Monday Open Thread [8.13.12]
So there have been two days of chatter on Rmoney-Ryan (I saw a cartoon over the weekend that transformed the Romney logo into the Rolls Royce logo for Romney-Ryan, wish I could find that again a couple of choices are below, thanks to Tom Hawk and jpconnor!), what do you hear?
USA Today and Gallup conducted a poll asking about the Ryan pick and the results are unimpressive:
Ryan, a Wisconsin congressman, is seen as only a “fair” or “poor” choice by 42% of Americans vs. 39% who think he is an “excellent” or “pretty good” vice presidential choice.
Only Dan Quayle fared worse in a 1988 Harris poll.
Politico (shudder) tells us that the VP choice Team Obama was most nervous about was Tim Pawlenty. Apparently Pawlenty didn’t have anything in his background that it would be easy to define him with.
Geezer points us to a review of an e-book by a local aspirant to the Wingnut Welfare Train. Colin Flaherty shows up on WDEL periodically and seems to have been hawking this fear and loathing over RACE RIOTS where African Americans are violently victimizing white people for fun or something. Is there anyone here who can’t hear this dogwhistle? Anyway, the review is a righteous smackdown — pointing out that (like most wingnut pamphleteering) this document relies on trying to make the fears of a minority of folks into a massive social ill by making up statistics, embellishing details and just making stuff up wholesale. Too bad he won’t turn all of that analytical power into a definitive assessment of the failure of the GOP in his own state. Oh, wait.
So what interests you today?
EDIT: Thanks to Tom Hawk and jpconnor:
Cassandra— If you use “Romney-Ryan logo” on Google image search you will get 7 or 8 versions in about 8 pages.
i shared it on facebook…. its on my wall:)
Well played, Canadians! US Citizen who probably should have not gotten a Visa to get out of his driveway complains to Canadian newspaper that he was disadvantaged by not being able to carry his weapon while visiting Canada. Apparently two people trying to give away free tickets to an event scared the bejeezus out of him. Canadians — not exactly accustomed to being asked to operate from fear, have made it their business to mock this misplaced visitor.
Good grief — I post the above and my NPR page shows a story that 3 people are dead in a shooting near Texas A&M.
Can we talk about guns yet?
Hey! I found a new story for Colin Flaherty! Apparently there are black people touching the food of white people in Texas. Said white people find this touching against their “creed”. One of them is actually suing, because he “can’t have someone negroidal touch my food.”
This is how Race Riots start, people.
Ron Poliquin suspended from practicing law.
Poliquin info: http://www.wgmd.com/?p=66286
SW: Looks like WGMD posted a bad link to the judge’s opinion. Have you seen it anywhere?
Actually, Colin Flaherty”s problem with non-whites is that they aren’t full on slaves. His on air voice goes to the highest bidder (or the biggest promise of $$). So you’ve got a whore who prefers everyone be enslaved. Good ole Colin. Every priest’s favorite at Sallies.
http://courts.delaware.gov/opinions/download.aspx?ID=176790
Sad stuff. Poliquin was a jerk in his 2002 race against Jack, but he had a flair and talent for helping the underdog, and accomplished good things for many people. Here’s hoping that he can rebound and reboot.
Mittins had his oldest son call Pawlenty and that Senator from Ohio to tell them they were not being picked for Veep. What a wimp
Class act!