2012 republican presidential nominee IV: NEEDS MORE BOOING

"YOUTH FOR RON PAUL" ugh

maybe some of these paulies will have a reverse-david horowitz and become raging left-wing radicals.

not up to par i think but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js3BYcHmBhE

I heard Will this morning. What he said was fine.

George and Matthew slapped their knees and thought "Ain't this a corker?!" when they heard that salad fork remark.

It was a funny line. You've decided he isn't worth listening to, so you don't listen--I mean, you're gauging the reactions of people around him.

Why would I have posted if I hadn't listened to it?

Not what I meant...I mean not listen as in you've already decided he's incapable of saying anything smart or funny.

As as fat-free sugarless substitute for Beltway wit he's ok if you ignore his history about being wrong about everything in the last thirty years except Ross Perot and Afghanistan. The HuffPost among others this afternoon revived the notion that Will is the Smart, Adult Conservative thanks to this remark, without qualification. It's worth bringing up because it's as loony a notion as taking Santorum seriously.

as = a

I'm just saying that it's okay to credit him with being right about this one thing, and in a way that I thought was quite funny, without implying that you think he's a genius. He says stuff on TV. Sometimes he's good.

George Will says more than enough facepalmingly stupid things that I am no longer decieved by the fact that he employs a larger vocabulary and longer sentences than the average shill for Republican foolishness. He may have a fancy education, but he still talks shit most of the time.

I like Rick Nielsen too. I guess bow ties have a fundamentally overpowering allure for me.

maybe some of these paulies will have a reverse-david horowitz and become raging left-wing radicals.

they would have to start giving a shit about other people which is something we can pray for i guess

George Will and Newt Gingrich are proof that you can get people to think you're smart through the sheer force of persona.

The right audience doesn't hurt either.

I like Rick Nielsen too. I guess bow ties have a fundamentally overpowering allure for me.

― clemenza, Sunday, March 4, 2012 8:19 PM Bookmark

Tucker Carlson.

Louis Farrakhan

http://freddiebell.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/louis_farrakhan.jpg?w=468

Pee-Wee Herman:

http://laughingsquid.com/wp-content/uploads/pee-wee-herman-20090810-174119.jpg

Me, Halloween 1998:

http://phildellio.tripod.com/surrender.jpg

What can I say? Our little group has always been, and always will until the end.

Frum lets'er rip.

Frum and Will are saying almost exactly the same thing. Why is Will worthy of derision, while Frum is "letting it rip"?

Because one is George Will and the other is David Frum

The Seventh Inning Stretch of Evil.

I like David Frum fine--he's been great the last couple of years--but I don't get that. If they're making the same point, and Will's doing it in a way that's funny, then kudos to both.

imo the worst part is the rest of the abc panel giggling at the 'salad fork' joke.

Rush attempts to explain himself.

"Let's'er rip" is one of my oft-used phrases for links, used sarcastically or sincerely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se2jXRJJs4Y

They thought it was funny, so they laughed. I laughed too. It was a good line. I wasn't thinking about anything Will might have written about Walter Mondale in 1984.

imo the worst part is the rest of the abc panel giggling at the 'salad fork' joke.

and reinforced the impression that the Beltway punditocracy is a merit-based circle jerk (educated people, see, know the difference between forks).

Those two words were inappropriate, uncalled for, and actually distracted from the point I was trying to make

oh fuck you

If you find Will funny, as I do sometimes, I think that's part and parcel of why you find him funny--his snobbish and carefully calculated detachment from the world. I just don't see it as anything worth getting upset about.

I admit: I own two of his collections.

by the way, if you think I'm mocking you for finding Will's remark funny, that's not at all my intention. He's made me laugh too. I used his remark as an excuse to write about how repugnant Will is generally.

I'm going to the mat for him. He's a great man, and he should be added to Mount Rushmore.

oh god 'legal insurrection'

oh god #IAmAndrewBreitbart and #RallyForRush

If Frum truly believes that Limbaugh's three-day outburst was "the bottom of the barrel of shock talk", then either he has an exalted idea of human self- restraint or else no idea of the depths to which humans are willing to descend .

"...of shock talk"

For bottom of the barrel commentary, go for this instead. All the man's tics on display: the equivocation, condescension.

Rush: "Only the leftists try to use extortion, pressure, threats to silence opposing voices…."

Goldberg reminds me of that Lincoln quote about packing the most words into the fewest ideas.

Chris Wallace on Fox showed Santorum the video clip of Obama making the case for all kinds of further education and training, not just 4 year colleges...

