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

any chance the Romney/ Ryan move to go on the offensive re Medicare is working?

― it's smdh time in America (will), Tuesday, August 21, 2012 8:41 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

new ap poll fwiw: Forty-nine percent trust Obama to handle Medicare, versus 41 percent who trust Romney.

This is terribly amusing.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/314646/how-will-todd-akin-movie-end-lisa-schiffren

It is fascinating to watch someone on a national stage who truly fails to comprehend the reality of what he is doing.

*steeples fingers* yes, lisa.

Wendy...

Yes, Lisa?

lol

I only want to see you laughing now at Todd Akin.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/22/world/akin-international-rape-reaction/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Hong Kong (CNN) -- In just a few days, a politician largely unknown outside the U.S. has earned the dubious reputation on the world stage as the "rape-gaffe congressman."

Todd Akin, 2009:

AKIN: This whole thing strikes me if it weren’t so serious as being a comedy you know. I mean, we just went from winter to spring. In Missouri when we go from winter to spring, that’s a good climate change. I don’t want to stop that climate change you know. Who in the world want to put politicians in charge of the weather anyways? What a dumb idea…

Some of the models said that we’re going to have surf at the front steps of the Capitol pretty soon. I was really looking forward to that…

We’ve been joined by another doctor, a medical doctor but also a guy who graduated from high school science as well, from Georgia, my good friend, Congressman Gingrey.… So to have actually a guy who’s passed high school science is tremendously helpful. And Dr. Fleming from Louisiana.

again, what alarms me isn't his terrible ideas but just his underlying caveman level of intelligence.

he's right about that high school science though. if only there were some more of those brainiacs around!

high school science, the apex of human understanding

i'm actually a little shocked at the "outrage" at Akin from his own team. i realize it's an election year and all, but this guy isn't saying anything that hasn't been mainstream GOP domga for some time now afaict

^^^ I've been pleased by the number of even TV reporters remarking that Romney-Ryan's positions aren't much different.

its all abt him looking like an idiot for not understanding how human reproduction works

Is the water warm enough, Congressman?

like was Bush Sr (or maybe Dole?) the last 'household name' Republican who wasn't a total nitwit when it came to reproductive rights?

I don't recall Dubya being particularly heavy on the pro-life shit but he was a total nitwit in general so glass half empty there maybe

Poppy Bush supported abortion rights until Reagan shanghaied him in 1980. In 1992 he vacillated in a craven manner several times between saying abortion is evil full stop and "we need exceptions."

Akinizing is the new Borked

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/obama-tries-in-vain-to-shift-conversation-to-education-economy.php?ref=fpa

I assume the headline is meant to be at least partly ironic.

Sandra Fluke i✧✧✧@barackob✧✧✧.c✧✧
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to: [redacted]
date: Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 4:40 PM
subject: "Legitimate rape"
mailed-by: bounce.bluestatedigital.com
signed-by: barackobama.com

nixon on roe v wade: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/us/politics/24nixon.html

man those Nixon tapes are such a goldmine

Seriously. Excerpts should be drip-fed and posted to news organizations every six months just to keep it in the public mind that the guy was just an unmitigated creep and sonuvabitch. Good preventative dose against "great statesman" revisionism etc.

Nixon to his credit said at the end of his life that he believed Roe v Wade was the right decision.

a lot more funny business with the black and the white by that point

with Milhouse you always have to separate intentions from results.

lol

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17wrr5ezh28a0jpg/original.jpg

something weird about his nose

not really about this thread's topic, and i dunno anything about this guy other than that he's the President of Ireland ... but still, i want to share someone w/ a brogue telling off Teabaggers.

:) :) :)

holy crap, that is goddam amazing. we need you back, man.

Is there a discussion in this or some other thread yet about the republicans' new official abortions for none platform? Because that policy would basically have resulted in my wife either dying or being rendered unable to have children for the sake of a non-viable fetus. So I would now like to know where I sign up to assfuck some republicans with a morningstar.

how dare your wife not play the part designated for her by the Fates!!!!?

Wow, how do I vote for the Irish guy?

Too late, we already did.

Meanwhile in Washington state.

hahahha whaaaat

Lots of goofballs coming out of the woodwork: http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/23/us/texas-judge-warning/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

An elected county judge in Texas is warning that the nation could descend into civil war if President Barack Obama is re-elected, and is calling for a trained, well-equipped force to battle the United Nations troops he says Obama would bring in.

Low-level compared to a sitting Senator but still, wtf.

also sheriff candidate in nh saying hell shoot abortion providers

also THIS

http://i.imgur.com/7abv0.jpg

Jesus dude, way to put your county right at the top of Obama's to-conquer list.

In the gym last night Fox News was on one of the tvs and I saw a Fox host defending the labeling of rape with different names because he does not want his taxpayer dollars responsible for taking care of a child born from a consensual relationship between a 19 year-old guy and a 16-year-old woman/girl.

I don't want my taxpayer dollars responsible for firing missiles at other countries

guess what, you don't get to earmark your tax dollars

Supremacy of the Unborn American Fetus

If abortion became illegal, would they try the 16-year-old as an adult?

would give 16 yo the death penalty iirc

State Sen. Michael Baumgartner (R-6, Spokane), who’s running for US Senate against two-term Democratic incumbent US Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), appears to have sent me a bizarre email late last night...

As we noted yesterday, a main part of Baumgartner’s campaign platform is ending the war in Afghanistan.

eh we could do worse

True enough!

Meantime everyone read this

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/09/fear-of-a-black-president/309064/