Symmetry required it: 2012 american general election thread #2

(xposts) I can't GIS a photo that I'm certain is Wally, but here's the county chairman if anyone wants to photoshop him in some sordid or unnatural act and spread it around facebook. Just sayin'.

http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh310/yodelagogo/kindofbloopresized.png

Their facebook photo page is just fucking appalling.

Haha, no that's Miles Davis. Sorry.

you kind of blooped

haha

I think it's time to start proposing titles for the successor to this thread.

can it involve "kitten mittens" in some way

Maybe "THE TRUTH, Binkley, is that you look like a carrot."

CNN was covering Obama a few minutes ago (speaking where, I don't know), and he said "I want to export more jobs" when he meant to say products. He corrected himself, then said he was accidentally channeling his opponent. Anyway, look for a new Republican ad within the hour about Obama's secret plan to export more jobs, complete with a 100% factual clip of him saying exactly that.

*sigh*

When will this shit be over

Short answer: about 41 days.
Long answer: NEVER.

New title has to mention how great the clouds are.

or romney shaking hands and kissing babies through the window of his plane

Ha I think Billy's right

I can't shake the feeling that Romney has a waaaay better shot than we think he has

Of course he does.

xp that's because you are rightly paranoid.

thirding the need for clouds in next thread title

mitt's looked at clouds from both sides now

needs more cloubell

Middleagedmanmakesawkwarduncomfortableattempt topandertocloud.jpg

these_clouds_are_just_the_right_height.jpg

I think it's time to start proposing titles for the successor to this thread.

― Raymond Cummings, Wednesday, September 26, 2012 5:55 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you kind of blooped

― mookieproof, Wednesday, September 26, 2012 5:35 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ding ding ding

fyi if anyone cares, the candidates both posted their plans for healthcare in the NEJM:

romney: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1211516?query=TOC

obama: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1211514?query=TOC

have read the romney one so far, and it is vague in the extreme, and full of what my old civics teacher would have called "valence issues" (ie - yes of course everyone wants affordable healthcare, you can say it as many times as you like, everyone agrees...it's the how, part, mittens).

some quotes, chosen semi-randomly:

"Regulation must prevent insurers from discriminating against people with preexisting conditions who maintain continuous coverage."

"Doctors should spend more time treating patients and less time practicing defensive medicine or processing paperwork. Innovators should increase their investments in new cures, and those cures should reach the market faster. Achieving these goals requires medical malpractice reform, a streamlined regulatory framework to support the interoperability of information technology, and strong Food and Drug Administration leadership committed to a practical and predictable approval process that appropriately evaluates risk." first half: no one disagrees with you. second half: malpractice reform might be good but it wouldn't do a whole lot for reducing the cost of healthcare; the only regulatory framework i can imagine that would increase interoperability would be like a) imposing by law one file standard for EMRs and you KNOW that isn't gonna happen under romney or b) throwing some NASA-style money at a gov't-funded, open-source solution to EMRs (ie updating VistA), which also wouldn't happen since it would be the tech version of "a public option"

malpractice reform aint shit but another way they try to push tort limits.

"Supporters and detractors alike refer to the law as Obamacare. I don't mind, because I do care. And because of Obamacare we're moving forward toward a health care system that broadly provides health security."

up top, dude

so republicans are going all-in on this 'biased polling' thing, huh?

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/328592/why-isnt-romney-ten-points-contd-peter-kirsanow

haha I cannot WAIT for the debates

so republicans are going all-in on this 'biased polling' thing, huh?

yup: http://www.salon.com/2012/09/26/more_poll_trutherism/

Wait, wait, Mitt has a new plan

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/romney-touts-romneycare.php

this will work

Great photo too:

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/assets_c/2012/07/Romney-London-7-26-12-3-cropped-proto-custom_28.jpg

that's his sex face, u know

wait

mitt used the words 'regulation must'?

"I don't think there's anything that shows more empathy and care about the people of this country than that kind of record."

empathy program successfully installed

he is going for some kind of risky campaign approach of trying a little from column a & a little from column b, but it doesn't work because column a is all about how terrible & socialist & dastardly column b is.

complete incoherence is indeed a risky campaign approach

Romney campaign strategy =

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Hi3fS1IHDus/ScfwgBL2PgI/AAAAAAAAALI/68SDhXBBrBc/s400/Cleavon%2BLittle.jpg

oh man. romneycare. who knew it'd come back! now shit is getting exciting.

that's his sex face, u know

this may have been the moment romney lost the erection

Zing!

got there via sullivan, but drudge right now is absolutely next-level amazing right now.

and by right now right now i mean right now

saved for posterity

http://i.imgur.com/NW8EX.jpg

http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/9189283.jpg

At a recent Colorado rally, country singer Jo Dee Messina crooned to the crowd. To pump them up another notch, she led a rendition of “Happy Birthday” dedicated to Fox News’ Carl Cameron, a darling among conservative voters. Mike Rowe of “Dirty Jobs” came to Ohio equipped with roadkill anecdotes. And based on the “woo-ing” voters, Jack Nicklaus’s mere presence seemed to do the trick.

Humbly suggest 'Nevermind the polls, look at the clouds' as a thread title.

Speaking of which, more from the Peterman Reality Tour:

http://www.dickmorris.com/romney-pulls-ahead/

(Wary the whole way, I feel at least emboldened enough to make fun of this new Unskewed mania.)

Why does anyone pay attention to anything Dick Morris says or does? He seems like such a dumb troll.

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