The NYT had a reporter on the plane for Mitt’s long flight to Salt Lake City after his 10pm LA press avail. He had this to say:
Still, a flustered adviser, describing the mood, said that the campaign was turning into a vulgar, unprintable phrase.
Hmmm, what was the word and/or words?
Mayhaps it was something like “the campaign was turning into a fowl-smelling camel cunt”, but of course I could be wrong.
Put your best guess forward.
Cheers
arguingwithsignposts
Shitshow FAIL parade
different-church-lady
Big sour donkey cock?
different-church-lady
Oh, wait, that’s easy: Cluster Fuck.
karl
Your anti-Arab sexism offends me.
And #3 has said the secret word(s), he gets $100 dollars.
Ripley
UNLIMITED CORPORATE CASH!
Well, I find it vulgar….
Calming Influence
Contrite Romney apologizes to ‘snaggle-toothed street people’.
amorphous
“Mitt Romney Speech”
Drunken hausfrau
Shit storm? They are Mormons…st is a bad word for them…
SIA
@different-church-lady: That is so hilarious and I don’t know why.
Political Observer
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
“Four more years”
gogol's wife
@different-church-lady:
This was Comrade Jake’s guess in the thread below, and I second it. (third it)
SatanicPanic
felch-a-thon
SatanicPanic
felch-a-thon
Keith
A beer-bong vomit enema
different-church-lady
@Calming Influence: OMG, how the hell do they do that year after year after year?
Wag
A steaming pile of shit spread on wonder bread and topped with a healthy heaping blob of afterbirth.
Toasted.
Calming Influence
“Dung spattered puke platter”?
arguingwithsignposts
@Political Observer: This is Good News for Mitt Romney!
mai naem
Oh, come now, this is obvious. CLUSTERFUCK.
Oops, I just noticed somebody already got mah answer.
SiubhanDuinne
Fustercluck ?
Custerfluck ?
Flustercuck ?
I dunno, I give up.
different-church-lady
Big sour hairy donkey cock?
Spaghetti Lee
said the campaign was turning into a…
Oopsie-pie?
Also, I believe that would be ‘foul-smelling camel cunt’ unless we’re talking about camels who fuck chickens.
lamh35
the end of that article was such BS wasn’t it. The campaign perked up about a video from 1998 that only Fox is talking about….Puh-lease.
I also like how the article stated what the recording says POTUS said, but leaves out the fact that the recording cuts out right after the RNC got the soundbite they needed to keep the statement out of context.
It’s really just sad!
j.e.b.
Definitely agreeing with “clusterfuck”
Spaghetti Lee
@amorphous:
Excuse me! We don’t use language like that here!
Calming Influence
“Chancre encrusted pus pie”?
Jewish Steel
Hot Carl Campaign Calamity.
Ben Franklin
Squamous cell in a right wing tumor parade?
Bill E Pilgrim
I think calling the campaign “a vulgar, unprintable phrase” is perfect all by itself. Maybe that’s not a substitution but actually what he said.
dance around in your bones
I’m with different church lady – Cluster Fuck.
Or what is it they say in the military: SNAFU?
Situation Normal, All Fucked Up.
Uncle Cosmo
Q: What is the difference between a thoroughly agitated hen & the Romney campaign?
A: The former is a flustered cluck, the latter is a (see #3 infra)…
arguingwithsignposts
OK, people, when he says “put your best guess forward,” he wants creativity, not the safe bet. This is Balloon Juice, not Hollywood Squares.
Calming Influence
“Coca Cola infused coffee beer”?
hhex65
“Lemon Party”
arguingwithsignposts
@Jewish Steel: A Cleveland Steamer of a Campaign
Dennis G.
I have to say that this new Randy Newman song and video that Tom wrote about has had me laughing all day. I’m on my 11th listen. That bit about the “Reagans gobbled up before their time” is just too over the top…
lamh35
So the RNC and Romney camp trying to push that video of POTUS from 1998. My guess they were sitting on this video and were gonna sayve it for either right before or after the domestic policy debate and then Robme would try to either get POTUS to say something and use the vid to try to box in POTUS.
But thanks to the timing of David Corn and Mother Jones, the mofos all of asudden wanna play “hey Obama had a video too game”, but that video is from 1998 and Romney’s is from this past May. #falsequivalency FAIL mittens!
Keith
@lamh35: Maybe if we’re lucky, Romney will start pushing the “where is Obama’s senior thesis?!?” the “Obama hugged a black man!” memes.
Randy P
@Bill E Pilgrim: I like it. Showing my age, but for awhile during and after the Watergate hearings, “expletive deleted” was a popular phrase.
count ulster
I’m going with “a vast bowl of pus.”
