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

George Lopez's stand-up special was basically an hour of him cursing in Spanish, it was kind of great

Slate has a sidebar up saying Romney has made his pick. If it is Pawlenty, he will have to claim amnesia on coining the term Obamneycare.

it's the "voodoo economics" of 2012

True--and Biden had to contend with a couple of comments in '08.

Pawlenty is a totally stupid pick for him, it will deflate any enthusiasm from the base

Android/Mullet '12

30% chance Romney panics and accidentally picks Palin

If he announces this week, I think it's tougher to guess who it'll be than if he were to follow the normal timetable. Has Romney concluded the past week was serious enough that he needs a major distraction? Then Rubio or Jindal or Christie or Ryan or a woman (but not Rice). Or does he think this is temporary, and that a month from now everything will have stabilized and it'll be back 95% to various economic reports? If so, I'd guess Portman or Pawlenty, agreeing that neither generates (or distracts from) much of anything.

congrats Natalie Portman, you will be a v v pretty VP

Vice President Padme Amidala would be pretty rad though.

she sucks at trade negotiations iirc

Or in keeping with suggestions upthread, he could play to his strength and name one of these two:

http://photo.superfan.com/0/001/039/1039811LG4026367891.jpg http://madinternetmarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Money_Bag.png

Romney couldn't pick his first choice due to him being a naturalized citizen:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a9/ScroogeFirst.jpg

"Your Republican candidate for Vice President, this inanimate carbon rod!"

http://communicategood.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/carbon-rod.jpg

I wonder if Romney picks a turd for VP there will be chaos at the RNC like when McGovern picked Eagleton and shit went to hell even faster

I think the Republicans could rally around Mr Hankey

Princess Padme too radical on civil liberties ("So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause")

never absorbed resemblance btwn S McDuck and Cheney til now

I wonder if Romney picks a turd for VP there will be chaos at the RNC like when McGovern picked Eagleton and shit went to hell even faster

― johnathan lee riche$ (mayor jingleberries), Monday, July 16, 2012 12:01 PM

Pawlenty is Welsh for "electroconvulsive therapy" iirc.

I actually think that's more or less as good as the Obama ad that started this...just as political theatre.

― clemenza, Monday, July 16, 2012 11:10 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol wut

Yeah, I'll stand by that, with the qualification noted--i.e., not speaking to the truth of either ad, just the relative effectiveness of the each ad's juxtaposition.

Or "of each ad's," minus the "the"--let's go with that.

only pure Bamstanning is kosher here, clem

lost souls the both of you

Megan Amram ‏@meganamram

I wouldn't be surprised one bit if it turns out that Mitt Romney is one of those inflatable tube guys from car dealerships

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Today:

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Will the prodigal son find his way back home? Stay tuned!

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haha the only people who have taken over Michigan are the Devos family

American Bamstan

would kinda love it if Obama started to rock a hipster beard tbrr

the romney response ad looks like it was made in windows movie maker in about 2 hours.

The Romney response ad is only objectionable, really, because it comes from Romney. Anyone here want to claim Obama as tireless scourge of the ruling class?

dig in?

http://www.scribd.com/doc/78582788/McCain-2008-Oppo-File

nevermind. that's old news. moving on.

Click on the Romney ad I posted earlier today; pretty funny.

late to the game here, but just read that Bloomberg article on Romney @ Bain ... so basically, his specialty was the "bust out."

which is an appropriate skill if he was seeking to replace Tony Soprano, i suppose ... but not so much for running a country.

yeah, the president runs the country

0.001% RUNS HIM

u never fail to say nothing, u know.

it's kind of impressive really

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2012/07/why-wont-romney-release-more-tax-returns.html?mbid=gnep&google_editors_picks=true

cassidy must really be getting tired of this story, the poor guy

yah. that write-up is basically "it's probably one of these four things, and who the fuck cares?"

its prob all of them is my vote, also romney is just v arrogant which is mentioned but not given its own number

plus his hair looks like really long extruded blackheads, which i guess goes without saying

lol that is a fantastically gross image, cheers

secret actual reason is his handwriting is really sloppy and he knows how hard you guys will judge him if you find out. tax returns look like a sloppy shopping list. makes him feel so sad to think about it

"We're accused, by the way - in our party - of being the party of the rich," Romney said. "And it's an awful moniker, because that's just not true. We're the party of people who want to get rich. And we're also the party of people who want to care to help people from getting poor. We want to help the poor.
"We also want to make sure people don't have to become poor," Romney said. "And we know what it takes to keep people from becoming poor."

blessed echos of Quayle

And we're also the party of people who want to care to help people from getting poor.

lol when he tries to talk abt helping people he can barely get the words out