Mitt Romney is a really, really, really terrible candidate for president. Rick Santorum tried to warn the Republican party, but with options like “Rick Santorum,” they probably did pick the best of their odd fruits that were on offer. So Barack Obama is talking all kinds of smack and releasing hilarious ads about how awful Mitt Romney is, because this is how politics works, right? WRONG. Bush cousin John Ellis, last seen calling Florida on Election Night 2000, explainers it all for you in this winning column for Buzzfeed, “Can Obama’s ‘Chemical Warfare’ Keep The White Vote Down?” That’s right. Barack Obama is genociding white people — with votes! Or lack of them. By releasing negative ads. Which Mitt Romney would never do, we guess, unless he actually constantly does.
John Ellis, lay down some wisdom!
The 2012 president election, boiled down to its remaining variables, is about two things: (1) white voters who voted for Barrack Obama last time and have since grown disillusioned and, (2) white voters who stayed home in 2008 rather than vote for John McCain but may vote this time. The Obama campaign’s goal is to make both groups stay home rather than vote. It’s not a “negative campaign” they’re running. It’s purposefully toxic.
Toxic, LIKE CHEMICAL WARFARE? Yes. How do we know this? Because math!
The math is simple. In 2008, black turnout was way up. Hispanic turnout was up. Young voters flooded the polls. Barack Obama won a substantial majority (53.4%) of the vote, the largest majority for a Democratic presidential candidate since Lyndon Johnson’s landslide in 1964.
The white vote, as a percentage of the total vote, was down. Obama captured 43% of the white vote, the highest percentage of white votes garnered by a Democratic presidential candidate since Lyndon Johnson (President Clinton also received 43% of the white vote in his 1996 re-election campaign).
That IS simple math! So Obama in 2008 captured the highest share of the white vote by a Dem, except he was tied with Bill Clinton, and so now he must depress the white vote! If anything, it just makes TOO MUCH SENSE. How should he suppress the white vote, John Ellis? Agent Orange? Sarin? Zyklon B? Yes, Zyklon B.
Oh, but sorry, the simple math was not done yet. Let us read more numbers, together!
If President Obama gets 40% of the white vote, he has a chance to win re-election. If President Obama gets 35% of the white vote, he’s finished.
Right now, depending on which poll you look at, President Obama is running somewhere north of 35% and south of 40% among white voters. The danger for Team Obama is that there will come a moment – “anything is better than this” – that will cause the bottom to fall out of the president’s support among white voters. If that happens, he will fall into Mondale country (35%) and lose in a landslide.
Well that does sound troubling for Obama, who is currently up 10 points over Mitt Romney nationally, and a million points in all the important swing states. Time to murder all the white people, Nobama. WITH VOTES.
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"Bush Cousin Says"
Obama still has cousins in Kenya?
Nice. Had to think about that one for a moment. Wasn't sure at first if it was a quote from Christine O'Donnell.
Or cousins that don't shave.
I will happily move to Mondale country if they have a decent economy.
Mondale country is also Bachmann country. Just sayin'.
I tried to move to Mondale country back in 1984 but my ticket was rejected at the border.
I have a row of Mondale pine trees in my yard as a windbreak, if that helps. Except all the yardsigns still say this is Palin Country, whatever that means…
Obama is up 10 points now. Just wait until the debates start. I have a feeling that Romney isn't going to be able to piaffe around the issues.
CANTER LIBEL.
Prance away the ghey, hey?
We gotta rein this in, neigh?
When you mentioned piaffe, I had visions of Mitt singing "Je Ne Regrette Rien". I have since found that it is a dressage term.
You're one up on me. I thought she was talking about rice.
I was even more mistaken. I saw it as a misspelling of the urological tie-breaker in a frat chugging contest.
Pilaf libel!
so Mitt is politically 4' 11" at the podium.
Oh, God, Barb, I keep hoping you're right. I live down here the dirty south and the mobs (yes, crowds and crowds) of people at Chik-fil-A have given me a sad. Can't we start the debates now?
"Romney isn't going to be able to piaffe around the issues"
Not even by singing in French?
[although, come to think of it, that would probably be less painful to watch than Romney actually trying to talk]
La Belle Amercia?
It's okay, the Republicans are doing everything they can in the various states to make sure the blacks don't vote this time around.
