The Party of Wrong, Wronger and Wrongest
Published on April 2nd, 2014 | by James Schlarmann
Skewed polls. Remember them? That was the theory that had people like Karl Rove and pretty much everyone who appeared on Fox News during the 2012 election absolutely convinced that Mittenforth Q. Romneytron would win the election and the nasty liberal insurgency in Washington would be over.
The notion they got was that the “liberal lamestream media” — because remember all non-conservative media outlets are in secret cahoots with each other — were skewing their polls by oversampling Democrats. Therefore if you “corrected” that “mistake” (which wasn’t actually being made), you’d see much different polling numbers. So someone on their side decided to “un-skew” the polls and after he worked his math magic/mythology, suddenly conservatives had numbers to prove that Romney had “momentum” and was going to knock off Obama in an 11th hour stand the likes of which have never been seen. Well, jump cut to today and the website unskewedpolls.com is suspended due to non-payment of their bill, and to add insult to injury, Romney isn’t president, the polls were never skewed and Rove looked like a massive baby having a massive tantrum on election night.
Snake oil just doesn’t sell like it used to…or depending on the state you live in, maybe it does.
I’ve written several times in the past about how conservatives and Republicans are the absolute worst at predicting things. This is not shocking when you consider the fact that they view life through a very unrealistic prism. The private sector is more moral and upstanding than the government, right? Tell that to GM. Rich people, when given tax breaks, take that left over money they suddenly have and sprinkle it all over our economy, trickling down a shower of cash onto the working class, right? Tell that to the income gap. Remember when Dick Cheney told us we’d find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and we’d be greeted as “liberators” in that country once we deposed Saddam Hussein? Republicans have the absolutely, positively most defective and broken crystal ball you could possibly imagine.
When it comes to the Affordable Care Act, as an article on HuffPo just pointed out, conservatives have been just as wrong as they have been about every other dire prediction they’ve made. The funny thing to me is that the ACA was basically born from The Heritage Foundation’s loins. It was a conservative idea first implemented by Romneytron in Massachusetts when he was governor there. It’s also been hugely successfully there and it was so important to Mittens’ legacy it was painted into his official governor’s portrait. They very same man who crafted Romneycare crafted Obamacare. So how the hell people like Bill Kristol and John Boehner could be so wrong about something their party should have the most intimate knowledge of is beyond me. Or, well, maybe it’s not…
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