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

free speech whaddya gonna do ¯\(º o)/¯

ok when mccain doubles over and makes a funny noise in that clip I lose my fucking shit

it's like he's suddenly tussling for a chew toy with somebody in the front row!

there is a long tradition of unofficial "supporters" being used as proxy bulldogs

hence that George Clooney "Obama has been a triumphant success, I am disappointed in the disappointed" interview couple weeks ago

Santorum speaks to NH college audience, turns into prissy tantrum-throwing foot stomper: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71176.html

Santorum then attacked President Obama for believing in government by “the top down.”
“We declared independence from a king who believed in government from the top down,” Santorum said, “a king who ruled by divine right, a right he believed given to him by God.”
Some kids looked at each other as if to ask: Is this going to be on the final?
“The right to life is a controversy these days,” Santorum said, adding in a mocking tone: “ ‘What are you doing in my bedroom?’ Well, the right to life has nothing to do with the bedroom!”
While everyone was grappling with that, Santorum explained that when the Declaration of Independence promised life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, it did not mean happiness as we know it today.
“Happiness is not enjoyment or pleasure,” Santorum said. “Happiness means to do the right thing. To do not what we want to do, but what we ought to do.”
Santorum also attacked the American education system “Why do we concentrate on what George Washington did wrong?” he asked. “He had slaves. If that’s all you’ve learned, you haven’t learned the great things he’s done.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71176.html#ixzz1ijrXWjeZ

^^ This man (RS) has been devoured by a catholic theologian.

Hoooly crap... keep it classy Dr. Paul!

http://www.newt.org/notromney

hence that George Clooney "Obama has been a triumphant success, I am disappointed in the disappointed" interview couple weeks ago

I missed this. That's kinda depressing; I'd have guessed based on the pretty-meh Ides that he was at least cognizant of Bam's average-politico nature. But I guess that was giving him too much credit.

When are you guys going to start calling Romney "Rom"?

http://www.bugeyedmonster.com/toys/rom/romwithboxbig.jpg

That seems more appropriate than a ny post concocted nickname!

“Why do we concentrate on what George Washington did wrong?” he asked. “He had slaves. If that’s all you’ve learned, you haven’t learned the great things he’s done.”

this is pretty far out imo, i mean obviously there is a sound objection to the way he's thinking but it is one of those telling things to be outraged by. particularly if you are embroiled in racism controversies.

registering my lols @ the anti-huntsman ad

Reporting from Manchester, N.H.— For the second time in as many days, Rick Santorum waded into the issue of gay marriage, suggesting it was so important for children to have both a father and mother that an imprisoned father was preferable to a same-sex parent.

Citing the work of one anti-poverty expert, Santorum said, "He found that even fathers in jail who had abandoned their kids were still better than no father at all to have in their children's lives."

Allowing gays to marry and raise children, Santorum said, amounts to "robbing children of something they need, they deserve, they have a right to. You may rationalize that that isn't true, but in your own life and in your own heart, you know it's true."

The Santorum Surge will soon be over as quickly as it began.

You may rationalize that that isn't true, but in your own life and in your own heart, you know it's true."

1 of the most awkwardly worded "AMIRITES?" ive ever seen

in your own life and in your own heart, you know it's true

He's just channeling Barry Goldwater.

i'm prob over-thinking this but when i first saw the Huntsman attack ad i thought it might be someone just using "NHLiberty4Paul" to troll Paul fanatics

(not that i can't fathom one of his rank & file supporters being super racist)

Also from that Nh College Santorum transcript, what the hell is this supposed to mean? “America is not a melting pot,” he said. “It’s a salad bowl.” is he speaking of the evils of miscegenation? or just that he wants to toss salads?

A step too far? seriously don't know what he is trying to say...

"A salad bowl! With creamy dressing!"

Meanwhile -- here they come, walking down the lobby...

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/01/08/fashion/08ROMNEY_SPAN/08ROMNEY_SPAN-articleLarge.jpg

From said story:

“Someone needs to run for leader of the brothers,” Matt joked.

“Arm-wrestle for it,” Craig suggested.

The banter was playful, but it hinted at a larger truth about their place in the campaign. Even in a year when the brothers were supposed to have receded from public view, particularly when compared with their father’s campaign four years ago, they have become an essential part of what sells the Mitt Romney story.

...

But in an age when complicated, messy families increasingly seem like the new normal, there was a sense four years ago that the Romney brothers were too strapping, too wholesome and too perfect somehow.

“I wish that were true,” Tagg said. (In a teenage act that counts as rebellion in the Romney family, Tagg once borrowed his father’s car without his permission after a church dance to get ice cream with some friends, and promptly nicked another car in the parking lot. It was an expensive dent that he worked all summer to pay off).

jus' folks!

are the humanoids on the right deliberately flaunting their profiles?

Their head lock positions are at 0/90/180/270 degrees.

Hey hey, they're the Romneys. People say they Romney around.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/01/08/fashion/08ROMNEY3/08ROMNEY3-popup.jpg

was a plastic mask surgically inserted under his skin?

need more pix of huntsman gals

http://www.cbsnews.com/i/tim/2011/11/06/FTN1106_HuntsmanDaughters1_480x360.jpg

http://www.gq.com/news-politics/politics/201201/jon-huntsman-daughters-mary-anne-liddy-abby-gq-january-2012

wait so mitt romney is ty burrell's dad?

is tagg named taggart because of atlas shrugged?

smdh

I've never understand Mormon's love of the rantings of an atheistic, heavy smoking "rationalist"... but then again they tend to handle cognitive dissonance better than I can.

* Mormons'... I don't think the great prophet and general was aware of Objectivism :D.

I don't know about Taggert Romney, but I think I may have unearthed a clue about the namesake of Willard "Mitt" Romney:

http://www.strangekidsclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/willard71_31.jpg

How come we never see the Hunstman boys, or the adopted kids? Does he not want people to know he has seven kids?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRoeu4tekmI

^^ obviously a dangerous sociopath in that video

question for process experts here - I know from when my stepdad used to run for Congress every four years that in California if you get a certain % of total votes, you qualify (or used to) to receive some kind of funding from the state. is there anything like that at the federal level, some sort of "below x percentage, no funding"? this would sort of explain ridiculous fighting between candidates who're nowhere near getting the nomination

it hinted at a larger truth

this, in every campaign "analysis" or color piece x1000000 for the next 10 months

i don't know shit about huntsman but you gotta like that video

Last minute prep:

http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/files/2012/01/RomneyMcCain.jpg

"Remember: not 'Newt' or 'Rick' or 'Ron'--'that one.'"

Absolutely, totally, fundamentally, not bad so far. Romney must love these guys sniping at each other but just barely at him. My favourite moment so far was the look of complete indignation and confusion on Perry's face when Paul said, "You keep calling me a libertarian, Rick..." Don't forget, Governor--two Ricks up there.

question for process experts here - I know from when my stepdad used to run for Congress every four years that in California if you get a certain % of total votes, you qualify (or used to) to receive some kind of funding from the state. is there anything like that at the federal level, some sort of "below x percentage, no funding"? this would sort of explain ridiculous fighting between candidates who're nowhere near getting the nomination

yer party needs 5% of the campaign vote to get federal funds the next election but that doesn't affect anybody running for the republican nomination and would only be relevant if one of these dudes was planning a nader-esque multiple year 3rd party run

er 'campaign vote' should just be uh 'national vote'

santorum just claimed we don't have classes in america

"well, maybe the middle income people"

"And if you don't like middle-income people, let's call them middle-Earth people."