Symmetry required it: 2012 american general election thread #2

"no-o?"

hahahaha

"Do we want our schools to lag behind other schools?"
"... No? (Is this a trick question?)"

"the unspeakable darkness"...That will be noticed.

He should have ended with a DeanScream

I followed the last campaign reallllly closely and heard most all the major political/policy speeches Obama has given since being elected, and I have zero, zero recollection of him making any memorable and direct promises about "healing the planet" and whatever.

Seemed so out of left field as an attack, because who remembers Obama having said any such thing or anything even resembling it?

I hope someone remembered to remove the president from that mad scene up there.

full transcription of clint's speech - http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/rnc-2012-clint-eastwoods-speech-to-the-republican-convention-in-tampa-full-text/2012/08/30/4247043c-f314-11e1-a612-3cfc842a6d89_story.html

if you like the environment and say nice things then you think the planet needs healing and you can do it

that is why nixon approved the creation of the epa

this is why none of this really matters:
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/30/base-turnout-strategy-may-be-too-narrow-for-romney/

Romney got some fine ass daughter in laws

Alex Castellanos: "good enough." Gergen: "solid." Not what you want to hear from your cheerleaders.

lol xp

so many kids + grandchildren!

did you guys talk about the woman who gasped and covered her face when Mitt talked about the rose on the night stand

BeBe Winans is killing it

yeah chris wallace called it workman-like

Albert Brooks ‏@AlbertBrooks

World's oceans very excited tonight, If Romney elected they will take over the earth.

"he did what he needed to do," right? the kind of thing you say when you're going to have to play the whole season with a QB who's there to "manage the game" while you go 7-9

yup

MSNBC is like "hey that wasn't bad for mitt!"

sharpton: I suspect Eastwood has talked to chairs other times than just tonight

lawrence o'donnell just named by name exactly who staged the thing, said the guy was the one who chose to put on clint eastwood, loves stagecraft and politics, used to write for him on west wing, and putting on eastwood in prime time was a disaster

ice cold

rachel maddow and i both felt great the day they announced they killed bin ladin

lol @ Sharpton.

It was just so bland. I can see, just because it's pithy, and because it seizes on one caricature of Obama, the ocean vs. your family line getting some play. Otherwise, nothing.

i don't like the focusing on clint eastwood.

i mean, he was hilarious, but msnbc nagl bashing him imho

I don't understand how anyone can watch this not on fox news

i have to wipe clint from my memory banks. jesus, jon voight is the best you can do??

"he did what he needed to do," right? the kind of thing you say when you're going to have to play the whole season with a QB who's there to "manage the game" while you go 7-9

― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Thursday, August 30, 2012 10:23 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the Gus Frerotte of American Politics

m@tt I kiss you

i mean, he was hilarious, but msnbc nagl bashing him imho

― Mordy, Thursday, August 30, 2012 11:29 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

naw this is funny they love it

i mean, he was hilarious, but msnbc nagl bashing him imho

― Mordy, Friday, August 31, 2012 3:29 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they're not bashing him, they're talking about how fucking awful and horrible it was to put that in your last hour of a convention

there are lots of republicans in hollywood. you know angelina jolie? well her dad is one.

I thought for sure Clint would be speaking at like 6pm or something

eric roberts, bonnie franklin, i could go on and on.

I only caught bits of the end of Mitt's speech but Chris Matthews said nobody applauded the line about helping the poor?

http://gifsoup.com/imager.php?id=2036603&t=o

(made that up. do not know their affiliations. eric roberts somehow the first person i thought of after jon voight. don't know where bonnie franklin came from.)

Even Gergen's ridiculing the 12-million-jobs promise. "Excuse me?"

times must be rly tough for the gop when they can't find an old white rich guy who's actually a republican to fill their guest spot.

Don't forget Vincent Gallo.

Republicans in Hollywood: Eastwood, Voight, Thompson... Stephen Baldwin... Kirk Cameron... Lisa Welchel

it's kinda tragic how badly the republicans want celebrities to like them

i'm predicting a historically mediocre convention bump

I already predicted 0

janine turner spoke already, guys!

half the msnbc panel trying desperately to give Romney some credit the other half just openly laughing at the whole thing

I already predicted 0

― iatee, Thursday, August 30, 2012 11:37 PM (27 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^

Don't forget John Milius. He's a big name these days.