That is what I am very worred about right now. Mr. Obama has a nice lead in Pennsylvania. But this voter ID law could keep up to 10% of those registered from voting.
Interesting how before the current court case started, the state of PA stipulated it had no evidence of a single case of voter impersonation – the only type of fraud voter ID might prevent.
Purging the voting rolls – the Republican's favorite tactic – can't be stopped by voter ID. Google "voter caging" for some fascination information from The Brennan Center.
I'm holding out hope for riots when people show up at the polls and are turned away because their names were purged from the voter rolls.
And John Ellis is the smart one in the family.
JAR BABY LIBEL!
"The Tallest Midget," as they say.
Dubya is the smart one. Remember that when you see the Jeb 2016 bumper stickers.
After the GNoP Convention, I think the Democrats will just start running the tv commercials produced by (r)Money's Republican Primary opponents.
Newt Gingrich on Mitt Romney:
“I was amazed. I’m standing next to a guy who has the most blatantly dishonest answers I can remember in any presidential race in my lifetime… I don’t know how you can debate someone with civility if they’re prepared to say things that are factually false.”
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/newt-gingrich-suggests…
Then run Daily Show-like Romney vs Romney ads.
Exactly. There's so much material available, how can they be so stupid as to not use it? Don't back down to these lying assholes.
Oh, how I wish they had the sack to do that.
What about the increasingly important horse vote?
How many increasingly important horses are there?
Stop Dancing around the Issues!!!
Believe me, all those Mezzcan grooms that work in the stables voted PRI already.
They're too likely to vote Nay.
so that's why the lame stream media keeps calling it the "horse race".
WAKE UP SHEEPLES11111!!!!!!!
You know who ELSE wanted to genocide white people?
General Sherman?
That crying Injun in the litter commercials that wasn't really an Injun?
Stalin?
Sauron?
The Greys?
The sublimated guilt manifesting as the Scary Negro And/Or Muslim hiding under the bed in white people's imaginations?
I keep my muslins in the sheets, thank you.
Muslins should stay in the closet.
This guy?
The Tanning Booth Manufacturers Association?
Crazy Horse?
Eddie Murphy?
No, wait, that's not right.
He only wanted to kill his landlord.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ0up_MjsLk
Fuck this shit. And fuck the Harry Reid shitstorm as well. "Some say", and "I've heard.." are time-honored tactics. At least he's not out and out lying like Rmoney, over and over again. How come that's ok, fucking "media?
the right really does have a collective pearl clutching meltdown whenever the dems go all rove on their ass.
but i theorize it's because they know the dems are on the popular side (hell, RIGHT side) of so many issues. if you combine 'popular side', 'right side' and 'killer tactics', they have reason to clutch those pearls.
Harry Reid is not backing down: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/02/mitt-rom…
What Reid is doing is taking one for Team Obama in exactly the same way that Sununu went out there and did his hateful little dog whistle for Team Mittens. I do not have a problem with this. It is long past time we stopped losing elections, and losing a sane future for the country, just so we can say we "took the high road." (Fuck off and get real, Jon Stewart two nights ago!) And Reid is not a stupid man — it may just turn out that his source is right!
Yeah, I love Stewart, but he wades in to this "both sides" a little too much. After the hateapalooza of the last 4 years, I think it's high time a fucking Democrat found a pair. I think it's even cooler that it's softspoken Mormon, Harry Reid, doing it.
"It is long past time we stopped losing elections, and losing a sane future for the country, just so we can say we "took the high road.""
This?
Is pretty much the reason we're all here.
Thank you for stating the case so clearly.
The thing is, I don't doubt for a second that Reid has a reliable source. I just wish he hadn't come out and made the statement. There are sneakier ways to leak the information, which is probably true, that doesn't damage Dem leadership.
Of course, if Obama comes out now and says, "Of course Mitt Romney paid his taxes – not to do so would be unAmerican," then I might believe that this was planned. Otherwise, it just sort of seems like Reid heard something and couldn't keep it to himself.
I love this. Reid has four years before he has to stand for reelection. He is basically getting in Romney's face and calling him a pussy and daring him to fight. Romney is standing there doing nothing, taking it and proving Reid right, especially with his run tell teacher response.
Trust me, with (at least) Southern men, this kind of shit plays. Coming from perceived whiny pussy Harry Reid, it is like watching Romney get his ass beat by a three year old girl.
