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

ha xp

hate the way this guy doesn't pronounce the U in 'regulatory'

omitting the U signifies the depth of our fiscal crisis.

what % of voters does the GOP think are smal business owners, feel like they're over doing it here

I keep un-muting the TV to listen between bouts of D'Angelo and, I dunno, but the crowd looks awfully thin. I don't know if previous campaigns sat 12 million people or if I was younger and more easily impressed by numbers.

hate the way this guy doesn't pronounce the U in 'regulatory'

Save it for the elite snobs, Commie. Why don't you go back to Harvard?

cool bands dude

In view of the speakers so far, and who's still left--the candidate, yikes--I'm sure the right will go completely crazy over Ryans's speech.

Please, please don't drag Led Zeppelin into this.

Wait, did Ryan actually say "I accept the calling of my generation?"

RIP John McCain

his iPod only goes from a to l

why do these speeches last so long

there's nothing in them

they're all exactly the same

Is all he said about Romney was that his taste in music sucks?

just annouced his challenge to christie in '16

isn't the meme that John McCain is somehow above the foibles of the GOP kind of played out at this point? I mean I don't doubt he's been ragingly angry at the party since 2000 but probably not for "good" reasons.

I want to put him to the test and see if he can name the first four Led Zeppelin albums.

David brooks pimping Ryan's heavy weight intellectual bona fides is so perfect and lol

I want to put him to the test and see if he can name the first four Led Zeppelin albums.

Everyone usually gets two of them wrong.

can't even afford late-series vowels, thanks OBAMA

speaking of music, would about 50 people please tell this hack that attacking the Beach Boys and Roy Orbison on behalf of the almighty partisan ad hominen impulse is.........counter-productive? tasteless? petty? stupid? UNHIP??

http://www.salon.com/2012/08/29/mitts_playlist_shoots_for_boomer_soul/

Everyone usually gets two of them wrong.

You made me double-check to make sure I had them right myself--is it because they say Led Zeppelin I and Zoso?

I had a friend who insisted it ought to be called "Zofo". He was angry pretty often.

lol u read salon

http://www.salon.com/2012/08/29/mitts_playlist_shoots_for_boomer_soul/

James Watt would not have approved.

"lol u read salon"

shit happens

buzza, have you been sad all this time I haven't posted? you're like my personal tick on this site. the claims that I am not really me sure to follow shortly, I'll just vote in the who poll and malinger on the sidewalk...ooh melted ice cream....

They're busily fact-checking Ryan's speech on CNN, so that's encouraging.

But, just for Alfred, David Gergen says that the fact-checking is fine, but first of all "This is a speech about big ideas."

that's an incredibly funny quote. "about"

You made me double-check to make sure I had them right myself--is it because they say Led Zeppelin I and Zoso?

Yeah, pretty much. Or the eggheads who think they're on top of their game by calling the fourth album Runes.

ya that video is incredible

― lag∞n, Wednesday, August 29, 2012 4:03 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

late to the grand ol party but

he has sad eyes

― lag∞n, Wednesday, August 29, 2012 7:36 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dude this killed me for some reason

let us contemplate the secret sadness of our young leader

doing both infomercials in this thread, huh? tsk tsk, gone are the days...

his eyes were kinda freaking me out, the contrast of blue on pink, i dont think someone w/those eyes can be president

i am now of the opinion that ryan will be the 2016 republican nominee tho

am i wrong in thinking it's weird romney didn't do a "THAT JUST HAPPENED" walk out and wave after Ryan's speech? Seems like not showing up to associate yourself with a potential voter-stirring moment undercuts momentum a bit

they just keeping him on ice, waiting to uncork

maybe they were worried he'd make that "why are you talking about yourself and occasionally pretending you're talking about me" face he gave christie

I agree about 2016...if Romney loses. Maybe Republicans loved him so much last night that many will stay home in November so they can get him in there four years earlier.

maybe they were worried he'd make that "why are you talking about yourself and occasionally pretending you're talking about me" face he gave christie

― da croupier, Thursday, August 30, 2012 9:03 AM (7 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

checking his calendar 'yes the year does seem to be 2012 do you see paul do you'

there was an article somewhere about how this is the last year demographically the republicans can run on an old white guy serving apple pie, but between condi, rubio, christie and ryan it does seem they're ready for it at least on the national level.

morbs is otm we used to have separate convention threads. however four years of FAILED POLICY have left us with just the one

we used to build things in this country

I suggested a separate Republican convention thread a few days ago, but everyone was caught up in Akin. No point now, obviously.

there's the possible benefit of people watching less of the convention without a separate thread - if we were clowning on a full-on convention thread, I'd probably tune in & stay tuned for laffs & then feel horrible at the end of the night. as it is I watch about three minutes of one speech, go "Jesus what an asshole," and then flip over to the SVU rerun or whatever. Or listen to reggae instead, which is what I did last night. I have to say, if we had a "classic reggae vs. the GOP" thread, reggae would get my vote easy

Maybe one of you guys could start a new political thread tomorrow, though--I went to check back on something last night, and this thing is getting difficult to load in its entirety. (There's already a thread for the Democratic convention.)

CCR vs. classic reggae vs. the GOP...

there was an article somewhere about how this is the last year demographically the republicans can run on an old white guy serving apple pie, but between condi, rubio, christie and ryan it does seem they're ready for it at least on the national level.

― da croupier, Thursday, August 30, 2012 9:09 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ryans apocalyptic rhetoric will be perfect for the demographically doomed phase of the republican party