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

Really? Asking Haley Barbour to run? Maybe that WAPO writer should ask Mike Huckabee why he's not running and go from there.

Maybe Haley made those obnoxious last-day pardons to draw a couple of lines under "I'M NOT RUNNING, GET ME?"

http://gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs4/1324222_o.gif

I'M OUT! *klunk*

Pretty much every suburban party I have been to has had brie. Parties with Republicans even.

good piece http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/did-gingrichs-win-break-the-rules

well put:

In the case of presidential primaries, previous beliefs ought not be accorded all that much weight: Americans have not been picking presidential nominees in quite this way for all that long, and yet a presidential nomination process is complex. In more abstract terms, both conceptual and statistical models of the presidential nomination process may be “overfit” and draw too many conclusions from idiosyncratic examples.

SIAP, but I've never seen this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEaef07rD6c

Ali G has a point on this idea of women loving bastards, Newt is on woman #3

stoked http://nasawatch.com/archives/2012/01/gingrich-to-giv.html

I'll be giving a speech. But not just any old speech. A VISIONARY speech...

Gingrich the strategist: everyone's worried about unemployment, not sure if Obama's up to the job, so I'll give a speech on Jupiter.

just heard Mittens on NPR pointing out to a crowd that Ging ended his speakership an exposed crook. "I don't know whether you knew that."

There's a ton of stuff out there explaining why Gingrich can't win the nomination, and it's pretty convincing. Nonetheless, just like the first go-round, this is fun for as long as it lasts:

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/updates/4518

No person who is wavering or independent who actually remembers the 90s would vote for Gingrich, would they?

Not many of those ppl are primary voters

(This is America, only the last 2 weeks are important, except for 9/11)

http://www.frumforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/newt-power-ranger.jpg

never forget

wait what

the power rangers take themselves so seriously all the time, it's really annoying

see, we forgot

Newt Gingrich, down in the boondocks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz0TJfFLQ9U

love how he goes right for the part of the store where you buy rubbers

also I guess Alpharetta is the boondocks for guys like Our Newt

THE ONLY NEWT GINGRICH IN THE WORLD

man newt is such a comedy goldmine

I think the photo goes with the article below, but I love the juxtaposition:

http://jimromenesko.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/400x381x1201FakeWashingtonPostCover-400x381.jpg.pagespeed.ic_.2gT_7eI8e1.jpg

Alas, reality will soon set in. (Sullivan, allowing for his usual frenzied melodrama, has actually been pretty good, I think, on why what's going on is the inevitable consequence of the last 12 years.)

just heard Mittens on NPR pointing out to a crowd that Ging ended his speakership an exposed crook. "I don't know whether you knew that."

― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Monday, January 23, 2012 7:54 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha this is a v good point by mitt

newt to win florida at 58.8% on intrade

romney going all aggro is prob nagl, makes him look desperate

its desperate for sure but not sure he has a choice, the establishment apparently failed to kill newt, and one of people big complaints abt romney is that hes a pushover

i don't really trust intrade on anything

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwvc4xP2VA1qz581wo1_500.jpg

Newt on the other hand is no pushover.

nate silver mentions intrade pretty frequently fwiw. it's nothing but quantified conventional wisdom, but I think there's something interesting in that.

i suppose so, yeah. i think its audience has to be properly understood tho; quantified conventional wisdom of knowitall dudes on the internet with money

Also, but fucking with intrade, you can fuck with the punditry and CW name-dropping intrade, which then fucks with intrade etc etc

romney going all aggro is prob nagl, makes him look desperate

Going from passive aggressive to aggressive aggressive somehow makes him seem more robot-like to me -- like he's been reprogrammed to go into terminator mode, he doesn't seem any more authentic or genuine than he did before.

Romney telling the truth is going all aggro for him, admittedly

w/ intrade the thing to remember is that it's a very small market and one dude w/ $1000 can affect the price of something pretty substantially. it's very far from perfect but it's still probably a better way to follow the horse race than all but a few pundits.

George Will craps himself:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/romneys-time-to-rally-himself-against-gingrich/2012/01/23/gIQAy4FULQ_story.html?hpid=z3

Going from passive aggressive to aggressive aggressive somehow makes him seem more robot-like to me -- like he's been reprogrammed to go into terminator mode, he doesn't seem any more authentic or genuine than he did before.

― Seriously, who votes for Drake? (Nicole), Monday, January 23, 2012 1:55 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol

Busy as an intellectual beaver having big ideas by the bushel,

I STAB YOU FOR WRITING THIS

I tried to place bets on Romney when the payout was $1.60 on the dollar, but those sites still won't accept my credit card, argh.

From Josh Marshall--excellent: "The problem Romney faces is that he’s a living breathing example of what many people see as the problem. And by his stated positions, he doesn’t think it’s a problem. If you’re running Mitt’s campaign, that’s a problem."

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/23/miriam-adelson-donates-5-million-to-a-pro-gingrich-super-pac/?partner=rss&emc=rss

http://www.minhstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Brian-Williams.jpg

Smile now, my friend--less than two hours till you get the Full Newt.

what channel is that gonna be on?

I expect fireworks

fucked up
xxxp

I hope Brian asks the candidates about their position on Lana Del Ray's SNL performance.

It's an NBC debate, so should be network (9:00 p.m.).