It’s a goddamn Mittastrophe
There’s an ad circulating that has caused Wingnutopia to crap its collective pantaloons.
In the ad, a guy named Joe Soptic blames Romney for the death of his wife. Joe had a job, Bain Capital waltzed in and did what Bain Capital does, Joe lost his job, he and his family lost health insurance, his wife got cancer, and she died.
Wingnuts are screaming about the ad, claiming that it is a vicious smear because it calls Romney a murderer, and it’s bullshit because there’s no way to know that the woman wouldn’t have died even if Bain had never entered the picture and laid everybody off, so what the fuck, man.
The right had a nice little narrative going until, like clockwork, the Romney campaign opened its mouth, and in so doing, shot itself in the dick.
Here’s what happened:
In an interview on FoxNews, Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul forgot to hate Obamacare and anything that smells like Obamacare with all of her might, and pointed out that if the Soptics lived in Massachusetts they’d have healthcare thanks to Romneycare. It’s like she forgot that Obamneycare is socialism, is of the devil, and must not ever be named:
“To that point, if people had been in Massachusetts, under Governor Romney’s health care plan, they would have had health care,” Andrea Saul, Romney’s campaign press secretary, said during an appearance on Fox News. “There are a lot of people losing their jobs and losing their health care in President [Barack] Obama’s economy.”
In total disregard for Republicans’ effort to pretend that Romneycare is totally not the basis for Obamacare, you guys, Andrea Saul drew back the Obamacare curtain and revealed a naked shivering Romney to be The Man behind that curtain.
[full post at ABLC]
redshirt
Heh. They mess up by telling the truth. EVIL, right?
amk
etch-a-sketch is becoming drag-a-nail-on-the-board farce.
beltane
And the wingnut response is swift and vicious http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/08/1118160/-Ann-Coulter-Demands-Andrea-Saul-Be-Fired-Or-Conservatives-Should-Boycott-Donating-to-Romney
MikeJ
So when she turned up dead, I let it go. And I said to myself, this is the business we’ve chosen; I didn’t ask who gave the order, because it had nothing to do with business!
Soonergrunt
And I have been laughing my balls off ALL day.
beltane
@amk: Mitt is less etch-a-sketch and more of a Lite-Brite with a dead bulb.
Just Some Fuckhead
I haven’t had this much pleasure over someone dying from cancer since.. hell I can’t remember.
danah gaz (fka gaz)
@Just Some Fuckhead: Now you know the joy Romney feels every single day, amirite?
Waynski
OT … sort of. My cousin needs a bone marrow transplant. We don’t know each other well but her Mother, Mary Lincoln, was as staunch and active a liberal as one will ever know. If you don’t believe me ask anyone in Vermont. I hope you’ll take a look and do what you can.
Here’s the link to find out more about the issue and donate:
http://www.helpamelia.com/index.html
Thanks for listening.
Waynski
Just Some Fuckhead
@danah gaz (fka gaz): Yer killin me!
jwb
Another week like this and Romney won’t make it out of the convention.
amk
Apparently, coulter, the diarrhea mouth, draws her
lineass on the sand and wants that this foot-in-the-mouth babe be fired or else the cons aren’t gonna donate to mittbot. As if he needs their piddly dollars.redshirt
@jwb: Hasn’t it already been many weeks like this already?
CardinalRed
Tax-achusetts, no less.
handy
ZOMG best tweet ever.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@beltane: I haven’t seen Coulter in a long time, I guess since I don’t watch This Week. She was in fine, raging, spluttering fettle. I think/hope/wonder if every crack in Romney’s facade like this doesn’t give Santorum et al the itch to go rogue, to go Buchanan, at the convention. If Li’l Ricky gets that far away look in his eyes, and starts wheezing about sex– if Trump decides he can just drive up his ratings, if Princess Dumbass things she can be the top earner for a couple more years, if Chris Christie goes full Cartman on ‘entitlemnts’– , this thing could be over before Labor Day
jwb
@redshirt: Yes, but it’s now hitting critical, with the wingnutters turning on him.
Mark S.
