2008 Primaries Thread

poll?

pls, hrc seeking sympathy is as calculated as hrc tough as nails

anybody's potshots at dr morbius >>>>>>>>> the clintons >>>>>>>>>>> dr morbius's potshots at the clintons

poll which are you more bored with?

ethan's potshots at morbs
morbs' potshots at the clintons
life

What's this "at me" bit, tho?

actually democrats are less corrupt than republicans - which isnt saying much

sure part of that has to w/being the ruing party - but theres also just more tolerance for that sort of thing in their culture

-- jhøshea, Monday, January 7, 2008 11:35 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

^^^ NOT FROM CHICAGO

if a man had squirted a few tears discussing how tough the campaign was, the press would declare it a breakdown, y/n?

ED MUSKIE '72, CANUCK LETTER

yah deej im talking on the national level - state or local politics - anything goes!

elmo, y

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canuck_Letter

Ended his race, essentially.

potshots = dud

ahh, bill bradley.. good dude

-- and what, Monday, January 7, 2008 12:11 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

the last time i saw my grandfather alive it was 2000 and he was putting bill bradley placards on all the tables at my gore-staffer cousin's wedding

yah potshots should totally die

Potstickers, on the other hand...

a chicken in every potshot
no amnesty for potshots
i've been making potshots for 35 years

anyway.... so is Romney done if he loses NH?

no. he could keep himself in the game by winning MI or SC.

Hugh Hewitt has already volunteered to have his brain implanted on Mitt's body.

but he could easily lose MI to McCain, and SC to Huckabee, where Thompson's busy preparing to hit him/help McCain

def looks that way. depends how he does in michigan, but he won't win sc. assuming mccain wins nh, i think it becomes a two-man race b/w him and huckabee.

he could even lose MI to Huck

btw Obama made very good use of "They" in his Iowa speech

Big crowds, sniping mark final NH stage

Don't scare me with headlines like that, Yahoo News.

maybe "NH" is working title of the next rockstar north release

I wouldn't bet on it, but Romney can win SC. Huckabee is the favorite now, but he might lose some support if/when he looks less like a winner after NH. Romney's in second place there, but he could benefit from Giuliani's increasingly lower profile. Romney might lose some support on the other hand to McCain, but McCain has historical problems there that aren't aided by his immigration stance, which he'll get hit on.

"black lovechild"!

but he could easily lose MI to McCain, and SC to Huckabee

this seems likely to me as well

i think huckabee will do very very well in SC

does anyone think there may be a chance of a brokered republican convention?

meaning what exactly

a brokered convention would be the most entertaining ever

is there any chance of a wrestling republican convention

only chance of brokered convention is trying to take down huckabee. even if ppl really want to do that, i srsly doubt that's their style.

if no candidate gets the majority of delegates, the republicans retreat to the fabled smoky back room to do their mind-melding and horse-trading

xpost to shakey

right, I know what it is - I was just wondering what scenario you were envisioning that would happen in... I mean, I think *someone* will definitely have a clear majority, just not sure who yet.

haha I'm probably *way* late on this according to the article date, but I had no idea Romney was implicated in some National Lampoon's Vacation antics:

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1638065,00.html

After catching a couple of McCain interviews on Sunday morning, I want to elect him Zingmaster General.

hitch goes toxic

http://www.slate.com/id/2181460/

Would we accept, if Obama's mother had also been Jewish, that he would therefore be the first Jewish president?

this from a dude who wont stfu about how his jewish grandmother makes him fullblooded heeb

If you wanted a "black" president or vice president so much, you could long ago have turned out en masse for Angela Davis—also the first woman to be on a national ticket—or for Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton. So, why didn't you? Could it have been the politics?

This is kind of a point.

ok that was fucked up but i kinda agree with him on normally anti-fundie liberals getting all gooey long as its BLACK fundies

Isn't there something pathetic and embarrassing about this emphasis on shade? And why is a man with a white mother considered to be "black," anyway?

&

It would sound as absurd to a Kenyan to hear praise for a black candidate as it would sound to most of my European readers to hear a recommendation of a "great white hope." A white visitor to Kenya might not be able to tell a Kikuyu from a Luo at a glance, but a Kenyan would have no such difficulty.

are contradictory statements

There's something pathetic and embarrassing about our obsession with Barack Obama's race. By Christopher Hitchens

why not canonize hubert harrison or butterfly mcqueen - "as my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion"

Hitch in pretending not to understand the importance of symbol SHOCKAH

maybe he doesn't think symbols necessarily govern effectively.

getting all giggly over the church's website reads like some dim blogger imitating hitchens. OMG a button where you DONATE by BUYING STUFF what a fucking SHAM

The problem with Hitch's thesis here is that, with the exception of David Gregory/Beltway types blathering about history on "The Today Show," I haven't heard anyone mention Obama's skin color.

yes this is the least participated-in 'national obsession' yet

Hitchens is such a bozo - altho this: "the site offers a volume called Bad Girls of the Bible: Exploring Women of Questionable Virtue, which I have added to my cart" made me laugh