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

mccain being a little less of a dick lately
feel free to counter this w/under the radar details of shitty bills he's introduced but in terms of his public profile at least

Cheney should stick with how pleased he is that Obama turned out to be a police-state cretin like his wooden Dumbya.

xp I kind of guess mccain probably still feels strongly on the issue?

McCain eventually did sign off on torture so he should fuck right off.

didn't he cave on signing a torture bill, sometime 2007 or something? i'm not trying to be an asshole but just
xp

lol McCain buckled on that bill so that the party wouldn't give his nod to somebody else. he is the saddest story, willing to sell himself out for stuff he ends up not getting

My usual caveat that we've argued before: politically, Palin wasn't a dumb pick at that specific moment (the day after Obama's convention speech, weeks before the banking meltdown). Not in terms of maybe one day governing, just in getting McCain back into an election he was losing and in all probability was going to lose no matter what. Which she did, at least as measured by nationwide polling in the weeks after the conventions.

tories and bibi seem to be betting against this one

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2012/07/benjamin-netanyahu-on-israel-mitt-romney

“Israel’s current prime minister is not just a friend, he’s an old friend,” Mitt Romney, with whom Netanyahu worked at the Boston Consulting Group in the 1970s, told AIPAC in March. (Romney, Netanyahu suggests, may have overstated the tie. “I remember him for sure, but I don’t think we had any particular connections,” he tells me. “I knew him and he knew me, I suppose.”)

Netanyahu’s encounters with President Obama have been marked by slights, misunderstandings, mutual suspicion, and downright distaste. One Obama aide says they keep hearing Netanyahu has evolved but have yet to see any signs of it. At home, Netanyahu scores points with his every slight of Obama, to whom the Israelis have never warmed. But Netanyahu insists his relationship with Obama is friendlier than it has been portrayed. They are, he tells me, “two people who appreciate the savviness and strength of the other.”

w/ palin this would be the best-looking election in decades

― max, Friday, August 29, 2008 10:05 AM (3 years ago)

ew

― gabbneb, Friday, August 29, 2008 10:08 AM (3 years ago)

those comments make more sense reversed

this is sort of anti-semitic imho

kind of a "you're so successful - it must be because your culture loves money as much as I do!" tack there

Romney should go into a Witness Protection Program that allows him to step out for a day or two at the beginning of each month, right after each new jobs report. "Economy terrible, vote for me," back into hiding.

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this guy doesn't look like he'll be around much longer to finance any further republican campaigns tbh

looks like he's got ten to twenty years more wear imo

Romney loses key endorsement

"I think the fact that he's such an amazing father proves a lot"

via Greenwald... Israeli journalist notes Jewish Democratic group attacking Romney from the (neo-con) right:

http://972mag.com/jewish-democrats-attack-romney-from-the-far-right-on-israel/51982/

Jonathan Rauch: if you like Ike you should love Obama.

No mention of drone warfare, of course.

Clinton edges out Carter.

Romney's "Poland strategy" is a little...esoteric, isn't it?

if we learned anything from george w bush its that we should never forget about poland

funny how ppl who swoon over eisenhower's 'pragmatic realism' never mention any of that CIA stuff.

Has Romney not let loose with a barrage of his favorite Polish jokes yet? He was on such a roll there.

Man suspects girlfriend of Facebook affair with Mitt Romney.

East Tennessee is a special sort of place.

god only knows what he woulda done if he caught her fooling around w/ a black dude

I assume someone made note of this for the debates:

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/07/mitt-romney-israel-health-care.php?ref=fpblg

Michael Steele was on TV saying Romney might have to apologize to Palestinians.

I'm sure this will have been noted on the New Yorker thread, but--even though I hate reading long pieces online--I'm going to make a concerted effort to read this:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/08/06/120806fa_fact_lizza

To envisage what Republicans would do if they win in November, the person to understand is not necessarily Romney, who has been a policy cipher all his public life. The person to understand is Paul Ryan.

Michael Steele was on TV saying Romney might have to apologize to Palestinians.

― timellison, Monday, July 30, 2012 8:23 PM (28 minutes ago)

steele really is an enigma, seems like that guy just goes w/ his gut sometimes

nah he is an opportunist who isn't actually very good at being an opportunist but that doesn't matter when you are one of 3 black republicans in the country, or at least it didn't for a while. I don't think he has any core political beliefs.

I have this feeling that he's half or partly opportunist but then just can't keep that trait in control.

ah which I see is similar to what you said. except sub out 'no core political beliefs' for 'actually kinda deeply understands the sins of his party' and 'enjoys novelty poses with young republicans'

Saw this earlier tonight:

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/transcript-david-muir-interview-mitt-romney/story?id=16881787#.UBdE26P5BVY

Go to the 3:00 mark; "So far as I can recall"--Romney's inability to navigate even the most rote kind of political legerdemain consistently surprises me.

As he walked back to his vehicle, he ignored reporters’ shouted questions. When a journalist noted that Romney has taken almost no questions from his traveling press corps throughout the foreign trip, Romney spokesman Rick Gorka retorted, “Kiss my ass.”

“This is a holy site for the Polish people,” Gorka said. “Show some respect.”

Moments later, Gorka told another reporter to “shove it.” Gorka later called the reporters to apologize.

well this trip is going well

stupid question, I guess, but, this was at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw, right? Is that really a "holy site"? I'm not saying you shouldn't show respect a monument or cemetery or whatever, but is it really considered holy ground?

wow the unknown solider kissed someone's ass RIGHT BEFORE HE DIED! show some fin respect

perhaps its merely hallowed

if you remember from Nixonland, in '72 George McGovern got heckled with "Four more years" and he responded "Kiss my ass."

This is pretty funny, whether it's true or not--he's just so weasely:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/07/31/dick_morris_clinton_is_going_to_cast_his_ballot_for_mitt_romney.html

Would love to know which third parties he's been talking to.

the crazy train is the gravy train

that would be less offensive than Dick Morris running Billy Blythe's 1996 campaign

nevermind guys Romney didn't say anything about Palestinian culture.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57483302-503544/romney-i-did-not-speak-about-palestinian-culture/

"I guarantee you, Sean, based on what I've heard from third parties or I've spoken to, that William Jefferson Clinton cast his ballot for Robert Joseph Dole"

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/Images/romney14.jpg

he's holding it like it was a diaper

what happened to his lips

Ann Romney defecates on American Flag, Mitt is Proud of it

#RomneyShambles

Colbert had an interview with a dressage trainer/expert/whatever last night:

Guy being interviewed: "...much like a free-skate in the figure skating."
Colbert: "How do you get the skates on the horse?"
Guy: "We don't..."
Colbert: "The horse does that? I find that hard to believe."

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