Romney VS Obama: The Megathread

[Northern Dominus]

Because we'd rather not start the backslide into full-on corporptocracy under the watchful eye of Mitt and the neo-con wing of the Republican Party.

Romney has made it clear he'd be the submissive bitch of any right winger who so much as spoke up demanding something.

Might as well rename the country the United Subdivisions of Koch in that case.

[Rubiconic Crossings V2 rev 1f]

^ this. The more I read, hear and see Romney the more revolted I am.

Is it not obvious already that Romney is a sociopath that wouldn't shed a tear if his family was droned by Joseph Smith himself?

I'm glad to hear that you agree with me.

[Jefferson Confederacy]

Is it not obvious already that Romney is a sociopath that wouldn't shed a tear if his family was droned by Joseph Smith himself?

I'm glad to hear that you agree with me.

Now look at my drone/foreign policy rant a few pages back and see if you agree with me on Obama too

[Ashmoria]

I cannot believe you are debating Romney's decision to have his wife stand up in a chair... that's the kind of nonsense that makes MSNBC and Fox News grin.

im not debating it.

he treats his wife badly and i find it quite creepy

[Wikkiwallana]

I cannot believe you are debating Romney's decision to have his wife stand up in a chair... that's the kind of nonsense that makes MSNBC and Fox News grin.

Do you not understand what MS is?

[Wikkiwallana]

You do know what Multiple Sclerosis is right?

Well if not - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_sclerosis

I can't wait to see him take a quadriplegic swimming.

The trick will be finding one named Bob.

Edit: I'm going to hell for that, aren't I?

[Gauthier]

I cannot believe you are debating Romney's decision to have his wife stand up in a chair... that's the kind of nonsense that makes MSNBC and Fox News grin.

Do you not understand what MS is?

He thinks it's the first half of MS-NBC.

[Cannot think of a name]

Oh...hey...a short photoset of Romney addressing crowds on some sort of riser. I can see how that's completely damning.

Yeah, let's all read way too much into this perfectly legitimate and common public speaking practice...

If photos weren't viciously effective attacks then Dukakis and Kerry wouldn't have been shot down by their photo ops.

The fourth picture down with the staffer holding onto the chair could be potentially spun into an illustration of Romney's out-of-touch elitism, a vivid physical image of him standing on top of the lower classes.

We can either look at bullshit and go, "That's some serious bullshit," or we can look at bullshit and go, "OOOO! I want some of my own bullshit!"

I'm no more ready to accept 'but they do it too!' or 'they started it!' from people nominally on the same side as me than I am from those opposed to me.

Making hay out of the tank photo was bullshit. So was the para-sailing. As was trying to make something of Romney on a jet ski (shit, if you're rich and you don't have a jet ski that is a slap in the face of people who cannot afford jet skis everywhere).

I'm not about to adopt the notion that it's not bullshit when it's against someone I don't like. There are a shit ton of things that make Romney a bad choice as president, I don't want anyone to think for a second one of those is 'common public speaking quirk' and I don't care if Jimmy down the street totally did it first.

[Wikkiwallana]

I'm not about to adopt the notion that it's not bullshit when it's against someone I don't like.

And that's why I respect you.

[Jefferson Confederacy]

I cannot believe you are debating Romney's decision to have his wife stand up in a chair... that's the kind of nonsense that makes MSNBC and Fox News grin.

Do you not understand what MS is?

Stop being so condescending; it makes you look like you're resorting to childish tactics and I've seen you debate at a better level than that. The point is that maybe Ann Romney volunteered to stand up, maybe she she has some personal responsibility? Or how about the fact that even if Romney is an evil psycho who tortures his wife by chair-standing, it doesn't say anything for his policies. Now I AGREE that Romney is a sociopathic asshole with bad policies, but even I'm not desperate enough to pick apart something as dumb as this and analyze it politically.

[Northern Dominus]

I can't wait to see him take a quadriplegic swimming.

The trick will be finding one named Bob.

Edit: I'm going to hell for that, aren't I?

Probably. But in consolation when you get there I'm pretty sure you'll be assigned to torture Grover Norquist for being the little unrepentant weasel that he is.

[Rubiconic Crossings V2 rev 1f]

I'm glad to hear that you agree with me.

Now look at my drone/foreign policy rant a few pages back and see if you agree with me on Obama too

Link?

