Symmetry required it: 2012 american general election thread #2

6) Mitt Romney and his sons saved a family and their dog from drowning: Mitt Romney saw people in trouble and he didn't wait for the government to save them, he made a REAL gutsy call, and did what he had to do to save their lives.

He made a REAL gutsy call to not watching a family drown from the back porch of his lake house.

suck it phil collins!

1) Mitt Romney saved the life of a 14year old girl: Imagine what it would be like if we could have this kind of decisive people-centered leadership in the White House..

In 1998 the 14-year-old daughter of one of Romney's partners at Bain Capital, Robin Gay, had disappeared after attending a rave party in New York City. The distraught father was beside himself with terror of what may have happened to his little girl.

Upon hearing of this, Romney stopped all operations at Bain and flew himself and all of the company's employees to New York to conduct the search. Using his contacts with establishments in New York that did business with Bain and anoutlay of cash, Romney led a search for the girl from a command post he had set up in the LaGuardia Marriott that involved a private detective, Bain employees and customers putting up posters, handing out flyers, and interviewing prostitutes, drug addicts, and other street people in New York, and coordination with the New York Police.

A break came, after media publicity of the search, when a teenage boy called a tip line asking if there was a reward. He hung up, but not before the police traced the call to a home in New Jersey. The girl was found in the basement of the house undergoing withdrawals from a hit of ecstasy.

Romney, through his efforts, had saved the girl's life.

she was in some dudes house after a rave, mitt saved her, from death clearly

― lag∞n

maybe some dude can explain this story a little better

http://starsmedia.ign.com/stars/image/article/974/974477/our-fave-stoners-20090420015035107-000.jpg

undergoing withdrawals from a hit of ecstasy

http://postbubbleculture.blogs.wm.edu/files/2011/03/ringu2.jpg

fervently wish this fucking election was tomorrow so we could get on w/ regular suckage

Couldn't agree more. Particularly if 'regular suckage' means what I think it means (hubba hubba)!

seems legit

http://www.speakupmovement.org/church/LearnMore/details/4702

http://youtu.be/hS1DvuLE2is

^ guys the romney campaign actually made an ad about MISSING RAVE GIRL

the ad is from 2007 fwiw, seems to be something he likes to use in pretty much every campaign he's been in

suck it phil collins!

― balls, Wednesday, October 3, 2012 3:40 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hahah

I imagine that story is useful in all kinds of situations

the raver girl story is like the plot of a Mormon Chick Tract. All it needs is the devil luring the girl to the rave and saying, "HAW! HAW! HAW!"

hahaha, love this analysis: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/10/02/us/politics/what-romney-and-obamas-body-language-says-to-voters.html?hp

Obama's Gestures
Mr. Obama uses a more controlled style than Mr. Romney does. While the force of his movements can prompt the viewer to support the argument put forth, controlled movements can also make the viewer feel that the path suggested would not be easy.

Waving a Ball - In this movement, the president moves his forearm in an arc from the elbow with his palm open, fingers slightly rounded, as if he were holding a baseball. He often uses this gesture when trying to pass along a belief that he wants the viewer to embrace.

Cutting - Mr. Obama often makes a downward chopping motion to place emphasis on an action verb. He has used this to convey a task that he or the viewer might undertake, as well as to sarcastically suggest something his opponent might do.

Pointer - This may be Mr. Obama’s most frequent gesture. Holding his hand in a fist with his thumb overlapping the first joint of the forefinger as if he were operating a remote control, he moves his forearm in an arc from the elbow, with emphasis on the downward motion.

Romney's Gestures
Mr. Romney’s body language is generally more free-flowing than Mr. Obama’s. Such movements can be infectious, encouraging the viewer to join with the speaker.

Pointer - This gesture is similar to Mr. Obama’s pointer movement, with the hand in a loose fist, except that Mr. Romney holds his thumb to the palm side of his forefinger. Mr. Romney also swings his forearm more freely than Mr. Obama does, a gesture that emphasizes strength of conviction.