@redshirt:
Yeah, why is this particular gaffe so much worse than the 300 or so that preceded it?
Here’s Erickson:
If these idiots ever talked to someone who wasn’t a fellow kool-aid drinker, they might learn that many ordinary people are terrified of losing their health insurance. Most people don’t hate Obama so much that they’d rather die of curable diseases if it means ObamaCare goes down.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
She’s still the same anorexic looking knobby gnarled baritone she always was. But as she gets older, she’s losing some of her charm. She sorta looks a little like Ayn Rand now, without the sex appeal.
MonkeyBoy
Ann Coulter is shrieking on Hannity about if Romney doesn’t fire Saul first thing tomorrow then everybody should stop donating money to him.
danah gaz (fka gaz)
Today is a good day.
Wag
@beltane:
FTW
danah gaz (fka gaz)
Hopefully Obama’s campaign is paying close attention, and realizes that the key to a landslide is turning the wingnuts rabidly against Rmoney.
Just Some Fuckhead
What about Greta Van Susteren? That overbite used to be cute when she was a sassy freshman. Now she’s like two neck bolts away from grabbing the lead in the next Frankenstein movie.
Geoduck
@Mark S.:
Because Obamacare. None of the previous slips touched on stuff the wingers actually care about.
Anya
@danah gaz (fka gaz): You get three pinocchios.
danah gaz (fka gaz)
@Geoduck: Yep. I humbly suggest Obama spend the rest of his campaign praising Romney’s health care plan.
Mark S.
Jesus, can we make this an Ann Coulter safe zone? I don’t miss not reading about that bitch at all.
danah gaz (fka gaz)
@Anya: Kessler gets three fingers.
danah gaz (fka gaz)
Sweet, delicious tears. yum.
danah gaz (fka gaz)
@Just Some Fuckhead: The massive jolt of electricity might do her some good.
(Adding, it works on teh poors and teh olds – just ask a cop)
MikeJ
@handy: Are you a fan of crosswords?
If you have acrosslite, the program the NYTs uses, you can download that puzzle from the link under the graphic. Actually you can download it with the program, it just won’t do you any good.
jwb
@Mark S.: But she and Rush are doing a tag team on Romney, demanding scalps and everything. I can hardly wait to see whether Saul makes it through the day tomorrow.
Anya
Good night west coasters, insomniacs, and good morning international juicers.
@danah gaz (fka gaz): And a rusty pitchfork.
Yutsano
@Mark S.: The conservative leaders have been trying to get the base to fall in line behind Willard for awhile now. One little sentence turned all that work into near total garbage. They’ll be lucky if they can get enough turnout now to save the downticket races.
Mark S.
Besides, can’t Mitt just say he retroactively resigned as governor before he signed RomneyCare into law?
GregB
Attention Obama handlers.
Run Mitt the flip-flopper ads in the reddest districts in the country.
Show him praising Roe-v-Wade and woman’s right to choose.
Show him vowing to out support Ted Kennedy on gay rights.
Just do it.
MikeJ
@GregB: No need to mention the flip flopping, just everything he claimed to believe when he wanted to be gov. Throw in his love of gun control too.
Yutsano
@GregB: Hint at the Mormon thing too. The red staters will LURVE voting for a cult bishop!
Villago Delenda Est
The ironing. It is delicious.
danah gaz (fka gaz)
@Yutsano: “They’ll be lucky if they can get enough turnout now to save the downticket races.”
If this continues to get play, it will. Like I said, I hope Obama’s campaign is paying attention.
Yutsano
@danah gaz (fka gaz): I have a feeling O knows he’s got this. He’s doing these ads specifically to get the House back and retain the Senate.
scav
@Yutsano: I almost think it’s more than a 2-way battle for control shaping up, I somehow got the impression today that even the Mittster isn’t hopping and saluting as quickly as the official GOP leaders would like. Mitt the Man with THE Know, the Micro-manager MOTU and Insulter of Anglo-Saxons in puff interviews may be back. Just getting odd feelings of a three-way brawl for control.
danah gaz (fka gaz)
@Yutsano: I think so, too. Sometimes I think I’m overly optimistic when it comes to Democrats.
