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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.

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  10. 10.

    Political Observer

    @MarkHalperin As long as national/state polling trend is 4 Mitt, Gang of 500 can declare “worst week ever,” whisper “it’s over” all it wants; ain’t true

  17. 17.

    Wag

    A steaming pile of shit spread on wonder bread and topped with a healthy heaping blob of afterbirth.

    Toasted.

  23. 23.

    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.

  24. 24.

    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!

  30. 30.

    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.

  31. 31.

    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.

  32. 32.

    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)…

  33. 33.

    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.

  37. 37.

    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…

  38. 38.

    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!

  39. 39.

    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.

  43. 43.

    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.

    .

  45. 45.

    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.

  48. 48.

    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.

  52. 52.

    danielx

    Clusterfuck.

    I’m thinking consensus has been reached.

    Definition, one of several:

    Military origin, but in general usage.

    A total and complete failure due to someone’s idiocy.

    Also known as “Charlie Foxtrot”.

  59. 59.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    SNROM

    Situation Normal, Romney Opened his Mouth

    As long as we’re going GI.

    Military, not tract. You’re welcome.

  64. 64.

    pseudonymous in nc

    Flustercluck.

    I don’t bet on Team Money Boo Boo even to get its unprintable vulgarities right.

  67. 67.

    Shalimar

    Great. Cluster f-bombs are unprintable and vulgar. Cluster muslim-killing bombs are good, old-fashioned American fun.

  75. 75.

    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.

  77. 77.

    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)

  78. 78.

    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?”

  80. 80.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Spaghetti Lee:

    I believe that would be ‘foul-smelling camel cunt’ unless we’re talking about camels who fuck chickens.

    You know damn well those chickens aren’t going to fuck themselves.

  83. 83.

    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.

  84. 84.

    different-church-lady

    And a Mr. St. John of Huntingdon said he couldn’t think of anything more vulgar than ‘Romney Campaign’.

  87. 87.

    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…

  89. 89.

    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.

  92. 92.

    Bort

    This is unconfirmed, but I heard that Romney was so enraged he said the word “damn”. And then Tagg feinted.

  93. 93.

    Temporarily Max McGee (Soon Enought To Be Andy K Again)

    @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”!

    My money is on “Mongolian clusterfuck”.

  96. 96.

    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…”

  103. 103.

    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.

  105. 105.

    TaMara (BHF)

    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:

    That whole article is a thing of beauty. You can feel the spiral.

  111. 111.

    Mike

    @geg6:

    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.

    Actually, he congratulated his grandson and told him that he was a “proud papa”. :-)

  115. 115.

    MoeLarryAndJesus

    @SatanicPanic:

    felch-a-thon

    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.

  119. 119.

    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.

  120. 120.

    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)

  123. 123.

    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!”

  125. 125.

    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.

  130. 130.

    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.

  133. 133.

    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

  134. 134.

    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.)

  135. 135.

    Thor Heyerdahl

    A giant ragged, charcoal black, puss-filled, gangrenous and necrotized elephant cock covered in foul smelling red-hued monkey-tossed shit?

  139. 139.

    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!

  140. 140.

    ...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.

  141. 141.

    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.”‘

  143. 143.

    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”?

  144. 144.

    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.

  145. 145.

    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.

  147. 147.

    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.

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