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

There is no U.S. market for the human consumption of horse meat. But it is seen as a delicacy overseas, especially in some European and Asian countries. In addition, horse meat has been used in the U.S. to feed zoo animals, because it's a good source of protein.

I think I would like a hat made out of a pony's face

somewhere in wisconsin Ed Gein's distant relative toils in his forebear's shadow, making you that hat

I looked up "pony hat" on Google and would like to formally retract my request, they've all been MLPed to death ;_;

except this dude:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3596/5843053799_eeee2daa90.jpg

now that's something

dang

hahaha i was like what, they've been mary-louise parkered to death?

Mary-Louise Pony

i'm matthew broderick, and i disapprove of this message

Jim Greer, the Florida GOP guy who ratted out the state party's voter suppression efforts actually went on Al Sharpton's show today and laid out his whole testimonial again. Guy is a bit of a hero imo.

Obama campaign: Governor Romney "let people stay on welfare for an indefinite period," and gave the "free cars"! The horror!

http://www.salon.com/2012/08/09/obama_channels_reagan_on_welfare_salpart/

Saw the Romney welfare ad on tv last night and a Karl Rove anti-Obama one and a Rove anti-Tim Kaine one(democrat candidate for Senator in Virginia) one. Aaaargh! I need to stop watching network coverage of the Olympics.

x-post - that plus the pro-coal message and the various other items on the list means I'm gonna be holding my nose very tightly while voting in November

I would think libs ran out of nose-holding fingers about a year and a half ago.

There is no U.S. market for the human consumption of horse meat. But it is seen as a delicacy overseas, especially in some European and Asian countries. In addition, horse meat has been used in the U.S. to feed zoo animals, because it's a good source of protein.

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, August 9, 2012 5:21 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dude, pony meat

so Macaca guy is going to be back i presume.

(as in back in the Senate)

Slowly but surely the GOP realizes they have an awful candidate:

http://freebeacon.com/the-killing/

We are therefore witnessing a well-rehearsed and coordinated and almost balletic exercise in voter suppression, as Obama and his helpers spend hundreds of millions of dollars convincing middle America that Romney is a rich elitist who made a fortune in rapacious finance capitalism, and whose concern for the bottom line trumps transparency, compassion, and community. The objective of this campaign is to tie Romney down, Gulliver-like, with connections to the most lurid aspects of Bain Capital and the global economy, thereby hobbling his ability to make his case and dragooning white voters into apathy.

how the hell is this "voter suppression"

http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/4a3db9d0d9d6f4ea7a547c54a409645f?s=68&d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D68&r=G

clever clever

The Massachusetts multimillionaire who won his party’s nomination largely on perceptions of “electability” had become the target of a ferocious blitz of negative advertising.

Electability was always pretty fucking relative here - "the Massachusetts multimillionaire who dragged his party’s nomination from their gritted teeth once all of the other candidates proved to be screaming lunatics" might be a bit closer, but maybe there was a word limit.

(I know it's not actually Romney, but it's really not actually Romney is my point)

He also seems to have forgotten how the Massachusetts multimillionaire secured the nomination--ask Gingrich and Santorum.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/how-to-counterattack-obama/2012/08/10/f979112e-e2e6-11e1-a25e-15067bb31849_blog.html

In the right-wing world the only misleading ads have been from Dems, of course.

A Sullivan standin has an 'uh-DUH' moment:

What this all unfortunately may mean is that the campaigns, their supporters, and the press see almost the entire political process as nothing but an athletic bullshit competition.

YA THINK?

wouldn't "bullshit athletic competition" be the better construction?

Both work, really.

how the hell is this "voter suppression"

My hat has long been off to GOP spinmeisters at simply being better at messaging than dems, but yeah this totally seems like flailing to me. "Oh, that very real attempt at disenfranchisement of the Dem vote via voter ID, well... uh... oh, look over THERE!

Weird...truce or dare?

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/romney-to-obama-please-stop-attacking-my-business-taxes.php?ref=fpa

Romney said he would prefer the campaigns “only talk about issues,” and claimed that “our ads haven’t gone after the president personally...We haven’t dredged up the old stuff that people talked about last time around. We haven’t gone after the personal things.”

if all romney has left in his quiver are jeremiah wright and bill ayers...

lol "if you guys don't stop hitting us we're going to imitate John McCain"

"stop talking about my taxes or palin is gonna be my veep"

Marco Rubio's got a zing about community organizing all lined up

romney pisses off iowa republican voters by saying he'll end wind industry tax credit:

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/20120810_Stance_on_wind_tax_credits_could_hurt_Romney_in_Iowa.html

Many Republicans in Congress support tax credits for renewable energy, including Iowa Sen. Charles E. Grassley, South Dakota Sen. John Thune and Iowa Rep. Tom Latham, who introduced Romney at an event Wednesday in Des Moines (though when a Latham aide was asked about the tax credits before the event, she covered her ears with her hands, said "I can't hear you," and walked away).

meanwhile the UN is calling on the US to curtail ethanol production because drought conditions are driving up global grain prices already. kind of o/t but mentioning iowa made me think of it.

if all romney has left in his quiver are jeremiah wright and bill ayers...

That's what I thought was so weird--this has to be the lamest veiled threat ever. So lame that there's really no point in even veiling it. (On a Friday afternoon, no less--let's time it so no one will even notice our veiled threat.)

are mitt's people only allowing him to give big interviews on fridays? yow.

if they don't lay off the taxes thing Mitt's going to demand to see Obama's birth certificate

Next Friday Mitt will threaten to call Obama a "crazy bozo ozone man"

In hindsight, Obama probably made a mistake by drawing out the birth certificate shenanigans. Accusations were baseless, of course, but he should've produced the long form the next morning to shut people up. Now Mitt has a blueprint for dodging the tax history question (of course, I've learned he did the exact same shit in Massachusetts too).

More (fake) shenanigans from Massachusetts:

http://www.boston.com/politicalintelligence/2012/08/08/scott-brown-says-effort-register-welfare-recipients-geared-boost-elizabeth-warren/olZaD3PyuyEcUBue4TdHHL/story.html

The taxes thing, it's almost like if you went for a big job interview and your resume listed one place of work for 20 years and you refused to give any contact info.

Hahaha, my dad on facebook: "It may be true that Romney doesn't connect as well with ordinary people. That is because he connects much better with extraordinary people!"

dad ftw (in the corny dad sweepstakes)

Romney to Announce Vice-Presidential Choice on Saturday Morning in Norfolk, Va.

I wonder if he actually planned to make this a weekend thing or if between the romneycare slip and the whining to Chuck Todd they realized they had to hurry up and give the press something else to talk about

Feel a little sorry for the person that takes it, tbh.

actually turns out palin and biden were announced on saturdays too, guess there's a logic to it

The timing of Palin's was to pull the rug out from Obama's convention speech--it was the day after. Worked quite well, in terms of that one specific objective.

In this case it will pull the rug out from...uh...the women's 4x100m relay world record?