The "This is funny now that we know what happened" Time Machine

[Paul Kemp]

I feel like there has been a lot of reviewing old predictions and prognostications recently so this may be an amusing thread.

Start it off with this gem:

Pardon my language, but I think we're phucked.

Context obviously.

Also, Morden brought this one up recently:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=21735.0

Please share any good ones you may come across in your Atlas travels.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

In Jake/Carl's "Falling in L(ust)ove, I told him that male bisexuals didn't exist.

Now, he knows he was just being hormonic and he's straight.... I think.

(Let me know if I'm wrong, Jake/Carl)

[Lief 🗽]

There's that hilarious thread Kevin made where he was quitting the forum because it was full of hacks that thought Obama would get between 300 and 350 electoral votes.

[Paul Kemp]

There's that hilarious thread Kevin made where he was quitting the forum because it was full of hacks that thought Obama would get between 300 and 350 electoral votes.

Oh god I forgot about Kevin.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

There's that hilarious thread Kevin made where he was quitting the forum because it was full of hacks that thought Obama would get between 300 and 350 electoral votes.

I'm pretty sure someone around here has/had that sigged.

[Leftbehind]

politicus

[Lief 🗽]

This post is chilling, in retrospect:

I don't want to end up banned.

You aren't at any risk of being banned. Hardly anyone is.

RIP Simfan

[free my dawg]

Everything in this thread.

[Mr. Morden]

Here is my compilation of retrospectively amusing commentary on the 2008 GOP primary race:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=71919.0

Sarah Palin, pregnant:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=72000.0

Edwards love child story:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=66543.0

British Dixie was later outed as a sock master, who created socks (e.g., Freedom Fighter) who he argued with:

The black turnout won't be as high this year, and that only just pushed Obama over the line, so lean Romney.

More racism from BritishDixie. Tell me, are you a Klansman or somethign.

The U.S. has caused far more hurt to the world than the Soviet Union would have done.

It really annoys me people who attack the U.S for adopting an interventionist foreign policy. If the U.S had done that in World War II, then Nazi Germany might have lived a much longer life. Not to mention the Kims ruling all of Korea and Kuwait being ruled by Saddam Hussein, who incidentally would still be inflicting his brutal murderous regime upon his people. Not to mention the Soviet Union and China having free reign to wreak havoc around the world.

Yeah you're one who believe the U.S is a force for good. The U.S. has caused far more hurt to the world than the Soviet Union would have done. It oppressed the poor people of Vietnam, it armed Islamic extremists in Afghanistan, and invaded Iraq, violating the countries rights. I'm ashamed that there are British people like you.

<<Incendiary language removed. Grammar corrected. Peter>>

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

This post is chilling, in retrospect:

I don't want to end up banned.

You aren't at any risk of being banned. Hardly anyone is.

RIP Simfan

I miss that uppity kid. 

[Mr. Morden]

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=12005.0

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=62495.0

[Paul Kemp]

Excellent contributions! I can't believe I didn't think of the infamous mypalfish when I started this thread.

[Bacon King]

I suggest removing McCain - he's only winning 1 state now, and it's kind obvious he's not going to have a comeback.

[Paul Kemp]

On Larry King Live, Feb 14, when asked about the Vice Presidential nomination, McCain replied that the most important qualification for his Vice President will be the one who is most qualified to take his place as President.

Sounds like Romney to me.

Thoughts on McCain's comments?

[Mr. Morden]

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=81692.msg1691412#msg1691412

if it's Palin, and she has to come from Alaska and be in Ohio at noon Friday, word will definitely leak out the (Thursday) night Obama is making his speech...and that's exactly how I would script it.

palin has no chance

thanks for your deep explanation

Ok, how about this.  I doubt it will be Palin.  She doesn't bring much to the ticket and isn't a big name in Republican circles.

Plus she is too moderate to help McCain with the demographic in which he really struggles: conservatives.

I dont see a path to the nomination for Romney.

Romney has no path to the nomination.

again, there is no path for Romney to the GOP nomination...unless the rest of the field implodes at the same time (ala Gary Hart).

But, Romney has no path to the nomination....never has.

Romney still has no path to the nomination unless every other GOP candidate fumbles multiple times, and a late comer could still win it

Not that Romney would have won the nomination (he never had a path to the nomination)...

Romney's only path to the nomination is by default: 1) every conservative GOP candidate disqualifies him/herself…2) no one else enters the race...

there is no way the jmfcst's of the gop are going to vote for romney

dude, [Romney] is done, stick a tea bag in him

Romny has no path to the nomination...short him

[Paul Kemp]

I remember the false idea that some had for some reason that Palin was some sort of moderate libertarian governor.

[Mr. Morden]

I remember the false idea that some had for some reason that Palin was some sort of moderate libertarian governor.

Or the idea that the fact that she "isn't a big name" means that she won't make much of a splash......as if being the first ever female GOP VP nominee wouldn't instantly make her a household name.

[Grumpier Than Thou]

In Jake/Carl's "Falling in L(ust)ove, I told him that male bisexuals didn't exist.

Now, he knows he was just being hormonic and he's straight.... I think.

(Let me know if I'm wrong, Jake/Carl)

It's not that male bisexuals don't exist, but yes, you're correct.

[All Along The Watchtower]

A few holdovers from 2008. Maybe an obscure governor somewhere. Thats the beauty of the American system, primaries allow for small bursts of inspiration just out of nowhere.

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=84857.0

[All Along The Watchtower]

Another one from Inks:

1. I don't think he'll run.
2. If he does run, he wins the primary easily.
3. I have no clue if he beats Obama.  But I lean toward saying that he doesnt'.

Context:
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=93572.msg1939563#msg1939563

[Mr. Morden]

I think Palin will run

Huckabee will definitely run again. And he will lose. Again.

The person I am most certain will make a run for the Presidency is John Ensign.

[they don't love you like i love you]

(Directed toward me, so "your state" is Minnesota):

Maybe you can move to Canada when your state votes for Obama's opponent in 2012.

[Bacon King]

bump

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

When I joined Haley Barbor was a front runner for the Presidency.

[Grumpier Than Thou]

I predicted Paul Ryan would be Romney's VP pick in June(?) which isn't funny, but just shows my prowess.