDKATRINAIMMIGRATIONSTOLENELECTIONPATRIOTACTBANKRUPTINGTHEECONOMYBUSHPRIVATIZINGSOCIALSECURITYFOLEYIRAQKATRINA" the average voter still feels they are better off with the known than the unknown"

End of story

The only "margin" that might mean something is when enough people are willing to use red plasma to water the tree of liberty

I will NEVER forget the reporter asking Bush if he was afraid he would lose Florida. He got this really sly look in his eyes and said he was not worried at all. The votes were not all counted yet, and he was confident he would take the state.

The rest, as they say, is history.

I put NOTHING past this band of thieves anymore.

That's what made it so creepy and why I never forgot it.

is far from subtle. when he gets that 'Texas land baron ordering his boys out to workover the homesteaders' smirk and wink on his ugly pan you know he's got something evil cooking. He's simply unable to hide his pride and glee at being a wicked bastard. Chip off Babs' block

It is always in the best interests for a "leader"(figurehead) to remain confident.

It was the most pathetic blustering I ever heard.

He's confident about the election the same way he's confident about winning in Iraq.

He still has SOME of the DC Republicans. But he doesn't have the Republicans outside of DC.

and he is such a stubborn twit with such an ego he would rather read the dictionary than admit any doubts at all. he's just being "strong and resolute". or a brat.

There is also a significant audience that can't read his body language, either. So that alone makes it worth while to keep repeating confident mantras.

be the cheerleader. NO Politician has ever sounded the defeat horn before the vote, and it's
shrub's job to try to keep the base from despairing and staying home on election day.

QED.

* is the "decider" after all and at this point, I put nothing past him. :scared:

The cabal will do anything to maintain power.

Poppy and the purse string holders have already stepped in.

Shrubby is fighting it with all of this might, but his power is virtually gone.

junior isnt responsible enough
with the car keys.
time to hand them over.

poppys all but said it and ol man baker
is lurking around cleaning up messes.

time for jr. and the gang to head back to the club
house and pout.

He's projecting, becauase he knows he's about to be in some very deep shit....

Kinky has said it recently about his race. Howard Dean said it just before he went "Yeoahhh!" It's politics 101.

Doesn't mean they won't cheat... Just that Bush would say that either way.

Every candidate in every race ever... ever and every President during a midterm race always assert full confidence that they're going to win. It inidcates that you believe your message is resonating with people. It is a theatric designed to project an aura of confident leadership. (which seems to have worked, in your case.)

It wouldn't make sense for him to act extremely concern. He wants his base to think everything is fine and to get excited enough to show up and vote.

ahead by 2 or 3 points, then suddenly it flips .... It will all be 2000, 2002, 2004 redux.

Dare I think of REVOLUTION???

The way to do it under the radar is to work within the margins of the red. IOW, in a heavy (R) district that's within a 5% margin, a flip just gets perceived as "Boy, that was close. I guess everyone around here is still behind Bush. Oh, well." VOILA! Coup without a shot being fired.

when they steal a third one?

:mad:

Got to play king and thinks hes off the hook for the torture hes done.

although i take the very fact of kkkarl talking to npr as desperation, maybe he was just trying to not look obvious only talking to the radio wingnuts.
but he was swearing that he was looking at "polls you don't see". aka, lists of precincts where the fix is in.

that come in with the wrong votes.

ballots. That makes sense. Oh man my head may pop.

Maybe I'm just overly suspicious, but I don't understand why people think absentee ballots are the way to go. First, there is a lot of time between the ballot drop-off/mail-in before the election day. A lot of time to...Oh, maybe open them up and start pre-counting.

But even more, how does one know that their absentee ballot was actually counted? :shrug: I just don't have faith in the vote-counting at all since 2000.

but i don't know why people like vote by mail, either. toooooo easy to "misfile" a ballot that comes from a likely dem voter.

I vote absentee....why??? because my whole state votes absentee.... I was told the Democratic party of Washington State is the one who pushed it...from what I recall, we were supposed to go electronic, before this decision was made......do I like it??? HELL NO I DON'T..and I voted against the proposition...but...it didn't seem to matter...and now when I see the disaster that electronic voting turned out to be...hard to say what's worse...
wb

He gave me a good reminder why I quit giving National Petroleum Radio any money.

I don't think November 7 is any kind of done deal. I expect a lot of confusion and some stolen elections. Hopefully, we'll be so far ahead in the polls that the theft will be obvious or won't happen.

although the chicago affiliate has some great local programming. i have been giving for a long time. i was a dollar a day when i let it lapse. i just have to puke now when i listen. i can hardly stand it. so clearly reading the talking points, and glossing over the facts.

He finds it impossible to admit making a mistake. To even consider losing is a sign of disloyalty and betrayal. He's manic about it.

They don't tell him enough as to how they steal stuff because he can't be trusted not to say something. Like Fredo.

chance

The man is in a serious state of denial.

Act like his party is going to lose? Act like he's a millstone around their necks?

w's a poseur, a pretender, a faker; and he hopes that by projecting confidence-in-victory (whatever "victory" -- at the appropriate time, they'll let us know what that "victory" is: like whatever circumstances exist when they declare victory*) that he can sway people, especially those voters who like to be on the winning-team (a not insignificant group).

*: For example, the groundwork is being laid for calling anything less than a Democratic takeover (of both the House and Senate) a defeat for Democrats and a victory for them. Whereas any gains at all are a victory for us -- and more importantly, represent a change in the direction things have been headed.

The neocon world is one of spin, manipulation, distractions, disinformation, outright lies, etc.

And we must be careful not to get too far drawn into it.