This is not about the rumor that Romney and Breitbart gang-raped and murdered a boy is it? Oh, that's right: That was in another country, and besides the wench is dead. Sorry.
It is weird that he's never denied it.
And I saw on the Internet that his momma sews socks that smell.
Democrats fighting back, oh no.
Lots of wishful thinking going on over yonder.
The math is simple. In 2008, black turnout was way up. Hispanic turnout was up. Young voters flooded the polls.
So we'll invent "voter fraud" and dis-enfranchise them!
Young people did not flood the polls in 2008. Young people never flood the polls.
No, they did. Where I voted, in Arizona, the whippersnappers opened the fire hoses and everybody had to vote in rubber boots. Those kids, I tell ya.
"Don't look over there! Be distracted by this incoherent b.s. I am weaving about white voter suppression over here!"
Mitt the Twit! Mitt the Twit! Twit attacks like these can be terrifying.
Upper-class Twit of the Year, for sure.
I wish Ellis would make up his mind which Obama he's talking about: Barack or Barrack.
Either way, the important part is that it starts with B and ends with ack.
Is Barrack the one who rides a motorcycle, or the one who lives on an Army base?
Shorter Jeb: If Obama gets fewer votes, he is going to lose. Well, duh, from the department of 'stating the obvious'.
And yet George W Bush, Republican Hero, proved that you can still win with fewer votes, if you've got enough money and an ethically challenged supreme court – both of which fall into Mittens favor.
"explainers it all for you in this winning column for Buzzfeed…"
You misspelled "whining".
Yeah, there sure is a toxic fog surrounding this election, but I don't think it's coming from Obama.
Ann really ought to clean out the stables.
Not even for a photo op would she go near a wheelbarrow of horse shit or the lowly serfs who do.
If Mitt is desperate enough, he'd pimp that broad out in a heartbeat for votes.
Are you saying he'd throw her under the wheelbarrow? I agree, and he'd hire someone to roll it back and forth over her for an extra vote.
I'm not sure that's permitted. It's OK to call Obama a Kenyan devil baby muslin socialist, but corporate media will not allow the reverse, because horrors.
George Bush's cousin doesn't care about black people.
-Kanye West
Chemical warfare? Pretty sure the only Geneva Convention Mittens cares about applies to banking secrecy.
Chemical warfare? I thought the plan was to kill them with chicken sandwiches.
Will the war on white peeplez never end?
So many days till the election, so many blogs requiring the stupid to fill up the space…
It's an outrageous strategy: get more people to vote for you. How can Mitt Romney compete against such a stacked deck?
So according to this Bush, the 2012 election is about two things – white people, and white people. Yes, John Ellis Bush like the rest of them really does not care about black people.
Who needs Agent Orange when there is a whole array of death-yielding chicken on the menu at Chick-Fil-A. Eat-mor-chiken geh-hating white people!!
If Obama can only find a picture of Mitts riding Rafalca while he's wearing a tank helmet, it's over Johnnie.
"The white vote, as a percentage of the total vote, was down"
Yeah, that's not some mysterious conspiracy, it's demographics; the white population, as a percentage of the total population of the US, has been going down for quite some time. And we're all better off for that.
Yea, but it didn't drop preciptously between 2004 and 2008 and in 2004, 67% of all voters were non-Hispanic whites. The Census Bureau reports that figure was 65% in 2008.
In 2008, it was the mobilization of minority votes that got Obama the nomination and helped get the election, to be sure, along with an historically high level of white support.
Yes, and some of us LIKE going down.
When "coloreds" (I imagine that word is still privately used) are actively working to prohibit whites from voting with not-so-subtle clones of poll taxes and the like, and when the "libs" start running private organizations and so-called Think Tanks that control the voting process with suspiciously faulty machines, then we'll talk.
Until then, shut your fucking mouth, you lying fear-monger.
I love how conservatards just cold DROP MATH in their arguments and it doesn't matter what nonsense is contained therein, it has to be true because NUMBAHS BITCHES, like "100% of white people are white, and 100% of black people are black, except for the mixed race folks like Obama, so Obama needs to suppress 200% of the voters."
“anything is better than this”/” A Moron to be named latter” 2012
I’m worried it might be too long for a bumper sticker.
