the most important election of your lifetime: 2012 american general election thread

But do I condone rape? Absolutely not.

Holy sheesh w/ these this guys, what kind of thought pattern even gets near this kind of formulation

If you've ever built a position on which you have to answer that rhetorical question, you've made a wrong turn.

"But don't get me wrong, I am firmly opposed to eating live babies."

At least he didn't say "define 'condone'"

The sad thing is that clearly rape equivocation is a thing in the Republican party. Do I condone rape? No, not at all. But my definition of rape is very, very narrow.

Legitimate rape, that is.

lol

I posted this jewel in the abortion thread.

Medicare to be renamed Medivouch, according to RNC platform.

xpost I think we're going to see more of these guys going down in the undertow of their own cognitive dissonance wrt the Akin thing...on the one hand all their leaders and prominent Rep. ideologues are "strongly condemning" Akin and on the other they're like "Oh but wait isn't that what they taught us at Liberty U.?" And then just end up kind of thrashing around, UH, RAPE BAD

I posted this jewel in the abortion thread.

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

omfg Could also go in the could-be Onion stories.

So now this is like Iowa and New Hampshire w/ the primaries? What happens when Mississippi outdoes AZ with three weeks?

waiting for the companion piece of this legislation that bans masturbation for being equivalent to murder

By the year 2050 every new baby will have been conceived in 1997

porn = accessory to murder

xp

waiting for the companion piece of this legislation that bans masturbation for being equivalent to murder

― johnathan lee riche$ (mayor jingleberries)

Actually didn't some Dem. rep. bring exactly this bill to the floor as a response to one of these things?

Constance Johnson

The bill was sponsored by Arizona State Rep. Kimberly Yee. Yee is also an ardent supporter of drug testing anyone who receives welfare assistance. She is considered by some to be an "extremist".

The "bill" was "sponsored" by Arizona State Rep. Kimberly "Yee."

Reince Priebus: "I think that the Mitt Romney story is a story of a guy who lives his life on metrics."

Hmm this Romney sounds like a pretty cool dude

and we all know how well the US took to the metric system

is metrics some kind of mormon drug

He meant Metric. He's a really big fan.

http://thedadada.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/metric1.jpg

Elsewhere in this lovely world:

http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/lawmaker-who-thinks-gays-threat-children-crashes-boat-children240812

p. sure he said 'matrix'

'never send a human to do a machine's job'

Hmm...

http://gawker.com/5938288/leader-of-army-plot-to-assassinate-obama-apparently-attended-the-2008-republican-convention-as-a-page

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/293327_190573034408464_2128559426_n.jpg

lol yup

whereas Americans want to be recognized by NME:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf-ONpLXzGs

wrong choice but still a poor choice of words

Romney says abortion legal for mother's health

Romney is just repeating what he's said at least 10 out of every hundred times he's addressed the abortion issue. He probably wonders why won't people stop asking him to clarify his position(s).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N_UfQVuvXo

did Romney use mocking scare quotes during the conference I wonder

"Romney's position on abortion rights has evolved."

"Romney's position on abortion rights has evolved been intelligently designed."

fixed

Newt me? Newt U!

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/315111/newt-u-robert-costa

My favourite quote: "Well, that didn't work."

have we noted this yet? http://dailycurrant.com/2012/08/26/todd-akin-claims-breastmilk-cures-homosexuality/

"The Global Satirical Newspaper of Record"

Nice try, Daily Currant. You're no Onion.

100% believable, that's even better than the 94% breastfeeding cure success rate

famous idiot rick santorum is going to give a speech at the rnc about Obama and welfare

Sort of impressive that "the common welfare" is mentioned in the first sentence of the U.S. Constitution as one of the reasons for it's existence and yet the same people criticizing Obama for being liberal with welfare are also convinced he's a foreigner destroying American values.

I mean it's impressive that voters can cling to both concepts simultaneously without having their heads explode.

right-wing voters are not actually that familiar with the constitution tbh

They're not that familiar with the concept of "welfare" either. They just think it's something "other" people get and shouldn't.

where did the phrase 'on the ticket' come from? i seem to hear it more than ever this time around. you never hear it in the UK at all ever, in regards to the elections. i first heard it in All The President's Men but it seems everywhere now; 'at the top of the ticket' being 'forced off the ticket' and so on.

from etymonline.com:

The political sense of "list of candidates put forward by a faction" has been used in American English since 1711.

that's for "ticket," no further breakdown there.

i must use etymonline more thanks.

thank you: I don't think I'd ever seen it before!

Rush knows what the weather forecasters are really up to:

‘And I noticed that the hurricane center’s track is — and I’m not alleging conspiracies here. The hurricane center is the regime; the hurricane center is the Commerce Department’:

It’s the government. It’s Obama.

And I’m noticing that that track stayed zeroed in on Tampa day after day after day. And the Republicans react to it accordingly over the weekend, canceling the first day of the convention. What could be better for the Democrats than the Republicans to cancel a day of this?