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

"congressional sclerosis"

I like this phrase

anyone read the Mann-Orstein book yet? I've been waiting a month for the library to release a copy.

nah it's on my endless list tho

anyway, stoked:

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/07/ron-paul-could-force-convention-speech.html

He was the one guy who always laid off Romney in the debates, though. Plus Junior's future.

“Obama is weak on the business of the White House,” says one senior House Democrat, who asked not to be named. “He doesn’t woo members or schmooze them, and his staff doesn’t invite people to the White House.” This disaffected Democrat describes Obama as “more constitutional law professor than politician,” adding, “he doesn’t smooth people or cuddle up to them. He sort of treats politics like changing diapers.”

There were stories like this about GWB from Republican congressmen (Dick Army named, iirc) who thought that Clinton had done a much better job at making them feel less horrible about themselves. I like the image of Obama going to fundraisers and being like "Fuck you, pay me."

clinton really spoiled everyone huh

sometimes he would come and tenderly minister to me in the night

someone make a "Fuck you pay me" Obama gif.

http://i.imgur.com/So38o.png

tee

More weirdness from the Obama e-mail campaign. Yesterday, an "I will be outspent" e-mail (fine); today, "Re: I will be outspent," like I'd written back in the interim.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/president-obama-mitt-romney-deadlocked-in-race-poll-finds/2012/07/09/gJQAaJwdZW_story.html?hpid=z3

Now, the campaign appears destined to remain extremely close in the final four months before Election Day.

Washington Post insight

The scaremails from the Obama campaign have been extra obnoxious. xp

did RP go in too hard on Romney at the debates to get the veep nod? please say no. Mitt if you're reading this think abt it there's a whole bunch of people who'd do literally anything just to get to chance to somehow VOTE FOR RON PAUL

ron was famously friendly w/mitt in the debates iirc

said all sorts of nice things abt him and everything

the closest RP is going to get to an office higher than his own is visiting his son's

my theory is that his own philosophy forces him to accept that a rich guy is a better human being than he is

there's a bubbling undercurrent of ppl wanting mitt to appoint RP as fed chair. lol.

actual lol

i kinda wonder what he'd do if seated in that role. set interest rates at 4000% to get people onto non-state currencies aqap, maybe?

can someone explain the Romney logo to me? Is the "R" supposed to be a flag or something?

http://iowaadguy.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/romney20logo.jpg

uh sorry that's so big yikes

silhouettes of fat white americans imo

Looks ever so much like the 'O' in Obama's '08 campaign

Only fair since he ripped off Romneycare

it does, but the O thing deliberately evoked a rising sun. This evokes... a fat guy going down the stairs? I can't even

It's a guy with red hair and a blue moustache

It's one of Romney's grandmother's bustles, leaving for Mexico

http://www.coupondad.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Aquafresh_Logo.gif

it does, but the O thing deliberately evoked a rising sun. This evokes... a fat guy going down the stairs?

alfred hitchcock's silhouette?

http://www.seat42f.com/images/stories/Front/pbs-logo.jpg

http://www.goodlogo.com/images/logos/girl_scouts_logo_3064.gif

lol croup I was considering that exact same joke

http://www.vivaomni.com/images/Omni_logo.png

i was always bothered by the right girl scout's giraffe neck

It bothered me the whole time I was in scouting, I think their logo is quite scary.

i recall plenty of bush stickers around central pa but the idea of someone bothering to do that for romney feels a lot less likely. feels very "i voted for kodos."

though i have to wonder if a blank cowboy actor once seemed just as absurd a presidential possibility as a blank mormon plutocrat

There's a guy in my building whose late eighties Benz has a Dukakis bumper sticker and I want to find him and ask, "Was it worth it?"

Reagan not going beat his VP's idiot son in the absurdity stakes.

lol sweet ride xp

late eighties Benz has a Dukakis bumper sticker

Please tell me he's really, really tall and drives around with his head sticking out the sunroof, maybe even wearing a helmet.

Looks like a '94 clip of Romney was dug up where he says, "Blind trust is an age old ruse, if you will, which is to say you can always tell the blind trust what it can and cannot do. You give a blind trust rules."

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/07/watch-live-mitt-romney-makes-his-pitch-naacp/54436/

no thanks!

He got booed for this line

“I will eliminate expensive non-essential programs like Obamacare, and I will work to reform and save Medicare and Social Security, in part by means-testing their benefits,” Romney s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jll1uT_mm5g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jll1uT_mm5g

needs to work on his comeback zingers

The awful thing is the likely political calculation involved there--he must have expected that, meaning he figures a clip of him getting booed by the NAACP may be useful.