# Sweet, Sad, and SO F\*n TRUE! (Tired of Bronco Bama and Mitt Romney) **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 1, 2012, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweet-sad-and-so-f-n-true-tired-of-bronco-bama-and-mitt-romney/639548 "2012-11-01T09:43:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2012, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweet-sad-and-so-f-n-true-tired-of-bronco-bama-and-mitt-romney/639548/21 "2012-11-02T07:16:52Z")
If you don’t live in a swing state, you have no idea how pervasive the advertising is. It is non-stop, and has been for months. ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2012, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweet-sad-and-so-f-n-true-tired-of-bronco-bama-and-mitt-romney/639548/22 "2012-11-02T10:25:56Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#): > > If you don’t live in a swing state, you have no idea how pervasive the advertising is. It is non-stop, and has been for months. I can only imagine. Romney gave up on Michigan practically as soon as he came through the primaries. I’ve only seen the occasional Obama ad and little to nothing from Romney. It’s been rather nice. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2012, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweet-sad-and-so-f-n-true-tired-of-bronco-bama-and-mitt-romney/639548/23 "2012-11-02T13:14:52Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > The words that are written by the journalist under the video say that the girl was driving in the car with her mom with NPR on when she started crying because they started talking about the election. NPR apologized to the little girl, I can attest the Spike (5) and Squeaky (3) have had the same reaction, short of crying. [QUOTE=Spike, yesterday] Dad, can you pleeeeeeease turn on some music. I’m tired of election stuff. [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2012, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweet-sad-and-so-f-n-true-tired-of-bronco-bama-and-mitt-romney/639548/24 "2012-11-02T13:41:25Z")
My daughter has taken to screaming “BARACK OBAMA! IT’S OBAMA!” every time she sees or hears the President’s voice on TV. (She’s two and a half.) My son, who just turned five, delights in saying “Mitt Romney…” in an admiring voice ('cos he knows it irks Dad) before saying, “But I’m voting for Obama!” We live in Texas, where there are no presidential ads. We watch the news but the punditry is usually from The Daily Show or Nate Silver, which they don’t see. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2012, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweet-sad-and-so-f-n-true-tired-of-bronco-bama-and-mitt-romney/639548/25 "2012-11-02T14:04:27Z")
> [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](#): > > Or she’s sick and tired of missing her cartoons because the adults have election coverage on. that’s if her parents only had one tv. back in the day before internet, computers, cable/sat tv, color tv; then you had one to three tv channels and they showed the political conventions gavel to gavel for days. nothing more was on tv; not The Price is Right, no cartoons, not Captain Kangaroo, nothing. did we cry, no (though we could have). we went outside. we played football, real football not this international crap. we couldn’t skateboard, they hadn’t been invented yet. we were sterner stuff than this precious snowflake. ---
**Author:** ![Philliam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/philliam/32/3011_2.png) [@Philliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philliam)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2012, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweet-sad-and-so-f-n-true-tired-of-bronco-bama-and-mitt-romney/639548/26 "2012-11-02T18:04:29Z")
…One TV? How lucky was that? We lived in a hole in the road and would have killed to see political ads on a real TV. When we played football we had to use our baby brother for the ball. Did he whimper when a forward pass was dropped? Yes, we were made of sterner stuff in the old days…(maunders on into age-inflicted incomprehension.):smack: ---
**Author:** ![Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimmy_Gibbler)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2012, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweet-sad-and-so-f-n-true-tired-of-bronco-bama-and-mitt-romney/639548/27 "2012-11-02T20:56:14Z")
> [@Enkel](#): > > Just In: Campaign Now Making Children Cry > > [http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/10/31/just-in-campaign-now-making-children-cry/?fb\_action\_ids=10151225016034820&fb\_action\_types=og.recommends&fb\_source=other\_multiline&action\_object\_map={"10151225016034820"%3A164843200324413}&action\_type\_map={"10151225016034820"%3A"og.recommends"}&action\_ref\_map=[]](http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/10/31/just-in-campaign-now-making-children-cry/?fb_action_ids=10151225016034820&fb_action_types=og.recommends&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%7B%2210151225016034820%22%3A164843200324413%7D&action_type_map=%7B%2210151225016034820%22%3A%22og.recommends%22%7D&action_ref_map=%5B%5D) > > I