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

Still possible that Justice Dept. could try to block it under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

yeah pretty sure some podunk judge in harrisburg isnt gonna be the last word on this..

romney with the whiteboard talking about medicare is hilariously shameless

Has he gone to a whiteboard? They must have been reading something I saw the other day, that Romney and Ryan had to start using a lot of graphs and charts like Perot did in '92.

https://p.twimg.com/A0bpSdHCUAA9bM3.jpg

OMG

"I'm really enjoying this so-called 'whitened board.'"

white boards are ceo crack.. I worked in an office with an ex ceo of a huge corp and he used white board 'wallpaper' in the office so people could brainstorm all over the damn place

awesome

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/85/Michael_Dukakis_in_tank.jpg
http://i48.tinypic.com/dos7pd.jpg
http://i48.tinypic.com/5ybko.jpg
http://i48.tinypic.com/4gp85v.jpg
http://i47.tinypic.com/5wi782.jpg
https://p.twimg.com/A0bpSdHCUAA9bM3.jpg

(that Romney is going full Perot that is, your former boss sounds annoying)

xp

the best thing is that he writes a bunch of stuff in the Obama column, and then adds under that black line that it will be "Bankrupt" and he just leaves "No Change" on his side and puts "Solvent" under the line on his side. With no explanation.

GUYS Romney appears to have said something about his taxes again

I wonder if he has "the help" carry the 1 for him.

romney heading off into beck territory

http://www.newscorpse.com/Pix/Caps/evangelist-beck.jpg

imagining Beck presenting that with a Paul Lynde-lisp there

that's a fuck awful pinstripe

that's a fuck awful pinstripe excuse for a human being

imagining Beck presenting that with a Paul Lynde-lisp there

"and trust me, I KNOW my Apollos...hehehe"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-vTzCLiTr8

LOL

hey guys let's remind people that Mitt is just like their awful, shitty bosses

where is he even getting that math from

The medicare actuaries and the medicare trustees--you can't just make up numbers on a whiteboard.

that Romney whiteboard skit is so woefully inept

love that Mitt and co are going after Obama's Medicare plans under the assumption that the ACA doesn't exist

well they're going to repeal it you see

"If you elect me, I'll make all of Obama's plans completely useless! And you should elect me because LOOK AT HOW USELESS OBAMA'S PLANS WILL BE!"

who wants to hear some totally baseless speculative rumors!?

http://dcist.com/2012/08/we_really_want_to_hear_the_other_si.php

About 1 a.m. Sunday, our tipster heard the irate laments of an apparently well-sourced—and perhaps well-sauced—politico outside the 14th Street NW seafood restaurant Pearl Dive. Barely 19 hours after former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney introduced Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as his running mate on the Republican ticket, our aggrieved campaign observer vented, becoming, in the words of our observer, "progressively more pissed off" while punching at chain-link fences and construction barriers as he continued down the street.

"Well, Romney's polling indicates that....
"This is a problem.
"This is a big fucking problem.
"This cannot get into the press. We have to keep it out of the Monday news cycle.
"Nobody will go after it now, it's too late. But it can't get out Monday.
"I don't want anyone tweeting this, blogging it.
"I don't care how much it costs, pay it.
"The amount of money doesn't matter.
"This is a big fucking problem.
"Of course this had to happen now...
"This kid cannot get out.
"Where did this bitch come from, anyway?
"You have 20 minutes to assemble a team to fix this.
"I'm going to be home in 20 minutes. Call me on my secure line."

haha i love this image, true or not:

our aggrieved campaign observer vented, becoming, in the words of our observer, "progressively more pissed off" while punching at chain-link fences and construction barriers as he continued down the street.

punching chain link fences!

i like the sorkin audition theory

xpost i know i shouldn't have posted that because it's the worst piece of blog journalism of all time, but it's kind of fun to think about.

in other non-shocking news, just in case you thought by some chance paul ryan might care about protecting the foundations of civilization, he doesn't:

2000 – Voted against implementing Kyoto Protocol
2001 – Voted against raising fuel economy standards
2001 – Voted against barring oil drilling in ANWR
2003 – Voted to speed up “forest thinning” projects
2005 – Voted to deauthorize “critical habitats” for endangered species
2005 – Voted to speed up oil refinery permitting
2008 – Voted against environmental education grants
2008 – Voted against tax incentives for renewable energy
2008 – Voted against tax incentives for energy conservation
2009 – Voted against enforcing CO2 limits for air pollution
2011 – Voted NO on allowing EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions
2011 – Voted YES to opening up the Outer Continental Shelf for oil drilling
2011 – Voted to eliminate climate advisors for the president
2011 – Voted in favor of allowing Keystone XL Pipeline

also, his most significant financial interests are in 4 companies that are owned by his father-in-law (an oil industry attorney):

Ava O Limited Mining Co
Blondie & Brownie, LLC (gravel)
Little Land Co., LLC (an oil & gas corp)
Red River Pine Timber

i like the sorkin audition theory

― goole, Thursday, 16 August 2012 20:13 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol it's so 'dialogue'

massive lol @ "Call me on my secure line."

Could the revelation be that people would be posting pictures of Ryan and Eddie Munster side-by-side on the internet? Seems to me that that's just the sort of thing that would get missed in the vetting process.

can't believe he said "call me on my secure line" instead of "are you secure? Go Secure."

I'm scared by the idea that people can use 'social justice' as a pejorative (that is, Beck upthread).

social justice is kind of a weird phrase tbf. what other kind of justice is there?

not defending Beck at all obvy

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/pics/david_justice_autograph.jpg

I'm scared by the idea that people can use 'social justice' as a pejorative (that is, Beck upthread).

I typed almost this exact sentence but didn't post it. Yeah, the scary bogeymen of social justice and the green movement. Ella Baker Center must be a haunted house or something.

social justice is kind of a weird phrase tbf. what other kind of justice is there?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2U_nvHzvwc

needed a code 10 abort

Hey y'all, I have some very important news: Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan is an anagram of My Ultimate Ayn Rand Porn.

Whoa

"Well, Romney's polling indicates that....
"This is a problem.
"This is a big fucking problem.
"This cannot get into the press. We have to keep it out of the Monday news cycle.
"Nobody will go after it now, it's too late. But it can't get out Monday.
"I don't want anyone tweeting this, blogging it.
"I don't care how much it costs, pay it.
"The amount of money doesn't matter.
"This is a big fucking problem.
"Of course this had to happen now...
"This anagram cannot get out.
"Where did this bitch come from, anyway?
"You have 20 minutes to assemble a team to fix this.
"I'm going to be home in 20 minutes. Call me on my secure line."

LOOOOOOOOL

"This anagram cannot get out."

???

oh ok i get it now, lol

this won't really impact anything but it is funny