Meet the next President of the United States

[Aurora148]

In a universe where Romney wins, I wonder if the left would actually go all tea party style for the next 4 years.

I think if Romney won the Dems would be like "lol, OK so we're winning Congress back in 2 years and the White House in 4. In the meantime "

They haven't abolished the senate filibuster for that reason. If Obama wins another 4 years and Dems keep a majority in the senate, then its likely one of the first measures taken will be to abolish it.

[Don Rumata]

Ron Paul supporters win 62% of delegates at Louisiana Republican convention. Hilarity ensues:

At this point, a motion was made to elect a new convention chairman. Henry Herford, Jr., was elected by an overwhelming majority. Nevertheless, Mr. Villere – who had appointed himself the convention chairman – refused to relinquish control of the gathering. As the delegates began turning their chairs around, Mr. Herford, the newly elected chairman, rose to call the convention to order. Sources report that, in an act of desperation, Mr. Villere and state party officials then ordered police to attack Mr. Herford.

Video footage shows an older gentleman in a blue shirt being violently dragged away by police and then shoved to the ground. When Mr. Herford protests that he is handicapped and would like to press charges for assault against the police officers, a Shreveport police officer is seen smirking in response. Sources report that Mr. Herford, 57, has a prosthetic hip that was dislocated during the assault.

http://www.policymic.com/article/sho...ent-share-link

Some day, this prosthetic hip will be in the National Museum, replacing cracked Liberty Bell as a symbol of Second American ReLOVEtion.

[Tellenta]

In a universe where Romney wins, I wonder if the left would actually go all tea party style for the next 4 years.

I think if Romney won the Dems would be like "lol, OK so we're winning Congress back in 2 years and the White House in 4. In the meantime "

They haven't abolished the senate filibuster for that reason. If Obama wins another 4 years and Dems keep a majority in the senate, then its likely one of the first measures taken will be to abolish it.

Doubtful, the senate and congress aren't very partial to placing restrictions upon themselves. This is why we now have term limits on the president and any tools of the presidency that impedes congress or the senate gets removed (line item veto being the latest which I recall). They are very hypocritical in their restrictive legislation placing such upon themselves will not happen.

[Hast]

Ron Paul supporters win 62% of delegates at Louisiana Republican convention. Hilarity ensues:

At this point, a motion was made to elect a new convention chairman. Henry Herford, Jr., was elected by an overwhelming majority. Nevertheless, Mr. Villere – who had appointed himself the convention chairman – refused to relinquish control of the gathering. As the delegates began turning their chairs around, Mr. Herford, the newly elected chairman, rose to call the convention to order. Sources report that, in an act of desperation, Mr. Villere and state party officials then ordered police to attack Mr. Herford.

Video footage shows an older gentleman in a blue shirt being violently dragged away by police and then shoved to the ground. When Mr. Herford protests that he is handicapped and would like to press charges for assault against the police officers, a Shreveport police officer is seen smirking in response. Sources report that Mr. Herford, 57, has a prosthetic hip that was dislocated during the assault.

http://www.policymic.com/article/sho...ent-share-link

Some day, this prosthetic hip will be in the National Museum, replacing cracked Liberty Bell as a symbol of Second American ReLOVEtion.

What the fuck. And these people are supposed to rule a democratic nation?

[F*** My Aunt Rita]

Ron Paul supporters win 62% of delegates at Louisiana Republican convention. Hilarity ensues:

At this point, a motion was made to elect a new convention chairman. Henry Herford, Jr., was elected by an overwhelming majority. Nevertheless, Mr. Villere – who had appointed himself the convention chairman – refused to relinquish control of the gathering. As the delegates began turning their chairs around, Mr. Herford, the newly elected chairman, rose to call the convention to order. Sources report that, in an act of desperation, Mr. Villere and state party officials then ordered police to attack Mr. Herford.

Video footage shows an older gentleman in a blue shirt being violently dragged away by police and then shoved to the ground. When Mr. Herford protests that he is handicapped and would like to press charges for assault against the police officers, a Shreveport police officer is seen smirking in response. Sources report that Mr. Herford, 57, has a prosthetic hip that was dislocated during the assault.

http://www.policymic.com/article/sho...ent-share-link

Some day, this prosthetic hip will be in the National Museum, replacing cracked Liberty Bell as a symbol of Second American ReLOVEtion.

