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

ZS your Romney quote post is all fucking time

stating the obvious but its amazing how the whole point of this trip was to demonstrate mitts statesman bona fides and he fucked it up immediately

like its not like he was doing something else and he made an offhanded gaffe, his gaffe directly contradicted the thing he was trying to do

Pffff Mitt's Olympics couldn't even rustle up one crazy anti-abortion bomber like Atlanta did. You call that planning?

i think this kind of sums it up.

"Mitt Romney is perhaps the only politician who could start a trip that was supposed to be a charm offensive by being utterly devoid of charm and mildly offensive."

yeah, as much as i complain about obama, i can't imagine him messing up on romney's scale. i mean it only took him about 25 minutes to piss off the whole country, new record

England (sic)

lol @ republicans on #romneyshambles

Kevin Eder ‏@keder
Gosh, it's almost like Mitt said his economic plan worked when it didn't or told small biz owners "you didn't build that." #RomneyShambles

"Worse than Sarah Palin"? So the British need to drudge up a tired and debunked meme about Palin's intelligence? #RomneyShambles

Possibly inconvenient whenever Republicans express their contempt for Obama's supposed self-regard:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/mitt-romney-issued-comically-bizarre-cartoon-mitt

what will he say in poland?

CFLancop ‏@CFLancop
London can't even keep children from tearing their city apart and now they're testy that Romney has concerns about Olympics? #RomneyShambles

xp, England (sic)

'not messing up' is not a good thing when yer trying to do bad shit

oof http://order-order.com/2012/07/26/exclusive-romney-struggling-to-fill-tonights-fundraiser-prices-slashed

romney at auschwitz: 'i believe in setting job creators free to create jobs, because arbeit macht frei'

'hey how many pollacks does it take to screw in a lightbulb but srsly folks'

ok the pin with the heart in Mitt's dimple wtf

Dana Houle ‏@DanaHoule
Mitt really needs to avoid saying "I'm not Polish, but some of my best friends have occupied Poland."
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Uh he thought this pin was a good idea?

*refreshes thread for more mitt in london news*

David Waldman ‏@KagroX
Hey, you know who ELSE thought that if it wasn't for the English Channel, Hitler would have conquered England?

lol

Salt Lake City was a Winter Olympics, right? Baseball glove an odd choice of symbol.

dude his name is mitt

shouldve gone with a mitten

Good news: The Romney dinner in London on Thursday, July 26th is reaching an all time record for a one event fundraiser. In order to get us over the top, we have been allowed to invite a few last minute guests at 10,000 per ticket vs 25,000 per ticket.”

i'm sure the people who paid the full $25K to have dinner with an asshole are really happy about this

Missed that...Mitt's playing three-dimensional chess on me.

Ronny Reich ‏@RonnyReich
The Left thinks that London's commie mayor carrying water for his comrade Obama is somehow a good thing! #RomneyShambles #tcot

looooooool

I'm still doing this

O_O

at how Romney said "Oh, I met the head of MI6 in there!" after his meeting at Downing Street.

Re the Romneyshambles, he is obviously utter chum in our satire-piranha filled waters. I'll be surprised if he gets out of London in one piece TBH.

i'm sure the people who paid the full $25K to have dinner with an asshole are really happy about this

the scan of the invite says 2500 not 25000

so he would be a good president

didn't he try to mormonize PARIS as a youngin? i mean fuck, they have to be worse...

Michelle ‏@kmgriner
Stupidest hashtag of the day goes to #RomneyShambles utter nonsense, but what do you expect from liberals lol

yeah! the hashtag's stupid! stupid hashtag!!

I really feel like those pins are not getting the appreciation they deserve

^Dan, there's a queue for all his wrong stuff. Now that the Britishes are involved in this clusterfuck, there has to be a queue.

Current UK government's corruption/uselessness/u-turns/tone-deaf posh fuckwittedness known here as Omnishambles.

THis is all lolarious, but since when is the US allergic to voting for a foreign relations laughing stock?

That hashtag dumbshittery convinces me more than ever that the modern GOP has mastered the art of "I'm rubber, you're glue."

sorta can't get my head around fundraising on foreign soil being legal

Expats! We also have a primary.

xp Well, as long as it's limited to Americans who live overseas. (wink, wink)

the attendees have to show a US passport, is my understanding xxp

how dare u suggest there could be chicanery

Thankfully there is that part in Citizens United that specifies that the corporate free speech that's been going on unfettered only applies to companies 100% owned by real Americans.

http://www.democratsabroad.org/

Democrats, A Broad: The Political Photoessays of Terry Richardson

If you want up-to-the-minute coverage of a Mitt pile-on, you can't beat Sullivan:

http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/07/how-to-royally-piss-off-the-us-press-corps.html

As many would quickly point out, this is all meaningless noise to be forgotten, if not tomorrow, very soon. But I'm loving it while it lasts. Romney is so silly when he starts braying indignantly about Obama's botched diplomacy.

Seamus Romney ‏@MittRomneysDog
Nice to see Mitt treating Rafalca as he treated me - like a piece of SHIT

Mitt 2012: Not wanting to belong to a club that in 2002 would have had you as a member:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuQDLvNGM-Q

"...and the money's in Washington."

Hey Morbs, thanks for that article. Very informative.

"I am very delighted with the prospects of a highly successful Olympic Games. What I have seen shows imagination and forethought and a lot of organisation and I expect the Games to be highly successful," he said.