Symmetry required it: 2012 american general election thread #2

i mean it pisses everyone off to be corrected, but that doesnt mean no one ever changes their mind

As society has polarized further and the consensus of the middle has disappeared, news articles lost their force of speaking for 'the majority'. Now it is OK to elevate your own counterfactual opinion over a factual news article, bcz your worldview says the press is the enemy and speaks for a despised minority. Thx, Spiro Agnew.

sure the media has lost some credibility, but is always been ok to elevate you own counterfactual opinion, free country

A week and a half after Oscar-winner Clint Eastwood‘s appearance at the Republican National Convention, Mitt Romney finally admitted he enjoyed the spectacle. “I was laughing at Clint Eastwood. Look, to have him get up and speak on my behalf was a great thrill,”

I agree with his first sentence.

Obama Outraises Mitt Romney In August With i14M

I guess those 358 mass emails paid off!

I would pay the man money just to stop spamming me.

A roundup of DNC reactions. John Heilemann's remarks especially good reading.

Since he's laughing at an imaginary person telling him to go eff himself I suggest he work that into every major speech.

Obama Outraises Mitt Romney In August With $114M

this seems like it ought to be a fairly big 'thank fuck' moment

a whole four million dollars more in one month!

after two months of being down thirty million/month or so that's a pretty good result! this matters! i don't know. i read plouffe's book the other week, it's interesting how open he is about how important it was to winning the election that they could have a lot more money -- tho in his version of the narrative a large part of this is how (due to mccain taking federal funding) the RNC is unable to communicate with mccain's people and so in terms of message they're a shitshow. on the other hand, they seem to be replicating &/or outdoing this without the same restriction this time round so who knows

Nearly $130,000 a day!

you know these dudes who've ploughed, like, $10s of millions into the Romney machine... like, how bummed are they gonna be if they still can't buy the election, and Obama wins? I sort of feel the whole superpac/corporations are people, friend dealy might only benefit advertising media in the long run.

its like QE for television companies!!

Major downside of an Obama win would be an argument that, "See, Citizens United doesn't matter! They tried to buy an election and failed!"

(Not that Obama's not getting tons of superpac cash himself.)

Is Romney Doomed?

Alternate headline: "What's In This Sandwich?"

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/romney_sandwich.jpg

yak dung

filet of donkey

ya burnt

"Is that... egret?"

its clearly the poop of the smiling guy, can we just move on

http://deadhomersociety.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/pringfield4_thumb.png?w=512&h=384

its clearly the poop of the smiling guy, can we just move on

haha that was my first draft but I figured it was too close to "The Help"

inspiration comes from anywhere, dan.

"i pooped and made you eat it"

"the taste of my cherry chapstick"

Carroll, one of the more optimistic conservative bloggers Monday morning, suggests Romney could be saved by showing "he is a human, likeable and competent guy" in the debates

THAT WILL PROBABLY HAPPEN

haha that was my first draft but I figured it was too close to "The Help"

I realize whatever that is is probably a poorly kept secret at this point, but I haven't seen it yet! ;_;

by showing "he is a human, likeable and competent guy" in the debates

he has had several years to do this and has come up short.

GREETINGS EARTHLINGS I AM HUMAN

ha i had no idea that movie had comedy poop eating, the chances of me viewing it just rose from never to maybe on a plane or w/e

wait i thought DJP was joking

that scene is as dumb as the rest of the movie tho.

"Governer Romney, the first question is for you: what is the output of '10 PRINT "HELLO" 20 GOTO 10'?"

xp: don't worry JF, that reference won't ruin the movie

there's no way a movie like that involves poop eating, maybe he got it confused with Bridesmaids?

okay lol

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_layzipFhGq1qdoxxuo1_500.jpg

doody

I think Romney's debating ability is being underestimated. He's got a lot of experience, and as long as he stays on track (off-the-cuff remarks or curveball questions at a town hall might be his downfall) he'll do pretty good. Obama's got a record to defend, and debates are generally about cheap shots and soundbites than long explanations of the reality.

Yeah I feel like the debates are always built up by both sides into these "Now we'll see..." moments, and they're mostly usually not very interesting.

Plus, how much does it matter anyway? Kerry gave Bush at least one real solid ass-kicking, and I don't think it had any particular effect.

sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't.

every time romney offers a position, obama should remind folks of the 18 other positions he's held on the same topic over the past few months. this is already a "thing" w/ romney and i don't think it would be a bad idea to make it the central fact about him.

I love how Bush's expression after Kerry starts writing things down while Bush talks ("Shit. I better try that too.")

in the nyer article about bubba and obama, there's a bit where clinton suggests that it's better to paint romney as a psycho right winger than to portray him as a 'flip-flopper' (hate that phrase) because undecided voters might think that romney could return to his moderate roots once he was in office.

ah, i see.

this is why i'm not bill clinton (among other reasons).

expectations on the debates for romney will be very high, it will be a boring draw, race won't change

conservative belief is that obama is pretty dumb and an empty suit; if you get someone to just stick it to him live he'll collapse, mitt romney somehow won't do that, blame and recrimination all around.

republicans going back to the jeremiah wright well

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=n-ELYhHdQw4