Symmetry required it: 2012 american general election thread #2

"Look at those things" is an awesome way to point out clouds, and I'm def going to use it.

Just watched that Malkin video. (I can't keep up with this thread during the day either.) She's great-looking, but I think still photos will have to suffice. "Ivy League smarty-pants"--Nixon might have cringed over that phrase. Back to clouds!

agree that every still of malkin is like crazytime.

new romney ad has some pep
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlXnJgJJzck

Look at those things.

just makes me think of

http://www.hulu.com/watch/291083

So

http://mittlooksattheclouds.tumblr.com/

I honestly don't know why the Romney campaign/GOP hasn't used "Let's Work" as a theme song.

© 2012 It's beautiful. Look at those things.

haha

That ain't workin' that's the way you do it
Get your money for nothin' get your clouds for free

From the Christian Science Monitor's editorial:

"Senator Brown... needs to rebut his rival's criticism that on big issues he has sided with conservatives and big corporations, rather than with his constituents. Ms. Warren, a law professor known for her sharp-tongued populist fusillades, needs to score points with her criticisms without coming off as unappealingly shrill."

or: "Brown needs to do some refuting; Ms. Warren needs to stop being a bitch."

http://mlkshk.com/r/JJKD

omg

hi dere e_e
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mamv20fFyB1qk7pano1_1280.png

http://dailyexhaust.com/images/ellen_feiss.jpg

lmao dan i.

http://lucilleandmitt.tumblr.com/

hahahaha awesome
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mam51e6R7X1rroj07o1_500.jpg

Meanwhile:

http://dailydish.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451c45669e2017c320438ce970b-550wi

lol

For Mitt Romney, there is bad news and semi-good news. The bad news is that he’s behind and has been making mistakes. The semi-good news is that he’s not doing worse than the fundamentals predict and that the president’s lead is modest. If Romney runs a stronger campaign in the weeks ahead, and if the president makes some mistakes of his own, then the contest will be a tossup.

― goole, Thursday, September 20, 2012 5:29 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

im as guilty as anyone in talking abt the fundamentals but really there is no such particular number that you can say someone is over or under performing w/any precision at all, the whole fundamentals only approach that a lot of political scientists take has been shown to be deeply flawed - imho based on nothing other than subjective observation the conventional wisdom that romney is underperforming a replacement level candidate is correct

not if the replacement level candidate is michelle bachmann

im quite sure you of all people are familiar w/the concept of replacement level, good day sir

watch the debate!

http://boston.cbslocal.com/cbs-boston-live-stream/

look at those things

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X3LGAXVd80

the prob w/ 'replacement level' is that it sorta depends on having a well functioning party, and the GOP is anything but. there's not some 'replacement level' ideological zone for someone to inhabit. you can imagine what a generic dem candidate would be but any national GOP candidate is gonna be an oddball, either unelectable or hated by the base.

what iatee said - you can only sign the players that are available!

Uh-oh--baseball arguments have been bloodsport ever since the concept of replacement-level made its way into player analysis.

I'll have you guys know that the burger Obama ate is a damn good one and is only two miles from me.

When did you start sharing food with the president? Is the Secret Service okay with that?

He doesn't seem very impressed by the fries.

Thanks for that Brown/Warren debate link!

"Took about $70 to fill up the truck today" lol

warren needs to impeach nfib and us chamber of commerce now, that is some bullshit authority he's arguing from.

When did you start sharing food with the president? Is the Secret Service okay with that?

― clemenza, Thursday, September 20, 2012

They allowed me as soon as I approvingly mentioned the Dr. Morbius Test Ban Treaty.

the prob w/ 'replacement level' is that it sorta depends on having a well functioning party, and the GOP is anything but. there's not some 'replacement level' ideological zone for someone to inhabit. you can imagine what a generic dem candidate would be but any national GOP candidate is gonna be an oddball, either unelectable or hated by the base.

― iatee, Thursday, September 20, 2012 7:06 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what iatee said - you can only sign the players that are available!

― Mordy, Thursday, September 20, 2012 7:08 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

obvs romney was the best of the primary candidates but the gop has doods thatre at least like 10% more competent, and its just a bad year to be a tax evading finance guy, also maybe if he had diff management

ha brown just said re withdrawal from afganistan 'i think announcing a date is somewhat inappropriate as it give our enemies a chance to sort of pick us off one by one'

inappropriate indeed!

he also just said hes against nuanced foreign policy 'you cant be nuanced'

Rod Dreher wonders whether the GOP will learn from civil war -- should it come:

Here’s the thing, though: if there were a GOP civil war, who would the opposing sides be? The Democratic Leadership Council came into being after the Mondale defeat in 1984, offering new ideas and cultivating new talent for the intellectually moribund Democrats. By the time the Democrats went down to a third straight presidential defeat in 1988, the demoralized party turned to the DLC types … which gave them Bill Clinton.

Where is the Republican version of the DLC? Will it be formed after Romney’s loss (assuming Romney loses)? What will it stand for? What will it stand against? The Republicans have done such an effective job of purifying the party and maintaining party discipline that it’s hard to find sources of renewal within the party structure or ancillary organizations.

The problem, of course, is that the DLC and neolib Charles Peters/Gary Hart types contributed to the dilution of the Democratic Party's liberalism

'we cant have a nuanced approach as professor warren has said in the past'

dick

i so wish she had said 'i do not think that word means what you think it means'

she moves her head around a lil too much like a young clooney

whenever i see the acronym DLC i think about horse armor

she looks much better so far to me, he keeps extravagantly agreeing with her, shes driving the conversation

btw i have watched 3 mins so far

he seems kinda dumb

keep thinking Scott Brown is gonna give us the 5 day forecast

ha yes

feel like she missed a chance to come back w/the senate salary numbers when he harped on how much she make from havard

republicans and small business owners what is the deal

oh yeah this is getting chippy, loopholes folks

man brown just accused warren of protecting corporations, ballsy