But really, it’s been a good week. =)
jwb
@Yutsano: Except these ads should be left to the superpacs.
dollared
I think this is a dog whistle to the middle. “See, Mittens is really, secretly moderate. Look at what he did in Mass. Don’t worry, you can vote for him. It’ll be just like Poppy Bush.”
This is what the pundit class is dying to hear. I think this will be the periodic play all along. Lots of kissing ass to the Tea Partiers, and then the occasional reminder to the middle that You Have Nothing to Fear From Moderate Mitt.
Just Some Fuckhead
@MikeJ: Just mention ominously that Romney is the first candidate to sign restrictive gun control legislation into law.
.. then go uptempo happy music and mention Obama signed legislation expanding gun rights, allowing them to be carried in our national parks and show some footage of orange clad Americans shooting a Grizzly Bear with the outline of the Old Faithful geyser in the background. As the gunshot explodes, the geyser shoots up in the air and then water falls as the bear falls and then a water effect covers the screen and runs down in rivulets and forms an outline of the American flag.
victory
I must be in the minority that finds ABL not publishing her entire posts here at Balloon Juice as insulting and galling.
Does she blog here or not?
Zandar and Steve M., they both have their own blogs, and when they blog here , they publish their entire post all the while giving you the choice to click on the link to their blog where the entire post is posted as well. This is called “cross posting”
I am surprised that John lets ABL treat his readership in this way.
Soonergrunt
@Waynski: I’m in the donor registry. No matter who the patient is, no matter what their beliefs, I’m there if I’m called.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Yutsano:
Hell, Mitt got promoted all the way up to Stake President, over multiple congregations with bishops reporting to him. That’s like Archbishop.
danah gaz (fka gaz)
@dollared: If it was, it was a pretty poor one. Perception is everything in politics, and the Romney campaign has egg on it’s face. Also, if Romney’s campaign has demonstrated anything at all, it’s that it is no good at sophisticated messaging. Given their past performance, and a choice between “sophisticated and subtle play”, and “stupid fubar”, “stupid fubar” wins.
Just Some Fuckhead
@victory:
You may be taking this blog/commenting thing too seriously. People write shit, other people write shit back, repeat.
Roger Moore
@Waynski:
Best of luck to your cousin. Everyone who’s eligible should be in the registry. Signing up is simple and painless, and they won’t bother you again unless somebody’s life is on the line.
danah gaz (fka gaz)
@victory: “I am surprised that John lets ABL treat his readership in this way”
She’s a her, not him.I see you fixed that. =)And you’re obviously new. ABL is grandfathered (grandmothered?)
She used to blog here, but got a regular gig elsewhere. She’s essentially a guest poster. That’s why the click throughs. Don’t take it personally.
Also, since you’re new. Welcome. “victory” may not be the best nick to use. Some may confuse you with a troll who shall not be named.
Piratedan
@Mark S.: WIN! still fulfills all basic tenets of IOKIYAR…. besides, what’s one more lie gonna do… the majority of the press is still wetting their pants that some Dems are fighting back against the onslaught of virtual truthiness emanating from the R camp.
victory
@Just Some Fuckhead: I don’t know…I just it insulting and highly annoying.
It’s a basic issue in my opinion…are you a participant here at this blog or not? If so, then share with us. If not, don’t bother.
Plus, it just seems like nothing more than trolling for page views.
David Koch
This ad from the Log Cabin republicans calling Romney a secret liberal is well played
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elx3UWmyAY4&
Geoduck
@Just Some Fuckhead:
I also find it mildly annoying, but not enough to demand John Take Action Now.
victory
@Piratedan: No, not new. I have been around since the days when the left called John a hateful nazi.
This is just something that has always bothered me. I speak out about it every now and again.
It’s nothing personal to anyone, it’s just the idea of it seems very insulting.
Waynski
@Soonergrunt: Thank you so much.
ABL
@Just Some Fuckhead: Oh dear god, somebody make this happen. Hilarious.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Just Some Fuckhead: ..and then as the commercial is fading to black, voiceover from the hunters:
Hunter 1: These colors don’t run.
