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

Wow, she looks rough for 45. Not that she looks old per se, she just has that plasticine look from surgery than women usually much older than her have.

In the NBC appearance, Gingrich said he planned to discuss "real stories," and said he'd have to leave questions about his character up to voters. He called his daughters "credible" character witnesses.

Out of curiosity I wonder how much financial help/support Newt's daughters get from him.

I mean, if he has the money to buy his wife trinkets from Tiffany every couple of weeks he probably has extra cash to throw their way.

what a weird thing to say. His daughters are "credible"?

I'm just catching up with this open marriage stuff. Finally, some fun.

http://pegasusnews.com/media/img/photos/2008/07/05/thumbs/Bob__Carol__Ted__Alice.jpg.728x520_q85.jpg

(I made brief mention of the food-stamp skirmish during the debate.)

better than saying there "were incredible" i guess

i know i posted a B & T & C & A pic somewhere on these threads!

Newt & Callista & Herman & Suzy (& Mary & Janine & Deborah & Sandra & Linda & so on & so forth).

here's the esquire interview from 2010 where marianne lets rip on her ex

http://www.esquire.com/features/newt-gingrich-0910

she seems remarkably un-bitter to me, considering

Yeah, she seems remarkably sanguine under the circumstances!

When conservatives snipe:

jimgeraghty @jimgeraghty 2h

"Of course we have to fix Medicare, and on that I'll... hold that thought, I think I saw a coyote back there." #ifperrystayedin1moreday

Moe Lane @moelane 2h

@jimgeraghty Yes. Thank you. We get it. Perry's out. He shoots guns. He's Texan. He was a rotten debater. NRO won. Congratulations.

jimgeraghty @jimgeraghty

@moelane Oh, Mirror, don't get snippy with me. Blame NRO for Perry's fate if it makes you feel better, but we both know it came from more.

Moe Lane @moelane 2h

@jimgeraghty ...Unfortunately, every pun I can think of involving 'snippy' is, well, unfortunate in its subtext.

revenge is a dish and so on

And Geraghty on marriage and morality is a winner.

Of course we have to fix Medicare, and on that I'll... hold that thought, I think I saw a coyote back there

ok what

I love that people like Geraghty are so flippant about Newt's serial infidelity but were going to impeach Clinton over a single blowjay.

Moe Lane is one of the most retarded human beings on the face of the planet, and I don't deploy that word often. I know him from waaaaaaay back when, when he and I were both regulars at the "Tacitus" blog run by J0s4 Tr3vin0, and then when he was a founder at Obsidian Wings.

His actual, bottom-line reason for why it was so imperative to re-elect Bush in 2004? "My wife works in downtown DC, and I'm not having her nuked by some Muslim if Bush loses." Swear to god.

Hahah! No wonder he ended up at RedState.

And that was after running off crying from Obsidian Wings after it had become "too partisan" for him.

oh dear god the man is a nerd too

http://moelane.com/gurps-4e-thumbnail-alternate-earths/

@daveweigel
daveweigel
The first three primaries: Iowa, New Hampshire, and... uh... and... uh... oops.

hahahahaha

"I am an evil giraffe."

Leave it to Rush

Ned said to look at the RedState comments:

Re: Gingrich

"Newt is a megalomaniac, and shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near the presidency. His general election campaign would be a complete disaster for the party and conservatives."

"...and he sat on a couch with Nancy Pelosi talking about global warming."

"I can’t stomach Newt. I think he is a nasty person who would ruin any opportunity to win."

"...Simply put, Gingrich is a buffoon and it’s embarrassing to share a party with him,..."

"Newt wasn’t in this to win it – witness, Virginia and the cruise."

There are great divisions in the GOP.

wow, Rush, you eeeediot

Everybody married to a meglomaniacal pillhead, anyway. xxp

HE SAT ON A COUCH

hahahahahaha

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22sat+on+a+couch%22

what the hell is this code of some kind

goole OTM, stoning is too good for him

what has this world come to, when so-called "conservatives" will just sit on couches willy-nilly

lol i've invented a GURPS setting too

Various amusements!

Perry's campaign, per CNN's Peter Hamby, has taken down its anti-Gingrich website describing him as a Washington "insider." But there is miles of tape of him saying rough things about Gingrich - including becoming the person to make an issue of the former House Speaker's personal history in a debate, in which he said "the issue of fidelity is important."

"If you cheat on your wife, you'll cheat on your business partner," he said at that debate - a quote a bit more salient the same day that ABC News and the Washington Post have interviews with Gingrich's second wife, Marianne.

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Via POLITICO's Emily Schultheis, Rick Perry communications director Ray Sullivan left open the possibilities of a future run for Texas governor — or another presidential campaign — as he talked to reporters following his boss's announcement.

"(Another run in Texas) is certainly a strong option, as would be maybe doing this again in four years," he said. "If the president wins. Keep in mind that almost all of our nominees in the last 50 years have been on their second attempt at the White House. Republican voters tend to like the experienced candidates that they've seen for a long time. So I would not rule it out."

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[As Obama's at Disney World today, Romney says things, then:]

"By the way, I know we're here just with our office team and our volunteers, but (Obama) may bump into Speaker Gingrich down there in Fantasyland. I only say that because the speaker was talking about all the jobs that he helped create in the Reagan years. He’d been in Congress two years when Reagan came to office. The idea that he was the author of Reaganomics, not real likely. The idea that people in Washington somehow think they're responsible after they’ve been there for two years for creating millions of jobs, it’s the kind of fantasy that happens. If you’ve been there too long I think you get this mindset that you're creating the economic vitality of the nation. That’s not how it happens."

fivethirtyeight Nate Silver
ARG poll of SC has it Gingrich 33, Romney 32. First live-interview poll to show Gingrich ahead by any margin. bit.ly/56DWyL
5 minutes ago

go Mitt go

Jonah Goldberg:

@daveweigel Really? Or joke?
9:38am - 19 Jan 12

As mentioned upthread, _have_ we mentioned the (multiple) "food-stamp" things or "Ice Cube vs Ice-T" yet? These guys have been swinging for the fences lately.

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/19/gingrich-tied-with-romney-in-south-carolina-forecast

Jonah Goldberg:

@daveweigel Really? Or joke?
9:38am - 19 Jan 12

― Put another Juggle in, in the Juggalodeon (kingfish), Thursday, January 19, 2012 1:49 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

its been said so many times but really this is the stupidest man

Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of clods:

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2012/march/political-conclave-dangerous.html

http://www.businessinsider.com/christian-right-war-james-dobson-callista-gingrich-karen-santorum-2012-1

Oh and Dobson just endorsed Santorum. He holds Santorum to his breast.

I like that Neff, in that first link of Ned's, realizes that evangelicals are being used by the Republican establishment as "useful idiots". This amounts almost to something resembling wisdom.

It's a sentiment that's bubbled up from time to time -- I think even Chuck Colson figured it out, but then again he'd have a special insight into the situation on all fronts.

Have you actually bookmarked Christianity Today?

That sounds like some weird evangelical come-on.

The Mormon candidate has a traditional marriage and the Christian candidate wants an open marriage. What fun!

How many kids does Willard have...like 4 or 5? I still don't get the impression that he's even interested in sex.

Don't worry: he'll look for the position paper on it.

that will be a short paper, considering he's only gonna recognize one position

I still don't get the impression that he's even interested in sex.

This always strikes me as a weird thing to say, like everyone who's interested in sex comports themselves like Blowfly.

How long until we find out that Santorum has a dog mistress.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnvurhkWwl1qz5qkfo1_400.jpg