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

I know McCain had a surge when he picked Palin/had the GOP convention and that was the high water mark for him.. I think Romney will have the same trajectory.

guys, there's a hurricane predicted to hit Florida early next week

Oh fun.

I'm sure it's a plot by the Obama administration to ruin the GOP convention.

Wasn't their '08 convention postponed by a day because of a major hurricane?

I think it was. lol

God loves Republicans, he's just not a fan of their conventions.

Huck has weighed in, reminding us all that lots of wonderful people are the products of "forcible rape."

Commenter Compson on gawker lol:

"In fact, it is consensual sex that produced such monsters as Hitler, Stalin, and Jimmy Carter. Unless of course they were one of those few cases of legitimate rape where the woman's body didn't function correctly. However, the odds are slim. So let me ask you, would you rather take your chances with consensual sex, which has such a sordid track record, or forcible rape that produced these two fine Americans?"

ima go back to never ever smiling about this shit again now, apologies

Huckabee sez Akin to appear on show within half an hour to make final announcement.

if he drops out, can we say he aborted his campaign

Early and often.

So if the same guy who supposedly was sent to convince him to get out has him on his show for the announcement, then he must be getting out.

*shrug* At this point I predict nothing.

he was raped by the lieberal media. he dint abort, his political body shut that situation down.

Boy, Akin really gave tacit permission to uncork the crazy bottle:

Rep. Steve King, one of the most staunchly conservative members of the House, was one of the few Republicans who did not strongly condemn Rep. Todd Akin Monday for his remarks regarding pregnancy and rape. King also signaled why — he might agree with parts of Akin’s assertion.

King told an Iowa reporter he’s never heard of a child getting pregnant from statutory rape or incest.

“Well I just haven’t heard of that being a circumstance that’s been brought to me in any personal way,” King told KMEG-TV Monday, “and I’d be open to discussion about that subject matter.”

A Democratic source flagged King’s praise of Akin in the KMEG interview to TPM. But potentially more controversial for King is his suggestion that pregnancies from statutory rape or incest don’t exist or happen rarely. A 1996 review by the Guttmacher Institute found “at least half of all babies born to minor women are fathered by adult men.”

Again, defending members of your own tribe is far more important than being a decent human being. Just look at Kirk Cameron's reaction too.

to be fair, Steve King has a long elaborate history of uncorking his own crazy.

True enough, but, I mean . . . how do you even GET that crazy?

Akin is staying in:

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/todd-akin-im-staying-in-race?ref=fpb

Missourians now have 11 weeks to forget this happened and vote him on to victory. It'll probably happen, too.

Comment roffles:

http://hotair.com/archives/2012/08/21/breaking-akin-tells-huckabee-hes-staying-in-the-race/

Looks like it’s time to look at the libertarian candidate, as well as potential write-ins and independents.

Doomberg on August 21, 2012 at 1:26 PM

The Libertarian is a dope-growing hippie who has a fairly lengthy arrest record in KS and MO.

steebo77 on August 21, 2012 at 1:30 PM

Well I just haven’t heard of that being a circumstance that’s been brought to me in any personal way

What's "personal" -- taking your raped wife out back and showing you her womb?

man, I hope Akin stays in the race. Please please please.

he's staying!

Akin: "I misspoke one word in one sentence on one day."

can someone please drop this man into a tank of warm vomit

the internet has not yet produced an akin deal with it gif

give it about 20 minutes

I love that he thinks that if he just reworded his statement, his whole magic uterus theory would have been widely accepted

also you should all be happy I'm not modding because the temptation to create a substitute on "Akin" that embeds the music video for "Invisible" is overwhelming

Messages in Missouri
By Ramesh Ponnuru
August 21, 2012 1:24 P.M.
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Every living Republican who has served as a Senator from Missouri to Akin: Get out.

Akin to Mike Huckabee: I’m staying in.

Congressman, pride is a sin.

"and if i offended anyone with my comments.... dealwithit.gif"

xpost:

it's a
it's a
it's a sin

wtf is king getting at with that mealy-mouthed statement? he wasn't paying attention to the news when jaycee dugard and her two daughters were found?

credit to him if he wasn't tbh

^^ not sure what you mean by this?

oh i just hate crazy weirdo fake-news stuff like that

missing white women!! sex crime!! dead children!!

Well, there's a kernel of newsworthiness in all of those things, but it takes 0.052 seconds for every one of these stories to become sensationalized.

guys can i ask that, given the topic at hand (repub war on woman and crazy magical thinking about rape and pregnancy), you don't act flippant about a story involving actual child rape and pregnancy? it's been a shitty couple of days to be a woman and i can acknowledge that stories get sensationalized but jesus let's not overlook the forest for the trees

I am genuinely surprised the GOP turned on Akin so quickly and forcefully. must be panicking about their "woman problem" lol

Every living Republican who has served as a Senator from Missouri

lol how many people is this, four? five?

john danforth, 1936-
john ashcroft, 1942-
roy blunt, 1950-
jim talent, 1956-
kit bond, 1939-

I am genuinely surprised the GOP turned on Akin so quickly and forcefully. must be panicking about their "woman problem" lol

Well yeah. This is pretty high on the list of things they don't want to be talking about the week before the convention. (Speaking of which, I wonder if Akin's going.)

"This" being, basically, "How pro-rape is the Republican party?"

they are forcibly pro-rape iirc

Legitimately so.

luckily American women have ways to shut that whole thing down

i think maybe ridicule of people who say 'forcible rape' would be better if they were asked not about 'consensual rape', but 'gentle rape'.

'so wait you think there's such a thing as GENTLE rape??'

What was it, some GOP went on about how extensively violent a rape had to be a couple years back before he'd think an abortion was valid.

not googling "GOP rape" sorry