Hunter 2: That bear shoulda.
BAM! Obama wins Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana.
danah gaz (fka gaz)
@victory: “It’s a basic issue in my opinion…are you a participant here at this blog or not?”
Your opinion, such as it is, has been formed without understanding the history of this blog, or her relationship with it. Rest assured, you are in the minority. There are plenty of people here who dislike ABL but you are the only one that I’m aware of that claims the reason that you do. It’s just because you haven’t been here. There’s a reason ABL’s posts are set up the way they are, as I briefly summarized already.
MikeJ
@David Koch: I like that it ends with “Massachusetts values. Mitt Romney.”
ABL
@victory: Seeing as John is the one that came up with the idea because it benefits both of us, you can go clutch your pearls elsewhere.
SatanicPanic
Ann Coulter used to annoy me, now I just don’t care. It’s like if I met some loser from high school and they tried to make fun of me. I would give them an incredulous look and walk away.
Piratedan
@victory: ummmm wrong target there Tex… I was referencing commenter Mark S, not your comment/issue with ABL.
Villago Delenda Est
@dollared:
The teabaggers will not be fooled. Not again.
This is OvenMitt’s burden. He, and his campaign staff, and surrogates, are being watched for the slightest hint of unorthodoxy. There will be no more “stealth” moderates tolerated.
The deserting coward may not have delivered on everything they wanted, but he didn’t try any stealth moderate crap. He just failed “conservatism”, which can never fail, only be failed.
OvenMitt has no wiggle room. He must toe the line.
Waynski
@Roger Moore: Thank you. Thank you. You all are lifting my heart.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Geoduck:
Imagine John doesn’t care. Got that fixed in yer mind? That’s reality.
ABL
@Just Some Fuckhead:
::logs off::
Martin
John needs to add a “Show me on the doll where ABL touched you” tag.
victory
@Geoduck: I am not saying, “Take action now!”. I just never see anyone broach the subject.
It’s just…I have never seen at any blog anywhere which hosts guest bloggers, have a guest blogger publish only post 1/2 to 1/3 of their post and then force the readers to their own site to read the rest. It just seems like cheap page views and a sham.
There are other guest bloggers here, Zandar, Steve M., both publish their entire posts here, and then leave a link to the cross post on their own blogs. That, I get.
What ABL does….just seems cheap, annoying and insulting.
If you are going to blog here, blog here. Don’t go half arsed.
Frankensteinbeck
I see what you did there.
Yutsano
@Just Some Fuckhead: Yeah but Stake President sounds like they’re about to eat nummy cow. Most Talibangelicals at least have a vague understanding what a bishop is, even if they’ll end up confusing Willard with the Whore of Babylon.
@ABL: You really do bring out the most fascinating concern trolls hon.
JustAnotherBob
@Yutsano:
” I have a feeling O knows he’s got this. He’s doing these ads specifically to get the House back and retain the Senate.”
You know that O has this.
This is his second big opportunity to grab control and change the country into something better. PBO plays to win and plays hard. He’s had this mapped out for a year or more. That’s how he works.
With the stuff they’ve released on Mitt so far, I am so much looking forward to seeing what they’ve got for the next several rounds. There’s no thought of winning on a technical, it’s a total whippin’ that’s planned.
Now what we need to do is to get busy and help with some of the House and Senate races.
Roger Moore
@Soonergrunt:
Actually, if you’re ever called you’ll only get very basic information about the patient: their age, gender, illness, and whether they’re in the USA or not. Everything else is kept confidential for a minimum of a year, and confidentiality can only be broken with the permission of both parties. Some of that is specifically to prevent people who might not be as open minded as you from withholding a donation because they don’t approve of the patient for some reason.
FWIW, my donation will be 5 years this December.
danah gaz (fka gaz)
@victory: This is the last I’ll say on the subject.
I assumed you were new because you referred to ABL with male pronouns, and because you were completely unaware of the arc of her tenure. Maybe you’re not new. Maybe you just haven’t been to this blog since Bush was in office. I assure you, it’s quite a different place in many respects now.
