The Obama campaign slapped the Romney campaign upside the head this morning, calling out Mittens for having no principles. The Romney campaign responded by getting everything wrong.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Not rolling over. fuck you, make me.
How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.
Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.
People are weird.
DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.
They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.
The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.
Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.
Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.
You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.
Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, door #2)
Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.
This really is a full service blog.
Bark louder, little dog.
Celebrate the fucking wins.
There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.
Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.
People are complicated. Love is not.
I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.
Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.
It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.
We still have time to mess this up!
75% of people clapping liked the show!
I would try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.
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gelfling545
In their usual fashion, then.
kansi
How many American voters will Romney be able to convince that it is Obama who is doing the misleading?
Hunter Gathers
Cut them some slack, O.K.? Their candidate runs on Windows 98, and there hasn’t been any support for that operating system in quite some time. They’d upgrade, but Ann won’t let them, as she’s afraid that she’ll lose all of her recipes. You’d think that she’d be able to remember them all considering that they consist of nothing more than ‘call the help’ or ‘pour mayonnaise on it’, but being an entitled bitch is hard work.
Peregrinus
@kansi:
At the very least, 27 percent.
trollhattan
@Hunter Gathers:
RU sure they’re not rocking Apple Lisas? Inquiring minds….
WereBear
Sometimes I know there is a God/dess and she loves us very much.
I would have taken any of the Republican nominees this year; but they gave us Thurston Romney the IIIrd and his utterly clueless family with the crazee eyes and the animal abuse and the offshore monies.
We are still donating and planning to phone bank as the time draws near and we wrap up some other things. I will ramp up my Midwestern accent; I can still say “setch” and “warsh” and “whopperjawed.”
Because there’s no point in complacency. But by gum we needed an edge and they darn well gave it to us.
Oh yeah, I can swear in Midwestern, too. By jimminy.
General Stuck
But Obama won’t fight, he won’t fight and is bi, partisan, that is. He should be roasting Mitt’s Huevos and serving them with a nice Chianti, or at least a pint of Mad Dog 20/20. And And, the stimulus was too small.
trollhattan
@WereBear:
Be sure to bring a hot dish or salad. Okay, then!
Kilen
ABL, could you at least put the whole post on this blog, rather than just using it as advertising for your own?
Hunter Gathers
@General Stuck: Also, too – Just Words, Secret Conservative, Facilitator of the 1%, Corporate Sellout, Enemy of the True Progressives, Bush’s 3rd term and last, and most certainly least, Why Won’t He Use The Bully Pulpit?!
beltane
@General Stuck: Obambi is not using the bully pulpit as he should. Also, there is no difference between him and Romney anyway.
General Stuck
@WereBear:
Mitt would do better to just slap a three piece suit on the wife, and let her campaign, and he can be clueless back home where he belongs.
WereBear
@trollhattan: I can do a three layer Jell-o salad.
I know what sinks and what floats.
burnspbesq
@Hunter Gathers:
You forgot “fuck 60 votes, he should have used reconciliation.”
elmo
@Hunter Gathers:
Mayonnaise is an underappreciated sauce. Don’t be a hater!
Violet
@General Stuck: Is that the three piece suit she wears when she does the horse dancing? Will she campaign by saying “The Obama campaign is just out to kill Mitt and that’s no way to run a campaign” during her stump speeches? I can’t wait for her Barbara Bush moment where she says some folks who have been suffering without electricity in this heat wave and are in a cooling shelter are “underprivileged anyway, so this is working well for them.”
Raven
@Kilen: What, does it hurt your little pinky to mash the button?
Jewish Steel
@WereBear:
For search? Such?
You’ve got this Midwesterner flummoxed, by cracky.
@Kilen: Cheese it guys! It’s the blog-traffic cop.
rikyrah
Nobody is playing with you, Willard.
NOBODY
WereBear
@Jewish Steel: Such.
“That’s setch a good color on her, you know she made it herself but you can’t tell.”
salacious crumb
ABL, I found another Dear Leader hater for you to hate on..He used to be an Obama supporter but says he cannot support Dear Leader with starry eyed adulation because Obama hasnt done anything against the Wall Street executives responsible for the financial misdeeds.. I cannot believe this guy has the nerve the question anything ANYTHING the President does..
open.salon.com/blog/lost_in_berlin/2012/07/01/weve_become_what_we_hate_why_i_left_america
He thinks just because he supported Obama in 2008, he has the right to question his President..the nerve on that hater!
General Stuck
@Violet:
Yes, and when they ask her what’s her favorite book and movie, she can say, To Kill A
republicanMockingbird. The goopers will love it.JoeShabadoo
Why don’t you just put a big Chronicles ad banner on the side of the webpage Cole? Her front page posts are pretty much all advertisements for her website now anyway.
Steve
@salacious crumb: Better trolls please.