Ben Franklin
Can anything good come out of Nazareth?
JGabriel
Goddamn motherfuckin’ shitshow pisshole clusterfuck of ass-up tit-tanic proportions.
Then he sighed and added wearily, Fuckin’ cocksuckin’ horsecock, and his eyes slid to the airplane window where he looked out at the abyss like a man who wanted to jump into it and leave this hell behind.
.
Dennis G.
@Spaghetti Lee: adjustment made as suggested. Thanks.
Comrade Dread
The campaign has turning into such a bloated, festering, fucking unholy abomination that the only people who are still interested in us are blind necrophiliacs who’ve lost their sense of smell.
Calming Influence
“Decomposing pile of shite career choices”?
Xecky Gilchrist
@Drunken hausfrau: Ha, yes. They are Mormons, so I’m going to go with clusterfetch.
geg6
Oh, it’s no doubt that he said clusterfuck. This campaign should be the picture illustrating the meaning on a dictionary site.
And can I just say how delicious it is that it was Jimmy “History’s Greatest Monster” Carter’s grandson who got the scoop? Mr. President is a good and forgiving true Christian man of integrity and I am sure he is not gloating over this torpedoing of a pale imitation of the man who beat him and who started the whole dismantling of our politics and economy and sell it to the rich white men who had made him a rich white man who got the best role of his whole acting career. But I am not a Christian and I am taking great pleasure and joy in this meltdown and how it was brought about. I generally don’t like to watch anyone suffer, but if anyone deserves some suffering in life, it would be Little Lord Mittens.
Shinobi
Festering Elephant Foreskin?
chopper
“abortion milkshake?”
Bill E Pilgrim
@Randy P: Maybe he said “phase”. It certainly has been vulgar lately, and I bet they wish some of it hadn’t been printed.
danielx
Clusterfuck.
I’m thinking consensus has been reached.
Definition, one of several:
Calming Influence
@Comrade Dread: OK, admit it: you’ve seen leaked video from the campaign plane, right?
Yutsano
Mmm…Charlie Foxtrots.
redshirt
No good-diddly dang nab its!
kc
Clusterfuck.
Howard Beale IV
Fsck-ed. (for you Unix/Linux weenies.)
Publius39
“Fuck-bomb” may be an accurate adjective for his campaign at this point.
Bill E Pilgrim
SNROM
Situation Normal, Romney Opened his Mouth
As long as we’re going GI.
Military, not tract. You’re welcome.
Trentrunner
I was suspended for using the c-word.
IN THE COMMENTS.
Cuntastic!
Calming Influence
“Spanked marmot with a chip on its shoulder”?
mai naem
@Political Observer: Hey, are you one of Mitt’s sons. Are you Tagg, Biff, Brock or the gay one whatshisname Tad?Chad?Chauncey? I just can’t keep these names apart.
g
clusterfuck.
pseudonymous in nc
Flustercluck.
I don’t bet on Team Money Boo Boo even to get its unprintable vulgarities right.
Lyrebird
@Bill E Pilgrim: a vulgar, unprintable serenade!
rageahol
syphilitic pigfucker?
Shalimar
Great. Cluster f-bombs are unprintable and vulgar. Cluster muslim-killing bombs are good, old-fashioned American fun.
Captain C
While I’d have to join the clusterfuck bandwagon based on what I think is likely, I’m really hoping for at least one of these: @Calming Influence: @Comrade Dread:
different-church-lady
Big sour hairy donkey cock a la mode!
Yutsano
@danielx: One refreshing fizzy beverage due anon!!
Captain C
@Shalimar: I’m reminded of George Carlin’s routine where he suggests replacing “kill” with “fuck” in various cliches and phrases.
SFAW
@Calming Influence:
That is just too weird for words.
con-cerned
@different-church-lady: And one for the Greatest Generation..FUBAR
Howard Beale IV
Actually, as it goes to the Romney campaign: SNAFU.
DPS
Since the reporter calls it a phrase not a word, I’m going to guess that it’s actually “total clusterfuck” or “giant clusterfuck” or maybe “complete clusterfuck.” Maybe even “epic” or “colossal”!
I actually don’t agree with the adviser that their campaign is turning into a clusterfuck, though. I think it has been a clusterfuck for some time now.
Yutsano
Fucking Moroni on a unicycle?
GxB
“Incestuous, money themed circle jerk?”
Oh, this was AFTER the most recent events, then I’ll go with
“Anal bleaching with Ebola extract?”
(Haven’t read the other submissions but I got a feeling this is going to be epic)
Xecky Gilchrist
@DPS: Since the reporter calls it a phrase not a word
You’re right, I didn’t follow that rule.