[Jefferson Confederacy]

Now look at my drone/foreign policy rant a few pages back and see if you agree with me on Obama too

Link?

I updated my signature with a second part, 4 links that I think prove Obama is a murderer.

[Quebec and Atlantic Canada]

Oh I just thought of an excellent line of attack for the Dems.

Say Romney's choosing of Ryan proves he's weak and spineless towards the Tea Party, and then ask, "If Mitt Romney can't stand up to his own party, how do we know he can stand up to threats from abroad?"

It might just work...

[Rubiconic Crossings V2 rev 1f]

Link?

I updated my signature with a second part, 4 links that I think prove Obama is a murderer.

link to your rant.

[Alien Space Bats]

I predict romeny will win with 74% of the vote, Third parties will poll around 5-6% this election, eaving obama with a generous 20-21%

What in God's name are you smoking?

Those numbers aren't even remotely possible.

[Wikkiwallana]

I predict romeny will win with 74% of the vote, Third parties will poll around 5-6% this election, eaving obama with a generous 20-21%

What in God's name are you smoking?

Those numbers aren't even remotely possible.

You must not have gotten to the part where he thinks the polls are made up yet.

[Alien Space Bats]

No, Romney does it much more often than a normal politician would.

The only one of those that's mildly eyebrow raising is the one with the woman who's in bare feet so as not to be taller than him.

Her shoes were off so she could actually feel the chair. If she'd left her shoes on, she'd have likely fallen and cracked her head.

I've been showing that picture to everyone I know who either has M.S. or knows someone with M.S., and I get the same result every time - eyes full of cold, deep anger at the bastard who would do that to his wife.

And I thought the fucking dog was bad.

[Rubiconic Crossings V2 rev 1f]

The only one of those that's mildly eyebrow raising is the one with the woman who's in bare feet so as not to be taller than him.

Her shoes were off so she could actually feel the chair. If she'd left her shoes on, she'd have likely fallen and cracked her head.

I've been showing that picture to everyone I know who either has M.S. or knows someone with M.S., and I get the same result every time - eyes full of cold, deep anger at the bastard who would do that to his wife.

And I thought the fucking dog was bad.

To be fair I don't think Khadgar realised she had has MS...I didn't even know she was his wife...

[Alien Space Bats]

I cannot believe you are debating Romney's decision to have his disabled wife stand up in a chair and risk falling off and cracking her head on the floor... that's the kind of nonsense that makes MSNBC and Fox News grin.

If I add a few words to your post, do you think it might help clarify the problem?

[Tmutarakhan]

I cannot believe you are debating Romney's decision to have his wife stand up in a chair... that's the kind of nonsense that makes MSNBC and Fox News grin.

Obviously it's a minor thing, but it's like putting his dog on the roof or insulting the local cookies. These small hints about character tell a lot.

[Wamitoria]

I cannot believe you are debating Romney's decision to have his wife stand up in a chair... that's the kind of nonsense that makes MSNBC and Fox News grin.

Obviously it's a minor thing, but it's like putting his dog on the roof or insulting the local cookies. These small hints about character tell a lot.

ASB's wife has MS, so it's pretty close to personal.

[Geilinor]

I've been thinking for a while now that Romney will lose by a landslide. Now that he's chosen Paul Ryan for VP, I'm sure. Even Newt Gingrich called his budget radical, he just changed his statement because radical Republicans cried about it.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/79606.html

[Gauthier]

I've been thinking for a while now that Romney will lose by a landslide. Now that he's chosen Paul Ryan for VP, I'm sure.

And when that happens the Republicans take that as a sign that they're not Right enough and become the Double Brewed Tea Party.

[Agymnum]

I've been thinking for a while now that Romney will lose by a landslide. Now that he's chosen Paul Ryan for VP, I'm sure.

The issue is that Ryan and Romney are opposites. Well, not really since Romney has no stand (keeps flip-flopping) so he can't be 'opposite' Ryan unless maybe Ryan flip-flops opposite of Romney, but the idea is that Ryan is a pacification choice.

Much like how Palin was picked by McCain to pacify far-right voters, Ryan was picked by Romney to appeal to the right-wing, which lately Romney's been pissing off with his constantly-changing opinions.

My prediction? Will only drive away any center-rights Romney's attracted, so it only makes Obama's victory margin even larger.