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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

2012 Mitt Romney Is President of Twitter

Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:28 AM

Michelle Malkin's sad little "social media" site Twitchy has a story up right now that is crowing about how Republicans "crushed liberals on Twitter in 2012." Someone writing under the unfortunate handle of "Twitchy staff" effuses:

Congrats to all the happy warriors on Twitter who delighted in crushing narratives, mocking the steady supply of mock-worthy liberal nonsense and tweeting truth to power!

Uh huh. Keeping in mind that President Obama's "Four more years" tweet was the single most retweeted post on Twitter in 2012, I think Twitchy's Twitter facts might be a little, shall we say, skewed. But whatever. I'm willing to let them have this one; pushing the issue would be like stealing the shoes from a passed-out drunk.

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Since Twitter is on the internet, it technically is under the jurisdiction of the president of the internet, which is a pixelated Mario taped to a cat, lying on a bed of bacon.

Posted by Theodore Gorath on December 11, 2012 at 11:37 AM

I'm willing to let the Nattering Nabobs Negativism continue to re-tweet the same 20 talking points to each other over and over again until they collapse from exhaustion.

"Hooray, we're the whiniest bitches on Twitter!"

Posted by Banna

on December 11, 2012 at 11:43 AM

How pathetic and sad for them.

Posted by pfffter on December 11, 2012 at 11:48 AM

Romney also won the critical "homemade signs and t-shirts with unintentionally humorous misspellings" race. In your face, dumbocrats!

Posted by Proteus on December 11, 2012 at 11:59 AM

Suddenly the victories of the 2012 election feel so empty and meaningless.

Posted by blip on December 11, 2012 at 12:39 PM

I thought big bird had won the twitter election?

Posted by milleribsen on December 11, 2012 at 3:16 PM

"Twitchy Staff"? What, was "Throbbing Member" already taken?

Posted by Geni on December 11, 2012 at 3:41 PM

I find it very reasonable and plausible. The older, babbly conservatives I know have taken very well to twitter, where they can call Nancy Pelosi, Henry Waxman, and "Nobama" all sorts of names and get their "zings" in. Twitter is very useful for political pundits and other persons who have nothing to say.

Posted by all noise no signal on December 11, 2012 at 6:52 PM

@1: "president of the internet, which is a pixelated Mario taped to a cat, lying on a bed of bacon."

WRONG

Ron Paul is President of internet polls, and the deluded.

Posted by his cult says! on December 11, 2012 at 7:07 PM