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

in what universe would Daniels be able to develop an organization - literally over night - to get him on the ballot in all the remaining states. you need money and people to collect a ton of signatures, and a national apparatus to coordinate everything. there's just no way.

Totally agree it won't happen, but I do wonder how long Daniels had been slotted to give the response the other night. If you wanted to, you could interpret the timing as a trial balloon. But if he'd been scheduled weeks or months ago, doesn't apply.

eh, there really aren't a lot of national-level figures that the gop still isn't ashamed of

Look at the rapturous response this fellow got the other night from Corner types. He's tailor made for the part of Sane Establishment Conservative.

Well, they have gone with Zombie Reagan; I find it rather convenient that they chose Daniels.

Meanwhile:

Tonight’s Republican presidential debate will be the last chance before Florida votes on Tuesday for Newt Gingrich to grab back the spotlight and for his opponents to land some blows. I spoke a short time ago by phone with Rick Santorum, who is trying to supplant Gingrich as the principle challenger to Mitt Romney.

Please note the spelling of the fifth to last word.

We got no class and we got no principals.

table here lays out the delegate allocations

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if Mitch changed his name to Jack, he'd stand a chance for the GOP nom

If Jeb changed his last name then we wouldn't be having this discussion.

Given the speculation earlier this week about a brokered Republican convention, with Indian Gov. Mitch Daniels being nominated, does anyone know how that would be possible with state filing deadlines?

Thought you meant Bobby Jindal at first.

8th round--Gingrich, bomaye!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcGvJGmF4gQ

what network?

CNN.

Gingrich appears to have misstated the number of lunar colonists required for a space-based outpost to apply for statehood — the number is 20,000 for self-government in the original bill, not the 13,000 he mentioned yesterday. Statehood requires the population of the least populous state — or greater than Wyoming's 563,626 people in the 2010 Census.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/zekejmiller/newt-gingrichs-laws-for-governing-a-space-colony

This is such a misreading, though. Clearly it's not that Gingrich misquoted his own bill. It is that since his bill, he has since decided that a lunar colony is so important that we should reduce the threshold to apply for statehood by 7,000 people.

omg crdit card companies need to be in charge of immigration

Whoa--where did that come from?!

he has been using that line for a while.

ooh, i love the catfight

I was hoping newt would make a dig at romney's parents being 'immigrants'

I've watched pretty much every one of these, and Romney's never pounced like he did on that first exchange. I get the feeling he really wants Gingrich out of this after Florida.

I doubt that's gonna happen even if he loses big in florida

"The ad did run, Governor, and it ended with you saying, 'I'm Mitt Romney and I approved this ad'"--ouch.

this exchange is sort of hilarious

damn romney going hard

I'm finally in front of a TV during a debate but I feel like I'm out of the loop just 'cause I've been completely focused on work for the last week-plus but anyway hey y'all politics thread debate watchers I was srsly bummed to have missed the last several debate with you

Santorum wants to stop the petty politics and focus on the issues?--get him the hell off the stage, please. (He doesn't actually want that, of course, he just saw an opening and he's trying on a new costume.)

Romney is just bodyslamming Newt with the little ripostes imo

that last one = pwned
heh

romney sounds like an evil politician from like 24

"i have nothing to hide about my finances. my trustee vizier opened an off-shore bank account under the portfolio tax code remedial capital income which is totally legal."

That last five minutes was so bizarre...but Gingrich looked real bad.

By the way, Romney on blind trusts circa '94:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz0QCdkYJwI

wonder how many middle class people w/not a lot of money, such as myself, looked at their estimated taxes for 2011 and thought "gee i wish my tax rate was the same as mitt romney pays on $40 million"

i would like to hear ron paul talk about which elements of our economy are benefiting exactly from the "false" currency

oh shit space question so fucking excited

guys did ron paul just say "the welfare system helps the wealthy?"

"i have nothing to hide about my finances. my trustee vizier opened an off-shore bank account under the portfolio tax code remedial capital income which is totally legal."

lolll this is the one that almost made me get blazed during the debate just to see how this shit sounds

lol u kno me too well

currently it sounds like ron paul is saying, "back when i lived on a frontier town, freddie the pharmacist didn't charge too much and so we could afford it but now MRI's and ultrasounds are too expensive bc of government meddling."

"in the old west anybody could give you an EEG and you agreed on his fee like gentlemen"

i think gingrich is winning but i can't tell if that's true or if i just really really want it to be true

How dare Romney support a health care system that seems to work?

Too bad Blitzer is too big a pussy to keep this mess in check, but I guess it makes for better TV.

"for the 8% of ppl who don't have insurance they can get insurance by buying it from the 12% who didn't have public insurance before we changed the mandate of, i mean, the 4% whose private insurances they could get or help pay for their care which is what everyone either has to pay the state for the 15% of the people getting something for free and that's why it's not obamacare."

I think it's what you want to be true mordy, I'd like him to be scoring lols left and right but it's not happening

yessssss Ron Paul making racial generalizations

he didn't write that answer, it was ghostwritten

also, how can he be a racist? he's a libertarian. he only judges ppl based on being individuals, not groups. and every individual mexican has sound financial advice.

mexicans need to learn more about monetary policy, but they have much to teach us about not going to war