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

btw aero, we need some new lyrics (again) to the Ochs song, I nominate you as this year's Jello Biafra.

I saw someone else yesterday wonder if McCain's endorsement was consciously meant to hurt Romney...CNN just played 90% of an attack ad against Romney, tried to get Matlin and Brazile to guess who'd put it out (neither could), then played the rest, and of course it was a McCain ad.

I guess there's an ok track record for Presidents using speeches to scaremonger the country into war. But for major political and social movements and changes it's mostly a fantasy.

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, January 5, 2012 4:31 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yah i read some poli sci research somewhere that said in a lot of cases a president can actually hurt his cause via over agressive selling due to obvs partisan factors

always thought progressive was just the new word for liberal once the gop machine successfully ruined that brand

anyway i like the word progressive, i mean progress yeah who doesnt love progress

liberal is cool too, its like do what you want and we will still love you be free be yrself alls good

u mean like smartphones? xp

conservative, yuck no fun daddyo

yes like smartphone who doesnt love a good smart phone u can do whatever you want on there

admire this mans balls

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/santorum-gets-into-testy-debate-on-gay-marriage/?hp

The session ended with many of the students booing Mr. Santorum as he left for his next event.

It takes a man willing to take risks or a total idiot to show up to an event and have the shit booed out of him...

well he was well known to be the stupidest senator

also he brought his stillborn child home and cuddled on it w/his family for a couple hours

i can't believe he has a law degree. he gets asked about why he opposes two men getting married, and repeatedly deflects to asking about what the questioner thinks about 3 or more men getting married? what? comparing his approach to the Socratic method, like the NYT does in that article, is just absurd.

tbf Socrates would've totally married three men

I might too on a Thursday.

Socrates: may we do evil?
Crito: of course not, Socrates.
Socrates: so you're saying that no men ever do evil?
Crito: what? no, I would never say that, you must-
Socrates: and so you agree that all men must do as their masters command, even if the command is evil?
Crito: i'm not following what you're-
Socrates: we're going to have a civilized discussion here, ok?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76p_ncbffCE

itt socrates is waaaaaasted

Nah, Shakey. Socrates had a pretty conventional marriage to Xantippe and fathered some kids with her. According to Plato's Symposium (Xenophon wrote one, too) Socrates spurned Alkibiades's sexual advances. So, not much evidence for your assertion there.

Gay Marriage to Alfred: Your Thoughts

'twas just a lil joke Aimless

lol socrates u married someone named Xantippe

you guys Santorum said on Bill O'Reilly that he didn't say "black people," he said "blah people"

you guys you guys you guys

so tired of all these blah people on welfare. they need to put some zazz into it

he really said this

new internet meme

it really oughta be

you're already spreading it. all it really needs for rocket fuel is a 7 second video clip.

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he's actually doing this on multiple shows

well he was well known to be the stupidest senator

― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 January 2012 23:56 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

also he brought his stillborn child home and cuddled on it w/his family for a couple hours

― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 January 2012 23:57 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

shall we just have a little micro-moment to stand up against this, c'mon pick something from the guy's portfolio of assholery if you want to talk trash

I read a big article about that fetus. it's kind of heartbreaking how psychotic he is. rick, not the fetus

The best part is he has absolutely no idea how weird that seems to the majority of the population! I mean, I think his family was completely within their rights to do so, but to me, it seems pretty fucked up. We're supposed to be tolerant of his kooky death cult shit and he's intolerant of pretty much anyone who isn't him.

yeah i mean yr tolerance just has like nothing to do with this aspect of his life though, really, as much as how you handle grief at home has nothing to do with anyone you work with. i can't even make a link between it as a hypocrisy on account of his beliefs? that he is an intolerant asshole is separate

was that the times article, i was gonna read that

Ron Santorum - Kooky Death Cult Party, PA

you guys Santorum said on Bill O'Reilly that he didn't say "black people," he said "blah people"

I literally have tears in my eyes from laughing at this, hope you're happy aero.

I just think that abortion looks completely reasonable compared to lugging a dead baby around

he said it on CNN too!

xps

Like, dude also thinks states should be able to ban birth control if they want to, dictating to me what I can do in my home, and he is at home carrying around a dead baby

http://prospect.org/article/it-takes-democrat

Santorum's typical presentation of one of these ideas goes something like this: “The Village Elders consider a large percentage of our population to be helpless: they're not going to consider how to empower the poor to build wealth,” or “The village elders like to show they care for the poor among us simply by spending more money,” rather than investing strategically to build communities. Such statements are followed by, “that's why Senator John Corzine and I introduced ... ” or “therefore, I co-sponsored Senator Carol Moseley-Braun's amendment that would ... .” If not Corzine and Moseley-Braun, two of the most unabashedly liberal current and former senators, one has to wonder: Just who are these unreconstructed “village elders” after all?

These innovative solutions may have caused liberals some discomfort decades ago, but a dozen years after the passage of federal empowerment zones and Bill Clinton's legislation to support community banks, “empowerment” is now very much the core strategy of modern liberalism. One might be tempted to say, as Santorum does of Senator Clinton, that behind Santorum's rhetoric is a “left agenda,” but that wouldn't be fair.

That's because Santorum is prepared for this challenge. In his conclusion, he warns that “some will dismiss my ideas as an extended version of 'compassionate conservatism.'” But it is not, he insists, because of his insistence on “moral capital,” at least as defined by him. In other words, even if liberals advocate some of the same policy solutions, they are doomed simply because they are associated with the moral tolerance of liberals. And so, in the end, it is not as easy as I had hoped it would be to separate Santorum's interesting and laudable ideas on poverty and work-family balance from his mean-spirited and intolerant social views; they are wholly interdependent. Rather than compassionate conservatism, Santorum has fashioned something new: a mean-spirited, intolerant liberalism.

this "blah people" thing is enough to cut through even my jadedness. what in the hell.

holy shit what????

haha santorum has a bright future ahead of him as a racist english premiere league football player

Santorum will make the country better by spending government money on churches and other moral organizations he agrees with, basically.

He is basically the best argument for strict separation of church and state that anyone could make, personified.

so that means Romney is the only GOP candidate who hasn't had some flagrantly racist bullshit attached to his name this go 'round

oh wait huntsman

his explanation on o'reilly is actually WORSE than it sounds from just being told about it:

‘I looked at that, and I didn’t say that. If you look at it, what I started to say is a word and then sort of changed and it sort of — blah — came out. And people said I said ‘black.’ I didn’t.’

'me and my mom were having an argument and i started to say a word but then i burned my mouth with some chili and the word sort of changed and it sort of -- "bihhh" came out. and people said i said "bitch". i didn't'

LOL

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