Embrace - In this movement, Mr. Romney has both hands open, fingers loose, suggesting an imminent embrace. Both arms move up and down repeatedly in a motion that is both free-flowing and direct, conveying the idea that his logic is obvious to all.

Tilt and Nod - Mr. Romney often uses two head movements to punctuate an idea. In the first, Mr. Romney tilts his head to one side, with eyes open wide, as if to ask, “Don’t you agree with me?” In the second, he nods his head, a gesture that suggests, “Of course we agree.”

romney's tilt and nod is by far his most defining move. if he happens to win, snl skits practically write themselves. just get some guy to make jokes about being rich and tilt and nod until you cannot tilt and nod anymore.

*waves ball*

its kind of ironic mitt leaning on the empathetic gestures

http://nofaceperformance.org/ronald_reagan_gif_4.gif

bitch-ass bitch-ass bitch-ass bitch-ass bitch-ass bitch-ass bitch-ass bitch-ass bitch-ass bitch-ass bitch-ass bitch-ass bitch-ass bitch-ass bitch-ass bitch-ass bitch-ass bitch-ass bitch-ass bitch-ass bitch-ass

why is Reagan saying, "Mustache"?

xpost

Just going to leave this up on everyone's unlocked computer today.

http://maxgif.com/70d

he's saying "bitch-ass"

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk95/AggromanLives/Reagan.gif

"Potassium"?

No one's put an ice cream cone in his hand yet?

not many Ronnie gifs exist, alas

Sounds like someone needs to go out and win one for the giffer.

http://bestamericangold.com/_borders/President-Reagan-Thumbs-up.gif

Good one, phil.

Gotta watch out for those throne sniffers.

Meantime:

http://gawker.com/5948589/chipotle-manager-who-photobombed-mitt-romney-speaks-its-a-facial-expression-i-do-when-im-excited

forget which of the thousand romney pieces mentioned this, but supposedly it was during the harried search for ecstasy girl that mitt first encountered the neighborhoods/living conditions of less wealthy americans.

he was then 49 years old

Gotta watch out for those throne sniffers.

gross

Kanye and Jay-Z, "Sniff the Throne"

But all went better than expected, and Romney even left behind a $1.75 tip on an $18.25 tab.

I like the phrasing of that, where it's obvious he just passed over a $20 and said "keep the change" but it's making it sound like he counted out $18.25, then dug up a separate $1.75 and said "here, a tip 4 u"

mitt romney tips less than 10%, pass it on

Good ol' Mitt.

http://www.hotflick.net/flicks/2000_Traffic/000TRF_Michael_Douglas_043.jpg

yeah hate to defend the guy but djp otm, this is precisely how you tip at chipotle.

i'll take paleo-cons over libertarians tbh

― balls, Tuesday, October 2, 2012 5:58 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

larison is smart about foreign policy mostly but paleocons are probably the worst ppl on the internet.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, October 2, 2012 6:04 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm with JD over balls here. give me any reason mag hack or an economist with a blog is over derbyshire or any of the vdare or 'amren' creepazoids

who tips at fast food joints?

people who've never been in one before?

is Starbucks fast food?

getting kinda o/t now, but a cato dude wrote an interesting short history of the relationship between libertarians and the old right in the US

http://www.theagitator.com/2012/08/02/on-fusionism/

oh jesus this is about to turn into a tipping thread isn't it?

can never have too idiotic a list of Mittens' flaws

libertarians vs republicans

"The freeloading 47 percent video was far worse for Romney than “you didn’t build that” was for Obama":

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-the-zinger-junk-food-politics/2012/10/02/5d346dbc-0ccc-11e2-bd1a-b868e65d57eb_story.html

milbank complaining abt junk food politics is rich

http://cdn.ksk.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/chocolate-zinger.jpg

oh man he linked to them in the column, I am as bad as him