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

I really can't wait until this whole "Really?" meme is over.

I usually only read the politics threads, but I'm compelled to contribute here: Dr Morbius, you are truly a monster and a hideous bitch of a human being.

really?

uh thanks for that dude xp

Dr Morbius, you are truly a monster and a hideous bitch of a human being.

Please, don't encourage him.

Pawlenty's right, of course, and he's also pathetic--a guy whose own campaign was such a disaster, and who bowed out almost immediately because he had a bad debate, ought to go light on the sarcasm. This is not a defense of Gingrich the candidate, but I do give him credit for hanging in there when no one was paying any attention to him early on.

Morbius may be truly a monster but how many people has Obama killed today?

"Monster" was hyperbole. So was "human being." "Hideous bitch" = OTM.

did obama say anything about tUnE-yArDs in his SOTU??

I've got to quote this, because it's almost a word-for-word reflection of my own feelings (give or take "two really smart guys")--I've got a post way upthread, or on the earlier Republican thread, that makes virtually the identical point.

Romney versus Obama will be a snoozefest, mainly because Romney elicits no passion from anybody. Newt versus Barak, however, could be vastly entertaining. Two really smart guys, both of whom are good speakers, and both of whom will be at least affecting being really pissed off at the other and the other's base. If the Newt who tore into John King the other day shows up at the debates, they will be truly great TV. Since I don't think anybody in Washington or running to be in Washington can fix the problems we face, why not vote for the circus?

http://www.professorbainbridge.com/professorbainbridgecom/2012/01/the-gingrich-temptation.html

Tbf, it'll be tough for Newt to have to face the horrible liberal media for months of debates, talk shows, etc. What a brave, brave man.

that post is totally stupid

someone in the comments uses the "SCOAMF" acronym, nice bit of code from the past year or so.

Je55e explained: it's ILXmarys Heave Their Pearls Week

Chicago girlz love their Dronebama!

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Romney versus Obama will be a snoozefest, mainly because Romney elicits no passion from anybody. Newt versus Barak, however, could be vastly entertaining. Two really smart guys, both of whom are good speakers, and both of whom will be at least affecting being really pissed off at the other and the other's base. If the Newt who tore into John King the other day shows up at the debates, they will be truly great TV. Since I don't think anybody in Washington or running to be in Washington can fix the problems we face, why not vote for the circus?

that is idiotic on its face. the whole tweedledee/tweedledum line is something only privileged folks who don't rely on the safety net can repeat so bombastically.

on the other hand newt has no way of winning a general election, so bring it on i guess?

that post is totally stupid

someone in the comments uses the "SCOAMF" acronym, nice bit of code from the past year or so.

Before I googled it, I assumed it meant Supreme Commander of American Military Forces…. like they didn't respect Obama, but did respect the office.

I gave them waaaayyy too much credit.

i mean the 2-party system is corrupt, obama is not the best leader by any means, he's done terrible things w/r/t to foreign policy (like truly terrible things the full impact of which we won't even understand for years), and he has not had the best strategy when it comes to domestic policy. on the other hand i don't see how he could get anything done domestic policy-wise w/ the present congress and senate.

BUT. but. to imagine that a pres romney much less a pres newt would not very possibly mean changes for the worse in the lives of a lot of people in this country is fantasy. the fact that i have to spell this out i guess suggests how much the tweedledee/tweedledum line has charmed its way into the hearts of so many People of the Left. i'm not really going to get into this here, because we've done it before, but WTF people.

don't bother, am

are there going to be as many presidential debates as there have been GOP primary debates? if so, uuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh

i want just one, in primetime, no shirts

Chicago girlz love their Dronebama!

This is what makes you insufferable. You argue against positions that no one on the thread or board puts forth, and/or which others explicitly deny, and you do it with the same nicknames and un-clever "zings" over. and over. and over. As someone said above, you're basically as worthwhile as a bot.

Also, you didn't stay gone.

But me, I'm going back to lurking and learning.

http://www.yellmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/top-10-cage-fights-3.jpg

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on almost any topic morbs clearly fancies himself the most cynical, world-weary sophisticate in the room but you could predict the gist of what he will write on almost any topic with 80% accuracy. actually his pretensions w/r/t to film are so transparent and hokey that i've done literal /facepalms/ when reading them. and yet he persist in this persona, so obviously he gets some satisfaction from it. or he really is a bot.

