The 2012 Three Ring Circus AKA The US Presidential Election

[The Emerald Dawn]

How so? Quitting now means that he's pre-washing his hands for any trainwrecks that happen down the track.

Well? It could be like CEO's who "retire" before earnings are announced.

That's a hard analogy to use though, because this isn't like Nintendo suddenly posting an unexpected 5 billion dollar loss and Shigeru Miyamoto resigning retiring the quarter before. This is like watching Hindentanic Airships Internet dot Bomb set itself up as a valid competitor to Frosted Flakes in producing sneakers and running away before the stank of mangled careers attaches itself to you.

[Vitius]

Oh, yes, forgot the link:

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/pawl ... ction.html

All those comments, missing the point. Romney can't even hold his campaign staff together anymore. Like rats from a ship.

Are you talking about the Yahoo comments?

I stopped reading those a looooooooooooooong time ago. The comment section is primarily comprised of ignorant Republicans ("we need O'bummer out of office, we need someone that isn't socialist") and independents that love nothing more than to bash Congress whenever possible.

[Farnhamia]

How so? Quitting now means that he's pre-washing his hands for any trainwrecks that happen down the track.

Well? It could be like CEO's who "retire" before earnings are announced.

Yeah, or now Romney can tell his financial backers, "Okay, see? Pawlenty's gone, he was never a Real Republican anyway, so we can get back on track with our message."

But I don't know, it was just a random thought.

[New Chalcedon]

Well? It could be like CEO's who "retire" before earnings are announced.

Yeah, or now Romney can tell his financial backers, "Okay, see? Pawlenty's gone, he was never a Real Republican anyway, so we can get back on track with our message."

But I don't know, it was just a random thought.

Yyyyyeahhh....I doubt that Pawlenty was an obstacle to Mitt's fundraising.

[HeresJohnny]

Gallup just released an assessment of the ramifications of Romney's "47%" video: http://www.gallup.com/poll/157544/voter ... ative.aspx

I love this: 44% of Republicans say the remarks will make them more likely to vote for them. What a fucking caricature the GOP has become.

[The Emerald Dawn]

Gallup just released an assessment of the ramifications of Romney's "47%" video: http://www.gallup.com/poll/157544/voter ... ative.aspx

I love this: 44% of Republicans say the remarks will make them more likely to vote for them. What a fucking caricature the GOP has become.

They don't see themselves in the 47%, they see the "Black Single Crack Whore Mother of Seventeen Kids by Nineteen Dads." Its cognitive dissonance at its finest.

[Gauthier]

Gallup just released an assessment of the ramifications of Romney's "47%" video: http://www.gallup.com/poll/157544/voter ... ative.aspx

I love this: 44% of Republicans say the remarks will make them more likely to vote for them. What a fucking caricature the GOP has become.

They don't see themselves in the 47%, they see the "Black Single Crack Whore Mother of Seventeen Kids by Nineteen Dads." Its cognitive dissonance at its finest.

It's like Uncle Ruckus imagining himself white. The power of desperate delusion reigns supreme.

[Wamitoria]

They don't see themselves in the 47%, they see the "Black Single Crack Whore Mother of Seventeen Kids by Nineteen Dads." Its cognitive dissonance at its finest.

It's like Uncle Ruckus imagining himself white. The power of desperate delusion reigns supreme.

In all fairness, he was told that by his mother, who tried to protect him from his abusive father.

[Yumyumsuppertime]

Senator Dean Heller (R-NV) distances himself from Gov. Romney's "47%" remarks.

This is especially interesting, as the previous politicians and candidates to openly disagree with the Governor have been in races in Democratic strongholds, so they could be expected to take a more thoughtful view. This is an incumbent from a swing state.

