Symmetry required it: 2012 american general election thread #2

Love the old guy at the DNC perpetually suckling a cigar

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/romney_tax_return_blackmail.php

A second post says that encrypted copies of the tax documents will be sent to major media outlets, and demands the equivalent of $1 million in Bitcoins, a virtual currency, in exchange for a purge of “the keys to unlock the data.”

lol sure

i guess only romney + his accountants know if it's true

the phrase "a million in bitcoins" is trying to work a horrible parody of "lust for life" into my head

I love Merle Haggard, but I would not vote for him for president.

beautiful speaking voice (which I haven't heard until this moment)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--SXXOaUztOI/UEeryG7g6zI/AAAAAAAAGfU/z-Ge_LX-t3M/s400/romney-socialist-realism-300x212.jpg

heh

i assumed that was deliberate, not that it makes any sense. i guess it couldn't have been. that's bizarre.

p sure it's the same kind of muddled, incoherent "satire" as that kevin williamson cover story

i like that romney's carrying blueprints and paul ryan's carrying a BOOK. because he READS. with his BRAIN.

Williamson is rapidly becoming their house intellectual/new Jonah.

was maybe intended to look like some american ww2 propaganda poster

i wish jonah posted on ilx. i think he'd be a lot of fun to have around.

that redstate thing scolds the democrats for "booing god and his holy city" but repeatedly fails to capitalize pronouns referring to god. redstate, you have become an extremist platform most americans don't even recognize.

http://www.srwild.com/images/388.jpg

xp ugh wrong thread. you know how it is.

It would be easier to take "booing God" as valid criticism if it weren't being offered by a party whose entire message is YOU AND NO ONE ELSE IS THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE

and so it begins http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/romney-gop-michigan-pennsylvania-pull-out.php

holy shit

Holy crap.

That is NUTS.

so they're gonna bet the house on... Florida, Colorado, Ohio and Wisconsin? I can see Romney taking maybe two of those.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/romney-thanks-state-he-was-born-and-raised-in-for,27496/

In a show of respect to the Romney campaign, we should condense the number of revived politics threads.

Quick question unworthy of its own poll: Who's less culturally relevant at this point, Ann Coulter or Dennis Miller?

at least Ann Coulter gets invited to the networks.

o man dennis miller

Miller deserves whatever shameful non-entity status he is currently struggling to maintain hate that fucking guy

Does he still have an edge on Victoria Jackson though?

Paul Ryan's ex-girlfriend looked like a cross between Lindsay Lohan and Katherine Heigel.

hahaha max yes! thank you

http://gawker.com/5940781/is-paul-ryan-lying-about-climbing-40-mountains-too-what-is-his-deal

lawl i totally missed that, nice one

what a bunch a goofs http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/rnc-staffer-plays-obama-supporter-in-gop-ad.php

It’s a lighthearted ad...

smdh

starting to think Romney's campaign team is even worse than Gore's in 2000

But he's got Karl Rove created super-pacs bombing the airwaves in states like mine (Virginia) with other more effective ads. Saw a new one this morning re health care and how a Canadian woman saved her life by coming to the US for treatment, rather than waiting for a months later and she would be dead calendared appointment in the Canuck version of Obamacare!

And they're doubling down on the welfare lie one too I read

imho the welfare lie is just not a winner for them, not enough racists left to dog whistle to

i hope you are right about those people lagon

also the fact that theyre using outright lies is already starting to bite them back

i can never figure this stuff out, is romney *actually* pulling out of penna and mich or is this some kind of feint

it seems like leaving PA is conceding race to me, but i believe that he thinks he has no shot of winning it (he doesn't) and his only path to winning is thru heavy investment in OH, FL, VA what's the 4th? CO?

They could be holding off for the final two weeks, watch this space.

CO and Iowa, right?

guess the PA voter ID law wasn't enough to tip it for Rmoney

bush lost PA by 4.17%, won OH by 3.51%. i believe u have to be competitive in PA to have a shot in OH, but i'm not an expert and am just making up things that sound right in my head

(that was in 2000)

romney's campaign is bursting with money like a fat tick ready to fall off the dog. it's too bad he has nothing to say.

i still believe <conspiracytheory> romney is planning to steal a bunch of the money in the chaos of his landslide loss </conspiracytheory>

itll be p interesting if romney spends all that money in five states, preempt all tv shows just romney ads 24/7

and now... suzanne sommers of thighmaster(tm) with a few words to say about Mitt Romney.