Violet
@rikyrah: Does anyone actually like Mitt Romney? If so, who? His family? Or is that more of a business transaction? His church members? Or again, is it a “Mitt’s in charge so we have to respect him” kind of relationship? His business contacts? Seems like that would be a “If you have money and we have money we’ll be ‘friends’, or ‘what can you do for me now?'” kind of relationship.
Seems like Mitt’s relationships are all about power and money. Does he even have friends like normal people do? Does he know what a non-transactional relationship means?
The Thin Black Duke
Oh dear.
The debates are gonna be like watching a snuff film.
More popcorn, please?
Raven
Fuck these asshole ABL, keep on pushin.
Jewish Steel
@WereBear: Ah. Upper Midwest. Gotcha. Or, “Getcha,” rather.
@The Thin Black Duke: Everybody keeps saying this but I would caution against getting your hopes up. The debates are so choreographed, so mapped out, vetted, and agreed to beforehand, that there is little danger of actual debating breaking out.
Southern Beale
Speaking of principles, just learned on the Twitter machine that MI Rep. Thad McCotter has resigned.
Southern Beale
Thad McCotter’s resgination statement reads like a suicied note.
General Stuck
Oh shit, here we go
The nutters – now Obama is really killing small bizness owners.
WereBear
I know it’s a cliche, but when I read about the Fun ‘n’ Games during Romney Camp Hijinks at Tbogg, I did murmur to myself, “not enough money in the world” a few times.
I would love to wallow in the Benjamins as much as anyone, but really; living in the most opulent jail in the world means you can’t really enjoy the damn opulence. I had a well-off step-father; who was psychotically controlling and a colossal male organ in the least best way; I know that which of what I speak.
Emma
@salacious crumb: You know, I usually don’t get into the pissing matches between ABL and her stalkers, since she’s well able to take care of herself. But really. Does it give you any pleasure to go through life going NYAH-NYAH-NYAH?
SFAW
@salacious crumb:
Er ist ein Schwaebischer, was vermuten Sie?
Violet
@Southern Beale: Good Lord, that’s tragic and full of “poor me” victimhood. Just like a Republican. I have no idea what the story is behind that, except isn’t he the guy who didn’t complete his ballot petition properly or something? What else happened?
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
@Kilen:
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Would it make any difference, so far as the contents of the comment section on this here blog is concerned? If not, then think of it as a jump ball being thrown up to start the latest game of Obots vs F’baggers hoops. The ABL/John Cole West Virginia Invitational Calvinball Classic, edition MMLXVII, as it were.
MattF
So, Pope Mitt pontificates about principles. Makes sense, in a twisted way.
beltane
@Southern Beale: He says he has been promoted to the rank of “sovereign citizen”. Does this mean you need a passport to enter Thad McCotter’s presence?
Evolving Deep Southerner
I read about Rmoney’s haul this past reporting period. I’m not all that worried about that. I figure the Bully Pulpit itself is worth half a bill in this race. Incumbent’s advantage. It’s worked against us, and now it’s working for us.
Jewish Steel
@Southern Beale:
Wow. That’s some florid prose.
Jewish Steel
@beltane: He’s quoting Carter here.
Svensker
@elmo:
Fixeded fer akurasee.
SFAW
@Svensker: And I suppose Velveeta is an underappreciated “cheese”?
Lojasmo
@Kilen:
Feel free to click through if you find the content intriguing. ;)
lamh35
@General Stuck:
From TPM, stay classy Tucker Carlson:
“Keeping It Classy”
talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2012/07/keeping_it_classy_1.php?ref=fpblg&tw_p=twt
Peregrinus
@SFAW:
And Spam is an underappreciated cut of meat.
AxelFoley
@salacious crumb:
trollololololololololololol
SFAW
@Peregrinus: Watch it! Mrs. SFAW grew up on it. (I have no idea if she liked it, though.) I don’t believe she has ever had Spam, eggs, sausage, and Spam, though.
The Thin Black Duke
@Jewish Steel: I dunno.
I mean, even softball questions lobbed by empty but obedient talking heads tightens Romney’s poop chute.
He’s the worse political candidate I’ve ever seen, and I’m an old guy.
Peregrinus
@SFAW:
Eh, as a kid who grew up on Vienna sausages, Spam seems only marginally more capable of one day taking over civilization.
trollhattan
@WereBear:
A vastly underappreciated skill. My dear late mother and and all the Lutheran ladies salute you!
ABL
@Kilen: Nope. I have an arrangement with Cole.
trollhattan
@Peregrinus:
In case you ever travel to the Hawaiian hinterlands, I can’t recommend the SPAM sushi, no matter how ironic you may be feeling at the moment. No quantities of beer can fix it.
Brian R.
@lamh35:
Christ, what an asshole.
gwangung
@JoeShabadoo: If that bothers you, son, you could try another blog.
