Yeah, but why risk even saying it? Can he truly get both the conservatives and the moderates at the same time, because people are that willing to believe? Are people that stupid?
Yes, I know, not much point in even asking.
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Dana - Oct 11, 2012 3:46:26 pm PDT #25353 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Burrell - Oct 11, 2012 3:49:58 pm PDT #25354 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
One of my student tells me that her friends who are voting for Romney are convinced that he won't actually make any moves to limit access to abortion. So he was talking to that crowd, the people who may not agree the anti-abortion plank in Republican platform but they've been raised Republican and vote that way because they've always voted that way.
le nubian - Oct 11, 2012 3:57:30 pm PDT #25355 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
There's a bunch of people who don't believe Romney is extreme. I bet there is a nice overlap with this group and those who believed GWB would govern as a moderate as well.
Kat - Oct 11, 2012 4:11:18 pm PDT #25356 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Yeah, but why risk even saying it? Can he truly get both the conservatives and the moderates at the same time, because people are that willing to believe? Are people that stupid?
Because even as recently as 3 elections ago, the ability to tailor your position to your audience wasn't something that would get you caught or even dinged. But the media landscape is different now and it's bitten in him in the ass at least twice. He's campaigning like it's 1999 and not like it's a world of instant news recording by the masses.
Kat - Oct 11, 2012 4:14:15 pm PDT #25357 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
My nephew is in Mother Jones: [link] He looks like a badass.
Actually I'm charmed that this Hawaii boy works for the Coast Guard in the Arctic Circle.
Steph L. - Oct 11, 2012 4:21:52 pm PDT #25358 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Ugh, this debate. Paul Ryan is giving me flashbacks to what I hated about my college. He is a smarmy, scary motherfucker.
But he has a bigger flag pin, so he's clearly the winner.
Laura - Oct 11, 2012 4:22:58 pm PDT #25359 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Joe needs to laugh less and talk more. The word count is way uneven.
Jesse - Oct 11, 2012 4:23:54 pm PDT #25360 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
My nephew is in Mother Jones: [link] He looks like a badass.
That Jesse? Badass!
I'm watching the debate, like an ass, but I'm going to turn it off soon.
Steph L. - Oct 11, 2012 4:26:00 pm PDT #25361 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I'm hoping the power of Biden's gleaming white teeth will defeat that frat boy from hell.
§ ita § - Oct 11, 2012 4:27:48 pm PDT #25362 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm just asking this casually, Kat, but how...how do I phrase this...how legal is your nephew? And how do you feel about being related to me?