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

he “believes strongly in dignity of work.”

Awesome

Sorry, can I just and they're gonna revive, "Bush doesn't care about people"

well, they are pretty wet

A+

what's up with all these libertarians being so sympathetic to anti-choice fervor?

Isn't the idea that they are so pro-individual that the believe abortion infringes on the natural, inalienable rights of the fetus?

yeah, but why 'leave it to the states'? if they're going with that whole natural, inalienable rights of the fetus line of thinking, then why would some states have laws that allow the tyranny of the majority to trump individual liberty?

which kind of echoes this whole idiotic argument by "moderate" Republicans that omg all life is sooo sacred unless it is conception via rape or incest.

a friend suggested today that it was a good thing that the republican party is pro-life bc their only other ethos is survival of the fittest, so maybe pro-life injects just the tiniest (most misguided/asshole) mitigation to then becoming the party of out-and-out hunting humans for sport and eating your neighbor.

yeah, but why 'leave it to the states'? if they're going with that whole natural, inalienable rights of the fetus line of thinking, then why would some states have laws that allow the tyranny of the majority to trump individual liberty?

Most are just bullshitting. Leaving it to the states is preferable when the Scotus disagrees with them.

cool map http://project.wnyc.org/nyc-republicans/index.html

lol governor's island

lol wow that whole thing

between broadway and 7th, and 32nd and 35th, there are apparently 8 registered voters.

p. sure my neighbor vinnie is one of the 42 repubs in my district

who is registered on governors island, is that where they keep all the governors

lol at my old neighborhood

http://i45.tinypic.com/dvhx1i.png

pretty sure those slightly republican spots (~10% registered republican) are YU and the German Jewish community on Bennett Ave.

eight registered voters in macy's! xp

Not a single Republican in Brooklyn if I'm reading this correctly

i like how super fucking purple is still only 50%

we call that 'staten purple'

eight registered voters in central park, one of whom is gop

Pitchers and Poets ‏@pitchersnpoets
Republicans chanting USA, not allowing the Puerto Rican delegate to speak. This is surreal.

what the fuck is wrong with these people

Anyone else seeing the "Jumah at the DNC" stuff spilling across FB or other places? Story is that the DNC is busing 20,000 Muslims into Charlotte. Story is, of course, 100 percent untrue (it's an independent event, three days before the convention), but you have to spend 10 minutes online to figure that out. Which means that it will very soon be right-wing gospel.

The Romney brood is going to be unavoidable for the next couple of months.

@pitchersnpoets

Hearing from @mattlanger that USA chant was to drown out Ron Paul supporters who were booing Priebus. Didn't hear that but seems feasible.

Malkin's updates have more on all that:

http://michellemalkin.com/2012/08/27/floor-fight-grass-roots-activists-battle-attempt-to-rig-gop-convention-delegate-rules/

Sununu declare”no objections” over massive boos on floor

Some angry republicans:

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Are those clothespins gripping the middle of their noses? That seems painful.

man that's crazy

The roll call is quite thrilling. Alabama, American Samoa, everyone loves Mitt.

The worst thing is, lady was over-accessorising BEFORE involving the Clothespin of Chagrin. It's hat OR scarf, not hat AND scarf, duh.

Now I know what punk rock republicans look like

http://i.imgur.com/jfIH4.jpg

its almost like these people are encouraged to be as strange as possible idgi

udgi because u hate america

that's actually Daniel Day-Lewis doin some method acting

tru xp

First time I've seen older brother Peter Romney--looks much more like George than Mitt does.

They look so stupid right now. After each state announces its delegates, a woman at the podium repeats it--except she just calls out Romney's total, ignoring Paul's. For the states where Paul has fewer delegates, it's weird, but sort of shrug-worthy. But they just announced Nevada, where Paul had the most delegates, and the woman only announced Romney's.

So surreal that this is going down just as another hurricane barrels toward New Orleans. I know voters are generally oblivious and/or stupid, but ... surely they get it, right?

BBC website has described Romney's confirmation as being 'crowned' and 'anointed' so far. Just thought it was odd, that's all.

did they give him a crown

Don't know, I haven't been watching. Hope so - then Palin pours sacred oils all over his head. Maybe drifting into stripclub territory again.

would tip

BBC website has described Romney's confirmation as being 'crowned' and 'anointed' so far. Just thought it was odd, that's all.

nyt has used 'anoint'.

"And adding insult to injury he actually attacks success," Priebus said of Obama. "This president looks down on American free enterprise. As Speaker Boehner just said, the president said, 'If you've got a business, you didn't build that.' Yeah, we do build it, right? That makes me think, that makes me think that Barack Obama has a problem with the American Dream."

Priebus said Republicans represent "the party that believes in the American Dream and wants all our children to have a chance to succeed."

he's black too

keep hearing this theme that the republicans are going to "save america". from what, exactly? is there something going on that I don't know about in the godless liberal zone?

i have an editor who likes to sub in 'amassed' : /

save america from godless liberals obvs

hmmm, not sure how i feel about that.