Unfortunately, I fear Andrea Saul is also the national representative for the “Undecided Voter” in the United States. She speaks their language: Meth-Addled Gibberish with a touch of a Dr. Seuss accent.

Bayonets to the ready! Steady teh horsies! Charge……!

Mitt also managed to fuck up calling Syria Iran’s only ally. IRAQ is now, thanks to the Bush administration, Iran’s closest ally in the Arab or any other world.

Thanks, Republicans!

Yeah, well I think that if you look at a map on Fox News you’ll see that Mitt was correct.

It’s their route to the sea.

Ooops. Willard inadvertently disclosed his strategy to box up Iran by, ya know, blowing up the Persian Gulf. His handlers must be really pissed.

Is Mitt related to the Palins?

I don’t know… Can he see Syria from his house? (Well, from one of his houses.)

when it comes to Neo-Cons, that’s all you really need to know…

So very true.

Dan Senor…among the many reasons, had I needed any independent from Mitt’s own ignorance, soullessness, dickishness, disdain for the little folk (like myself) and ignorance of pretty much anything that matters, that I would have backed away from him. Senor is one of a coterie of re-treads of dumbest men in the world (is Doug Feith on his payroll, too?) “advising” Mitt, and thereby making him even more dangerous than he already was.

heh… funny you should mention this bc (yes, really) I notice this stupidity as well, which I believe went uncorrected. WTF??

Sort of like giving Bible Spice a big fat pass for saying she could see Putin’s big fat head rising up over the great state of Alaska or something…

Not that MittBot 2102′ll get called on this gaffe by the lamestream media, but …

That’s why we need more ships. To meet them on the beaches, which they can’t get to. Except for their own beaches, which they have to go through another country to get to.

At one point I really wanted Obama to stand up and yell “You’re all a bunch of bloody loonies!” just to hear Romney say “Ah yes, that was the reason”

That whole Arab world thing seems to have slipped past most people, but Iran isn’t Arabic, it’s Persian. I think Mitt did the same thing with Pakistan, also not an Arabic country.

?? You mean Mitt’s whole 3 debate tango was designed to make our ‘Chill the F#$% out! I got this!’ POTUS lose his…composure?

I thought O looked so damned exasperated he was going to blow a gasket. You know he wants to say, “Man, you are the lyingest son-of-a-bitch to ever run for this office. You are a disgrace. Get your ass off this stage because you don’t deserve to be on it. Fuck you, you liar.”

Ta-da. And then Bill O’Reilly has a heart attack and Rachael Maddow starts laughing uncontrollably and life is good because the planets are back in alignment and we are done with this lying fucker. And, oh yeah, drop Mittens down in the middle of Iran and tell him to make it to the sea…no maps.

Thank you for that. It drives me nuts that people call Iranians/Afghanis/Pakistanis, “Arabs”. Many of these non-Arabs, especially Persians, have a problem with actual Arabs and sneer when talking about them. We Americans, even with maps, are hopeless sometimes.

Am I missing a joke, or don’t you mean the first sentence to use the word ‘cavalry?’

This is funny, and will remain so until Obama is reelected and goes to war with Iran (both will happen).

His SecDef has already said the USSA won’t tolerate an Iran bomb (real or imaginary) and the Israel/AIPAC crowd is loaded for bear. Unless Iran gives up its nuclear gig it’s war again.

Mitt, did you not attend geography class?

Got links?

Oilmen do not like competition in any form, real or illusory?

Had we a functioning Media in America, this would be as disqualifying a debate statement as Gerry Ford’s bit on Free Poland. But instead, we have idiots like Chris Cillizza who, writing in the Washington Post, claim that all in all, Mitt did better with the debates than the president.

You wonder what they watched sometimes.

If Barry wasn’t such a dick this wouldn’t even be close.

No beach days. Might as well live in fucking Kansas….

Made me think. FYI:
http://www.uscg.mil/ppc/welcome.asp

PPC provides personnel and compensation services for all Coast Guard military members, retirees, annuitants and other customers in support of the Department of Homeland Security missions.

An old video signal rebounding from a distant celestial object upgraded from a 1936 Nazi propaganda stick?

I blame spellcheck. And Obama.

Adored the way they’re both so into drones. And each, in his own way, is dreamy. Especially when they’re loving on Net n’ Yoohoo.

Some might call it a gaffe. Ignorance of basic geography..

But I say that Mitt has once again given Republicans a chance to autodefenestrate to prove their loyalty to the tribe without actually having to; you know, jump out a window.

Martyrdom is hardbusy work!

Mittens is one of the great foreign policy wonks — of the 19th century.

…but with Mitt you get John Bolton, Dan Senor and 16 more former members of the Bush Administration, but don’t worry your little head about it.

