2012 republican presidential nominee IV: NEEDS MORE BOOING

However, MTG evenings at the large local game shop(owned & operated by a lesbian couple) are like so, so dude-heavy you can't even spot the girlfriends dragged in.

Dutch Blitz, at christianbook.com

http://g.christianbook.com/g/product/9/9400x.gif

this past weekend I got together with a bunch of college buddies and played Asshole, which was amazing until I woke up the next morning and had to sing at church

Actually Dutch blitz is really fun. Like cards but not PLAYING cards, y'see.

Also on topic: more than average number of hardcore gamer dudes/MTG types have that borderline Aspergers edge where Ron Paul support is likely

shocking

(he calmly holds up his hand, palm outward in the universally recognized symbol for "Halt!" or possibly for "Go straight to hell!" if you live in Greece, according to one rather dicey internet site)

Halt! Take it to I Love Games, boys. We political junkies are still playing our game of Point & Laugh & Furrow Our Brows in this thread.

ezra has been pushing the romney might actually be a good candidate line recently rmde http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/wonkbook-is-romney-stronger-than-he-looks/2012/03/07/gIQAvg9ewR_blog.html

its such a substance free line of reasoning, maybe hell do better than some people think, maybe hell do worse, i guess well see!

if the economy gets worse hell do better if it gets better then he do worse, huh you dont say

yeah it's this natural inclination towards 'let's make this interesting', no it prob won't be interesting

if anything I think romney's 'overrated' as a candidate even in the spheres we are talking about. there is a lot of evidence that he is an unusually bad campaigner.

luckily we have romneys unusually bad campaigning to make it interesting

Which raises the question: What kind of nominee will he be?

At the moment, I'm going to put my money on "a stronger one than seems apparent right now,"

republican washington is in a state of despair, this all seems too contextual

Stronger than he looks - he'd almost have to be?

Romney vs. Biden - that's what we should all start focussing on.

"liberals are unhappy, the economy is in the toilet, obama is toast!!"

"you know, he does have certain strengths..."

"conservatives are unhappy, the economy is getting better, romney is toast!!"

"you know, he..."

Romney vs. Biden - that's what we should all start focussing on.

― Aimless, Wednesday, March 7, 2012 12:55 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

naw bidens not the guy, romney neither

Come September and October, I predict that Biden and Romney will be elbowing one another for most-exuberantly-delivered-gaffe space on the ilx 2012 elections thread. Why wait til then?

oh i thought u were talking abt the 2016 race

they r both great 4 gaffs its true

http://arizonamun.org/mundi/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/MittRomneyIowa-300x221.jpg

VS.

http://chicagoagainstobama.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/joe_biden.jpg?w=370&h=278

i played this at summer camp:

http://libcom.org/files/imagecache/article/images/library/Class%20Struggle%20board%20game.jpg

Us deluded Obama zealots prefer Class Warfare.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7pv7sO5Gng

"...maybe the first time since we had Ronald Reagan." Completely ellides the Bush dynasty.

Meanwhile in Alabama:

"I got no use for Obama, and it's not because of the color of his skin," said Leldon Thomas, a retired truck repairman chewing tobacco outside the Wal-Mart that locals blame for siphoning business from the long-established stores along Oneonta's ramshackle main street. "It's his socialist government and all the money he's throwing away."

Around here, Obama, who is Christian, is seen by many as Muslim, and not everyone believes he was born in Hawaii. "It's not that he's black," said Don Tielking, who has been cutting hair at the local barber shop for more than 40 years. "It's that he's not an American citizen."

For Tielking, who took a seat in his barber's chair to chat during a lull between customers, the problem with Romney is his Mormon faith, although he would gladly overlook it if he had to pick between him and Obama.

"Christ is the head of my church, and his was some Smith guy who claimed to be a latter-day prophet," said Tielking, referring to Joseph Smith Jr., the 19th century founder of the Latter-day Saints movement. "I'm not prejudiced against a Mormon. It's just some of their beliefs that I'm against."

Etc. etc.

pretty bummed i missed the board games/ccg segment of the thread today

Prussian Blue still going, huh?

"I got no use for Obama, and it's not because of the color of his skin," said Leldon Thomas, a retired truck repairman chewing tobacco outside the Wal-Mart that locals blame for siphoning business from the long-established stores along Oneonta's ramshackle main street. "It's his socialist government and all the money he's throwing away."

o_<

see that's one of those felicitous stylistic touches of which good reporting is made.

It's not that Obama is black, it's that I don't like his policies. Also, he's black.

I've got lots of friends who are black. I have no problem with them. And I'd have no problem with Obama, if he were one of the good ones.

Oh, Alabama.

alabamanatin forever

I want to make sure you understand it's not because he's black, because when you hear how nonsensical my reasons for not liking him are, you might conclude it is because he's black. Which would be wrong, like I'm telling you.

If I had a problem with black people, then I would not have considered voting for Herman Cain had all the white candidates dropped out.

Romney: Poppy Bush II?

IT'S NOT THAT HE'S MORMON

As the editorial documents well, H.W./Romney parallels are all over the place. The big one that's missing for Romney is a Reagan in the background providing cover.

Grits, ladies and gentlemen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=G6Xzs93ucDQ

Meantime, Nelson laugh!

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/73807.html

Mitt Romney’s money machine is sending a message to the Washington establishment: Help.

GOP operatives thought it would cost Romney around $50 million to secure the nomination, but coming off a bruising few months and with a slog still ahead, some say it could cost much closer to $75 million.

Romney has put out a rallying cry to his supporters in Congress, asking them to kick in cash and get their best donors on board, too. He asked the 80 Republican lawmakers who have endorsed him to raise $10,000 each for a fundraiser at the end of the month in Washington. By law, they can personally contribute $2,000 from their reelection committees; the rest would need to come from their supporters.

mitt mitt mitt whatre we gonna do w/u

you think it wd be cheaper to lean on the santorum & gingrich money people and tell them to lay off? i don't get this world tho

"we don't all have to waste our money here to figure out what we already know, do we?"

Actually, I don't see why Romney simply didn't fire Santorum and Gingrich weeks ago. He's that good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=G6Xzs93ucDQ

love this guy

Is that where he's talking about how much he likes to eat cereal? I saw that on CNN yesterday--what an endlessly entertaining guy.

great headline on CNN today: "Napping Newt Forgot Why He Was At Event"

hope fred willard gets to play mitt in the biopic