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

reading this now. to fuel my seething hatred of fatcats.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/greed-and-debt-the-true-story-of-mitt-romney-and-bain-capital-20120829

kinda lol

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/romney-party-yacht-flies-cayman-islands-flag/story?id=17105028#.UD5Mj5Y8CSo

Someone at the WSJ must hate Christie, because the picture they used of him on the cover of the (print) paper today makes him look like he's about to vomit.

Mitt Romney's yacht is called the "Cracker Bay"

I've come to hate that chant in any context, even sports-related. (Actually, it's funny if someone like Letterman uses it as part of a joke.)

― clemenza, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 15:24 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

As a wrestling fan, I have come to love USA chants. They so easily and blindly shout 'we are very stupid'. This is because of how often it'll show up in support of people who aren't American against non-Americans. Bret Hart is fighting Yokozuna? USA! USA! USA! Also the rare instance of chanting USA! for non Americans to beat actual Americans, such as it happening recently for Kofi Kingston (a Ghanian) v. Epico and Primo. USA! USA! Get a brain moran! These Republicans are no different.

"USA" chant always reminds me of Homer Simpson now.

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

Yeah but i think USA Chant and the American flag and all that should be freely available for you to invoke no matter what political spectrum you fall under, as long as you are an American citizen.

"Cracker Bay" is what they're calling Tampa Bay this week

actually that URL is a bit misleading. it's the yacht of one of his billionaire donors who's hosting a party for Willard

tolerant wingnut

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C33JDc0zN4I/UD5IlNoAC7I/AAAAAAABqQg/ZcO9zBU887w/s1600/fischersihk.jpg

gotta keep our gods straight at the rnc

Christians should be respectful, but do not throw nuts at him and say "this is how we feed animals"

The men of the private equity generation want no such thing. "We try to hide religiously," explained Steven Feinberg, the CEO of a takeover firm called Cerberus Capital Management that recently drove one of its targets into bankruptcy after saddling it with $2.3 billion in debt. "If anyone at Cerberus has his picture in the paper and a picture of his apartment, we will do more than fire that person," Feinberg told shareholders in 2007. "We will kill him. The jail sentence will be worth it."

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/greed-and-debt-the-true-story-of-mitt-romney-and-bain-capital-20120829#ixzz24xXRuYWk

LOL @ Cerberus. Do all these takeover firms have evil sounding names?

Why is Bryan Fischer telling Christians what to do when he's an admitted polytheist?

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Fluffypants Capital wasn't covered in the article, I see.

the other side seems to be falling in love with the mia love person.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/jeb-bush-warns-rnc-attendees-of-bad-cialis-going-a,29363/

Fifteen million dollars spent in Ohio to defeat Sherrod Brown and he's up by four points.

Ha

Romney praised the First Lady of Puerto Rico Luce Fortuno, who introduced her last night, calling them "kindred spirits."

"What she and her husband are doing on that little island is quite remarkable. You should be so proud," Romney said before her son Craig mentioned that the Gov. Luis Fortuno was actually sitting in the audience.

"Luis! Ola!," Romney said, clearly surprised.

" I had the most rocking time in Puerto Rico at a political rally than I've ever had in my entire life," Romney said. "You people really know how to party. It was crazy!"

"Luis! Ola!," Romney said, clearly surprised.

" I had the most rocking time in Puerto Rico at a political rally than I've ever had in my entire life," Romney said. "You people really know how to party. That shit cray."

Christ, what an asshole.

"I, of course, have no idea how to party."

(also that's Mrs. Romney talkin btw)

Peggy Noonan. I have resisted the joek in the first line.

Chris Christie’s speech was big. It was hopeful. It said the American people can turn their country around, that they actually want candidates who speak the truth, that they will follow difficult prescriptions if they seem grounded in reality. Christie always reminds me a little of Jackie Gleason — “To the moon, Alice!” But he is one shrewd political mind, and he actually thinks about the meaning of things.

the whole undertone of Christie's speech about how people are willing to forego their own self-interests for the good of the country/future generations/to pay down the debt/shrink gov't is just so eye-rolly. The GOP, sermonizing about sacrificing for the collective good! lol

I bet he thinks Elizabeth Warren is a BLABBERMOUTH

xp

Christie: he actually thinks about things.

2016 motto

Christie: he's fired up and ready to grow!

Christie: he's got the stomach for the job

Anyone know anything about Gary Johnson? Apparently he is going to be the only 3rd choice.

http://www.garyjohnson2012.com/issues

discussed a bit upthread thx to Morbz

"What she and her husband are doing on that little island is quite remarkable. You should be so proud," Romney said before her son Craig mentioned that the Gov. Luis Fortuno was actually sitting in the audience.

nice little island you got here

btw the first lady of puerto rico was kinda oddly flirtatious wasnt she

Romney consistently referred to Puerto Rico as "little island" throughout the speech fwiw

I think she also patted it on the head at one point

peace out to maria, tony, bernardo, the whole sharks group down there

tbf ann romney might be confused and think that her family already owns puerto rico

the romneys prob own islands larger than puerto rico

ah xp

I am Barack Obama ask me anything

mr president, u just lost my vote, l8r nerd

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9ja3glNau1qat9xfo1_500.jpg

Tom Carson (mentioned above) on Night #1 (reporting from New Orleans, fwiw, apparently with his power off):

http://www.gq.com/news-politics/blogs/death-race/2012/08/tom-carson-on-opening-night-ann-aces-her-big-identify-with-the-hoi-polloi-test.html

"Just let me know your exact location, and I promise we'll get that information out to you, Dr. Morbius."

haha

fuck reddit, fuck that

how do we get obama to visit our website

best RNC dance moves set to "my neck, my back"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qaz0N-2LCZ0

so many white people

^said that like 10 times last night, its really striking