Is it possible to be "cool" and support Mitt Romney?

[memphis]

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Travis county has more white people than TX as a whole.

Given that Travis county is part of TX, I don't this this is actually possible.

[Wisconsin+17]

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As a percentage, yes, it's true.

[Maxwell]

It's possible to be cool and be Republican, that's fine.

To support Mitt Romney, however, is a completely different question.

[Joe Biden is your president. Deal with it.]

Only the goody two shoes dudes support Romney like they have sweater vests and they blow off plans with friends on friday nights to be with their mothers.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

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Quite the opposite, Opebo, at least speaking for Austin.

No buddy, just checked: Travis County went about 63% for reason, while Texas as a whole was about 55% sea-of-bigotry.

Please stop trolling.  Supporting Obama does not make you "reasonable", and opposing him (or voting Republican) does not make you a bigot.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

In Canada, you are assumed to love Barack Obama, and if you don't, you're nuts.

That's the entire rest of the world, not just Canada.  And it wouldn't necessarily be Barack Obama, but rather any Democratic presidential nominee.

The US is certainly a strange and unique place.

exceptional.  

Worse.

Only if you define the middle class as "the rich".  The entrenched super rich class owns the democrats.   They try to build a winning coalition as cheap and 'radical' as they can because you can mold 'untethered people' more easily to do/support what you want.  It's like giving candy to children.  Here's a free phone, here's free birth control, here's a racial quota, let's "go after" the 'rich' and make things 'fair', here's a government contract, here's a grant, here's a regulation to make you feel better...  It's literally throwing candy around treating everyone like children, but don't pay attention to what I'm doing over here, and never mind how we messed that up, THEY WANT TO TAKE THE CANDY AWAY!!!        

No, the rich prefer the Republicans, Amna.  The 'middle class' is just a few petite bourgeois, doctors, lawyers, and that sort of thing.  The vast, vast majority of Americans are poor or 'working class' persons.

The rich prefer Republicans, but the super-rich prefer Democrats.

[AmericanNation]

In Canada, you are assumed to love Barack Obama, and if you don't, you're nuts.

That's the entire rest of the world, not just Canada.  And it wouldn't necessarily be Barack Obama, but rather any Democratic presidential nominee.

The US is certainly a strange and unique place.

exceptional.  

Worse.

Only if you define the middle class as "the rich".  The entrenched super rich class owns the democrats.   They try to build a winning coalition as cheap and 'radical' as they can because you can mold 'untethered people' more easily to do/support what you want.  It's like giving candy to children.  Here's a free phone, here's free birth control, here's a racial quota, let's "go after" the 'rich' and make things 'fair', here's a government contract, here's a grant, here's a regulation to make you feel better...  It's literally throwing candy around treating everyone like children, but don't pay attention to what I'm doing over here, and never mind how we messed that up, THEY WANT TO TAKE THE CANDY AWAY!!!        

No, the rich prefer the Republicans, Amna.  The 'middle class' is just a few petite bourgeois, doctors, lawyers, and that sort of thing.  The vast, vast majority of Americans are poor or 'working class' persons.

The rich prefer Republicans, but the super-rich prefer Democrats.

super powerful people as well.  This tends to corespond to some sort of monopoly-ish powerful institution backed by or protected by the government or the dem party.   

Their is the tendency of inheritance based-majority wealth to be dem,
whereas individual based wealth to be R. 

The aviator scene is just profoundly insightful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br-ljup5Bow

[milhouse24]

Cool people smoke pot, snort cocaine, and read People Magazine. 
Politics is not cool and only for adults. 
Cool People like Obama because he smokes pot, snorted cocaine, and goes on Jay Leno and other Celebrity shows. 
Obama is cool because he's not a politician, he's a Pop Culture Icon.

[Stirring Wolf🥣🐺]

It's "cool" to support Romney or Johnson here.  It isn't "uncool" to support Obama though.  However any Stein supporters would probably be labeled as "uncool" immediately.

[Torie]

Aren't I just about as cool as one can possibly be for an old? Thank you.