Symmetry required it: 2012 american general election thread #2

a lovely blue incandescent guillotine

whoops:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSAGR0arBUo

Indeed, sir:

Romney, who has come under fire from Republicans for not holding enough public events, told reporters that it was Obama’s decision to not use federal funds in 2008 that is forcing the Republican to spend more time behind closed-doors fundraising instead of out greeting voters.
Romney held no public events on Saturday, instead fundraising in California. He had one rally on Sunday in a Denver, Col. suburb. His campaign is launching an Ohio bus tour on Monday with vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan. Romney won’t join the bus tour until Tuesday.
“I’d far rather be spending my time out in the key swing states campaigning, door-to-door if necessary, but in rallies and various meetings, but fundraising is a part of politics when you’re opponent decides not to live by the federal spending limits,” Romney said without being asked about his campaign schedule.

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“I’d far rather be spending my time out in the key swing states campaigning, door-to-door if necessary, but in rallies and various meetings, but fundraising is a part of politics when you’re opponent decides not to live by the federal spending limits,” Romney said without being asked about his campaign schedule.

dying

yeah that is about the funniest thing ever

Wow, will definitely be keeping an eye out for the byline "Ginger Gibson" after that

she needs to learn how to spell "your".

http://i47.tinypic.com/i1zlt2.jpg

lol @ newt for continuing to bang away on his space drum and lol @ mitt for weathering out a terrible week of criticism only to have newt stand up and shout "AND ANOTHER THING!"

The reckoning:

If the Republican ticket loses in November, the rush by Mr. Ryan and other 2016 hopefuls to position themselves for the Iowa caucuses “is going to look like Best Buy the night after Thanksgiving,” said Craig Robinson, a former political director of the Republican Party of Iowa. “I hate to say this, but if Ryan wants to run for national office again, he’ll probably have to wash the stench of Romney off of him.”

'the stench of romney' :(

TS: the stench of romney vs the odor of santorum

The funk of forty thousand years.

1-800-GOP-FUNK

there is something about romney that seems perfectly cast to wind up as a zombie. the hollowed-out eyes, the robotic aspect, the amorality. and the just cosmically bad karma situation obviously, in zombie movie terms he's get bitten in the first 10 minutes.

in zombie movie terms he's Patient Zero

Or the infected monkey.

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man, this 60 minutes double interview. i hate everyone.

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Yes, the candidates and the 60 Minutes Interviewers

And me for watching

lol I had it on mute while I tried to talk my dad through a problem with his wifi; didn't feel like I was missing anything

http://cdn.thedailybeast.com/content/newsweek/2012/09/23/andrew-sullivan-on-the-promise-of-obama-s-second-term/_jcr_content/body/inlineimage_1.img.503.jpg/1348450859414.cached.jpg

put it back in yr pants andrew

“I’ve got a very effective campaign. It’s doing a very good job. But not everything I say is elegant,” Romney said. “And I want to make it very clear, I want to help 100 percent of the American people.”

from the 60 minutes interview. the fact that he has to make that very clear is embarrassing.

lol the irl first line

As the fall has turned crisper, a second term for Barack Obama has gotten likelier.

how delightful

"Will achieve in his second term"

Isn't this a contradiction?

i love Newsweek's shocking headlines

OMG what was the big mistake of all of america's women?
Obama already won?? shit, he already won!!!
Steve Jobs could have been saved?? Why didn't we save him, whose fault is this?!
Some lady lived as a Saudi!??!

as my fries have been cooked crispier, a second helping has gotten likelier

A student told me a few minutes ago that on "60 Minutes" last night Romney happily said we already have universal health care and it's called emergency rooms. Is this true?

hahaha wait that cannot be true

I watched the 60 Minutes interviews online. Romney still won't say which tax loopholes he'll close, which is bizarre unless, all evidence to the contrary, he still believes all he has to do is wait this out and the economy wins it in the end for him. I'm probably one of only a handful of people on here who's not yet convinced he's not right, but if he isn't, his continued silence on specifics is a huge mistake.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/wp/2012/09/24/romney-calls-emergency-room-a-health-care-option-for-uninsured/

“Well, we do provide care for people who don’t have insurance,” Romney told interviewer Scott Pelley. “If someone has a heart attack, they don’t sit in their apartment and die. We pick them up in an ambulance, and take them to the hospital, and give them care. And different states have different ways of providing for that care.”

If someone has a heart attack, they don’t sit in their apartment and die.

lol this is bullshit

I just

I mean

I cannot

my sides

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didn't see it, but that line of thinking isn't unprecedented. didn't W say something similar at one point - that emergency rooms are in effect providing universal health care? i have to run in a sec, but here's a NYT article from earlier this year references that in the second paragraph: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/21/opinion/for-the-uninsured-the-wait-for-health-care.html?_r=0

We pick them up in an ambulance, and take them to the hospital, and give them care.

I can imagine a smiling, jovial Mitt, picking up heart attack victims in his stretch limousine, telling jokes, slapping their knees, while Ann mutters "You people and your health problems" and reads from the Book of Mormon.

its been a popular if not v wise republican thing to say for a while now

this has been the most delightful campaign, the only thing missing is Sarah Palin

But it's completely insane! The guy is running against a guy whose signature policy accomplishment is a still-controversial health care package! His OWN signature policy accomplishment is a health-care package that was sold in part on the grounds that the emergency-room "system" was not acceptable! The ad writes itself: "Mitt Romney hasn't been too specific about his proposals for health care... Until this week."

CBS article, 2009:

This nonsense is surprisingly common in Republican circles. Last year, Tom DeLay argued, "No American is denied health care in America," because everyone can go to the emergency room. Around the same time, George W. Bush said the same thing: "People have access to health care in America. After all, you just go to an emergency room." In 2004, then-HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson said our healthcare system "could be defined as universal coverage," because of emergency rooms.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/08/28/politics/animal/main4392483.shtml

I really do think the guy's brain is scrambled. He just really can't remember which position he's supposed to take with which audience, and which words go with which spiel. I think if the party and history would let you quit, he would.

are you kidding, he would never ever ever ever EVER quit

I expect that if/when he loses the election, he will give an acceptance speech anyway

he could probably still run for president of his local PTA. competition is weeeeak this year.

I expect that if/when he loses the election, he will give an acceptance speech anyway

oh please please I hope this happens

he could probably still run for president of his local PTA. competition is weeeeak this year.

he would probably campaign on a platform of eliminating children from schools to make the schools leaner and more efficient

"We already have parent-teacher associations; it's called a report card."

I don't mean that quitting is exactly in his temperament, but he just feels to me like an exhausted guy going through the motions of what he has to do, hoping that maybe tomorrow all the bad things will go away and people will be nice to him.

He should really mobilize this, I know he's been looking for experiences of hardship and struggle, to help him connect with regular Americans.

http://i50.tinypic.com/2alweu.jpg

what's with those crazy eyes

she's Michele Bachmann's cousin

The emergency care answer immediately reminded me of the Republican debates with Ron Paul:

"But Congressman, are you saying that society should just let him die?" asked Blitzer, to which several voices in the audience cried out, "Yes!"

"No. I practiced medicine before we had Medicaid, in the early 1960s, when I got out of medical school. I practiced at Santa Rosa Hospital in San Antonio, and the churches took care of them.

It's true, her eyes frighten some of the independents away before they even hear her message. no one can deny that Mitt Romney enjoys considerable advantages as we head into the final weeks of the 2012 Watkins County PTA Presidential Election.