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

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.

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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."

I guess everyone else just gave up. At 10:27--actually made note of the time--Santorum launched a fairly tepid attack at Romney. Virtually nothing from Gingrich. No one burned the roof. No one came close. Tomorrow morning, we'll do it again.

wait was there another debate tonight? I completely burned out on the debates, like 18-years-old-and-there's-a-new-flavor-of-Doritos burned out, they'd have to do it gladiator style to make me actually watch another one

might be worth it for gingrich, idk

oh wait it already happened and clemenza watched it and that didn't happen nvm

I feel like I know so much about gingrich after reading two profiles on him

I feel like one of those people the FBI hires to profile serial killers based on cut up magazine pages left at a crime scene, I think I have a good handle on newt

he is probably a fucking lunatic

I'm so stumped by Gingrich's complete abdication tonight. Maybe he lost nerve, maybe he thought better of it, maybe it's just too difficult to go after anyone when there are six people up there. Only time he got really angry was when Paul called him on his lack of military service.

well it's gotta be exhausting straight hating on literally all your peers 24 hours a day

maybe he realized he could piss of liberals more by not attacking romney and making them watch the debate anyway

he's like 5 steps ahead of us

Mission accomplished...Sullivan just reminded me of one of the funniest lines of the night: Perry said that Iran will be back in Iraq now "literally at the speed of light." I'm really going to miss him.

xp lol otm Newt's central goal is to anger the maximum # of people per gesture or non-gesture

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