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

the thing about the mannequin story is that it's obvious that he's joking, but it says TONS that there was actually a brief, serious conversation about whether he could tell that it was a mannequin or not

Rick has to be primaried next go-round in Texas right?

Meanwhile (consider the links Sullivan provides):

http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/01/does-romney-have-a-mormon-problem-with-evangelicals.html

― Ned Raggett, Friday, January 13, 2012 1:55 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i almost find it hard to believe that mitt WOULDN'T have a problem with evangelicals...like if voting your religion is a big part of your worldview, how could you justify voting for him?

^^

alot of the mormons I knew were just as stupid close minded and uptight as most of these evangelicals.. its just a difference in details

From Ned's link:

"In essense, they played the game, lost, and then complained that the rules were unfair," wrote Judge Gibney in his opinion released Friday afternoon in Richmond, Virginia.

http://petswithnewt.com

Newt back-pedalling like a motherfucker:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/zekejmiller/gingrich-repudiates-super-pac-for-inaccurate-video

But probably not unhappy with the results:
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2012/election_2012_presidential_election/south_carolina/election_2012_south_carolina_republican_primary
http://americanresearchgroup.com/pres2012/primary/rep/sc/

Also have we had this?
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/tyFaWhygzjQ"; frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Hey let's try that again:

http://www.youtube.com/embed/tyFaWhygzjQ

Fuck it, you get the idea.

heard on the radio something that made it sound like the new "back pedaling" might have actually been clever political judo---apparently the romney campaign was associated with a super-PAC produced video that was inaccurate, and didn't have it pulled because they claimed that they were not allowed to communicate with super-PACs, legally. sooooo this happens with the newt campaign and it makes him look like a stand-up guy who's against negative politics

Gingrich soundbite on NPR: "If we nominate a moderate who's anywhere near Obama, we will lose."

1) admits O is a 'mod' Repug and not a socialist!
2) stoopid for not recognizing the only way to win!

To a large extent Obama has followed a strategy of becoming a moderate republican as a way of forcing the republicans to further identify with their fringier elements as the only way to accentuate their differences with the democrats. The core problem with this strategy is obvious: the definition of a moderate republican keeps sliding rightward, the policies of the government keep sliding rightward and the plutocracy has become so entrenched we may never disodge it without actual bloodshed.

Obama's not much further right than Nixon at this point

urgh

eh I think that's reading a meta-strategy on top of something that's happening for other reasons. and 'moderate republican' doesn't really mean anything today so there's nowhere for it to slide.

@RobbieBrown07 Romney just handed a wad of dollar bills to a woman at an event in Sumter, S.C., who said she's homeless and jobless.

make it bain

Obama's not much further right than Nixon at this point

um

Newt would have given her
audio cassettes of his old lectures. That's what she really needs to get her life in order.

x-post imagine I said that sarcastically, then sighed heavily

I've officially missed my first "debate"--just found out via Sullivan that there's another one of those I-Heart-Huckabee forums going on (minus Paul). He says Gingrich got booed for a mild reference to Romney (thereby contravening the no-criticism rule). Shades of Dylan at Newport, I'm sure.

Obama's not much further right than Nixon at this point

um

People are saying "um" a lot lately for reasons I can't fathom.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/us/politics/mitt-romney-offers-praise-for-a-donors-business.html?_r=1

Mitt Romney and predatory for-profit secondary education, getting together to ensure that I hate them both that much more.

People are saying "um" a lot lately for reasons I can't fathom.

That's not particularly surprising

*sitcom clarinet*

I don't even get a *muted trumpet*?

I'd even settle for a *Seinfeld slap bass*

you know, it COULD be a muted trumpet!

how about the music that plays every time somebody bites into one of Aunt Bea's pickles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OF52pm_52o

rip huntsman

hardly knew ye

Geez, and here I was at the movies during this monumental event. This changes everything.

Fox News poll: 2012 Obama-Romney race would be tight - Fox News

Totally, bro.

I know Abbbottt doesn't really cruise this thread, but I was thinking about her yesterday when my Mormon dad was going off on the Evangelical attacks on Romney: "It's 'Church of JESUS CHRIST - Latter Day Saints.' How much more can they spell it out?" and I was all UH.

"Obviously 18, 19-year-old kids make stupid mistakes all too often and that's what's occurred here. What is really disturbing to me is the over-the-top rhetoric from this administration and their disdain for the military." —Rick Perry speaking on CNN's State of the Union today.

re: guess what

As a proud graduate of Texas A&M, he probably does think that necrourination is just horseplay.

Pissing on dead bodies, just kids havin' fun.

What is really disturbing to me is the over-the-top rhetoric from this administration and their disdain for the military urinating on corpses it's the notes he isn't playing

Since Republicans have got their head start on calling Romney a socialist, and since we all know Obama is a socialist, it will really help both parties race to the right during the homestretch of voting season. At the very least, it gives both candidates that nice thick socialist stench during voting season, which provides a good cover while they continue feeding the oligarchy.

Eh, sorry that was really poorly written.

Basically we're all in a heap of trouble with these two candidates being portrayed as dangerously moderate/left wing.

glad to see america finally looking to give socialism a try

^much lolz thx

Debate #79 tonight. Who will bring the noise and the jokes now that Huntsman's gone?

michelleinbklyn Michelle Goldberg
Maybe I put too much faith in him, but I'm don't think Obama would ever use "Eye of the Tiger" as his intro music. #Santorum

Survivor hatred hurts us all as Americans.

Tim Wise wrote a bit about something that's bothered the shit out of me due to random Facebook posts appearing on my news feed; it's about ostensibly leftie-leaning folks posting about Ron Paul in glowing terms:

http://www.timwise.org/2012/01/of-broken-clocks-presidential-candidates-and-the-confusion-of-certain-white-liberals/

Yessir, legal weed and an end to the TSA: enough to make some supposed leftists ignore everything else Ron Paul has ever said, and ignore the fundamental incompatibility of Ayn Randian thinking with anything remotely resembling a progressive or even humane worldview. And this is so, even though he wouldn’t actually have the authority to end the TSA as president, a slight glitch that is conveniently ignored by those who are desperate to once again be able to take large bottles of shaving gel onto airplanes in the name of “liberty.”

I want those of you who are seriously singing Paul’s praises, while calling yourself progressive or left to ask what it signifies — not about Ron Paul, but about you — that you can look the rest of us in the eye, your political colleagues and allies, and say, in effect, “Well, he might be a little racist, but…

You do have to ignore a lot of Ron Paul's actual actions and past to think his lip service to civil liberties trumps his faults/

he wants to pull troops out of the Middle East, right? smart people: would that increase or decrease the amount of bloodshed? that should be taken into consideration, right?

rooting for newt to have his inevitable on-air meltdown in tonight's debate

I continue to feel the same--I want something in return for all the time I've invested in this. Gingrich keeps promising "Armageddon," and then, come debate time (and just like Def Leppard), he gives you nerf ballads.

I want something in return for all the time I've invested in this

u mad