I thought they were going with "At Least He's White/Some Random Guy"
"White Mormon/White Moron 2012"
there, shorten in for ya
Clearly, Romney should try and get the black vote.
He should retroactively say the right thing to the NAACP.
"Who let the dogs out?"
By wearing his Mom jeans all saggy?
Bush cousin John Ellis, last seen calling Florida on Election Night 2000
Who cares what any member of that family of shitheads has to say?
Which Bush cousin is Bush cousin married to?
It?
He must be referring to OBama's book, written with Reverend Wright – "To Serve White People".
It's a cookbook! AAIIIEEE!
I loved the old Twilight Zone and hate the "new" one- but maybe that isn't the topic here?
We're just not that into structure around here.
I get it! I get it! If people vote for Obama, he wins! If they don't, he loses! Brilliant, John Ellis! The Bush gene runs strong in your clan!
"Brilliant, John Ellis! The Bush gene runs strong in your clan!"
Sure, go ahead and make fun.
You do realize that they had to explain this to Dumbass 15 times in 2000, and he *still* didn't get it until they acted it out with hand puppets?
Well, but he didn't really have to understand, given that he lost the actual popular vote.
What do you mean? He won, 5-4.
The danger for Team Obama is that there will come a moment – “anything is better than this” – that will cause the bottom to fall out of the president’s support among white voters.
Errrrrrrrrrrr, my sense of the election is that moment has already come for Mitt.
But you keep whistling past that graveyard, little girl. Maybe the ghosts won't really come and get you.
If "suppressing the white vote" is the same as putting out negative ads about Mitt Romney, then — um — isn't it Mitt who's got the problem with voter enthusiasm? Ellis spends the last bit of his alleged analysis suggesting all manner of things the Romney campaign could do to improve its image, and then concludes:
"For whatever reason, Team Romney seems disinclined to do this. Maybe they’re waiting for the Convention and the fall campaign. Maybe they haven’t formulated their final plans. Maybe whatever."
Maybe whatever indeed — it might well be Romney's campaign slogan.
I like it. It has a nice ring to it.
They were looking for the next Ronald Reagan, and what they got was the next John Kerry.
Except John Kerry wasn't such a lying sack of shit.
His reaction to Swift Boat was essentially a pack of lies, since he or his handlers or both were too terrified to let him say "Hell yeah I threw my medals away, Vietnam was stupid!"
John Kerry at least served in the military.
Or the next Ronald MittDonald.
Good grief. I've seen complex math equations that were less convoluted than John Ellis's bullshit calculations.
There’s a lot the Romney campaign could do to change this dynamic. It could, for instance, run a series of television advertisements that recite Mr. Romney’s success in business, management, governance, and high-profile International events. It could articulate a clear plan to jump start economic growth, spur innovation, and encourage investment and opportunity. It could highlight the obvious fact that an effective manager could easily get 10% more productivity out of the Federal government on 10% less money. It could highlight the fact that Governor Romney actually knows how to manage large, complex enterprises and organizations.
In other words, Romney is screwed because those damn dirty Dems insist on telling the truth about his record. DIrty campaigning!
Or he could, you know, actually suggest doing something, anything, that would NOT benefit the 1% at the expense of the 99%…
Nahhhh.
i'm so bored with the U.S.A.
*huff*
You people!
you know, mitt romney – more than any politician in recent memory – makes me long for the grit and dirt and social upheaval of 70s clash london.
I am a card carrying* white person and I think this guy is an idiot.
*Costco card
I'm part White, but I can't prove it *
* = Think about it…
As part of my retirement as a white guy, I went and obtained a library card last Friday.
When I retired, I gave up my starbucks card
LL Bean Lexus proof enough?
That's overkill.
No, no, it's brilliant. Ellis is saying, "Yes, BUT WHAT IF THEY CHANGE THEIR MINDS AT THE POLLS!?" Never before has this argument been made with such care.
OBAMA: We've got to get out the vote! Get those people to the polls!
CAMPAIGN ANALYST: But what if they change their minds once they're at the polls?
OBAMA: You're right! We've got to suppress the vote. Keep those people away from the polls.
This is, like, some devious Sun Tzu shit.
GOPers, you don't like being railroaded/sandbagged/SwiftBoated?
Awww.
