UPDATED: And so we finish where we started…

UPDATED WITH PREDICTIONS BELOW!!!

Well, it’s a wrap! One way or the other.

H/T BKeyser via BlondeGator

Bo and MO ended the interminable campaign last night with a concert in Des Moines. In a half-empty (or half-full, depending on how full your glass is) auditorium.

Bruce Springsteen just doesn’t seem to have the appeal he once did.

I guess the campaign Big Brains liked the symmetry of wrapping up in the very place Big Guy began his ascendency way back in 2008. But seriously, who authorized this poster:

“Finish where we started” – FINISH? does anybody around here even read copy anymore? And to think - we used to be so good at messaging.

Earlier in the day Big Guy joined Jay-Z in Columbus for another huge rally with the rapper customizing a version of his big hit “99 Problems” by cleverly replacing his signature “b**ch word with “Mitt” in order to rap “I got 99 problems but Mitt ain’t one.” I’m not sure, butt I think he was endorsing Big Guy. Some other people were confused too, because I heard one guy holler out “Hey Jay-Z, I’ve got news for you: America’s got 16 trillion problems, and Mitt ain’t one of them either!”

Like I said, we used be so good at messaging:

Butt back to Des Moines (pork capital of America, coincidentally); Bruce Springsteen rocked the half-full house. He even wrote a special song for the event called “FORWARD!” in honor of our newest, and last, campaign motto.

"Not the best I've ever written. How many things rhyme with Obama?" he asked.

“Trauma” comes to mind, butt perhaps not especially useful for artistic purposes. Or political.

Before joining Big Guy in the pork capital, Lady M was busy stirring up the troops in Florida. She was pretty emotional:

"Together, slowly but surely, we have been pulling ourselves out of that hole that we started in," Obama said, casting her husband's first term in office as a difficult but productive road to economic recovery.

 

It must have been all those shovel ready jobs that did the trick.

Declaring “we are going to get this done,” an emotional Michelle Obama rallied a central Florida crowd Monday night.

“Done” – it has more than one connotation.

“Your president is nowhere near satisfied,” she said, making the pitch for a second term for her husband, President Barack Obama.

 

Wow! I didn’t think you could do that with a shovel! I think I’ll run for a second term after all!

But Michelle Obama warned that the president needs every vote he can get.

"Don't let anybody push you out of line," the first lady said, telling those who haven't voted yet to get to the polls early.

 

Don’t worry, the New Black Panthers will be there to ensure you don’t get bullied by those racist Romney supporters.

And then, just for good measure, she sent out an inspirational Tweet to encourage all you folks to get to the polls:

Here are a few things the “folks” have been able to imagine so far:

• 16% unemployment,
• $32 trillion debt,
• gas @$7.60 a gallon,
• a poverty rate of 23%,
• a $10 trillion deficit,
• 2 more empathetic Supreme Court Justices,
• another dead ambassador,
• another dead border patrolman,
• many more dead former Navy Seals,
• another 2000 guns walking into the hands of Mexican drug cartels,
• a lot more “flexibility” with Russia on our missile defense systems,
• a nuclear Iran,
• Israel - gone,
• EPA shut down on all gas and oil drilling,
• EPA shut down on coal mining and coal run generation plants,
• the price of electricity tripling,
• the price of food doubling,
• 50 more bankrupt Solyndras…
• Oh yeah - and “Death Panels” to hand out the “pain pills”

On second thought, maybe it would be best if you just took your thinking cap off before entering the  voting booth,

and replace it with the old, standard issue cap:

Anyway, then it was on to Iowa where MO joined BO for the final rally.

Emotions were running high all around:

What’s this !? Tears? There are no tears in politics!

It’s almost as if Big Guy knows something we don’t. I’m afraid at this point, we can only HOPE. For CHANGE.

It’s going to be a glorious sunset!

UPDATE:

I know the “Gentleman's Agreement” with our lapdogs in the MSM is that exit poll results and outcome predictions will not be released, by journOlists before all the polls close (unless Big Guy needs a boost). Butt I’m not a MSM journOlist. So, I’ve decided to release my predictions of the outcome of this historic election. Now!

