Symmetry required it: 2012 american general election thread #2

Not surprisingly, if you've spent any time watching Romney, he failed to do that.
Seriously, it's like he has chosen to sing a song that is way too high for his range.

I dunno if Nate Silver writes his own headlines at NYT but someone wrote this:

In Prudent Speech, Romney Seeks Role as Generic Republican

Dreher on Clint:

But man, that was embarrassing for all concerned, not only for a doddering old white man, but for the entire Republican Party. Not that it much matters, but the conservative Celebrity Auxiliary is exceedingly lame. It feels like they deploy U2, and we deploy Stryper.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/08/31/blogs/538-romney-cloud/538-romney-cloud-blog480.jpg

murder tag clouds

old man yells at word cloud

http://i.imgur.com/Y6AJQ.gif

Inside the beltway media insider (and knucklehead) Chris Cillizza take:

Romney did what he needed to do in his speech, a workmanlike address in which he made a strong case against the incumbent and a slightly-less-strong case for himself.

The most quoted line of the speech will almost certainly be this one: “President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet. My promise … is to help you and your family.”)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/08/30/republican-national-convention-night-3-winners-and-losers/?hpid=z2

gettin some "secret" charismatic starpower at the convention is probably the smartest thing the GOP has done this entire election cycle

― chicago rap twitter luminary (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, August 29, 2012 3:58 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

man am I happy to have been totally wrong about this lol

funniest RNC convention ever

The most quoted line of the speech will almost certainly be this one: “President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet. My promise … is to help you and your family.

this line made me wanna murder motherfuckers tbrr

Ever so suave:

http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/08/31/781511/rnc-delegate-offended-by-presence-of-mexican-at-disneys-epcot-center/?mobile=nc

Don't tell this guy about the new Tres Caballeros ride in Mexico.

Maybe the outcome this entire election basically will be decided by whatever news events happen the week before.

Also, big effing deal about 'family'. Congratulations on meeting an impregnating a woman, Mitt!

My promise … is to help you and your family... unless you live near the ocean.

Maybe the outcome this entire election basically will be decided by whatever news events happen the week before.

pretty sure the outcome of this entire election has already been decided

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/the-morning-plum-why-are-obama-swing-voters-sticking-with-him/2012/08/31/65b46edc-f35a-11e1-adc6-87dfa8eff430_blog.html

this is a good piece, greg sargents been making that point for a while, its kinda indicative of the romney camp altogether that they cant really get it together to emotionally manipulate people, like they have a candidate who looks like a tv president and they think thats a good set up, and they also think that the most obvious base underestimation of voters intelligence and motivation should work too, fucking w/voters heads is a subtle art, you cant just be lazy cynical about it, its p hard to get elected president

btw

http://i.imgur.com/l7xOI.gif

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2012/08/31/ann-romney-clint-s-speech-unique.html

hahaha in band dude terms that's "You guys were really tight...really looked like you were having fun up there"

lol

some GOP apparatchik last night: "it wasn't the greatest nomination speech ever, it wasn't even the best speech of this convention, but it was the best speech Romney's ever given in his life"

that may be the faintest praise ever tho

hahaha in band dude terms that's "You guys were really tight...really looked like you were having fun up there"

so otm. "Nice work!"

"Good job!"

(btw, found out the hard way you can't say "Looked like you were having fun up there!" to a laptop composer)

And what did Dan Deacon say to you in response

"You guys really had a lot of energy up there"

"that sounded really tight, like you guys have been working on it for a while!"

Or

"I swear I saw the sound guy rocking out to one of your songs"

I feel totally trolled by this Clint Eastwood business, but I'm not even remotely sure who/what is behind it. If someone simply wanted to get people to talk obsessively about the RNC, A+ work! Done! Apologies for butting in just to say that, but has there been any discussion of whether or not Eastwood was told to go out there and just "go nuts"?

― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Friday, August 31, 2012 10:07 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

i kinda doubt it. when i was at McCain's speech rehearsal there were like 4 people in the room (incl. Rick Davis) going over the latest umpteenth draft and discussing additional changes (true story: they actually fretted about the exact # of times the word "freedom" appeared in the speech). they might not have had the reigns on Eastwood as tight since he doesn't work for the party like the other speakers but they definitely micromanage this stuff. but as the Ryan speech proved, they don't necessarily look for the right things to fix before it goes in front of the public.

Or just the more succinct, "Dude, awesome! Let's go get a beer!"

And never mention it again ever

although i like the idea of Clint asking to have a chair onstage and they ask why and he just winks and goes "you'll see" (xpost)

lol

"Phew, glad he went with the backup speech instead of his Flashdance routine."

Anyway I have your third party team for America right here:

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/538935_523388187686697_101073702_n.jpg http://communicategood.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/carbon-rod.jpg

IRL LOL

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https://twitter.com/juliasegal/status/241451622121734144/photo/1

Rod should be at the top of the ticket, lot more experience plus a better public speaker.

This is true.

Meantime

http://gawker.com/5939613/peggy-noonan-knows-how-those-latinas-talk

one of Sully's readers' reasons for Clint's inclusion:

Why feature Clint Eastwood? Because Ronald Reagan's dead and they wanted to make this connection:

I have my veto pen drawn and ready for any tax increase that Congress might even think of sending up. And I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers. Go ahead--make my day.

That was Reagan at the American Business Conference. Focusing on Reagan allows the Republican party to ignore the GWB years. And it might have worked except for the fact that Clint Eastwood has never been a good public speaker. (However strange his performance tonight, it's not far off from any appearance he's made on a talk show or when accepting an award.)

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/runners-world-we-cant-verify-paul-ryans-sub

yeah and like I said upthread, they would have gone with Arnold if he hadn't turned out to be a liberal-coddling commie Californian

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peggy noonan is basically everything i hate about america that's not explicitly violent/ criminal

http://news.runnersworld.com/2012/08/31/paul-ryan-says-hes-run-sub-300-marathon/

In the interview, after Ryan told Hewitt that he ran in high school, Hewitt asked if Ryan still runs. Ryan replied, "Yeah, I hurt a disc in my back, so I don't run marathons anymore. I just run ten miles or less." When Hewitt asked Ryan what his personal best is, Ryan replied, "Under three, high twos. I had a two hour and fifty-something."

doesnt even know his time, dead giveaway

yeah, what person runs a sub three and doesnt know it down to the tenth of a second?!

theres no way in the world a dork like ryan could resist telling you his exact time and full training regimen the weather that day etc

too busy being wonky to be bothered with exact times

prob only does p30x

it'll be really funny if the marathon lie is the one he eventually has to apologize for

DNC should snag Christopher Walken for surprise celebrity speaker