Delaware Liberal

At around 6:30 p.m., as I was driving down to the Queen in Wilmington to meet my fellow DL and Democratic compatriots to watch the results and hopefully celebrate our victory, I was listening to MSNBC on XM, and one of their reporters embedded with the Romney campaign said that Mr. Romney had only prepared one speech for the night, a victory speech, while President Obama had prepared both a victory and a concession speech. Now, when I heard that, I thought it was pure puffery on the part of the Romney campaign, yet another attempt to project strength and momentum in line with what they had done the entire campaign. Of course Mitt Romney, a prudent businessman, would prepare for any eventuality, and that meant that he and his family and his running mate and his running mate's family, and of course his campaign... all of them... would be prepared for any eventuality. And that means preparing two speeches and being emotionally prepared for a result one way or the other. But, as we learn from this stunning CBSNews article, that was not the case. They really believed their own bullshit.

.... or, an alternative title would be, Romney concedes Florda. "Though votes are still being tallied, President Obama is all but assured a victory in Florida because the lion's share of the outstanding ballots come from Democratic-heavy counties," the Miami Herald reports.

"Conservative leaders are steaming that Republicans failed to make President Obama a one-term president and are criticizing Mitt Romney for not pursuing a conservative enough agenda in the presidential race." ...also, Romney didn't talk about outlawing abortion enough, or scoff at climate change with enough Romanesque brio.

1) Allow all the Bush tax cuts to expire. 2) Reinstate the middle class tax cuts separately as the "Obama tax cuts" 3) If blocked by GOP house, vote them out in 2014. 4) If not blocked by GOP house members, vote them out in 2014 anyway.

Update--Thanks to John Young, we now have the embedded video! I can't embed the video, but please go watch it over at Gawker. It will become an instant viral classic. It contains very NSFW language, so be forewarned. And it is long, but you need to listen to the whole thing. It is a master piece. It was posted by a conservative activist named Shelly Dankert who is ranting and raving at her fellow conservative and libertarians who did not vote for or support Mitt Romney due to their ideological purity, and at other conservatives who would not share her other conservative links and videos on Facebook and Twitter, which Shelly is convinced would have somehow singlehandedly defeated Obama last night. LOL. I do have some sympathy for her. I remember feeling much like her on November 6, 2004 after Kerry lost, railing against similar liberal purists who loved Dean and would not vote for Kerry because he was not pure enough. Indeed, old Daily Kos readers back then will remember my infamous "F*ck Ohio" post concerning those same purists being upset that Kerry did not contest Ohio. My oh my have the tables have turned. It is quite ironic, since Ohio is the state that clinched it last night for the President (although the landslide was so vast that he did not need it). And now Shelly is pissed. Very pissed. And very drunk.