[Rubiconic Crossings V2 rev 1f]

Even his tan is insincere

http://www.americablog.com/2012/09/mitt ... using.html

Mitt Romney courts Latino vote by using skin bronzer - even his tan isn't sincere
By Gabe Ortíz on 9/20/2012 12:07:00 PM

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Sr. Romney sporting his new day-laborer tan.
In his closest interaction with a room full of Latinos since that time he had to yell at the kitchen staff for spilling the good Bordeaux, Mitt Romney appeared in Florida on Wednesday at a Spanish-language forum on Univision.

His appearance was ironic, since he famously campaigned against bilingual education when running for governor of Massachusetts and during the GOP presidential primary, but that's beside the point.

Continuing a Romney campaign standard, most of Mitt's responses ignored specifics, instead opting to smooth out the harsh rhetoric seen during the circus that was the primary (Mexicano asado, anyone?).

While Romney continued his hard stance against the DREAM Act, he offered a conciliatory plan to let DREAM-eligible youth who serve in the military earn permanent status. Mitt attacked Obama's executive order granting undocumented youth legal status, calling it a “stop-gap measure,” but offered no other plan of his own.

Romney did indicate that he'd be in favor of Senator Marco Rubio's now-dead GOP version of the DREAM Act, which offers undocumented immigrants a chance at permanent status, but not citizenship -- we call it the Ream Act.

Speaking of immigration, the Univision forum hosts later pressed Mitt on his infamous "self-deportation" policy, with a clearly-flustered Mitt replying that he's not "going to round up people around the country and deport them." "I believe people make their own choices as to whether they want to go home and that’s what I mean by self-deportation," he continued. "People decide if they want to go back to the country of their origin.”

Quite a stretch from his endorsement of Arizona's "Papers please" law at a GOP debate earlier this year.

Still, unlike Mitt, most Latino youth don't have the opportunity to self-deport to Paris when the going gets tough.

Most telling about Romney's appearance was his utterance of the pejorative "illegal aliens" when speaking about DREAM-eligible youth during the forum, perhaps forgetting that he was speaking to a room full of Latino Obama-voting victims who pay no taxes and don't care for their lives, and not the angry white bread voters of CPAC.

The Univision forum is unlikely to help Romney's polling, with Fox News' own Latino division finding that that only 14 percent of the group would vote for him, compared to a whopping 70 percent for President Barack Obama. Of course, that's still better than the 0% of African-Americans who say they're voting for Romney.

Perhaps those lackluster numbers explain the generous use of face bronzer by Romney at the event. (No one had the heart to inform Sr. Mitt that Latinos aren't orange.)

Even his tan isn't sincere.

I don't even need wish if this is true or not....given his track record so far

[The Emerald Dawn]

Senator Dean Heller (R-NV) distances himself from Gov. Romney's "47%" remarks.

This is especially interesting, as the previous politicians and candidates to openly disagree with the Governor have been in races in Democratic strongholds, so they could be expected to take a more thoughtful view. This is an incumbent from a swing state.

Asked if he is concerned that Romney might become a drag on his own reelection effort, Heller laughed and said, “I don’t want to answer that question.”

NO TOUCHY. NO, BAD TOUCHY. BAD.

[Wamitoria]

Even his tan is insincere

I heard about that. If it's true, then the Romney campaign is so stupid that they're making Herman Cain look like a good candidate.

[Telesha]

Even his tan is insincere

http://www.americablog.com/2012/09/mitt ... using.html

Wasn't one of the comments from the 47% video about how it would help if he "were Hispanic?"

Apparently no one told him that there's a bit more to that than a fake tan.

[Farnhamia]

Even his tan is insincere

http://www.americablog.com/2012/09/mitt ... using.html

Wasn't one of the comments from the 47% video about how it would help if he "were Hispanic?"

Apparently no one told him that there's a bit more to that than a fake tan.

Romney, Romnirez ... the names are so similar and his dad was born in Mexico, so what more do the Hispanics want?

[Rubiconic Crossings V2 rev 1f]

Even his tan is insincere

I heard about that. If it's true, then the Romney campaign is so stupid that they're making Herman Cain look like a good candidate.

