2012 republican presidential nominee IV: NEEDS MORE BOOING

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

wha happened?: mitt romney and the road to 2012

Somehow this endless process never stops bringing the lolz

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

― the late great, Friday, March 9, 2012 11:17 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm kinda thinking about donating to newt's campaign, hell just keep it rolling into 2013, 2014, this is too much fun to stop

Because you wanted to know:

The former gov’s campaign posted a list of “what Mitt listens to on the road” through Spotify on Facebook on Friday. Here’s the 19 song playlist:

“I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow” by The Soggy Bottom Boys

“Read my Mind” by The Killers

“December, 1963 [Oh, What a Night]" by Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons

“Ring of Fire”

“Somebody Told Me” by the Killers

“The MTA (The Boston Subway Song)” by The Kingston Trio

“Good Vibrations” by The Beach Boys

“Desperado” by Clint Black

“Crying” by Roy Orbison

“Only You” by Commodores

“Runaway” by Del Shannon

“It’s Your Love” by Tim McGraw

“As Good as I Once Was” by Toby Keith

“Born Free” by Kid Rock

“Over the Rainbow” by Willie Nelson

“Stardust”

“In Dreams” by Roy Orbison

“Somebody Like You” by Keith Urban

“All-American Girl” by Carrie Underwood

"I was watching Blue Velvet and I got thinking about Roy Orbison..."

Also LOL Killers.

i believe that Romney likes the Killers

ha I wonder if the killers thing is mormonism related? it has to be right

for sure. what's the guy's name? brandon flowers?

"No you idiot I said I liked Wayland Flowers and Madame!"

Killers are from Las Vegas, so maybe.

no brandon flowers is def mormon, prob the most successful mormon musician since donny and marie

mormon party mix = donny and marie, the killers, low

Oh yeah I guess you are right:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2011/10/17/brandon_flowers_of_the_killers_i_m_a_mormon.html

Maybe Mormons have their own version of Canadian content laws, and since Flowers is the only thing going right now, they all have to listen to him.

Well somebody told me
You had a boyfriend
Who looked like a girlfriend
That I had in February of last year\
I disapprove of this
greatly

if he's into that stardust willie nelson album i wish him well in life

Huh, apparently Gladys Knight converted to LDS in the '90s.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/the-tina-fey-effect/2012/03/09/gIQAwmjO1R_blog.html?wprss=rss_ezra-klein

I am 100% willing to believe this is true,

that is unreal

Looks more correlative than causal

well I'd be interested to read that paper but I think people really underestimate how many low-information voters got their impression of sarah palin from lol clips they can on the internet

they saw on the internet*

I am totally cool w/ tina fey deserving a footnote in history books

large number of people really do think she said "I can see Russia from my house!"

hitchens is a dumbfuck but I def think tina fey played a pretty decent role in solidifying palin's public image - more people watch snl+youtube than tv news. there were def people who thought that palin actually said "I can see russia from my house."

― iatee, Tuesday, September 22, 2009 11:36 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

in before science

to be fair, this isn't much better:

As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where– where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border.

re her foreign policy experience

Looks more correlative than causal

yeah, i mean, from individual to individual there's probably a lot of variation, but i'm leery of the the authors' willingness to attribute causation as a general explanation. it might simply be that a lot of those republicans who were more favorably inclined towards palin were less willing to watch fey's parody.

or less likely to watch SNL in general (i.e., olds, cranks, angrys)

The grits clip posted above is not the cereal clip I heard yesterday. Brace yourself: this is an angry, militant Romney that you've never encountered before:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvY4KKk964A

I always think it's really lame and calculated when people release these like 15, 20-song "playlists" - like does he really actually listen to those same songs over and over or does he just hit shuffle on his whole collection? I mean it makes for great poll thread material but it really seems like this throwback to mixtape days, this candidate carefully crafting their perfect mix to sell themselves to every possible demographic.

that's usually the case but this makes no sense as that

it really seems like this throwback to mixtape days

a good thing, imo

I feel guilty about liking the same cereal as Mitt.

some good songs on that mittlist! in voting, would be torn between "runaway", "in dreams", "stardust" (willie nelson version, i presume), and "charlie on the MTA".

I love MTA most out of the list but its presence here feels irritatingly on the nose - dude is a Massachusetts conservative so song for him presumably is an anthem about lowering taxes - "Fight the fare increase!" - which of course is sort of there in the song but the joy of the Kingston Trio rendition is just in the details and absurdity of Charlie's situation. But we talked about that in another thread.

Well let me tell you of the story of a band named...The Kingston Trio

honestly the only "humanizing detail" released by the Romney camp that actually makes him seem human to me is his love of O Brother Where Art Thou and his habit of saying "We're in a tight spot" whenever there's trouble in Romneyland.

Honey Nut Cheerios are very humanizing.

romney's playlist >>>> obama's playlist

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_l2VT7bYUEaY/TMDQN3W_VVI/AAAAAAAAJx8/JSHbDssC1mo/s1600/got-honey-nut.jpg

NEEDS MORE BORING

Humanizing touches be damned!

If a drunken robot could somehow get single-payer government-operated health care through Congress and sign it into law, bring the banks to heel and prosecute those who were culpable in fraud and malfeasance, limit the size of the armed forces to a reasonable peacetime force, while cutting the defense budget in half, and get a carbon-emissions-reduction policy in place that increased public mass transit options and put us on the path to renewable energy, then I'd vote for it, even if it had the world's ugliest paint job.

no brandon flowers is def mormon, prob the most successful mormon musician since donny and marie

have you guys never heard of David Archuleta

xp how would a robot get drunk idgi

have you guys never heard of David Archuleta

haha no i hadn't

Oh my god that kid.

He was a more earnest version of Bieber.

I envy every person who has never heard of him.