think this video is so precious and that poor child looks so traumatized by the whole election cycle. I think NPR should be deeply embarrassed by its facile down-dumbing of its journalistic product (“We should make sure our reporting is simplistic enough not to tax the intellects of four-year-olds!” ) And NPR’s audience (which I categorically exclude myself from) should resent the insinuations implicit in this asinine “apology.” And it should settle forever the argument that NPR truly is an insipid wasteland of middlebrow pablum (as is much of our so-called serious media). (The name “Abigael” [sic] alone should be enough to herald the impending presence of the middlebrow.) ---
**Author:** ![typoink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@typoink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typoink)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2012, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweet-sad-and-so-f-n-true-tired-of-bronco-bama-and-mitt-romney/639548/28 "2012-11-03T02:07:53Z")
> [@Kimmy\_Gibbler](#): > > I think NPR should be deeply embarrassed by its facile down-dumbing of its journalistic product (“We should make sure our reporting is simplistic enough not to tax the intellects of four-year-olds!” ) And NPR’s audience (which I categorically exclude myself from) should resent the insinuations implicit in this asinine “apology.” And it should settle forever the argument that NPR truly is an insipid wasteland of middlebrow pablum (as is much of our so-called serious media). (The name “Abigael” [sic] alone should be enough to herald the impending presence of the middlebrow.) :dubious: Too close to home, yet so far away. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2012, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweet-sad-and-so-f-n-true-tired-of-bronco-bama-and-mitt-romney/639548/29 "2012-11-03T04:45:52Z")
> [@Kimmy\_Gibbler](#): > > I think NPR should be deeply embarrassed by its facile down-dumbing of its journalistic product (“We should make sure our reporting is simplistic enough not to tax the intellects of four-year-olds!” ) And NPR’s audience (which I categorically exclude myself from) should resent the insinuations implicit in this asinine “apology.” And it should settle forever the argument that NPR truly is an insipid wasteland of middlebrow pablum (as is much of our so-called serious media). (The name “Abigael” [sic] alone should be enough to herald the impending presence of the middlebrow.) Yes, we all know you’re against being nice to people. Can you be quiet about it? ---
**Author:** ![Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimmy_Gibbler)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2012, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweet-sad-and-so-f-n-true-tired-of-bronco-bama-and-mitt-romney/639548/30 "2012-11-03T20:04:31Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Yes, we all know you’re against being nice to people. Can you be quiet about it? Ah, yes: “niceness” — the studied refusal to admit that somethings are better, more heroic, more beautiful, or more important than other things. At least, it refuses to admit it when “niceness” isn’t instead going around _apologizing_ to the base, the venal, the dull, and the indolent for the existence of (other) human’s struggles and accomplishments. “Niceness,” then, is the very chief virtue of the middlebrow (as so amply demonstrated in your remonstrance). “How was the theater?” “Oh, it was so _nice_!” Nothing could be deadlier; let’s all go back to nursery school and take a four-year-old’s outlook on the world. So, you’re right. I am against being “nice” to people. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2012, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweet-sad-and-so-f-n-true-tired-of-bronco-bama-and-mitt-romney/639548/31 "2012-11-03T21:32:44Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Poor kid. Just 4-years-old and already used up her 15 minutes! > > She’s now destined to be a burnt-out junkie by the time she’s 12. I don’t know. She could have a career in politics too! Her first job, limiting presidential campaigns. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Niply\_Elder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e8cbc/32.png) [@The\_Niply\_Elder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Niply_Elder)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2012, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweet-sad-and-so-f-n-true-tired-of-bronco-bama-and-mitt-romney/639548/32 "2012-11-03T21:37:26Z")
What the? ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2012, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweet-sad-and-so-f-n-true-tired-of-bronco-bama-and-mitt-romney/639548/33 "2012-11-04T20:00:57Z")
> [@Kimmy\_Gibbler](#): > > So, you’re right. I am against being “nice” to people. CRITIC, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sweet-sad-and-so-f-n-true-tired-of-bronco-bama-and-mitt-romney/639548.md?page=1)