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

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.

"England is just a small island."

It's one third of a small island. He's such a twunt.

so, is boris just eager to get in front of a crowd of londoners who don't want to kill him, or are the tories really not expecting romney to win this one?

The advisers could not give detailed examples of how policy towards Britain would differ under Mr Romney. One conceded that on the European crisis: “I’m not sure what our policy response is.”

can't recall anything even remotely like this level of antipathy in the UK for an American politician (who isn't the prez) ever before. i mean there's literally no precedent for it. don't these charm offensives take like months and months of careful planning?! what a complete tosser.

'omni-shambles' by the way comes from The Thick Of It tv show originally.

not to get all 'third-dimensional-chess' about it, but isn't there a sizable section of the republican community that would applaud mittens dissing fuddy old europe, no matter how ineptly?

Yeah weirdly I don't see this hurting mitt in electorally in the us much but then i understand "independents" and "undecided voters" about as well as I understand magic. This helps Obama with his base, probably helps Romney with his, and... idk who knows.