Symmetry required it: 2012 american general election thread #2

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.

asked and answered

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bjgi_x7v6Gw/Tct367a5QQI/AAAAAAAAADY/qCEIcpeAc84/s1600/Dick_Morris.jpg

like, seriously, don't feed him any more

don't feed him women's toes

Romney should just debate himself and give the Boring Criminal a night off

Romney should just debate himself

Illegal in public, I hear.

He is far from a master debater.

President Boring Criminal

Michael Jackson song?

https://twitter.com/greg_ip/status/251331533875580929

Greg Ip ‏@greg_ip

With BLS revision, decline in government payrolls over Obama term grows to 743K vs 676K pre-revision. Private now up 868K vs 415K.

Romney should just debate himself

Imagining this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE-mxVxFXLg

Oof, this one hurts:

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

I'm sure TDS can whip up a Romney vs Romney debate pretty easily. Like this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjJAIuQz9D8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=B9xCCaseop4

Desperate but not serious

http://www.religiondispatches.org/dispatches/antheabutler/6438/fasting_for_romney

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/09/poetic-justice-of-romneys-self-immolation.html

"What’s devastating about the ad, aside from the juxtaposition of Romney’s words against photos of regular Americans, is something I only noticed the second time I watched it. It’s the sound of silverware clinking on china in the background as Romney speaks."

It's always fun how large a segment of the population really seems to have a serious problem with the concept of representative democracy, or that God is obviously more than happy to let us fuck everything up grandly for ourselves.

this fuckin guy (who will probably still win)

http://midwestdemocracy.com/articles/todd-akin-confident-hell-prevail-over-claire-mccaskill/#storylink=cpy#storylink=cpy

Part of his confidence, he said, comes from McCaskill's demeanor during their debate last week, which he said was not as "ladylike" as it was when she faced off with Republican Jim Talent in 2006.

Who's skewin' whom?

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/sept-26-could-2012-be-like-2008/?gwh=57134EF8CD62F83BC894693047C5CC8F#more-35103

conservatwitter is going crazy about nate silver lately.

Nate Silver ‏@fivethirtyeight
Romney's winning in the Gallup poll if you reweight the sample to have more Romney than Obama voters.
Retweeted 365 times

LULZ

Rich Lowry's key to success:

I thought Romney’s best moment on the campaign trail — although predictably mocked — came when he broke out a whiteboard at a press conference to illustrate the difference between his Medicare program and the president’s. It was true to him and it explained the matter crisply. If Paul Ryan can do PowerPoint slides, Romney can bring back the whiteboard.

If Paul Ryan can do PowerPoint slides, Romney can bring back the whiteboard.

this cannot be serious

From Mr. "Sarah Palin gives me starbursts" it's almost sober.

Meanwhile, ORLY:

“It looks right now like it’s probably going to be Obama, so you have to start planning for that, even if it’s not what you would prefer,” said the chief executive of one of the largest companies in the United States who has criticized the president and spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to give a frank assessment of the state of the race. The executive added that plans were under way to work with a second Obama administration on selling a plan to avoid the fiscal cliff with major tax and entitlement reform that includes some new revenues.

“We don’t really care if our taxes go up a little if we can just get this done and take this threat away from the economy,” the executive said, adding that support from CEOs could give cover to Republicans in Washington concerned about supporting any new taxes and angering tea party hardliners and anti-tax advocates such as Grover Norquist.

They don't care BUT it's sure be nice if they don't BUT...

i'm not particularly enthusiastic about four more years of obama (tho certainly not as dystopian as some) but i am SUPER ENTHUSIASTIC about shoving obama down the throats of these fucking assholes for four more years. let them cry about how the world is going to end while he does a serviceable job of keeping the union afloat.

Yeah, that's pretty much where I am.

everything would be fine if grover norquist, 6'9", 280 pounds (all muscle), ripped and refusing to take no for an answer, hadn't threatened to beat anyone who rebels against his no-tax pledge to a bloody pulp.

http://i49.tinypic.com/qn18gh.png

Mitt Romney has a 227% chance of winning? I don't really get it, but at least it doesn't beat Barack Obama's 373% chance of winning, which is up from his 371% chance of winning on Sept 16

i think the model had a hiccup

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Grover Norquist outside of the Republican National Convention, August 28, 2012. (photo: Associated Press)

"Grover wouldn't even let us accept a 10:1 spending cut / tax increase deal. He lifted this enormous boulder over his head, slammed it down on Mitch McConnell's hand, and then wiped the bloody, mangled hand all over Paul Ryan's slacks just before an important press conference."

- John Boehner

http://images.politico.com/global/2012/09/120926_romney_ap_605.jpg

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