I am beginning to become scared that Romney/Ryan will win. Can smart people please post here and say reassuring things to convince me that he won't?

would've made Lily Tomlin my nominee

WORD

haha yes you can

I'm not sure that you can. Media landscape feels different to me now.

In 04 I just remember feeling destroyed the next day

But maybe in a way it was a good thing. Politics will never, ever fuck me up like that again. No longer a virgin.

I felt destroyed for probably the next two months. I'm normally pessimistic but I had built up some hope that Kerry could win. xp

For real

It was like living a nightmare

yeah it was the worst

I recently found the playlist of angry songs I played on my college radio show the night after the '04 results, with 'thefacebook.com' scrawled at the top. All told, a sadly apropos document of where things went severely wrong in the mid-2000s.

I always remember a paid Dukakis spot, must have been a whole half-hour bio and campaign piece, running on, I think, one of the main networks onelection night '88. I just remember that thing running while the election was already a foregone conclusion and how sad it was.

Dukakis definitely the worst Dem candidate of my lifetime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Vr842TpBWE

super lulz

Wow.

duuude

he was a boy?

http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/09/everybodys-president.html

Don't know if anybody else watched this, but I thought Obama was really clunky, especially early on--he's been using the line about his daughters and men with guns for two years. There was something he said at one point that made me laugh, but I can't remember what it was. (The clip is edited down quite a bit.)

http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/blow-i-know-why-the-caged-bird-shrieks/?hp

wow, charles blow letting loose

"Mitt Romney keeps showing America who he is. When will we start to believe him?"

I always remember a paid Dukakis spot, must have been a whole half-hour bio and campaign piece, running on, I think, one of the main networks onelection night '88. I just remember that thing running while the election was already a foregone conclusion and how sad it was.

― timellison, Wednesday, September 19, 2012 9:39 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://www.hulu.com/watch/284748

http://i.imgur.com/xfd3D.gif

o yeah

did he really tan up for univision

its was just bad tv makeup

Dukakis definitely the worst Dem candidate of my lifetime.

^^^this. sort of don't understand how he ever got the nom tbh.

I always hated Kerry. Anyone who voted for the Iraq war is imho either a cynical sycophant or a moron, it was a total dealbreaker for me. While I desperately wanted Dubya to lose, I had few illusions about Kerry's prospects, and was still bummed when he lost. Of course, the next 4 years were an unmitigated disaster for our country, but the whole decade was such a colossal tragedy.

As I recall, the non-dukakis candidates were a damned skimpy meal. my memory says things like paul tsongas and that illinois guy with the bow-ties. I could google it, but can't be arsed.

Nobody wanted the black guy to get the nom

Tsongas was '92, Paul Simon in '88 – and Hart, Biden (lol), a few.

michael's brother jesse, you mean

hart was good but then he had a lil problem

I can't blame Gore for what happened in '00

Gore gets the paramount blame for "losing" the election in every way possible.

i blame Justice Kennedy

I think I can think of someone else who deserves some blame O:) xp

i blame morbs

i blame jeffrey toobin

i blame blame itself

i blame it on the a-ah-ah-a-ah-ah-alcohol.

gore ran one of the worst campaigns in my lifetime, worse than kerry for sure.

i blame a society that tells its children that the answers can be found in the mtv video games

gore was utterly terrible, this is indisputable, anyone who disputes it is insane

http://ww1.hdnux.com/photos/10/24/41/2181204/5/628x471.jpg

what a fascinating creature

way xp

its was just bad tv makeup

"no problem sir, you look great!" *turns away, smiles broadly*

they need tod a skit where every romneyshamble is a total set up by his underlings who despise him.

I look that photo and just get nauseous – like Chamberlain holding the peace deal.

are Obama and Romney doing any of those weird town-hall style debates becuz if so popcorn.gif

re: Dukakis gettin the nom in '88 it just seemed like that could have possibly been a gimme-election for the Dems - Poppy hardly had the common touch and had trouble carrying Reagan's mantle. But yeah Hart was probably the best bet and then he fucked up.

dukakis was waaay out in front early before people got to know him

is there anyone who went straight from VP to two-term president?

adams

^super relevant