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

This is pretty intense. Thought I'd miss all the hollering and yelling, but the silence is the perfect backdrop.

Fidel!

ugh @ newt's naked pandering

I'm almost proud that the Cuban-American lobby remains powerful enough to deserve pandering.

ah, finally found it. it's listed as Fear Factor on the cable menu thing. sorta appropriate

― Z S, Tuesday, January 24, 2012 2:14 AM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

tyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Romney wants to bring back Teddy Roosevelt and his Bright White Carrier Fleet. Gingrich thinks dictatorships only respond to ballsy provocation.

It'd be great if they orchestrated the debate like the show that was on beforehand, where if you missed a question a big hole in the floor opened up and you vanished.

wish the other candidates could have responded to Paul's "we blockaded them and we committed the act of war" comments

1,000 ways to leave a Republican Presidential Primary Debate xp

On a side note, that gambling mogul who paid in $5 mil to Newt's Super PAC gave another $5 mil to it today. My real hope is that this kind of drag-out process keeps sucking up money from any/all those inclined to spend it.

the sad thing is that $5 mil is pocket change for some people.

Then let it continue to drip out, by all means.

Also, I stand by my observation that I first noticed Ron Paul activists around the campus I work at right when I noticed that the Lyndon LaRouche activists had vanished.

forgive me because this is the first debate i've watched this season, but these dudes sound like such idiots when they invoke the energy crisis and immediately propose more domestic oil production.

i know, i know, american conservatism

you are correct

wow how did u even manage that p sure theres been nothing but GOP debates on tv for like two years

oh great, we've reached the race-baiting portion of the evening

wow how did u even manage that p sure theres been nothing but GOP debates on tv for like two years

― lag∞n, Monday, January 23, 2012 10:04 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

literally had to get rid of my tv to achieve this iirc i am sitting outside my neighbor's window rn

haha

I'm just glad you're sitting outside your neighbor's window and commenting so I don't have to watch the thing.

this is the first debate i've seen most of the way through, too, and i'm just sorta sitting here with hands on my cheeks like http://s2.favim.com/orig/30/aww-cute-demi-lovato-dog-hannah-Favim.com-246989.jpg aww they think they're people

kathrynlopez newt no es pandering

1 minute ago

i don't have the spanish

loooool "self-deport"

loool @ guy in audience loling @ "self-deport"

really wish moderators would call these assholes on their imaginary take on immigration but i guess that's when newt would bring out the "liberal media" guns

tbh newt has been way too genial historian in this debate i prefer my newt mean and racist

foaming at the mouth about food stamps

the historian thing is making me draw my breath a bit because it sounds p eerily like relatives

loool @ guy in audience loling @ "self-deport"

haha srsly

he kind of sucks in his cheeks when he's reciting dates to embellish this fantasy that he's this consummate historical mind it's infuriating

SELF DEPORTATION

at least brian williams/adam smith was like "is self-deportation really a valid concept?" but still

you have to refer to reality more frequently to hold these dudes accountable

Taibbi updates about SC, mentions Chris Morris, links to a Brass Eye vid:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/south-carolina-comedy-poster-contest-result-20120123

Ninety rounds of golf is like once every two weeks.

Started to nod off before the break; it's only fun when Romeny and Newt go at each other.

so many xps

its maybe a bit of rhetorical judo? like the left often (mostly appropriately) reaches for HARD DATA and newt has probably scoped the fact that a slice of voters (many ron paul ppl) fucking love inside baseball SCOTUS decisions/historicity.

yeah maybe. also i keep encountering this fiction that newt gingrich is "the smart conservative" and i suspect...he is the author of that fiction.

Dude's been writing apocalyptic technothriller wank fanfic since last 1984, hasn't he?

since like, rather

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm.....prizes.

i thought it was counterfactual historical novels. what if the Confederacy won the Civil War?, etc.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1995/aug/10/the-teachings-of-speaker-gingrich/?pagination=false

i link to this everywhere but thats joan didion in 1995 absolutely murking gingrich mostly just by reproducing all of his stupid ideas right next to one another

To complain that Mr. Gingrich’s thinking is “schematic,” as some have, seems not exactly to describe the problem, which is that the “scheme,” as revealed in his writing and in his lectures, remains so largely occult. The videotaped “Renewing American Civilization” lecture in which Mr. Gingrich discusses “The Historic Lessons of American Civilization,” which is Pillar One of The Five Pillars of American Civilization, offers, for example, clips from several television movies and documentaries about the Civil War, but not much clue about why the lessons of American civilization might be “historic,” and no clue at all why the remaining four Pillars of American Civilization (“Personal Strength,” “Entrepreneurial Free Enterprise,” “The Spirit of Invention and Discovery,” and “Quality as Defined by Deming”) might not be more clearly seen as subsections of Pillar One, or lessons of civilization. Similarly, the attempt to track from one to five through Mr. Gingrich’s “Five Reasons for Studying American History” (“One: History is a collective memory”; “Two: American history is the history of our civilization”; “Three: There is an American exceptionalism that can best be understood through history”; “Four: History is a resource to be learned from and used”; and “Five: There are techniques that can help you learn problem-solving from historic experience”) leaves the tracker fretful, uneasy, uncertain just whose synapses are misfiring.

bless you max that is just what i need to read rn!

http://cdn103.iofferphoto.com/img/item/141/364/681/vTp2XDQ2h0OgnNJ.jpg

everyone knows custer died at little big horn. what this book presupposes is...maybe he didn't

^^newt, circa 2001

sure but what does caitlin flanagan think

that his first wife should have given him an open marriage and anything else he wanted?

Newt will not waste time answering valid questions!