Symmetry required it: 2012 american general election thread #2

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Oh I do weep:

Republicans have long resisted tax increases of any kind. But taxes are a major battleground in the campaign between Obama and Republican Mitt Romney, Capitol Hill veterans say, and the victor will be able to claim a mandate for his policies.

“This is a referendum on taxes,” said Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), a senior member of the House Budget Committee. “If the president wins reelection, taxes are going up” for the nation’s wealthiest households, and “there’s not a lot we can do about that.”

lol at slipping for the nation’s wealthiest households in there

The Bowles-Simpson deficit reduction plan produced by President Obama's deficit commission

there is no Bowles-Simpson deficit reduction plan. there was a proposal for a plan, but the commission voted to reject it. therefore no plan. yet you always hear about this magical "plan" or "report" that everyone is ignoring for some reason!!

thats whats so good abt it

I'm not sure if men like Coburn are showing their hands, waving the white flag, trying to encourage GOP enthusiasm for Mittens, or all the above.

Tracer: the plan exists so that way Andrew Sullivan has something to hold on to in this drab grey world.

I have a friend, who actively campaigned for Obama yet nonetheless keeps praising Ryan's budget plan (he's a banker, so ...). Anyway, I have to keep reminding him that there is no Ryan plan. There was just his symbolic dosier hey through together to get immediately slapped down by everyone. And even then, he's backed away from his ideas to suit Mitt's non-ideas.

Man, whether it was ego or ignorance, Ryan's idea to hitch his train to the Mitt wagon was such bad strategy. Rather than set him up for 2016, this fiasco is going to set him back.

yeah but also ryan has make himself look bad

not with that body fat ratio!

haha I was gonna make that joke

That Mitt magic is rubbing off on Ryan. He looks bad for denigrating his own ideas for the sake of a unified front, but then he also looks bad covering for Mitt's mess-ups.

Ryan has no ideas

he has lie-deas

this fiasco is going to set him back.

It's not only not worth a pitcher of warm piss but if you lose your bid to be veep, you're most likely dead to most ppl.

idk, i don't think people really hold politicians' feet to the fire over that kinda thing. it maybe more just hurts the idea of his perceived singularity, which was probably a selling point, & means that he will no longer be eligible to use RENEGADE in his eventual autobiography title
xxxp

he has lie-deas

I intend to brazenly appropriate this

Rogue, maverick, and renegade can't be used. He'll have to settle for 'crank'.

or "loser"

heh yes lie-deas

It's not only not worth a pitcher of warm piss but if you lose your bid to be veep, you're most likely dead to most ppl.

― The windiest militant trash (Michael White), Friday, September 21, 2012 12:21 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yah its much preferable particularly on the gop side to get yr name out by losing in the primaries, which is kind of odd

I scream, you scream, we all scream for lies-cream.

There has to be some reasonable explanation, but this make-up thing is skeeving me out.

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forget the makeup, wth is up with the hand on the back of dude's neck

(Of course, jokes on us when Mitt wins. I have a hunch the right wing is this close to cracking the mystery of Obama's heritage, their best bet at an upset)

Here comes ol' White Ears Romney. How's it going, White Ears?

that pic is like a deleted scene from Temple of Doom

Mitt has three hands, one of which is expertly manicured

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111119144908/villains/images/9/99/Mola_Ram.jpg

im wondering who did the make up, kinda doubt mitt travels w/a make up guy, this is likely on univision no

aw I was about to make an explicit "Mola Romney" joke

Meanwhile:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/shouts/2012/09/a-conservative-history-of-the-united-states.html

i mean i would love to believe mitt did brownface but i just cant quite get there

by the looks of it Phyllis Diller.

xxxpost

oh man!

1607: First welfare state collapses: “Jamestown colony, when it was first founded as a socialist venture, dang near failed with everybody dead and dying in the snow.”—Dick Armey

1619-1808: Africans set sail for America in search of freedom: “Other than Native Americans, who were here, all of us have the same story.”—Michele Bachmann

1775: Paul Revere “warned the British that they weren’t going to be taking away our arms, by ringing those bells and making sure as he was riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free.”—Sarah Palin.

1775: New Hampshire starts the American Revolution: “What I love about New Hampshire… You’re the state where the shot was heard around the world.”—Michele Bachmann

1776: The Founding Synod signs the Declaration of Independence: “…those fifty-six brave people, most of whom, by the way, were clergymen.”—Mike Huckabee

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/shouts/2012/09/a-conservative-history-of-the-united-states.html#ixzz277fDwHrD

can we poll these??

I strongly suggest it.

1862: African-Americans join the Confederate Army to defend slavery: “You’ll find blacks in almost every regiment throughout the South, who fought right alongside white Southerners… And in almost every case, it was a voluntary decision that the freed blacks made.”—Ray McBerry

1967: Max Cleland blows himself up with a grenade trying to drink beer: “Cleland lost three limbs in an accident during a routine noncombat mission where he was about to drink beer with friends.”—Ann Coulter

1775: Paul Revere “warned the British that they weren’t going to be taking away our arms, by ringing those bells and making sure as he was riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free.”—Sarah Palin.

this remains one of my favorite things said by anyone, ever

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

love u sarah

i mean i would love to believe mitt did brownface but i just cant quite get there

- Is that good, Governor?

- A little more.

- How about now?

- A little more.

- Okay, I'm not even going to ask this –

- A little more.

making sure as he was riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free

Paul Revere, riding to send us bells and warning shots

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtJSLZnKCv0

All right, so my GIS of Anita Ward was bringing back pictures of Palin, so apparently, I'm not as cleverly original as I thought.

i think ryan might be able to pull some narrative about mitt muzzling him but if wisconsin gets sick of him (i dunno about his district but the state poll numbers are eek) he loses his chance to be the post-ronpaul newt gingrich and may have to settle for being a fiscal santorum or a lobbyist or the star of a weight-training infomercial.

he was pulled out of the oven too quickly so it's really a matter of whether he gets to back in the oven

a fiscal santorum

you perv!

- Is that good, Governor?

- A little more.

- How about now?

- A little more.

- Okay, I'm not even going to ask this –

- A little more.

Imagining this as the intro to "Computer Blue."

if palin's being booted from fox news i'm hoping she winds up breaking the glass ceiling for women in buy-gold ads