He needs to just stop talking.
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He needs to just stop talking.
Aaron Strife
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Yeah, it seems like a lot of pro-lifers are one-issue voters. If you had two pro-choice candidates on each tickets (recall Romney's own history on abortion), that would probably keep a lot of them from turning out.
Black Republican
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my serious top pics romney might chose
christie, rubio, portman,
christie, rubio, portman,
Manos: The Hans of Fate
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But the fact is they still have the biggest draw of all for those voters: Obama. I also think the Congressional races will keep them at the polls too. While there are viable prolife candidates, Rice does have cross over appeal. Just look at her ratings among African Americans, it's on her wiki page, it was higher than most Republians can ever hope to get. lol
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Officerrob
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No chance on Christie and close to none on Rubio
Manos: The Hans of Fate
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Please no Christie, it's bad enough being in PA and working in NY I see him on the news fairly often, I don't know if I can take a vp run coverage
Can someone explain Rubos appeal, it's a name I hear often, but really nothing in memory.
Officerrob
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He's a minority from a swing state, outside of that he brings nothing. His main issue Obama snatched out from under him.
Officerrob
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Appeal to Cuban voters, much different
cartoon_soldier
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VP Pick I will say my odds are:
80% Rob Portman
19% Tim Pawlenty
1% Paul Ryan
Red State on Condi:
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2012/...ep/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
80% Rob Portman
19% Tim Pawlenty
1% Paul Ryan
Red State on Condi:
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2012/...ep/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
True, but if he is picked they're hoping he will to appeal to all Hispanics.
cartoon_soldier
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Okay, this person steals the VP Guessing game for me
http://twitter.com/#!/search/#RomneySurpriseVPGuesses?q=#RomneySurpriseVPGuesses
Other good ones.
http://twitter.com/#!/search/#RomneySurpriseVPGuesses?q=#RomneySurpriseVPGuesses
Other good ones.
Manos: The Hans of Fate
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If it annoys them that much I might vote for Romney if he picked here. Lol
Rubio. He'll help deliver Florida and he's pretty charismatic. Not much else, but those are pretty good assets.
eBay Huckster
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Comedy option: Bachmann.
Manos: The Hans of Fate
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No, comedy option is Paul or Cain. Bachman is just Rick Santourm with breasts.
eBay Huckster
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Comedy option's any of those four, really
You haven't seen it? Someone link this man.
Correct, but this case should be a little different since Romney's got more visibility and is taking part in something bigger.
The Librarian
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So Romney's response to Bain revelations today is basically "bu-bu-bu-bu-bu VP!"
Oho.
Oho.
I'd go with this also. It would be hilarious to see Paul Ryan get the nom, though.
No way it's Christie, Rice, or Rubio (who probably has his sights set on bigger things down the road).
Smashing Drive
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I'd probably vote for Romney/Rice ticket
Manos: The Hans of Fate
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No, the last two are more fucking annoying more than anything, especially Santorum.
Um... he was the CEO, President, and Director.
Yeah. Transitioning to the center is usually prudent. But on an issue as fundamental as abortion, that would entail substantial risk. I would not antagonize the base for a decision typically of scant consequence.
Yeah. With Obama (finally) supporting marriage equality, I'd love to hear man-on-dog's response. Plus, the vitriolic nonsense he'd vomit would only harm his cause.
As would I. We only afforded Republicans eight years to fix the country. I think they deserve another term.
PhoenixDark
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Party is over, Eric Erickson says Romney folks are telling him Rice isn't going to be VP
back to the Bain stuff...as acting CEO he was still responsible for the company. If they had fucked something up royally, his ass would be brought up regardless of whether he was involved in decision making. This whole thing flies in the face of the general justification of CEO salaries/jobs. They are the company, if things go bad they get blamed, if things go well they get credit.
I'd love to get Kosmo's position on that basic CEO premise
back to the Bain stuff...as acting CEO he was still responsible for the company. If they had fucked something up royally, his ass would be brought up regardless of whether he was involved in decision making. This whole thing flies in the face of the general justification of CEO salaries/jobs. They are the company, if things go bad they get blamed, if things go well they get credit.
