In 2008, the McCain campaign knew they had a major charisma and excitement deficit. Their candidate was old and cranky, and unloved by the base of the party. Barack Obama was not only filling stadiums of excited voters in America, he was doing it in Europe, too. First they tried to bring Obama back to Earth by comparing him to Paris Hilton. Then they tried to change the game by selecting Sarah Palin as his running mate. Here’s a visual representation of the problem the GOP was dealing with four years ago.
Flash forward to the present, and the Republicans are stuck with the exact same problem. They are going to nominate a flat-out dork. A dork who is also unloved by the base of the party, or anyone else outside of his immediate family. Here’s a visual presentation of the problem the Republicans are facing now:
Any questions?
Any questions?
Yeah. Did he mention the public option? Because if he didn’t, I’m staying home.
that’s what absentee ballots are for.
But, but, but…..haven’t you heard? The GOP has this winning graphic to neutralize all that!
The hug heard round the world!!!
GAME OVER!!!
Yes, that is very powerful. I predict that Obama can forget about winning West Virginia now.
Damn!! And just when we had WV in the bag. What’s next? Probably lose Wyoming, too. I knew there would be repercussions for this radical embrace.
Idaho is gone once they get a hold of this:
Oh yeah. Got that a while back in an e-mail from my T-Partyin’ brother in law. My wife was appalled and she let her brother have it. He just laughed. Guess she doesn’t quite grasp the disgusting level of craziness out there. Suppose my hide has thickened a bit over the years.
Here’s a rare shot of R-money and his pal on the way to makeup for the above public apperance.
how do you do that? embed pictures?
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I still lookup the info in superscalar’s diary from 2005 – How’d boo do that? (An HTML Primer)
I use the straightforward code: [img width=”” src=””] {replace [ ] by < >}
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."thx gonna try it again
I upload to Photobucket and just copy the code they provide.
Seriously, the optics are not on there side.
Also if I could, I certainly post a pic of Obama and Michelle va Ann and Mitt…no comparison.
http://www.daylife.com/photo/0fRT0WHa6QaMy?__site=daylife&q=Barack+Obama+Ohio
Also this:
http://www.daylife.com/photo/00Vo9Gf5xEc73?__site=daylife&q=Barack+Obama+Ohio
Hell, even the Obama’s kids are more photogenic than five square (and square-jawed) trust babies.
I’d forgotten about the Paris Hilton thing. They tried to paint Obama as an airhead female and then decided the real thing called Sarah could save them. Makes me all wobbly laughing all over again. One hates to be superficial and all, but damn, they do have a problem. Sometimes you can overcome optics with intellect and personality, but that is not in their future.
Still unreal.
Okay, let’s see if this works:
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Preview is your friend.
Cut and paste the following code and it will work for you.
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thx
Boo:
What’s the scenario for replacing a VP in the middle of a President’s term? And before anyone asks, do you see anything wrong with any of those pictures Boo posted?
If you can convince them to resign. It’s a constitutional elected position.
Can’t the VP be appointed by the President with the House confirming? Basically the same thing as a cabinet secretary but it’s the House that needs to confirm as opposed to the Senate.
Let me put it bluntly. What would happen were Mittens to get elected(with Christie as his Veep) and Christie’s weight becomes … leads to a serious problem where as he could no longer become VP? Would the Senate have to approve Mittens’s choice? Both the House and the Senate? Was Ford approved that way?
It requires Senate approval, not House:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ford#Vice_Presidency.2C_1973.E2.80.9374
Couldn’t help but notice that Ford’s VP nomination was approved 92-3. If Joe Biden was reelected and then dropped dead next year, can you imagine Obama getting that level of cooperation from Senate R’s? Hell, they’d probably filibuster to keep the VP spot vacant (and, hence, the speaker of the House – probably not Boehner by next year, but probably still a R, like Cantor) – as next in line), until/unless the public outcry got too large.
And the Senate didn’t even get a promise from Ford not to pardon Nixon out of it.
I know exactly what you’re talking about. But god forbid anyone say anything about “healthy living” it too rude to mention it according to repubs.
Ann and Mitt just don’t come off as genuine as the Obamas.
You got it! 🙂
The photo of Christie is pretty frightening.
But it is easily made worse by adding some audio of him abusing some voter who dares to ask him a question.
But that stuff is like porn for the whacko right…even if they account for only about 1 in 3 voters. For others he makes a truly offensive comment about once a week.
The photo of Christie is pretty frightening.
That’s my point. Christie makes Mittens look like a marathon runner.
Naw.
Mitt just looks more like a inauthentic dork. 😉
At least Christie probably really is an authentic asshole who hates people.
OTOH Mitt just may not have genuine feelings about anyone or anything. That would have helped his work at Bain.
Either way there just isn’t very much that is attractive (visually or personality) about anyone in the GOP on the national stage. And then there is Jan Brewer who looks like a freak of nature and along with Walker just has a natsy disposition. Don’t even get me started about Newt’s mush, Boehner’s tan or McConnell’s sourpuss.
But why is Meh imitating Christie’s stance? that’s my question (so yes, I have a question)
Because as far as I can tell, Meh is incapable of original thought.
As I understand it he earnestly soaked up as much as he could at Harvard but it wasn’t exactly brilliant. And the work at Bain, while innovative for the industry, was not his idea. He just executed it.
Optics aside, this is the type of stuff the R-Money campaign needs to be worried about.
From Washington post: Obama to showcase technology at kickoff rallies Saturday
Is Chris Christie actually a serious consideration for Veep, or is this just blog chatter?
Because his degree of morbid obesity disqualifies him for either physical or mental health reasons. Don’t tell me that’s glandular. That’s a guy with lethal problems.
talking heads like to mention it.
Woot McCain green screen Woot!
I believe it was Atrios who wrote that when a gentleman of a certain age stands in front of a green background, he looks like the dollop of cottage cheese in the lime jello.
never heard any explanation for that green screen – do you know why it happened?
I think that particular shot was a computer glitch at the convention, while his background imagery was playing during his speech.
The campaign also used an extremely ill-advised green background during his stump speeches for a few days.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/images/mccain-mtsdspeech2-blog.jpg
Heh heh, my friends, heh heh.
No, it was a speech he gave in Louisiana. No glitch, just halfwit staffers.