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

b. hasn't had a financial scandal

c. looks presentable oh wait

he has presumably helped block the appointment of communist judges and bureaucrats -- what else do you want?

who even are 'the strongest candidates' tho? I feel like the gop's so deep in the crazyhole that there's
a. nobody that can appeal to the whole party
b. nobody that's gonna have a CV that's attractive both to the base and the public at large

― iatee, Wednesday, January 11, 2012 1:05 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol yeah its sort of just an assumption that there must be someone better out there

and im not talking abt christie!

remember when 'the media' was talking about whether chris christie was 'too fat' to be president and whether it 'was ok' to talk about that anyway.

good times.

too big to fail

Yeah, that sounds about right. It looks like the Republicans for some reason thought "Hey, beating up your candidates for being not hewing to your principles looks like a blast! Why have we been letting the Democrats hog this fun?"

The problems being that a) principled is not a good look for Republicans and b) it's really not something they've been selecting for.

being

I think 'one of those other governors' woulda just been another pawlenty. I mean it depends who we're talking about obv, but I think the way the ideological lines are drawn today make it just impossible for someone to have their cake and eat it too (other than christie obv.)

is it just me but once christie decided to not run did he just pack on another 100 lbs?? at that event with romney last week he looked way bigger.

Look, there was an awful lot of nadir going around when Bush was in office - and some if it in Obama's term.

Speaking of which, other than get elected, make speeches and look presentable, what has Senator Rubio actually accomplished in the past couple of years?

Read last week's New Yorker story.

okay, so he's gotten elected, made speeches, looked presentable and read the New Yorker; what else?

(obama joke goes here)

Laughed hard enough to spit lemonade from his nose.

If that's a qualification then Gallagher would have long been dictator for life.

Listen, being a tolerably literate Florida Republican is an achievement.

okay, so he's gotten elected, made speeches, looked presentable and read the New Yorker; what else?

― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Wednesday, January 11, 2012 1:27 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol

Oh, look, Romney showed interest in marching at a gay rights parade in 2002.

innnnnnnnnnteresting (as Bugs Bunny wd say)

Parade-curious

"Should I march in the front or the back?"

That's not going to hurt him so much in a general election

It might hurt a little if he marched in front.

base enthusiasm matters

At first

xpost

base enthusiasm matters

So does reaching out to the youths and the Independants

Very hard to reach out to yutes when you're marching.

I decided agaisnt the 'tip enthusiasm matters, too'. Sorry

independants? well, he does speak french...

reaching around the youth is v important

more Santorum lolz:

In the tiny town of Riva del Garda in northern Italy, 83-year-old-Maria Malacarne Santorum keeps her family’s secrets—including those of her late husband’s cousin, Rick. In an exclusive interview with the Italian weekly magazine Oggi, Mrs. Santorum recalls fondly when Rick visited her in 1985 during his law internship in Florence, and when he came back again in 1986 and 1989. “He loved our culture and cuisine so much, he brought his wife-to-be, Karen, a massive cookbook of Italian recipes,” she said.

But the elder Santorum matriarch doesn’t understand why he has diverged so far from the family’s longtime political stance. “In Riva del Garda his grandfather Pietro and uncles were ‘red communists’ to the core,” writes Oggi journalist Giuseppe Fumagalli, likening the family to “Peppone” after a famous fictional Italian communist mayor who fought against an ultraconservative priest known as Don Cammillo and about which a popular television series is based. “But on the other side of the ocean, it’s like his family here doesn’t exist. Instead he draws crowds as the head of the ultraconservative faction of the Republican party, against divorce, gay marriage, abortion, and immigration.”

Those politics don’t play well in Riva del Garda, a community of ultraliberals. On the campaign trail, Santorum often touts his grandfather’s flight from Italy “to escape fascism,” but he has neglected to publicly mention their close ties with the Italian Communist Party. “Rick’s grandfather Pietro was a liberal man and he understood right away what was happening in Italy,” Mrs. Santorum told Oggi. “He was anti-fascist to the extreme, and the political climate in 1925 was stifling so he left for America. After a few years he returned to Italy with his wife and children, including Aldo, Rick’s father, who passed away late last year. It’s a shame he won’t have the joy to see his son’s success in his bid for the White House.” She goes on to explain how the family then became pillars of the Communist Party in Italy.

did we talk about chris christie basically telling a woman who heckled him to blow him

!

When did this happen?

Happened a few days ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NYAFM3Jv0s

"Blinded by my Barack-Obama-induced anger"--there for anyone who wants it.

my god he's like a balloon wearing a belt

fwiw I can't make out the offending line

"Somethin' may go down tonight, but it ain't gonna be jobs, sweetheart."

that barely makes any sense

the guv is just trying to say that he likes ppl going down on him.

It's funny to hear the "Chicago ward pol" line come outta the mouth of a guy who looks like one of Johnny Friendly's goons in On the Waterfront.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/01/romney-christie-clash-with-occupy-protestors/

This is gross on so many different levels, although I do like Mitt nervously shuffling in the background.

lol omg

josh marshall:

Yesterday we heard news that someone has actually tried to pull off voter impersonation fraud in Manchester, New Hampshire -- the exceedingly rare form of election fraud where someone tries to impersonate another person. That's also the sort of fraud that most voter ID laws are meant to stop.

The anecdote seemed odd, for a number of reasons.

And what do you know? The culprits were pals of notorious huckster James O'Keefe trying to prove what a big problem vote impersonation fraud is by trying to commit it. And like anyone who actually commits vote fraud should, it looks like they might be looking at jail time.

NYT blog is bleating "Could it really all be over this quickly?" hey, took longer than the race for the Dem nomination.

Sounds like voter impersonation fraud isn't so easy after all. Thanks for the argument against voter ID laws, you dick

I hope they get actual jail time, but I doubt it.

they might be looking at jail time

don't do the crime if you can't do the time

would love to see someone go to federal prison for extreme concern trolling

hahahahahaha

you laugh now, max