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

Another smooth move:

Rock singer Dee Snider is incensed with Paul Ryan for playing his 1984 hit “We’re Not Gonna Take It” as his intro music at a Pennsylvania rally on Tuesday.

“I emphatically denounce Paul Ryan’s use of my band Twisted Sister’s song, ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It,’ in any capacity,” Snider told TPM in a statement relayed by his manager Tuesday. “There is almost nothing he stands for that I agree with except the use of the P90X.”

American Family Association spokesman Bryan Fischer...lamented that “everybody is gang tackling Todd Akin.” “You talk about a forcible situation, you talk about somebody being a victim of forcible assault, that would be Todd Akin,” Fischer maintained.

xpost I guess you could say he's... refusing to accept this.

jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezus

Timing of this really couldn't be better -- so much oxygen used up before the convention, the deadline providing a bunch of 'oh shit!' drama, and now a campaign they're stuck owning for the time being.

you talk about somebody being a victim of forcible rape, that would be Todd Akin

at least he doesn't have to worry about getting pregnant

don't know about you guys, but all of this reminds me of when the pharisees persecuted jesus

ah yes the familiar 4 year ritual of musicians telling GOP candidates to knock it off

had to look up what the P90X was and lol

“You talk about a forcible situation, you talk about somebody being a victim of forcible assault, that would be Todd Akin,” Fischer maintained.

well yes but is it LEGITIMATE (answer: yes)

and I can tell because Akin does not seem to be able to just shut the situation down

There are quite a few P90X fans at work and they're all republican. I've never watched it but I wonder if there's something authoritarian that's appealing to conservatives. This is just wild speculation, though. xxp

haha most P90X fanatics I know are young liberals!

P90X really is the one thing that unites Twisted Sister fans, Rage Against The Machines fans, and Tea Party Republican fans

It will be the thing that finally heals and unites our country.

its the muscle confusion thing right? sounds like some kind of seizure maybe.

tur-quoise jeep!

why would you want to confuse your muscles

confuse your mind, your ass will follow

this thing that goole (i think) posted is just . . .

i've been told there's no real difference between the two parties, tho, so oh well

p90x has crazy corny vibes but its a legitimate workout for sure

im personally a huge fan of the phrase muscle confusion and i try to live my life by it

My hippie nurse housemate regularly did p90x and swears by it.

I tried the intro cardio disc and failed miserably.

also kinda wonder if akin or steve king would consider things differently if the rapist were, say, willie horton

i torrented p90x like two years ago and have never looked at it

ya its an insane workout for insaneos, ive done it some and theres no way youll even finish one of the workouts the first time you try unless youre already some sort of freak

true story im actually abt to go do one, just got sidetracked by ilx because the video is on my ipad lol

also i just ran <<hardcore muscle confusion

also, I like this point:

It seems to come down to a clash between the party establishment — campaign strategists and party officials — and the religious right. The politicos view Akin as damaged goods and want him to withdraw from the race in order to improve the GOP’s chances at picking up the Senate seat. The religious right views Akin as a faithful warrior whose only misstep was verbal.

[....]

For the religious right — the anti-abortion, Christianist “pro-life” wing of the Republican party — Akin is guilty of candor, not heresy. He made explicit the views that they prefer to keep implicit, but they have applauded or yawned in response to similar statements for many years now....

This goes along with the pissant "I misspoke" defenses, as if the only thing people were het up about was word choice

gf and I managed 60 days of P90x. I think it took about 45 days before we could get all the exercises done in the time allotted.

Especially the abs disc, ugh

implicit undocumented anti-rape uterine secretions

the "misspoke" thing was hilarious primarily because it was apparently also his way of addressing the whole "i believe that if a woman is raped she's less likely to get pregnant" thing. the legitimate/forcible thing reveals his disgusting (but common on the right) beliefs about what constitutes rape, but the belief about someone being less likely to get pregnant is embarrassing on another level: namely, he's a total gullible ignorant idiot. a U.S. senate nominee revealing ignorance on that basic of a level should be scandalous and result in national scandal anyway, regardless of the subject matter.

this is also why i'm scandalized on a daily basis by prominent politicians who don't "believe" in evolution or climate change

:-O << my face all of the time while reading the news

if someone told you that if a woman is raped she's less likely to get pregnant and you believe it, you're not even qualified to run for oui-si club vice-president at your high school

multi-xposts OTM, even if somehow magically the outrage over his rape stance evaporated he would still be the equivalent of the lawmaker who thought the sky was purple and that standing on your head cures cancer. But the thing is we have tons of sitting Senators who think global warming and evolution are cuckoo pretend-ideas that their dumb enemies only claim to believe in as a means to advance their take-everybody's-toys-away agenda. So it turns out not knowing stuff isn't really a problem.

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now that we know the female body contains a murderous anti-sperm secretion that thwarts the will of god in His mission of creating a new life, certainly the next step is to isolate this secretion and eradicate it before it kills anymore innocent babies.

But the thing is we have tons of sitting Senators who think global warming and evolution are cuckoo pretend-ideas that their dumb enemies only claim to believe in as a means to advance their take-everybody's-toys-away agenda. So it turns out not knowing stuff isn't really a problem.

that's exactly what i mean! the embarrassing ignorance part of his statement has been recognized but pretty much downplayed because that's the norm these days. total failure of representational democracy. 100 people represent about 300 million people - 0.00003% of the U.S. in a political system that was even close to functional, even the worst lawmaker would be a brilliant thinker. instead we get a bunch of ideologues.

Pointing out the devaluation of intelligence, education and basic competency on the right is always my go-to bro-in-law trollage.

these are just regular guys, not some east coast eggheads who think they're better than regular americans

aw man, i'm not trying to be a bro troll! and yeah, breaking news, the political system is broken. but still, how bad does it have to get before people get fed up and replace it? this shit is embarrassing.

Actually, WmC, how IS your bro in law taking all this?

you talk about somebody being a victim of forcible rape, that would be Todd Akin

I don't know, I think at this point he's asking for it. Yes means yes.

Hey, where have John Boehner and Eric Cantor been the past few weeks? They off the grid?

rape jokes aren't funny btw

Ned, total radio silence.

legitimate rape jokes are funny iirc