What the fuck. And these people are supposed to rule a democratic nation?

I'm ok with cops beating old white conservatives.

[Rudolf Miller]

Paul supporters having to resort to these measures to simply be heard (and the response called in to silence them) should be among the earmarks of American decline.

Support Paul or call him/his supports lunatics or nutbags, whatever. There's no other way to define what happened there besides political repression.

[Bartholomeus Crane]

Paul supporters having to resort to these measures to simply be heard (and the response called in to silence them) should be among the earmarks of American decline.

Support Paul or call him/his supports lunatics or nutbags, whatever. There's no other way to define what happened there besides political repression.

I do call Paul and his supporters lunatics, and yes, what happened there is nothing but a violent attempt at political repression.

At these conventions, basically any partymember can show up, take part, and vote. It is quaintly democratic, but is just as easily gamed. Ron Paul's whole election strategy is to pack these conventions with Ron Paul supporters. So that they then vote in Ron Paul representatives for the convention. In this they've been far more active and successful than anyone else. Basically, supporters of Ron Paul have been vastly more willing to put up an effort for him, than, say Romney supporters for Romney.

But the whole system is ofcourse retarded. This whole 'convention-busting' ploy is nothing but exploiting a loophole in the Republican parties rickety setup to determine convention representatives. Ron Paul supporters may hold an overwhelming majority at these state conventions, but nowhere else do they represent that sort of majority. Almost nowhere in those states does Ron Paul poll even in the vicinity of a majority or that representation, and mostly he's on the cusp of single digit support.

So what is being repressed here, really? I'm the last one to defend the Republican party, least of all the way they handle this. But are they not, when it comes down to it, repressing a gross misrepresentation?

See, that's the problem with the reLOVEtion. This isn't a popular uprising and thus not a revolution. This is a very unpopular uprising by a relative handful extremists using a very poorly designed process (with loopholes galore), to carry forward a blatant misrepresentation into the national convention with the objective of hoisting upon that terrible party a candidate for president the overwhelming majority of party members (even if they don't show up to conventions) don't want, and won't vote for ever in their life. Carrying anarchy proudly in their banner, with no hope of ever actually getting their way, Ron Paul and his supporters are trying to introduce that anarchy onto the convention floor. For no other reason (that I can see) than pure spite of the party they supposedly support and are part off.

You know, I feel sorry for the guy with the replacement hip, and applaud basically anything to rid the world of the cancer that is the Republican party these days (and this helps). But you won't ever find me supporting these nutbags. In a way their actions, their calculated attempt at misrepresentation, is nothing more than repression of the democratic majority of their own party. A majority that doesn't have the time or money (backing), to picket out state conventions (or parking lots). That's not democracy, and certainly not laudable.

But I do feel sorry for the hip replacement guy.

[elmicker]

Support Paul or call him/his supports lunatics or nutbags, whatever. There's no other way to define what happened there besides political repression.

you seem to be confusing a party political event with something that matters

[lubica]

In a way their actions, their calculated attempt at misrepresentation, is nothing more than repression of the democratic majority of their own party.

In light of how that party's majority has historically been (democratically!) shitting on just about any and every minority (racial or otherwise) to come across their pathetic minds, I find this hilarious to no end.

[Maximillian]

I feel the simple fact that the GOP can't even be bothered to make the effort to stage-manage their conventions properly shows how few fucks most Republicans are giving about the Presidential race.

[Bartholomeus Crane]

In a way their actions, their calculated attempt at misrepresentation, is nothing more than repression of the democratic majority of their own party.

In light of how that party's majority has historically been (democratically!) shitting on just about any and every minority (racial or otherwise) to come across their pathetic minds, I find this hilarious to no end.

Well, I'm laughing ...

[Bartholomeus Crane]

I feel the simple fact that the GOP can't even be bothered to make the effort to stage-manage their conventions properly shows how few fucks most Republicans are giving about the Presidential race.