"If my opponent will stop lying about my record, I'll stop telling the truth about his."
This is nothing that an apology to Sheldon Adelson can't fix.
Countdown to "Obama holocausting male voters", because of womyn, in…
Also, where's our "that's not racial transcendence" gif when we need it?
You know, I thought I smelled something funny coming from my TV…
I feel for white people. All these 4 years without any power or clout. They need to get off the endangered species list.
Short version: "Attention white people!! Get out there and vote out the black guy!!!!!!!"
Other possible cards include the Whole Foods MasterCard, a Starbucks Coffee Card, and an International Dressage Association Membership Card.
This is a pathetic argument because stupid.
Today's edition of Teh Internet is a Dangerous Thing.
CFO of local firm records his relatively mild rant at Chick Fil-A employee. Posts it. Gets Fired.
http://azstarnet.com/news/local/executive-loses-j…
Video here. http://funny-videos.eu/adam-m-smith-fired-for-chi…
Aside from a mild enjoyment of the irony implicit in this guy being named Adam Smith, I have to wonder what's going on with that. He's the CFO of a corporation; that means he could run down the street holding the severed head of some minimum wage fast food employee and they'd be OK with it, as long as he kept shoveling enough money in their direction.
The danger for Team Obama is that there will come a moment – “anything is better than this” – that will cause the bottom to fall out of the president’s support among white voters.
The moment will be when the picture emerges of a large iron cauldron being delivered to Barry and Michelle, both of whom are carrying spears and wearing nose rings.
Oh, I guess that's why white people have been photoshopping and emailing such images amongst themselves for the last 5 years.
And Romney's IRA? Let's see, what is it, 6K per year limit on input, and he's got 100 million in the account? So cipher the 5, carry the aught – that's a lot of years he's been socking it away, gold-plated years. Jeebus this shit drives me round the bend.
Mitt Romney: he's the shit sandwich AND the giant douche.
Do the math, people!
Ignorance plus Inbreeding minus Sanity plus Profit = Bush Cousin = Brain Eating Virus
Careful there Mr. Ellis – you can hurt yourself by masturbating so hard.
The only chemical warfare I have to content at the polls is what it comes out from people's butt in form of gas, likely from a obese, hoveround Tea Baggers.
point is, no matter what happens, the brother is not legit, you dig? So if re elected it was because of these "Chicago Style" (black) tricks and tactics, not that the (white) people chose him in a fair referendum on his leadership. Because they will be depressed at home, fondling their guns and bibles and chicken sandwiches because RMoney was revealed as a cock.
We ain't your grandpa's liberals. Kumbaya mutherfuckers!
Can I make this into a T-shirt? I'm thinking for this year's Zombie fest(the one before Obama was elected was full of Zombies For Obama as will be this one)
Ha! Go for it!
Bush cousin has the IQ of bush meat.
They're in the third stage of grief with about three months to go. They're fucked and they know it.
Which scares me.
Does all the hand-wringing and math — from the guy who called Florida for Bush, no less — strike anyone else as ironic and/or a clumsy attempt at distraction? Like if the margin gets too close, they won't just rig the voting machines and steal yet another eleciton?
I read that as "hand-wringing and meth" and was in total agreement.
Shorter:
President Obama running campaign ads = voter suppression
Republicans actually blocking people from voting = move along, everyone, nothing to see here
And both sides do it. GOP uses semi-automatic theodolite and racist vote purges; Dems use TV ads. Same thing.
I'm no Pollster, but this doesn't sound that great.
Wait 'til he finds out about Barry's plan to distract the White Voters on Election Day 2012 by giving all white Republicans a $10.00 gift certificate to Chick-Fil-A. What's the catch? It is only redeemable on November 6, 2012. While the white Republicans are standing in line for their sammiches, we'll steal the election.
Election booths at Chick-Fil-A!!
1) Does John Ellis know that Romney is also running negative ads, just like he did throughout the GOP primaries?
2) Is John Ellis one of the "little brown ones," or is just his nose brown?
Many white minorities will be spared the terror of Obama's whitermination. I'm not sure bisexuals qualify, but here's hoping we get a pass.
This assclown's tap-dance with figures makes Rafalca look like a plow horse; which it soon will be, I'm sure.
I think he would throw her under the Messicans pushing the wheelbarrow and cheer them on to glory.
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