Symmetry required it: 2012 american general election thread #2

You know if Fox News is lowering the boom, the gig is up.

Paul Ryan railing about WELFARE today. Romney's 47% remarks were "an inarticulate way to describe what we're trying to do to create prosperity and upward mobility, and reduce dependency by getting people off welfare back to work.”

they already got people off of welfare. 2/3 of them.

TANF costs about 1/8 of a war annually.

what article are you taking about lags, feels like there's a romney piece every week

― la goonies (k3vin k.), Sunday, September 30, 2012 9:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I love that theyre doing this btw, its pursuant to my interests, rather than think o we can't do another Romney piece we just did ten, fuck it keep going write a whole book

debates, shmebates

http://www.salon.com/2012/10/01/five_hard_truths_the_debates_wont_address/

Don't worry--Robert Redford's going to jump on stage at the end and say, "I think it's important to note what subjects we haven't discussed..."

In another example of Ronnie necrophilia, GOP thinks it's got an October Suprise

ok so this is the quote, per the times: "Mr. Romney’s team has concluded that debates are about creating moments and has equipped him with a series of zingers that he has memorized and has been practicing on aides since August."

folks just imagine that in a day to day sense

Aide: Mr. Romney, I need you to sign off on--
MR: "There you go again!"
Aide: Uh, yes. OK, please can you take a look--
MR: Did you get it?
Aide: Yes sir, that was very good.

Ahhhhhahahahaha

since August

this is nuts

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2012/09/chronic_lyme_disease_delusion_romney_campaign_pushes_medical_nonsense_.html

Re: October surprise - yes, because it's absolutely inconceivable that a president with access to intel suggesting a forthcoming attack would be re-elected...

Probably not much of a surprise if it's already being reported that they are going to pursue this.

Perot weighs in

http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/theticket/Screen-Shot-2012-10-01-at-11.07.15-AM.png

I wish this guy would run again, just for all the wrong reasons.

That photo's first-rate--absolutely world-class.

Haha! I probably shared this story elsewhere, but last year I had a bunch of meetings in our Plano office, which was formerly Perot Systems. The entire office building doubles as a museum for all of Ross Perot's random knick knacks, nearly every square inch of the hallways is covered with some kind of memorabilia or other. In order to get around, folks gave me directions like turn left at the cow skull and then right at the civil war rifle. And then, as I was going from one meeting to another, who should I see, but Mr. Perot himself wandering around the halls!

I think his hat could win the 1956 election

since August

― goole, Monday, October 1, 2012 1:27 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

mt friends, this is wonderful news

nyer article is like finally someone is totally getting it

Ross Perot wanders the halls of a museum he's created.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YO4jiC_CXXk/TV2c3TZJM4I/AAAAAAAABVQ/icSqtc1Pp5U/s1600/johnny_cash_hurt.jpg

Why is there a picture of Ray Orbison on this thread?

shouldn't the question be "Why isn't there a picture of Ray Orbison on every thread?"

who the fuck is rAy orbison?

Ray Orbison

Ross Perot wanders the halls of a museum he's created.

http://www.perotmuseum.org/about-the-perot/index.html

Perot Museum is one of my recent clients, we are doing a massive "charitable" project for them.

Every time I drive by it I think I'll find the right angle where it doesn't look hideous, but, alas, that's never happened.

I hope it's a decent kid's museum though. The city needs one.

"The building has a 54-foot continuous-flow escalator contained in a 150-foot glass-enclosed tube-like structure."

It's pretty much everything I ever imagined a Perot Museum to look like. Maybe a few more Rube Goldberg elements like the escalator, but overall very satisfying A++++++.

http://i50.tinypic.com/1kndf.jpg

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mb8b94Ncul1qfengno1_500.jpg

somehow he always finds a way to take it to the next level

getting into fieri territory there, glenn

God put Glenn Beck on the Earth to make the rest of us feel just a little better about ourselves

but the Eternal Cat accomplished just the opposite somehow

luv the painted astroturf hairpiece omg

Quite a ring he's sporting on this thumb, too.

is it weird i almost miss him?

i kinda miss that kid who shit all over my pants in kindergarten too, i understand

Romney "is at the wrong place, at the wrong time, on the wrong side of history"

Sez Robert Reich on PoliticsNation, talking about Medicare/Medicaid

I just noticed that if you look at an electoral map really quickly, "Leans Romney" looks a lot like "LeAnn Rimes."

There's a lot of overlap in that Venn diagram.

Romney "is at the wrong place, at the wrong time, on the wrong side of history"

p sure this means he is a man ahead of his time in a place no man has ever been

http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156897088l/350.jpg

aka, "Seeya Mitt"

http://www.foxbusiness.com/government/2012/10/01/big-money-donors-toward-house-senate-races/#ixzz285WjkDSD