The Thurston Mittens the 3rd Veep Megathread

[derspiess]

There's been a hell of a lot of chatter in the Teabagger community over Ryan.

That was the third!

By all means, please put the guy that's trying to take old people's healthcare away from them on the ticket.  Please oh please oh please.

It could be the second coming of Al Haig and you'd slander him all the same.

[Razgovory]

There's been a hell of a lot of chatter in the Teabagger community over Ryan.

That was the third!

By all means, please put the guy that's trying to take old people's healthcare away from them on the ticket.  Please oh please oh please.

It could be the second coming of Al Haig and you'd slander him all the same.

And it could be Sarah Palin on the ticket again, and you'd vote for her.

[Martinus]

Romney is the best example why business and politics should not mix, at least not directly. Why? Because it is bad for business.

The "shady dealings" Romney is being accused of (e.g. setting up a LuxCo structure to optimise tax treatment of the cash you repatriate from your investment) are pretty much a standard fare in all private equity deals, expected by investors and practiced by everybody. But to an uninitiated eye of the bloodthirsty public they look like a crime of crimes. Sigh. 

[Martinus]

Yeah, everybody's a big meanie to him.  For a campaign that survived that pit bull fight of a primary, they sure seem lost playing defense.

It's a GOP thing. They just suck at creating the frame and making everyone else argue on their terms. Always defensive. Makes them sound petulant. Been that way as long as I remember.

Are you kidding me? Republicans are perfect at framing the debate - it's the Democrats who suck at it. Why do you think anti-abortion lunatics managed to get themselves called "Pro-Life"?

[Admiral Yi]

Are you kidding me? Republicans are perfect at framing the debate - it's the Democrats who suck at it. Why do you think anti-abortion lunatics managed to get themselves called "Pro-Life"?

Abortion proponents call themselves Pro Choice.

[Razgovory]

They did pretty good at framing the debate in the Health Care thing.  Ask a person if he supports "Obamacare" and he'll likely say no.  Ask him about the individual provisos and he'll likely say yes on all the major ones.

[Eddie Teach]

Are you kidding me? Republicans are perfect at framing the debate - it's the Democrats who suck at it. Why do you think anti-abortion lunatics managed to get themselves called "Pro-Life"?

Abortion proponents call themselves Pro Choice.

And considering news organizations are apt to use the terms "anti-abortion" and "pro-choice", they haven't been all that successful. Marty's being an idiot as usual.

[CountDeMoney]

It could be the second coming of Al Haig and you'd slander him all the same.

The General would ever propose the kind of budget proposal bullshit Ryan invents.  The General was an economic pragmatist, not an unyielding ideologue bent on the destruction of the economy to score partisan points.

[Phillip V]

Romney is the best example why business and politics should not mix, at least not directly. Why? Because it is bad for business.

The "shady dealings" Romney is being accused of (e.g. setting up a LuxCo structure to optimise tax treatment of the cash you repatriate from your investment) are pretty much a standard fare in all private equity deals, expected by investors and practiced by everybody. But to an uninitiated eye of the bloodthirsty public they look like a crime of crimes. Sigh. 

He didn't do that. Somebody else made that happen.

[garbon]

There's been a hell of a lot of chatter in the Teabagger community over Ryan.

That was the third!

By all means, please put the guy that's trying to take old people's healthcare away from them on the ticket.  Please oh please oh please.

It could be the second coming of Al Haig and you'd slander him all the same.

And it could be Sarah Palin on the ticket again, and you'd vote for her.

Probably would depend on who was running for President. After all, I voted for Palin though she was more of sore spot when casting my ballot for McCain.

[CountDeMoney]

Probably would depend on who was running for President. After all, I voted for Palin though she was more of sore spot when casting my ballot for McCain.

I remember my Dad was leaning McCain about 70/30, right up to the point Palin demonstrated exactly how vapid and uneducated she really was.  No way in hell after that.

And this is the guy that voted Bush in 2000, because he was comfortable with the fact that Dick Cheney would really be the one running the White House. 

[garbon]

Probably would depend on who was running for President. After all, I voted for Palin though she was more of sore spot when casting my ballot for McCain.

I remember my Dad was leaning McCain about 70/30, right up to the point Palin demonstrated exactly how vapid and uneducated she really was.  No way in hell after that.

And this is the guy that voted Bush in 2000, because he was comfortable with the fact that Dick Cheney would really be the one running the White House. 

I couldn't vote for the promise of chocolate milk in drinking fountains.

[derspiess]

It could be the second coming of Al Haig and you'd slander him all the same.

The General would ever propose the kind of budget proposal bullshit Ryan invents.  The General was an economic pragmatist, not an unyielding ideologue bent on the destruction of the economy to score partisan points.

And yet, if The General were running for Veep on the GOP ticket opposing Obama, you'd throw him under the bus the first chance you got.

[CountDeMoney]

And yet, if The General were running for Veep on the GOP ticket opposing Obama, you'd throw him under the bus the first chance you got.

No, I wouldn't.  Because he's dead now.

[Martinus]

Romney is the best example why business and politics should not mix, at least not directly. Why? Because it is bad for business.

The "shady dealings" Romney is being accused of (e.g. setting up a LuxCo structure to optimise tax treatment of the cash you repatriate from your investment) are pretty much a standard fare in all private equity deals, expected by investors and practiced by everybody. But to an uninitiated eye of the bloodthirsty public they look like a crime of crimes. Sigh. 

He didn't do that. Somebody else made that happen.

I don't get your point.