Santorum acknowledged that he might have made a mistake.

"Look, maybe I've read some comments where at least it was characterized that the president said we should go to four-year colleges," he said. "If I was in error, you said you haven't found that, I certainly read that… if it was an error, I agree with the president that we should have options for a variety of training."

Santorum's defensive answers to Wallace re Catholicism and birth control, and his lack of charity donations are uh, entertaining as well

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/04/rick-santorum-fix-news-birth-control_n_1319393.html

http://images.politico.com/global/2012/03/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.jpg

^^^ Real life LOL!

that's really great

omg

cheap and funny

kind of a weird filename tho

That cover's great...up there with the secret lives of Obama/Michelle cover from 2008.

jonathan bernstein thinks we should lock this thread

http://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.com/2012/03/endorsements-party-actors-and-2012.html

It sure seems to me that events to date have been all about Mitt Romney wrapping up a very open nomination quickly and fairly easily. Not as easily as George W. Bush did in 2000 (when he had a much better record of endorsements). But to me, Romney's nomination is quite comparable to the nominations of Kerry in 2004, Dole in 1996, and Dukakis in 1988, and a lot more certain a lot earlier than that of McCain last time around. That seems to very much fit a model in which party actors compete and coordinate on nominations and voters in primaries and caucuses ratify it, rather than a model in which candidates compete in a weak party environment and voters in primaries and caucuses determine the nomination. Yes, there's been momentum and press effects and other stuff that has produced a few oddball primary and caucus results, but none of that has really, as far as I can see, done as much to shape the contest as has decisions by party actors. In particular, the party's apparent lack of interest in Rick Santorum, seen through a lack of high-profile endorsements after Iowa and again after Colorado and Minnesota, appear to have been far more predictive than Santorum's strong showing in those states.

No one believes -- and I certainly don't believe -- that a "party decides" view of the nomination process rules out stray candidates winning the occasional primary or caucus. What matters is the nomination. And it sure looks to me as if the nomination has been over for a long time, exactly as those of us who push this view would have expected given most indications of party actor support.

Please please please have sobbing children in the shot when he concedes

Yes, she is. xp

He is still on the ballot in Pennsylvania and other states, so unless he endorses Romney or makes similar noises, I will presume this 'suspension' is like a trial seperation and there's a chance he could get back in it. The hospitalization of his kid allows this to play out for him either way without blame.

losing your home state is losing in disgrace

gee rush your headline much

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-04-10/santorum-suspending-bid-for-republican-nomination-person-says

Taking care of your kid is a valid way to go out.

I'm of two minds of this:

1) awesome to have them using up millions on each other before the GE, so the end of that so soon is disappointing

2) the schmuck's entire candidacy was a transmission vector for the continual reinforcement of rightwing horseshit to enter the minds of voters & pundits & media consumers on a daily basis. The more times you travel down certain neural pathways, the deeper the ruts get. Dude promoted the standard victimization and resentment of your 21st-C American Republican, and drew attention to plenty of even-more reactionary fuckheads in the process.

3) should we have a new thread now?

Don't worry there's almost a billion more dollars that Bam and Romney will burn.

xp, person on the teevee said that, did they?

all Republicans rehearse victimhood. Santorum has been a martyr for fifteen years.

the most important election of your lifetime: 2012 american general election thread

Santorum's particular flavor is different than Romney's, tho.

gee rush your headline much

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-04-10/santorum-suspending-bid-for-republican-nomination-person-says

― goole, Tuesday, April 10, 2012 2:19 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha i think this is a weird bloomberg style book quirk http://search1.bloomberg.com/search/?content_type=all&page=1&q=%22person%20says%22

lol that's so weird

What a quitter. What would he have done if he were president and his daughter was ill? Quit that, too?

Seriously disappointed they could not be bothered to stage a reunion of Santorum.jpg, a la the Get Back cover.

dc otm

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs287.snc4/40689_10150247505400082_542160081_14159749_3713901_n.jpg

I just watched that movie....

netflix amirite

yep

God, I think this motif needs its own thread.

http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/theticket/clinton-drinking-afp.jpg

pplains has turned this into the 2008 Hillary: Needs More Kahlua thread...which is a lot more interesting than what's happening with that other lot.

lol

In more mundane news Romney filed for an extension on doing his taxes, and there is older video of Romney saying poor Moms should experience the dignity of work (outside the home) if they want to get government benefits

new thread dudes

LOCK

No need for Part Five, the Mittening, right? This just melds into the GE thread?

Yup.