ABL’s posts were at one point, entirely here. Then, she moved to Raw Story, and x-posted here. Meanwhile, she x-posted at ABLC the entire time. Now it seems, she’s running an expanded ABLC, and so her link outs go there (as per her continued agreement between John and her)
Now, you may not like it, but honestly, I think you’re just being nut-picky. Either way, you have a click-through, followed by a browser request. The main difference is with ABL’s posts they go to a different domain. To which I say, who gives a fuck?
You know what I find mildly annoying? People that choose to go on and on about a minor off-topic annoyance on a non open thread. So I say this with the all due respect: Kindly go fuck yourself, you stupid troll.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Yutsano: Just say Romney was an Archvillain in the Mormon Church (and then clear your throat and say “excuse me, I meant to say Archbishop when I said Archvillain”) and then let the Romney campaign explain the difference. When yer explaining, yer losing.
victory
@danah gaz (fka gaz): Nope. I love reading here posts. I think she does a great job. As happened with this post here, I read the entire thing, saw her [full post at ABL] and knew where that went. Ok, I get it.
But, before that I saw the phrased hyperlink and thought, “Wow, she is actually going to post the entire post here! GREAT!”. Nope. Fooled. And, well, it just brought my though to the forefront.
To ABL….I love reading your posts. I really, honestly do. I just wish I could read them in their entirety here at Balloon Juice. I really don’t think that is too much to ask.
Oh, and no clutching involved. Pearls are out of my price range.
Just Some Fuckhead
@ABL:
Hehe.
That would be a kickass commercial though.
Hell, I’d prolly vote for Obama.
The Moar You Know
@victory: No one gives a shit what you think.
I’d frankly read less of her copypasta than more, so this is a welcome development.
David Koch
In a great bit of timing, Obummer spent the day in Colorado pushing healthcare to overflow crowds.
http://director.denverpost.com/p.php?a=JSoiOSI4bHFbZWljfmVeOTEkXFdOJzs2Nj8lODIiKyAmIi0jJjImKDsnNyMoNDsuOjo3JT4mNzc%3D&m=1344463771
victory
@danah gaz (fka gaz): First, please re read my first post in this section, #48, where you will see I use female pronouns in referring to ABL. I know she is a she. Always have.
Second, I posted a thought. People responded. I responded. People got upset. I’m sorry. I didn’t realize this would be “a thing”.
Apparently it is. Go figure.
victory
@The Moar You Know: Like I said. I like reading her.
This is an annoyance I have.
I shared.
People got in a huff.
Who knew?
danah gaz (fka gaz)
@victory: You had a good thing going with that whole not-posting-thing you had going on here for years. Maybe you should try that again. It suits you.
@Yutsano: “Most Talibangelicals at least have a vague understanding what a bishop is, even if they’ll end up confusing Willard with the Whore of Babylon.”
LOL.
danah gaz (fka gaz)
@victory: You had a good thing going with that whole not-posting-here thing you had going on here for years. Maybe you should try that again. It suits you.
@Yutsano: “Most Talibangelicals at least have a vague understanding what a bishop is, even if they’ll end up confusing Willard with the Whore of Babylon.”
LOL.
SatanicPanic
@victory: Damn you! Just kidding. I kind of thought the same thing- hey, let us read the whole thing.
(ducks, hoping to avoid Gaz’s ire)
Roger Moore
@Waynski:
I’m a donor, and donating really changed my life. I work at one of the biggest and best transplant hospitals in the country, though in research not patient care. Every year, we hold a reunion where patients, donors, families, and medical staff get together to celebrate our successes; you’d have to have a heart of stone not to be moved by some of the stories. I was actually at a meeting today about organizing an employee registration drive.
Marrow and stem cell donation is personal to me. I’m not religious, and before I donated I didn’t understand why religious people want to evangelize. Now I do. When you have something that important to you, you want to let the world know about it.
