Symmetry required it: 2012 american general election thread #2

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

Nice

Is anyone else watching MSNBC right now

I try to avoid Ed Schultz. What's happening?

Romney getting sonned on coal ad

That's old news, right? The coal workers were forced to attend?

Coming up: warren v brown

Good news:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and 28 other members of the 53-member Senate Democratic caucus have signed a letter opposing any cuts to Social Security as part of a deficit reduction package.

The letter forms a significant marker as Congress looks toward a possible deficit bargain in the lame-duck session after the election. It says Social Security has problems down the road, but that they should be dealt with separately from any budget deal.

Cuts to Social Security and other entitlements are seen as key to getting the bipartisan cooperation of Republicans in any deal, just as revenue increases are key for Democrats.

The Bowles-Simpson deficit reduction plan produced by President Obama's deficit commission contained Social Security cuts, including a change in the way inflation is calculated and an increase in the retirement age.

The letter could reduce the chances for a long-term, multi-trillion-dollar deal soon. Congress will need to put some kind of deal in place before January to avoid the "fiscal cliff" of indiscriminate spending cuts and tax increases.

The Senate's number three Democrat, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), also signed the letter. Notably, Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), who supported Bowles-Simpson, did not.

Sigh

Ever since a big chunk of the gop party faithful decided that latino immigrants were some sort of indigestable lump in the melting pot, and they started sponsoring punitive initiatives such as English-language-only laws, the latino reaction has proved to be a thorn in their side. It's like they didn't believe that latinos could actually vote or something.