The Thurston Mittens the 3rd Veep Megathread

[Razgovory]

They may have no choice but to play it safe with another boring white guy, but not one that can show up Mittens in the personality department.  The Veep'll have to be even duller.

I don't know - given how meh everyone is it'd be nice to have some invigorating in the wings.

Has the Mittens campaign ever given you a single reason to see anything invigorating in it at all?  Anywhere?  So why start now?

Mittens?  Who?

Is Antti Miettinen suddenly running for office?

Mitt Romney.  He's hard to keep track of, constantly changing and adapting.  For instance, in 2004 he was known as "John Kerry".  I'm still waiting for someone to make a clever picture joke with Romney and one of those German Belt Buckles.  Gott Mit Uns.

[Barrister]

They may have no choice but to play it safe with another boring white guy, but not one that can show up Mittens in the personality department.  The Veep'll have to be even duller.

I don't know - given how meh everyone is it'd be nice to have some invigorating in the wings.

Has the Mittens campaign ever given you a single reason to see anything invigorating in it at all?  Anywhere?  So why start now?

Mittens?  Who?

Is Antti Miettinen suddenly running for office?

Mitt Romney.  He's hard to keep track of, constantly changing and adapting.  For instance, in 2004 he was known as "John Kerry".  I'm still waiting for someone to make a clever picture joke with Romney and one of those German Belt Buckles.  Gott Mit Uns.

You apparently don't know that Finnish-born Miettinen of the Winnipeg Jets is often nicknamed "Mittens" due to his last name.

[Syt]

This made me chuckle.

[CountDeMoney]

You apparently don't know that Finnish-born Miettinen of the Winnipeg Jets is often nicknamed "Mittens" due to his last name.

Keep your faggity expansion team out of the thread.

[Razgovory]

You apparently don't know that Finnish-born Miettinen of the Winnipeg Jets is often nicknamed "Mittens" due to his last name.

How would anyone possibly know that?

[Eddie Teach]

You apparently don't know that Finnish-born Miettinen of the Winnipeg Jets is often nicknamed "Mittens" due to his last name.

How would anyone possibly know that?

Maybe BB's the guy who gave him the nickname.

[DGuller]

Because a successful Northeastern Republican simply cannot win a Republican primary.  Mitt Romney...

So, they can't, but they can.   

You have to excuse him.  Like a lot of people, if reality doesn't conform to his preconcieved notions, he has to try to redefine reality, instead of reconsidering his preconceptions.

Like, for example, ignoring a follow-up post clarifying the point?  Is that the kind of reality not conforming to preconceived notions you're talking about?

[Ideologue]

The only buzz I'm catching is about Marco.

Boy can talk up a storm.

God, I read that as Macro at first.  Emperor Willardus would send the grain ships back to Egypt.

[Ideologue]

So either someone more "hip" like Christie

I think he meant "hippy."  Maybe "hippopotamus."

[Kleves]

The only buzz I'm catching is about Marco.

Boy can talk up a storm.

I saw him on Meet the Press a couple of weeks ago. He plugged his new book in, literally, every answer he gave. So he's got the self-promotion down. As VP for Romney he could take over ESPN Bracketology/late night talk show duties that currently burden Obama.

[Razgovory]

I don't think Marco will take it.  For the same reason he didn't run for President.  He want's to be President.  He'll throw his hat in the ring in 2016.  I think the GOP will have a good field that year.  It'll be their year.

[DGuller]

Yeah, but by then, the Tea Party fetish of lauding the most ignorant elements of society might wane.

[Razgovory]

Yeah, but by then, the Tea Party fetish of lauding the most ignorant elements of society might wane.

I think it already has.  This year had such a piss poor selection because the best people in the party are holding back.  Defeating a sitting President is difficult.  The smart guys want to maximize their chances.  That left the Republicans field full of the desperate, the stupid, and the insane.

[Eddie Teach]

I think it already has.  This year had such a piss poor selection because the best people in the party are holding back.  Defeating a sitting President is difficult.  The smart guys want to maximize their chances.  That left the Republicans field full of the desperate, the stupid, and the insane.

I think they missed an opportunity here. There's always a sizable chunk of the electorate ready to blame the sitting President for a soft economy.

[Razgovory]

Maybe, but they made their decision two years ago.  They would have a hard time predicting what the economy or political situation would be like in 2012.