Why Was There No October Surprise? Because Every Freakin’ Day for the Last Four Years Has Been an October Surprise

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Why Was There No October Surprise? Because Every Freakin’ Day for the Last Four Years Has Been an October Surprise

 

 

November 2, 2012 - 9:44 am - by Zombie

 

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.

 

http://pjmedia.com/zombie/2012/11/02/why-was-there-no-october-surprise/

[Rheo]

The list is incredible.

[Pepper]

Great list.