While I am worried too, the last thing we need are democrats thinking this election is a shoe-in and not voting, just MHO

protesting too much. It was the only really simple question they gave him to answer. I think he was overjoyed to be given the opportunity to spout easy cheers to his audience, as opposed to the times when he was forced to think off the cuff.

:)

The new way that Republicans win elections is through chaos.

Rove can't simply steal the election through gaming voting software when the pre-election polling is showing such a spread in favor of Democrats.

And so Rove will use the tried and true technique of kicking sand to obfuscate.

Knowing that the elections are lost for Republicans already, Rove has fallen back to a second "barricade" -- the AFTER ELECTION FRACAS.

He may send teams to deliberately confuse and foul elections. He will rejoice at every report of voters turned away, machine error, tampering, polls closed, every thing that destroys confidence in election integrity.

Expect agitprop. Expect thuggery. Expect provocateurs, infiltrators, bad calls. Expect propaganda.

Think of Katrina. Think of Iraq. Chaos produces the win for Bushco.

Think of elections 2000 and 2004. Chaos works for them.

Think of Rathering. Think of Scooter Libby. Sand-kicking works for them.

The only defense for Democrats? Call Rove out now. Deploy spokespeople now. Openly, on national media, predict the playbook. Shine the light on the probability that Bushco will manufacture election chaos in order to win an end-game.

And have observers and teams of lawyers at the ready. Not just to document/investigate the election machines, but any possible infiltration and thuggery.

I repeat. Rove has accepted the actual loss of the elections. He's now planning to execute a chaotic end game.

woke millions out of the "9/11" stupor. They might succeed in keeping the House and Senate but the chaos they induce will have long legs. Many more people have heard about "the machines." The chaos they will induce on Election Day will cause anger to those who are now aware and those who have heard...but didn't accept it. The big problem is with the early voting. Because it's so open to manipulation. I'm still hoping that those who can do it...show up on election day so that all of it is exposed. Early voting may dampen Election Day chaos.

There are so many ways this can go. I'm going to show up on Voting Day and one of us will be poll monitoring...then I'm coming home and going to bed like I did at 11:00 p.m. for '04 when I saw the look on Kerry's face and knew he'd been "told." I couldn't stay up for the repeat of 2000 from the blathering Media. I'm not going to stay up all night for the bloodbath for '06. :-( But, I'll be ready the next day to stand with those who join the next fight to get recounts and more investigation.

We've gotta hope for the best but plan on the worst...because many of us will need heavy meds if we don't plan.

'Why hast thou forsaken me?"

If we sit back passively and let them steal it, we deserve the lifetime of Republo-fascist rule they have planned for us.

this issue about the lack of confidence in equitable voting going on around the country?

If that big dog senses fear, the party's over, at that point.(ouch) Do you hear any democrats now running for office, predicting that they're going to lose?

I'm like the yellow hound dog and I'm sensing some REAL mortal fear in GOPerville!

want to be on the losing side of anything; so this bush dude starts up with the implanting...before he was thought to be a contender, which he 'won' in 2000 by what i still feel was a contestable sliver; they had him bounding round & up on stages before waves of amber rubes in a jacket that from a distance appeared to have a seal too very reminiscent of a presidential seal...and that's part of how they swing people with weak minds, "why dad gum it Florence, that bush feller looks plenty presidential to me i'ma think'n i'm just maybe gonna vote fer that feller after all by cracky"

and it is done...subliminally; that i should say and vote shaving, voter disenfranchisement...it's not pretty the way republicans; i was about to say 'the way they practice democracy' but won't cause they have the smarmy nutz & blotz shit down pretty good so i'll say it this way: it's worse than watching sausage being made it's like watching pigs fucking

If they don't we have to wait another election cycle to catch them at it.

"It looks like we're gonna lose boys". He was confident,still is, about Iraq. He's living in a world where everything revolves around him and nothing can go wrong.

Anyone with half a brain would hide it, and pretend to be surprised later on. But not an elderly toddler like Bush. No- he'd rub it your face and smirk and "what ya gonna do about it?", just the way he did with the domestic spying.

years would need to be done with Republicans holding the House and Senate.

I don't believe I've ever seen such arrogance in a President. The only way for him to get through his heinous programs is by having his cronies in place. Organized Crime.

becomes when they try to manipulate the vote. The problem is that while they can steal an election public opinion of Bush and the GOP will continue to go down. I've always said that these guys will go out the same way Marcos did in the Philippines. The public will finally have had enough and will force him out election be damned.

The machines are a snap to hack and there's nothing stopping them. The volunteers at the polling places aren't usually computer savvy. They call the repairman . . . the Diebold repairman.

Chris on Stephanie Miller's show not long ago said a good point in that they're not going to go around and say they're going to lose and than I start thinking about Diebold.

Bend over.

Sorry, about being so rude, but this is angry-making.

Would you tell him what was really going on?, or would you say everything is great george* running like a top. This fool gives the definition of fuck up, he'll still believe he's winning when they strap the son of a bitch down for the needle.

He has so many tells, I would take all the taxes he's stolen from me right back out his pocket!! Would be so satisfying.

in. We have to hope...the alternative is so dreadful.

What's with the paranoia lately?

We may win, we may lose - IT'S NOT OVER YET PEOPLE!!!

If YOU let Bush psyche you out - then SHAME ON YOU!!

It's so embarrassing to have to read these naval gazing posts on here.

Even if he knows the brutal truth, He needs to convey a different message.

The GOP's *ONLY* chance is their GOTV. If even Bush says its hopeless, then GOP voters will have one more reason to stay home.

When the leader shows panic, the troops will follow.

either had some super-secret closed circuit access to view the initial strike, or his brain is just fried from doing too many lines over the years. My bet is on the latter choice... :rofl: