They give pause for thought. They are... unsettling. They are disturbing and might cause difficulty.

Personally I am troubled. I am gripped with a mood of ... disquiet.

Except when the Romney campaign does things - it pisses me off when the Romney campaign does things! Yes! It makes me annoyed when the Romney campaign does things! It really annoys me and pisses me off! It makes me angry when they say things! It's irritating and makes me angry! My emotions are regularly and violently disturbed by the Romney campaign!

And Obama's campaign is.... worrying. Yes. There are troubling developments afoot. It's problematic. It's difficult to know what to do. Things are difficult. It's a troublesome thing.

And it makes me really angry when the Romney campaign does stufff! It pisses me off! Yes.! It's off-pissing! It makes me mad and angry! I hate it when those guys do stuff!

And Obama's campaign is.... a difficult thing. Yes. It's troubling. It's worrying. It's going to run into difficulty. It's awkward and a problem. It's not going to go well. Things will go badly.

And I hate Romney guy and it makes me really angry when the Romney campaign does stuff! I hate it when they say things! I hate it when they do things! It pisses me off! It makes me angry! I don't like it when the Romney campaign does things!

And the Obama campaign is.....

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He obviously doesn't have the nonce to run a campaign. That bit where he asked Obama to stop talking about taxes was just laughable...

I'm thinking the Pubes had better find themselves some new fans.

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Lacks the necessary self-confidence, I'd suggest.

Curious.

...the abyss eventually gets pissed off with your passive aggressive bullshit and says "Stop staring at me you rude bastard! How would you like it if weird, sinister people followed you around for decades and ogled you continuously like you were some kind of freak show? Hm!? Have a good look, then, you nosy piece of shit! I can't help the way I am! It's congenital! LEAVE ME ALONE!!!" And then it bursts into tears and calls the police and gets an injunction out on your ass, which is highly embarassing and an alarming experience calling for some self-examination and perhaps a re-evaluation of one's OCD abyss fetish.

A nation is the physical manifestation of a constellation of human ideals.

Nations exist for the sake of the people in them. They serve no purpose if they cannot improve the lot of the average citizen or there is no shared understanding of what the nation is all about. Nations provide a sanctuary within which human beings can realise their potential, in the company and safety of like-minded humans, where shared values can work in unison for the betterment of all. Human beings need nations to rise above their individualism and make common cause with those who share their values. Nations are places where beliefs are tested and the best way forward is decided on collectively, as far as possible by consensus, and as far as possible by consent.

Nations are not places where selected segments of the populace are sold down the river like bits of scrap metal so that rich people can get richer. Nations are not places where individual's dreams are forgotten or purposefully crushed because they aren't part of the business model. Nations are not places where human beings are less important than the bank balance.

Ideals are not things that should be treated like materials in a factory, products to be marketed, workstreams to be "streamlined", assets to be spent or hoarded or conceptual models to be updated, repurposed or made redundant. Ideals that are treated in this fashion are no longer ideals, but mere ideas, ideas thrown into a psychological garbage disposal unit and spat out at the end to see which one got the least screwed so that it can be sold.

Businesses have nothing to do with nations. They have nothing to do with ideals. Businesses are about counting. Counting things, counting money, counting time, counting, counting, counting.

Even the Romans understood that money existed for the betterment of humans, and not the other way round.

Mitt Romney does not believe in anything. He has no understanding of the necessity for human beings to have lives beyond the trivial time consumption of work, to have succeses beyond the trivial mathematics of a rich man's bank balance or the necessity for human beings to feel that their lives are meaningful, that their time on this world matters. This is perfectly clear from every single thing he has ever said.

If Mitt Romney wants to run a business, why isn't he running a business?

I urge all here interested in seeing him fail not to forget that the tax story is the big gun. I also predict with total confidence that every opportunity he has to put the Ryan story in place of the tax story will be taken by his campaign, they cannot afford to lose any more ground and will start fighting in earnest, every opportunity they have to distort, lie, twist facts, bend the narrative will be taken!

It will be:

Everyone: "So, Mr Romney - TAXES, how about that?"

Romney campaign: "RYAN. RYAN, RYAN, RYAN."

They won't answer questions or allow any further ground to be taken up by the tax story it's KRYPTONITE to them.

DON'T DROP THE BALL.

If he doesn't, it makes the whole campaign look even worse than that!!!!!