Symmetry required it: 2012 american general election thread #2

GIVE MARCO RUBIO A GIN AND TONIC

the party is really excited that they have a guy who can speak spanish

they were cheering before he could even translate

Sad I missed clint :(

we get one guy to speak spanish and this things in the bag

Sully re Clint:

This has to be the weirdest speech I've ever heard at a convention. The thing was building and building and now ... it's an after-dinner speech by a geriatric actor, extolling the virtues of a businessman.

TALK TO THE INVISIBLE VOICE, RUBIO

they musta prepped the crowd beforehand "guys, he's gonna speak spanish, please, please, please don't boo"

Sad I missed clint :(

Don't worry--it will pass into legend and be replayed endlessly.

i thought for a moment that he would tell us a little bit about romney, but nope

the thing about Mitt Romney is that his dad was awesome

2016 GOP primary: Christie, Ryan, Rubio

the thing about Marco Rubio is that his bartender dad was awesome

when u guys listen to these do u actually complete the syntactical relationships between words making sentences in your head? i can't pay enough attention to do more than notice when a couple interesting words are used together in sequence

which is what made Obama's speeches in 2004 and Reagan's in 1976 so marvelous as orations.

there are literally zero excited people in that enormous room atm

like, you had no idea where they'd go yet they spoke in sentences. Rubio talks like a 10th grade B- speech class student.

mitt is hugging old white guys

ok no way mitt gets as much love as Ryan did last night

this is already awkward

they're not that hyped about this are they

They'd be so all over Obama for the State of the Union choreography there.

Jonathan Karl: the room is "going wild" as Romney makes his way to the platform.

lol mark shields 'Michael Dukakis did this is 88'

"no no no dont touch me"

did u guys hear that?

wow they all really look incredibly unenthused

mitt givin us the puppy dawg eyes

taking all my strength to not watch clint on my dvr but i feel like i need to wait to watch it with the mrs

he genuinely does love this man

he loves his kids and mom!

omigod these two hate each other don't they

'Americans always come together after elections' UH

Digby ran this Clint interview from last year's GQ:

GQ: [To Eastwood] You’ve described yourself as a social libertarian. What does that mean to you?

Clint Eastwood: I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21, because he promised to get us out of the Korean War. And over the years, I realized there was a Republican philosophy that I liked. And then they lost it. And libertarians had more of it.

Because what I really believe is, let’s spend a little more time leaving everybody alone. These people who are making a big deal out of gay marriage? I don’t give a f–k about who wants to get married to anybody else! Why not?! We’re making a big deal out of things we shouldn’t be making a deal out of.

Leonardo Dicaprio: That’s the most infuriating thing—watching people focus on these things. Meanwhile, there’s the onset of global warming and—

Clint Eastwood: Exactly!

Leonardo Dicaprio: —and these incredibly scary and menacing things with the future of our economy. Our relationship to the rest of the world. And here we are focusing on this?

Clint Eastwood: They go on and on with all this bulls–t about “sanctity”—don’t give me that sanctity crap! Just give everybody the chance to have the life they want.

yeah he just wants to be left alone w/ his pile of money and gun collection

that makes him a moderate republican these days

romney doesn't move his body at all when he talks. do u think candidates who talk more w/ their bodies/hands get trained not to do that when they run for higher offices?

HUG YOUR KIDS A LITTLE LONGER

savor the freudian slip, you hack:

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As someone which thought he could/should be prez in 2007, can't quit believe we are here tonight #Romney #GOP2012

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jimgeraghty Oh, f*** you, protesters. As if a candidate delivering a national address uninterrupted is too much to ask.

i just turned on the tv to make sure it was on the right station (didn't want the dvr to cut off at 11 if it went over, and holy cow the face that man is making.

...one giant leap for unctuousness

unctuousness looks like a smiling lubricated asshole

MY FRIENDS CARED ABOUT WHICH SPORTS TEAMS WE FOLLOWED THAN WHAT RELIGION WE BELONGED TO

we WERE mormons. now we're regular christians like u guys

Onion just posted this to FB. Already on the ball.

Best They Could Get Accepts Republican Nomination

August 30, 2012 | ISSUE 48•35 | More News

TAMPA, FL—Addressing thousands of faithful GOP supporters at the Republican National Convention Thursday evening, the best they could get right now formally accepted the party’s nomination for the presidency of the United States.

“It is a great honor to stand before you all today and accept your nomination for president,” the only real viable alternative they had, given the options, told the assembled GOP delegates at the Tampa Bay Times Forum. “Together, we will take America in a new direction. Together, we will win the White House.”

With Thursday night’s speech, the by no means perfect choice what are you gonna do finally reached the end of a difficult nomination process, having beaten a field of challengers in the primaries that included they’d have to be crazy, not a chance, and the absolute worst-case scenario....

these desperately ingratiating facial expressions r killing me

what is this love shit

WTF is this guy ON about?

this rose story really endears romney's father to me

He's got that one mannerism where he sounds so sad when his voice trails off.