People for the American Way has a new ad out that criticizes Mitt Romney on the (entirely true) grounds that he would appoint judges who would overturn Roe v Wade. They could have gone on for a half hour on all the other things more right wing judges would mean for the country. Video below the fold.
This is one area where there is a crystal clear difference between the two nominees, and the two parties.
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Michael Heath
September 2, 2012 at 11:17 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Important topic, lousy ad. They didn’t have Bob Bork’s record on the screen long enough to read when confronted with the text for at least the first time. You’d have to have a DVR to reverse and freeze the frame.
mrbongo
September 2, 2012 at 11:28 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I get the same schadenfreude out of this blog – Ed, the monotone aging and increasingly out of touch blogger, his 10 or crazypants regular commenters (demmocommie being the craziest, with chiroptera, heath and dingo jack running wingman).
Seriously, I mean how many years has it been guys? I blow in every once in a few months and Ed is still posting the same shit, and you guys are stilling commenting away with the same lame self righteousness. Even James Hanley (of pompous third tier academia fame) seems to have moved on.
Here’s a little secret – ‘you don’t need to come to this blog anymore’ – Ed’s crap has been on repeat for years now. Just peruse through some of the science blog and just hit refresh every morning – that ‘obscure jesus nut ducks into punch’ crap never evolves.
slc1
September 2, 2012 at 11:46 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Re bongo the dongo (although his is likely enough 1 inch hard) @ #2
Hey, mrdongo posted this exact comment on a previous thread. Apparently, he’s too dumb to think up new material.
dmcclean
September 2, 2012 at 11:49 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
“Obscure”?
Sure, sometimes Ed mentions some “obscure Jesus nuts”, but I think you picked the wrong post to raise that point on, because this is about Jesus nuts who have a fighting chance to control all three branches of the US government a few months hence. By comparison, Jesus himself is in some sense obscure.
frankb
September 2, 2012 at 12:07 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Disney has a children’s story about a circus bear named Bongo. So the name of this commentor is about right.
abear
September 2, 2012 at 12:54 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
frankb @5; I have to disagree with you. mrbongo in no way behaves like a bear, circus or otherwise. His posts do however resemble a frustrated, neurotic monkey that hurls his feces at onlookers.
It’s disappointing that mrbongo gives absolutely no credit to Ed for the two posts that he made about the young Pakistani girl accused of blasphemy. You asked for it mrbongo and Ed delivered, yet the snarky comment above is all the gratitude you are capable of. Shame on you.
Chiroptera
September 2, 2012 at 1:58 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
People for the American Way has a new ad out that criticizes Mitt Romney on the (entirely true) grounds that he would appoint judges who would overturn Roe v Wade.
Hasn’t this been a legitimate for, like, every Presidential election since the ’80s?
I agree that the warning is worth repeating, though.
Chiroptera
September 2, 2012 at 1:59 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Oops. “Crazypants” me meant:
Hasn’t this been a legitimate fear….
silomowbray
September 2, 2012 at 2:07 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@ mrbongo
Sir,
You are using the word schadenfreude incorrectly. Schadenfreude is not typically accompanied by a rich combination of whining and fapping noises.
harold
September 2, 2012 at 3:17 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Mrbongo said –
I’m confused. You mean Ed was posting about potential Romney SCOTUS nominees before Romney was even running for president?
I thought Ed was skeptical of psychics, but you seem to imply that he is one himself.
Jordan Genso
September 2, 2012 at 6:53 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Let me get this straight. The troll isn’t complaining that the same horrible things are being done/said by the conservatives all these years, he’s complaining that Ed is continuing to bring it to our attention.
I think we now know how to solve the extremism that has taken over the Republican Tea Party: Ed just needs to stop writing about it.
Pieter B, FCD
September 2, 2012 at 7:27 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
And Michael Heath beats me to the punch.
If you’re going to put up an important graphic, give people time to read the frickin’ thing.
Gretchen
September 2, 2012 at 9:28 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
1. We’re all aging– you too, mrbongo.
2. Ed’s blog continues to do and say similar things to what it has done and said before? How fucking fascinating.
3. And we continue to read it? Yes, because we like what it says.
4. And you don’t like it? Yet you come back here and read it anyway.
Seems like the problem is yours, dude.
Tony •King of the Hellmouth•
September 2, 2012 at 9:58 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
mrbongo:
What on Earth was the point of this?
You dropped into Ed’s blog to give us your ‘pearls of wisdom’, along with insult the host–that’s it?
If you don’t want to read the material, don’t. Obviously the people who are here and do comment, choose to do so for reasons of their own. Your ‘contribution’ is worthless.
In addition, your failure to see the relevance of this post in particular shows tremendous intellectual dishonesty. The selection of the next Supreme Court justices is incredibly important to the future of this country. If Romney has his way, the rights of millions of Americans will be dialed back. So much of the progress that has been made in this country could be torn apart.
What really doesn’t need to happen is for people like you coming here and adding nothing to the discussion.
Go away.
lofgren
September 2, 2012 at 10:32 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
You must be lucky enough to live in a non-swing state. If you live in Pennsylvania, you’ll see this commercial enough times that you’ll have plenty of opportunities to read the whole screen. Hell they could show it for a single frame and schoolchildren would be able to recite it from memory within a week.
bryanfeir
September 4, 2012 at 4:43 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
slc1@#3:
At least he was closer to correct spelling and grammar this time. ‘I blow in every once in a few months …’ this time as opposed to ‘I blow in everyone fews month …’ last time.
Of course, ‘I blow in once every few months …’ would have been more correct than either.
I guess that makes him a blowhard. (Yeah, that was shooting fish in a barrel.)