My predictions are the result of my “U-Predict: Election Results” android app analysis of election trends, polling models and data going back to the election of Richard Milhous Nixon in 1972:

Ouch!

Demographic shifts, economic issue variables and a tip from Dewey about Michigan, are also included in my analysis.

An now, my W.A.G. on this election is (drum roll please):

Other bold predictions (probably way more scientific than mine) include Michael Barone:

and Karl Rove:

So, keep a smile on you face and faith in your heart.

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And remember children: if you reelect Obama, you will suffer most

As promised, here is Dewey From Detroit’s post “For the Children.”  He asked me to post it here in case you have children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, younger siblings or just kids hanging around the neighborhood who are thinking of voting for Four More Years of a FORWARD! HALT economy. He thought you might like to pass it on:

 

Dear Children,

How quickly the time goes! Here you are, all grown up and of voting age already. I set out to write a brief letter explaining why I believe Romney is a better choice for your future and a better choice for America. I realized immediately that to do that properly would require at least a book; and even at that it would be unlikely I could reverse the lifetime of propaganda and proselytizing most of you have been exposed to via the education system and popular culture.

So I decided to focus on just one key economic concept that separates the thinking of our progressive Democratic President and his conservative Republican opponent. That concept is the notion of how to carve up the economic pie that progressives think of as a fixed size but conservatives believe has an ever growing radius.

This fundamentally different view is the basis of the class warfare that spawned the OWS movement, the vilifying of the rich and the President’s mantra that the “1%”  can “afford to pay a little bit more” to take care of the deficit and, by proxy, the other 99%.

Put aside the fact that the math on the 1% rule doesn’t work:

At the rate we’re racking up the federal deficit (in part to ostensibly “help the 99%”) you could confiscate 100% of the 1%’s income and never come close to breakeven. But the entire argument is based on a false premise. The unspoken assumption in the progressives’ pie game is that the economy is made up of a fixed sized pie that has to be “spread around.” If  you get a larger slice of the pie, someone else must correspondingly get a smaller slice.

That’s nonsense. The entire concept of democratic capitalism is that we can continue to grow the pie. Indeed, America has demonstrated that to be the case for over 230 years. That’s how America became the greatest economic engine the world has ever known. But now the Left wishes to change the rules of the pie game. They feel that the meritocracy of the marketplace leaves too many people behind, so their progressive agenda is pushing us towards the democratic socialist model of Europe which, in case you haven’t noticed, is on the verge of bankruptcy – morally as well as fiscally. Ah yes, they still have wonderful art,

Liberty leading the People, Eugene Delacroix

fine pastries and charming bistros, but they are broke and broken. The piper will be calling in his chits pretty soon because they didn’t heed the Iron Lady’s warning about socialism.

Greece: it’s what happens when you run out of other people’s money.

But back to our pie: we do not have to rob Peter to pay Paul. It is not, repeat, not a fixed size.  If it were, instead of watching the election returns on our big screen TVs we would all be sitting around arguing over who was going to inherit our ancestors’ plowshares (if you don’t know what they are, you  can look it up on the innertubz; just be sure to H/T Bill Gates and Steve Jobs  - two guy’s who made our pie much, much bigger).

The ability to expand the size of pie is, in a nutshell, the brilliance and utility of capitalism:

ideas+capital+risk+reward=innovation.

It’s the product of that formula – innovation - that creates the bigger pie. Innovation creates jobs and additional wealth. It is that simple. All it requires is capital - and a lot of work. Which is why President Obama was wrong when he told business owners that “you didn’t built that yourself.”

So once we have a bigger pie does everybody get an equal size slice? No. If everybody got the same size regardless of their contribution, that would be communism (or “social justice” as it’s known in some circles). Is that fair? Sometimes, but not always. Life isn’t fair, didn’t your mom teach you that?  It isn’t government’s job to make life fair. If you don’t believe me read the constitution.

