2012 republican presidential nominee III: can romney get santorum out of his hair?

well, I guess there had to be a scatty title to compensate for the absence of Dexfool.

intrade odds for iowa atm:
romney 43.7%
santorum 28.0%
paul 26.5%

I have passed through the seven stages of grief and faced grim reality: from Romney's perspective, it probably doesn't matter what order those three finish in, provided he's somewhere in the top three.

(Rejected thread titles): Is that a Santorum surge in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

my krazy theory is the paul dudes are gonna coordinate their game so heavily that they win Iowa. then they're gonna be really super-pissed when it doesn't work in New Hampshire etc.

^^ imo, Paul's got a good shot at a top two finish in Iowa, because of how caucuses fit well with his campaign. If Santorum makes the top three it will make me giddy. Plz, god, give us Santorum, RuPaul and Newt, in that order.

yeah I voted paul, I wouldn't put money on it or anything but paul or santorum seems slightly more likely than romney

yeah I voted paul, I wouldn't put money on it or anything but paul or santorum seems slightly more likely than romney

Paul, but with Santorum a close second or gnawing Paul's head like Ugolino in the Inferno.

I think this a good explanation of why the easy explanation for what appears to be inevitable at his point is not necessarily the right explanation.

http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/98942/kilgore-iowa

I love this!

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2012/01/the_iowa_horse_race_an_animation_of_the_republican_caucuses_as_a_horse_race_.html

(I just wish they'd stuck four or five women at the bottom of the screen, and had Herman's horse suddenly veer off the track in their direction.)

hahaha

I just think they all should be locked in a cage and let them fight it out thunderdome style. I personally might bet on Bachmann if they went that way.

U.S.A., your long national nightmare is about to be over--let the healing begin! I'm putting out an APB for Daniel, Esq. I don't think I can suffer the slings and arrows of other ILX'ers alone as I...giddily take an interest in this.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/click/2012/01/santorum-wears-vests-to-look-a-little-older-109416.html

I just really really need Paul to win tonight, pray the universe doent take this from me

has anyone compared him to tim tebow yet?

its a quality concept

I don't know, but my limited knowledge of football notwithstanding, Rick Perry's right out of North Dallas Forty.

nice people http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57350990-503544/santorum-targets-blacks-in-entitlement-reform

on the one hand, quelle surpise

on the other hand, this dude really does not want to actually be President, huh

all signs point to him being an extremely clueless guy

I don't care for his sweater look AT ALL.

http://media.salon.com/2011/12/santy3-460x307.jpg

dude looks like Prince Charles

hah he does

kinda lol, mostly sad <--- Santorum 2012 campaign slogan

Mmmmmmmmm....feral.

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/01/newt-romneys-a-liar-but-hes-still-better-than-obama.php?ref=fpnewsfeed

it's weird, like he was clearly the last kid picked on the team for this game, but that just happened to be well timed w/ the iowa caucus

Really need Mittens to wrap this up quickly so that 10 months of two near-identical corporatists "debating" completely delegitimizes the Republicrat oligarchy.

I thought we tried that approach in 2000 and 2004.

newts abt to let bad newt out, you know its been killing him

HAY HAY NOW MORBS dont try to take this from us

also lol @ yr whole theory

only have to get another 5% to notice to fuck some shit up

lagoon better not be dexneb

fuck shit up, noble goal, v inspiring, brimming w/insight

I think today should be about positivity. Mitt, and Rick, and most of all the people of Iowa would want it that way. (Newt gets a pass.)

please for my sanity, stop using variants of the "dex" appellation to refer to gabbneb

"nobility, inspiration, insight" is what the War Criminal in Chief is for.

David Atkins on detestable Ron Paul; refutes Glenn Greenwald, Matt Stoller.

what dones dex refer to?

the sandbox name used by the DNC apologist

it's been kinda funny to see all these people who have liked the tip of paul's minarchism finally take a look at the rest of the black-helicopter iceberg

xp uh also a name used by DJP in the mists of time

^^^ this

ppl need to separate issues from individuals, esp when the individuals under discussion will never be elected

ie, Politicians Are Lower Than Whaleshit, All of Them

God Santorum is like the absolute nadir of that unique ignorance that poses as wisdom:

"I was at a debate with Howard Dean and we were asked what was the most imp quality of America and he said diversity. Diversity? Have you ever heard of e pluribus unum?....The greatness of America is people who are diverse coming together to be one," Santorum said. "If we celebrate diversity, we lay the groundwork for that conflict. We need to celebrate common values and have a president that lays out those common values."

dude Rick. the "e pluribus" part: that's a celebration of diversity. It's not "e pluribus, and fuck the pluribus now that we're unum, unum." the whole fucking point of the motto is that diversity means strength. you dumb cocksucker, you.