Someone smarter would do that.
Mike E
@SFAW: I was gonna say sumptin like, “Must be funnier in the original German” but you (and Monty Python 40+ years ago) beat me to it
gwangung
@trollhattan: ‘Ey, brah, dat marks you as a mainlander; we hear dat alla time from da haoles.
An’ I may be just a katonk, but I can dig spam sushi.
Peregrinus
@trollhattan:
@gwangung:
I mean, on the one hand, I’ve heard worse ideas. On the other, I haven’t eaten any of those worse ideas, either, so there’s that.
gwangung
@Peregrinus: There are more than a few folks in the local pan-Asian community that make spam sushi, to go with the traditional versions (a lot of Hawaiian ex-pats around here and it percolates through the community).
Frankensteinbeck
@beltane:
I think he just likes the florid writing. We cannot possibly be so lucky that he’s a Sovereign Citizen. ‘Former Tea Party Representative arrested for fraud, tax evasion’ would be such an entertaining headline.
David Koch
I got you guys well trained. The snark just flows out.
You hit all most of the top-40, but, but you forgot Drooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooones!
trollhattan
@gwangung:
Guilty as charged, brah! :-) Although I live just over the horizon on da left coast (waves westward).
Now, I am rather fond of teriyaki wienies on rice.
David Koch
@ThatLeftTurnInABQ:
/fixed
Peregrinus
@gwangung:
Pace my earlier affectation, I’d try it. As the last few weigh-ins have proved, I don’t say no to food easily.
karen
@Southern Beale:
There was a question about fraudulent signatures to qualify for the primary ballot: washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/thaddeus-mccotter-unexpectedly-resigns-from-congress/2012/07/0…
burnspbesq
@beltane:
That’s fairly often a prelude to refusing to file returns or pay taxes. If you are short popcorn futures, you may want to think about closing that position before you lose any more money.
rikyrah
@Violet:
I’ve said it before and will say it again:
UNLESS YOU’RE GETTING A CHECK FROM WILLARD…
you have nothing good to say about him.
and yes, I include his family in that.
Arm The Homeless
@trollhattan: Masubi is one of the greatest drunk foods on the planet. Also, too, with all of the horrible thing that spam could be combined with, it’s got to be one of the best.
So there!
it could be scrapple
Mike E
@burnspbesq: As one not gainfully employed, I sympathize and wish that, uh, sovereign citizen luck
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
@Violet: It sounds like the last straw was publication of a bad-taste-fest of a TV script he wrote.
SFAW
@Arm The Homeless: WTF is your problem with scrapple? Me sainted motherrr used to give us that for breakfast once in awhile, I liked it, I think my brother did, too.
I mean, it ain’t Oysters Romneyfeller or Filet Mitt-gnon, but it doesn’t deserve being hated on like that. (Except for the 47g of saturated fat per slice, that is.)
Mr Stagger Lee
@salacious crumb: I would say to Mr Butt-Hurt, don’t let the door hit you on the ass on your way out.
El Cid
Remember, among Romney’s peers, he may very well be considered to be among the touchy-feely, accessible, lively, fun, prankster, human side of the super-rich.
Catsy
@Jewish Steel: He’s right, though–this post is almost completely devoid of content. It adds nothing to Balloon Juice, and might as well read, “some cool stuff happened, click on the link to my blog if you want to know anything about it other than a vague one-liner.”
It’s her prerogative unless John decides it’s not, but IMO it’s nothing but obnoxious, shameless self-promotion.
Kilen
@Raven:
Yep, got it in one. Pain avoidance.
Lojasmo
@Catsy:
Ah, but the comments (from informed readers) are interesting. Whether I read the body of any post here is hit-or-miss.
Mark H
@Kilen:
Agree.
Creepy Jury Trials Permanently Penned Mr. Devon for Silvering Ordinary Camshafts
It would be interesting if ABL were to post as mistermix or DougJ for a week or so to see if the trolls infected those posts
mclaren
Coming from a guy who sits around in the Oval Office deciding which 17-year-old girls to murder without even charging them with a crime, this represents a new low.
“Principles matter,” eh, mister Obama?
How about murdering U.S. citizens without even alleging they’ve committed a crime? Does that involve mortal principles?
Fucking unbelievable.
AxelFoley
@mclaren:
LOL at this troll coming in when everyone else is done. Nice try, assmunch.
mclaren
@AxelFoley:
Keep applauding a Democratic president murdering U.S. citizens without even charging them with a crime. Keep spewing foul-mouth profanities.
That’s all you’re good for, like your paid Republican operative boss, Anti-liberal Black Lady.
Xenos
@mclaren: So you will be fine once we rig a drone to serve process on al-Qaeda leaders? Then we can try them in absentia and only blow them up after that?