And since we’re speaking of the constitution, let me take this opportunity to remind you that democratic capitalism is the cornerstone of our constitution: democracy entails economic rights of individuals separate from the state that cannot be infringed. It is an elegant political system encompassing economics, philosophy, morality, ideology and institutional forces. You can’t tinker with it without dire consequences to the body politic. And yet the progressive philosophy of the Democratic party wishes to turn it into a “living document” and in fact has already begun to do so.

Why is that a bad idea? Here are the words of a real constitutional scholar (as opposed to one who played one for several semesters while teaching “Current Issues in Racism and the Law”):

“If the Constitution’s meaning can be erased or rewritten, and the Framers’ intentions ignored, it ceases to be a constitution but is instead a concoction of political expedients that serve the contemporary policy agendas of the few who are entrusted with public authority to preserve it.” (Mark Levin, Liberty and Tyranny)

I realize it is unpopular to deal in absolutes in our 50 shades of grey culture, but the constitution is a contract –  the original “contract with America” if you will – that is by design absolute. It cannot be easily broken or revised; nor should it. Finding “nuanced” ways to skirt the intent of the constitution’s statutes is dangerous business for our freedoms and way of life.

I’m old. I have nowhere near as much “skin in the game” as you youngsters. Yet I want you, your children, and your children’s children, to grow up in the kind of America that I did. The kind that cherishes liberty and freedom above “fairness.”

While “liberty” and “freedom” are terms defined by the constitution, fairness is not. It is an undefined, relative state that progressives wish to have you believe is an absolute. That means that one day it will come to be defined by some government bureaucracy, at which point it will be neither fair nor absolute. By then you may have been complicit in the demise of your own liberty by not paying adequate attention to the type of people you allowed to govern this great country.

So this is my last appeal: please remember that this election is about far larger issues than contraceptives, Big Bird and “equal pay for women” – red herrings, all. As the President himself said, “If you don't have a record to run on…you make a big election about small things.”

So even if the economy doesn’t concern you,

If even the ever burgeoning national debt required to make life “fair” for the 99%  doesn’t worry you, at least be frightened for your future by the continual drip, drip, dripping away of your liberties that once gone will be gone forever.

Don’t vote against Obama because I say so,  vote for Romney for a smaller, more responsible government, for sound economic policies and for a commitment to our constitutional principles. Don’t do it for me: do it for the children; the ones you have or the ones you hope to have. 

Vote to keep the America our founders envisioned, not the transformed America of the progressive Left. If you believe the environment is worth protecting and preserving, please believe that our constitution is at least equally important for our survival.

I leave you with this oft-quoted line from Ronald Reagan, in case you haven’t heard it, or have simply forgotten:

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”

Now get out there and win one for the Gipper

cross-posted on Dewey From Detroit

Rockin’ La Vota Loca

Did you hear, the election has been postponed due to historic Frankenstorm Sandy? Yup. I just got this official email from Big Guy himself this morning:

MOTUS -- As you know, Frankenstorm Sandy has disrupted communities all up and down our eastern seaboard. This is especially troubling because these are areas with a majority of voters who support me. Power is still out, there is no food, no water no gasoline and my FEMA response team is starting to look a lot more like Katrina than I had HOPEd. But fear not. I have assembled an experienced, independent group of election professionals to review my options. My team includes election observers from Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Venezuelan President and close personal friend, Hugo Chavez, and former President Jimmy Carter. Based upon their recommendation, I have issued an executive order that tomorrow’s election be postponed for one week. Please mark your calendars and tell all your friends who plan to vote for me that the election will now take place on: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 If you have friends who plan to vote for my opponent, please let them continue to think the election will be held tomorrow. Also, you might want to rethink the matter of your friendship with them. Thank you, and let’s keep moving FOREWARD! Barack     This email was sent to: motus@whitehouse.gov. If that is not your preferred email address, you can update your information here. Click here to contact the campaign with any questions or concerns.

