FROM 2012 INTO 2013 POLITICS THREAD

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

Going out on a limb, but I'm guessing Anheiser Busch knows a little about distributing product.

 

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Except if they wrote a world-famous editorial titled "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt."

No fucking chance in hell.

 

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Know who predicted '08 better than Karl Rove? Nate Silver.

 

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Pretty sure FEMA wouldn't be building anticipatory inventory just now ... that would be a pretty dumb use of bottling capacity during a crisis.

 

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

Pussy.

 

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

Remember that Paul Ryan interview in Michigan that ended with the weird question about taxes and gun control? I didn't think Ryan came off too badly in that. Apparently the Romney campaign did -- he hasn't done a local TV interview anywhere in the country since that date Oct. 8, and has done only a few national TV and radio spots. In the first eight weeks he was on the ticket, he did 125 such interviews.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83263.html?hp=f3

Total coincidence that the Michigan one was the last one, campaign says.

 

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

We're at another of my favorite electoral phases: the silly season at the end where the candidates frantically try to redraw the map because of "last-minute polling data." This is frequently a combination of desperation and trying to push the narrative in your favor, but it can't be entirely ignored because sometimes it turns out to be true.

So with that in mind, PA is the new OH:

http://triblive.com/politics/politicalheadlines/2878015-74/romney-percent-poll-state-obama-pennsylvania-president-lee-presidential-voters

 

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It's not like Big Willard is knocking himself out talking to the media either. Guess they just don't want to talk much anymore.

As noted at the time, Ryan, supposedly the silver-tongued orator and nimble-witted theoretician, should have been able to slap it down like a mosquito with a blistering comeback like "clown question, bro."

Instead, he ran like a bitch. And apparently Team RR was afraid the main man probably couldn't do any better in such a situation.

 

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This comes as a slight shock: the NY Daily News endorses Romney. I've read it twice and still don't see how they make much of a case for Mitt.
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/choice-america-future-mitt-romney-article-1.1196299

 

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It seems to come down to, "aw what the heck"

 

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Stupidly disingenuous and cynical.

Rips Obama for not succeeding and instead proposes handing the keys to the motherfuckers who were perfectly willing to trash the economy (and to a substantial extent, did) to make sure he did NOT succeed.

After reciting the economic woes of the nation, they take time out to give thanks for the nation's safety net "which helped keep the label 'Great Depression II' on the shelf,' and then instead propose handing the keys to the motherfuckers who stand ready with the box cutters to reduce that safety net to ribbons (just to make sure that if any future crisis rivals 2008, the label "GDII" will NOT remain on the shelf).

Commends Willard Mittensworth for his "laser-focus" on jobs-jobs-jobs, rhapsodizes about his proposal to cut taxes 20% -- failing to mention the great man has proposed no actual details of how he plans to do either. (He can't reveal these plans, he has explained, because if he did he would lose. )

(Of course Willard's plan to create more jobs-jobs-jobs is not exactly any big secret: it is to give The Job Creators a few more trillion bucks worth of tax cuts on top of the trillions they have already gotten. At some point The Job Creators will wake up and say, 'By Jove, Jeeves, I believe I have enough billions in the bank, I believe I will create some jobs today,' the same way it's been working since 1981.)


Gushes about the little buddy-boy's Medicare plan which would amount to nothing but a Happy Meal Coupon on your way to the morgue for anybody age 54 and younger.

Crainial-rectal inversion on a monumental scale. Head so far up their ass they can see out their throat.

 

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

They sell Bud Light, which involves delivering "huge amounts of water."