Symmetry required it: 2012 american general election thread #2

Like, which dude? Some dude?

I'd trust ship as a source

x-post re Akin-- they started with this:

Last year, Akin, vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), and most of the House GOP cosponsored a bill that would have narrowed the already-narrow exceptions to the laws banning federal funding for abortion—from all cases of rape to cases of "forcible rape."

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/08/todd-akin-paul-ryan-redefining-rape

yeah i don't know who the dems have running for Ryan's seat, but the ads should just be Akin's words/ language from the bill with Ryan giving a big thumbs up

source: i heard it from some dude

Rob Zerban vs Paul Ryan in Wisc.

http://www.salon.com/2012/09/12/poll_ryans_race_closer_than_expected/

it'll be interesting to see if ryan acknowledges the dude

Zerban wants 2 debates too

source: i heard it from some dude

http://live.drjays.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Big-Lebowski.jpg

Shakey, after the clock thing and now this I'm beginning to wonder.

...why you're still reading Shakey's posts?

guys i told you all that stuff under the condition of anonymity, please don't put dude throat's business in the street

shakey is an A+ poster

Well, Surprise, Surprise
By Michael Walsh

September 28, 2012 1:12 P.M. Comments1

So George W. Bush is more popular now than Mitt Romney. How can this be? Isn’t the former governor of Massachusetts, you know, running for president or something?

The answer is simple: Bush has been out of the public eye — and thus away from media attention — for nearly four years, which means that his policy of never fighting back against the Democrats and their MSM allies is finally showing results. Maybe nice guys don’t finish last after all.

And yet, along the firing line, the one-sided war continues. If the Ku Klux Klan used to be the armed wing of the Democratic party, its place has now been taken by the media, who lay down covering fire for Barack Obama on a daily basis, so determined are they to prove the rightness of their cause. The media went heavily into the tank for Obama in ’08 because he represented the apogee of their view of the civil-rights struggle of the 1960s. They sacrificed everything to get him elected, most especially their own code of professional ethics, and cannot sit idly by and watch their crowning achievement rejected by a flyover country they’ve always viewed with suspicion and resentment.

Wipe the drool from your chin, nimrod.

The media is the new KKK!

This is The Corner I know and love

Man that's a deep rabbit hole there.

If only there was a conservative media outlet that could be fair and balanced oh wait

so is ilx the armed wing of hipster youth or

Shocker! Conservatives butthurt that times keep changing, leaving them out of touch, refuse to consider that maybe they're the problem, find scapegoats.

I thought it was more likley winged arms on hipster youth

It never occurred to me that this billboard was aimed at the Republican Party more so than anyone else.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BjW1avGcuos/S3D7aqOv9PI/AAAAAAAABk8/NOpTAXVySUM/s640/missmeyet.jpg

shakey is an A+ poster

― Mordy, Friday, September 28, 2012 10:29 AM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I like everyone, basically. This place could use an infusion of basic human decency sometimes tho

shakey is an A+ poster

― Mordy, Friday, September 28, 2012 10:29 AM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― We demand justice: who murdered Chanel? (Matt P), Friday, September 28, 2012 1:56 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

He's very good, but lost his A+ in the Neil Young v. Rolling Stones thread.

There is no way I could lose respect for an ilx poster on the basis of something they said about either Neil Young or the Rolling Stones. Anything good or bad that could possibly be said about them they have at some time or other justified by their music or their actions.

That sounds like a dare ...

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http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/kevin-mcdermott/akin-consultant-compares-his-fortitude-to-cult-leader-david-koresh/article_42658a4a-0996-11e2-990d-0019bb30f31a.html

beating dennis miller to the punch!

shoegaze, breakbeat house on the radio, the branch davidians, 'hillary is a liar', the 90s are back!!

*fart*

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/todd-akin-suggests-employers-should-be-able-to

(if someone could id that breakbeat song for me, i'd be grateful. top 40. also has a 'how soon is now' rip i think?)

I always appreciate a good Soho callback

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILaTgQBKRbE\

I was on a Virgin Atlantic plane with them coming back from a college choir tour and they were AMAZINGLY GORGEOUS; I couldn't stop staring at them

I still get referrals from their website or Twitter account because they or the manager didn't like the nice things I said about them.

oh man. i had no idea. i hear it all the time now!

for the next debate McCaskill should yield all her time to Akin, keeping him talking is the best possible thing for her campaign.

Deferring to your betters is the ladylike thing to do.

this should sway some undecideds

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/campaign-mailer-romney-vows-fight-epidemic-lyme-disease_653189.html

What, specifically, is he planning to do about lyme disease?! This fuckin' guy...

when we get to thread #3 can we pleeeease have “He’s missing the normal-guy gene” in the title?

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81772_Page2.html#ixzz27nUHDg00

James Fallows described why Romney’s offer of a $10,000 bet with Texas Gov. Rick Perry reinforced the worst caricature of him. “If Romney had said ‘a million bucks,’” Fallows explained, “it would obviously have been hyperbolic; if he had said ‘a hundred bucks,’ it would have been a serious sum but comprehensible. Romney had instinctively found exactly the wrong number.”

perfect

it was funny for sure, but then he won and rick perry lost

thought for sure that'd be about chronic lyme

thought for sure that'd be about chronic lyme

Think that's what the antibiotics part is probably about

oh i thought the article was finished after that advertisement - yeah there you go

"chronic Lyme" sounds like a potent strain of weed

Chronic lyme, mailer sent, Romney wail
Diminish, a campaign poll of sorts

For all we know, those were actually the lyrics.

http://mediaserver01.stockfood.com/wmpreviews/MTQ0MTI5ODY5/11086913.jpg

I hate to say the guy behind the unskewed polls thing is a bit of a stereotype but anyway.

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/dean-chambers-unskewed-polls.php

part of me thinks the whole unskewed polls thing is to let nate silver know he will never escape joe morgan types