the most important election of your lifetime: 2012 american general election thread

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campaign's not over until someone cries holding a doll iirc

doll is in the hospital iirc

what's going on over there on the right

Five Republicans have filed the necessary papers and $500 fee to qualify for the June 26 Utah presidential primary election, but with Rick Santorum dropping out of the race Tuesday, only four will be on the ballot.

Or possibly three.

Newt Gingrich’s check bounced.

Bah, here's the URL: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/53886982-90/utah-romney-gingrich-campaign.html.csp

well he does have a decent chance of winning your state

latest Elon poll on our anti-gay marriage prop shows 61% opposed - if we don't pass the bill California did I will mail the crow directly to you

The Elon poll doesn't screen out non-voters though - the most recent PPP poll that is a voter poll is a bit more pessimistic:

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2012/03/north-carolinians-support-but-dont-understand-marriage-amendment.html

(though there's still room for a little optimism there if the anti-Amendment One can get the message across before May, and the end of the contested GOP primary season will also help, perhaps)

yeah full gay marriage is nowhere close to being legalized in any southern state, but looking at those results 40% of 18-29 y/os in north carolina are for it + 16% for civil unions, which highlights the 'we just gotta wait for old people to die' solution

alternatively we could take away peoples votes after age 50 maybe

Here's to hoping. Meanwhile, in this story:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/magazine/republicans-who-supported-gay-marriage.html?_r=1&hp

Some (sad) roffles:

I’ve had a few conversations with Long, trying to understand what harm they think they are defending marriage from. In one conversation I recounted my own classic wedding at the Holy Name of Jesus church, and wondered how somebody else’s less conventional marriage could diminish the joy of it.

“Well, I don’t think it hurts anybody,” Long replied, “but I think a society has to have certain standards, and since the beginning of time, marriage has been between a man and a woman.” Marriage, he elaborated, is about children. “You’re not going to procreate children with same-sex couples.”

I told him that would be news to my daughters’ school classmates, the ones with two moms or two dads. And by the way, we don’t prohibit elderly, infertile or just plain procreation-averse couples from marrying.

“I know plenty of gay couples, O.K.?” he snapped back.

Pobrecito.

good morning!

gawker's "fox mole" has been found and fired w/in 24 hours damn

Shit, that was quick. I'm disappointed.

uh surely that was expected

perhaps even desired

ie, you're more likely to get a job somewhere else for being FIRED FROM FOX rather than just being an employee of Fox

http://gawker.com/5901100/i-am-the-fox-mole-and-im-still-here

Just about to post that link. Yeah, as of 13:54 Eastern, dude's still at their desk.

;-)

MAX IS THE MOLE

He joined Fox News years ago on a suicide mission...

that's a long suicide

I suspected when he voted for all those Randite trojan horses in the action-film poll

alternatively we could take away peoples votes after age 50 maybe

lol I would support this

full disclosure, I'd be unable to vote under that rule pretty fucking soon here but if I gotta take one for the team, well, shit, the team looks good to me

If that happened, we old people would take to the streets and engage in a vicious campaign of pie-flinging and gurning until our civil rights were restored.

btw aero I webmailed you about something, dunno if you check that email

you'd still get a senior's discount at Shoney's iirc

We'd jape at every infant in a pram until it cried in terror.

Allan West says some things.

The conservative tea party icon also got in shots at Democrats and President Obama, who spoke Tuesday at Florida Atlantic University. West said Obama was "scared" to have a discussion with him. He later said "he's heard" up to 80 U.S. House Democrats are Communist Party members, but wouldn't name names.

At the first of two campaign town-hall events in Martin County on Tuesday, the Plantation Republican told a New Hope Fellowship Church crowd it'd be disingenuous to pretend he knows everything about the area, but said he supports local projects like inlet dredging. But he contended that big national issues, such as gas prices, turn out to be the most important locally.

"I understand everything about the (St. Lucie) Inlet. I already represent 70 to 75 miles of coastline. Plenty of inlets, plenty of ports. I got it," West said. "I understand about the (St. Lucie) river situation. I understand about (Lake) Okeechobee. But it won't mean a hill of beans if the United States of America goes from $15.6 trillion in debt to $26 trillion in debt."

Translation: "I don't know shit about your district but I can't wait to be your FOX News commentator."

"Plantation Republican"

can I just

Current headline at latimes.com:

"Romney says he and Santorum will come together"

He later said "he's heard" up to 80 U.S. House Democrats are Communist Party members, but wouldn't name names.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaTbErVDQ40

btw aero I webmailed you about something, dunno if you check that email

I don't remember getting it - if you used the ilx link, that goes to a box I don't use. I'll send you something through here -

which may not have worked either, let me know we'll figure it out

hmm not seeing it. uh it's quick I'll fb msg you.

lol are we friends there, I'm sick & drugged up and have zero idea what your government name is tbh

no we aren't you have to accept the req i just sent. uh it's...related to my username.

sdrawkcab

I am too doped up on cold meds to make the "iatee is _______?" joke I wanna make

George Soros?

Sidney Crosby?

man that would be so cool if I were secretly george soros

I have always been hoping to find out that I'm george soros, like I just forgot about it or something

I, Atee

"fuck wow I have a fucking lotta money it seems like, go me"

"weirdly it turns out that i am the satanic enemy of right-wing christian america."

well I am they just don't know who I am and I don't have any money

*head spins around, vomits money*

mods, please...?

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