Languish Presidential Election!

[Valmy]

Ah, so you are a coward.

She is too morally weak to compromise her principles.

[merithyn]

Ah, so you are a coward.

She is too morally weak to compromise her principles.

Well, I am female.

[derspiess]

Got my tickets for the Romney-Ryan "victory rally" this Friday just up north of Cincy.  Haven't been to a political rally since college.  I'm taking Tommy & meeting some friends there.  Maybe I'll shamelessly use Tommy as a political prop and write slogans all over his shirt

[Razgovory]

Ah, so you are a coward.

She is too morally weak to compromise her principles.

It's easy to have principles if they never have to be put into practice.

[derspiess]

Ah, so you are a coward.

She is too morally weak to compromise her principles.

It's easy to have principles if they never have to be put into practice.

Seriously.  Pick a team to root for-- politics is a lot more fun that way.

[derspiess]

Has this one already been posted? 

Not that it really matters to me either way, but the hats sold on the official Romney-Ryan campaign site are made in the US.

[The Larch]

Chinese knock-offs, is there anywhere they won't get?

[derspiess]

Chinese knock-offs, is there anywhere they won't get?

One time in Argentina I saw knockoff *Old Navy* clothing for sale

[Valmy]

It's easy to have principles if they never have to be put into practice.

Ok how exactly are my principles supposed to be put into practice if I do not support them?  Magical spells?

[Sheilbh]

So Romney opted out of doing any campaigning during the storm in the interest of national unity. Instead, he's doing a not-a-campaign-but-a-storm-relief party at the same venue with the same celebs and the same basic speeches.

And this man is going to be the one to "reach across the aisle" and be the "bi-partisan President"? He can't even drop this shit for 48 hours while people's lives are being pulled apart. 

Agreed.  I think it's a mistake by Mitt because it looks so nakedly political - a bit like his response to Libya.  He's in a storm relief event in Ohio, Paul's doing a 'thank you' for volunteers in Wisconsin and Ann's in Iowa and Wisconsin at her own storm relief things.

I think a couple of events in swing states would be okay if Mitt tried to look Presidential by visiting say, New York or New Jersey.  Maybe the 'thank you' event could've been for some emergency services people or whatever else.  As it is, all three doing events about the storm, miles away from it, in swing states just comes across a bit callow and vulgar in my view.

[Gups]

May look nakedly political to a politics junkie but not necessarily to ordinary folks.

[CountDeMoney]

Got my tickets for the Romney-Ryan "victory rally" this Friday just up north of Cincy.  Haven't been to a political rally since college.  I'm taking Tommy & meeting some friends there.  Maybe I'll shamelessly use Tommy as a political prop and write slogans all over his shirt

Don't you feel just the teeniest bit dirty that, for actually taking the time to exert the energy to go to a political rally and all that jazz, that in the end it's for a douchebag like Romney?

[Kleves]

Romney pretty much has to do something that's high visibility to counter the fact that Obama can legitimately have a bunch of photo-ops at storm sites and distribute federal largesse.

[CountDeMoney]

And this man is going to be the one to "reach across the aisle" and be the "bi-partisan President"?

Romney is a dirty liar Meri.  But nobody cares he is a liar because, you know, he is a politician and they expect it from him.

When Chrysler calls you out for being a liar over the Jeep stuff, you know you're a liar.  But, like you say, nobody cares.

[Sheilbh]

May look nakedly political to a politics junkie but not necessarily to ordinary folks.

I'm not sure.  I think everyone will wonder why all of these 'storm relief' events are taking places hundreds of miles away from the storm.  Also if it looks nakedly political to journalists and that becomes part of the way they describe the story then it'll be picked up by everyone.

Romney pretty much has to do something that's high visibility to counter the fact that Obama can legitimately have a bunch of photo-ops at storm sites and distribute federal largesse.

I agree.  My point is that all events taking place far away from the storms in midwestern swing states doesn't look good.  He would do far better if just one of those events was in, say, New York or New Jersey.  It would be just as high profile.