Symmetry required it: 2012 american general election thread #2

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

for the want of some millions, an election was lost. on the plus side, he still has a horse.

given the circumstances, it should have been

"oh what can you give me (say the sad bells of romney)" display name fail

^^^request for new thread title

Matthew Dowd insisted on one of the Sunday morning shows yesterday that "the natural equilibrium" for the race is about a two point differential. I guess we were at the "natural" stage of the race before we got to see Romney's performance as a candidate?

VOTE 4 STUFF

MCBAIN CAPITAL

YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE THE WAY YOU LOOK

I GUARANTEE IT

http://assets.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/startups/bain%20capital%20ventures%20james%20nahirny*280.jpg?v=1

Ha

I think you just anticipated a forthcoming Romney campaign ad parody bro

ZING

"SNL" should have been part of my last post

I visited that rawstory.com site and it took me like 3 minutes to decide whether it was a satire site or not

$20 sez Romney turns into a gigantic Gila monster 10 minutes into the debate - and THEN lets fly with the Mitch Hedberg zingers

http://www.virginmedia.com/images/demons-buffy-snake-431x300.jpg

Well played

Fuck Scott Brown, seriously

Dude deserves to lose the race AND get socked in the jaw

whatd he do

he fucked Raymond's brother

Second Warren/Brown debate was tonight. Mostly he was just being himself; I'll see if I can find a YouTube link!

I'm on this thread too much today, I know

Good PPACA-related news: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/10/01/931671/bush-appointed-judge-rejects-catholic-employers-challenge-to-birth-control-access-rules/

The burden of which plaintiffs complain is that funds, which plaintiffs will contribute to a group health plan, might, after a series of independent decisions by health care providers and patients covered by [an employer's health] plan, subsidize someone else’s participation in an activity that is condemned by plaintiffs’ religion. . . . [Federal religious freedom law] is a shield, not a sword. It protects individuals from substantial burdens on religious exercise that occur when the government coerces action one’s religion forbids, or forbids action one’s religion requires; it is not a means to force one’s religious practices upon others. [It] does not protect against the slight burden on religious exercise that arises when one’s money circuitously flows to support the conduct of other free-exercise-wielding individuals who hold religious beliefs that differ from one’s own. . . .

[T]he health care plan will offend plaintiffs’ religious beliefs only if an [] employee (or covered family member) makes an independent decision to use the plan to cover counseling related to or the purchase of contraceptives. Already, [plaintiffs] pay salaries to their employees—money the employees may use to purchase contraceptives or to contribute to a religious organization. By comparison, the contribution to a health care plan has no more than a de minimus impact on the plaintiff’s religious beliefs than paying salaries and other benefits to employees.

Ooo I like this

"I am a job creator: A manifesto for the entitled" by Steven Pearlstein

Roger Ebert
‏@ebertchicago
Mitt has been practicing zingers with aides since *August?* Think we'll be to spot them? Will he follow them with smiles of triumph?

8:45 PM - 1 Oct 12 ·

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Should we keep a running tally of zingers on Wednesday, tracking W/L/WTF numbers?

are we going to get a dedicated debate thread? pretty sure that's what we did that last time around.

Yeah, I figure we should, due to the posting speed.

Going to watch the debate at a friend's house. Between that and trying to follow Cabrera on the last day of the baseball season, yes, yes, my head will explode.

That Pearlstein piece is so awesome.

Ugly George Will column this morning. Living in his bubble he makes Rice's mistatement re Libya the biggest foreign policy mistake of all time and he attributes the sad economy entirely to Obama, and he can't recognize any economic or foreign policy reasons why the public would want a Dem instead of a Republican. So he pulls the race card with a reference to baseball's first black manager as his way of explaining things. As an aside, I heard Ann Coulter whining on ABC about the kids at MSNBC and now George Will is doing it too.

Managers get fired all the time. The fact that the Indians felt free to fire Robinson — who went on to have a distinguished career managing four other teams — showed that another racial barrier had fallen: Henceforth, African Americans, too, could enjoy the God-given right to be scapegoats for impatient team owners or incompetent team executives.

Perhaps a pleasant paradox defines this political season: That Obama is African American may be important, but in a way quite unlike that darkly suggested by, for example, MSNBC’s excitable boys and girls who, with their (at most) one-track minds and exquisitely sensitive olfactory receptors, sniff racism in any criticism of their pin-up. Instead, the nation, which is generally reluctant to declare a president a failure — thereby admitting that it made a mistake in choosing him — seems especially reluctant not to give up on the first African American president. If so, the 2012 election speaks well of the nation’s heart, if not its head.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will-romney-running-out-of-clock/2012/10/01/55922ea4-0bec-11e2-bb5e-492c0d30bff6_story.html

Instead, the nation, which is generally reluctant to declare a president a failure — thereby admitting that it made a mistake in choosing him — seems especially reluctant not to give up on the first African American president. If so, the 2012 election speaks well of the nation’s heart, if not its head.

Yeah--they're cutting him so much more slack than when they held W. to account in '04.

George Will, the guy who has insisted for the last three years that he cares little about foreign policy now that he's invited to the White House for lunch.

NPR gives unskewed poll douchebag an analysis-free platform to launch its "both sides do it" polling story

George Will is as fatuous as he is intellectually irelevant.

It reminds me of that Lincoln quote:

"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met."

I don't know how to capture a Tweet, but some more high-level strategizing:

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump
In debate, @MittRomney should ask Obama why autobiography states "born in Kenya, raised in Indonesia."

that would be a palpable zing

I would like to hear Romney ask that question during the debate as well.

Romney: Obama, why autobiography states "born in Kenya, raised in Indonesia."?

Obama: Why Romney no verb?

Answer the question, "Barack Obama": Why. Autobiography. States. Born. In. Kenya. Raised. In. Indonesia? Why???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf48qnmRsfg

f george will what complete human garbage

What I'd really like to see is Rick Perry handle that question: "Mr. Obama, why does your autobiography state that you were born in Hawaii, yet raised in Hono--wait, that's not right. Sorry."

Looks like voter ID law went down in PA.

As close to a Chomsky endorsement for Obama as we're likely to hear:

"Between the two choices that are presented, there is I think some significant differences," he said. "If I were a person in a swing state, I’d vote against Romney-Ryan, which means voting for Obama because there is no other choice. I happen to be in a non-swing state, so I can either not vote or - as a probably will - vote for [Green Party candidate] Jill Stein."

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/10/01/noam-chomsky-if-i-were-in-a-swing-state-id-vote-for-obama/

Does that mean that Chomsky is more reasonable than Morbs?

the Balloon Juice folks destroyed Conor Friedersdorf last week for his Obama indictment.

Here's Digby on that Chomsky interview

It reminds me of that Lincoln quote:

"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met."

― The windiest militant trash (Michael White), Tuesday, October 2, 2012 11:13 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That's an awesome quote.