I’m not sure what I should do, since I’m planning to vote for Big Guy’s opponent not sure who I’m voting for yet. I guess if I’m voting for “4 More Years,” I wait until next Tuesday; butt if I’m voting for “1 More Day,” I should vote tomorrow.

NOTE: My legal team advises that I must disclose that this is not an actual email from Big Guy and that the election has not actually been postponed. They also advise that I may not tell people who voted for Obama in 2008, that their vote for Obama in 2012 has already been entered and counted, so they do not have to actually go to a polling place and vote for Obama again. Butt, they didn’t say that you can’t tell them!

Today I’ll be reflecting Lady M as she’s “Rockin’ La Vota Loca” in Orlando with Ricky Martin in our last all out push to WTF 2102.

Lady M and Ricky: Rockin’ La Vota Loca!

Then it’s off to Iowa to hook up with big Guy and then on to our “Sanctum Sanctorum” in Chicago to await the mobilization of our legal challenges to the racist outcome of tomorrow’s non-official election results.

I have to run now, but Dewey From Detroit is going to do a guest post here on my little blog which will be cross-posted on his own blog. You won’t want to miss it!

He also promises to get back to regular blogging once his official campaign duties come to an end. Unless he winds up in an official position in the Romney administration!???

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“Change your clocks today and your president on Tuesday”

Down to the final 2! We’re racing towards the finish line:

For the final push we’ve unleashed the hounds and called in the big dawg:

Yeah, I feel your pain. Vote for the little twit anyway.

 

And we’ve called on our celebrity friends and benefactors for one last booty call:

At this point everything is geared to reach the “vote early and often” crowd we’re counting on to carry the day.

Chicagoland get-out-the-vote sign: “Cast a vote, get a free beer! Limit 12”

So here we are working our butts off to haul as many dead carcasses across the finish line as we need to WIN, and still we have to deal with all this off-topic viciousness from the crazy, right-wing attack dogs. Take Mark Steyn for example; here he is yammering on and on about old news: Sandy, last week’s Storm Of The Century So Far (SOTCSF) and Benghazi (hello! That was 7 weeks ago!):

He announced that he'd instructed his officials to answer all calls within 15 minutes because in America "we leave nobody behind." By doing all this, the president "shows" he "cares" – which is true in the sense that in Benghazi he was willing to leave the entire consulate staff behind, and nobody had their calls answered within seven hours, because presumably he didn't care. So John Brennan, the Counterterrorism guy, and Tony Blinken, the National Security honcho, briefed the president on the stiff breeze, but on Sept. 11, 2012, when a little counterterrorism was called for, nobody bothered calling the Counterterrorism Security Group, the senior U.S. counterterrorism bureaucracy.

We’re trying to wrap up the most important reelection in US history and all Steyn can yap about is a little miscalculation in Benghazi and the SOTCSF? And not just that, he even took a cheap shot at BO’s business attire: “all jacket and no bombers”

Ah yes, butt he wears it well. Probably well enough to send tingles up somebody’s leg; possibly this  cub reporter with the Prezzy’s entourage:

I know it’s exciting to travel with Big Guy, butt slow down there Skippy, it’s slick out there.

Butt I digress; Mr. Steyn continues: “…in different ways the response to Hurricane Sandy and Benghazi exemplify the fundamental unseriousness of the superpower at twilight.” Are you kidding me? “Unserious?” Big Guy!?

Yeah, hold my calls for about 24 hours, okay?

Au contraire; he’s as serious as a heart attack.

So as you prepare to go to the polls to vote again and again, remember what everyone says about BO: if there’s any fault to be found with him, it’s that he cares too much:

Especially about typical white women

And you can always count on him to have your back.

Until such time, of course, as he doesn’t…

due to other pressing commitments.

Well, that’s about it for now folks, except for this public service message brought to you by the Instapundit:

REMINDER: Don’t forget to change your clocks tonight, and your President on Tuesday.

Oh, and while you’re at it, maybe you should also check those batteries in the smoke alarm. Once they’ve been corroded, it will no longer be of any use to you. The result might be, well, disastrous.

We hope so, Big Guy, we hope so.

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