How about “shit tornado?”
different-church-lady
@JGabriel: “This is NPR.”
SiubhanDuinne
@Spaghetti Lee:
You know damn well those chickens aren’t going to fuck themselves.
Dennis G.
@danielx: It seems that Sully agrees…
different-church-lady
@Calming Influence: That’s a perfectly cromulent phrase.
SatanicPanic
The campaign is so poorly run it’s like when your party runs out of wetsuits, dildos, meth, rent boys, suitcases full of boner pills, interns who will blow you in the front seat of you car, long strokes, Catholic Bishops and airport bathroom stalls.
different-church-lady
And a Mr. St. John of Huntingdon said he couldn’t think of anything more vulgar than ‘Romney Campaign’.
different-church-lady
@SatanicPanic: And ain’t none of them ever gonna say “Green balloons.”
LanceThruster
…a steaming storm of Santorum.
On the plus side, thank Kolob for dumb people.
GxB
@SIA: Probably because a church lady said it.
Also too, Lil help? my submission is in moderation ‘cuz in my zeal I used the term for unnatural familial relations – I am sorry if anyone may have found such terms offensive. It was not my intention, and so on and so forth…
different-church-lady
@Spaghetti Lee:
Oh? Where do you usually go?
danielx
@Dennis G.:
I’d love to hear the suggestions from the reporters following Mittens around…I’m thinking “epic display of suck and fail” would be in there somewhere, you know they pride themselves on being erudite.
dance around in your bones
I call for FUFAP – Fucking Face Plant.
Ben Franklin
@SatanicPanic:
dang! That covers it…
Bort
This is unconfirmed, but I heard that Romney was so enraged he said the word “damn”. And then Tagg feinted.
Temporarily Max McGee (Soon Enought To Be Andy K Again)
@DPS:
My money is on “Mongolian clusterfuck”.
arguingwithsignposts
@SatanicPanic: and diapers.
Sam Waiz
FUBAR – Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition,
Although Clusterfuck seems most appropriate.
1badbaba3
Hey this is kinda like Match Game, innit? But I can’t decide if I want to be Dickie Dawson or the ditzy blonde-of-the-week. So I’ll just say “the campaign was so blank…”
Thirty Twice
The Aristocrats!
NotMax
It’s obviously clusterf*ck.
But maybe, just maybe, he said “f*cking Little Big Horn.”
different-church-lady
@Thirty Twice: FTW!
SatanicPanic
@different-church-lady: That could lead to confusion as Limbaugh’s balls are also referred to as Green Balloons at these parties
Jamey
“Credible witness at a Warren Jeffs trial”? Beyond that I got nuthin’
burnspbesq
Hot doofus-on-ignoramus action.
pattonbt
@Political Observer: I know youre just trolling, but I will grant this, the national polling is close and will probably remain close, with Obama probably maintaining a lead there on average throughout. But……
There is this little thing called the electoral college which is not close. Not remotely close. When that gets closer, I might start to worry a bit.
That said, it’s best to be cautious and assume you are behind and act accordingly, so as far as I am concerned, its close for the duration and no one should get cocky.
But seriously, care to comment on the awful electoral college outloook Romnay has based on current and long term polling? Can you please provide a rational path Romney has to winning? It doesnt look pretty without a complete Obama collapse.
Cheers.
Dennis G.
@Thirty Twice: Very good. Very good.
TaMara (BHF)
That whole article is a thing of beauty. You can feel the spiral.
shoutingattherain
“A shit hemorrhage”
1badbaba3
@SatanicPanic: Unpossible. He lost those years ago in a surgical mix-up. Must have been looking for the anal cyst. Oopsie.
Loneoak
Slow shower of green puss from the diseased cloaca of a Canada goose?
Robert Waldmann
@NotMax: combine the two
a total Custer fuck
MobiusKlein
Wait, if you have multiple wives, why is a cluster fuck bad?
Mike
@geg6:
Actually, he congratulated his grandson and told him that he was a “proud papa”. :-)
feebog
I’ll take total shitstorm for $400 Alex…
@DaveWaia
sodomy-carnival
different-church-lady
@feebog:
MoeLarryAndJesus
@SatanicPanic:
Aw, Jeezus, that’s a fucking riot.
I would give a thousand bucks to the Obama campaign in order to see the look on Cruella Romney’s face as aides explained to her what felching is.
AnotherBruce
Clusterfuck that Chicken!
danah gaz
Mitt Romney?
Jennifer
Late to the thread, but it was definitely Clusterfuck.
