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

Simona Amiet, a homemaker who immigrated from Switzerland 20 years earlier, said she was leaning Romney because he was “knowledgeable with enterprise,” but had yet to decide. A Hillary Clinton supporter in 2008, she said she knew she wouldn’t be voting Democrat again in the general election, upset with both deficits and how he treated her favorite candidate four years ago.

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sounds like newt's her candidate then

“knowledgeable with enterprise"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWIEyZFwZ8k

An Iowa caucus is basically like a livestock auction crossed with a general assembly, right?

and a New Hampshire primary is basically a Rotary Club crossed with a toadstool.

link courtesy nro/the corner but i put here so more people would see

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/my-night-at-michele-bachmanns-headquarters

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/web03/2012/1/3/2/enhanced-buzz-23574-1325574283-7.jpg

pathos

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/terminal05/2012/1/3/2/enhanced-buzz-1479-1325574650-157.jpg

I overheard someone say: "We have a lot of courts trying to institute Sharia Law. They stoned a woman in Toronto and didn't do anything about it."

show me this Corner post!

I was watching last night when all this nonsense transpired, and, yes, I found it very funny ("We know--a lot of people Tweet in America!")

http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/01/the-iowa-spectacle.html

Number one rule in Toronto: everybody must get stoned.

x post

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/287016/visit-bachmann-hq-robert-costa#comments

what's also funny is the other thread he links to - the santorum scrapbook - takes the piss out of rick

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/web05/2012/1/2/11/enhanced-buzz-29688-1325522119-20.jpg

where does he want to put the end of nuclear war?

iLegal same sex marriage

Legalize the Death Penalty

the corner:

Katharine Hepburn said that Ginger Rogers gave Fred Astaire sex appeal. Iowa has restored the glow to Rick Santorum.

Put more money in the "investment of education" of our children so they learn to spell illegal.

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orange city!! haha no shit

new Corner thread:

NRO's The Corner 2: Ghost Protocol

From the Bachmann article:

She spoke for about a minute and then they played "Hey Soul Sister" 3 times in a row.

This is literally my idea of what hell would be like.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Correct top three. Wrong order, but the 25 Romney voters came damn close.

I voted for Santorum. Force of habit from all the NRO polls where I vote for what I want to happen (within reason, else I would have voted for Gingrich).

Me too.

i voted paul because he is a living god

I voted for RuPaul, because I expected this was his best shot at muddying the waters and giving the Republican establishment a hissy fit. I never dared to think Santorum would actually win it; he's such a loser.

I didn't honestly think he would win, I just liked the idea of him winning.

120,000 - 30,000...I think there about 90,000 people in Iowa who, big-picture, would probably say the same thing.

Kind of sad I didn't go to the democrat caucus last night, but my district was one of the ones where the room was practically overcrowded anyway.

I kind of love and hate this but I'll park it here since this thread's probably the last of the Iowa-mentioning for some time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLZZ6JD0g9Y

i totally dont think iowans are all hillbillies, u need hills for that

i don't think iowans are hillbillies. I think they are predominantly small town or rural dwellers, without big cities. They also have a high percentage of college grads. Prob ag colleges, but those are diplomas, too.

wait, the Democrats caucused? did they just bow toward Washington?

The smug Iowan Obamaniac in that video might wanna listen to the first 2 minutes of this clip of the late (mostly) liberal talkshow host Lynn Samuels in 2008:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw0zr9hn01E

hey smug Iowan check out this youtube

it's 2012 & Matt's supporting his party by trolling Dr. Morbius on ilx political threads. come lord Quetzalcoatl incinerate us all in fire

http://www.statelibraryofiowa.org/datacenter/quickfacts

Btw I have no idea where the guy got the 4/5 in cities thing. All seems like smug pandering but I had a guilty lol.

"wait the democrats caucused" is kind of the "I have no idea what went on beyond headlines" statement here.

Wtf is an "ag college?" one of the two state universities has ag programs (both science and business) but they're not the largest parts of the school. According to j.'s stats there, there a about 90k people working on farms versus 1.5mil working elsewhere in the economy. 1 in 16 people working on a farm is kind of high, I guess?

it's 2012 & Matt's supporting his party by trolling Dr. Morbius on ilx political threads. come lord Quetzalcoatl incinerate us all in fire

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I'm really kind of hurt that you think this is my reason above all the other far superior reasons to aggravate Morbs.

really feel like we need a moratorium on the term 'trolling' at this point, just a cooling out period

I'm not gonna watch that YouTube but Iowa State is an ag school for sure. Mrs. Aero worked on glycine max aka the noble soybean in their lab, they do a lot of research on g. max & corn & parasites etc @ Iowa State. "Farms" kinda doesn't really begin to describe just how much of Iowa's economy is agricultural - co-ops, grain elevators, transport, pesticides etc., whatever you classify anhydrous as they gotta buy shitloads of it to keep farming, etc

i mean that was a straight up zing by matt there, solid hit

there are three state universities.

the one with ag programs folded the ag college into one with all life sciences (and some other sciences—many of which used to be grouped with the liberal arts), and even still, there are more engineering students than there are ag and life sciences students, and more liberal arts and sciences students than there are engineering students:

http://www.iastate.edu/about/docs/facts/FactsFY12.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Iowa_products_2006.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/91/Iowa_products_2006.jpg

that doesn't entirely disprove what aero said but it's interesting how little of the gsp is directly ag

where is the hillbilly sector, something is wrong

laginfinityn yr right it's just a zing I'm just protective of Morbs because I agree w/him more than w/ppl who zing him generally

xp the thing is that chart is pretty deceptive - "construction" and "real estate," for example, are going to figure largely into the money changing hands in the country's #2 pork producing state. "ag" in w/"forestry" and "fishing" there probably means "crops," which takes up a lot of land but generates less money than pork, and than the manufacturing of products (and the delivery of services) to the pork producers. it was the Iowa State lab that sequenced the entire g. max genome iirc (nb I may not rc)

also "finance and insurance" I would imagine are doing huge business with farmers who've been losing their asses for years