Oscar Wildcat
Romneumonia; catch it!

SteamPoweredKleenex
I think Romnebola has a better ring to it!

Though it could be too virulent and catching to be an apt comparison. Still, bleeding from the eyes and ears is bleeding from the eyes and ears.

Old_Zircon
The first time I watched this I thought he was saying "Romney riot."

Scurrie
Romnnui ?

Bhiu
Where's my pizza?

Rudy
HOLY SHIT!
(you're boring)
HOLY SHIT!
(you're boring)

Stopheles
DANcing HORSE!
DANcing HORSE!
DANcing HORSE!

IrishWhiskey
From the beginning he's had trouble drawing a crowd. The press stopped talking about it after the primary, but his events are usually either fundraisers with small groups or rallies with numbers in the hundreds, while the President regularly pulls thousands.

It's sad that with so radicalized a base, hundreds of elite donors emptying their coffers, and a weak economy, Mitt's running a campaign so bad it could cost Republicans Congress. And yet he genuinely was the best they had.

jangbones
Depends on your definition of "best"

I would have preferred if a rabid social conservative or blood-crazed warhawk had won the Republican nomination. Since the right wing media is unable to comprehend that they are not in the majority, their attempts to explain the loss would be hee-larious.

fatatty
Yeah, unfortunately a Romney loss will just prove to the crazies that he was too moderate, and that to win they need to go far right-wing extremist next time.

We can only hope they find the Reaganesque Hitler they always dreamed of.

IrishWhiskey
While true, the fact that Romney chose to tack hard to the right (possibly more than Santorum would have done since Romney is still struggling to win over the base) is already having consequences. Senate Republicans talked recently about revenue as part of deficit reduction basically because Romney's been making the 'lower taxes on the rich but not the poor' argument and is failing.

And everytime Romney discusses healthcare, it's a comedy of unforced errors. He took credit on Univision for Obamacare and his staff immediately put out a release calling it a catastrophe. He talked about keeping the mandate, but then retracted it by saying that ER's provide all the free healthcare people need. Because while other candidates could have criticized parts of the law, Romney can't say anything good without reminding people he passed the same basic law, and then he has to go to the extreme to convince conservatives he's on their side.

cognitivedissonance
Not to worry, Paul Ryan has another 25 years of attempt in him. He'll get into the White House eventually, if that pesky gay sex scandal doesn't spontaneously erupt first.

Nikon
>Mitt's running a campaign so bad it could cost Republicans Congress.

OH PLEASE OH PLEASE OH PLEASE

SteamPoweredKleenex
Re: Romney tacking hard right.

You'd think he would've learned from what happened to Bob Dole. Dole was someone who often led consensus in the Senate, found common ground, etc.

Yeah, I know. I used the word "learned." Wishful thinking.

A pity that now most Republicans see the word "compromise" as "total loss and giving into Satan" as opposed to "giving and taking between opposing views of differing weight and constituencies until agreement is reached." It's one more way the tying of politics to religion (and sports, really) has made everything a binary choice in the eyes of the Republican base.

Kabbage
My old co-worker unironically tried condemning Obama's reaction to the embassy killing ("muslim aggression") by comparing it to Bush's reaction to 9/11.

IrishWhiskey
As opposed to Bush's reaction to the many embassy attacks during his term. Of course.

SteamPoweredKleenex
Hey, those weren't terror attacks... according to the record keepers that Condi leaned on.

Hooker
Hah! He was such a spaz.

cognitivedissonance
I just keep saying "Romulan".

Rodents of Unusual Size
Romneyryan sounds like a horrendous melding of their molecules. Like The Fly or that one Flapjack clip.

FINALLY WE ARE ONE

Stopheles
Except Kerry was the whistle-blower on both My Lai and the Iran-Contra deals (which is why the right wing hates him so much, though they're very reticent to admit it because, well, My Lai and Iran-Contra were both pretty fucking awful). Romney hasn't really done anything to justify working on a national scale.

SteamPoweredKleenex
Kerry made the mistake of being boring and not effectively fighting back against the Swiftboat types. He does provide a lot of delicious irony in that all the "rich guy out of touch" attacks leveled at him are geometrically more apt for Romney.

Rodents of Unusual Size
Every business decision he has ever made has "future dystopian fucking America up the ass with a thousand mile dildo while wearing magical underwear" written all over it.