MikeJ
@David Koch:
Didja see yesterday the wingers were trying to get people to believe that when Obama speaks at the convention the hall will be empty because nobody wants to be there to hear such a horrible speaker. I really hope they run with that one.
danah gaz (fka gaz)
@SatanicPanic: I’m in too good a mood to direct it at you. You weren’t the one that tried to spoil it, either.
SatanicPanic
@MikeJ: Clearly, they mean the times when he doesn’t have a teleprompter. If he does have a teleprompter, he’s a celebrity, and that’s a bad thing.
patrick II
So far this Romney candidacy has lived up to my dream scenario for this election — which was that Romney gets nominated, loses badly, conservatives decide that Romney’s problem was that he wasn’t conservative enough and nominate a “true conservative” in 2016 and get killed even worse. This election isn’t over yet, but it could happen.
Spaghetti Lee
Boy oh boy. What was that one Onion headline? Something like “Romney tries to come to terms with shameful past of providing health insurance to poor people.”
SatanicPanic
@danah gaz (fka gaz): :)
JoeShabadoo
@victory:
Just consider ABL posts ads disguised as regular posts.
dead existentialist
@David Koch: Well, it was from 2007.
Reuse, recycle, REDUCE!
victory
@danah gaz (fka gaz): Hunh? I post here with somewhat regularity. Roughly one a day, about.
Narcissus
A naked shivering Romney opened his mouth, out of which emerged a gun, which then shot his own wang.
I had that dream once
Just Some Fuckhead
@victory: Thanks for sharing but this is really one of those “Ever open up a little and someone else opens up too much?” moments. People don’t like to see a good thread kilt daid over this kinda nonsense.
Email John with your concerns. He *loves* getting reader mail. Helps break up the monotonous porn watching marathons.
Pen
@victory: Trust me victory, doing anything that could, in any way, be seen as arguing with or criticizing ABL on one of her threads is the surest recipe for an internet ass-whooping you can have on BJ. I agree with you 100% but it’s really, REALLY, not worth pointing out.
And for all of you who want to trash on me for agreeing with victory that ABL’s arrangement with the boss would, in any other situation, be link-trolling feel free. I really couldn’t give a shit and the only reason I’m even commenting is to lend victory a friendly hand. ABL and John have their arrangement and it suits them fine, maybe you could try explaining that before you decide to go the blog gang beatdown route… just a thought.
danah gaz (fka gaz)
@victory: Fortunately, you were easier to ignore before. I didn’t even notice you.
victory
@SatanicPanic: Again. Sorry. I didn’t realize sharing an annoyance I have would cause all this stress and emotion.
Who knew people would get so upset? I sure didn’t.
danah gaz (fka gaz)
@Just Some Fuckhead: lol
The prophet Nostradumbass
Something that irritates the shit out of me: Tune in The Last Word this evening (guest hosted by Alex Wagner, for some unfathomable reason), and the first five minutes of it consists of nothing but clips of Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh. If I wanted to listen to those fascists, I’d watch Fox News or tune in to the shit’s radio show.
Pen
@patrick II: I’m actually looking forward to how bad things are for Romney during the GOP convention. At this point it feels, finally, like our side’s kicking ass and taking names and he’s not even ‘officially’ the opponent yet. If things are going this good now I’m looking forward to what Obama brings to the fight once things get real.
victory
@danah gaz (fka gaz): Well, that’s because I never went all Andy Rooney in these parts.
Apparently, that gets peoples attention.
Consider me warned.
danah gaz (fka gaz)
@Pen: my thoughts exactly, now stay out of my head!
/adjusts foil hat
victory
@Pen: I appreciate the vote.
Again, I jut thought I’d share an annoyance that I thought was a pretty, basic, concept.
People proceeded to tear my head off.
Again, warning heeded.
amk
@David Koch: The best part of CO meet was that he re-opened the war on wimmin line of attack. mittbot will be boxed in, come labor day and the chicago style politics guy will deep-six the keys.
Pen
@danah gaz (fka gaz): So that’s a no-go on moving the sofa and beer fridge in? Damn, and I was just getting cozy.
Just Some Fuckhead
Shame cbear never showed, prolly back in jail.
Night all.
