I sincerely HOPE the Mayans were right. I've had enough of this shiat.

sweetmelissa31: How is Obama unelectable?

Because he's a Kenyan Muslim Communist-Fascist usurper, duh.

As Obama has already been elected he is by definition electable.

Is it Freeper Friday already?

The fark is up with these headlines?

It's not Freeper Friday, yet.

sweetmelissa31: How is Obama unelectable?

If Romney is, so is Obama. That's how fair and balanced works. Cripes, get with the program you divisive hyper-partisan demo-rat.

Alphax: Is it Freeper Friday already?

Nah. This article writer isn't "republican stupid", he's just stupid stupid. Kind of refreshing to see an article based on a more traditional side of ignorance rather than the enforced and glorified version that normally seeps from right-wingers.

Both sides are unelectable, so vote Republican.

Don't Troll Me Bro!: Is formal logic on that list of things conspiring against the GOP yet? If not it needs to be added. Mathematics will also suffice.

Well, the thing that's really going to work against Obama this election is his complete lack of decision making or executive experience. Romney has been a governor before, so he understands how executive decisions need to be made. Even Newt led while he was in the legislature, and held Clinton to task on his decisions as president -much more than you can say for someone who spent a few years trying to organize block parties.

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To Republicans, 'unelectable' means 'someone who we don't like.'

Tigger: This might be the worst piece of journalism I have ever read.

Everyone involved deserves cancer.

FTA: One guy is HERP-DERP while the other guy is DERP-HERP.

Well, however it turns out, it will certainly be DERPITY-HERPITY!!!!1!

//fark off ABC

sweetmelissa31: How is Obama unelectable? He's currently president. Pretty sure that means he was elected.

HANGING CHADS!

Oh wait, that was the other guy.

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Well duh.

they'll probably give the new guy a shot.

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I don't think it's that rational. I think it's more like a bunch of little James O'Keefe's who just can't believe how cute and impressed with their shiatstorm they are.

false dichotomy

Subby: two "unelectable" candidates, Obama and Romney

This is what floor-humpers actually believe.

Mikey1969: ESPECIALLY given the alternatives. I shudder to think what would happen if any of the Republican candidates got ahold of the reins right now. It would make Bush look like a Uniter AND an elder statesman.

Personally, I don't think Romney would do a terrible job and maybe congress might stop trying to destroy this country. On the other hand, I'm more interested in the long term, and partisanship will only get worse until the Republican party learns its lesson. I'm worried though, that if Romney loses as he is a moderate, the Republicans will just think they should have gone further right.

It's not about unelectable candidates, it's about unsurpressible voters. Of course the Kochtopus is throwing piles of money at that. With that money, if voting occured every day, unemployment wouldn't be an issue.

All the big media outlets are doing is trying to create excitement over the upcoming general election. ABCNews has fallen a long way from the days of Peter Jennings; now it's all about coming up with the "threat of the week", or the "today this will kill you if you eat it!" stories, now they're trying to make the general election look like it will go down to the wire since that generates interest.

It's one reason why I laugh at the evening news stories more than anything else. They try and provide "balance" to every story they report on, even when there's clearly a wrong and a right side. Political stories especially get this treatment, which is why no one wants to ask Romney difficult questions about his background, or his corporate raider jobs, or his flip-flopping as governor. They know if the public gets the truth about these subjects, the upcoming election will be a foregone conclusion for Obama, and what news agency wants that? Better to portray both candidates as "too close to call" right up to November. Better for them, of course, which is all that's important.

Mikey1969: sweetmelissa31: How is Obama unelectable? He's currently president. Pretty sure that means he was elected.

Yeah, I don't get this either. I won't go with the 'he's already President' angle, but despite what the haters say, the last 3 years have been decent, considering what the man was handed. Unemployment is trending down from its spike, we got Osama, we're out of Iraq, companies are starting to right themselves again. And this was all with the Obstructionist Party having a majority in the Senate(or is it the House?), and fighting ANYTHING he does tooth and nail, even when he is putting in provisions that were Republican, in order to meet them half way.

He's done plenty I'm not happy with, Guantanamo is still open, he signed back into law a bunch of the more nasty stuff from the PATRIOT Act, and he has yet to have a showdown with the Repubs, which is needed if anything is going to get done here, but there wil NEVER be a President that I am 100% in agreement with, and for the most part, I'm OK with life under Obama.

ESPECIALLY given the alternatives. I shudder to think what would happen if any of the Republican candidates got ahold of the reins right now. It would make Bush look like a Uniter AND an elder statesman.

This, although the "showdown with the Repubs" was over the debt limit. But it turned out that the Republicans were willing to drive the country over a cliff just to prevent the President from getting anything done. I'll support the side that didn't play chicken with the economy.

Tigger: This might be the worst piece of journalism I have ever read.

Everyone involved deserves cancer.

