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

keep hearing this theme that the republicans are going to "save america". from what, exactly? is there something going on that I don't know about in the godless liberal zone?

i have an editor who likes to sub in 'amassed' : /

save america from godless liberals obvs

hmmm, not sure how i feel about that.

uhhhh, you did get that piece of mail last night, didn't you? the one that just looked like another unsolicited credit card application? it contains instructions on where to claim your UN-supplied weapons when the liberal revolution begins - thursday evening, as our enemy mitt romney accepts the evil republican revolution.

i've been practicing my flying jump kicks ALL NIGHT

okay i def don't intend to make a habit of watching FNC coverage of this convention but - krauthammer live on o'reilly now just stated that the surprise endorsement of romney would be seamus the dog who would say that trip he took on the roof of romney's car was the ride of his life.
totally deadpan

so who do y'all think? Trump? Palin? Clint Eastwood?

brett favre (having fun)

Could be Eastwood; won't be Trump. Weeks ago I would have said no chance on Palin, but if they're adopting this every-last-white-vote strategy, who knows?

the old guy from pawn stars

Reagan hologram

Ruling out Todd Akin, Jon Huntsman, Joe the Plumber, Mitt's tax lawyer, George W.

But don't count out Todd Rundgren, Clay Aiken, Jon Arbuckle, Joe Piscopo, Mitt's fax machine, or George Wendt.

^^^ would watch this convention btw

i'd watch this convention if chucky and jaws were doing commentary

someone more talented than i, can you write up some rnc commentary in the voice of jon gruden for me? i am watching with the sound off and they all look so angry - i'd like to know what THIS GUY is talking about though

If Todd sings "Hello It's Me" or "We Gotta Get You a Woman," I'd watch him address a convention of rabid squirrels.

John Kasich just attacked Joe Biden's golf game--possible issue in November.

we raped it

oh actually nevermind, here's chris matthews to handle that right now:

"this guy is a great salesman... this guy Kasich looks like a regular person!"

Jon Kasich and Bono are bros btw

butthurt businessmen night

this isn't on the networks!

I think they come on for an hour at 10:00. If you want to watch now, you can go to CNN--where they mostly talk through the speeches, and (obviously) cut in with hurricane coverage--or to PBS, where they air the speeches and talk between (and, the big attraction, David Brooks...).

you guys are so weird that you want to watch this

like you probably read all the comics, just for the pain

I hope for something memorable, something incendiary like Buchanan's speech in '92, or bizarre like Palin's, or creepy like Guiliani last time. I know things are extremely choreographed, but you never know. I would have loved watching conventions in the '64-'72 period.

Watching the PBS News Hour crew try to reason with the senator from Wyoming is depressing exercise

a depressing....

one man, this song

"the constitution's on our side if we keep believin' in blood, sweat and freedom"

watching the youtube livestream btw

goddam Santorum is so incredibly unlikeable

there's some schmuck from new mexico talking about how his business is surviving more on state govt. contracts than federal govt. contracts. I builts it!

i'm an american not a bump in the road

Sully:

9.20 pm. Apologies for the late start. The car taking me back from the Colbert Report got completely lost and I had to get out and walk. Anyway, I'm back here and all I am hearing are minority voices. A Latino businessman is up now and complaining that the stimulus didn't create a windfall.

The fuck:

David Shuster
‏@DavidShuster
GOP attendee ejected for throwing nuts at African American CNN camera woman + saying "This is how we feed animals."

waht

The car taking me back from the Colbert Report

I winced when I read that on his site.

Newt gingrich just named every non-white republican ever

List had about 7 people on it

Yeah, that was funny--especially Gwen Ifill's deadpan follow-up.

List had about 7 people on it
--Moodles

Did Alan Keyes get a shoutout?

They should pull a Mormon and re-brand people as Republicans post-death.

they've been doing to MLK for a while now

doing it to

god this fucking guy:

10.19 pm. She really is a Mormon: she's so excited. This whole thing is just fabulous. And she wants to talk about love. The presentation is so far extremely effective. She really is a performer of real talent - and the GOP is betting corectly: she is by far the best way to soften Romney's image. And she is so well-spoken, with a Julie Andrews style and a Sarah Palin wink.

our boy Sully

italics around "excited" and "love" but still

HAHAHA tepid applause at the mention of George Romney

god this fucking guy:

/10.19 pm. She really is a Mormon: she's so excited. This whole thing is just fabulous. And she wants to talk about love. The presentation is so far extremely effective. She really is a performer of real talent - and the GOP is betting corectly: she is by far the best way to soften Romney's image. And she is so well-spoken, with a Julie Andrews style and a Sarah Palin wink./

our boy Sully
--a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

Too bad nobody is watching

Kathryn Jean Lopez ‏@kathrynlopez

This #AnnRomney speech is a wee bit the schooling of the Sandra Fluke Obama cheerleading squad

this is a "real marriage" eh?