This was such a terrible idea. It's even worse than you could imagine. All the jingoistic rhetoric squeezed into 140 characters was bad enough, but it started off with people submitting obscene (but funny) questions. It was not a well-thought out endeavor.

"Just because you are a character doesn't mean you have character"

Shvetz: This was such a terrible idea. It's even worse than you could imagine. All the jingoistic rhetoric squeezed into 140 characters was bad enough, but it started off with people submitting obscene (but funny) questions. It was not a well-thought out endeavor.

Payback's a biatch, innit? I'm looking at you John Boehner, and the twitter townhall

Shvetz: This was such a terrible idea. It's even worse than you could imagine. All the jingoistic rhetoric squeezed into 140 characters was bad enough, but it started off with people submitting obscene (but funny) questions. It was not a well-thought out endeavor.

I'm surprised Republican propaganda is complex enough to even need 140 characters. The whole point is to find something short, snappy, and packed with emotion, but ultimately devoid of meaning. Take for example "big government." Ooh, sure sounds bad. No one wants a powerful government. But "big" in what way? I've seen multiple definitions of it. It's a meaningless phrase onto which anyone can throw any visceral emotional reaction they want.

I, for one, enjoyed this headline to the point of a small, vocal guffaw.

140 characters is overkill, all they need is 3.

Candidate 1: "No!"
Candidate 2: "No!"
Candidate 6: "Hrp"
Candidate 4: "No!"
Candidate 2: "No!"
Candidate 5: "Drp"
Candidate 3: "No!"
Candidate 1: "No!"
Candidate 4: "No!"

Still way to early for anyone to take these guys seriously.

Ghost Tropic: 140 characters is overkill, all they need is 3.

Candidate 1: "No!"
Candidate 2: "No!"
Candidate 6: "Hrp"
Candidate 4: "No!"
Candidate 2: "No!"
Candidate 5: "Drp"
Candidate 3: "No!"
Candidate 1: "No!"
Candidate 4: "No!"

Candidate 5: Derp is coming out!

Ok, let's throw up some retweeted highlights!

TheDailyShow The Daily Show (Follow)
Today's @140townhall GOP Presidential Twitter debate won't let Newt Gingrich exploit his natural advantage in head size. #BOOM!

daveweigel daveweigel (Follow)
#140townhall PLEASE RANK: Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Dollhouse

RexHuppke Rex Huppke (Follow)
What do each of you feel is the tastiest part of the poor person? (Mine's the thigh!) @140townhall #140townhall

LOLGOP Pete Nicely (Follow)
.@140townhall I need to learn more about this Santorum fellow. Excuse me while I Google... Oh, Christ. THE HUMANITY.

TheInDecider TheInDecider (Follow)
.@RickSantorum Show me on the doll where the high tax rates touched you. #TeaParty .@140debate

SarahPalinHand Sarah Palin's Hand (Follow)
He raised federal spending, raised taxes 11 times and the debt ceiling 16 times. So is Reagan: Socialist, Communist or Marxist?

I liked the "Six twits a-tweeting" headline better.

Holy crap, you liberals have short memories. (new window)

RolandGunner: Holy crap, you liberals have short memories. (new window)

No, it's that the President is known for being fairly technologically savvy. Bachmann and company... not so much.

RolandGunner: Holy crap, you liberals have short memories. (new window)

You either:
A) don't understand the difference between using twitter to take questions and using it to give answers, or
B) are being intentionally stupid.

/OK, I know, I know. The answer to these is always C) all of the above.

Tripp Johnston Private Eye:
I'm surprised Republican propaganda is complex enough to even need 140 characters. The whole point is to find something short, snappy, and packed with emotion, but ultimately devoid of meaning. Take for example "big government." Ooh, sure sounds bad. No one wants a powerful government. But "big" in what way? I've seen multiple definitions of it. It's a meaningless phrase onto which anyone can throw any visceral emotional reaction they want.

Close to what I was thinking. Mine was a bit more concise in thinking: "Nope sounds perfect since all the current field of nutballs only need something long enough to sound off a talking point: Whether that was what the question was about or not."

This is perfect for a batch of candidates that are just running on meaningless rhetoric.

//We need to shrink the size of government, we are over-taxed, we need a constitutional amendment outlawing Sharia Law, we need to reduce govt regulations re: the environment so business can flourish, jobs jobs jobs or wait GOP/Boehner team has not introduced any job creation legislation...could go on all day

ib_thinkin: Sprawl15 has a graphic out there for situations like this one.



/RolandGunner still doesn't understand this image

Shvetz: Ok, let's throw up some retweeted highlights!

@#$%ing gold. Thanks for saving me the trouble of reading through the tripe.

sprawl15: /RolandGunner still doesn't understand this image

LOL! Perfect! That thread was epic.

Subby, I know you are trying to make fun of the Republican field, but look at it this way: Obama is such an easy target that every Tom, Dick, and Harry in the GOP thinks he can beat him.

mike0023: Subby, I know you are trying to make fun of the Republican field, but look at it this way: Obama is such an easy target that every Tom, Dick, and Harry in the GOP thinks he can beat him.

Seriously? I have a reply to this that is so politically incorrect, I couldn't even post it on Fark.

mike0023: Subby, I know you are trying to make fun of the Republican field, but look at it this way: Obama is such an easy target that every Tom, Dick, and Harry in the GOP thinks he can beat him.

Of course, they also have voices in their heads telling them what to do, so take it for what it's worth.

Karac: RolandGunner: Holy crap, you liberals have short memories. (new window)

You either:
A) don't understand the difference between using twitter to take questions and using it to give answers, or
B) are being intentionally stupid.

/OK, I know, I know. The answer to these is always C) all of the above.



No, the answer is D) Know that the long answer have more words but the same amount of useful information.

Twitter? I hardly even know 'er!

Tripp Johnston Private Eye: Shvetz: This was such a terrible idea. It's even worse than you could imagine. All the jingoistic rhetoric squeezed into 140 characters was bad enough, but it started off with people submitting obscene (but funny) questions. It was not a well-thought out endeavor.

I'm surprised Republican propaganda is complex enough to even need 140 characters. The whole point is to find something short, snappy, and packed with emotion, but ultimately devoid of meaning. Take for example "big government." Ooh, sure sounds bad. No one wants a powerful government. But "big" in what way? I've seen multiple definitions of it. It's a meaningless phrase onto which anyone can throw any visceral emotional reaction they want.

Kind of like "Hope and Change?"