Symmetry required it: 2012 american general election thread #2

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

Warren not confronting this asbestos thing directly, not good for her imo

haha Brown is so dumb

she shouldve just said 'i created the consumer protection bureau, bitch'

"I'm for an all of the above energy strategy, Elizabeth warren is for none of the above-- wind, solar."

wind and solar are below I guess

oh man she just hit the environmental question out of the park

'i suport wind' --president brown

endless rebuttals up in this piece

Obama is for AOTA and "clean coal"

Nobody sighed, nobody got in anybody's space, no one jabbed a finger and said "that one"--what kind of a debate was that?

mass is mad classy

haha no j/k

scott brown has a house full of women. that's what i learned. party!!!

missed that part :/

he said he supported contraceptives because he has a house full of women. and he's been defending women since he was six.

use rubbahs, too many chix, help

http://i.imgur.com/dcYCP.png

i shall now attempt to get newt gingrich to retweet me

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

― lag∞n, Thursday, September 20, 2012 6:36 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think the problem is that even the doods that're at least 10% more competent would be forced to act more or less as incompetent to win the nomination. like yeah maybe someone could have run a slightly smoother far right wing campaign but the bigger problem is that we're at a point where the 'shift to the center' was 'allowing wife to speak'.

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i m/l agree w/that but i think like if you have a guy like bush who the fundies etc believed really was one of them then he really didnt need to spend all day proving it to them he could just say jesus and free enterprise occasionally and they were happy then he could spend the rest of his time playing to the middle, of course demographics/popular opinion have shifted somewhat since then against the gop

That's right. Ann Romney wiggling her eyebrows while crowing about sweating while five kids swarmed over her 50-room summer cottage is as close as the center gets these days.

The reality is that Governor George W. Bush would still be considered a fantastic nominee -- and in their eyes the most competent.

he should run again w/ a fake moustache and a new name.

'jeb bush'

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_la1su6zXaD1qb6e5oo1_500.jpg

newt has not RTed me yet wtf, two other #flagbattle people have tho

it's really true tho it's like an abusive relationship that ended terribly but they're still in love with the dude and all other suitors just can't don't have the magic touch

minus can't

So Romney is in love with Latinos now apparently

hes kinda into latin guys now