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At one point in the campaign, the Rmoney guys ran what I guess you'd call a "web event", where they set up some label printers and then drove them with input from regular folks on the web. These were like name-tag labels on a RMONEY 2012 base label. Then they pointed cameras at the printers and put the camera output on the website, so people could watch their Romney labels being printed.

Yes. They really did that. With no ID or authentication. There were very many labels on the theme of weed and boners, and some Hitler, and before they shut the works down, there was "Weedlord Bonerhitler". It was possibly the stupidest political gimmick I've ever seen. But unintentionally hilarious.

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Damn. I always hated history. I should have listened to Joe Smoe. (Mr Turk, the Sick Man Of Europe.)

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Well, hugs with that would be ... a new thing for me. Probably for Carville, too. I'd no idea he has a fanbase here. I've always liked him since I learned he got his political start working on a campaign for Price Le Blanc, best known around here as a car salesman who said daaahlin' a lot. I see starfanglednut has caught on too, so it'll soon be just like old times. (Yesterday.)

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Funny thing about that (one or many, I'm sure) is that the Darwin they refuse to recognize is taking care of the really dumb ones.

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A similar trick worked for Putin.

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Orson Scott Card has spent <i>waaaay</i> too much time away from earth.

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OMG, can you imagine the exploding heads if we were able to convince them that we were going to pull a Bloomberg on them? Impossible to actually do it, of course, but they're too dumb (and fact-resistant) for that little detail to get in the way.

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You've got this all figgered out.

Alternatively - since ACORN stole this election, Bronco wasn't really <i>truly</i> elected... so he can be elected for only the second time in 2016.

Bwah hah hah.

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I know this one... it's akin to the name of a misogynist loser...

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Now that was a campaign. Good thing W and the GOP didn't "go negative"...

Or stoke fear, for that matter.

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I <strike>look forward to</strike> anticipate your followup on secession petitions. Apparently the one in Texas has reached the threshold requiring a response from the administration. (When on earth did that rule get put in place? And why? And what were they smoking?) I hope the response is "Go fuck yourselves, you crybabies", but I shall probably be disappointed.

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Sorry -- I tried, but I could not take more than about 20 seconds of the bitch.

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Nah, just didn't recognize our cosy little Mittborg. Admitting your kinship to Steely Dan, are you?

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The pony?

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Animal House reference

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I thought Mary Maitlen is a deaf actress.

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