If you (not specifically you, am) live in a swing district then by all means vote for Obama; if you're in a safe lib district you have other ways to vote your conscience.

agreed.

thank you for the false binary where it's impossible for an Obama vote to be voting your conscience

It's safe to guess that frequent posters to this thread agree with the following statement: "obama is not the best leader by any means, he's done terrible things w/r/t to foreign policy (like truly terrible things the full impact of which we won't even understand for years), and he has not had the best strategy when it comes to domestic policy."

that guess and the bullying that happens when someone disagrees is why these threads are such an unbearable, unfriendly echo chamber

they will be truly great TV. Since I don't think anybody in Washington or running to be in Washington can fix the problems we face, why not vote for the circus?

any scenario that places newt gingrich within actual reach of the presidency is not my idea of entertainment

"obama is not the best leader by any means, he's done terrible things w/r/t to foreign policy (like truly terrible things the full impact of which we won't even understand for years), and he has not had the best strategy when it comes to domestic policy."

i don't agree with this, at least not beyond the extent one could level these charges at any president

today newt informed a florida
crowd that when his proposed permanent lunar base reaches a population of 13,000 it can apply for statehood

like truly terrible things the full impact of which we won't even understand for years)

self-fulfilling prophecy

moon base will be for "science, tourism and manufacturing", and will be operational by end of 2nd term

that guess and the bullying that happens when someone disagrees is why these threads are such an unbearable, unfriendly echo chamber

I'm partially responsible for some of the bullying. It's borne in part of both my impatience with fandom in any degree.

honestly i prefer his foreign policy to his domestic

or rather, i was way more disappointed by the latter

guys we are talking about the 51st state being on the moon now, keep
up

I vote for secession

president gingrich and the first lady will spend memorial day weekend at their lunar retreat

guaranteed if obama was pro-nasa newt would be decrying space travel as an expensive boondoggle

mmm no

newt is a sci-fi nerd to the core

if Obama was pro-NASA newt would take him to task for not being pro-NASA ENOUGH

newtpowerrangers.jpg

just to derail for a sec, red meat for Florida

"You always have to wonder when Obama speaks, which country he thinks he's talking about," said Gingrich, to shrieks of delight from the audience.

Newt Gingrich in Sarasota. Photograph: TJ Kirkpatrick/Corbis
With Obama, though, it is different to any other president. The undercurrent is not only that Obama does not know his own country but that he is not a real American.

The attempts to claim that the president was not born in the US - led by bits of Fox News, right wing radio talk show hosts and an East European immigrant dentist in California - have largely been put to rest.

But the implication of otherness – that Obama is African American, and is also not really of America – is ever present at Gingrich rallies.

"By the time ex-president Obama lands in Chicago," he said, imagining the first day of a Gingrich presidency, "we will have dismantled about 40% of his administration".

In response, some in the crowd started chanting "Kenya, Kenya" - saying that Obama should go back to where his father, and some say he, was born.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/25/newt-gingrich-conservative-revolution

you always have to wonder when newt speaks, which PLANET he thinks he's talking about

http://biscuette.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Newt-on-the-Moon.png

uh

Not everyone is so enthralled. Julie London has a stall at the back end of the hangar selling paintings and portraits. A painting imagining all the Republican presidents in history playing poker goes for $250.

London says she is a registered Democrat. She has a "Newt 2012" badge clipped to her waist but says she voted for Obama four years ago. She's not sure how she'll vote in November, but it won't be for Gingrich. She smiles rather than explain why.

Business is not so good, she says. No one has snapped up the pictures of the elder President Bush or President Franklin D Roosevelt.

But FDR was a Democrat, and a liberal, big-spending one at that.
London looks alarmed at the news.

"Really? My husband said he was a Republican," she said. "No wonder they haven't been buying."

At which point she snatched the picture and stuck it under the stall.

Hahah.

Haha waht

I know The Guardian had "lol stupid yank" in mind but, well, I'm embarrassed as a citizen.

i want just one, in primetime, no shirts

Two 90 minute debates, one vice-presidential candidate debate

xpost -- Frankly both her and her husband deserve the contempt they get.

omg this gingrich nasa speech