Well they are doing ever so well with their campaign so far...personally I can't wait for the live TV debates between Obama and Romney...

Even his tan is insincere

http://www.americablog.com/2012/09/mitt ... using.html

Wasn't one of the comments from the 47% video about how it would help if he "were Hispanic?"

Apparently no one told him that there's a bit more to that than a fake tan.

I've not watched the 47% vid...it would just want me to punch my laptop screen and then go and drink copious amounts of JP-8 and finish off the experience with a fine cigar.

[Not Safe For Work]

Gallup just released an assessment of the ramifications of Romney's "47%" video: http://www.gallup.com/poll/157544/voter ... ative.aspx

I love this: 44% of Republicans say the remarks will make them more likely to vote for them. What a fucking caricature the GOP has become.

If 44% said they didn't care - I could get my head round that. I was listening to Sean Hannity on the way home the other day, and he was talking about how the Romney-hates-poor-people video was incomplete - so it might have been tampered with, to make Romney look worse than he is.

So I could 'get' that. They think they're being played, so it makes no difference one way or the other. I can actually understand that psychology. But the people who think it's fair and representative of what Romney said.. and STILL say it makes them MORE likely to support him?

I can't get my head around that, at all.

[Rubiconic Crossings V2 rev 1f]

Wasn't one of the comments from the 47% video about how it would help if he "were Hispanic?"

Apparently no one told him that there's a bit more to that than a fake tan.

Romney, Romnirez ... the names are so similar and his dad was born in Mexico, so what more do the Hispanics want?

Ole shit! I'm convinced!

[Alien Space Bats]

Romnirez ... the names are so similar and his dad was born in Mexico, so what more do the Hispanics want?

JUNTOS CON ROMNIREZ!!!

<insert mariachi music here>

Maybe he should circulate a story that Gaskin Romney wasn't his dad after all, but rather that George was the product of his paternal grandmother's dalliance with a Mexican carpenter.

Hey, he's tried everything else... why not try calling his dear old "immigrant" dad a bastard, just for good measure?

[The Emerald Dawn]

Gallup just released an assessment of the ramifications of Romney's "47%" video: http://www.gallup.com/poll/157544/voter ... ative.aspx

I love this: 44% of Republicans say the remarks will make them more likely to vote for them. What a fucking caricature the GOP has become.

If 44% said they didn't care - I could get my head round that. I was listening to Sean Hannity on the way home the other day, and he was talking about how the Romney-hates-poor-people video was incomplete - so it might have been tampered with, to make Romney look worse than he is.

So I could 'get' that. They think they're being played, so it makes no difference one way or the other. I can actually understand that psychology. But the people who think it's fair and representative of what Romney said.. and STILL say it makes them MORE likely to support him?

I can't get my head around that, at all.

....Because that's what ultra-conservatives actually believe, man. It's scary shit.

[Rubiconic Crossings V2 rev 1f]

My god...he makes Nixon look good!

[The Emerald Dawn]

My god...he makes Nixon look good!

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..... ..... Complacency is going to be a serious issue over the next month.

[Rubiconic Crossings V2 rev 1f]

My god...he makes Nixon look good!

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..... ..... Complacency is going to be a serious issue over the next month.

I'm really struggling not to make a Oompa Loompa joke...oh damn....

[Khadgar]

My god...he makes Nixon look good!

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His face is orange, his hands are white.

Totally not noticeable. Like an oompa loompa in a three piece suit.

[The Emerald Dawn]

My god...he makes Nixon look good!

(Image)

His face is orange, his hands are white.

Totally not noticeable. Like an oompa loompa in a three piece suit.

Oompa, Loompa, Doopity doo, I wouldn't vote for me and neither should you!

[Rubiconic Crossings V2 rev 1f]

So does this count as the lowest point a presidential campaign has sunk to by a candidate from one of the main two US political parties?