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Is voting like sex? Lena Dunham’s first time with Obama
The Washington Post ^ | Friday, October 26, 2012 | Alexandra Petri

Posted on 10/26/2012 3:47:22 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Voting is like sex.

People make videos about it and post them online. And then everyone argues about whether that was a good idea.

In my continual quest to have every possible position on the subject of Lena Dunham, I think I like her latest video, a get-out-the-vote effort. It’s cute and tongue-in-cheek and doesn’t outstay its welcome. With the minor objection that I am fundamentally opposed to the whole concept of get-out-the-vote videos, it works.

Still, given Lena Dunham’s mastery of awkward sex, you’d think she would have made a more honest appraisal.

“My first time voting was amazing,” she gushes. “It was this line in the sand. Before I was a girl; now, I was a woman.”

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To: MinorityRepublican

If voting is like sex, can we abort 0bama?


21 posted on 10/26/2012 4:33:11 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Who is this gutter slut and why is my bandwidth being consumed by her?


22 posted on 10/26/2012 4:35:56 PM PDT by Gamecock
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To: bray

“There are, after all, a lot of similarities between the two. If you ask for ID first, it tends to ruin the mood.”

So does asking for the credit card? There are endless ways to prostitute oneself.


23 posted on 10/26/2012 4:50:57 PM PDT by billhilly
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To: yldstrk

Are you aware Reagan made a similar campaign ad? I wasn’t but heard it today, and sure enough he did.

http://americablog.com/2012/10/first-time-voting-reagan-dunham-ad.html


24 posted on 10/26/2012 4:52:31 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: ilovesarah2012
Reagan made a joke about voting Republican. I'm not sure how anyone could construe a sexual connotation to the quip.:

“I know what it’s like to pull the Republican lever for the first time, because I used to be a Democrat myself, and I can tell you it only hurts for a minute and then it feels just great.”

25 posted on 10/26/2012 4:56:48 PM PDT by 21twelve (So I [God] gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices. Psalm 81:12)
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To: ilovesarah2012
Are you drunk?

First, it wasn't an ad, and second, only young people with their fully-formed gutter minds would ascribe a sexual connotation to that statement. Reagan certainly wouldn't have. Young people today have no knowledge of a time when every statement was not a double entendre. Young people today are so corrupted they see and hear filthy sex talk in everything.

And the Democrats have their professional equivicators out in force on the web today, because I saw one poster try to equate the Beirut Marine Barracks suicide bombing to the Benghazi incident.

26 posted on 10/26/2012 5:11:55 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (So?)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Is voting like sex?

Hell yea, seems like Conservatives are always getting SCREWED!

27 posted on 10/26/2012 5:26:52 PM PDT by carlo3b (Less Government, more Fiber..)
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To: 21twelve

I’m just reporting how the left sees it. All I care about is that Obama lose.


28 posted on 10/26/2012 5:47:13 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: ilovesarah2012

That links screams “TROLL!” almost as loudly as your [uber-conservative sounding] screen name.


29 posted on 10/26/2012 5:51:28 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

If you think voting is like sex, you’re doing one of them wrong.......


30 posted on 10/26/2012 5:56:34 PM PDT by TexasNative2000 ("You can either limit growth or limit government. We choose to limit government." Paul Ryan.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

If you think voting is like sex, you’re doing one of them wrong.......


31 posted on 10/26/2012 5:56:34 PM PDT by TexasNative2000 ("You can either limit growth or limit government. We choose to limit government." Paul Ryan.)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

I hate being called a troll. Review my posts. I have had my screen name for a long time. Don’t make such snap judgments. Or join me on FB if you have any doubts.


32 posted on 10/26/2012 6:02:04 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: MinorityRepublican

The left has a weird fascination with deviant sexual behaviour. What the heck is with them and their obsession with perversion? They’re always in your face with promiscuity, homosexuality, dressing up as female body parts, public nudity, etc. What is this about?


33 posted on 10/26/2012 6:34:46 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: TexasNative2000

If you think voting is like sex, you are going to have one messy voting machine.


34 posted on 10/26/2012 7:04:17 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: MinorityRepublican

I’m surprised they asked her to do this, or perhaps she offered herself lol. Lena is a talented writer, but her loser persona on the show is so blurred with Lena in real life... I’m not sure how it’s a positive having her promote voting for Obama, besides which women who do identify with her... were already voting for him.


35 posted on 10/26/2012 7:46:23 PM PDT by Katya (Homo Nosce Te Ipsum)
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To: Katya

Exactly. If this is what Obama must do to secure his base, Romney wins in a landslide.


36 posted on 10/26/2012 11:16:45 PM PDT by TexasNative2000 ("You can either limit growth or limit government. We choose to limit government." Paul Ryan.)
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To: TexasNative2000
Exactly. If this is what Obama must do to secure his base, Romney wins in a landslide.

Wrong.

37 posted on 12/05/2012 9:35:20 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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