I think you meant "you dumb anal froth, you"

newts abt to let bad newt out, you know its been killing him

lol

"Newt to Iowa: 'You Stupid Motherfuckers, I'm Clearly Your Best Choice'"

god that Atkins post is mostly idiotic

the initial matt stoller post is worth reading but it does have some problems

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/12/matt-stoller-why-ron-paul-challenges-liberals.html

big homie couldn't even get his own thread

Is everyone blind?
Last Report on the Breitbartocalypse

waitin for the new yorker piece on breitbart that humanizes him

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/05/24/100524fa_fact_mead

that doesn't show up when you search for 'breitbart' xp

Let's move the gravestomping to the Breitbart thread.

http://westsidetoastmasters.com/resources/book_of_body_language/images/171_eyebrow_flash.jpg

^^eyebrow flash^^

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Breitbart doesn't even deserve his own RIP thread. such a horrible person.

This is off-topic but since this is the US politics thread I thought it was somewhat relevant. While currently the focus is on 'social' issues, the claim that rhetoric is at an all-time low doesn't quite stand up in historical context.

The post-Revolutionary War debt argument led by George Hamilton in the late 1780s was unpopular among southern states, and nearly caused Virginia to secede from the union. Unfair taxes was the big issue, and Senator George Mason of Virginia declared that Hamilton had,

done us more injury than Great Britain & all her fleets and armies."

Really brings to mind the economic terrorism/economic slavery rhetoric of the past few years.

Oh, that quote's from p. 51 of "The Federalist Era 1789-1801" by John C. Miller.

http://becksmithhollywood.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/george-hamilton.jpg

rhetoric is always at an all time low what you have now is a realignment of the parties along ideological lines and an increased willingness to use procedural tactics to gum up the legislative process

Ugh Lol. I watched The Roast of David Hasslehoff last night, got George on my mind.

done us more injury than Great Britain & all her fleets and armies."

today's Romney gaffe

hes improving on his flip flop turn around time, working really hard, impressive stuff

it is really, really hard to imagine this guy winning an election

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Mitt Romney is the one non-handicapped guy competing in the Special Olympics, and he’s just barely winning.

Thanks for reminding me to ignore everything Seth MacFarlane says

Santorum and his never ending lulz

“[Karen] worked as a nurse, but after we got married, she decided to walk away, yet didn’t quit working. She was a mother, and also wrote two books,” Santorum said, in what also seemed to be an appeal to female voters.

He spent most of his speech repeating the themes he does on the stump, including his mention of the Declaration of Independence, but this evening there was a twist on that, too.

“The men and women who signed that declaration wrote the final phrase, ‘We pledge to each other our lives, our fortune, and our sacred honor,” Santorum said.

There were no women who signed the Declaration of Independence.

LOL

One thing that happens when you are a presidential candidate is that words become increasingly meaningless and all that you retain is the correct manner of their delivery. This is probably a simple case of flatlined brain waves cooupled with an open mouth. What matters more is when he says what he means and it makes your jaw drop..

*Nelson laugh*

http://www.buzzfeed.com/zekejmiller/santorum-loses-his-cool-during-interview-with-cinc

frank shaeffer quote in that last kingfish quote is amazing, bookmarked the page it came from

― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, March 1, 2012 10:45 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

His memoir is pretty remarkable & I recommend it highly: Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/terminal05/2012/3/1/13/enhanced-buzz-14752-1330625470-109.jpg http://www.nndb.com/people/193/000024121/jason-lee.jpg

http://semantink.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/fred_obannion.jpg

Casey from last season's American Idol:

http://theashleysrealityroundup.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/CaseyAbrams4.jpg

here's a more recent book of Schaeffer's that I really need to read, assuming it doesn't depress me too much:

Sex, Mom, and God: How the Bible's Strange Take on Sex Led to Crazy Politics--and How I Learned to Love Women (and Jesus) Anyway

Another good piece about Santorum & the religious right's fixation on education:

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/feb/29/rick-santorum-arrested-development/

we're at 4.6K posts on this this thread, time for a new one yet?

can we call it: "2012 republican presidential nominee IV: literally pissing on breetbort's grave"?

ehh I am not for that

but feel free to make it w/ another title

"literally shitting on breetbort's grave"?

I don't like making fun of dead people because it reminds me of my own mortality

literally contemplating iatees inevitable grave

haha

^ a nervous laugh if ever i've heard one

NEEDS MORE BOOING

2012 Republican Presidential Nominee III: The Owls Are Not What They Seem (But the Trees Are Just the Right Height)

i am in favor of NEEDS MORE BOOING

agree

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0sai4UHkx1qb9ngzo1_400.jpg

Bob is not happy, but fire up "Needs More Booing."

i miss your tweets onscreen

I was pumping gas last night and a guy at an adjacent pump asked me "so who ya voting for? newt?" I was kind of dumbstruck as to why anyone would ask a complete stranger who they're voting for in the GOP primaries.

this guy might have been Newt in a wig fwiw

"He's the only 'Newt Gingrich' on the ballot!"

Kid Rock, the Megadeth guy, Mitt's visceral appeal to the rock world deepens. (Contra Josh Marshall, my guess is that the net harm/good fallout from the controversial Nugent endorsement will be minimal.) Still pending: Wishbone Ash.

2012 republican presidential nominee IV: NEEDS MORE BOOING

there we go