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

i probably don't have the right amount of money, unless it's fallen under the driver's seat. plus, i really like him! he gave me a banana split one time (not a sex joke) and i think he drove me home from soccer practice. elizabeth warren came into a store i worked in ca. .09 and ordered very complicated business cards at two minutes past closing time.

is that the sum total of "drives me bonkers as a person"?

Not all of it. Her affect is sometimes haughty Cambridgey-Fancy-Scarf-Lady, and some other times a little transparently calculated. But, as I said earlier, I've got immense respect for her work, her intellect, her campaign, and I do like her brand of populism.

he gave me a banana split one time (not a sex joke) and i think he drove me home from soccer practice.

Somehow I imagine this docudrama minifilm starring Will Ferrell.

"Plantation Republican"

can I just

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yeah. people who insist on calling Allen West a "Plantation Republican" are just as bad as old politicians who throw around the word "niggardly" and then go "what? what? it doesn't have anything to do with the n-word!" imo

(I don't expect everyone on ILX to agree with me abt this)

No but see he's actually FROM Plantation, FL. It just results in crazy awkwardness.

I know that. and niggardly doesn't actually have anything to do with the n-word. you can say "Republican from Plantation." don't say "Plantation Republican."

"Florida republican" should be pejorative enough

no more pejorative than "Florida Democrat"

can we all just agree that the word 'florida' taints any noun that follows it

"The state with the prettiest name" – Elizabeth Bishop

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTAzMzc0NTQ3ODBeQTJeQWpwZ15BbWU2MDQwNDEzNg@@._V1._SY314_CR15,0,214,314_.jpg

like hell will I agree with that

when can we finally make Puerto Rico and Cuba states?

when they learn to speak american

Flo Rida Republican

Wait wait wait, somebody besides me is from Plantation, Florida?? I've seriously spent my whole life undoing people's confusion when they see my place of birth written as PLANTATION on a form. It's like when I lived on a street that was just named BOULEVARD.

Plantation is only thirty miles away from me. Whole lotta nuthin'.

up to 80 U.S. House Democrats are Communist Party members

Communists are only scary to old people.

might wanna check the hubbub outside the Miami baseball stadium to verify

The only hubbub is seniors trying to find a parking space before they give up and park illegally again.

there are a limited number of early bird specials available, i'll have you know

http://www.gonomad.com/lodgings/0906/kapama-images/vulture.jpg

I can't emebed any of the photos of everyone in the parking lot screaming about Ozzie Guillen and Hitler, so...

http://latinorebels.com/2012/04/11/video-from-ozzie-guillen-protest-in-miami/

Guillen protesters are either 60 or Miami Herald columnists.

(housekeeping note: i'm kinda in favor of just having this be a big free-for-all rest-of-2012 politics thread. separate threads for congress and general stuff seems like a recipe for duplication. "election season" tends to warp everything else around it. the presidential race promises to be only not-boring in how annoying it is anyway)

oh I think we're in a for a very lolz-y prez campaign

(...but also maintain a politics thread that's actual about the important shit that goes on instead of the duopoly horse race.)

xp

yeah, who cares

is that what i said? no, it isn't

yeah we still have the gen politics thread

I thought you were asking if we should split up the horseraces

I dunno, goole – it looks like a snooze.

that's what i said!

(l-r: obama, romney)

http://files.myopera.com/edwardpiercy/blog/Duck-Soup-Mirror-Scene-2.JPG

oh ok I reread it

or l-r: gore, bush amirite lol

meh, it will get way more fun when the economy re-tanks in the fall

We will then rely on you to prop it up. Don't ask me how.

Rabbit season

Now this is good--we have a Silly Controversy to distract from Presidential Evil that everyone can Weigh In On:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRjdNKsdR58

She seems sincere--she looked right into the camera.

The B____ Who Used to Run the Music Industry

Wow, I didn't know any of that RIAA stuff. I watched a lot of her in '08. I have something of a crush on her. I don't know if she's ready to switch teams, though.

just a teeny taste for Shakey on how Team Bam can lose the election

haha waht

this is nothing, a 24-hr newscycle blip of no consequence

many more nothings to come

also totally unrelated to "Team Bam". why anybody cares what Hilary Rosen thinks about Romney is a bit of a mystery, beyond the most cynical explanation that this has all just been a trumped-up non-controversy for a slow news day

More! I'm dying of boredom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sIeIcOo4rg

haha yes this thing 99% of our country is not paying attention to will surely be Obama's undoing!

I always suspected Morbz was the 1%