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

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

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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

An interesting attempt to figure out what was going on with Romney yesterday--basically, that he's protective of his Olympic stint to a degree that he can't stand the (in his mind) magnitude of what he did there potentially undermined.

http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/105430/why-romney-insulted-cameron

thinking abt romney calling into question englands olympic preparedness he really does seem to believe the salt lake games are his grandest achievement and is willing to preemptively attack anyone who might suppose theyre equal to the standard he set

― lag∞n, Thursday, July 26, 2012 2:17 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

B-)

Missed that! They need you at TNR.

step aside timothy noah

amy davidson has written a little bit about it too http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2012/07/mitts-olympic-fetish.html

Just semantics, but two people in the New Yorker piece refer to Romney "rescuing the (Winter) Olympics," and Romney himself says "save the Olympics." Not the Salt Lake City Olympics, but the Olympics in general. (The debate line he threw at Santorum is great: "While I was fighting to save the Olympics, you were fighting to save the Bridge to Nowhere." Don't remember that one.)

When you've lost The Sun...

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/4456840/Wannabe-US-President-Mitt-Romney-in-Olympics-insult-but-David-Cameron-insists-Well-show-you.html

when some terrible thing happens im curious to see how romney fineses his i told you so

looking forward too the the moment int heir first debate when obamas all running the olympics isnt that big of a deal jeez

when some terrible thing happens im curious to see how romney fineses his i told you so

he will probably unleash that strained half-smile of his and say "What a shame this happened, at my Olympics we worked tirelessly to prevent terrible things from occurring, all your base are belong to us"

now passing hcr in massachusetts, thats impressive

hahaha

"impressive, if a little small in scale"

Probably that he couldn't possibly have been in London issuing warnings about the Olympics, he was back home working 16 hours a day at Bain.

i liked yr idea so much I SUPER SIZED IT *grin*

imagining a sobbing Romney wailing "MY PRECIOUS, WHAT HAVE YOU DONES TO ITS" after a news report that a woman had her purse stolen at the London Olympics

ha prob the most likely scenario

, "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?"

he would remove regulations/lower taxes DUH are you guys not paying attention

but what do you do when we've already done that and it didn't work?

and why isn't the ZOMG liberal media asking this like daily?

do it again, only moreso

see it didn't work before because they didn't do it ENOUGH

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7soklNbOQ1qbqr27o1_500.png

do it again, only moreso

We'll burn the roof. And then we'll do it again.

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this is all still hilarious

http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/27/politics/romney-london-troubles/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

The uproar in Britain reached its crescendo Thursday evening when London Mayor Boris Johnson whipped up a crowd of 60,000 revelers at a pre-Olympics celebration with a taunt for the Republican presidential candidate. Johnson is a Tory, theoretically putting him near Romney on the same conservative end of the political spectrum.

"There's this guy called Mitt Romney who wants to know if we are ready. Are we ready? Yes we are," Johnson shouted at what sounded like a political rally, for President Obama.

Sullivan was quite rightly all over NRO yesterday for basically ignoring Romney's London problems. But today, unless I'm missing it, TPM has lots of London stuff up top, led by Rove chastising Romney, and nothing about the terrible GDP report. (In fairness, TPM generally gives prominent play to economic news good and bad.)

Aaron David Miller, a distinguished scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, believes Romney can redeem his trip while in Israel.
"He knows and likes [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu and can convey quite naturally that he understands that Israel is a small country with a dark past living on the knife's edge,"

That would be a good Aerosmith lyric

LISTEN TO THIS BIBI

Was he at the opening ceremony? Because, if so, he got to hear author J.K. Rowling do a reading which honored "two of Britain's greatest achievements: its amazing body of children's literature and the NHS".