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

there's this thing

it's called the interwebs

you watch stuff on it

it's made of tubes iirc

one cannot truly appreciate a political ad until it interrupts an enjoyable televised sporting event

I guess we have a thread for this but you know what's interesting? how little vp speculation is going on at this point in the game. people really just don't seem to care.

ya i wonder how many people have already even if just at a subconscious level written romney off

there is only one man who can save this thread and he is currently eating a double bacon hamburger somwhere in new jersey

why do you want Governor Christie to post here

half of the population has wisely written obamney off

cmon, gooney, you know where i live.

pistols @ dawn in front of gorilla coffee

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

Romney's down, so it will be Rubio or Ryan. The latter looks like he's right out of an Italian neorealist film.

http://i1059.photobucket.com/albums/t427/sayhey1/ryan.jpg http://i1059.photobucket.com/albums/t427/sayhey1/olmi.jpg

he's totally going to pick Rubio

romney is too risk averse

They can see where they're at, though, and unless they expect the economic numbers to take an appreciable turn downward--just drifting along doesn't seem to be helping them (which surprises me)--they're surely aware that Portman or Pawlenty won't help at all.

or rubio or anyone

Rubio won't help at all either, really (if Alfred's estimation of his rep in FL is any indication)

Eastwood maybe

When is the start of 'official general election season'? It's already August

after the conventions?

I think it started about 12 threads and 30,000 posts ago...Feb. 2011?

Paul Ryan resembles Will Schuester from Glee, and they are both completely hateable horrible douchebags.

Rubio won't help at all either, really (if Alfred's estimation of his rep in FL is any indication)

In 2010 I said "Romney-Rubio" and I think I'll stick with this because, well, just because.

NPR tried to waste my time last night by profiling Condi Rice as a VP pick.

anyone who listens to npr deserves what they get

npr?

suburban listening you know

there's no way it's ryan. he has done nothing in life other than be in congress. i realize after obama that 'experience' doesn't have exactly the same force, but it's still impt residually

this makes me think it will absolutely not be ryan or rubio:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/go-gold-mitt_649299.html

go gold, Mitt!

In northern Virginia near DC I've been deluged for a week with Romney saved the Olympics ads including a couple of winter games athletes thanking Romney. I never even thought those winter games were ever in trouble. Not sure that's gonna win over anyone.

jindal would put the kulturkampf shit into overdrive

http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/07/photos-evangelical-curricula-louisiana-tax-dollars

I've never liked Kristi Yamaguchi as a skater, so those Romney ads gave me justification for my dislike.

BREAKING: Romney Picks Patriotic Legendary Gymnast as VP

https://usagym.org/pages/athletes/archivedbios/women/ShannonMiller96Beam200.jpg

nobody thinks John Thune is Romney's pick? from South Dakota, home of some of the most restrictive anti-choice laws in the country; maybe helps in Iowa/Wisconsin

Romney/Roomba '12

attention Mitt Romney if you read this thread, I don't have a million dollars but I will find a way to get it and give it all to you if you do this: when it's time for you to reveal your vp choice at the convention you say "well I gave it a lot of thought and I've decided that my vice president will be...this robot. Hail this robot" and then the curtain goes up and it's 2XL

^^^2nd 2XL reference I've seen in as many days. Peace out, lil' 8 track player, hope you can handle the scrutiny.

added bonus: robots don't pay taxes

and no one can hear them scream

^^^2nd 2XL reference I've seen in as many days

!!!

there's a simulator online, I just spent five minutes playing it...I remember being very charmed by and interested in my friends' 2XLs but wow it gets old fast

Hey politico freaks, what would happen to the nomination if something catastrophic happened to either the President or Romney? Would the RNC basically turn into a hyper-accelerated superprimary? Would Biden be the de facto Presidential candidate or would the DNC have to produce their own superprimary? Just morbidly curious, to my knowledge nothing like that has happened during my lifetime and I wonder how it would be handled.

you're under arrest

Biden would of course become presidnet and it'd be up to the convention to nominate him.

if Romney were to die the RNC would rejoice and nominate Rick Perry.

Unfortunately they're not exactly spoiled for choices...

You could say the same thing about the Democrats, though.

if Romney were to die the RNC would rejoice and nominate Rick Perry.

I can't even wrap my brain around this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAk7Hrf2joU

He's been quiet this cycle, but I don't think you can completely discount him.

Is that zombie reagan?