No, we're seeing the setup. ABC, like the rest of the media, spent over a year fellating the Republican Presidential "candidates" during the "Circus Of Primaries". Now that the crowd's winnowed down and the nuttier teabaggers removed from the pack, the media's next move is to then make Obama seem "unelectable", so that these friggin' idiots posing as Republican Presidential candidates seem palatable.

Once that pass occurs over the next few months, the next step is to then work up exactly four debates. Too few, and Obama will run roughshod over Romney. Too many, and Romney's "vapid rich robber baron" image will carry over the the image his handlers want to project. Since Obama will stomp Romney in their first head-to-head debate, we can't have an odd number of debates - Romney must get the last word. So, I'm predicting four debates, overall.

Finally, we'll see a last-minute push as the election is manipulated in Florida and Ohio, making it far "closer" than it has any right to be - all the while ensuring that the real fight, the desperate need for Republicans to keep anything like a lead in Congress, goes largely unnoticed and therefore far more easily manipulated.

'Course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.

Mikey1969: sweetmelissa31: How is Obama unelectable? He's currently president. Pretty sure that means he was elected.

Yeah, I don't get this either. I won't go with the 'he's already President' angle, but despite what the haters say, the last 3 years have been decent, considering what the man was handed. Unemployment is trending down from its spike, we got Osama, we're out of Iraq, companies are starting to right themselves again. And this was all with the Obstructionist Party having a majority in the Senate(or is it the House?), and fighting ANYTHING he does tooth and nail, even when he is putting in provisions that were Republican, in order to meet them half way.

He's done plenty I'm not happy with, Guantanamo is still open, he signed back into law a bunch of the more nasty stuff from the PATRIOT Act, and he has yet to have a showdown with the Repubs, which is needed if anything is going to get done here, but there wil NEVER be a President that I am 100% in agreement with, and for the most part, I'm OK with life under Obama.

ESPECIALLY given the alternatives. I shudder to think what would happen if any of the Republican candidates got ahold of the reins right now. It would make Bush look like a Uniter AND an elder statesman.

I think the kid gloves are going to come off second term.

MindStalker: Mikey1969: ESPECIALLY given the alternatives. I shudder to think what would happen if any of the Republican candidates got ahold of the reins right now. It would make Bush look like a Uniter AND an elder statesman.

Personally, I don't think Romney would do a terrible job and maybe congress might stop trying to destroy this country. On the other hand, I'm more interested in the long term, and partisanship will only get worse until the Republican party learns its lesson. I'm worried though, that if Romney loses as he is a moderate, the Republicans will just think they should have gone further right.

The Republicans are so partisan within the party, that a fair amount of them either won't vote or will vote for Obama if their candidate isn't runnin, which, like you said, only feeds the beast.

Hero worship is defined as the foolish or excessive adulation for an individual. This thread could evolve into an interesting discussion of how this phenomenon has caused untold misery and held back the social development of our species for the last 8,000 years, and why the admiration and exaltation of leaders should be discouraged. Or not.

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/damnit

heh

Obama is unelectable?

*checks 2008 election results*

Sasquatchuan: This, although the "showdown with the Repubs" was over the debt limit. But it turned out that the Republicans were willing to drive the country over a cliff just to prevent the President from getting anything done. I'll support the side that didn't play chicken with the economy.

This! I knew I would work toward GOP defeat when they marched out Paul Ryan and then voted unanimously to end MEDICARE. In GOP controlled states, I have seen them suppress voter registration, attempt to legislate morality, privatize prisons, cut education funding, no bid contracting to private corporations, gut environmental laws, and given grants and tax deductions to special interests. I have at least seen some willingness to compromise from Fartbongo, but at this point he's little different from a moderate at this stage of the game.

jayhawk88: sweetmelissa31: How is Obama unelectable? He's currently president. Pretty sure that means he was elected.

HANGING CHADS!

Oh wait, that was the other guy.

ACORN! SOROS! UNION THUGGERY! BLACK PANTHERS! WHITE GUILT! DECEMBERISTS!

As almost everyone has noted, one of these people is electable by nature of past success in that endeavor. I would also add that in this two-party system, with the polarizing language of 90+% of all our political discussions, that once someone is chosen for a party they stand a fair chance of becoming elected regardless of how much that objectively did not be possible prior to the nomination.

Bendal: All the big media outlets are doing is trying to create excitement over the upcoming general election.

Exactly.

Some of the best lulz that I had with the coverage of the 2008 election was how MSNBC would maintain their Electoral College Map in such a way that McCain and Obama always had nearly the exact same number of electoral votes firmly behind them. They'd constantly have states listed as tossups where absolutly no polling data existed to support that assertion. Even the day of the election, absolutely every single media outlet was trying to drive the narrative that it was anyone's race to win.

Mikey1969: the Republicans will just think they should have gone further right.


Jesus, is that even possible at this point?

To be fair, I've yet to hear Romney talk about the need for more Lebensraum.