SatanicPanic
@victory: There’s been some drama here regarding her, mostly not of her making. I blame Glenn Greenwald.
David Koch
@MikeJ: He’ll be speaking at Charlotte’s football stadium that holds 75,000.
And if somehow only 70,000 people attend, they and the media will go on and on that it was only 70K and not 75K.
Quicksand
@Martin:
A little lower . . . a little lower . . . uh huh, oh yeah.
danah gaz (fka gaz)
@Pen: LOL!
Gordy
@CardinalRed: You mean live a longer and happier life-achussets?
danah gaz (fka gaz)
@SatanicPanic: “I blame Glenn Greenwald”
I’ve found that that’s a good policy in general.
I ran out of ice cream tonight. I’m shaking my fist at him right now.
SatanicPanic
@danah gaz (fka gaz): He used his magic lawyer power to deplete your ice cream, I’m sure. Let’s not talk about him too much though, he’ll appear and post a 16 page essay on how much worse we are than George W Bush.
AnotherBruce
@patrick II: My dream scenario too, however, like any good dream, it is fraught with danger.
danah gaz (fka gaz)
@SatanicPanic: I said his name into a mirror 3 times once, and a bunch of virginal, 30-something Ron Paulers popped out of the woodwork and attacked me.
SatanicPanic
@danah gaz (fka gaz): hahahahaha, I knew that wasn’t just an urban legend
danah gaz (fka gaz)
@SatanicPanic: I suppose I should go to sleep. So goodnight.
It’s been fun. mostly =)
/waves at the board
Yutsano
@Quicksand: Don’t move…I’ll get you a towel.
MikeBoyScout
So, do I have this right?
All the teabagging wingnuts who are suffering myocardial infarctions and cerebrovascular accidents over Andrea Saul’s comments should hop on a plane for Massachusetts where they are guaranteed quality health care.
Jewish Steel
@Just Some Fuckhead:
One of the things I like best about him.
Bago
@victory: I present unto your refund.
AxelFoley
@JustAnotherBob:
This.
TenguPhule
Well that didn’t take long.
The pushback by the corporate media against the ad has begun.
They’re starting to flood with “Obama campaign backpedels on denial of claims told in May”
Kane
That was Romney speaking in Iowa on Wednesday. If Andrea Saul needs to be fired, so does Romney. Saul’s comment seems to be less of gaffe and more of a sign that Romney is attempting to shift his position on health care. TeamRomney has surely seen the recent polling on Obamacare showing that people, especially women, actually like many of its features and benefits. Romney wants some of that health care mojo.
danielx
@Just Some Fuckhead:
Oooh, snap! That’s like saying Dick Cheney without the charm, especially if you’ve ever seen a picture of Ayn Rand. As to her charm, that presupposes she had any in the first place.
Taking a wild guess, Andrea Saul will be sending out resumes today. Although I could be wrong; Mittens might well decide to just say fuck it and put wingnutteria on notice that right now they need him a lot worse than he needs them, per Mr. Charles Pierce:
“I’m Mitt Romney, bitches, and I’m all you got.”
Lojasmo
@victory:
Will you kindly STFU, you nattering dickhead? There, now you’ve seen something insulting.
Cassidy
@victory: This again? Jeebus. I swear, if someone doesn’t shoot this fucking zombie topic in the head this time I’m going to withold a weeks rations.
The Other Bob
@GregB:
Please, please run flip flopper ads to demoralize the base and turn…well everybody against him.
The only issue I have with the recent SuperPAC ad is that there are so many other more awesome issues to nail Romney for. Of course the media does not cover those.
Bobby Thomson
On the bright side for Willard, he seems to have gotten people to stop talking about his taxes.
Bobby Thomson
@Just Some Fuckhead:
Cum shots are passe.
Lurking Canadian
@Yutsano: That has been my impression, building for some time now. The reason they brought out the heavy artillery so early is that they think they can just flatten Mitt in the first round then move on to the rest of the Republican party.
So far, the evidence seems to support this belief.
quannlace
Ugh, on Morning Joe, there was a massive pearl-clutching about how Super Pacs have ‘led to this sort of thing.’ Funny, I don’t remember their collective outrage over the Pac-generated ads comming from the Right. I guess this was their way of deflecting attention from the Saul gaffe.