Not so much the race, just this candidate. The fact is, last presidential elections, Ron Paul took practically the same route than this year, just less overtly. But he didn't really get that far with it, because most of these state convention things happen quite late in the race, and by that time McCain brought out enough support to make this a relatively unsuccessful strategy. But Romney? He doesn't have popular support, just grudging support. While Ron Paul, with his teaparty appeal, put vastly more effort in it this time around. You basically have a small bunch of extremists itching for months to make a big stink of things like this and internally the Republican party is far more polarised now than it was before.

What is hilarious though is that the Republican party didn't see it coming, or at least did nothing serious to prevent this from happening. Hindsight is everything ofcourse, but this problem has been known to exist for years.

Anyway, it is good fun to watch, and entirely deserved when it comes to the Republican party. But don't misconstrue my hearty laughter at these antics for support of these nutbags, this is a pretty sad spectacle by a bunch of pretty silly people.

[Maximillian]

Maybe Romney should return to his roots with a "multiple wives for all" platform?

[Bartholomeus Crane]

Maybe Romney should return to his roots with a "multiple wives for all" platform?

I wonder how that would go down with the puritans?

[Don Rumata]

I feel the simple fact that the GOP can't even be bothered to make the effort to stage-manage their conventions properly shows how few fucks most Republicans are giving about the Presidential race.

Why they should give a fuck about these conventions? They are merely a sideshow, a Kabuki theater. In US politics money is king. Why building a ground game if you can just go suck dick of Koch brothers or Sheldon Adelson and get tens of millions of dollars for ads? Romney and GOP does not have "ground game" because they do not have to. They have money, a massive racist base and FoxNews. That's all they need.

[Rudolf Miller]

An interesting pre-cursor to the election, the Wisconsin Recall election will be held tomorrow

For more WSJ related lol-reporting and foam-tastic comments section, proceed below.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000..._WSJ_US_News_3

[F*** My Aunt Rita]

Paul supporters having to resort to these measures to simply be heard (and the response called in to silence them) should be among the earmarks of American decline.

Support Paul or call him/his supports lunatics or nutbags, whatever. There's no other way to define what happened there besides political repression.

So when republican's disenfranchise people with voter ID laws it's ok? But when cops rough up an old white dude with a prosthetic hip it's world ending stasi repression?

[Takon Orlani]

Paul supporters having to resort to these measures to simply be heard (and the response called in to silence them) should be among the earmarks of American decline.

Support Paul or call him/his supports lunatics or nutbags, whatever. There's no other way to define what happened there besides political repression.

So when republican's disenfranchise people with voter ID laws it's ok? But when cops rough up an old white dude with a prosthetic hip it's world ending stasi repression?

How do voter ID laws disenfranchise anyone? You should prove you are allowed to vote at that location and that you are who you claim to be.

And in my state they only cost $11 and are good for 6 years.

Don't even try the poor people argument. A case of cheap beer costs that.

[Don Rumata]

Paul supporters having to resort to these measures to simply be heard (and the response called in to silence them) should be among the earmarks of American decline.

Support Paul or call him/his supports lunatics or nutbags, whatever. There's no other way to define what happened there besides political repression.

So when republican's disenfranchise people with voter ID laws it's ok? But when cops rough up an old white dude with a prosthetic hip it's world ending stasi repression?

How do voter ID laws disenfranchise anyone? You should prove you are allowed to vote at that location and that you are who you claim to be.

And in my state they only cost $11 and are good for 6 years.

Don't even try the poor people argument. A case of cheap beer costs that.

Yeah! There should be nothing wrong with paying small amount of money to have the ability to vote. It's just like having a small tax at the polls, a "poll tax" if you will.

[Frug]

Paul supporters having to resort to these measures to simply be heard (and the response called in to silence them) should be among the earmarks of American decline.

Support Paul or call him/his supports lunatics or nutbags, whatever. There's no other way to define what happened there besides political repression.

So when republican's disenfranchise people with voter ID laws it's ok? But when cops rough up an old white dude with a prosthetic hip it's world ending stasi repression?

No no no. When cops rough up a college student yelling at the president about something, don't taze me bro becomes a funny meme and the guy is a douchebag. But an old republican with a prosthetic hip being roughed up is stasi repression.