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Mitt Romney announces Paul Ryan as running mate
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Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
There is not a single intellectual in all of American history who spoke without blunder. There is not a single president in all of American history who spoke without blunder for a week or more. American discourse has definitely dumbed down from a policy perspective, but there's no great oratorical failure going on here.
Seriously. All I want is someone to give the budget a bit of a hair cut, keep taxes at a level that will make the hair cut worth it towards the deficit and to stay the hell away from peoples personal lives.
Bulbo Urethral Baggins
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Manhug
empty vessel
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He's ignorant. He says that the government has no means to pay for certain things. Think about that.
In another time i might have been considered a Republican with a thought process that actually makes sense, but the Repubs consistently insist on being batshit crazy assholes as well as completely off the rails with their financial ramblings that it literally makes the act of voting for them an attack against your fellow "middle-class" man.
Only if you look like your old avatar.
Yeah I'm not really talking about a simple verbal blunder. I'm more talking about when they say something damaging, then come out the next day and claim that it was taken out of context. I expect these guys to be on point with the meaning of their words.
Gary Whitta
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"Hey, girl, let's cut social programs and makeout in Mitt's car elevator."
As a rural Ohioan, I can substantiate the validity of this statement. I've had people say things like "Well I guess I was wrong about you" after discovering that I was voting democrat.
I love how it just cuts off before the follow-up. Brilliant!
metalslimer
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Haha, social conservatism is going to be fun watching die. Then we can actually have serious debates where I don't have to listen to crap about abortion or how America is a Christian nation.
Souldriver
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The Rolls Royce and Toothpaste "all white" jokes are cracking me up.
I'm drunk.
No I'm not.
Nes I amot.
Nes I amot.
Ether_Snake
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Guy always looks tired/bored. Doesn't look energetic or ever happy.
Souldriver
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CHEEZMO;40917767 said:
You're not alone. People on other sites and forums have said the same.
I love you thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis much, Bulbo. <3
Unfortunately, some of the right wingers on big sites like mediaite are actually using this same clip with SINCERITY that Ryan destroyed Obama. And that makes me sad.
"His father’s death also provoked the kind of existential soul-searching that most kids don’t undertake until college. “I was, like, ‘What is the meaning?’ ” he said. “I just did lots of reading, lots of introspection. I read everything I could get my hands on.” Like many conservatives, he claims to have been profoundly affected by Ayn Rand. After reading “Atlas Shrugged,” he told me, “I said, ‘Wow, I’ve got to check out this economics thing.’ What I liked about her novels was their devastating indictment of the fatal conceit of socialism, of too much government.” He dived into Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, and Milton Friedman."
Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/08/06/120806fa_fact_lizza#ixzz23HQjBtyy
"I read one thing, jumped to a conclusion, and have never reevaluated my ideas since."
NullPointer
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Attempts to materialize Ayn Rand's philosophy into economic policy has done way too much damage to our political discourse. God dammit, college freshman reading The Fountainhead for the first time.
Or, as Flannery O'Connor famously said: "The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail."
Or, as Flannery O'Connor famously said: "The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail."
Without the gymnast it looks like it needs a Brazzers logo.
Vire
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Man they had all chambers loaded up in preparation for this. They must be giddy.Love this picture on Obama's twitter account:
Except he didn't reject that whole government aid is kinda good sometimes philosophy.
Bulbo Urethral Baggins
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To be honest, I'm probably a lot more right wing libertarian than you realize : ) I do a lot of wishful thinking that the Republicans will get a clue. I like actually like Romney, but his shift to the right on social issues is a big problem with me. I don't think he really agrees with all of that. He's been pushed into it and that makes me sad that he just didn't tell the social conservatives to fuck off and focus on the important things.
Gary Whitta
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For some reason I love the most recent response to that tweet, which is an account named "bitchassmotherfucker" asking Obama to follow him.
Is this '08?
Devolution
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RustyNails
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To tell you the truth, I'd have been "ok" with 2002 Romney running. Not ecstatic, but not completely enraged like I am with 2012 Romney.
piratepwnsninja
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Wow, they had their stuff ready to rock.
Tesseract
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it's so good.
GitarooMan
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My big question: Will Mitt send Paul Ryan to the tailor to get a suit that actually fits him?
Charles Koch?
I didn't read through all of the pages however I wanted to say that I hope the Obama campaign brings up to the college voters (aka youth), that if elected Ryan and Romney will make college virtually impossible from anyone from the middle class to go to college, fucking pisses me off that this is an actual issue that is being debated. It's fucking education.
I live in a blood red state and I am bearly able to afford a semester of college and I still have 2 years left.
I hope to god that they won't get elected, if they are I am scared for what will happen.
I live in a blood red state and I am bearly able to afford a semester of college and I still have 2 years left.
I hope to god that they won't get elected, if they are I am scared for what will happen.
I mentioned this on Twitter. Conclusion: looking like a goofy college Republican who's totally not cool, hip and/or modern is probably a bonus for their potential voters.
HA!
oh my god
If you could somehow better send home the message that the "trickle down" method will hurt people more cleverly, I think this pic could grow some legs. This pic is a few steps away from something great.
edit: perhaps the little toothpaste guy says something? Need Gary Whitta to come in and write something snappy up.
Nice work. :lol
I salute you and your contribution to GAF (just this once).
Rentahamster
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If you wanna see the whole thing, just go to the C Span website.
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/SummitPart2
49 minutes, 49 seconds in
Bay Maximus
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Get used to it. You may be seeing it for the next 4 1/2 years.
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