This was left as a comment to this amazing post
The Sixth of NovemberOutstanding. (Original here.) Go and read the post too, not just this one comment. From Zombie:
Remember, remember, this sixth of November,
The radicals� treasonous plot.
I know of no reason the radicals� treason
Should e�er be forgiv�n or forgot.
The Sixties were waning, and Leftists were claiming
That radical changes were due.
Their Marxist solution was armed revolution:
The Weathermen made their debut.
The radicals raged on the national stage, and
Horrific explosions ensued.
Their bombs were dramatic, but also erratic;
They sometimes killed radicals, too.
The Leftists grew older, the underground, colder,
And so they came in from the cold.
�Subvert from within � in the long run, we�ll win,� said
The Leftists, determined and bold.
And thus it began � this nefarious plan � and
The radicals slowly took charge:
Complete infiltration of all education;
The long institutional march.
The journalist schools would produce useful fools, for
The Left would need media shills.
And Hollywood, too, would assist in the coup, with
Its slick propagandizing skills.
�Community action� would build a new faction;
�Twould organize proles on the street.
A smooth politician would front for the mission,
And run for the president�s seat.
The radicals� goal, which they proudly extol, is
A communist U.S. of A.
Collectivist schemes lead to brutal regimes, and
For this do the radicals pray.
But Jefferson�s aim, with the charters he framed, was
To guard individual rights.
And �redistribution� was not a solution,
But one of the evils to fight.
So let us remember, this sixth of November,
Just what is at stake on this date.
Will Jefferson�s dream, or the radicals� scheme, now
Determine America�s fate?
Why Was There No October Surprise? Because Every Freakin� Day for the Last Four Years Has Been an October SurpriseZombie goes on for a bit and then lists one hundred of Obama's more egregious blunders and the 390+ commenters offer quite a few more.
Where was the October Surprise?
Almost everyone anticipated this year�s �October Surprise� � some last-minute, unexpected, shocking scandal to rock the presidential election and derail one of the candidates. But it never appeared. In an era of everything-but-the-kitchen-sink gutterball politics, this mysterious absence of any major scandal was itself noteworthy. How could nothing have happened?
Sure, there was Hurricane Sandy. But that doesn�t count. Sandy was a natural disaster that dominated the headlines for a few days, but it wasn�t a scandal. And yes, there was Benghazi. But that happened in early September, and it wasn�t so much a political scandal uncovered by partisan operatives as it was the umpteenth example of Obama�s incompetence. Whatever Benghazi blowback he�s gotten damaging his election chances are entirely his own responsibility for bungling an international crisis. So, no, neither one of those counted as an October Surprise.
Which left many people scratching their heads. Why wasn�t there one? For either candidate?
In Mitt Romney�s case, the answer is pretty obvious: He�s squeaky clean. His entire adult life has been like a boring treatise on Mormon moral rectitude. His political career has long been an open book � moderate, bipartisan, essentially uneventful. The Democrats have tried to squeeze some droplets of outrage over Romney�s tenure at Bain Capital, but those attacks came earlier in the summer and turned out to be extremely slim pickin�s. There are no skeletons in Romney�s closet, otherwise we would have heard about them.
But in Barack Obama�s case, the situation is reversed: Everything he�s ever done is scandalous. The reason there was no October Surprise for Obama is that we�re all scandaled out. Anyone�s who been paying attention since 2008 has literally been in paralytic shock every single day. We spent October 2012 exactly as we�ve spent every month of the last four years: Our jaws on the floor, aghast, stupefied, unable to breathe. Almost every single thing Obama has done since he�s been in the national spotlight could have been and should have been a career-ending October Surprise. But the mainstream media, as we all know, has devoted itself to protecting him.
Not a day has gone by since Obama took office when I didn�t learn of some fresh outrage and say Oh. My. God. But we�ve been traumatized so often that over time the scandals have all blurred together and fused into a single red-hot thought: Please let this nightmare end.
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