2012 republican presidential nominee IV: NEEDS MORE BOOING

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.

David Archuleta us going on a mission; you have a two-year break.

abbb did u go on a mission or did you make yr break prior to that?

Davy On A Mission

I left the church at 19; women don't go on missions until age 21, so no. I was kinda tempted to bcz I always wanted to be bilingual but there's no guarantee you'll get a calling outside the U.S. (tho there are some foreign language missions in the U.S.). Also more importantly I realized it would be dumb to spend 18 months (women's missions are shorter) actively preaching something I didn't totally believe in.

how would a robot get drunk

It would have to be programmed for it, obv

http://www.ineedcoffee.com/08/mormons-coffee/images/MittRomney.jpg

"I know now why you drink...but it is something I can never do."

Not the only inverted coffee cup on that table

(for the record if it's not clear - image including caption is GIS search result)

(ie don't think i'm the lameo that did that)

Mormons don't drink coffee you sillies

i can't vote for someone who refuses to do the dew

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

in this context this reads like "I am a human being capable of frequent emotion"

The first of these struck me as, I don't know, a little over-earnest; when I read the second one, I figured the whole thing was a rather inspired put-on. They're both real.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/293106/romney-wins-guam-caucuses-brian-bolduc
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/293111/romney-wins-northern-mariana-islands-brian-bolduc

Why do I get the feeling that Romney parachuted into Guam mid-week and dropped 20 million on attack ads? ("Rick Santorum is wrong for Guam...")

I love this, from the comments section:

And the Romney machine marches on!

"We're going to Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands and the Virgin Islands and Samoa and Puerto Rico, then we're going to Washington, D.C., to take back the White House! YEAAAAAAAAAHHH!"

few days old, good piece tho http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2012/03/super-tuesday-four-republican-candidates.html

wow nro just wholesale ripped off huffposts design when did that happen

talk abt something not to be emulated

Santorum wins in Kansas

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-10/rick-santorum-wins-kansas-caucus-as-romney-wins-weekend-s-other-contests.html