2012 Election Thread (probably contains partisan bickering)

[longhornbaseball]

I'm not a right winger and I haven't watched Fox News for more than a few minutes since 2002. I'll give a more detailed response when I have more time.

[slide_into_first]

I'm not a right winger and I haven't watched Fox News for more than a few minutes since 2002.

I knew that, well, the first part.

[Radbird]

Silversun Pickups Tell Romney to Stop Using 'Panic Switch'

GOP hopeful is 'using a song that describes his whole campaign,' singer Brian Aubert says

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I'm waiting, fading, floating away

[Arthur Dent]

Silversun Pickups Tell Romney to Stop Using 'Panic Switch'

GOP hopeful is 'using a song that describes his whole campaign,' singer Brian Aubert says

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I'm waiting, fading, floating away

Ah, the annual ritual of musicians telling Republican candidates to stop using their music. Not enough right wing rock stars, I guess.

Great song, though. I love Nikki Monninger's bass playing.

[heyzeus]

There are only so many Nugent songs that work for a presidential campaign.

My baby she like to rock
My baby she like to roll
My baby she can dance all night
My baby got no control
She do the Wango Tango

My baby she can scream and shout
My baby she can move it out
My baby she can take a chance
My baby got a brand new dance

Wango Tango
Wango Tango
It's a Wango Tango
Ooooh yeah! (oooooh..)
Baby!

[pioneer98]

The vetting of Ryan has begun.

Presented with letters, Ryan admits requesting stimulus cash

After repeated denials, Paul Ryan has admitted he requested stimulus cash even after sharply criticizing the program.

As recently as Wednesday in Ohio, Mitt Romney's running mate told ABC's Cincinnati affiliate, WCPO, he did not.

"I never asked for stimulus," Ryan said. "I don't recall… so I really can't comment on it. I opposed the stimulus because it doesn't work, it didn't work."

Two years ago, during an interview on WBZ's NewsRadio he was asked by a caller if he "accepted any money" into his district. Ryan said he did not.

"I'm not one [of those] people who votes for something then writes to the government to ask them to send us money. I did not request any stimulus money," the congressman answered.

But as we've now learned, Ryan did write letters. He did request stimulus funds.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

"I'm not one [of those] people who votes for something then writes to the government to ask them to send us money. I did not request any stimulus money...

with that woman!"

That's the only thing that's missing.

Crazy - its just the way its done by almost all of them. Cry, lie and deny even past the point where you are exposed. Because, guess what? Your partisans are going to see you as weak if you 'flip flop' and come clean. They'd rather believe in the myth than live with reality.

[Vidor]

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/ ... hp?ref=fpa

Rep. Todd Akin, the Republican nominee for Senate in Missouri who is running against Sen. Claire McCaskill, justified his opposition to abortion rights even in case of rape with a claim that victims of “legitimate rape” have unnamed biological defenses that prevent pregnancy.

“First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare,” Akin told KTVI-TV in an interview posted Sunday. “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”

[Vidor]

That guy's probably gonna be a Senator

http://polltracker.talkingpointsmemo.co ... senator-12

[lukethedrifter]

He's the male Michelle Bachmann.