NEW midterm thread!

[kentonio]

It's not too early for predictions, it's just too early to make unwise bets that could come back and kick you in the face

5 minutes later..

Anyway **** it, I'll take an avatar bet now then if Guy and DD are game? How about a bet on senate seats?

Bet length was 2 weeks, not one.

[Guynemer]

God, look at that face. I want to put my fist through my monitor.

[kentonio]

Enjoy looking at it for the next 14 days.

[regexcellent]

I still think the 51st state thing was funnier but I admit Cruz is more topical.

Oh hey, and:

You aren't getting the Senate.

And you'll lose seats in the House... but you won't lose the House.

Zero for two, Sava

[AAAAAAAAH!]

Liberals really, really hate that guy.

Liberals hate Hitler. Feel free to start tattooing swastikas on yourself.

[Sava]

I still think the 51st state thing was funnier but I admit Cruz is more topical.

Oh hey, and:



Zero for two, Sava

actually, looks like 1 for 3

[Kidlicious]

Even being a REP, I'm not really celebrating this cycle as a resurrection of the party. This was an ANTI status quo vote, (and facilitated by lack of voting) not a pro REPUBLICAN vote.

And for those of you that have been whining about the "NO" party, it now looks like it was a good strategy. The repubs don't seem to have tainted by it. Now is the time to change that so we have something set our hats on in 2016 (but past experiences makes me not hold out hope). And it should be humorous as the DEMS become the NO party.

Anti status quo is gravy.

[Kidlicious]

Liberals hate Hitler. Feel free to start tattooing swastikas on yourself.

If Hitler were a Muslim you would break your back defending him.

[DinoDoc]

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Bet length was 2 weeks, not one.

A little sad I couldn't get you on record with how many seats they'd loose given how rock solid confident you were that they'd be punished for their actions.

[kentonio]

A little sad I couldn't get you on record with how many seats they'd loose given how rock solid confident you were that they'd be punished for their actions.

The picture was different back then. The Republicans had shot themselves in the foot so many times that it seemed unlikely they had any interest in stopping. I gambled on them continuing in the same way, but fair play to them they managed to rein in their most vocally idiotic. Now let's see whether they can do so now they're back on top, or whether pride will once again prove their undoing.

[Kidlicious]

How did they shoot themselves in the foot?

[Berzerker]

you know, women dont get impregnated by rapists

etc
etc
etc

and what an avatar, I've never considered myself a masochist but I'd take a slap or 3 from her just to watch 'em bounce

and look at that mouth, she can nag, suck and swallow all at the same time

[Kidlicious]

I just changed it, but yeah, I had nice hooters!

[Berzerker]

NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[regexcellent]

The picture was different back then. The Republicans had shot themselves in the foot so many times that it seemed unlikely they had any interest in stopping. I gambled on them continuing in the same way, but fair play to them they managed to rein in their most vocally idiotic. Now let's see whether they can do so now they're back on top, or whether pride will once again prove their undoing.

And as we were telling you then, a year is an eternity in politics.

It isn't an accident by the way that the Republicans made no major screwups or gaffes. They learned from 2012. There are a number of articles circulating about the centralization of the GOP senate leadership and donor groups in recruiting relatively moderate candidates, training them not to talk about rape or abortion, etc. and keeping on message.