Tom65
@victory:
Feelings….nothing more than feelings…
Satchel
With respect: the commercial says that Mr. Soptic’s wife died of pneumonia, not cancer. Which is equally, if not more, tragic, because presumably early diagnosis and treatment could have prevented her death. This is truly the Bain legacy, let them run and hide how they will.
hedgehog the occasional commenter
@Waynski:
I’m on the registry, have been for years. (I also donate blood regularly.)
Cacti
My fondest hope was that the 2012 GOP nomination would degenerate into a fratricidal knife fight.
Willard may yet make it happen.
Satchel
Crud, never mind. I misheard the commercial on the radio this morning. ABL had it right.
McJulie
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I’m starting to suspect that the right doesn’t actually think they can win this one at the POTUS level, and aren’t trying to. What they are trying to do is maintain right wing ideological purity, and they will throw Mitt under a bus to do it.
Catsy
@victory:
You’re far from the only one, but in fairness she’s been doing a lot better lately–she’s posting excerpts that can at least stand on their own as complete posts rather than spamming B-J with one or two token sentences and an ad for her blog. It’s why I haven’t been making any noise about it.
danah gaz (fka gaz)
@Lurking Canadian: I sooo hope they change candidates this late in the game.
Without even taking into account the crazy idiots they dredged up the first time around, this would be a sheer, unmitigated disaster for them.
The fail runs deep. How lovely.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@McJulie: That and trying to keep the base motivated enough to go vote in November so the GOP doesn’t get trashed in the down ticket elections. Someone at KOS was noting a big push to make Paul Ryan the VP choice. Ryan would be the kiss of death for Romney but he does have base appeal.
Catsy
@danah gaz (fka gaz):
I wouldn’t make that assumption if I were you. I’ve been reading here since 2003 and commenting almost as long. I’m well aware of ABL’s history here and find her relatively recent habit of traffic-trolling tacky and disrespectful as well–in part precisely because I remember what she used to contribute here (and enjoyed that contribution) and the contrast is jarring.
And from the sounds of it, “victory” has been here about as long.
See, this is the mistake that people keep making when they take exception to anyone who objects to ABL’s bait-and-switch spam posts: assuming that anyone who is annoyed by it enough to say something must be doing it out of animus for ABL, or must be one of her recurring hate-trolls.
I like ABL and her writing. I’ve lost count of how many of her posts I’ve linked to my SO while cackling happily.
I just think it’s shitty when she posts ads for her blog here rather than actual posts with content that stands on its own. And I’m not even talking about this post–as I mentioned above, this is an example of doing it right.
And there are reasons that tacky practice annoys some people, reasons that have nothing at all to do with ABL herself or the history behind why she started doing it this way.
danah gaz (fka gaz)
@Catsy: Sigh.
I should have just said STFU with your off topic nonsense and left it at that.
Because that’s the alpha and omega of my point.
Now can we please move the fuck along? kthx
ETA: Although it’s been improving, I’ve often felt that front pagers should provide the occasional post where people can air all of their fucking hatred for ABL in one place, and get it the fuck out of their system without derailing every goddamned post that happens to have ABL as it’s author. Jesus wept.
Catsy
@danah gaz (fka gaz): If you think my opinions on this subject or my response to you have anything at all to do with hating ABL, I can only suggest that next time you avoid embarrassing yourself and expend the minimal effort necessary to read a comment before responding to it.
danah gaz (fka gaz)
@Catsy: I’ll make you a deal. If expend the minimal effort necessary to keep your comments on topic, I’ll expend the minimal effort necessary to read them. kthx
Catsy
@danah gaz (fka gaz): Point of order: if you’re not going to bother to read a comment, you have no place opining on its topicality.
Or responding to it, for that matter.
Just Some Fuckhead
Maybe you girls should be Catty and Grr.
ABL
@Catsy: an “ad”? is that what we’re calling links now? Jesus Christ, some of y’all are flat-out ridiculous.