Now toddle on back to the kids table before they run out of participation ribbons

I’m convinced that Mitt really meant Russia. Russia sought a warm-water port for centuries (Crimea sort of counts, but it’s in the Black Sea, which is easily choked off by Turkey) and they currently make use of Syrian ports, so I think the Mittster read about Russia’s problem, didn’t bother to look at a map and then got Russia confused with that other evil empire, Iran.

You’re right Matthew!

Americans should rise up and demand America vow to only use Hot air balloons and Sopwith Camels against terrorists.

I was really hoping to see President Obama do a spit-take or something. Or maybe he could have said, “Get the Atlas, Bob. There’s a reason it’s called the ‘Persian gulf.’”

That’s the best, and most charitable explanation I’ve seen yet for the path-to-the sea idiocy. But what does it say about Romney that he stuck to this assertion months after he first made it? Obviously he doesn’t read critics (who, at first, just dismissed it as a slip of the tongue), but no one in his entourage pointed it out? I find that even scarier.

Sigh…..

Listen. I’m a WWI historian. I wrote this book about stuff – Ímperial Spies Invade Russia’.

Mittens iz nuts. Hiz advisors iz nutz.

IT’S NOT 1914 ANY MOAR.

I think he meant Syria is part of Iran’s route to Lebanon and the Mediterranean, as in their substitute for going through Suez where they can’t bring munitions. This is actually kind of true, thanks to G.W. Bush, who inadvertently gave them Iraq for the other part of the route when he was busy practicing his Mission Accomplished entrance. And the Mediterranean is a real white people sea, as opposed to the Indian Ocean, which is like nobody ever goes there.

IT’S NOT 1914 ANY MOAR.

Well.

This can’t be good news for John McCain.

Hee!

Soros needs to send you more word-spinning centrifuges.

You spin 10K, get yourself a drone and you’re The Shit!

Adored the way they’re both so into drones. And each, in his own way, is dreamy.

Ah, Matthew, the serene and soothing words of a St Dr Jill Stein drone are a true delight!

Whenever there’s an eruption in the Middle East some of the local yahoos show their patriotism by beating up some “Ay-rab” who’s wearing a turban. The fact that turbans are mainly worn by non-arabs from India and Pakistan never seems to penetrate. And speaking of geography how about the ending of “Hidalgo” where horse and rider enter Damascus and immediately go cool off in the ocean.

Have you sent your resume to those Romney’s people? Clearly they need your help!

Great idea! GWPDA: Siphon as much of their money away from the teevee as you can, and put it to a better use.

SEE: Kevin’s threads on this FDL page.

Some dirty fucker drone-bombed your link….

What tanbark is trying to say is that we have to let terrorists to go about their business if there are any 16 year olds in the vicinity.

I think you meant to write “If Barry wasn’t so black this wouldn’t even be close.”

I had the SAME thought. It was one of the reasons they tried to take over Afghanistan, to be able to get access to a warm-water port.

Well played.

Well… I went through Parris Island in 1981 and they were still teaching bayonet drill. No horses anywhere that I saw, though.

Oh Jeebus, don’t even mention that movie. Although what can you expect from a film Disney insisted on marketing as “based on a true story” despite many, many experts telling them, “no, it really isn’t.”

Well, obviously he’s geographically challenged, although I think he might have been referring to the See, not the “sea”, as in the Holy See, as in Rome, which Iran would naturally like a route to, since it must establish an outpost of the Caliphate there, not that it would help, ’cause while establishing a Caliphate at the Holy See, see, another Golden Plate will be unearthed, and that – that – will have been all He wrote.

Y’know? I heard that at the time the Soviet invasion took place, that “This brings the Russians closer to the sea!!!1!!”

Well, Obama didn’t say we don’t have bayonets and horses, just that we have a lot fewer of them.
I doubt that charging with fixed bayonets into machine gun fire (or mortars) is any better an idea than it was in 1917.

Mitt’s confusion on this point is understandable – his 1916 map shows Persia and the Ottoman Empire, so he had to guess.

tagg’s gonna be bitchslappin’ himself some cartographers… in a non-spherical earth where tectonic plates are held together by springs and pulleys, it all makes sense geopolitically

I’m pretty sure Obama flubbed his line when he said bayonets. He should have said Sabres, which is a traditional Cavalry weapon.

With all the idiot shit she’s spouted, I have to say Palin never said she could see Russia from her house, just that it’s visible from some places in Alaska. Considering she thought that gave her foreign policy cred, that was plenty stupid.

But if you want something stupider, just check any five-minute interval of the record, and you can probably find her saying it, and if you look a little longer, you’ll find Republicans hotly defending it.

Romney looks like he’s thinking ‘your welcome’ all the time.

Maybe, but not the unfortunate truth of it, which is If Barry wasn’t such a dick black, it wouldn’t be close.