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

otm

so the republicans have never had three diff candidates win iowa nh and sc

in history ever!

It's such a strong field that each state is choosing a candidate that... oh god I can't even finish this sentence

needs more booing

new thread title plz

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3rding this, 'Needs More Booing' is hilarious

I think it would be awesome if people still attended public speaking engagements with armfuls of rotten fruit and vegetables to throw. Assuming this has ever happened outside of cartoons.

I believe it was mostly vaudeville shows

Jay Nordlinger, counselor.

There is the female equivalent too: You slut around for as long as you can, while you can still excite lust in men, and then you stick to old Joe, or whoever the incumbent is.

It's not like I've never wanted to punch Nordlinger in the face before, but this is him at his most punchable.

I didn't find that so much loathesome as completely tedious

Very true, and here's the thing: American women are repulsed by American political leaders who ask their wife for an open marriage. And the ones who aren't are repulsed by all Republicans anyway.

great comment

skanks '12

haha this guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNHINgPx6_c

its good to know he had no advantages from having rich parents.

for anyone who missed it just a virtuoso moment from our pal newt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To_g23JkXnU

Has anyone yet specifically delineated just where the mainstream media stops and the non-mainstream media begins? This is very important so I can discern hard truth from salacious fiction.

Cain said he was not endorsing a candidate, but instead, would endorse “we the people.”

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ooo my god

Wait, can I vote for the preamble to the constitution for president? Is that in the constitution? It should be.

The comments on that Nordlinger piece are quite interesting.

As always w/NRO there's an ad-sponsored CAPTCHA bot filter you have to fill out in order to post. When I was just there it was Burberry. Instead of having any visual to decipher it simply read, "Describe this brand with any word(s)".

I was thinking of 'chav' but I went with 'sub-Aquascutum'.

OK, so if polls are to believed at all, are we really facing the prospect of Newt for the nom? The mind boggles.

"I am someone who believes in free enterprise, I think Adam Smith was right, and we're going to get hit hard by Barack Obama, but we're going to stuff it down his throat that it is capitalism and freedom that makes us strong."

xp no not even close.

newt still doesn't really have a path to victory but romney does have to 'work for it' a little more

you just gotta believe. i will be voting for prof newt in the gop primary. i urge everyone in a sate with an open primary to do the same.

there's no way Newt can win over his enemies in the party and secure the nom imho. but this is going to be a very interesting, even more prolonged battle if he wins SC.

don't try so hard, guys

Just based on the reactions on NRO and RedState, I have trouble seeing how Newt gets the nomination. He has far more enemies and more aggrieved ones in the GOP than Mittens does.

This process is all about jettisoning outliers, it's hardwired.

i still have trouble taking any of the candidates seriously. then again, it was the same way in 2008 and somehow 46% of voters ended up siding with mccain (????). and in 2004 i couldn't understand how anyone would vote for bush, even with kerry as the competition. the behavior of vast numbers of americans is completely mysterious to me

no, you're right. there's just no way it's anyone but Romney. but i want the lols to last as long as possible.

most of those 46% were gonna vote for the gop no matter who the candidate was and no matter what the situation was

yeah, and the same on the democratic side as well.

what a joke!

it's not really a joke it's just that the election mostly happens before the election happens

Romney Support 'Collapsing' Nationally http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/updates/4378

santorum and paul need to get out asap

did he do a campaign song for them?

neither has anything to lose, tho I dunno how santorum's doing $-wise. paul will be in it til the end.

Willard appears to have a lockdown on Florida atm. He has his organization in place in all 50 states. The only way he loses the nomination now is if a majority of self-identified republican voters feel a revulsion for him that is so pronounced, they will literally vote for anyone who is not him. Either that, or he keels over from a massive myocardial infarction.

iow, the best we can hope for is a large chunk of RR feeling so reactionary they mount a third party campaign behind... somebody; it doesn't really matter who as long as it splits the vote. If it's going to happen at all, this is the year for it.

which is what I have been saying all along

the best we can hope for

who?

the best we can hope for is death

iow, the best we can hope for is a large chunk of RR feeling so reactionary they mount a third party campaign behind... somebody; it doesn't really matter who as long as it splits the vote. If it's going to happen at all, this is the year for it.

isn't the benefit of a prolonged newt vs mitt duke-out - at least from the perspective of someone rooting for obama - that the electorate's disaffection w/the nominee, following the long, messy & personal airing of their laundry, translates to a less enthusiastic turn out, a drift towards the status quo for less party affiliated voters, &c&c&c. like i see rooting for newt/newting for root as wishing self-inflicted implosion on the GOP, who could otherwise unify & mount a more credible challenge.

xp

Morbs, if, as you say, you believe that we cannot possibly hope for a president that is anything other than a sociopatic, war monger/war criminal, especially if the two major party candidates are Obama and Romney, then I would think you'd concede that the best we can hope for in this election is a continued stirring of discontent, and a result that registers a certain amount of dissent from business-as-usual. Not to mention a certain entertainment value in watching the RR-republican axis explode.

if you don't actually think there is any difference between Obama and Romney, there is no point in hoping for someone to draw votes from Romney since he is the same as Obama

Morbs really just wants whatever situation he can come up with the best complaints and puns for

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/updates/4378

romney's numbers getting worse nationally

probably not enough to change the basic end result, but the press will be happy for a while

I want a bipartisan explosion, esp given today's great news about Obama's War.

xp

Chaos in Our Time

"Let All the Poisons That Lurk in the Mud,
Hatch Out."

hat the electorate's disaffection w/the nominee, following the long, messy & personal airing of their laundry, translates to a less enthusiastic turn out, a drift towards the status quo for less party affiliated voters, &c&c&c.

there's a more critical element here - the money. the longer the primary gets drawn out, the more it drains GOP coffers.

as we all know (I hope) the candidate with the most money wins the election

wth I've never seen a chart that looks like this

http://i.imgur.com/C8ACu.png