Symmetry required it: 2012 american general election thread #2

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

Haha!

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/paul-ryan-booed-at-aarp-for-attacking-obamacare

"The first step to a stronger Medicare is to repeal Obamacare," he said to a shower of jeers. "I had a feeling there would be mixed reaction, so let me get into it."

Yeah how about not.

Meanwhile David Frum thinks Ms. Malkin is not a good person.

I mainly read her crazy twitter, and she comes off as such an angry, bitter person. I don't see her smiley pundit television appearances mentioned upthread.

Every picture of Malkin I've ever seen, she looks as if she's about to let loose a torrent of f-bombs.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nYmWjp9KBI0/S_Gx1uC2cyI/AAAAAAAACn0/zQrnHm0jHE0/s400/DennisHopperFrank_Booth.jpg

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.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 21 September 2012 17:19 (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Nah, both of these = team player, not another Newt.

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

<3 that liza clip <3 <3 <3

Frum and Malkin now going into it on Twitter.

all we need is Thomas Sowell to get involved.

How charming!

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/21/mormons-want-to-excommunicate-romney-critic.html

omg Alfred your display name maybe I'm late passing on this but omg

aero, I saw her do "Bells" live about 5 years ago and she could still knock it outta the park.

"...an apostate, which means a person who renounces a religious or political belief or principle."

Classic Friday afternoon move!

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/romney-releasing-2011-taxes-at-3-pm-summary

omg Alfred your display name maybe I'm late passing on this but omg

lol thnkx aero

Romney, Under Pressure, Will Release More of His Tax Data
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR 10 minutes ago
Mitt Romney paid $1.95 million on his investment income of $13.7 million in 2011, his campaign said, adding that it will make good Friday on Mr. Romney’s promise to release his 2011 returns.

fn a what a stupid fucking headline, romney had already promised to release this info way back before the whole shitstorm started

"it will make good Friday"

yeah this is not exactly what people were asking for

but it gives them a "see, we released our taxes" headline so that's good for them. altho it reminds people of how little he pays in taxes, which is bad for them

Romney, Under Pressure, Will Do What He Promised

He's also releasing his tax rate though for the previous whatever years. Did he promise that too? I thought "you people" had gotten all you would out of them.

summaries of his rates is not what people asked for

people want to know where his money is/what it's from/how much taxes he paid on what, not some "I swear I paid a 14% tax rate in 2005"

how much money do you have to have to make it worthwhile to stick it in the Cayman Islands

like, could I throw $500 out there just to say "oh let me check my account in the Caymans" or would it have to be a huge sum of money

if he's actually just releasing tax rates with no confirmation from an outside source he continues to be a fucking idiot

well, you could give it to me and I'll make sure it gets there

actually, he's an idiot just for releasing ANYTHING re: taxes. New stories come up and HE keeps going back to this one.

"Hey guys, remember when you just hated me for my taxes? Let's go back to that."

Unless this is all build-up for his eventual book How To Not Pay Anything In Taxes The Mitt Romney Way

http://redstaterevolution.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/dvdevery.jpg

so i trolled NRO a little. i wrote a brief description of myself (editing out certain details):

I'm a father, husband, and son employed in a small family business. I am religious, and deeply concerned about the economy and foreign affairs (particularly the threat that nuclear Iran represents to Israel). I live in a swing state (kinda - PA). I, and almost every other employee in my company, plan to vote for Obama.

i got a big response! here are some choice responses.

Gees, for a minute there, I thought you were a reasonable, responsible guy...then I read your last sentence and my bubble was burst. Dare I ask why? Or do I really already know the answer?

I'm a father, husband, and son employed by a Fortune 100 company. I am religious and deeply concerned about the economy and foreign affairs (particulare the threat that nuclear Iran represents to Israel). I live in a swing state (NC). I and almost everyone I know won't be voting for Obama.

Get worried yourself, hypocrite.

So you like having your money stolen and you want to force more people to give up what they have worked for.

I would tell you that you are an idiot, but I suspect that you already know.

I'm a OWS organizer, a welfare layabout, and an illegal immigrant. I am an atheist, and want to smash the capitalist system. I am deeply concerned about whether it's OK to use the term "illegal immigrant". I live in a swing state. I, and almost every other member of my anarcho-syndicalist commune plan of voting for Romney.

Get worried.

(Hey, if he can invent a backstory for the purposes of drama, so can I.)

I particularly like this last one bc it assumes that no one fitting my description could possibly vote for Obama in reality. This is true epistemic closure - the inability to imagine another POV that might meet one's approval regarding lifestyle but not regarding politics. Anyway, I thought it was interesting. Obv there are things I could've mentioned that would make my position more understandable (like if I mentioned I was Jewish - 80% of whom are expected to vote for Obama despite otherwise having many social-economic conditions shared by Republicans - or if I mentioned I had a graduate degree, also a high correlation to left wing voting patterns).