I'd love to get Kosmo's position on that basic CEO premise
Lysol wipes
also, here's another ad of Romney's son reading Spanish competently off a teleprompter. I truly don't understand why they make these though. It has about as much resonance with Latinos as if Obama had one of his daughters speak English in an ad. Also, Romney tries to speak Spanish at the end of the vid. It sounds like an American trying to speak Spanish with a ridiculous French accent.
also, here's another ad of Romney's son reading Spanish competently off a teleprompter. I truly don't understand why they make these though. It has about as much resonance with Latinos as if Obama had one of his daughters speak English in an ad. Also, Romney tries to speak Spanish at the end of the vid. It sounds like an American trying to speak Spanish with a ridiculous French accent.
Manos: The Hans of Fate
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At least he tries, the effort can still be appreciated. If one of the candidates somehow did an add in Hebrew, though Yiddish would be cooler, I'd be impressed.
I guess not. I did watch his whole NAACP speech though. Said this morning, it was surprisingly not awful and I was most surprised that he got so much applause. I guess that speech buried his racist comments?
It was later that day at a fundraiser. It wasn't necessarily racist. He just implied that if "they" (while talking about the NAACP booing incident) want more free things from the government, then they should vote for Obama.
I'm guessing he is referring to Romney's comments at an event later in the day when he referred to the booing incident. From memory it wasn't explicitly racist, though the implication is there and it could certainly be interpreted as such if you wanted to.
I must have the world's worst racism detector.
Manos: The Hans of Fate
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Because I wouldn't expect a candidate to try and get the Jewish vote that way, and unlike say Spanish, it's not something most people could pick up in High School or College. I'd be impressed that they put the effort in.
Well unless it turned out like Wesly Clark's appeal to the youth ad talking about Outkast...yes it exist, I highly suggest finding it.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
Lol at Mitt's attempt at speaking Spanish. With a bit of coaching, he could've done a much better job.
Wait, was that NCAA thing really a dog whistle? Usually when I think of such things, it's more vague like "states rights". If this was a dog whistle, it was definitely at a higher frequency, since Romney specifically referred to black people wanting free stuff from the government.
He didn't say black people, otherwise you'd be right. He said "they" and also something like "the people who like Obamacare."
Orbis Tabula
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"If you want free money, vote for the other guy. Or be CEO of Bain Capital."
NullPointer
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I thought "they" was the NAACP. Sounded like a lot of boos in that room.
By the way, I had the privilege of speaking today at the NAACP convention in Houston and I gave them the same speech I am giving you. I dont give different speeches to different audiences alright. I gave them the same speech. When I mentioned I am going to get rid of Obamacare they werent happy, I didnt get the same response. Thats ok, I want people to know what I stand for and if I dont stand for what they want, go vote for someone else, thats just fine. But I hope people understand this, your friends who like Obamacare, you remind them of this, if they want more stuff from government tell them to go vote for the other guy-more free stuff. But dont forget nothing is really free. It has to paid for by people in the private sector creating goods and services, and if people want jobs more than they want free stuff from government, then they are going to have to get government to be smaller. And if they dont want to repeal Obamacare they are going to have to give me some other stuff they are thinking about cutting, but my list takes Obamacare off first and I have a lot of other things I am thinking of cutting.
A lot more innocuous in context.
A lot more innocuous in context.
Narpas Sword0
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Rofl
RustyNails
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Post of the year.
Manos: The Hans of Fate
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Or work for WCW at certain points when it existed. lol
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The only extra obstacle is a different alphabet. Learning Hebrew is otherwise just like learning other language.
It's still subject-verb-object like any western language, and it isn't based around logograph/ideographs that make learning something like Chinese or Japanese a nightmare for naive speakers of latin-derived languages.
Manos: The Hans of Fate
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Well with Yiddish is hard now since it's no really spoken anymore, my point was it was a language you wouldn't already have a head start on commonly from regular schooling.
Regardless did you look up the Wesley Cark ad?
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