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

hmm not seeing it. uh it's quick I'll fb msg you.

lol are we friends there, I'm sick & drugged up and have zero idea what your government name is tbh

no we aren't you have to accept the req i just sent. uh it's...related to my username.

sdrawkcab

I am too doped up on cold meds to make the "iatee is _______?" joke I wanna make

George Soros?

Sidney Crosby?

man that would be so cool if I were secretly george soros

I have always been hoping to find out that I'm george soros, like I just forgot about it or something

I, Atee

"fuck wow I have a fucking lotta money it seems like, go me"

"weirdly it turns out that i am the satanic enemy of right-wing christian america."

well I am they just don't know who I am and I don't have any money

*head spins around, vomits money*

romneys no its obama whos waging the real war on women attack is hilarious and sad

"I like the way this [redacted] thinks!!"

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l04aqjMzlY1qb7hn5o1_400.jpg

uhhhhh

Ooops, if I did, it was by complete accident.

haha okay that's kinda funny then

I had always thought your name was some sort of vowel joke I didn't get, like "seven ate nine!" but with letters.

lol

my name is a vowel joke I don't even get

: D

Ha, yeah, I thought the same thing as beachville. Didn't realize that sdrawkcab would actually be sdrawrof.

u broke the code

not general election, but i just got an email from the e. warren campaign that she walloped scott brown in Q1 fundraising (though his bankroll is obv bigger) and she's currently leading him by about a point past margin of error

are you sure it was past the margin of error?

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/poll-elizabeth-warren-takes-one-point-lead-over

Isn't that part of the "general" election? The presidential election is the name of the big bore.

xp

In the past we have had a separate thread for all the House and Senate races

I don't care either way if someone wants to start one

i really like the campaign she's running - she's putting the screws to brown w/o coming off as especially petty. the grassroots fundraising and organization are really top notch, taking a page from bama '08 but w/ (actually sincere) populist messages at the core. although i could have done without the 'trip to the aqaurium' email w/ her grandkids' email.

she's the only candidate i've ever given $$ who doesn't rep me directly

it's a weird election for me inasmuch as i've known brown (personally) for a long, long time and respect him as a person but hate him as a politician. warren drives me bonkers as a person, but i couldn't have a higher esteem for her politically, so...

interesting, how do you know him remy?

boy scouts
selectman in my childhood hometown
we share a mechanic
met him a million times growing up
my dad and he hung out in the early '80s

do you think your mechanic is the type of person who can 'make mistakes' for the right amount of money?

i probably don't have the right amount of money, unless it's fallen under the driver's seat. plus, i really like him! he gave me a banana split one time (not a sex joke) and i think he drove me home from soccer practice. elizabeth warren came into a store i worked in ca. .09 and ordered very complicated business cards at two minutes past closing time.

is that the sum total of "drives me bonkers as a person"?

Not all of it. Her affect is sometimes haughty Cambridgey-Fancy-Scarf-Lady, and some other times a little transparently calculated. But, as I said earlier, I've got immense respect for her work, her intellect, her campaign, and I do like her brand of populism.

he gave me a banana split one time (not a sex joke) and i think he drove me home from soccer practice.

Somehow I imagine this docudrama minifilm starring Will Ferrell.

"Plantation Republican"

can I just

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yeah. people who insist on calling Allen West a "Plantation Republican" are just as bad as old politicians who throw around the word "niggardly" and then go "what? what? it doesn't have anything to do with the n-word!" imo

(I don't expect everyone on ILX to agree with me abt this)

No but see he's actually FROM Plantation, FL. It just results in crazy awkwardness.

I know that. and niggardly doesn't actually have anything to do with the n-word. you can say "Republican from Plantation." don't say "Plantation Republican."

"Florida republican" should be pejorative enough

no more pejorative than "Florida Democrat"

can we all just agree that the word 'florida' taints any noun that follows it

"The state with the prettiest name" – Elizabeth Bishop

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTAzMzc0NTQ3ODBeQTJeQWpwZ15BbWU2MDQwNDEzNg@@._V1._SY314_CR15,0,214,314_.jpg

like hell will I agree with that

when can we finally make Puerto Rico and Cuba states?

when they learn to speak american