Nylund
I think the obvious answers are clusterfuck or shit storm, but I like the imagination of others. Then again, if Romney’s advisers cater to his anti-swearing Mormon sensibilities then I’m going with foul smelling camel vajayjay.
Ms. D. Ranged in AZ (formerly IrishGirl)
My guess:
A big fucking cup of steaming Santorum.
(at least it has alliteration and a bonus political rival reference going for it /shrug)
danimal
…gangrenous pool of phlegm and spit. IOW, a Limbaugh special.
CW in LA
A “Dripping-diarrhea dirty Sanchez on the face of Teabagger Nation”?
LD50
@pattonbt: Don’t bother. P.O. was presented with the Electoral College realities on a different thread and just babbled and ran away.
He started stumbling when he claimed that 332 to 206 was “still close!”
CW in LA
How about “a wet hippopotamus fart that serves as the death knell for movement conservatism”?
GxB
Well, this thread has been instructive. I’ve been re-acquainted with “The Aristocrats” joke and I now know what “Fletching” is.
We should see if this site could get an endowment of the arts grant or possibly electronically preserved for it’s cultural heritage… let’s see…
Camel hoo-ha, foreskin, rectal excrement and their analogs across a few species…Limbaugh and other mammalian genitals… ooh that covers several scattered categories, military jargon, and spanked marmot, yep, that aughtta seal it…
Epic thread.
FormerSwingVoter
“Anus plunger”?
CW in LA
Maybe “A long, slow drink of Sarah Palin’s lukewarm crotch juice”?
Nemo_N
“Rich people”?
“This person is lying”?
asiangrrlMN
George W. Bush.
Pete Mack
Since it’s the Republican party, I’ll go for steaming pile of elephant turds.
But that’s just because clusterfuck is so conventional.
Cacti
@different-church-lady:
Yeah, clusterfuck was the first thing that popped into my mind also, too.
ABL
cockwallet cabaret.
Thor Heyerdahl
“I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km7WD8wkb1c
Triassic Sands
No expletives are needed.
If I had to guess, the adviser could have simply said, “This is turning into another typical Republican campaign. Bad candidate with nothing to offer anyone but the filthy rich. Unfortunately, Mitt isn’t nearly as good at keeping the lawn free of kids as McCain was. Maybe 2016 will be better. If unemployment is at 86%, and we’re losing three or four wars, why we just might have a chance.”
(Actually, that level of negativity isn’t really warranted, since the GOP always has at least two or three aces up their sleeves — for example, stupid voters, voter suppression laws, and the SCOTUS. That combination could conceivably save a total loser like Romney.)
Thor Heyerdahl
A giant ragged, charcoal black, puss-filled, gangrenous and necrotized elephant cock covered in foul smelling red-hued monkey-tossed shit?
xian
shit show
AnnaN
Cluster cuss or cuss storm.
AnnaN
Cluster cuss or cuss storm.
different-church-lady
@Thor Heyerdahl: A giant ragged, charcoal black, puss-filled, gangrenous and necrotized elephant cock covered in foul smelling red-hued monkey-tossed shit a la mode!
...now I try to be amused
A hovercraft full of eels.
Or: Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam, and spam.
Barney
You can’t go wrong with the origin of #romneyshambles:
‘Jesus Christ, see you, you are a fucking omni-shambles, that’s what you are. You’re like that coffee machine, you know, “From bean to cup, you fuck up.”‘
Cris (without an H)
Essence of evil, boiled down to a thick syrup, poured over a pile of loose stool, sprinkled with tapeworms, then set on fire.
Sasha
Normally, I’d imagine that said advisor would simply have said “clusterfuck”, but that’s merely a vulgar, unprintable word not a vulgar, unprintable phrase.
Perhaps “santorum-filled clusterfuck”?
DGarr
Mark McKinnon, Republican strategist and Bush campaign aide, wrote the following today:
“I loved Michelle Obama’s line in her speech: ‘A presidency reveals who you are.’ So do campaigns. And mark me down as one Republican not happy with what is being revealed about Mitt Romney.
eyelessgame
Yeah, I saw the word “flustered” and I was all, “I see what you did there”. The use of that word is the unconscious reason everyone’s mind goes to “clusterfuck” on reading the sentence. The writer, she is clever.
Paul in KY
@different-church-lady: My guess too.
Lex
As much fun as this thread has been to read, I think it’s time to take all this material, and the putrescent corpse of the Romney campaign whence it came, and hang it around the next of every other Republican candidate running, anywhere in the country, from Paul Ryan and Scott Brown right on down to my legislators who think that if they can’t tell sea level what to do, they can at least tell scientists who study sea level what to say.