Election Thread 2016

[Diff-chan]

What about the committees? What's your excuse on why those guys aren't experts?

Well, yea, they should be experts on the committees they serve. But remember, America is full of retards, hence, Congress is full of retards.

[Doc Holliday]

NH hasn't even closed their polls yet TV and bloggers are acting like Romney's already won this nomination. I should be excited, Romney has a record of being fairly liberal for a Republican, but something about the guy makes me not trust him... I'd much rather see Huntsman or Paul get the nomination. Paul just to watch all Hell break loose at the convention as delegates vote in Romney anyway as Fox News Reporters set themselves on fire and Limbaugh whispers, 'the horror...' 'the horror.'

[GohanX]

Most of the news stories I've read pretty much seem to think Romney's the candidate for weeks now. It's like, why do we even bother with actual ballots? Unrelated, but I'm waiting for the "Romney is too liberal for North Carolina!" local ads.

I know what you mean about the trust thing. On paper, Romney seems okay to me, but actually watching him just makes me think something isn't quite right, like if you were talking to a sleazy used car salesman.

That said, i'd take Romney over Gingrich anyday.

[MarsKitten]

And why the Hell is the budget committee flagrantly partisan??

Because it works for the powers that be. No matter what the actual budget items, its all pretty corporate friendly with a steady influx of deregulation, corporate welfare and tax cuts. The squables are just the industries arguing over who gets what.

[Doc Holliday]

So Mitt Romney's father and grandfather were both Mexicans. His great-grandfather left Utah for Mexico when polygamy was outlawed.

[Doc Holliday]

Here:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/16/world/...eys/?hpt=wo_c2

I like how they leave out the polygamy part (well, the part about Mitt's five great-grandmothers).




EDIT: this too: https://twitter.com/MexicanMitt

Despite his distant Mexican roots, though, Romney has come under fire for his immigration stance. The former Massachusetts governor vowed that as president he would veto the DREAM Act, the Democrats’ measure to provide a path to citizenship for some undocumented children of immigrants who attend college or serve in the military.

That stance, understandably, alienated some possible Latino supporters. Juan Rodriguez, a businessman in Des Moines, said he would not support Romney because of his threatened veto, while Esteban Lopez, a Goffstown, N.H., resident who will vote for the first time in the general election later this year, said he too would not back Romney.

“I work in education and I know first-hand how important the DREAM Act is for Latino youth, for kids who are in this country without having taken part in the decision to come here,” Lopez said. “The short answer is, I wouldn’t vote for Romney.”

With nearly 500 tweets in the past two days, Mexican Mitt – who claims to be “the most Mexican man in the world” – already has over 1100 followers.

salsa

[Doc Holliday]

Stephen Colbert is running (sort of?)





Rally in SC Friday

http://www.buzzfeed.com/zekejmiller/...herman-cain-in

[Yoshi]

I like how they leave out the polygamy part (well, the part about Mitt's five great-grandmothers).

I don't know (or care) about Romney's family tree, but I have four "grandmothers," and it's not from polygamy. Both of my biological grandmothers died of diseases relatively young, and both of my grandfathers remarried.

[Doc Holliday]

It's only interesting because rather than stand up for polygamy and religion, Mitt's Great-grandfather fled the US because his five wives were now illegal. Then 30 yrs later, his grandfather fled Mexico to avoid the Revolution. Then the next two generations enter politics? The head of the country and armed forces would come from a line of cowards that never picked up a rifle or stood their ground for what they believed in.

[Brisco Bold]

Mittens is alright.