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

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.

i'd say one negative for mitt is that it gives him one less thing to claim he'd do better than obama, one less thing he wants to talk about, further reducing him from "more successful businessman/politician than obama" to "more 'american' than obama." Though Mitt's speeches have always been fantasyland, and this election will still be a "referendum on Obama" unless Mitt manages to get even more Nixonian before the election, which is not impossible. While all the Mitt biz at the moment is survivable, it's a horrible, horrible place to START a general election campaign from.

disappointed by the lack of NRO coverage

so "you didn't build that" really becoming a thing, eh

mainstream america is not ready for tumblr memes

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 this has been by thought - when the corner, redstate, et al finally get to this, they'll post that pic of Obama visiting whatever head of state & bowing and they'll say HE DIDN'T KISS EUROPE'S ASS!! and then I will smack my head hard enough to give myself a concussion or hopefully die.

As if on cue, via Roy Edroso:

LAND OF HOPE AND GLORY. Dan Riehl in 2009:

You may recall that on about his first day in office Obama returned a famous bust of Winston Churchill to Britain. That was seen as something of an insult to Britain by many. He gave the British Prime Minister tapes of his own hopey changey speeches, which many saw as egotistical but was also a statement of sorts, saying, you aren't really so special, sport. Perhaps it's the message in his speeches he actually wanted the PM to get?

In the video below you'll find that for Obama there was no bow to the Queen of England. His wife even broke protocol by reaching out to give her a pat at some point, as I recall...

This is a man who, unlike most Americans, doesn't view Western Civilization as all that.

Dan Riehl today:

Get over it, Britain. You're a second rate, semi-degenerate nation still on the way down because you went too far to the left too long ago for anyone to care about. Don't expect us to wring our hands over what you losers did. We're too busy fighting to make sure it doesn't happen here...

Mostly a bunch of feckless wankers if you ask me. Put a Gold Medal on that and aim it at the Queen's arse.

What a difference a Mitt Romney goodwill tour makes.

BTW, someone should just point blank ask Romney, "If your major strength is 'job creator in the private sector,' what powers, precisely, do you think the President has other than 'hiring more government workers (which aren't real jobs anyway)' that would allow you to exercise that strength better than if you just went back into private life?"

i am not exactly patriotic but i think he maybe goes a lil too far there, either in terms of factual accuracy, leftism not really a trend in our recent history, or in just using "semi-degenerate" at all about anything ever

what powers, precisely, do you think the President has other than 'hiring more government workers (which aren't real jobs anyway)'

^exactly. this, or create ZOMG regulations that deter American businesses from outsourcing, or create incentives for keeping/ moving jobs back here.

the latter which the GOP is apparently very much against: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/07/senate-kills-anti-outsourcing-bill-democrats-point-to-romney/

Just woke up--has Mitt insulted any countries and/or continents yet today?

if Mitt would be a less competent authoritarian than Obama, there's the lib case for voting for him

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?

― Call Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. Poo-poo-pa-doop. (stevie), Friday, July 27, 2012 5:15 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

naw having a whole country joyfully mocking you is never gonna be a selling point

http://i.imgur.com/MCJrE.png

and romney of course will never stop being romney

oh imagine if he picked Rick Perry as his running mate

Picking Rick Perry would be eight-dimensional, 3D, IMAX chess. That, or inexplicably stupid.

theyre v similar in a lot of ways, itd be an excellent match imho

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4127/5195740745_b32142a3fa.jpg

It's probably gonna be someone annoying like Bobby Jindal

Pawlenty seems like a perfect choice, the duller the better atp

Great hearing the rightwing nutjob who manages our office (note, not my boss, I report to a VP in another city) come in this morning and say, "It's so hilarious everyone losing their shit over what Romney said, he's right, they're not prepared, there's going to be an incident, I guarantee it," etc. Not wanting to get into it, I resisted the urge to point out that whatever security deficiencies have arisen have dome so among private contractors rather than the police.

Robot/Mullet '12

ya curious to see if mitt follows his instincts and goes full dull

BTW, someone should just point blank ask Romney, "If your major strength is 'job creator in the private sector,' what powers, precisely, do you think the President has other than 'hiring more government workers (which aren't real jobs anyway)' that would allow you to exercise that strength better than if you just went back into private life?"

This is kind of that "The Government can't create jobs! Hey President, y u no create JOBS?" thing.

Still, Romney would say that he understands the kind of economy and environment that encourages growth that will create jobs. Though someone should point-blank ask him how stupid he must be if he thinks that cutting taxes and deregulations is suddenly going to make rich people 'turn on the tap'.

http://i.imgur.com/zHPF0.jpg