Symmetry required it: 2012 american general election thread #2

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

http://colorlines.com/archives/2012/08/did_one_of_romneys_housekeepers_make_a_surprise_cameo_in_rnc_video.html

Babs with a box of Franzia in her.

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nightscientist ‏@nightscientist
still waiting for Kmart to verify that Rubio's mother worked all night... I think they stock during the day.

DNC should snag Christopher Walken for surprise celebrity speaker

Alec Baldwin more likely

dems should just get like a hundred celebrities and have them stand around on stage looking smug and w/e

But the VMAs are almost here anyway.

dems should just get like a hundred celebrities and have them stand around on stage looking smug and w/e

― lag∞n, Friday, 31 August 2012 18:57 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they should put on some sort of Stomp type mini show with chairs of imaginary presidents

coming up next george clooney sits down on john adams

Haha, can't wait to see the revamped Disneyworld Hall of Presidents attraction.

http://www.basso-continuo.com/Gloria_d/2005/Images/20051029/Empty_Stage.jpg

Meanwhile:

@BarackObama

The race is on: http://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/241595336278294528/photo/1

loooool

lmao

Haaaaaa

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9mudsXG1e1qdmmiqo1_500.gif

omg yes

Old white guy delivering rambling one-sided argument to invisible make-believe opponent in chair pretty much sums up the GOP.

can i tweet that? that is so rad

Great Tweet among a bunch of them posted by Sullivan: "This is a perfect representation of the campaign: an old white man arguing with an imaginary Barack Obama."

― clemenza, Friday, August 31, 2012 6:44 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you could retweet it

Ha, I'm starting to see it or something more or less just like it pop up all over! NYtimes ed, for example. Poor take-away for the GOP.

Taking Note: Imaginary Barack
The speech was the perfect distillation of the Republican campaign.

Like this, which is on the current front page of the Time site.

clint eastwood is a great artist

i love clint. i will chalk it up to bad medication. how does he even act in movies these days? cgi, i guess.

I haven't watched Clint yet (maybe never), but I wouldn't be surprised if he was trolling? Or, like, speaking not as a supporter of Romney but just as a grouch who isn't thrilled with Obama?

ya i suspect a lot of the strangeness did stem from his ambivalence

wish i could get clint to read that taibbi RS article on mitt the businessman.

Wouldn't be that surprised if i find out later Clint votes for Obama.

https://twitter.com/Mr_Electrico/status/241409253238255616

Yesterday, upon a chair/ Clint met a man who wasn’t there/ How sad it is that Rowdy Yates/ Has ended up as Orly Taitz

Vote Mitt, I said
To no one there
And no one heard at all,
Not even the chair.

Once upon a convention dreary, while I listened weak and weary,
To many a quaint and curious volume of misbegotten bores,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a chatting,
As of some one gently speaking, speaking from my empty chair.
`'Tis the President,' I muttered, `sitting in my empty chair -
Only this, and nothing more.'

lol

wow the knives really ARE out in the GOP

how delicious

Other than the Akin joke, Nothing too much new here. But grrrr, can't stand Rove.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-08-31/exclusive-inside-karl-roves-billionaire-fundraiser

“We have to keep in mind whose vote we’re trying to get—it ain’t the delegate from Alaska. It’s not the alternate from Alabama. It’s some undecided voter in the battleground state who likes the president.”

Rove spoke almost exclusively about defeating Barack Obama and retaking control of the White House. There was sparse praise for Mitt Romney—either as a candidate or as a future leader and policy maker.

it's some kind of small comfort to know that I'm living through the self-immolation of the Republican party

I hear you, but I hope it's a while before that phoenix comes flying out.

itll be v interesting to watch them attempt to pivot from their standby total racism strategy

I don't think that's going to happen, honestly. racists need a party too!

problem is then do to demographic realties theyre conceding the presidency

yep. tbh I'd be more stoked about it if it didn't mean that the Dem party will continue to drift ever rightward as it tries to absorb more and more of the GOP voting base

I'm honestly disappointed that the far righty party I suspected would emerge post-2010 never did. GOP elite aren't going to put up with this shit much longer though, and those factions may still be unceremoniously ejected yet.