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Well, we seem to be running out of places to discuss this, 'cos of thread closure, and I promised that I'd start a thread like this, so this seems to be the perfect time.So, here we are again.In the blue corner we have Barack Obama, a Secret Muslim Communist!!! who used his time machine to Destroy The American Economy!!!, who Wants The Terrorists To Win!!! but occasionally has some of them shot by accident, who has Raised Our Taxes!!! by lowering them, and who has Taken Away Our Freedoms!!! in some way that we can't actually specify. And most damning of all, he Concealed His Birth Certificate!!! by showing it to the media.In the red corner we have Mitt Romney, a guy who has real faults that weren't invented by crazy people.Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

Apparently, which direction time goes in. Have we found the new Sarah Palin?Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

The leader of Swift Boat Retards For Being Halfwits or whatever they call themselves manages to make Buzsaw look well-adjusted ... well, OK, not quite, but who could?

Romney is not completely nuts, kudos to him: For those who haven't been following this, Akin is running for Senator in Missouri. He has some strong opinions on abortion, fair enough. But in defense of these opinions, he has explained to the world that if a woman gets raped, and she really gets raped, and isn't secretly thinking "yes, yes, yes, do me with your enormous masculine penis" then it's not biologically possible for her to get pregnant.We're used to getting inaccurate science lessons from Republicans, but this has crossed the line.

Future archaeologists will ascribe this to the actions of a bizarre religious cult.They'll be right.

All conservatives are now officially sane by comparison, including Buzsaw. Unless he believes this stuff, which he might. OK, maybe not Buzsaw.Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

OK, now I'm pissed at Romney. He leads with a low race card because he knows his partner holds the ace.

And that's how to win the women's vote.Meanwhile, Romney shares his secret pain. Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

Grover Norquist on Romney: Well, that was frank. Apparently the key difference between Romney and an empty suit is his ability to sign his name.But how well will this plan go down with the voters? The idea seems to be that Romney's role would be to rubber-stamp the acts of a Republican Congress ... a group which currently has the same approval rating as leprosy.

The Onion nails it.

In Ohio, 15% of Republicans say that Mitt Romney deserves more credit for the death of Osama Bin Laden than Obama does, and 47% are not sure.I think this is profoundly unfair: I'm every bit as not-black as Mitt Romney, so why aren't they giving me any credit?Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

In an interview with George Stephanopoulos, Mitt Romney was asked: Is $100,000 middle income? Middle income is $200,000 to $250,000 and less, Romney replied.Oh, good. I'm glad we sorted that out. I wish my wife and I had middle income. With a single year's income we could pay off our mortgage three times and have enough money left over to pay off her student debt. And then next year we could think about buying that yacht I've always wanted. But unfortunately we are not members of the coveted middle class. If only we'd studied hard and worked hard and gone to college ... oh, wait, we did.What do I have to do to have a middle income? Right now I'm open to suggestions such as kidnapping Mitt Romney and seeing how much I can get for a ransom. The Republican Party would pay me a small fortune not to release him.Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

I'm not sure how much insight we could get into the character of the man by buying one of his houses.Which of his houses is that? Is it the one that cost twelve million dollars and has an elevator for his cars, or is it another more folksy and down-to-earth house?Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

Yes. Someone who bought one of Romney's houses thinks that he's a nice guy.Something about that article stinks to me --- actually reading it over it's a huge honking lie, isn't it? --- but I can perfectly well believe that it has a grain of truth in it and that someone who bought one of Romney's houses does indeed think that he's a nice guy.Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

Yeah, but think about it. As I said, that's one of his houses. That's his skiing home. It's not his actual home. That's the house that he bought so that he could leave it empty for 50 weeks in the year but so that when he wanted to take his kids skiing, he'd have somewhere to stay.And then we're told what a humble ordinary guy he is that it looks much like the home that a middle-class family would spend a lifetime paying off the mortgage on? We should think he understands what it's like to be an ordinary American because he bought as a rich man's toy what the rest of us would consider a necessity --- or an unattainable aspiration?Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.