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

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

But this obscures the real question, of why Paul disdains the Fed (and implicitly, why liberals do not), and the relationship between the Federal Reserve and American empire. If you go back and look at some of libertarian allies, like Fox News’s Judge Napolitano, they will answer that question for you. Napolitano hates, absolutely hates, Abraham Lincoln. He sometimes slyly refers to Lincoln as America’s first dictator. Libertarians also detest Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

What connects all three of these Presidents is one thing – big ass wars, and specifically, war financing. If you think today’s deficits are bad, well, Abraham Lincoln financed the Civil War pretty much entirely by money printing and debt creation, taking America off the gold standard.

yeah, boo fuckin hoo

Politicians Are Lower Than Whaleshit, All of Them

― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, January 3, 2012 11:27 AM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol you are exactly the average american voter

god that Atkins post is mostly idiotic

I disagree – he's mostly correct about liberalism.

so who is lagoon? seems 'worthy' of being pundneb

you seem worthy of googling ron paul

u r a bigger asshole than the average american voter

lol ultimate morbs zing alert, compare him to an american

Santorum on African-Americans:

"What President Obama wants to do, his economic plan is to make more people dependent upon government. To grow the government, To make sure we have more food stamps, and more SSI and more Medicaid. Four in 10 children are now on government-provided health care. It just keeps expanding," Santorum said.

He talked about how Iowa is going to get fined if more people don’t sign up for Medicaid and then said, "They're pushing harder and harder to get more and more of you dependent upon them so they can get your vote. That's what the bottom line is. So I don't want to make black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else's money. I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money and provide for themselves and their families."

http://www.nationaljournal.com/2012-presidential-campaign/santorum-singles-out-black-people-as-dependent-on-government-20120102

yeah we talked about that a little an hour and a half ago (where "talked" should be interpreted as "shook our heads and had a rueful, slightly incredulous chuckle")

uh i don't think i even understand how the caucuses work on the gop side

http://caucuses.desmoinesregister.com/how-to-caucus/

go to a room, eat cookies, yell abt stuff

black people should under no circumstances be given anybody's money, is what i'm taking away here

i guess it is more like a straight vote. no weird group cutoff jawboning stuff, like the democrats do. haha.

xp

"they are giving you healthcare in order to buy your votes! get off the plantation!!!"

"you know rick that's actually a pretty good deal"

http://i.imgur.com/cxNBF.png

this graphic is somehow hilarious

when will these fucking government types stop saying dumb shit like "grow the government" like it's a hydrangea

why do the republicans not have a flag in their room do they hate america

re: that Atkins piece, his characterization of liberalism is pretty accurate, which is why i said it was only 'mostly' idiotic, but he evades greenwald and stoller's main points

"they are giving you healthcare in order to buy your votes! get off the plantation!!!"

sounds slightly better than the GOP deal where they take your vote and give you nothing

srsly if people actually got stuff for their votes the country would be a better place

lol otm

Youtube comments on that Santorum clip are mindboggling:

He didn't say the word "black," he stumbled over the wordd "people's lives." Listen very closely with your ears, not your imagination. If anything, it sounds like "balite" or "palite." Very definitely not "black."

So glad he wants to make polite peoples' lives better.

If anything, it sounds like "balite" or "palite."

haha wut

polite guys finish last again

re: that atkin's piece -- characterizing liberalism as being about "intervention" is so broad as to be useless.

When Abraham Lincoln and the North decided not to allow the nation of the Confederacy--and make no mistake, it was a separate nation with separate laws and an entirely separate culture--to secede from the Union, in large part because the North had an interest in ending slavery in the South and in striking down a competing agrarian economic system, that too was intervention by a superior force against a lesser force attempting to exploit the weak and powerless. To this day, many Southerners feel that their land is being occupied by an illegitimate and invading power, and theirs a Lost Cause that will rise again.

i mean there are about a dozen things wrong with this.

his whole deal is setting up a dumb duality: some bad state of affairs exists and liberalism in favor of "intervening" to stop it. and then ron paul doesn't like 'intervening' in anything which is why he is bad. this just isn't the right way to think about anything.

lol did the homie really just argue that the north "intervened" in the south

To this day, many Southerners feel that their land is being occupied by an illegitimate and invading power, and theirs a Lost Cause that will rise again.

The End.

Joel Perkins, Age 10.

can we go back to how Rick Santorum now magically never said "black people" in that video where is clearly saying "black people"

I love the comments saying he said "a lot" or "BLIGHT" because you know, there's a big problem in America's blight community

to this day many people believe many things

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